SUMMARY

• 8+ years of experience in designing, deploying virtual networks and upgrading systems, including hardware, software, networks, servers and peripheral equipment.
• Experience in Datacenter Consolidation, Migration, Business Continuity, Backup, Storage and VMware administration.
• Experience in implementing and administering VMware vSphere, HA settings, DRS settings, Cluster groups, Resource Pools, Host Profiles, Licensing, Templates, ThinApp, Data Stores, and Networking techniques.
• Comprehensive Management of vBlock platform using native element managers including vCenter, UCS, UIM, Unisphere, Cisco Nexus CLI and fabric manager .
• Design and Implement virtualization solutions based on VMware vSphere ESXi (6.0,5.5,5.0,4.x,3.x) platform.
• Managing all aspects of VMware vSphere environments including vSwitches, Distributed Virtual Switches, vMotion, Storage vMotion, VMware Fault Tolerance, VMFS Datastore, Host profiles, Storage profiles, Resource Management and Performance Monitoring.
• Performed several P2V, V2V migrations using VMware Converter / Plate Spin 6.8.x.
• Strong understanding of VMWare Networking concepts like different types of port groups, NIC Teaming and VLAN Problem management on VMware ESXi 4.x, 5.0, 5.5 and 6.0.
• Excellent experience in working on vSwitches such as Standard vSwitches (vSs), Distributed vSwitches (VDs), and Cisco Nexus 1000V.
• Good Experience in creating port groups, VLAN networking and NIC teaming on VMware ESX 5.x/4.x and vCenter environment.
• Excellent experience with VMware update manager to install patches and perform upgrades on ESXi hosts.
• Experience in configuring different types of storage Pools and thick and thin provisioned LUN's.
• Experience in handling more than 3000+ mix of Windows servers, 200+ ESXi servers, Remote data center, Multiple vCenter.
• Experience in Active Directory, GPOs, DNS, DHCP, File & Print Server, IIS (Web Server), IIS … FTP, Terminal Server, RIS, RRAS, NAT, WSUS, Microsoft Clustering, Exchange Mail Server and ISA Server.
• Familiar with Data Center/Server Farm environment like Servers deployment, Cabling & labeling maintaining AC cooling, Environmental Sensing Devices, power and UPS monitoring.
• Weekly check health reports for the servers with trouble shooting along with fix for storage servers.
• Experience in the Server and Desktop Management (Windows Administration), Support, Analysis and Maintenance.
• Experience in networking technologies including virtual NICs, Ethernet, iSCSI, NAS, NFS and SAN.
• Troubleshooting experience in large scale global data center environments.
• Excellent experience in day to day storage administration like creating LUN(s), increasing storage capacity etc.
• Extensive experience on Thick & Thin Provisioning, Snapshots, Clones, vMotion and Storage vMotion.
• Creating Port Groups and networking vLANs, upgrading hosts, updating drivers and VMs on regular intervals.
• Maintain and monitor virtualized environment using vRealize Operations, vRealize Automation.
• Configuring and troubleshooting Group policies for controlling computers and users.
• Installing and configuring Linux/Unix servers and Creation of Users/groups in the server.
• Onsite day to day administration and operation of VBLOCK
• The ability to install computer and electronic equipment in a safe and careful manner.
• Strong communication and people skills, both written and verbal. Able to assess and resolve client issues quickly. A proven record of reliability, the ability to perform under time constraints, and good judgment under pressure.
• Ability to maintain a reliable and methodical approach to support and Documentatio n. Quick learner, highly motivated team player with excellent organizational and analytical skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Virtualization: vSphere 5.5/5.1 / 5.0 / 4.1 / 4.0 , ESXi 5.1 / 5.0, ESX 4.1 / 4.0, Virtual Center Server, VMware View, VMware vCenter Orchestrator, HA, DRS, Storage vMotion, Site Recovery Manager, Host Profiles, vApp, VMware vCenter Heartbeat, VMware vSphere Client, VMware Thinapp, P2V, V2V, VMware Consolidated Backup, VMware Management Assistant, Capacity Planning, Plate spin Power convert

Operating System: Windows 2012, 2008, 2003, 2000, Win 7, XP, 2k, Vista.

Storage: EMCVmax, VNX 5300, EMC celera, HP Storage works P4500.

Directory services/ Internet: Designing, Deploying and Migration of Windows Based Active Directory. Installation and Administration of IIS 6.0/7.5, DHCP & DNS servers.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential - Phoenix, AZ

Windows /VMware Administrator Engg

Responsibilities:

• Installing and Administering the various virtualization components like vCenter, vSphere etc.
• Installing vSphere 6.0/5.5 on half blade and full blade servers on Cisco UCS.
• Performed ESXi Hosts and Virtual Machine migrations between Development, Integration, Production environments and across Datacenters.
• Worked on Avamar Grid for fast,daily full backups and data protection which is virtualized and physical environments and enterprise application.
• Supported VMware, specifically ESXi 6.0 & 5.5 to monitor cluster performance, optimize the server environment, diagnose and resolve production issues amongst Data Centers and over servers.
• Develop, test and maintain a disaster recovery plan for critical VMs and application data.
• Data replication between two Isilon clusters. This paper outlines best practices and use cases to help you maximize the benefits of cluster-to-cluster replication .
• Involved in the migration of Virtual Machines and Virtual machine files using the vMotion and Storage vMotion.
• Providing and maintaining user access in VMware virtual Center, configuring mail alert for any failure in HA, DRS, CPU and memory.
• Trouble shooting issues related to VMware ESX host, VMware virtual center, HA, DRS, VMware update manager.
• Protect sensitive data with EMC Data Domain Replicator, providing network-efficient, encrypted replication for disaster recovery and backup.
• Experience in the V2V and P2V migration of Physical servers to VMware ESXi hosts.
• Implemented and Tested desktop virtualization and introduced VMware View to the client.
• Reviewed tasks, issues and recommend changes to reduce problem reoccurrences.
• Configured Network and Server Software, Hardware and peripheral devices to resolve network issues.
• Provided performance metrics, work load status update and project status updates at biweekly workload tracking meetings.
• Experience utilizing vCenter, including vSphere Command-Line Interface commands.
• Performed data center Migration & Maintained data center Environment.
• Created data store clusters and configured Storage vMotion as per requirements.
• Monitoring vBlock Hardware health/Availability status and event alarms for Incident.
• Performing initial Cisco UCS cluster setup and provide management IP addresses for blade servers.
• Performed daily system monitoring, verifying the integrity and availability of all hardware, server resources, systems and key processes, reviewing system and application logs, and verifying completion of scheduled jobs such as backups.

Environment: VMware ESX 5.1, UCS C240 M3, Windows 2012/2008/2003 , TCP/IP, DHCP, DNS, NTFS, Bluecat BCN -XMB Adonis (DHCP, DNS), JUNOS Space, Cisco Nexus 5K, CISCO switches, HP P4000, Emulex NC553, NC551 HBA’s, JUNPER SRX 240, PowerShell, PowerCLI Server OS: Windows Server 2000/2003/2008 VMware Lab Manager, VMware converter, VMware Vsphere client, Fault tolerance, High Availability and Distributed resource scheduling.

Confidential, Folsom, CA

VMware/Windows Adminstrator

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for installation, configuration and administration of entire VMware Infrastructure i.e. vCenter, ESXi, Vmware Update Manager (VUM),VMware Site Recovery Manger (SRM).
• Installed and configured VMware ESXi on several Cisco B-Series blades hosts from scratch at both (primary and backup) datacenters.
• Created and managed Virtual Machines with different Operating Systems (OS) and converted to templates as required.
• Configuring and Managing Virtual Networks, Storage, Memory and processers for the Virtual Machines.
• Used VMware vCenter, created Datacenter Environment by creating VMware clusters, adding ESX hosts in the clusters, MSCS Clustering and implemented HA and DRS.
• Handled all the vCenter operations like vMotion, Storage vMotion, VM templates.
• Configured Resource pools and Shares in VMware Environment for Prod, test and dev environments.
• Created and configured VMware Standard and Distributed vSwitches (Cisco Nexus 1000v switch), different port groups and migrated all the ESXi hosts and VMs from Standard switch on to vSwitch.
• Installed and configured vCenter update manager for installing ESXi patches and any missing VIB's.
• Experience in implementation of VMware Site Recovery Manger (SRM) and troubleshooting issues during the implementation.
• Created new Service Profile templates and various pools like UUID, MAC, WWNNs, WWPN pools on Cisco UCS using Cisco UCS Manager (UCSM)
• Deployed new service profiles from the template and also created Service Profile in expert mode on Cisco UCS using Cisco UCS Manager (UCSM)
• Develop and maintain proper documentation for procedures, processes and design builds in regards to the virtual infrastructure.
• Involved in day to day support related to Data Center, virtual environment and documentation.

Environment: Windows Windows XP/Vista/Win 7, Exchange Server 2003, Linux Servers, PowerCLI, DMX, PowerShell, VMwareESX4.0, VMware ESXi NetApp FC SAN/NAS storage, VCAC5.1, 5.2 VMware View, Vmware Lab Manager, VMware converter, P2V, V2V, VMotion, HP DL360PG6, G7, G8, HPC700.