SUMMARY:

• An experienced professional with 8years of Information Technology experience in Infrastructure Administration and Management, System Engineering, System Design, Systems Administration, and Infrastructure Security - Development, Implementation and Support, and monitoring…etc. of an enterprise organization.
• Strategically and cost effectively utilizing technology in alignment with corporate goals. Consistently improve delivery times and service level agreements while reducing costs. Excel at strategic planning, building high-performance teams, project management and implementing best practice methodologies and continuous improvement programs.
• Experience in VMware ESX/ESXi, Windows 2003/2008/2012, VSphere CLI, VMware VIEW, VMware VSphere, P2V Converter, Linux, SAN, NAS, Backup Disaster recovery, VMware and Vblock.
• Build and troubleshooting experience with ESX 3.5/4 servers and VSphere 4.1/5.0 infrastructure.
• Worked on Vcenter server 5.0 4.0, 4.1 and Virtual center server 3.0 for managing multiple ESX servers.
• Worked extensively on Templates and clones Expertise in creating Host and Client VM Templates, Cloning and managing Snapshots.
• Experience in administrating and managing a 200 node VMware ESXi environment with multiple clusters.
• Experience in implementing ESXi servers with efficient virtualization strategies by creating clones, templates, task scheduling, prioritizing VMs, creating and managing snap shots.
• Knowledge of managing, maintaining, administering, troubleshooting high-end network devices such as cisco routers, switches and ASA firewalls a PLUS.
• Expert in administration of critical SAN environment and Vsphere environment.
• Worked on creating Zones in Cisco MDS 9148 SAN switch.
• Worked on VMAX10k in creating LUNS, which are above 2TB size for that used the concept of Meta Luns. Created Storage Profiles and applied Fast policies to them.
• Worked on Storage Vmotion and Vmotion while migrating the Virtual Machines from NetappStorage to Vmax10k
• Experienced in using administrative tools Unisphere for VMAX / VNX / VPLEX / Recover Point / CX, SMC, Prosphere, EMC Control Center, SYMCLI and NaviSec CLI.
• Working knowledge on various Unix Flavors - AIX, Red Hat Linux, Solaris.
• Proficient in EMC storage systems (CLARiiON, Symmetrix Celerra and XtremeIO) and EMC software such as Control Center, Navisphere Manager, Connectrix Manager, Visual SAN and Visual SRM.
• Experience in administering, maintaining and troubleshooting of diverse array of equipment including EMC CX, VNX series, Netapp FAS series.
• Expertise in allocating storage from NetApp NAS FAS 3000 series, FAS 6000 series filers, managing volumes, Qtrees and Quotas.
• Experience in VMware virtualization and Linux/Unix administration.
• Hands on experience with EMC and NetApp management tools like Navisphere, ECC, SMC, Snapview snapshot/clone, Mirror View, Zoning, Storage Provisioning, LUN creation, Mapping and Masking. Filerview, Snapmirror, SnapVault and PowerPath.
• Expertise in implementing business continuity solutions using various migration and replication tools like SnapView Snapshot/Clone, SAN Copy, Snapmirror and Snapvault.
• Experience with DNS/DFS/DHCP/WINS Standardizations and Implementations.
• Experience in Active Directory, GPOs, File & Print Server, FTP, Terminal Server, NAT, and Exchange Mail Server.
• Experience with HP Blade System C-class enclosure (7000) and IBM chassis using Onboard Administrator and virtual Connect.
• Planning, deploying, and managing System Center Configuration Manager 2007/2012 (SCCM).
• 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.
• Expert on configuring hardware iSCSI and NFS storage to VMware ESXi hosts from vSphere client.
• Created Standard and Distributed Switches (dvSwitch) in the VCenter servers for making use of best network design and stability across the VCenter servers.
• Expertise in end user support over the phone and also remotely using Windows remote desktop, VNC, WebEx, DS view and ILO to connect to the servers.
• Worked on Remedy tool Change management, Request management and Incident tickets.
• Experience in ITIL and ITSM tools
• Planned and Executed Block Level storage migrations using Open Replicator, SRDF, SanCopy, and VPLEX Data Mobility. Migrated data onto utility arrays and Retired / Decommissioned legacy storage arrays & 3rd party arrays.
• Experience on EMC XtremIO design with innovative use of flash technologies and advanced data services to improve infrastructure and application agility.
• Employed EMCopy, Robo Copy to migrate CIFS & NFS shares from VG2 to VG8.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Networking: TCP/IP, DHCP, Wireless LAN (802.11b/g/n), WAN, VPN, IPv6, Snmp

Vmware: Vmware 3.5, 4.0, 5.0, 5.5, Hypervisor

Databases: Oracle 10g (SQL), MySQL, Microsoft Access

Applications: Microsoft Office Suite 03/07/10/13, Microsoft Outlook 2003-2013, Vmware, Citrix XenServer, KVM, MS Dynamics CRM, REHL, Adobe Acrobat, MacAfee, Autocad, Netbeans, and QTP

Platforms: MS Windows XP/VISTA/7/Server 03/08, Linux, Vmware ESXi (3.5 to 5.5)

Programming: C++, HTML, Vbscript, ADA, Visual Studio, MySQL, PHP, Perl, Python, Xml

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Detroit, MI

Senior Vmware Engineer / Windows Admin

Responsibilities:

• Involved in storage refresh project where the whole environment is being migrated to a new all flash storage array EMC XtremeIO moving nearly 5Petabytes of data.
• Responsible for migrating the data from the ESXi hosts spread across multiple datacenters.
• Installation Powerpath patch upgrades to stabilize the bugs in the ESXi environment.
• Involved in planning, scheduling and design of migration procedures to be followed and drafting best practises for each type of migration technique.
• Gathering and providing pre migration storage requirements for various physical Windows hosts.
• Upgraded Powerpath licensing and set the Powerpath policy on the windows physical hosts in order to complete the pre migration procedures.
• Installation of Avamar Client on Windows hosts.
• Troubleshooting routing issues between ESXi hosts and building bridge between hosts to migrate VM’s between them.
• Manually migrating VM’s without downtime from the hosts that donot have SDRS configured.
• Administered MS SQL cluster servers and various RHEL Oracle servers running Cognos, WAS and web application.
• Managing portal application and Business Intelligence servers.
• Upgrading ESXi servers using vCenter update manager.
• Configuring VLAN, vMotion and VLAN Switches.
• Coordinated server and application downtimes with the customers and other teams during migrations.
• Migrating VM’s live using vMotion, svMotion and Advance svMotion.
• Planning and design of building new ESXi clusters and storage requirements.
• Decommissioning of old hosts after completely migrating the data off them.
• Involved in SAN switch cutovers for both ESXi and Windows servers.
• Coordinating with the storage team on LUN capacity and storage provisioning as required.
• Deactivating old zones and validation of paths from the new storage
• Involved in Boot Lun migrations for the VDI environment.
• Migrating Windows 2000,2003,2008 physical hosts using PPME.

Environment: vCenter, vSphere5.0, Esxi 5.0,Windows 2000/ 2003/2008/2008 R2/2012,RHEL,VMAX,VNX,CiscoUCS, EMC XtemeIO.

Senior VMWare Engineer / Windows Admin

Responsibilities:

• Is responsible to manage a large environment with 314 ESXi hosts spreaded across various datacenters.
• Build new ESXi 5.1 hosts from the scratch and did the complete configuration and made them PCI compliant.
• Installing, Configuring & Troubleshooting of theESXi 5.1 in different types of Dell servers (PowerEdge R720; 2950; M620.
• Co-ordinated with the network team to plan the structure of network to be used for the new ESXi hosts like number of NICs, vLANs, subnets etc.
• Worked in the world largest datacenter SWITCHNAP and deployed and configured Blade server chassis Dell M1000E and configured CMC and Blade servers Poweredge M620 for it.
• Installation and configuration of Windows servers 2003, 2008, 2008 R2 Virtual Machines in the ESXi host clusters.
• Created various types of Tech Plans for hardware and software installations.
• Installation of Vcenter server and Configuring ESXi - host’s within the cluster using VMotion and HA.
• Running patches and updates through update manager for the Esxi hosts.
• Configured CMC and Idrac for remote management of chassis and ESXi hosts.
• Applied patches to fix various types of vulnerabilities in Vcenter.
• Did the basic configuration of Powerconnect m6220 (1Gig); m8024 (10 Gig) and Brocade switches.
• Deployed VmwareVcenter operations manager in the production environment to monitor performance of Virtual servers; datastores and their resources availability.
• Worked on physical to virtual migration(P2V) and virtual to virtual(V2V) using Vmware converter 5.0
• Complete hardware setup and cabling of Dell Poweredge R720 and EMC VNX
• Migrated physical SQL database servers to the virtual environment using double take and vmwarevsphere 5.5.
• Provided remote phone support and onsite support for the datacenter migration from physical environment to virtual environment.
• Added additional hard disks using vsphere 5.5 and reconfigured the network settings of the target virtual machines.
• Coordinated server downtimes and application downtimes with the customers and other teams during migrations.
• Installed VMware tools on the virtual machines after the P2V migration.
• Added the virtual network adapters (VNICs), updated the MAC address using vsphere 5.5.
• Configured the IPV4 properties, IP settings, DNS configuration and WINS configuration.
• Configured VMDKs and added them to the virtual machines after the migration.
• Created new hard disks for the vms using vsphere 5.5 and brought them online using the windows disk management and veritas storage manager.
• Uninstalled the hardware specific drivers from the virtual machines after the P2V migration.
• Reconfigured the vCPU and the Memory setting of the virtual machines after the P2V migration.
• Ran powershell scripts to reconfigure the SQL databases for the TempDB, MaxDOP and memory.

Environment: ESXi 4.1/5.1, VCenter server 4.1/5.1, Windows 2003/2008/2008 R2 server, RHEL 4.8,5.5,5.6, Remedy, Dell Poweredge R710, R720, 2950, M620, m1000e.

SeniorVMWare Admin

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for Migrating Production Virtual Machines running on Legacy IBM blades to Brand New Vblock Environment without downtime.
• Worked and Created an Environment where VM's running on IBM blades can access both Legacy storage (Netapp) and the vblock storage, which is VMAX10k.Used the concept called swing box.
• In Vmax created LUNs of size more than 2TB using the concept of META LUNS.
• Worked on Vsphere5.5 and Cisco 1000v.
• Design and implement storage solutions tailored to different environments such as VMware, SQL, and Oracle.
• Managed and administrated Hitachi VSP and USP V models.
• Demonstrated experience in NetApp Snapshot, SnapVault and Snap Mirror.
• Created and Configured RAID Groups, Storage Groups, Binding LUNs, Naming, Resizing.
• Installed new NetApp and EMC and implemented best practices.
• Daily tasks Included Managing and provisioning on NetApp Filers/Celerra and VNX/VMAX/DMX/ CLARiiON using Data ONTAP CLI, Filer View, Celerra CLI and Celerra manager.
• Manage EMC VMAX, CLARiiON CX 700, CX3-80, Symmetrix DMX 2000, DMX 3000, in heterogeneous environments, which includes windows and Unix systems.
• Supported Qtrees, creation and exports through NFS.
• Monitor NetApp Systems, configure thresholds, capacity management, using Operations Manager (DFM) software.
• Generating Historical Performance Reports for VNX 5500/5700/7500 storage arrays using Archive (NAR) Files in both Production and DR for troubleshooting purpose.
• Migration of data from Symmetrix-Symmetrix and Symmetrix-CLARiiON by using Open Replicator.
• Implemented NetApp OnCommand Protection Manager backup system for critical clinical trial statistical data.
• Performed brocade switches upgrades to 6.4 and Cisco switches upgrades to 5.2.8b on DS-C 9513 model.
• Upgraded ONTAP from 7.3 to 8.0 on 200 NetApp systems during various weekend GZ.
• Creating and administering aggregates, volumes, Qtrees, FlexVols, FlexClones, Snapshots, and Space Guarantee etc.
• Create, configure, and manage CIFS & NFS shares, quotas, groups, and permissions.
• Configuring SnapMirror, SnapReserve, allocating & deallocating shares to UNIX and Windows Clients from NetApp storage systems.
• Administer NAS Environment using DataFabric Operations Manager.
• Configured EMC ControlCenter for end-to-end Administration and Management of Storage environment.
• Used Storage Resource Management (SRM) tools to monitor Storage Area Network infrastructure systems such as CX 480/960, NS120/480/960 and VNX 5300/5500.
• ISCSI, NFS, Fiber Channel Protocols, Fiber Channel Cabling, Switching and Zoning.
• Resolved all issues related with performance of SAN backed VMware ESX Infrastructure to determine proper allocation of resources to a multi-department user population with widely varying needs.

Environment: VCenter, Vblock, VSphere 5.5, Cisco Network, VMAX, VNX, CLARiiON, Celerra, Netapp, Snapshots.

VMWare /WindowsAdmin

Responsibilities:

• Installing and Managing ESX and ESXi servers on HP, DELL and Installation of vCenter Server, vCenter Components and upgrading VMware Tools.
• Creating resource pools and adding the VM’s into the pools.
• Updated Firmware and Proliant Support Pack for Windows 2000/2003 servers.
• Used tools such as VMware Converter, PlateSpin Power Convert, and VeeamFastSCP to work on ESX Environment for the P2V conversions.
• Building ESXi/4.0/5.0 Host and maintain those ESXi servers through VI Client.
• Implementation of Active Directory infrastructure and Network fundamentals, protocols (such as TCP/IP, DHCP, DNS), Group Policy and Profile Management.
• Created Snapshots according to user’s requirement.
• Administered Microsoft Cluster Server with SQL server 2008/2005.
• Maintained Web Servers by installing IIS 6 and 7, FTP Sites and creating Virtual Directories in IIS6 and IIS7.
• Involved in Managing, Installing, and Supporting Windows 2008/2003 Servers, and VMware ESXi Servers 3.0/3.5/4.0/5.0
• Taking care of capacity planning for new clusters, ESXi and VM storage issues.
• Configured HA, DRS clusters, FT for important VM’s.
• Analyzing and implementing OS patches and hot fixes as well as other OS configurations and updates using Blade Logic Patch Management tool.
• Implemented Windows 2003 WSUS Server for client and server patches using GPO, Blades/Chassis, virtual deployments, SAN attached storage/BFS.
• Designed and built an HP Blade Center using IBM SAN storage with VMWare ESX, deploying hosts using Boot from SAN / SAN attached storage assigned to given builds.
• Involved in configuring the new HP Servers with Windows 2008/2003/2000 by using Capacity planner and VMware guided consolidation for gathering the Physical machines CPU and Memory usage metrics.
• P2V Hot conversions using converter enterprise 3, 4 and 5.
• P2V cold conversion using VMware Converter Boot CD.
• Presenting FC SAN LUN’s, RDM’s iSCSI LUN’s and NFS mounts.
• Created vSwitches and different ports groups for different purposes.
• Taking care of NIC teaming at ESXi server level for redundancy.
• Updating and upgrading ESXi servers using vCenter update manager.
• Worked on Ticket process in receiving Incident tickets in Remedy Tool in 24x7 environments.
• Performed technical expertise for windows systems environments on issues related to servers, local services, data centers, and server configuration.
• Implementation of Active Directory infrastructure and protocols (such as TCP/IP, DHCP, DNS), Group Policy and Profile Management.

Environment: VMware ESX 5.1/5.0/4.0, VSphere 4.0,5.0 Vcenter4.0, Windows Server 2008 R2/2003, Windows 7/XP, Active Directory, HP Proliant DL and Blade Servers.

VMWare Admin

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 vSwitches and Port groups for the ESX servers.
• Configuring, Administering Snapshots copies and restoring lost files.
• Worked on trouble shooting the issues in Vsphere5.0.
• Knowledgeable in migrating the virtual machines between the ESXi Hosts using cold migration and VMotion.
• Network Configuration on ESX servers, which include Bonds & VLANs. Perform activities like scheduling of backups and system security.
• Enabling, Configuring, the Quotas and Modifying quota limit as requested by the user.
• Manage and resolve problems identified by OS Admins or monitoring software
• Increasing the Volume storage space as per the requirement.
• Add disk as needed to existing storage systems and configuring.
• Allocate shares/storage to new servers as needed.
• Exposure on configuring iSCSI LUNS, assigning to Solaris/Linux hosts and administration.
• Exposure on Snapmirror and SnapVault usage for Data Protection.
• Maintain reports on disk utilization, availability and growth patterns.
• Coordinating with Global storage team in Global Maintenance Break (GMB) activities.
• Investigate, identify and document proposals that will improve application configuration and recoverability.
• Monitoring Filers through DFM for Disk, Network, CPU usages.
• Configured and deployed over 30 Cisco UCS computing clusters with VMware ESXi 5 and vCenter 5
• 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 andSVMotion.

Environment: VCenter, ESXi 4.0, 4.1, 5.0 VMotion, VSphere, HA, Cloning, Snapshots.

VMware/Windows Admin

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.
• Configuration of VMotion, VSwitch, and VLAN in VMware Virtual center.
• 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.
• 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.

AIX/Linux System Admin

Responsibilities:

• Installation and maintenance of AIX Systems.
• Administration of AIX Operating Systems.
• System & backup management using IBM ADSM Backup Server.
• IBM RS/6000 SP System Software Maintenance AIX System Dump Generation and sending System Dump to AIX System Support Center.
• Installation/administration of AIX, Linux, Solaris, and NT/2000 Servers on a LAN, setting up optimal RAID levels (fault tolerance) for protected data storage in NAS environments. Install and configure DHCP, DNS (BIND, MS), web (Apache, IIS), mail (SMTP, IMAP, POP3), and file servers.
• Defined and setup network printers, and install client/server applications. Define/setup network protocols, Network File Services (NFS), and Network Information Services (NIS).
• Setup and administered training room / Mentored students during training
• AIX systems administration and Disk Management using SMIT.
• Logical Volume Management (LVM) of AIX.
• Predefined and Customized Volume Group management on AIX
• Installation and Administration of TIVOLI Service Desk.
• Disk Replacement Strategy on AIX.
• Managing cron jobs, batch processing and job scheduling.
• Software installation and maintenance.
• Installation and administration of peripherals.
• Security, users and groups administration.
• Networking service, performance, and resource monitoring
• Set-up and administration of DNS server.
• Completed a full migration of UNIX Server (Solaris), including all network services, applications from NT 4 to Windows 2000 platform.
• Installation/setup of client/server MMS Applications. Create RDBMS backend with Oracle8 Database and MS SQL Server for the University at telecommunication sites throughout the US.
• Review Design Documentation confirming to Software Requirements
• Systems administrator providing support for production and development systems. Environment consisted of multiple IBM RS/6000’s (SP, R-series) and X-Window terminals
• Used perl v5 for systems tasks as well as C and Korn shell scripting.
• Design and implemented SMIT configuration screens.
• Other standard system administration tasks performed, such as system monitoring, performance usage, network support, and user support.

Environment: AIX, Linux, Solaris, and NT/2000 Servers, UNIX Server, Windows 2000, perl v5, C and Korn shell.