SUMMARY

• 6+ years of IT Experience in Private Cloud technologies, Networking, Virtualization and Storage.
• Working experience with UCS Computing Solutions UCS B - series and C-series servers. (B200-M3,B200-M4,C220-M3, and C220-M4)
• Storage Solutions EMC Vnxe3200,vnx5300 and Netapp storage.
• HP, Dell and Lenovo computing servers.
• Converged Infrastructures such as Flex pod and Vblock and Avaya Pod fx solutions.
• Nexus 5k, VSP4k, VSP7k,Nexus 1000v, VDS and Vswitch.
• UCS Manager, UCS Central, IMC Supervisor and UCS Director.
• Storage Protocols ISCSI,FC and FCOE.
• Esxi5.5,6.0 and 6.5. vSwitches and
• Network Traffic Tools Wireshark and Tcpdump.
• Orchestration and Automation using Ansible, Power Shell Scripting and Python.
• System Administration of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.x/4.x/5.x.
• Experience in installing, upgrading, maintaining and configuringRed Hat Enterprise Linux, Centos and Ubuntu on UCS, Dell and HP servers using Custom and kick start installation.
• Docker containers.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, CA

Network Consulting Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Deployed the UCS Domains from Scratch.
• Worked on FI-6200 and FI-6300 series FI’s.
• Deployed Vmware ESXi 5.5,6.0 and 6.5 on Both B-series and C-series servers.
• Deployed the Vcenter and managed the complete Virtual environment.
• Configured the ISCSI, NFS and FCOE storage.
• Deployed servers using both Boot from SAN and DAS.
• Working on vSphere (ESXi 6.0, VCSA 6.0). Installation, Configuration and Administration of VMware ESXi 6.0/5.5, ESXi upgrades 5.5 to 6.0, vCenter upgrades 5.1,5.5 to 6.0. Optimization of vSphere and Storage environments .
• Built many windows and Linux servers on both virtual and physical environments and turned over to production.
• Worked on vApp deployment and configuration
• Proficiency in managing vSphere Standard switch, Distributed switch, Distributed resource scheduler (DRS) storage DRS, High availability and Fault tolerance, Update manager, patch management, virtual storage, Host profiles.
• Advanced troubleshooting and Performance analysis of all aspects of virtualized environments.
• Created Port Groups and Port channels on FIs and Nexus switches.
• Worked on EMC Vnxe3200,VNX 5300, VMAX, Hp3par and Netapp. Created the LUNs and presented to them to the ESXi hosts.
• Worked on MDS and SAN switches and Configured Zoning.
• Deployed the UCS Central and registered the UCS managers to it and managed the whole computing environment from UCS Central.
• Worked on UCSD and IMC supervisor, Created the Workflows for Bare metal installation and ESXi deployments.
• Performed the UCS Health Checks and proactively worked on Issues.
• Deployed the Centos, Ubuntu and RHEL Operating systems on UCS servers.
• Deployed and configured the LAMP servers (Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP)
• Performed Disk Mirrors and RAID 0,1 and 5 levels on Linux servers.
• Worked on Storage protocols such as ISCSI, FC and FCOE.
• Worked on Migrating the Legacy environments to the UCS Environment.
• Created the RUN books for the operations Teams.
• Worked on Orchestration using the PowerShell, Python and Ansible.
• Created Ansbile Roles and Playbooks .
• Worked with Ansible Tower.
• 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.
• Working with storage solutions such as EMC VNX and Hp 3par solutions, Responsible for itsconfigurations and fine tuning it for optimum performance.
• Working on different networkswitches such as VSP7k and VSP4k.
• Working hand in hand with application development teams regarding the product related issues. Making sure the issues are fixed and solution working as expected.
• Deployed the Docker containers and Created a POC and presented to the internal audience.
• Configuration of basic building blocks for the service profile, UUID Pools, MAC Pools, IP Pools, WWNN Pools and WWNP Pools.
• 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.
• Responsible for installing, configuring, and maintaining Linux servers including web servers, mail servers, application servers and database servers
• Managed deployment of clustered, HA Linux systems for internal and customer use.
• Performed the Network debugging using the Wireshark and TCP Dump tools.

Confidential, CO

Systems Administrator

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).
• Created the Port groups and Portchannels.
• Responsible for Migrating Production Virtual Machines running on Legacy IBM blades to Brand New Vblock Environment without downtime.
• Migrated the Storage from Legacy Netapp to the EMC VMAX using the swing box technology.
• End to End Implementation and Management of the Vblock networking including Access, Distribution, Aggregation and Management layer.
• Worked and Created a Environment where VM's running on IBM blades can access both Legacy storage(Netapp) and the vBlock storage which is VMAX10k.Used the concept called swing box.
• Configured Cisco MDS switch and created Zones and Zonesets.
• In Vmax created LUNs of size more than 2TB using the concept of META LUNS.
• Created FAST Policy and Applied to the Storage Groups appropriately.
• Created Disjoint Layer2 Networks on UCS Platform, To securely deploy the customer DMZ Network.
• Configuring and managing Cisco UCS Service Profiles, vNIC/vHBA interfaces, MAC/UUID/WWPN/WWNN identity pools, various Server, Network and Storage related policies.
• Deployed the ESXi 5.5 on B-series servers using the Boot from SAN.
• Deployed the Vcenter and added all the ESXi hosts to it.
• Configured the VDS switches and switches.
• Worked on SSL certificates for ESXi, Vcenter. Generated the CSR and uploaded the signed certs to them.
• 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.
• Worked on Automation scripts using the PowerShell to migrate the vSwitches to VDS.
• Deployed the Centos/Ubuntu/Windows 2012 R2 /RHEL servers on UCS Blades.
• Deployed and Managed the LAMP servers.
• Installed and Configured the NFS,DNS,DHCP,SAMBA and Apache servers on all Linux failovers.
• Trained the Operations teams on Vblock and Vmware.
• Created the RUN books.
• Worked on Both NAS and SAN storage.
• Mentored a team of 4 people.

Confidential

Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Design and Implementation of VMware Virtual Infrastructure environment.
• P2V conversions of Windows servers using VMware Converter.
• Large Scale Migration of existing VMs from IBM 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.
• Installed and configured Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.x, Sun Solaris 9, 10 and SUSE Linux operating systems on large distributed environment.
• 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.
• Attached LUNS provided by the Storage team to the required Unix/Linux Servers.
• Wrote Shell scripts to automate the administrative tasks using cron.
• Worked on Issues related to vMotion, HA and DRS.

Confidential

Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Provided support for Red Hat JBoss 4.x and Apache 2.x, ATG applications for operations related to installation and configuration.
• Installed Red Hat Enterprise Linux over the network using Kickstart on Dell servers.
• Monitored file system space using simple shell scripts and resized file systems when required.
• Created file systems as per user requirements and extended logical volumes on Red Hat Enterprise Linux
• Assisted in resolving hardware issues and network connectivity issues related to TCP/IP.
• 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 IBM Blade systems.