SUMMARY

• Over 7+ years of IT industry experience in DevOps Infrastructure.
• Datacenter Virtualization,
• Server Consolidation,
• Virtual Desktop Infrastructure,
• Private Cloud Computing (IAAS),
• Virtualization Management,
• vBlock Infrastructure,
• Cisco Unified Computing system and
• EMC Unified VNX Storage Solutions.
• Ihave the ability to collaborate with diverse technical and non - technical teams to come up with a world class solution to real world challenges.
• Effective verbal and written communication skills.
• Creative problem solver with ability to work independently or within a team environment.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Technologies: SAN, NAS, RAID and LUN masking, Host Flash storages, Backup and recoveryProducts EMC VNX, EMC Clariion, EMC Celera

Networking: VxLAN/VLAN, Switching (MAC,ARP), VRRP/VRRP-E, IPv4, Routing (RIP, OSPF, BGP), NAT, Firewall, DHCP, DNS, AD(Administrative Domain administration) Products Arista 7500 Core routers, Cisco Nexus/iOS/Catalyst, HP Procurve TORs

Build: Jenkins, Java versions, GITPackaging Yum repositories (Linux)Time synchronization NTP

Service coordination: Zookeeper

Database: MSSQL, MySQL, MongoDB(NoSQL), Cassandra clustering(NoSQL)

Security: SSH, Firewall, NATAuthentication SSO (Single Signon), Distributed Horizon Workspace

Messaging: RabbitMQ, Khafka

Operating Systems: CentOS, Ubuntu, Windows, ESX/vCenter/vSphere/NSX

Installations: Sysprep, kickstart

VM Templates & Images: Deploy multiple VMs from VM templates.

OVF & OVA VM template creation tools: Apply security and driver packages

Hypervisors: ESX/ESXi, KVM

Blades: Supermicro, HP, Cisco UCS

Container Technologies: Docker, Mesos, Marathon

DevOps Automation: Puppet, Zombie

Monitoring: Nagios, vRealizeLogInsight

License Management: OS, ESXi, vCenter, NSX, vCloud, vSM

Automation: Unix Shell Scripting, Windows Powershell, TCL, Python

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Cloud Infrastructure Deployment/Management:

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Designed and Implemented multi cell vCloud Director Environment with multi-vCenters.
• Deployment and configuration of vShield Manager for network related services.
• Configuring vCloud Director External MSSQL based database.
• Integration of vCloud Director with vCenter and vShield manager.
• Implementation of dedicated out of band vCloud Management Platform.
• Configuring vCloud networking, External, Organization and vApp networks and corresponding network pools.
• Automated Provider Virtual Datacenter creation with different classes of service with associated performance, availability and cost characteristics.
• Creating Organizations and allocating resources to tenants using VDC and various Resource Allocation models.
• Deployment of vApp Templates and Catalogue Publishing.
• Assisted and documented the operational history, disaster recovery scenarios and the procedure to recover the data being replicated by snap mirror at the remote site.
• Installation, configuration, deploying, troubleshooting, and administration of VMware products.
• Creating, Installing, configuring and maintaining the Virtual Machines, installing Guest Operating Systems like Windows, Linux.
• Managing all aspects of the vSphere environments, troubleshooting and resolving configuration related VMware issues.
• VMware Orchestrator leveraged for deploying scaled VMs.
• Enabled utilization of VMware resources by consolidating them into Virtual Center. Designed and implemented Windows/Unix/Linux Servers to improve utilization of assets and support shared access for clusters and VMware and support the virtual center on a daily basis. Migration of shared web farm and external farms.
• Performed virtualization server analysis, capacity planning and implementation for the enterprise environment. Consulted by other agencies and departments on a regular basis regarding virtualization (servers and storage), systems management, performance, engaged in customer issues on an as-needed basis and design issues.
• Periodic auditing of resources for non-utilized and reclaiming of the same.
• Resilient deployment with VMware HA which leveragesVMware Heartbeat
• Server availability utilizing VMware FT (Fault Tolerant)
• Server load balancing based on VMware DRS, Storage DRS.
• Network Infrastructure involving DNS, DHCP and WINS servers, TCP/IP Protocol Stack.
• Extensive noledge in advance features of VMotion, Storage vMotion, VM Lab Manager
• Design and deployment of VCloud Director, vShield Director and NSX.
• Deploy and management of storage array as the shared back-end storage for vSphere.
• Deployment of vSphere infrastructure from the ground up, including vCenter Server, External vCenter MSSQL Database server, vCenter Update Manager server, automated ESXi hosts installation and configurations.
• Ability to implement VMware Virtual Switch technology; port aggregation, NIC teaming, VLAN trunking and port groups
• Managed storage using VMFS and NFS technologies by sharing access to underlying block storage and building client-server relationship between ESX hosts and NAS devices.
• Administering and managing Windows server 2003/2008 Active Directory services, DHCP and DNS servers
• Experienced in resource cluster management (eg: creating resource pools, adding the VMs into resource pools).
• Implementation and management of NSX on vCenter servers
• Deployed various Open Source applications
• VMware vCenter Operations Manager deployment for Cloud infrastructure performance and capacity monitoring.
• VMware Usage meter
• Configure SNMP based monitoring on all infrastructure components (ESXi hosts, vcenter, VNX, HP switches) and integration with HP Openview used by Network Operations Center.
• Nagios for resource availability
• Monitoring logs for any errors utilizing various tools.
• Managing/troubleshooting Bare-metal HP and Super Micro Blade systems.
• Perform P2V (Physical to Virtual) and V2V (Virtual to Virtual) migrations of production and development servers.
• Maintain and monitor all VMware ESX hosts, clusters and virtual datacenters with Virtual center.
• VMware Site Recovery Manager Implementation and Management for Virtual Infrastructure Automated Disaster recovery
• VMotion configuration troubleshooting.
• Updating servers with latest service packs, security patches and antivirus definition.
• Fine tuning VM’s configurations to achieve best performance/resource consumption depending on Application characteristics and requirements.
• Guest OS template creation and User Account Management.
• Auditing the ESX cluster builds to make sure all set configurations adhere to the Implementation guidelines.

VMware Consultant

Confidential, IL

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• End to End Implementation of VMware vCloud suite based Private Cloud onvBlock Platform.
• Deployment of vSphere infrastructure from the ground up, including vCenter Server, External vCenter MSSQL Database server, vCenter Update Manager server, automated ESXi hosts installation and configurations.
• Implementation of stateless Cisco UCS service profiles with boot from SAN policy for ESXi hosts.
• Deploy and manage EMC VNX 5700 array as the shared storage for frontend vSphere.
• Implementing multi cell vCloud Director Environment.
• Deployment and configuration of vShield Manager for network related services.
• Configuring vCloud Director External MSSQL based database.
• Integration of vCloud Director with vCenter and vShield manager.
• Implementation of dedicated out of band vCloud Management Platform.
• Configuring vCloud networking, External, Organization and vApp networks and corresponding network pools.
• Automated Provider Virtual Datacenter creation with different classes of service with associated performance, availability and cost characteristics.
• Creating Organizations and allocating resources to tenants using VDC and various Resource Allocation models.
• Deployment of vApp Templates and Catalogue Publishing.
• Monitoring vCloud Director Components, Provider/Org vDC resource usage, various tasks and events.
• Provisioning ESXi Clusters and Infrastructure services across vBlock platform using EMC Unified Infrastructure Manager and its integration with vCloud Director and vCenter Orchestrator.
• Virtual Port Channel configuration on the Cisco Nexus 5K series.
• Configuring Cisco UCS uplink port channels for upstream LAN/SAN connectivity with Cisco Nexus/MDS switches.
• Deployment and integration of vCenter Operations Manager with EMC VNX for comprehensive performance monitoring.
• Configuring vSANs, Zones and Zonesets on the MDS switches for ESXi HBA connectivity with VNX frontend ports.
• Provision and configure EMC VNX Storage Pools, Raidgroups, LUNs, Fully automated Storage Tiering( FAST)Cache and FAST VP.
• Performing large scale vSphere and Cisco UCS upgrades.
• Implementation and management of Cisco Nexus 1000v for ESXi hosts.
• Configure SNMP based monitoring on all infrastructure components (ESXi hosts, vcenter, UCS, nexus switches) and integration with HP Openview used by Network Operations Center.
• Troubleshoot and Resolve configuration related VMware issues.
• Development of moderately complex scripts using VMware Powercli to automate various vSphere related administrative tasks.
• Used Powershell scripts for performance monitoring of ESX/ESXi servers. Generated scripts dat produce a report of VMware environment including information on snapshots, datastores, VMware tools versions, mapped CD-ROM drives and more.
• Advanced Monitoring and Performance Analysis of vSphere Environment using native tools as well as vCenter Operations Manager.
• Fine-tuning VM’s configurations to achieve best performance/resource consumption depending on Application characteristics and requirements.
• Perform P2V and V2V migrations of production and development servers.
• Configuring and managing Cisco UCS Service Profiles, vNIC/vHBA interfaces, MAC/UUID/WWPN/WWNN identity pools, various Server, Network and Storage related policies.
• Design and development of workflows to orchestrate provisioning and configuration of infrastructure elements across distinct domains, cloud-wide health and compliance checks, capacity management, performance management and alerting.

VMware Consultant

Confidential, CA

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Implementation of stateless Cisco UCS service profiles with boot from SAN policy for VDI based ESXi hosts.
• Deploy and manage EMC VNX 5700 array as the shared storage for frontend VDI based vSphere.
• MSSQL Based Database configuration for View event reporting.
• View Desktops Performance Monitoring from vCenter Operations Manager.
• Active Directory Management specific to VMware View deployment.
• VDI Users and Desktops management using AD Group Policy Objects
• Implementing VMware vSphere Infrastructure as foundation of VDI
• Deploying View Connection Server in Replica Mode for High Availability and Load Balancing
• Desktop Pools planning and implementations based on User workload profile and application requirements.
• Configured VMware on clustered environment, implemented Migration of Virtual Machines using vMotion, Storage vMotion
• Hot and Cold Cloning of Virtual Machines using VMware Converter
• Virtual Machine Cloning, Templates and Snapshots
• Configured VMware HA, VMware DRS in acquiring higher efficiency for VMware Infrastructure
• Managed Active Directory services using predefined company scripts (Creation of Accounts)
• Provided server and client support for all issues such as logon failures, account lockout, network connectivity and authentication issues.
• Installed VMware vSphere 5 and created virtual machines on ESX/ESXi 5.0 Servers. Created standard images and deployed servers from the images
• Designed and successfully implemented VMware ESX/ESXi 5.0 servers for server consolidation
• Worked on vCenter Server to manage all the ESXi hosts in the datacenter
• Creating and managing virtual machines and templates
• Worked with snapshots of Virtual Machines
• Involved with designing and implementing VMware backup products and disaster recovery solutions
• Installed & configured VMware virtual center for production & DR site
• Perform server consolidation using VMware Converter to convert physical machines to virtual machines in a production environment
• Involved in VMware updates manager to install & troubleshoot patches and updates on ESX/ESXi hosts and virtual machines
• Virtualized Windows server Migration using VMware Converter
• Worked on VMware Update Manager for updating or patching for all the ESX/ESXi hosts and Virtual machines
• Configuring Cisco UCS uplink port channels for upstream LAN/SAN connectivity with Cisco Nexus/MDS switches.
• Virtual Port Channel configuration on the Cisco Nexus 5K series.
• Configuring vSANs, Zones and Zonesets on the MDS switches for ESXi HBA connectivity with VNX frontend ports.
• Provision and configure EMC VNX Storage Pools, Raid groups, LUNs, Fully automated Storage Tiering( FAST)Cache and FAST VP.
• VNX Array Storage Performance Analysis for VDI desktops.
• Installation and Configuration of EMC PowerPath in ESXi for SAN Storage Path Optimization.
• Comprehensive Administration of VDI environments using View Management Server, vCenter, Cisco UCSM, EMC Unisphere, Cisco Nexus CLI and Fabric Manager.