SUMMARY:

• 8+ years of Professional IT experience in UNIX&VMWARE (3+ Years) systems administration and application support. Proficient in Solaris, Linux and Windows (2003, 2008, NT, XP), VMware and Multi - server environments.
• Administration: Installation and Configuration of Virtual Center Server, ESX(i) Servers and Heterogeneous Virtual Machines
• Activities: Installation and configuration of Heterogeneous OS, Upgrading the versions and resources of VMs, vSwitch, Distributed vSwitch, vMotion, Storage vMotion, managing VMware HA and DRS clusters
• Troubleshooting: Virtual Infrastructure related issues, which includes co-ordination of Storage, Network and Onsite team
• Installation and Administration of Heterogeneous operating systems on different Hardware.
• Configure ILO and OS installation, Installation of different application and system testing before product release.
• EMC Clarion CX3, CX4, VNX Installation & Configuration for different deployments.
• Experience in Jumpstart procedure for Solaris Installation for HP Blade, HP Rack mount, SPARC, x86 boxes.
• Installing and Administering Solaris Production servers in 24x7 environments.
• OS patching and upgrade on Cluster environment.
• HP blades-BL460, BL480, C7000 chassis, rack mounted servers and EMC storage, Oracle Hardware.

WORK EXPERIENCE:

VM Ware/UNIX Admin

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Provided administration of L2 support to VMware Infrastructure by following ITIL process.
• Responsible for managing the resources of Physical as well as virtual servers.
• Installation and configuration of VMware ESX 4.1, ESXi 5.1 on HP ProLiant DL 380, DL 385, and DL 580 Rack mount servers which include Windows server 2003/2008 and UNIX Solaris connecting through ILOM.
• Installation and Management of VMware Vcenter server.
• Installation and configuration of Heterogeneous OS, Upgrading the versions and resources of VMs, vSwitch, Distributed vSwitch, vMotion, Storage vMotion, managing VMware HA and DRS clusters.
• Troubleshooting Virtual Infrastructure related issues, which includes co-ordination of Storage, Network and Onsite team.
• Patching and Upgrading ESX hosts using Update Manager and command line.
• Snapshot Management
• Involved in Solaris 10 installation on SPARC/X86 servers and performed disk mirroring activities using SVM and Veritas Volume Manager and Veritas Cluster activities.
• Responsible for daily activities which included administration and maintenance of UNIX Solaris Servers.
• Veritas Cluster failover activities for SOLARIS regular patching activities.
• Solaris Live Upgrade for SPARC, X86 (Blade & Oracle Hardware).
• Performed Root disk mirroring using VXVM.
• Hand’s on experience in SVM, VCS, VXVM (bringing root disk under SVM control, breaking the mirror disk which is under SVM control before doing any changes on the root disk).
• Installed & configured Sun Fire 210, V240, V440, V490, V880, 1280 & HP Proliant DL- 320/360/380/560/580 L Servers.
• Scheduling backups, creating users for administration tasks.
• Involved in Live Upgrade For upgrading OS version from 8.0 / 9.0 to 10 with minimum downtime

Environment: HP ProLiant DL 380, DL 385, DL 580, RAID configuration, VMware vSphere 4.1, 5.1,vCenter Server,VMware HA & DRS,UNIX Solaris/Linux,Clustering, SAN/NAS.

VM ware/UNIX Admin

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Upgrade tasks include ESX, vCenter upgrade to vSphere and VM virtual hardware and tools upgrade
• Assigning LUN’s, creating data stores in SAN LUN’s and NFS storage.
• Extending and Shrinking virtual machine boot, data partitions and other resources
• Administration of VMwareESX servers (ESX 4.x & vSphere, vCenter), vMotion.
• Involved in VMware migrations from 4.0 to 4.1., and from 4.1 to 5.0migrations.
• Creation and Management of VMware templates and clones.
• Patching and Upgrading ESX hosts using Update Manager.
• Solaris 10 Installation on HP Blade and Administration.
• Experience in Cache Media Installation and Business Objects Installation remotely on x86 Hardware.
• Experience in installation of hardware, upgrade of firmware, BIOS on mainstream server series (DELLPowerEdge, HP ProLiant, Sun Fire/Netra/SPARC).
• Installation, configuration and up gradation of Solaris 8, 9, 10..
• Responsible for the administration of 100+ Unix Solaris, Linux boxes on different H/W.
• Administration and Troubleshooting Solaris servers running business critical application
• Administration for E15k and E25k's. This involves creating domains, adding/deleting system components
• Installed, Configured and supported Oracle HA resource groups.
• Experience in coordinating different application teams for patching projects for UNIX servers.
• Experience in installing Telecom Applications on Different hardware running Solaris Operating system.
• Administration of User creation and modifications in Infrastructure servers.
• Administration of User Application servers (Solaris OS)

Environment: HP ProLiant DL 380, DL 385, DL 580, RAID configuration, VMware vSphere 4.0, 5.0, vCenter Server, VMware HA & DRS,UNIX Solaris/Linux,Clustering, SAN/NAS.

EMC STORAGE/UNIX Admin

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Manage and implement work for EMC enterprise and mid level arraysVMAX and Clarion CX3, CX4 series
• Provide Technical assistant in storage environment for better performance in SAN with minimum down time which connected to different Windows and Unix servers in data center
• Allocate storage from VMX and Clarion CX3 and CX4
• Created RAID Groups, Thin luns and Meta luns based on the application requirements using Naviseccli, Navisphere Manager.
• Involved in managing of existing file systems using VERITAS Volume Manager and Solaris Volume Manager
• Disk and file system administration using VERITAS Volume Manager and Sun Solstice Disk Suite and keeping the software version and patch level up-to-date.
• Experience in Storage group creation and Provisioning for different deployments.
• Responsibilities also include registering hosts, creating RAID groups, binding LUNs, and adding luns to Storage groups using Navisphere and NaviCLI for various UNIX and windows hosts.
• Creating and Managing File Systems, shares, quotas etc., in VNX
• Installation, configuration and driver upgrades of HBA 's on UNIX and Windows servers
• Managed Cisco/Brocade switch, created VSAN, added members to zones, added zones to Zone set and activated zone set using command line interface
• Day to day jobs include storage allocation, Zoning, mapping and masking including troubleshooting, monitoring and Reporting on the SAN environment.
• Preparing documentation for best practice, tracking and performance during migration.

Environment: HP ProLiant DL 380, DL 385, DL 580, RAID configuration, Clustering, SAN/NAS, Veritas cluster, Solaris, UNIX.

VMWARE/UNIX Admin

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Creating Virtual Machines and installing guest operating systems.
• Adding resources to Windows and Solaris Virtual Machines.
• Upgrading the VMware tools on heterogeneous Virtual Machines
• Handling VM and ESX host related issues.
• Monitoring the performance of the Virtual Machine and VMware ESX hosts
• Upgrading ESX/ESXi host, vCenter Servers from 3.5 to 4.0.
• Extensive experience on vSphere 4.0, 4.1.
• Install & Support Web Servers, FTP Servers, File and Print Servers
• Configured DFM to generate reports automatically Confidential scheduled time.
• Worked with Backup team to process the restore requests on NetApp filters.
• Experienced in Installing, Upgrading, Configuring and Administrating Solaris servers.
• Perform user management, group management and device management in Linux.
• Experience in Job scheduling, and monitoring of various jobs running.
• Installation of software packages and checking the integrity of the installed packages
• Configured and maintained NIS, NFS, and DNS client
• Performance monitoring and tuning of file systems: By
• Use of ufsdump and ufsrestore to take regular backups of all crucial data and file systems.
• Use of SU command and restricting root to console login. Managing crontabs& automating scheduling.
• Creating and maintaining a Solaris UFS file system and disk slices.
• Administering and Configuring Multi-Unix environment with 1000+ Sun SPARC Servers Installation, configuration, monitoring and troubleshooting of Red Hat 3.0 ES.
• Monitoring network activities & optimizing the performance of the Network
• Trouble shooting the connectivity and accessibility issues

Environment: HP ProLiant DL 380, DL 385, DL 580, RAID configuration, VMware vSphere 4.0, 5.0, vCenter server,UNIX Solaris/Linux,Clustering, SAN/NAS.

UNIX Admin

Confidential, ARIZONA

Responsibilities:

• In Depth knowledge and hand on experience on solaris 9 & 10 new concepts SMF (enabling, disabling and troubleshooting the services ), Zones, container ( creating sparse root/ whole root zones), resource management( allocating memory and cpu to the zones ).
• Installing Solaris, managing and trouble shooting and Installing latest patches for security bugs and relevant platform specific packages in standalone server and also in cluster server.
• Hand’s on experience in SVM, VCS, VXVM (bringing root disk under SVM control, breaking the mirror disk which is under SVM control before doing any changes on the root disk).
• Creating concatenated/stripe/softpartition/RAID5 Volume, replacing the disk which is under SVM control.
• Hand’s on experience in VERITAS volume manager
• Creating concatenation/mirror/Raid5 volume, configuring dirty region logging, managing disk group, volume, plex and sub disk.
• VERITAS cluster ( installing VCS, configuring and troubleshooting )
• Executing boot PROM commands (devalias, nvalias, probe-scsi, boot, setenv, printenv).
• Adding swap space, configuring dump device.
• Changes are planned every weekend, which includes Installing patches, software and applications,
• Hardware changes and configuring hardware devices in co-ordination with onsite datacenter engineers.
• Followed Maintenance window calendar for 700 + Solaris /Linux Servers.
• Experience in CMR creation and follow for approvals with respect to different applications teams.
• CMR execution with respect to window Calendar.
• Changes are planned every weekend, which includes Installing patches, software and applications.
• Servers rebuild as per server and application teams requirements.
• Hardware changes: configuring hardware devices in co-ordination with onsite datacenter engineers.
• Worked on different change management tools like Info web, Infoman.
• Worked on RFS changes as per application team requirements with respect to applications.
• Worked with Build team for new server builds using Jumpstart customized procedure.
• Experience in 2 Node and 4 Node Cluster server Operations for OS patching.
• SR Creation and follow up with Oracle team for critical issues.

Environment: UNIX - SOLARIS, X86, Veritas Cluster, Infoman, Info web, Putty, Veritas Netback up.

UNIX Admin

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Administrating the different packages installation in Solaris Servers.
• Monitoring System Performance of Virtual memory, Managing Swap Space, Disk utilization and CPU utilization.
• Installing and Administering Solaris Production servers in 24x7 environments.
• Installing latest patches for security bugs and relevant platform specific packages in stand-alone server and also in cluster server.
• Installing quarterly patches as per the Sun quarterly release patch clusters.
• Monitoring the system and network health.
• User administration and users level security
• Configuring JUMPSTART servers for COMPLETE hands-free installation of workstations, with custom profiles, begin/finish scripts.
• Experience in Solaris Live upgrade using different procedures.
• Scheduling automated and manual backups that take backup of archive log files and production data.
• Administration & maintenance of local area networked UNIX systems, peripherals and assigned to customer sites to install hardware, configure disk drives & OS installations.
• Troubleshoot Solaris network problems.
• Coordinating with application teams for proper functioning of application servers.
• Patch Management.
• NFS and DNS configuration.
• Periodic Monitoring of Production & other Servers.
• SR Creation and follow up with Oracle team.

Environment: SUN HARDWARE, x86 ILOM, ALOM, ORACLE DB2.