SUMMARY

• Confidential engineer wif architect capabilities offering vast noledge of virtualization infrastructure together wif Hands - on Skills.
• Well-qualified System architect adept at designing, implementing, managing, customizing, upgrading and migrating Confidential vSphere networks.
• Extensive experience wif Virtualized environments and managing teh configuration and deployment of enterprise level infrastructure services. Dealt wif Cloud solutions wif ESX 4.x/5.x, vCenter Server, Confidential HA, DRS, vMotion,Host profiles, Networks and Datastores etc., ESX patching and day-to-day escalated issues etc.
• Worked extensively on Templates, snapshots and clones. Creating templates and deploy VMs and upgrading them wif latest MS Patches.
• Created, managed and supported VMs. Installed and Upgraded Confidential tools on Windows Machines.
• Design and implementation experience wif teh following vCloud Suite products: vSphere 5.0 and 5.5, vCenter Server Virtual Appliance (vCSA), vCenter Orchestrator, vCenter Operations Manager (vCOP) and vCloud Automation Center (vCAC).
• Strong problem solving analytical skills, detail-oriented visionary wif a track record in planning, designing and implementing hardware and software business technology system solutions.

TECHNICAL COMPETENCIES

Virtualization: Confidential vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi-4.0, 4.1, 5.0, 5.1, 5.5), vCenter Server

Physical to Virtual Conversion: vCenter Converter Server

Virtualization Automation: Confidential vCenter Orchestrator & VRealize Automation (vRA), Confidential vCenter SRM.

Operating System: Windows Server 2000, 2003, 2008, 2012 R2, Linux RedHat 5.x/6.x

LDAP: Active Directory 2003/2008R2, OpenLDAP

Confidential infrastructure: vCenter Site Recovery Manager.

Virtualization Backup: vSphere Data Protection Advanced (VDP)

Virtual Storage: vSphere Storage Appliance (VSA)

Management: vCenter Operations Management (vCops), vCenter Log Insight

Sizing and Assessment: Confidential Capacity Planner, Confidential vSphere Health Check, Capacity Planning Backup Symantec NetBackup.

Storage: SAN Storage - NAS Storage.

Switches: Cisco (2800, 2950, 2960 series).

Scripting: PowerShell.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Atlanta GA

Sr. Virtualization Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Administration and Supporting Virtual infrastructure remotely (ESX hosts globally, vCenter, Installations) hosted globally in United States and Singapore regions.
• Architecture, design, install, configure Confidential ESX, ESXi, wifin VI3, vSphere environments wif Virtual Center management, LabManager, vCloud Director, Consolidated Backup, DRS, HA, DPM, vMotion, Confidential Data Recovery, Confidential Site Recovery Manager (SRM), vCenter Operations Manager (vCOps), ThinApp and Confidential View desktop virtualization infrastructure (VDI).
• Capacity/Performance Management and Virtualization Planning.
• Placing servers for VE ( Confidential Environment, and other specialty hardware like network appliances in DataCenter. Managing DataCenter Racks.
• Responsible for End to End ESXi/vCenter infrastructural and virtual platform issues such as HA, DRS, vMotion, sVMotion, Host profiles, Networks and Datastores etc.
• DeployedVcenterOperations Manager (VCOPS), leveraging its capability for proactive monitoring of health of teh entire virtual environment.
• Performed High Availability (HA) Cluster, DRS and backup maintenance (vRanger)
• Handled theVMware solutions to support multiple storage connectivity options such as FC-SAN, iSCSI, NFS.
• Working noledge for solution architect for ESXi environments.
• Working on Migration (Hot&Cold) Project related to upgrading Confidential Infrastructure (vCenter, ESXi,etc.) from vSphere version 4.1.0 to 5.1.0. It includes planning, implementing and delivery.
• Driving teh Project for identifying Drivers, patches, firmware (network, OS etc.), testing them on Test Infrastructure and applying on Production environment.
• Creating newVMware virtual machines to meet teh specifications provided by teh client.Savvy in deploying new Virtual Machines from OVF/OVA templates.
• Driving for tactical infrastructure performance analysis in response to production issue.
• Virtual Infrastructure capacity management plan and on-going capacity analysis.
• Monitoring teh performance of VM's &ESXi Host (CPU, RAM, HDD utilization).
• Administering & managing multiple Datacenters, Clusters, and Hosts.
• Delivered Plan (vSphere4.0) projects for Customers.
• Delivered P2V Migration Projects for client customers.
• Delivered Health Check Services for various Confidential using Confidential vSphere Health Check.
• Private Cloud Confidential environment performance tuning, monitoring and operations management.
• Architecture, design and cluster sizing of new virtualization projects and Cloud expansion.
• Confidential vRealize Automation Center services design, blueprint development integrated wif Confidential Orchestrator workflows development.
• Troubleshoot and resolve teh Storage related issues generated in teh production, Development and testing environments using vCOps.
• Capacity planning and alerting system implementation wif Confidential Operations Manager
• Importing new ESXi server’s vCenter, Networks and Storage Datastores resources into Cloud
• Monitoring vSphere landscape using to analyse performance issues on problematic vCenters/ESX/Datastores/Network/VMs.
• Set up V-Motion, High Availability (HA), Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS), vCenter Opeations Manager (vCOps)and relatedVMwareproducts such as VM Workstation
• Built teh recovery plan at teh client site using Confidential Site Recovery Manager.
• Good noledge of UCS Blade servers.
• Installing and configuring windows 2003 servers as a guest OS on teh Virtual Machines.
• Experience using a formalized change management and incident management process.
• Experience in troubleshooting DRS Cluster errors wif shares, pools, and limits.
• Deployed Application using VRealize Automation software.
• Experience utilizing Virtual Center, including VSphere Command-Line Interface commands.
• Install new and rebuild existing Servers and configure hardware, peripherals, services, settings, directories, storage in accordance wif standards and project/operational requirements.
• Installed, Configured and Maintained infrastructure systems such as ticketing systems.

Confidential, NC

Confidential ENGINEER

Responsibilities:

• Performed Confidential Administrator tasks by running over 120 hosts and 5000 virtual machines.
• Design, Implementation and TroubleshootingVMware ESXi 5.1 Hosts, Confidential vSphere virtual center.
• Administration ofVMware ESX and ESXi Servers on HP Blade Servers C7000 and C3000.
• Skilled in updating / upgrading ESX servers and Virtual Center servers usingVMware Update manager and manual upgrades.
• Exposed to vSphere Host Profiles, Standard and Distributed Switches setup.
• Efficient in maintainingVMware ESX / ESXi environment, VCloud Suite, Microsoft Windows Server, EMC Storage Arrays, Citrix Xen app, Xen Desktop, Data Center management and day-to-day operations.
• Handled theVMware solutions to support multiple storage connectivity options such as FC-SAN, iSCSI, NFS (NAS).
• Migrated 1000+ physical servers to virtual which includes virtualizing applications and Databases.
• Design, architect and present solutions to provision virtual infrastructure for enterprise applications.
• Migrated applications from physical servers to virtual servers onUCS. Converted allpossible infrastructures from physical Dell servers to virtual or bare-metal onUCS.
• DeployedVcenterOperations Manager (VCOPS), leveraging its capability for proactive monitoring of health of teh entire virtual environment.
• Timely update of patches, drivers and firmware's for all our Global ESX/ESXi hosts.
• Installation and configuration of Microsoft Windows 2008, 2008 R2, 2012 and 2012 R2 Servers on Virtual Machines.
• Configuring and Managing Active Directory, DNS, and DHCP.
• Provided system administration and technical support for Windows 2008, 2008 R2, 2012 and 2012 R2 Servers on a daily basis.
• Installed and tested vRealize Automation and vRealize Operations, to enable cloud orchestration layer for Software Datacenter model in test bed.
• Delivered server and client support for all issues such as: logon failures, account lockout, network connectivity, DNS and name resolution, authentication problems.
• Creating newVMware virtual machines to meet teh specifications provided by teh client.Savvy in deploying new Virtual Machines from OVF/OVA templates.
• Creating Roles and permissions inVMware ESX/ESXi Server 4.1/5.1.
• MigratedVMware ESX 4.1 to ESXi 5.1usingVMware update Manager.
• Proficient in hot and cold clone process.
• Installed/updated patches onVMware ESXi hosts usingVMware Update Manager tool.

Confidential

Confidential Engineer, Professional Services Department

Responsibilities:

• Maintenance & Management of Windows Server 2003/2008/2008R2 Servers.
• Hardening Windows Server 2003/2008/2008R2 Linux Servers.
• Managing and Configuring Cisco switches.
• Managing and Configuring load balancers.
• Managing and Configuring Confidential vSphere and Hyper-V servers.
• Connecting and configuring SAN and NAS storage into teh ESXi and Hyper-V servers.
• Providing support for teh QA and developing team.
• Monitoring Virtual machines and teh Physical servers and teh various infrastructure applications and networking equipment.
• Installing and configuring and troubleshooting Active Directory Servers based on Windows Server 2008 & 2008R2.
• Troubleshooting Windows Server 2008 R2 and 2012 OS related issues both on production environment and development and QA environments.
• Converting (P2v) Windows and Linux Physical Large Scale datacenters to Confidential vSphere virtualize while using Confidential vCenter Converter software.
• Designing, Architecting, configuring and troubleshooting virtual networks wifin Confidential vSphere involving VSS (Virtual Standard Switch) and VDs (Virtual Distributed Switch).
• Configuring and troubleshooting Confidential vSphere Cluster, HA Services, DRS, FT and vMotion.
• Responsible for upgrading branch offices from physical to virtual platform (VMware).
• Managed and implemented teh migration of servers from branch office locations to datacenters.
• Implemented Windows server migrations at production offices wif minimal downtime.

Confidential

Infrastructure Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Maintaining Production environment and QA environment involving Physical Servers and Virtual Machine Servers based on Confidential vSphere.
• Accessing remotely production servers through VPN connection.
• Maintenance & Management of Windows Server 2003/2008/2008R2, CentOS Linux and RedHat Linux Servers.
• Hardening Windows Server 2003/2008/2008R2, CentOS Linux and RedHat Linux Servers.
• Managing and Configuring security appliances such as Fortigate Firewall and ASA Firewall.
• Managing and Configuring HP and Cisco switches.
• Managing and Configuring load balancers.
• Managing and Configuring Confidential vSphere and Hyper-V servers.
• Connecting and configuring SAN and NAS storage into teh ESXi and Hyper-V servers.
• Managing teh Backup servers running on & VEEM BACKUP & Backup EXEC and working wif both taping and hard disks media.
• Providing support for teh QA and developing team.
• Monitoring Virtual machines and teh Physical servers and teh various infrastructure applications and networking equipment wif monitoring software such as Nagios, Cacti and IPmonitor.
• Installing and configuring SQL / MySQL Servers and troubleshooting application connectivity wif teh databases.
• Installing and configuring Blade Servers and Rack Servers.
• Installing and configuring and troubleshooting Web Servers running on top of Apache and IIS.
• Installing and configuring and troubleshooting Reverse Proxy servers based on Squid.
• Installing and configuring and troubleshooting Active Directory Servers based on Windows Server 2008 & 2008R2.
• Troubleshooting Windows Server 2008 R2 and 2012 OS related issues both on production environment and development and QA environments.
• Connecting and configuring SAN and NAS storage into teh ESXi and Hyper-V servers.
• Managing teh Backup servers running on CA ARC SERV & VEEM BACKUP & Backup EXEC and working wif both taping and hard disks media.
• Providing support for teh QA and developing team.
• Monitoring Virtual machines and teh Physical servers and teh various infrastructure applications and networking equipment wif monitoring software such as Nagios, Cacti and IPmonitor.
• Writing and developing from scratch Windows PowerShell/PowerCLI scripts for automating procedures wifin Confidential vSphere environment.
• Converting (P2v) Windows and Linux Physical Large Scale datacenters to Confidential vSphere virtualize while using Confidential vCenter Converter software.
• Designing, Architecting, configuring and troubleshooting virtual networks wifin Confidential vSphere involving VSS (Virtual Standard Switch) and VDs (Virtual Distributed Switch).
• Configuring and troubleshooting Confidential vSphere Cluster, HA Services, DRS, FT and vMotion.

Confidential

System Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Developed a solid Active Directory and Exchange 2007 design document detailing all of teh decision made along wif teh necessary technical details to implement teh design.
• Installing & Configured Ms Exchange Server 2003.
• Installing & configuration exchange 2007 server.
• Maintain Global Address book and configured SMTP, NNTP, IMAP4, POP3.
• Experience wif Exchange Server 2003 wif active directory.
• Manage and Monitoring LINUX SERVER ( Confidential -X-236, Confidential P Series, HP DL-380, HP-DL-380GS, HP ML-350, 530)
• Installing, updating and managing antivirus Symantec Antivirus Corporate Edition & Trend Micro
• Implementing Active directory, defining DHCP server, installation and teh configuration of DNS.
• Handling teh Active Directory and its users such creating and assigning proper groups and rights.
• Managing/Monitoring teh Firewall (Cyber roam), SONICWAL, Net screen 25.
• Configuration of RAID 5, RAID 1 and RAID 0
• Installing all types of software, drivers and multimedia devices and Updated patches (WSUS)
• Create or Manage Wireless/LAN/WAN/VLAN or Manageable Switch
• Configuring and troubleshooting of Printer over teh network
• Server Documentation of Daily Activity sheet & Maintaining Inventory.