SUMMARY:

• 7+ years of IT experience, specializing in planning, designing, installing, configuring and administering converged infrastructure.
• Experienced in managing large scale environments using VMware, Vblock, vCloud Director, EMC Storage and Cisco Switches.
• Experienced in ESX & ESXi Architecture, guest OS installation, setting up of VM priorities, Cloning and Snapshots.
• Experienced in vSphere 5 & 5.5 and vCenter.
• Experienced in resource management framework, creating resource pools, adding the VMs into resource pools.
• Excellent backup and recovery skills focusing primarily on performing disaster recovery and data migration related activities.
• P2V and V2V conversions by using VMware Converter.
• Experienced with the VM Snapshots and Templates, VMware HA,FT and VMware DRS.
• Extensive knowledge in advance features of VMotion, Storage vMotion, VM Lab Manager and vCenter and VMware Orchestrator.
• Extensive knowledge vCAC - Virtual Center Automation Center.
• Implementation of VCloud Director, vShield Director.
• Knowledge on vFabric Data and Application Director.
• Ability to implement VMware’s Virtual Switch technology; port aggregation, NIC teaming, VLAN trunking and port groups.
• Successful deployments of Cisco UCS Compute Cluster with ESXi 4 and ESXi 5.
• Successful deployment of Cisco 1000v VSM with vSphere 5.
• Experience with Service Profiles and UCS Manager.
• In-depth knowledge on Vblock Storage like EMC VNX and VMAX.
• Installation, Configuration and Administration of Networker, Netbackup, Avamar and Backup Exec in large enterprise environments
• Disaster recovery, planning and management.
• Designing Backup Strategies.
• NDMP backup configurations.
• Configuring various Tape libraries such as Quantum I Scalar, STK, VTL using Data Domain, EDL and CDL, SILO, HP MSL 6000 Series, Dell Power Vault -110T, 132T & 136T Tape Libraries, IBM 3584/3592 LTO Libraries and NDMP Auto-changers.
• Configuring and administering Data Domains, Data Domain Replication and administering Data Domain OS
• Managing Data Domain File systems, M-trees, NFS, CIFS and VTL Libraries.
• VM backups using EMC Networker, EMC Avamar and NetBackup.
• In-Depth Knowledge on Installation, Patching and Troubleshooting Windows XP, 2000, 2003, 2008R2.
• Configuring backup policies, schedules, media pools, multiplexing and parallelism.
• Configuring Disk based backups using Data Domain, File Type and Advanced File Type Devices.
• Network Infrastructure involving DNS, DHCP and WINS servers, TCP/IP Protocol Stack.
• Network Load Balancing (NLBS) cluster configuration.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Database: Oracle 9i/10g/11g, MSSQL 2000/2005/2008 R2, IBM DB2, MySQL

Hardware: Cisco UCS 5108, HP C3000 and C7000 Enclosures, Dell PowerEdge and Rack mount servers.

OS: Windows 2003/2008/2012, Red hat Enterprise Linux 4 & 5, Sun Solaris 9 & 10, Active Directory

Applications: MS Office 2007, 2010 & 2013 and MS Visio.

Backup: VMware vCB, Symantec backup exec, vRanger Pro.

VMWare: VMware ESX 4.0, 4.1, 5.0, 5.5 Virtual Center, vSphere, VMware DRS & HA, VMware P2V Converter, vCenter Server 2.5, Virtual Infrastructure 3.0, vSphere 4.0, vSphere 5.0. ESX/ESXi 3.5, 4.0 and 5.0, VMware Converter, VMware View, VMware Thinapp, VMware Update Manager, HA, DRS, DPM, FT, VMotion, Storage vMotion, VMware Guided Consolidation, Lab Manager and VMware Workstation.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Milwaukee WI

Sr Virtualization Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Installation, configuration and Administration of VMware, Windows, and Red hat Linux servers.
• Building, testing and managing of VMware vSphere 4.x & 5.x
• Working with IDC, storage & network team to troubleshoot networking issue
• Configuring BIOS & RAID 0, 1+0, 5 and 6 as per client’s needs
• Building ESX, ESXi, Hyper V, Red Hat 5.x & 6.x using PXE and Kickstart
• Installing and configuring of vCenter 5.0 with Heartbeat 6.4, vCenter 4.1, 5.0, 5.5 servers.
• Create and Configure Virtual Machines, cloning and created Master Templates to create new virtual Machines.
• Creating Host profiles to automate ESX configuration.
• Configuring and troubleshooting of HA, DRS, distributed switch, Clustering, vMotion and Storage vMotion.
• Configured and tested HA/DRS, Licenses, NTP, HP Management, DNS.
• Creating Cloning, Snapshots Management and Templates on regular basis.
• Implementation of vCloud Director, vShield.
• Deployment of vFabric Application director & vFabric Data director
• VCE vBlock Infrastructure provisioning, reconfiguration and decommissioning using EMC UIM.
• Advanced Performance Analysis and Troubleshooting across all layers of the Virtual infrastructure.
• EMC VNX Block Storage Provisioning and Management for ESXi, Linux (RHEL) & Windows hosts.
• EMC Power Path installation and configuration for Storage Path load balancing.
• Planning & implementation of scheduled changes per change management policies.
• Configure SNMP based monitoring alerts on all Vblock infrastructure elements.
• Configuring Hyper-V hosts virtual networking, storage, cluster and Hyper-V VM’s high availability.
• Applying patches using update Manager or manually to ESX/ESXi hosts.
• Configuration of Vblock 300/320, UCS compute, storage configuration.
• Provisioning storage to the blade servers for the ESX installation.
• Zoning, LUN Masking and Mapping.
• Administering Vblock using UCS Manager, AMP.
• Service Profile template create and deployment.
• Configuring Nexus 1000v switches and MDS- SAN Switches.
• Implemented Disaster recovery site for production site.
• Scanning and configuring LUN for ESX servers.
• Performed Virtual Machine creation, VM Configuration changes and Cloning.
• Performed storage and virtual machine migration using hot and cold migration type.
• Performed health check for the existing environment.
• Troubleshooting issues related to ESX host, vCenter, HA, DRS and VMware update manager.
• Worked with VMware update manager to install patches and updates on ESXi hosts and virtual machines.
• Involved planning and implementation of migration process
• Pre-migration, Migration, Post-Migration and validation check list.
• Tested different recovery plans in SRM to ensure recovery of failover VM's.
• Upgrading VM tools, VM versions and Data store to VMFS 5.
• Worked with various internal and external IT groups to allocate resources to perform P2V conversion scheduling.
• Worked on Storage related daily Change Request activities.
• Have experience in NAS-NFS, NAS-CIFS and SAN storage administration.
• Configuring Qtree, Quotas for NFS and CIFS clients.
• Managing iSCSI Networks.

Environment: VMware vSphere5.0, vBlock 300, EMC VNX 5700, Cisco UCS, Nexus N1000v, Nexus 5548, UCSM, vCloud Director, AMP.

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Sr System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installing Site Recovery Manager Server on the Source and the DR site and Integrating with respective vCenters.
• Implementing and managing Block based VNX storage system in VMware virtualization environment.
• Performing seamless upgrade of the entire converged infrastructure platform including ensuring firmware compatibility and interoperability.
• Integrating VMware SRM with the backend EMC Recoverpoint platform using SRA adaptor.
• Implementing and Configuring Recoverpoint Production Volumes, Production Journal, Replica Copies, Replica Journal, Consistency Groups, Replication Sets, Replication priority and other settings.
• Configuring SRM Resource mappings, folder mappings, network mappings, protection groups and datastore groups.
• Creating and configuring Recovery plans and Recovery network options.
• Planning and executing non disruptive Disaster Recovery testing by creating isolated network bubble at the DR site.
• Managing SRM based protection in a highly dynamic environment ensuring newly deployed Tier1 VM’s are protected and on replicated datastores.
• Configuring and managing Cisco UCS Service Profiles, vNIC/vHBA interfaces, MAC/UUID/WWPN/WWNN identity pools, various Server, Network and Storage related policies.
• Configuring Cisco UCS Fabric Interconnect upstream connectivity for LAN with Cisco Nexus 5548 and upstream connectivity for SAN with Cisco MDS switches.
• Configuring and managing Virtual Port Channel based clustering on the Cisco Nexus 5K series.
• Managing and configuring VSAN, NPIV, Zones and Zonesets on the Cisco MDS 9148 for Fibre Channel connectivity between Cisco UCS, EMC VPLEX, EMC VNX and EMC recoverpoint.
• VNX Block Storage Provisioning and Management including Raid Groups and Traditional LUNS, Pools and thin LUNs, LUN Migration, FAST VP, FAST Cache, Storage groups, Host Initiator registration.

Environment: VMware vSphere5.0, SRM 5.0 Array replication, Cisco UCS, Nexus N1000v, Nexus 5548, UCSM, Recover Point, EMC VNX 5500.

Confidential, Dublin, CA

Storage and Virtualization Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in migration project from ESX 3.x to vSphere 4.0 and complete migration of VMs
• Worked on Datacenter consolidation projects.
• Migration of virtual machines from ESX 3.5 to ESX 4.0.
• Installation and configuration of ESX servers and facilitate server consolidation, migration and testing.
• Analyze performance of physical servers to determine and customize virtual server specification Deployment of VM Templates to deploy virtual machines.
• Installing patches and software upgrades recommended by security scan.
• Expertise in Thin provisioning, VMFS expansion, RAID technologies.
• P2V & V2V conversions using System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2007 (SCVMM).
• Upgrading of VMware tools to match ESX host level.
• Good experience working with HP EVA virtualization adapter.
• Server bang light fixing once every month.
• Clear-up of orphaned vmdk files periodically to clean up memory.
• LUN path mapping and keeping track of VM’s along with their datastores.
• Implementation of Host Profiles in development cluster.
• Good experience in working on vShield manager.
• Implementation of EMC power path LUN path monitoring tool.
• Management of HP SIM for hardware monitoring.
• Experienced in migrating and importing virtual machines.
• Configured, deployed and involved in troubleshooting of VMs, ESX/ESXi servers, vCenter server, vSphere 4.0. Configured Fault Tolerance (FT) for business critical servers.
• Implemented HA by configuring HA clusters with DPM enabled DRS clusters for automated power management and load balancing. Scheduled tasks for manual vMotion and Storage vMotion of VM’s and managed snapshots prior to planned patch install or upgrade.
• Installation of vCenter server and Installing Virtual center components
• Updating ESX host’s using VMware Update manager.
• Troubleshooting of file system issues with remote servers via telnet and putty.
• Monitoring and managing performance of ESX servers and Virtual Machines
• Creation of templates from VMs and Creation of VMs from templates.
• P2V and V2V conversions by using VMware Converter, VizonCore and PlateSpin Converters.

Environment: VMware vSphere5.0, SRM 5.0 Array replication, Cisco UCS, Nexus N1000v, Nexus 5548, UCSM, Recover Point, EMC VNX 5500.

Confidential

VMware Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Assisting in planning and implementation of virtual environment
• Created Virtual Machines and Installed VMware Tools
• Provided physical to virtual migrations for servers utilizing VMware Converter.
• Deployed Through Templates
• Cloned Virtual Machines
• Managed and Troubleshoot Virtual Network issues
• Worked on VMware clustering like HA and DRS clusters using VC.
• Worked on Cold migration and vMotion
• Worked on resource management framework like creation resource pools, adding the VMs into Resource pools.
• Configured DNS, DHCP
• Customized 2003/2008 servers in terms of Registry, Audit/Account/Security policy, patching.
• Maintaining, implementing and optimizing operating systems/software utilizing VMware virtualization technologies for vSphere 4.0/4.1 including configuration of VMware HA and DRS.
• Designing and deploying a corporate VMware ESX Server infrastructure.
• Managed testing, implementation and administration of vCenter Lab Manager Server.
• Documentation included PCI compliance Requirements, Project Plan, Network Diagrams, P2V migration and Network design and upgrade recommendations.
• Disaster recovery planning, implementation and recovering systems during crash or hardware failure.
• Updated and patched all ESX servers and coordinate hardware-software installations and upgrades to ensure work is performed in accordance with company policy
• Backup and Storage Consulting - Networker, Netbackup and EMC Avamar.
• Migrated Backup servers and 10000 clients from Networker to Netbackup.
• Configured Master and Media servers.
• Configured VM backups using Netbackup.
• Implemented Data Domain to replace Tape based backups.
• Disaster Recovery, planning and Management
• Preparing and Implementing Service Improvement Plans
• Escalation Management - PIR preparation, handling Escalation Calls.
• Root Cause Analysis.
• Interviewed candidates for Technical Screening.
• Knowledge Transfer to new customers and other Team members through Technical Sessions.
• Liaison and Interfacing with clients and other technology groups for process enhancement and Escalation Matrix definition.

Environment: VMware vSphere 4.0, EMC Avamar, Cisco UCS, P2V Conversion, Plate spin migration, vCenter upgradation.