SUMMARY

• Over 6+ years experience in VMware virtualization and Linux/ Unix administration.
• Expert in managing exchange 2012 servers and troubleshooting issues related to User and group accounts, mail delivery, configuring MX records to enable and disable domain.
• Plan, implement and configure Fault Tolerance (FT) solutions for business critical servers.
• Having 5+ years of experience in Virtual Datacenter Consolidation, VMWare administration, Cisco UCS Management, SAN and NAS Storages, Storage replication, Backup solutions and Disaster recovery implementations.
• Expert on configuring hardware iSCSI and NFS storage to VMware ESXi hosts from vSphere client.
• Experience in building VMware virtual machines from OVA/OVF templates and CD/ISO image.
• Involved with built number of VMs through templates/clones, created templates/clones for future use from ISO Images.
• Created Standard and Distributed Switches (dvSwitch) in the VCenter servers for making use of best network design and stability across the VCenter servers.
• Skilled in installing and configuring VCenter update manager for installing ESXi patches and also to upgrade ESXi Kernel.
• Provisioned more than 1500 servers include Windows 2012 R2, 2008 R2, 2003 and RHEL 6.x
• Solutions by Configure HA clusters with DPM enabled DRS clusters for automated power management and load balancing.
• Ability to work with team environment as well as individual. Used to working under pressure and deliver on time.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills. Ability to work within company rules and follow manager lead.
• Having well scripting knowledge on PowerShell, VSphere CLI, Power CLI and Linux Bash Shell, Perl, Java Script or similar languages
• Ability to handle VMware Storage configurations (NFS, fiber channel, iSCSCi)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential - Houston, TX

Sr. Virtualization Engineer (Virtual Infrastructure Support)

Responsibilities:

• Creating, Installing, configuring and administer Virtual Machines, installing Guest Operating Systems like Windows and Linux.
• Responsible for Microsoft File and Print servers cluster on windows 2012 within VMware environment.
• Installing, configuring and maintaining the VMware ESX 3.x / Virtual Center 2.x servers.
• Moving the running VM from one host to another using Vmotion Technology.
• Worked on SAN concepts like switch zoning (soft & hard), LUN masking on SAN Storage devices, LUN creation and Storage Management.
• Create a cluster in Virtual Infrastructure and enabling HA and DRS feature.
• Configuring ESX 3.x servers to use iSCSI & NAS storage. Creating vSwithces and Port groups for the ESX servers.
• Experience in managing ESXi4.5x w/center and Update Manager with Remote CLI, Power CLI
• Knowledgeable in migrating the virtual machines between the ESXi Hosts using cold migration and VMotion.
• Knowledge in VMware networking with Virtual Distributed Switches (Including Nexus 1000v)
• Handled DR solutions and business continuity solutions in both Oracle databases and VMware Infrastructure
• Managed multi tired applications running on VMware VSphere with architectural design and implementation
• Network Configuration on ESX servers which include Bonds & VLANs. Perform activities like scheduling of backups and system security.
• Monitoring and performed troubleshooting in both Oracle Databases and VMware Infrastructure
• Knowledge in Database Management in Oracle and SQL
• Provisioned more than 1500 virtual servers for customers including Windows 2012 R2/2008 R2/2008/2003, RHEL 6.5, Cent OS 6 and Ubuntu 14.x.
• Experience with administrating Windows Server environment 2003,2008, 2008R2, 2012
• Interact with our clients to resolve their problems in a timely and accurate manner.
• Designed and successfully implemented VMware ESX servers for server consolidation.
• Experience on hot and cold clone process.
• Administration of VMware Virtual Center and virtualization services VMware DRS, VMware HA, VMotion and SVMotion.

Environment: VMWare suite 4.x, 5.x, ESXi 4.x, 5.x, Cisco UCS, Cisco UCS, EMC2 Storage, VMWare vCenter 4.x, 5.x, VMWare SRM 5.5, vSphere Client, vSphere Web Client, P2V converter, VMware vSphere PowerCLI, HP 3PAR Management 4.4.1, 3PAR In Server CLI, Solar Winds, PRTG Monitoring Tool, Cisco Nexus 7000 switch, Windows server 2003/2008/2008 R2/2012 R2, RHEL 6.5, Ubuntu 14.04, Active Directory, DNS, FTP, McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator 4.6 security suites, Crash Plan PROe enterprise and Symantec Net Backup 7.5.

Confidential

VMware / Windows Administraton

Responsibilities:

• Configured Clusters for the ESXi hosts and created Anti-Affinity rules in the DRS to either keep the VMs together or separate them on ESXi hosts.
• Experience in managing multiple data centers, Clusters and hosts as a Senior administrator
• Configuration of VMotion, VSwitch, and VLAN in VMware Virtual center. Created windows 2003 Active Directory Domain network and managed servers through it.
• Responsible for adding servers/work stations to domains and applying group policy.
• Upgraded the SiteMinder from v6.x to v12.x
• Created resource pools and added VM's into the pools.
• Providing and maintaining user access in VMware virtual Center, configuring mail alert for any failure in HA, DRS, CPU and memory.
• Working on troubleshooting the triggered alarms generated from VMware VCenter Server and solving the SNMP traps rise in VCenter.
• Using Hot Plug feature for increasing the performances of virtual machine.
• Managed separate VMware clusters like QA, Development and Production.
• Took active part in troubleshooting VCenter and ESXi issues and also in system hardware failures.
• Perform capacity analysis of existing physical production environment using VMware Capacity planner.
• Responsible for setup IIS 6.0, Apache 2.0 and IBM HTTP servers for the deployment
• Migrated datacenters and converted physical servers to virtual servers using VMware Convertor.
• Monitoring and managing performance of ESXi servers and Virtual Machines using Virtual center server for HA, DRS.
• Installed open source software like Apache Tomcat.
• Involved in live migration of Virtual Machines and Virtual machines files using the VMotion and Storage VMotion.
• Creation & Troubleshooting of Virtual Network, ESX & Virtual Machines.

Environment: VCenter, ESXi 4.0, ESXi 4.1, VMotion, VSphere. Windows servers 2003/2008/2008 R2, RHEL 4.x, Cent OS, Active Directory, SiteMinder v12 and v6, WebSphere 7.0, Apache Tomcat 6.0

Confidential

IT Virtualization Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Installation, configuring and handling the VMware infrastructure.
• ESXi Server updates and upgrades using Update Manager.
• Creating switches and Port groups for the ESX & ESXI servers.
• Create a cluster in Virtual Infrastructure and enabling HA and DRS feature.
• Servers build consolidation & migration such as P2V, V2V etc.
• Moving the running VM from one host to another using Vmotion Technology.
• Resource management for VMs increasing CPU, Memory and DISK expansion etc.
• Adding Hosts to VC, Creating and managing VM's under the Hosts.
• Creating vSwithces and Port groups for the ESX servers.
• Moving the running VM from one host to another host using VMotion Technique.
• Fine tuning performance setting for better performance and optimum utilization.
• Worked on the development of modules for various project using JAVA, JSP, Servers, JDBC with Oracle database.
• Review and authorization of Microsoft monthly security patches.
• Analyze, log, track and complex software and hardware matters of significance pertaining to networking.

Environment: VCenter, ESXi 3.5, VMotion, VSphere, HA, Cloning, Snapshots. Java 1.4, JSP, JDBC, HTML, XML, Java Script, Tomcat, IIS, Oracle 9i, CVS version control tool.