SUMMARY

• VMware certified with 8+ years of experience in Virtualization suite administration on top of a VMware and Vxblock, VxRack, VxRail Infrastructure, Cisco UCS, EMC Storage and DR Solutions.
• Installation, Configuration and Administration of Virtual Infrastructure using ESX/ESXi, VMware Vsphere, Virtual center Servers, vCloud Director, Consolidated Backup, DRS, HA, DPM, vMotion, VMware Data Recovery, VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM), vCenter Operations Manager, Horizon Workspace, Horizon Mirage, ThinApp, VMware (VDI), PowerCLI and Powershell scripting experience.
• Strong expertise in Vplex,ViPR Controller and SRM support and configurationalso on Cisco Unified Computing Systems (Cisco UCS) design, deployment and configuration specific to vSphere environments for compute platform high availability, redundancy and efficiency.
• Expertise in Designing, Implementing and Managing Symmetrix VMAX, DMX - 4 and Clariion CX-4 and VNX series storage arrays.
• Implementing vBlock based converged infrastructure for large scale private cloud deployments with over 600 servers with EMC storage backend.
• Experience managing Hyperconverged infrastructure ie. HPE Simplivity, Nutanix, VSAN etc.
• Experienced in Virtualization Technologies for Client and Mobile environments including: VMware Realize Horizon View, VMware ThinApp, Microsoft Hyper-V RDP Clients, Citrix XenDesktop / XenApp.
• End to end administration experience in vBlock series 300, 100, 700, 720, 540 and vBlock RCM upgrade.
• End to end vBlock Infrastructure Management using individual element managers for all the compute, virtual, network and storage areas using vCenter, UCSM, Unisphere, Nexus CLI and EMC UIM.
• Managing all aspects of vSphere environments including vSwitches, Distributed virtual switches, HA, Distributed Resource Scheduler, vMotion, Storage vMotion, Access and Authentication control, VMFS, host profiles, storage profiles, Resource over commitment, contention management and Advanced Troubleshooting.
• Expert level EMC VNX implementation and LUN deployment design to facilitate shared and boot storage.
• Experience in managing operations for about 500 plus servers and their backend storage arrays which included VNX, UNITY, VMAX, XtremIO, Isilon Storage arrays.
• Administration of Cisco, Confidential, IBM, HP servers on different virtual platforms and storage backend systems.
• Strong expertise in Migrating data to and from EMC Symmetrix V-Max, DMX-4, and Clarion CX series arrays using various tools.
• Installed the VRealize suite in different DC or cluster in our Cloud Infra and Worked on configuring the servers with Raid Configuration on HP Proliant DL585, DL380 Servers.
• Configuring VMWare Virtual, Distributed & Standard Switch and Solid experience on vMotion, Storage vMotion, VMware Fault Tolerance, Update Manager and SRM, Access and Authentication control, ESXi advanced configurations, Network/Storage IO Control, VMFS Datastore, Host profiles, Storage profiles, Resource Management and Performance Monitoring, Cloning, Cold Migrations and Hot Migrations and taking Snapshots.
• Experience in Network LAN/WAN deployment, including IP Addressing and Troubleshooting.
• Implemented, Supported vCloud using vCloud Director (vCD), vShield Manager, vShield Endpoint, Chargeback Manager, vCenter, ESXi.
• Configuring Cisco UCS Fabric Interconnect set up for upstream connectivity to LAN and SAN
• Management and troubleshooting experience on Windows 2000/2003/2008 R2/2012 R2 file servers, Active Directory, WINS, DHCP, DNS, FTP, IIS & storage servers, SQL server 2005/2008 and Exchange Servers, Service Manager, group policy.
• Basic Scripting experience relating to the system administration tasks and creating workflows to address stringent deadlines for new VMs.
• Experience with 3rd party solutions in Vmware environments including Veeam, Zerto, Symantec and Cisco.
• Handled hot migration and Cold migration depending on priority and severity of the server.
• Hands-on experience Using Update Manager for upgrading ESXi versions or applying ESXi OS hotfixes, patches.
• Implementing vBlock advanced Management Pod (AMP) with Cisco C200 rack mount, EMC VNX and Cisco 3560.
• Conducted KT sessions to the end client/customer when working through a vendor.
• Strong focus and understanding on the ITIL framework while handling the incident, problem, change tickets to meet SLA thereby Stabilizing existing Infrastructure services by pro-actively analyzing known issues, testing upgrades and Implementing the technical solutions by considering the best practices from respective vendors.
• Creating standard Operating Procedures (SOP's), technical run books and technical guides for the client to handle operations after Vendor contract.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• VMware vSphere 6.7, 6,5.5,5.1/4.0, VMware Infrastructure 3.0/3.5, vCenter 4.0/4.1,5,5.1,6.0 ESX/ESXi 3.5/4.0/4.1/5/5.1/5.5 , 6.0 vCenter Update Manager 4.0,Citrix XenApp 4.5/5.0, vRA, vRO, vSOM,Vmware VCM, vSphere Client, VMware Horizon, UCS, UCSD, ViPR Controller, ViPR SRM, VRa,VRo,VISION,VRops.
• ESX/ESXi, Linux (Redhat, SuSE, CentOS, Fedora, Ubuntu), Unix (Solaris,HP-US,AIX),Windows (2016/2012/2008/2007/2003/2000/ NT)WindowsServerNT/ 2000/2003/2008 R2/2012
• Active Directory Domain Services (ADDS), Tivoli and Big Fix Microsoft Server 2008 file and print server, DNS, DHCP, DFS, File Service, Print Services, Web-Server (IIS 6), Application Server, TCP/IP Networking, FTP
• Cisco B series and C series, HP PROLIANT Range of Servers (DL385,DL 585,DL 580), Nutanix, EMC Avamar, Symmetrix VMAX, Confidential Power Edge & IBM X series Range of Servers like Confidential Servers: Power Edge 2950, Confidential Power Edge R900, R710, R700).
• ISCSI SAN, FC SAN,NETAPP, NAS, EMC (Isilon, Clarion, DMX, CX4, VMAX, Unity,XtremIO, PowerMax 2000, VMAX, VMAX3 CX480, VNX), HP-NIMBLE, StoreOnce, RMC,ClearSky Edge Cash.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Sr.Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• VMware ESXI 6.5 Host Server Installation, Configuration Maintenance, VSphere Suite with P2P and P2V, Virtual Machines Installation,Site Recovery Manager (SRM), vSAN, Configuration Maintenance andManaged separate VMware clusters like QA, Development and Production.
• Configuring and managing ViPR Controller and SRM.
• Worked with Powershell and PowerCLI scripting when required
• Worked on ESX and VM storage issues and also coordinated with the storage admin team.Extensively worked on VMware Update Manger for Host upgrades, patches and Configure vSphere Distributed Switch (VDS), VMware NSX, VMware Distributed Resource Scheduling.
• Implementation and maintenance of Server Virtualization environments (VMWare ESXi and/or Nutanix Acropolis).
• Managed the planning and setup of a Confidential EMC PowerMax 2000 Data Storage
• Responsible for building Windows 2012 R2 data center Servers in Dev., Prod, Testing, DR and UAT environments.
• VM creation in Vcenters on the RTP IBM Network to include the new physical infrastructure clusters to support new platforms such as SQL clusters, VMware Clusters, IIS Web Farms using Server 2012 IIS8.5 to include the integration into Active Directory.
• Migrated data within Symmetrix VMAX in between different Tiers and RAID protections.
• Migrated Windows, VMware Esxi, LINUX/UNIX, AIX servers from EMC Unity 300H to ClearSky Edge Cash.
• Migrated Windows, VMware Esxi, LINUX/UNIX, AIX servers from EMC Unity 300H to HP NIMBLE.
• Perform health-checks and Administration of EMC ViPR Controller, ViPR SRM, VPlex, Vmax, XtremIO and Isilon.
• Proficiency with VMware software and services including vRA, vRO, vDP, vMotion (storage and host migrations), vSwitches/dvSwitches, SDRS and DRS, as well as HA configurations.Worked on Disaster Recovery Exercises for DR Plan for Production Servers and Deploying virtual servers using template and cloning of virtual server.
• Providing and maintaining user access in vCenter server and maintenance of vCenter server.
• Configuration and Maintenance of Microsoft Windows SQL cluster Servers.
• Planned and led several SAN array migrations VMAX 200K to PowerMAX 2000 at the primary datacenter as well as at the disaster recovery (DR) site. This resulted in significant savings in professional services budget.
• Involved in creating vSwitches and created different ports groups for different purposes.
• Installed and configure maintenance of Windows 2008, 2012R2, 2016 Servers with Active directory Infrastructure, DNS, DHCP.
• Configured and Implemented SRDF and TimeFinder for the Disaster recovery solution on Symmetrix VMAX.
• Disk space increase using VMware converter and importing of virtual server using VMware converter.
• Monitored and managed performance of ESX servers and Virtual Machines.
• Install applications, applied patches, and software updates for Windows and UNIX/Linux servers
• Create virtual switches and port groups, configure virtual networking settings for redundancy by teaming up NICs, and configure network traffic, security and load balancing policies.
• Designed and Implemented Microsoft Active Directory.
• Created RHEL and Windows Virtual Machines as per the business requirements.
• Installed and Implemented VMware ESXI 6.5 host server with vSphere client. Configured HBAs and ISCSI San storage
• Planning and implementing Backup and Recovery procedures Hot, Cold Backups and RMAN, scheduling daily backups and performed periodic recovery tests.
• Involved in the creation of Test Cases, Tests Execution, logging and reporting Defects.
• Performed LUN management, metaluns, RAID groups, storage groups
• Developed technical notes and user guides for new software installations for end users.

Confidential

Sr.VCE Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Design, configure, administer, upgrade, troubleshoot and support Vxblock, VxRack, VxRail on premises VMware VSphere, UCS and View Horizon cloud based VDI environments
• Configuration and Management of vSphere High Availability, vMotion, Storage vMotion, VAAI, Host Profiles, Network & Storage IO Control, VMFS datastores, Storage Profiles, Resource Utilization, Contention Management and Advanced Performance troubleshooting.
• As Isilon SME, performed end to end Isilon responsibilities including installations, configurations, design, day2 day operations, data protection, deduplications, backup, upgrades, performance troubleshooting, permission troubleshooting and migrations on various Generations of Isilon products.
• Performed data migrations using Power path Migration Enabler PPME with Host Copy and Open Replicator
• Configuring and managing CISCO UCS Service Profiles, vNIC/vHBA interfaces,MAC/UUID/WWPN/WWNN identity pools, various Server, Network and Storage related policies.
• Generating detailed reports from EMC ViPR SRM on collected metrics and statistics covering performance tuning analysis on SAN fabric switches, storage arrays, virtualized servers, VMware ESX and cost analysis.
• Implemented EMC Recover Point asynchronous and synchronous array based replication DRstrategy.
• Created and managed all VMware Host processes to include datacenters, branch office level hosts, backup Exec and VRanger back-ups.
• Upgraded Solutions Enabler and Symmetrix Management Console.
• Responsible in Configuring/Joining nodes in Isilon cluster, and involved in Configuring NFS, SMB shares on Isilon using Smart Connect
• Implemented Isilon and VMAX migrations from one data center to another data center using rsync and make sure the permissions are migrated and working as expected form the client perspective
• Configured access zones and LDAP and AD authentication services along with RBAC for controlled access to the cluster and Configured, harden and deployed Gold image servers and virtual desktops
• Providing provisioning of servers, VDI, storage, thin apps and network infrastructure and also experienced in creating Host, Cluster, Export groups, and storage groups in ViPR CONTROLLER.
• Create Virtual switches and port groups, configure virtual networking (NSX) settings for redundancy by teaming upVNICs, and configure network traffic, security and load balancing policies.
• Performed high-level root cause analysis for service interruption recovery and creating preventive measures
• Extensive experience with core software applications, including Windows Operating Systems, SCCM, VMware VSphere/Horizon, Backup systems, Active Directory tools, network protocols and other essential systems.
• Strong working knowledge of network, VMware, Horizon, Server and Desktop operating systems.
• Proven network experience including SAN integration

Confidential

VCE Consultant

Responsibilities:

• System administration with string hands-on tasks on VMWare Suite/Cisco UCS environment, including RCM upgrades and worked onVxRack, vBlock series 300, 700, and 540 with VNX as backend storage systems.
• Troubleshooting ESX servers from virtualization perspective and also Cisco UCS servers from a compute perspective.
• Manage Symmetrix storage devices using ECC, storage scope and Symcli and storage provisioning on Symmetrix by using ECC and SymCli.
• Experienced in VMware Management and Automation Tools: Vcenter 6, (VRo) VRealize Operations, Vcenter Orchestration, VRealize Automation, VMware Configuration Manager, VMware vRealize Log Insight and also other tools ViPR Controller, ViPR SRM, VISION.
• Creating Meta Devices on the EMC Symmetrix using both SymCli and EMC Control Center(ECC)
• Assigning Devices to the Front End Ports on the Symmetrix using both SymCli & ECC (LUN Management & Volume Management)
• Technical administration includes management of EMC PowerMax, VMAX3, eNAS, Unity, Isilon, VPLEX, ViPR, VNX5200/5400, Data Domain 690/860/4500 and Avamar platforms. Additionally, responsible for managing Cisco SAN fabric.
• Implemented and administered Hyper Converged Infrastructures VxRail and VxRack FLEX systems.
• Hands on exercise in P2V, V2V MIGRATION using VMware Vcenter Converter / Plate Spin Power Convert and creating host and client VM templates and cloning.
• 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.
• Provisioning new storage as per requests to Windows 2012/2010/2008 and VMware environments from VNX2/ VMAX/XtremIO using ViPR CONTROLLER.
• Work with VMware Infrastructure Client in supporting our Windows Server 2008, 2012 R2 & Linux/UNIX Enterprise 5 Server environment.
• Resource Management Configuring VMware HA, VMware DRS Clusters for VMotion migrations between ESX Servers.
• Evaluate which VDI solution would fit the customer requirements better (VMware, Citrix, MS, EMC Hybrid).
• Install, configure Update Manager, Update Manager Plug-in, baselines, Scan and remediate to perform ESXi patching and host upgrades.
• Involved in capacity expansion with reference to Cisco UCS chassis and corresponding server provisioning from the front end server (ESX) point of view.
• Involved full DR Test and involved with VCE, EMC, Cisco and VMware support team.

Confidential

Sr.Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Planned and executed a SAN migration from a legacy VMAX array hosting VMware vSphere, file services, and Exchange to a multifaceted storage portfolio including EMC UNITY, XtremIO and Isilon Accomplished with no major downtime.
• Provisioning new storage as per requests to AIX, Windows and VMware environments from VNX2/ Isilon/VMAX/XtremIO using ViPR CONTROLLER.
• Trouble shooting performance issues with VMAX, VNX, Isilon and XtremIO in the SAN environment
• Worked with EMC in installation of new VMAX 40k and new XtremIO and in solving issues in the SAN environment and Confidential
• Configuring advanced settings, connections, inventory preferences, placeholder datastores, array managers also Managing protection groups, recovery plans and Protecting virtual machines
• Created virtual pools and defining the storage capabilities and assigning physical storage pools to virtual pools.
• Experienced in Configuring and managing disaster recovery activities.
• Discovered, the UNITY, VMAX, Isilon and XtremIO storage system to ViPR and registered.
• Experienced in creating Host, Cluster, Export groups, storage groups in ViPR CONTROLLER.
• Experienced in Setting up the physical storage infrastructure of the ViPR virtual data center and configures the physical storage into two types of virtual resources (virtual arrays and virtual pools)
• Migrated Windows, VMware Esxi, LINUX/UNIX, AIX servers from VMAX to XtremIO and Isilon to XtremIO.
• Developed automated VM deployment methodology using VMware templates and Ansible which reduced deployment effort from dozens of manual steps to several automated ones.
• Developed detailed cost models for virtual hosting and storage services used to inform purchasing decisions and develop sustainable chargeback rates in a large institutional setting.
• Developed a modular compute and storage model which streamlined the process of acquiring equipment and provided a corresponding cost model to inform business decisions.

Confidential

Sr VMware/Storage Engineer

Responsibilities:

• System administration with string hands-on tasks on VMWare Suite/UCS environment, including RCM upgrades and worked on vBlock series 300, 700, and 540.
• Design, install, and configure VMware Data Recovery, VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM).
• Experience in installation, configuration and technical documentation of vSphere 6/5.1, and vSphere 6 and 5.5 products, VMware vRealize VRAsuite, VMware VCenter Configuration Manager (VCM), Microsoft Hyper-V, Citrix, KVM, Cisco UCS, PowerShell, and PowerCLI.
• Migration of data from CLARiiON to CLARiiON or Symmetrix by using SANcopy and host based tools
• Worked with VMware features: High Availability, V motion, Storage V motion and Fault Tolerance.
• Worked on Allocating storage space to VMAX/VNX/NetApp/Isilon/Equallogic/HP/IBM/STK.
• Build, configure and deploy VMs and templates. Completed Physical-to-Virtual (P2V), Virtual-to-Virtual (V2V) and Virtual-to-Physical (V2P) migration of Windows NT, 2000, 2003, 2008, and 2012 as well as Linux servers from VMware, Hyper-V, Xen and legacy hardware.
• Configured and deployed Cisco computing clusters with VMware ESXi 5.5 and vCenter 5.5.
• Product support and implementation for leading cloud ready EMC products like ViPR, ViPR SRM, Watch4Net, VNX monitoring & Reporting.
• Experience in Migrating from VMware ESXi to Hyper-V 2012 with SCCM SP1 R2.
• Design and deploy the UCS environment using manual service profile creation (initial and updating) as well as automation using UIM.
• Managing backup infrastructure for an US based clients, as Commvault Simpana 9.0 & 10.0 are the backup applications for the clients (Purely Windows 2008 Server environment).
• Responsible for capacity planning and testing for the remote office.
• Installed and Configured VMware VSOM (vSphere with Operations Management Suite).
• Monitored, analyzed and cleared network alarms at Network Operation Center (NOC ).
• Worked on SRDF, Open Replicator, SAN-Copy, Isi Volcopy, SyncIQ, Aspera, robocopy, rsync, EMcopy, Snapmirror, Snapview Technologies.
• Installed, configured upgraded Core/EDGE Switches in Brocade Cisco.
• Gained working knowledge on RecoverPoint and assisted the client on RPA based data migration from one data center to the other.
• Maintained, monthly updates and Troubleshoot windows server’s windows 2000,2003, 2007, 2008R2,2012 versions and Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) creatingdisk spaces for windows servers with Outlook Support.
• Handled ticketing system and designed SOP's for stabilizing after hour operations, assigned On-call dutires to team members in a 24/7 set up.
• Carving out boot and pool LUN's for facilitating storage allocations and ESX provisioning and shared storage set up in the cluster environment.
• Virtual Machine protection using vSphere Replication, Site Recovery Manager (SRM), Basic Avamar administration tasks Backup and Replication.
• Managed Server/Switch Migration project and coordinated with Network Support, Hub Maintenance, and Wintel server support.
• Hands on and comprehensive understanding of Booting ESXi from SAN, vCenter Server deployment options, vCenter server, Database, Hardware requirements.

Confidential

VMware/Windows Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Installing, configuring, administering, troubleshooting VMware ESX/ESXi 3.5 and VMs, VMware workstation, Horizon Workspace, Horizon Mirage, ThinApp and scripting experience.
• Lead design, deployment, and maintenance of a broad range of Microsoft technologies including: Windows Server 2003, 2008, 2008 R2; Exchange Server 2003 & 2007; SharePoint Server 2003, 2007, 2010; Internet Security and Acceleration (ISA) Server 2004, 2006; SQL Server 2000, 2005, 2008; Windows Server Update Services (WSUS), Outlook Support.
• Migrating legacy environment from VMware to new Hyper-V dynamic datacenter.
• Build, Configure, Administered and Supervise 100 + Wintel Servers
• Administrating production servers/network infrastructure that includes Windows Administration of Domain Controllers, IIS Web Servers HTTP/S, FTP and SMTP, Exchange 2003 Mail Servers, NAS, File and print Servers, RADIUS, Blackberry 5.0 and Terminal Servers on Windows 2003/2008.
• Experienced in migrating data between different NAS arrays using a wider ange of Migration Tools (synciq, robocopy, emcopy, VNX replicator,isi vol copy, rsync, snapmirror).
• WebSphere performance monitoring/tuning and optimization/capacity planning
• Used Virtual center server for HA, DRS, vMotion and Configured VMware FT for mission critical servers.
• Created Consistency Groups, configured journal volumes and created RecoverPoint session for RPA based data migration.
• Have done POC on Flash technology EMC Xtreme IO, Netapp EF550, IBM V840, Pure storage.
• Implemented System Center Orchestrator runbooks to automate SCOM maintenance mode functions during monthly Microsoft patching.
• EMC Clariion, Symmetrix, DMX 1000, 2000, Centera, Netapps, NAS support
• Thorough understanding of DHCP and DNS network services and how they integrate with or compliment Active Directory
• Worked in deploying several sets of Linux/UNIX guest builds from VMware templates using PowerCLI as well as Red Hat Satellite Server.
• Ability to understand problems and create an escalation process. Also expertise in training others
• VMware tools upgrading, windows patch updates with Outlook Support.
• Responsible for performing monthly patching on Infrastructure servers
• Configuring ESX 3.x servers to use iSCSI& NAS storage.
• Virtualized 50+ and Building new VMware virtual machines to meet the specifications provided by the client.
• Creating Roles and permissions in VMware ESX Server 3.0/3.5/4.0
• Created a kick start automated installation media for VMware 3.5. Managing Windows 2000/2003 active directory forest consisting domain controllers running services such as DNS, WINS, and Certificate Services.