SUMMARY

• IT professional with extensive experience in Enterprise Scale VMware vSphere based Virtual Infrastructure.
• Cisco Unified Computing Systems design, deployment and configuration for both virtualized and bare metal environments.
• Implementing Confidential Vblock based converged infrastructure for large scale private cloud deployments.
• EMC VNX/VMAX implementation, management and troubleshooting in Vblock based converged infrastructure platform.
• Comprehensive Management of Vblock platform with vCenter, Cisco Unified Computing System Manager, EMC Unisphere, Nexus CLI and EMC Unified Infrastructure Manager.
• EMC Unified Infrastructure Manager Implementation for fully integrated administration and provisioning across Vblock Virtualization, Compute, Network and Storage platforms as one complete offering.
• Deploying and supporting vCenter Operations Manager for comprehensive performance and capacity monitoring of the cloud infrastructure.
• Advanced troubleshooting and performance analysis of all aspects of the virtualized environments.
• Cisco MDS 9148 installation and configuration for Fibre Channel connectivity between Cisco UCS and EMC VNX.
• Cisco UCS Fabric Interconnect upstream connectivity with Cisco Nexus 5548 for LAN and MDS9148 for SAN.
• End to End deployment of Cisco Nexus 1000v for Vblock Virtual Networking.
• Implementation and Administration of the Vblock Access (Cisco Nexus 1000v), Distribution (Cisco UCS F.I), Aggregation (Cisco Nexus 5k) and Management (Catalyst 3560) layer.
• Performing VM workload migration from customers existing platforms to Vblock environment.
• Planning and executing large scale server consolidation with physical to virtual (P2V) conversions using VMware Converter.
• Performing Seamless upgrade of the entire converged infrastructure platform including Cisco UCS, vSphere, EMC VNX and Cisco Nexus ensuring firmware compatibility and interoperability.
• Proficient in all aspects of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), Sun Solaris and IBM AIX Operating systems from Installing, Configuring Hardware, and Customizing Applications using the latest technologies available to design fully automated operating systems.
• Extensive experience in installing, upgrading, maintaining and configuringRed Hat Enterprise Linux on Dell Poweredge and HP servers using Custom and kickstart installation, SUN Solaris on Dell Poweredge and Sun SPARC Servers using Jumpstart ServersandInteractive Installation.
• Proficient in installing and configuring IBM AIX on IBM Power series servers using Custom installation and Network Installation Manager (NIM).
• Experience in Upgrading, Migration, Backup, Disaster Recovery, Performance monitoring and Fine - tuning of systems running various Linux platforms.
• Configured server hardware and performed kernel tuning based on the applications to be installed and the number of users.
• Experienced in deploying RHEL 5x in an enterprise setting
• Installed, configured and maintained Solaris Containers and Zones on Sun Solaris 9/10 servers respectively.
• Proficient in IBM Hardware Management Console to build and partition the IBM p5 and p5+ servers and performed NIM Installations on LPAR.
• Created Domains in Sun SPARC M5000 servers.
• Created LDOM’s on Sun SPARC T 2000/5220/5240/ series servers.
• Installed and configured ZFS on test environment servers.
• Performed Disk Mirrors and RAID 0, 1 and 5 levels on several UNIX and Linux servers.
• Monitoring and troubleshooting Servers using various third party tools like Nagios, Big Brother, Tivoli, Conky, and Nmon.
• Experience in Installing, Configuring, and Implementing Virtualization Environment Using VMware (Server and Desktop software), Sun Virtual Box, and Microsoft Virtual PC.
• Experience in Virtual servers VMware ESX server and Xen
• Installation and configuration of ESX Host Servers starting from legacy versions like 2.0.1, 2.1.3, 2.5.2, 2.5.4, 3.0 to the latest version 3.5 and Virtual Client 1.0, 2.0 and 2.5
• Upgrading of VMware ESX 3.0.0 to ESX 3.5
• Configuring SUDO and granting root permission to Backup Admins/DBAs to perform root related activities
• Discovered and attached LUNS provided by the Storage team to the required Unix/Linux Servers
• Proficient in Installing CITRIX XenServer and XenDesktop, CITRIX XenApp (Presentation Server).
• Experience in upgrading Solaris servers and applying security patches and fixes.
• Upgraded servers using RPM Package Manager and yum (Yellowdog Updater modified).
• Strong technical background in Solaris Volume Manager (Solstice Disk Suite), Logical Volume Manager (LVM), Veritas Volume Manager, and logical partitioning.
• Experience with Oracle RAC on RHEL
• Good experience and understanding of Storage Area Network (SAN) technology including zoning, disk creation on various systems, maintaining and configuring various fiber switches and storages.
• Proficient in working with SAN hardware from vendors including EMC (Symmetrix and CLARiiON), Hitachi and Sun StorageTek.
• Experience in Implementing Backup and Recovery solutions on Heterogeneous platforms Using EMC Legato NetWorker, IBM Tivoli Storage Manager, HP Data Protector and Veritas NetBackup.
• Performed monitoring of Linux cluster systems using Red Hat Cluster Suite.
• Implemented cluster systems on Dell servers and IBM Systems p servers and performed monitoring of the clusters using Veritas Cluster Server (VCS) and IBM HACMP software.
• Good Knowledge of Installing and Configuring Firestarter using Netfilter in the Linux kernel.
• Worked with IBM Web-based System Manager (WSM) to manage AIX cluster over the network.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, CA

UCS Consultant

Responsibilities:

• End to end Implementation and configuration of Cisco Unified Computing System as the platform Compute layer.
• End to end configuration of Flex Pod.
• Configuration of basic building blocks for the service profile, UUID Pools, MAC Pools, IP Pools, WWNN Pools and WWNP Pools.
• Configuring and managing the QOS Policy, Network Control Policy, Adopter Policy, Vnic/VHBA Placement Policy, Maintenance Policy, Boot Policy, Host Firmware Policy, BIOS Policy, Local Disk Configuration Policy.
• Configured the Required Vlans and Vsans according to the customer Legacy Environment.
• Configured and Managed the Vnic and VHba and Service Profile templates.
• Configured the Service Profiles according to the customer need and Provisioned the windows, Linux and ESXI servers with the help of service Profiles and Presented them to the Vmware Environment.
• Created the Host Clusters in the Vmware Environment using the Vcenter for HA.
• Created the Vmotion and Vmkernel networks and Performed the vmotion and Storage vmotion.
• Worked with the B-series Blades B200-M2, B440-M2,B200-M3,B200-M4 and B440-M3 Blades.
• Worked with the C-series Rack Mount servers C240-M3, C220-M3, C220-M4 and C260-M3.
• Configured the Virtual Port channels, Storage Aliases, Zones, Zone sets in Nexus 5k and 6k Switches.
• Worked with the Unified Ports on Nexus and FI 6296.
• Configured the Veth and Eth Port profiles on Nexus 1000v using the CLI, Presented them them to the Vmware Environment.
• Created the Meta Luns in the Storage Array and Presented to the Vmware Environment as a Disk or RDM.
• Configured the Initiator Groups, Storage Groups and Port Groups in the storage array(Netapp/EMC) and presented the LUNS to the Vmware Environment.
• Created the Boot Luns and presented them to the UCS Environment and Created the Boot polices with the load balance to comfortably deal with the boot storm.
• Created the Migration Strategies to migrate the customer legacy environment to the new cisco environment.
• Worked with the Robo Copy to migrate the storage.
• Created the Layer2 disjoint network to handle the customer DMZ network.
• Created Run books and conducted knowledge transfer sessions with the customer operations team.
• Worked with the vsphere5.0 and vsphere 5.5 environments.
• Registered the Vcenter and UCSM with the windows Active Direcory.
• Worked with the windows server 2012R2 and Redhat Linux version 6.
• Creating the Patching MOPS and Performed the firmware upgrades for the customer Production Environment.
• Provisioned the Linux servers using the PXE boot and kickstart file.
• Registered the Customer Multiple UCS domains with the UCS Central for the single point of Management.
• Created Global service Profile Templates and created Global service Profiles and Provisioned servers.
• Worked Proactively to avoid issues in the customer environment.
• Worked with CISCO Tac Team on BUG Scrubs.
• Created the Power shell scripts to maintain the inventory in one Excel file.
• Managed Distributed virtual Switches and worked with the network team in planning and creating the networks.
• Worked on FCOE, ISCSI and FC Storage Environments.
• Worked in NAS Environment and created a connection between NAS and UCS by configuring the Appliance Port on FI’s.

Confidential, TX

Vblock Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Design, Implementation and Management of the 300 and 700 series Vblock platform.
• End to end Implementation and configuration of Cisco Unified Computing System as the Vblock platform Compute layer.
• Vblock Converged Infrastructure Administration and Management with Cisco UCS Manager, Nexus CLI, Fabric Manager, vCenter, Unisphere and UIM.
• Provide Operational support across all layers of the Vblock platform including Virtualization (vSphere), Compute (UCS), Networking (N1K, N5K, Catalyst 3560) and Storage (EMC VNX).
• End to End Implementation and Management of the Vblock networking including Access, Distribution, Aggregation and Management layer.
• VLAN creation across the Vblock platform (Cisco N1K, UCS, Cisco N5k).
• Cisco HSRP Configuration on the AMP 3560 Catalyst switches to provide L3 High availability and redundancy for Vblock Management traffic.
• Vblock Best Practices and Operational Run Book Documentation.
• Deployment of Cisco Nexus 1000v as the virtualized access layer on the Vblock platform.
• Cisco UCS Management and Administration in vSphere environment.
• Configuring and managing Cisco UCS Service Profiles, vNIC/vHBA interfaces, MAC/UUID/WWPN/WWNN identity pools, various Server, Network and Storage related policies.
• Cisco UCS Fabric Interconnect integration with Cisco Nexus 5548 for LAN connectivity and Cisco MDS for SAN.
• Cisco Nexus5548 Virtual Port-Chanel Implementation and Administration.
• Vblock health check for compliance with Confidential best practices/guidelines.
• VMAX and VNX storage system Implementation and administration in VMware environment.
• Vblock Infrastructure provisioning, reconfiguration and decommissioning using EMC UIM.
• Advanced Performance Analysis and Troubleshooting across all layers of the Vblock infrastructure.
• EMC Power Path installation and configuration for Storage Path load balancing.
• Planning & implementation of scheduled changes per change management policies.
• Configure SNMP based monitoring alerts on all Vblock infrastructure elements.
• Monitoring Vblock Resource Utilization for Capacity Planning and SLA Management.
• Monitoring Vblock Hardware health/Availability status and event alarms for Incident Management.
• Installed and configured VMware ESXi 5.x operating system on Cisco UCS C200 M2 and Cisco UCS C220 M3 servers.
• Installed and Configured RHEL 5.x\6.x and CentOS 5.x\6.x Virtual Machines in VMware ESXi using vCenter Server and vSphere Client
• Installed and configured Oracle Database Express Edition 11g, Oracle Database 12c Standard Edition, Oracle Database 12c Standard Edition One, Oracle Database 12c Enterprise Edition on CentOS 6.x and RHEL 6.x
• Successfully installed and configured Oracle RAC on Red Hat Enterprise Linux and CentOS
• Provided complete monitoring and alerting for servers, applications and serveries using Nagios XI
• Installed and Configured Nagios XI server in CentOS 6.4, also developed few plugins and checks to monitor various system related parameters, services and processes
• Worked on Cisco Virtual Data Center (VDC), Cisco’s private cloud environment.
• Installed, configured and provided extensive support in code deployment and application level troubleshooting for Java-based applications NCCM and CPSC.
• Provided support in development of NCCM (Network Configuration and Change Management), an application which provides integrated and comprehensive secured configuration and a platform to manage, audit and secure all the network devices
• Provided support in development of a Java-based application Common Service Platform Collector (CSPC) which is a Data Collector designed to gather information on the devices in a customer network and then upload this information to Cisco for analysis.
• Troubleshooting hardware issues in CISCO UCS servers

Confidential, WI

VMWare/UCS Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Implement VMware, Cisco and EMC based virtualized infrastructure for enterprise scale cloud deployments.
• Cloud Infrastructure Administration with VMware vCenter, Cisco UCS manager, Unisphere and Cisco Nexus CLI.
• Implement Virtual Infrastructure Disaster Recovery with VMware Site Recovery Manager and EMC Recoverpoint.
• Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS) platform deployment and management in Vblock environments.
• VMAX and VNX storage system Implementation and administration in VMware environment.
• Advanced Performance Analysis and Troubleshooting across all layers of the cloud infrastructure.
• Installing Site Recovery Manager Server on the Source and the DR site and Integrating with respective vCenters.
• Installing and configuring Recoverpoint using Deployment Manager.
• Integrating SRM with the backend Recoverpoint using SRA adaptor.
• Implementing and Configuring Recoverpoint Production Volumes, Production Journal, Replica Copies, Replica Journal, Consistency Groups, Replication Sets, Replication priority and other settings.
• Configuring SRM Resource mappings, folder mappings, network mappings, protection groups and datastore groups.
• Creating and configuring Recovery plans and Recovery network options.
• Planning and executing non disruptive Disaster Recovery testing by creating isolated network bubble at the DR site.
• Managing SRM based protection in a highly dynamic environment ensuring newly deployed Tier1 VM’s are protected and on replicated datastores.
• Manage all aspects of the vSphere environments.
• Configuring and managing Cisco UCS Service Profiles, vNIC/vHBA interfaces, MAC/UUID/WWPN/WWNN identity pools, various Server, Network and Storage related policies.
• Configuration and Management of Cisco Nexus 5K VPC, Catalyst 3560 HSRP, Nexus 1000v VSM/VEM, Cisco UCS.
• Configuration and Management of Cisco MDS VSANs, NPIV, Zones and Zonesets.
• Manage all aspects of vSphere environments.
• Cisco UCS integration with Cisco Nexus 5548 for LAN and Cisco MDS for SAN.
• 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.
• Installed and configured Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.x, Sun Solaris 9, 10 and IBM AIX 5L 5.x operating systems on large distributed environment.
• Provided administration and support for Servers running on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.x/5.x and Sun Solaris 9, 10operating systems.
• Supported virtual machines in Private cloud Environments.
• Installed Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.x over the network using Kick start installation and installed Sun Solaris 9 using Jumpstart installation on Sun SPARC Servers.
• Performed Server consolidation and virtualization using VMware virtual infrastructure that includes VMware ESX, VMware Virtual Center and Virtual SMP.
• Performed System Backup using Veritas Netback up for Enterprise wide backup and recovery and to centrally manage storage resources through a single console
• Monitored the daily backup activities, Responsible for rotation of the media to the offsite vendor and maintained offset backup for recovery in case of a system crash.
• Backup and restoration of Database servers using SQL scripts.
• Configured networking services such as DNS, SSH, DHCP and printer services in Red Hat Linux servers.
• Applied new patches and packages for Sun Solaris and Red Hat Linux Servers and handled issues arising out of them.
• Maintained availability, increased capacity and performance of production machines by upgrading their hardware and firmware.
• Attached LUNS provided by the Storage team to the required Unix/Linux Servers.
• Creating volume groups, logical volumes, extending logical volumes based on the requirements using Logical Volume Management (LVM) commands.

Confidential, NY

Technical Consultant (VMWare/Storage)

Responsibilities:

• Design and Implementation of VMware Virtual Infrastructure environment.
• Cisco UCS and HP C7000 Deployment and Implementation for Virtual Environments.
• P2V conversions of Windows and Linux servers using VMware vConverter.
• Migration of Tier1 VMs from HP Blades to Cisco UCS.
• Performing upgrade of the Virtual Infrastructure.
• Configuring and managing VMware cluster with High Availability and Distributed Resource Scheduling.
• Monitoring and managing performances of ESX/ESXi servers and virtual machines.
• Design and Implementation of VMware ESX server infrastructure in multisite/multi Datacenter environments.
• EMC VNX SAN Storage Administration and Provisioning for ESX hosts.
• Configuring and managing Cisco UCS Service Profiles, vNIC/vHBA interfaces, MAC/UUID/WWPN/WWNN identity pools, various Server, Network and Storage related policies.
• Configuring Cisco UCS Fabric Interconnect upstream connectivity for LAN with Cisco Nexus 5548 and upstream connectivity for SAN with Cisco MDS switches.
• Configuring and managing Virtual Port Channel based clustering on the Cisco Nexus 5K series.
• Managing and configuring VSAN, NPIV, Zones and Zonesets on the Cisco MDS 9148 for Fibre Channel connectivity between Cisco UCS and EMC VNX array.
• Administering Cisco Nexus 1000v Distributed switch using Virtual Supervisor Module.
• Health check on VMware Infrastructure using VMware Health check tool and custom scripts
• Installation and configuration of Windows 2008 environment.
• Support day-to-day issues in VMware Virtual Infrastructure, EMC VNX, Cisco Nexus and Cisco UC/HP Blade environments.
• Installation and Configuration of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.x and IBM AIX 5L 5.x operating systems on large distributed environment. Installing, testing and patching existing RPM’s.
• Responsible for daily activities which included administration and maintenance of Enterprise and Advanced Servers (ES/AS) running Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
• Provided Administration support for server running on IBM AIX 5L 5.3 at other facilities.
• Installed and Configured Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.2 in Dell Poweredge 2970 and R905, Involved in System Analysis and Performance Monitoring of Red Hat Linux.
• Performed User Account creation, assigning access permission, creating user quota and provided user login support. .
• Installed and configured Veritas NetBackup on Red Hat Enterprise Linux systems.
• Troubleshooting performance issues in IBM AIX and Red Hat Linux servers.
• Administration and maintenance ofHigh end storage arrays from EMC (Symmetrix DMX-3).
• Implemented Web Application Servers like Oracle WebLogic, and Red Hat JBoss in and Red Hat Linux environment respectively.
• Creating volume groups, logical volumes, extending logical volumes based on the requirements using Logical Volume Management (LVM) commands.
• Upgraded Oracle WebLogic servers from 9.0 to 11g on Linux based servers.
• Backup and restoration of Database servers using SQL scripts.
• Installed and upgraded servers using the security patches and service packs released.
• Installed Red Hat Enterprise Linux over the network using Kickstart Installation and IBM AIX using Network Installation Server (NIM).
• Monitored failovers and implemented automated recovery procedures for Dell Servers.
• Maintained & troubleshooted SAN and Fibre card related errors on UNIX.

Confidential, CA

VMware Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Design and Implementation of VMware Virtual Infrastructure environment.
• Cisco UCS Deployment and Implementation for Virtual Environments.
• P2V conversions of Windows servers using VMware Converter.
• Large Scale Migration of existing VMs from HP Blades to Cisco UCS.
• Performing upgrade of the Virtual Infrastructure.
• Configuring and managing VMware cluster with High Availability and Distributed Resource Scheduling..
• Monitoring and managing performances of ESX/ESXi servers and virtual machines.
• Design and Implementation of VMware ESX server infrastructure in multisite/multi Datacenter environments.
• EMC CX 480/960 SAN Storage Administration and Provisioning for ESX hosts.
• Configuring and managing Cisco UCS Service Profiles, vNIC/vHBA interfaces, MAC/UUID/WWPN/WWNN identity pools, various Server, Network and Storage related policies.
• Configuring Cisco UCS Fabric Interconnect upstream connectivity for LAN with Cisco Nexus 5548 and upstream connectivity for SAN with Cisco MDS switches.
• Configuring and managing Virtual Port Channel based clustering on the Cisco Nexus 5K series.
• Managing and configuring VSAN, NPIV, Zones and Zonesets on the Cisco MDS 9148 for Fibre Channel connectivity between Cisco UCS and EMC VNX array.
• Administering Cisco Nexus 1000v Distributed switch using Virtual Supervisor Module.
• Health check on VMware Infrastructure using VMware Health check tool and custom scripts
• Installation and configuration of Windows 2008 environment.
• Support day-to-day issues in VMware Virtual Infrastructure, EMC CX, Cisco Nexus and Cisco UC/HP Blade environments
• Administration and support of Unix Servers running on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.x/5.x and IBM AIX 6L/5L 5.x operating systems. Installed Sun Solaris servers at other facility over the network using Jumpstart installation.
• Installed and configured IBM AIX 5L 5.3 operating system on IBM System p6 570/595 servers.
• Administered and maintained IBM Power System p5 510/550 servers running AIX 5L 5.x operating system and maintained Sun SPARC servers running Solaris 9 OS.
• Built the IBM servers from the scratch level, from loading OS, creating file systems, and configuring network adapters.
• Implemented cluster systems on IBM Systems p servers and performed monitoring of the clusters using IBM HACMP 5.2.
• Proficient in IBM Hardware Management Console to build and partition the IBM Power5 and Power5+ servers and perform NIM Installations on LPAR.
• Worked with IBM Web-based System Manager (WSM) to manage AIX cluster over the network.
• Experience in Installing, configuring, and maintaining IBM Rational ClearCase and Rational ClearQuest on AIX platforms.
• Working knowledge in various Application servers including Red Hat JBoss and IBM WebSphere.
• Configured Infosphere MDM Server on IBM Websphere Application Servers.

Confidential

VMware Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the installation, configuration and support of VMware and the daily management/monitoring of the virtual environment.
• VMware ESX server Hardware setup in all sites with HA/DRS Clustering/Vmotion.
• Networking setup with the port group and VLAN trunking on the ESX server and Physical switches.
• Monitoring and troubleshooting vSphere performance: CPU, memory, disk/storage, and other issues.
• Performed physical to virtual migration using vConverter.
• Monitored VMware environment performance using Virtual Center .
• Installed / configured / maintained Windows 2003 Server / Windows 2008 environment.
• Responsible for ESX server deployments, system updates/upgrades, system health and status monitoring.
• Infrastructure testing on the new builds to identify potential flaws/failures from implementations before its release in production.
• Implementing Change requests for different configuration changes within the virtual infrastructure.
• Troubleshooting virtual infrastructure performance related issues.
• Managing/troubleshooting HP and IBM Blade systems.
• Maintain and monitor all VMware ESX hosts, clusters and virtual datacenters with Virtual center.
• Configured and Troubleshoot Virtual Center features such as Vmotion, DRS and HA.
• Troubleshooting VMware ESX related issues.
• Administered UNIX Systems for clustered Sun Servers running Dynamic LPARs with fiber attached SAN storage.
• Installed Red Hat Enterprise Linux over the network using Kickstart on Dell servers.
• Involved in preparation of technical design specifications, installation and configuration of RedHat Linux, SUN Solaris, and IBM AIX Servers.
• Maintained SUSE Enterprise Linux 9 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.x servers in development, test and Production environment and proactively monitored and administered production and development servers.
• Involved in applying new patches and packages for UNIX (Sun Solaris, HP-UX) and Linux Servers (Red Hat, SUSE) and handled issues arising out of them.
• Implemented Virtualization using VMware ESX Server in Linux on HP-460C Blade, Dell-2950.
• Performed Server consolidation and virtualization using VMware virtual infrastructure that includes VMware ESX, VMWare VirtualCenter and Virtual SMP.
• Implemented high-availability applications based on the Unix/Java stack, mainly the JBoss Application server on top of Red Hat Linux OS.
• Provided support for Red Hat JBoss 4.x and Apache 2.x, ATG applications for operations related to installation and configuration.
• Performed Disk Mirrors and RAID 0, 1 and 5 levels on several UNIX and Linux servers.
• Worked with Database administrators to tune the kernel for Oracle installations on Linux.
• Actively involved in solving EMC/HP XP/EVA storage, Brocade switches, Veritas NetBackup escalated ticket.
• Coordinated with various hardware and software vendors to troubleshoot the hardware and software problems related to Sun Solaris, Red Hat, HP-UX and AIX.
• Performed network monitoring and managed devices using the Nagios Network Monitoring Software.
• Performed network analysis using SNMP protocol and RMON.
• Generated reports to show the trends of resource utilization User/CPU/Network load.
• Drafted shell scripts for automated installations and to extract logs.
• Worked with Red Hat Linux support personnel to troubleshoot issues related to Red Hat Linux satellite server regarding updates.