SUMMARY

• Seven years of experience in the IT industry of which four years as a VMWare Administrator.
• 5 + years in the area of Virtualization with VMware vSphere, ESX 4.1, ESX 4.0 servers, vCenter server 2.5, 4.0 and vCenter Converter
• Experience with architecture and implementing of Vblock and UCS Solutions
• Build and troubleshooting experience With VMware View 4.5/4.6 and ThinApps 4.5 and VMware vSphere Suite
• Deployment of business critical technologies - VMware SRM 4.0 and VMware View
• Experience in ESX Architecture, guest O/S installation, setting up of VM priorities, Cloning, Creating Templates and Snapshots
• Experience in Physical to Virtual (P2V) and Virtual to Virtual conversions by using VMware Converter, Platespin Power convert and vCenter Guided Consolidation
• Application virtualization using VMware ThinApp 4.5 version
• Extensive experience in working with the vMotion and Storage vMotion technology
• Strong Experience in vNetwork concepts: vSwitch and dvSwitch
• Experience with Cisco UCS blades and HP C7000 Blades.
• Experience with Cisco Nexus 1000v switch and Virtual distributed switch.
• Strong experience with the VMware HA (High Availability), Fault Tolerance, Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) and VMware Distributed Power Management
• Experience in administration, maintenance and troubleshooting of EMC Symmetrix DMX-2000, DMX-3, DMX-4, V-MAX and Clariion CX600, CX700, CX3 series CX4 series.
• Experience in managing storage arrays using SymCLI, SMC for Symmetrix and NaviSecCLI, Navisphere Manager for Clariion and NEtapps 6040 NFS/SAN storagre
• Experienced in configuring VSANs with TE ports on Cisco enterprise directors MDS 9513, 9509, 9506 and departmental switches 9124, 9134 using Cisco CLI, Fabric Manager.
• Have knowledge in troubleshooting the issues and the incident management.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

VMware Tools: View 4.5 /ESXi4.1/VMWare VSphere 4.0, SRM VMware infrastructure 3.0/3.5,ESX 3/3.5, VCenter Lab Manager 4, vCenter Server, vCenter Update Manager, VVM, Symantec backup, VRangerPro, Citrix, Active Directory

SAN Hardware: Symmetrix DMX-2000,DMX-2, DMX-3, DMX-4, VMAX, ClariionCX-600, CX-700, CX3-20, CX3-80,CX4-480, CX4-960, Brocade DCX,12K, 24K, 48K, 3900, 4900, 4100, 3800; Cisco 9124 9134, 9506, 9509, 9513 Storage Softwares EMC Control Center, Navisphere Manager, Navisphere Analyzer, Solutions Enabler CLI (SYMCLI) Mirrorview, Snapview, Sancopy, Open Replicator, Open Migrator, Power Path.

Operating Systems: Microsoft Server 2003, Server 2008, Server 2000, Linux, Solaris 8,9,10, IBM AIX (5.2/5.3), VMware ESX server and HP-UX.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

VMware Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Performed 300+ Physical to Virtual and Virtual to Virtual Migrations from data center in the Arden Hills location to another (BP).
• Worked closely with server team and storage and discussed requirements with the application owners
• Involved in Fail back and decommissioning using HP ILO.
• Installing VMWARE tools and upgrade of virtual hardware.
• Worked closely with project manager and updated server information on HP service manager
• Handled snapshots, templates and clones.
• Requested IP addresses essential in the P2V process.
• Experience with SRM 4.5 deployment and implementation
• Create and maintain the user access group. Create and assign different roles and profiles.
• Set up V-Motion, High Availability (HA), Distributed Resource System (DRS), and relatedVMwareproducts such as VM Workstation.
• Schedule VM Backup and Snapshots and manage/reload Snapshots
• Implemented disaster recovery utilizing Veeam Backup and VDR.
• Install & troubleshoot patches and updates on ESX hosts and virtual machine using VMwareUpdate manager.
• Administered SRM (Site Recovery Manager) support for Failover from one site to the other
• Perform P2P conversions using Platespin from old HP & Confidential Hardware to New G5 HP Blades.
• Perform P2V conversions for old severs which are out of support using VMware Converter to new VSphere 4 environment.
• Implement VDI solutions using VMware ESX hypervisor on HP Proliant DL 360 G6 and BL 480 G6 servers.

Confidential

VMware Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Invloved in datacenter migration projects and P2V migrations
• Performed Preparatory work for physical and virtual migrations and worked with the storage team with regards to the storage and LUN capacity.
• Performed P2V migrations of Production, QA and Development Servers.
• Was Involved in the cut-over and decommissioning of the physical server after the P2V server.
• Management of Snapshots, clones, templates.
• Worked closely with the command center during the decommissioning process.
• Migration of virtual machine from one enclosure to another within the same environment in different enclosure.
• Installed, configured and maintained Windows 2000, 2003 and 2008 Operating Systems.
• P2V conversions of Windows 2000 and Windows 2003 servers using VMware Converter.
• Broad experience with designing, implementing and troubleshooting VMware ESX server, VMware virtual center, setting up V-Motion, HA, DRS, and related VMware products such as VM Workstation, P2V converters, VM Backup products and other products for virtualization.
• Monitoring and Health Analysis of datacenters to foresight issues during migration of datacenters using VMware Health Analyzer 3.3, Quest vFoglight and vEssentials Bundle.
• Generated reports with Health analyzer giving recommendations and resolving performance and tuning issues in the HA, DRS clusters and virtual Datacenters.
• Installing VMWARE tools and upgrade of virtual hardware.
• Migration of virtual machine from one environment (3.5) to another (4.1).
• Worked on Windows 2003 and Windows 2008 server.
• VMWARE ESX 4.1 installation and configuration.

VMware Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Experience in implementation and deploying View 4.5(VDI) virtual desktops and Thinapps 4.5 Application packages with vSphere ESXi4.1 environment.
• Experience with architecture and implementing of Vblock.
• Experience with Celerra, CLARiiON CX4 and VMAX storage products.
• Hands on experience with Unified Infrastructure Manager (UIM)
• Performed up gradation of ESX 3.5 to vSphere 4.0, vCenter 2.5 to 4.0
• Manage snapshots, clones, templates during patch releases and new server deployments
• Assessment, design and implementation of View 4.5 environment
• Experience with installing, configuring and troubleshooting VMware Lab Manager
• Analyze existing infrastructure using VMware Capacity Planner
• Performed datastore migration using VMware storage vMotion on Netapps NFS, Confidential Iscsi SAN Storage
• Assisted in P2V conversions of Windows servers using VMware vConverter
• HP Blade Center administration on HP blade models C7000/C3000 and Cisco UCS Blades.
• Provide research into VMware Thinapp initiative for increasing server virtualization
• Involved in Assessment of current environment for desktop virtualization.
• Involved in definition of success criteria for use cases.
• Experience with Microsoft Hyper-V POC environment
• Created use cases for desktop design and implementation.
• Installation of VMware Tools and upgrade of ESX hosts .
• Creating and managing the VMware cluster with HA and DRS.
• Monitoring and managing performances of ESX/ESXi servers and virtual machines.
• Working on Migration concepts like VMotion and SVMotion.
• Design and implementation of ThinApp environment.
• Experience with Cisco Nexsus 1000V appliance
• Application virtualization using VMware ThinApp 4.5 version.
• ThinApp Packages Applications Upgrades and deployment testing and Production Implementation.
• Experience in updating/upgrading ESX/ESXi servers, Virtual Center servers and windows virtual machines using VMware Update manager and manual upgrades.
• Experience in updating/upgrading the HP Onboard Administrator, Virtual connects.
• Installing and configuring Site Recovery Manager.

Confidential, Jersey City, NJ

VMware and windows Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Involved with all major datacenter projects that involve SAN storage or virtualization.
• Architected and designed VMware ESX server infrastructure for multi site/multi datacenter environment.
• One of the first companies to fully integrate ESX virtualization in the DMZ network, eliminating 75 hardware based IIS web portal Servers.
• Used HP DL585 G2 and IBM x3850 with quad dual core processors and 72GB RAM as ESX server platform.
• Consolidated over 300 End of life servers into ESX 3 HA and DRS clusters.
• Responsible for keeping all VMware ESX servers up to date with patches and updates with minimal downtime using Vmotion for SAN attached VMs and Storage Vmotion for Local storage VMs.
• Created a virtual desktop solution for over 2000 mobile and offshore user base insuring company data stays in the company.
• Deploying and managing Windows, Linux and Solaris Operating systems in the virtual environment.
• Intergrate with enterprise SAN that included several Symmetrix V-Max arrays and CLARiiONs connected to several Windows & UNIX servers in the Data center
• Installing and configuring geo dispersed Microsoft Clusters with HP and Unisys 7000 hardware.
• Installing, managing and supporting hardware for HP Enterprise Virtual Array and XP 24000 Enterprise Storage systems IBM/XIV Virtual Array and a range of Brocade Directors and switches.
• Worked closely with MS SQL and Oracle DBA groups to determine best possible configuration for Storage LUN assignments and raid levels.
• Implemented HP System insight manager server to manage P series HP blade systems and HP hardware SNMP traps.
• Implemented Autoprovisioning for provisioning storage by creating storage groups, initiator groups, port groups and masking viewsfor Symmetrix V-Max using SE 7.1.1 and SMC 7.1.1
• Configured and allocated storage for production and corporate VMware hosts from DMX-3/DMX-4 using Symcli and Clariion CX4-120/CX4-960 using Navisphere Manager.
• Manage and support HP Polyserve virtual file cluster and virtual SQL cluster.

Confidential

Vmware administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installation, configuring and management of ESX 3, 3.5 and vCenter Server 2.5.
• Excellent experience and knowledge with designing installing and implementing VMware ESX servers and vCenter server and setting up V-Motion, HA, DRS.
• Site stuff had a VMware 3 and 3.5 environments. I started building VMware VSphere from scratch.
• Managed 100 ESX servers located at various data centres by one virtual centre. Each Data centre has multiple clusters with biggest of 15 clusters used for HA and DRS for disaster recovery, Load balancing and troubleshooting.
• Creating and Deploying of Virtual Machines from Templates and Snapshots with in no time. Creating clusters, Resource pools and adding VM’s to them and installing VM Tools
• Creating and configuring VNetwork Standard Switch (VSwitch), VM Kernel Ports, VM ports, Service console and NIC teaming.
• Configuring VNetwork Distributed switches and migrating the networks from VNetwork standard switches to VNetwork Distributed switches.
• Configuring different type of Port Groups Policies, Applying Security policies, Traffic Shaping, Load balancing, Failover detection, Hard and Soft zoning and VLAN Tagging.
• Migrated Physical Machines to Virtual Machines (P2V) and Virtual Machines to Virtual Machines (V2V) using VMware converter and vCenter Guided Consolidation.
• Daily responsibilities included maintenance of Virtual machines for performance issues also implemented V-Motioning, Hot and Cold Migration of virtual servers and performed storage VMotion where the storage is migrated.
• Created and maintained SQL cluster for HA, VM’s, VC, ESX servers and
• Good experience with VMware Update Manager to install patches and updates on ESX hosts and virtual machines.

Confidential

System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Part of the Server support team supporting Network Systemson AIX(DHCP and DNS)
• Supporting the Content Management systems environment,this comprises of Solaris, AIX, HP-UX and Linux systems.
• Supporting the Redbrick environment, this comprises of Solaris, AIX, HP-UX and Linux systems, using NIS (no password) and NFS.
• Implementing a Password tool for the unix environment in place ofNIS
• Supporting the BD2XMLteamssystems environment, comprised of Solaris, AIX,HP-UX and Linux systems.
• Part of the Server migration team, responsibilities include identifying systems that have to be moved behind a firewall depending onthe OS and itsvulnerabilities and the classification of the system.
• Part of the Security Assurance Testing team, responsibilities include reviewing machines and getting them prepared for IT Audits.
• Health Check of Systems according to the guidelines laid out by the IT Audits team and Business Control Group.

Environment: 98, Sun Fire 6000, Sun Solaris 5.8, 5.9 and 5.10, E450, Shell scripting, Sun Enterprise 450/420R/250 Servers, Ultra Enterprise 2/1 Servers, SPARC server 1000/20, SPARCstation 10, Sun Sparc Ultra 1,5,10.