SUMMARY

• I have completed MCSA, RHEL V5, VCP 5.5, CCNA certified professional with more than 10 years of experience in System administration and virtualization.
• I have extensive experience in VMware, Cisco UCS Blade and Rack servers, Cisco Network. Sound knowledge of Cisco UCS/HP blades/RAC mount Hardware with up - to-date knowledge of latest design releases, bug tracking and firmware/ESXI updates.
• Virtualization Skills - IT professional with over 9+ years of experience in the area of virtualization with Installation, configuration and troubleshooting of VMware vSphere product lines. This includes VMware ESX 4.0, VMware ESXi 4.1, VMware ESXi 5 /5.5/6.0, vCenter Server 5/5.5/6.0/6.5 , Cisco N1K switches, VMware Site Recovery Manager, DRS, HA, Fault tolerance, vMotion/ SVmotion, heartbeat and helper software like VMware Converter, PlateSpin, PowerConvert, Symantec Ghost and LiveState. Datacenter migration, Basic Knowledge of using Powershell /power CLI on vmware environment. VMware vStorage API's for Array Integration (VAAI) product.
• Hardware - UCS blades/ RAC mount servers Install/Configuration Management/troubleshooting. Experience in flexpod /vblock environment. UCSM, UCS Central. Up-to-date knowledge of latest UCS hardware/ software. Knowledge of Vblock 500 series. Experience with HP C7000, Dell PowerEdge R730,T630,R7910,R720 & T620 servers, M1000e chassis
• Physical-to-Virtual Migration Experience - Performed numerous P2V migrations using VMware’s P2V tool, VM Converter, PlateSpin Power Convert etc. Provided 24/7 support for datacenter migration using the latest Physical 2 Virtual (P2V) technology from VMware.
• Storage - implement NetAPP/EMC SAN, NAS, vSAN Storages. Working on storage issue, adding/ removing storage to different clusters. Sound knowledge of SAN based and NAS based storage.
• Day-to-Day Maintenance Experience – Built Server Templates, Performed Snapshots and Cloning of critical Virtual Machines. Installed and maintained numerous virtual machines consisting Microsoft Windows Server 2003, 2008r2, 2012/ Linux. Migrating/upgrading windows server 2003/2008 to 2008/2012. Performed ground up Enterprise Virtualization Services installing, converting, maintaining and administering VMware ESX, ESXi, Virtual Center, VMotion, DRS, and HA (High Availability). Applying ESX patches, updates. Also worked on ESX to ESXi 4.1 migration and updating from ESXi 4.1 to Version 5.x. VM migrations. Remedy ticketing tool and queue management.
• Network – CCNA certified network knowledge and experience with CISCO ASA/PIX firewall, Cisco VPN concentrator, catalyst and Nexus L3 switches, Extreme Switches, HPE switches configuration. Understanding of routing protocols.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Network: Network cabling, server room/Datacenter cabling using Cat5/6 cables and all other hardware peripherals and testing experience

Enterprise Tools: Intermediate knowledge on Splunk V5.x, 6.x & Puppet V2.7 Operating Systems Expertise in Redhat Linux V4, 5, Ubuntu, Windows Server 2003 & 2008 r2, 2012 Windows XP Vista and Windows 8

Hardware Platforms: Cisco UCS, Cisco routers and switches, Sun Servers - M5000,M9000, T5220,T5240,T4- 1,X3-B2, T5, LDOMS, Controllers, x6250, x6270m2, IBM Xseries, HP ProLiant D Series, IBM P770, HP Blade Center,

Ticketing Tools: AR Remedy, Service Now, HPSM Management Tool Nagios, Solarwinds, Oasis & Opmanager Backup Tools & utilities EMC Avamar, Tivoli Backup (TSM), NetBackup, FLAR, CA Arc server, Rsync, cpio, gzip, SCP  

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Senior VMware Engineer/Operation 

Responsibilities:

• Successfully completed VMWare vSphere 5.5/6.0 Engineering Work (300+ ESX Hosts, 9 vCenters, 3000+ guest OS’s) and esxi 5.5 to 6.0 migration.
• Successfully completed VMWare horizon View 7 Engineering Work (500 Users).
• Cisco UCS Central/UCS Manager (Flexpod environment) Installation, monitor, troubleshoot, testing and upgrade. Firmware upgrade of Cisco UCS. UCS hardware (chassis, blade, FI’s) setup from scratch.
• Configure vlans on L2, L3 switches and configure firewall rules (Cisco ASA and pix firewall).
• P2V migration of 100+ production host using VMware converter
• Support for vRA, vROPS Engineering and automation.
• SAN Administration – NetApp (7Mode and CDot), Dell Compellent.
• RHEL 6.5 and Windows 2008r2 and 2012 server build, Active Directory Domain Services, DHCP, DNS configuration
• Support for Vblock environment.
• Creates “build documents” with complete procedures using Word\Visio diagrams.

VMware System Engineer

Responsibilities

• Operations Support. Build, Configure, and test ESXi hosts, Virtual Center Servers, VUM servers and general maintenance of virtual environment including hosts and virtual machines.
• Upgraded 2000+ Cisco UCS blades from ESXI 5.0 to ESXI 5.5 and 5.5 to 6.0 and Upgraded firmware of UCS fabric interconnects to the latest versions (300+ FI’s)
• Successfully manage all physical and virtual infrastructure technologies to provide optimal flexibility and availability.
• Firmware/ESXI upgrade on Fabric interconnect, Cisco Blades and RAC mount servers
• Successfully manage a complete VMware deployment and upgrade lifecycle encompassing vSphere utilizing DRS, HA, vDS, VMotion, Storage VMotion and Update Manager.
• Provide technical and functional support to internal clients for the VMware virtual infrastructure (including ESXi, vCenter, Lab Manager).
• Perform P2V and V2V migrations of production and development servers.
• Establishing ESX Deployment strategy, policies and procedures and deploying ESX/ ESXi cluster builds based on predefined policies.
• Auditing the ESX/ESXi cluster builds to make sure all set configurations adhere to the Implementation guidelines.
• Manage and troubleshoot vCloud director
• Infrastructure testing on the new builds to identify potential flaws/failures from implementations before its release in production.
• Troubleshooting vSphere/ESXi Cisco UCS performance related issues.
• Troubleshooting frontend CITEIS related virtual environment provisioning failures.
• Deploying vCenter Heartbeat server for vCenter High Availability and failover.
• Windows 2003/2008r2/2012 Servers, Active Directory Domain Services, DHCP, DNS configuration
• Installed and configured EMC/Netapp NAS and SAN based storage.

Project / General Management

• Contribute to architectural reviews, capacity management, and project planning.
• Mentoring lower level/New hire engineers.
• Manage servers (ESXI, Windows, Linux)
• Work with corporate IT staff on projects related to the network and server infrastructure and security.
• Manage work queues, incidents, requests and service level agreements (Remedy ticketing tool) in accordance with policy.
• Manage technical documentation related to the functions of the server team.
• Co-ordinate with teams to move/ install server, storage and network equipment.

VMware VSphere/Network Engineer System Administrator

• Make technical recommendations to management.
• Upgraded entire environment from ESXi 4 to 5.0 and 5.5
• Performed P2V Migrations for Windows 2000 and Windows 2003 server which includes hot and cold migrations.
• CISCO ASA firewall, Cisco vpn concentrator, catalyst 3750/2950/2960 and Nexus 7k L3 switch configuration and troubleshooting. Switch configuration migration/testing, Datacenter migration.
• Understand of routing protocols (OSPS, BGP, EIGRP), site to site VPN configuration and toubleshooting

VMware VSphere Consultant

• Platforms include VMware VI3.5, as well as standalone Windows 2003. Test/Dev and Production environments consist +500 Intel-based servers, with approx. 80% VMware-based. Typical work day consisted of 90% VMware administration via Virtual Center and/or ESX host service console.
• P2V and P2P of approximately 400 physical Windows 2000 and 2003 servers to those hosts utilizing VMware Converter and to HP P-class blades using PlateSpin, while ensuring computing, memory, and disk capacity were maintained at acceptable levels.

System Administrator

• Migrated from Windows NT 4 domain to Windows 2000 Active Directory in hybrid mode
• Windows NT, 2000 and 2003 server builds, network configurations, and third-party application installations
• Support Microsoft Clustering and Terminal Server configurations
• Provided implementation, Configuration, Support, maintenance for WINDOWS 2000/XP/ NT, MS Outlook, MS Office Suite 2000/XP Supported, troubleshoot and Configured TCP/IP, WINS, DNS, DHCP, Citrix, AD Active Directory.