SUMMARY:

• Over 9 years of experience in IT Industry as a System Engineer specialized in the areas of VMware Virtualization at enterprise level corporations of +10 vCenters minimum.
• Experience in Virtualization technologies: installing, configuring VMware vCenter 5.x, 6.x. Creation, management, administration and maintenance of ESXi hosts and Virtual Machines.
• Hands on experience in using vSphere features: vMotion, SvMotion, HA, Admission Control, FT, DRS, Proactive DRS, Affinity Rules, Snapshots, Creating & Reclaiming LUNs, vSS & vDS configuration, Host - Profile, Auto-Deploy, VUM and other VMware products.
• Experience in P2V & V2V MIGRATION using VMware Converter, storage migration experience using EMC POWERPATH.
• Experience in Zerto: ZVM (Zerto Virtual Manager), VRA (Virtual Replication Appliance) and (Virtual Protection Group) VPG, troubleshooting failovers at 3 levels: Zerto, VMware and OS.
• VMware vRealize Orchestrator Knowledge: Workflows, Bindings, Parameters, Attributes and Presentations, leverage generic workflows to automate tasks.
• Experience in Networking configuration & Security Configuration on ESXi Host.
• Experience with BMC Blade-Logic, Patching and Remediation servers.
• Experience with VMware HorizonView (VDI) 5.0 and 5.1 Versions.
• Well experienced in Creating Templates, VDI Pool creations, VDI Provisioning, VM priorities, Roles and permissions, Resource pools, VM Cloning and Knowledge of Snapshots.
• Experience in Windows 2016/2012/2008 Servers, Windows clustering quorum & file share witness.
• knowledge ofActive Directory, GPO, DHCP, DNS, IP, Subnet, VPNs, vLAN, routing, firewalls, Backup & Recovery,File & Print Server, IIS (Web Server), FTP, Terminal Server.
• NSX Hands-on-Lab: Created Controller Cluster, Transport Zones, Logical Switches, DLR and Edges.
• Knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite, Open Office, Visio, Outlook and Printing.
• Experience with x86 / x64 Intel, HP, IBM & Dell hardware like rack-mounted servers, tower servers, desktop, laptop and other peripherals.
• Strong communication and people skills, both written and verbal. Able to assess and resolve client issues quickly. A proven record of reliability, ability to perform under time constraints, and good judgment under pressure.
• Ability to maintain a reliable and methodical approach to support and automate tasks as possible. Quick learner, highly motivated, team player with excellent organizational and analytical skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

VMware: VMware vSphere suite 4.x/5.x/6.x, VMware HorizonView 5.0/5.1, VMware Converter, HA, DRS, DPM,NSX, VMware Workstation, Zerto.

Microsoft Technologies: Windows Server 2003/2008/2012-Active Directory services, DNS, DHCP, WINS, IIS, FTP, LDAP, TCP/IP Networking, RDP, Terminal services, Microsoft clustering, Virtual PC.

Hardware: DELL Power Edge Servers and Dell EqualLogic, HP Gen 8,9,10 HP ProLiant DL 380G5, DL 580G5/G7, iSCSI, FC, SAN, NAS.

Operating System: CentOS Linux, SUSE, Fedora, Windows XP/Vista/Win 7, Windows 2003 / 2008/ 2012/2016.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential - Des Plaines, IL

Sr. VMware Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Environment of +10 vCenters and +12000 VM’s.
• vCenter migration from 5.5 to 6.5, followed by +150 ESXi host upgrade.
• Coordination with storage team and app teams to migrate +700 TB of Virtual Machines cross clusters and across vCenters using migration scripts, Fling and swing LUNs.
• Auto-deploy ESXi on HP Gen-10 as host build effort in the environment, configured vDS and vLANs.
• App-team support: re-sizing & adding disks, increasing cores and memory, taking/consolidating snapshots.
• Applied modification on existing vRealize Orchestratior workflows: hard-coded unnecessary parameters to attributes, edited presentations and worked on improving some bindings, was able to shrank process from 20 minutes to 20 seconds.
• Executed VRO VM-build-workflows to create Virtual Machines.
• Utilized Service-Now to submit changes and receive tickets.

Environment: vCenter 5.5, 6.0, 6.5, VRO, VRA,NSX, Windows Server 2003/2008/2012, Linux, HP Gen10, NetApp, PowerMax.

Confidential - Remote

L3 Platform Engineering

Responsibilities:

• Environment of +30 vCenters across the globe, +2000 ESXi hosts and +30000 VM’s.
• Participated in a HUGE INTENSE project of Confidential ’s secondary datacenter migration from its old location to a new one.
• Built and configured ZVM’s - Zerto Virtual Manager -, applied licenses based on the need of the environment and paired vCenters’ ZVM’s.
• Deployed +7000 VRA’s - Virtual Replication Appliance - across +10 vCenters, helped DR team eliminating SRM moving to Zerto instead.
• Created 1000s of VPG’s - Virtual Protection Group - for migration of less than 5 minutes downtime per VM which big number of them were +10TB SQL servers.
• Worked with architect to determine destination clusters, coordinated with storage team to order new storage and reclaim old ones, created migration spreadsheets and reclaiming spreadsheets for the rest of my team to implement.
• Significantly raised the bar for Zerto migration counts from +100 VM’s per night split between 3 resources - when first joined - to 300 VM’s per night - solo -, led to complete each migration wave 2 weeks prior it was originally planned, saved huge amount of expenses which was very noticeable and appreciated by higher managers.
• Utilized my Windows and Linux experience to troubleshoot related issues post Zerto migration - Failover -, kept all clients satisfied with accurate yet high-speed migration results which was opposed at the beginning, - achieved both, accuracy and rapid delivery -.
• Troubleshooted all types of VPG’s and VRA’s issues, collected logs and escalated to L4 support.
• Introduced and demonstrated RVTools which greatly helped execution of well-organized accurate migration, gathering precises data of hosts, datastores and virtual machines.
• Worked with several PM’s, coordinated with other teams across the company to complete project tasks.
• Trained new employees and contractors provided thorough informative sessions of Zerto to my own new team members, Windows and Linux team.
• Planned and preformed long hours of countless number of classic vmotions as part of hardware refreshment projects for our primary location saving money and eliminating delay performance issues.
• Resolved numerous tickets of increasing or adding disks to servers.
• Deployed OVA’s, created snapshots and configured VM’s.
• Helped decommission ESXi hosts or repurpose them to DR and reclaimed data-stores.
• Updated EXSi hosts from 6.0 to 6.5, created snapshots and clones.

Environment: vCenter 5.xx,5.5, 6.0, 6.5, Windows Server 2003/2008/2012, Linux, Nutanix, HP ProLiant, UCS CISCO, VMAX, INFINDAT, VBLOCK.

Confidential - Milford, OH

Wintel Admin

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Environment of 9 vCenters, +200 sites, +1200 Host, +25000 VMs.
• Built & Configured ESXi Hosts from scratch and add them to clusters.
• Reviewed build-sheets with architect, gave recommendations and applied modifications.
• Preformed tasks such as building VMs, Windows Clustering, RDM, deploying OVAs, Cloning, Snapshots, Templates, Providing L3, troubleshooting vLANs and servers’ outages.
• Scanned and remediated Windows 2008/2012 vulnerabilities using BMC Blade-Logic and manually before sending servers for Qualys and MSB scans.
• Deployed Linux VMs from templates and OVA files.
• Implemented vRealize Automation distributed deployment environment, configuring Endpoints, Fabric groups, Blueprints entitlements and services, customizing blueprint and build profiles, automated VM provisioning for different service levels (Gold, Silver and Bronze).
• Acted as head of team, assigned and coordinated tasks between team members, held meetings with storage-team and other teams in project.
• Worked along with storage team to provide all required analysis and information of all servers in migration scope.
• Ran grabs on standalone servers and ESX hosts using EMC POWERPATH to provide thorough details.
• Created standalone migration-sheet for + 350 servers by gathering Pseudo names, Logical Device ID using EMC POWERPATH Commands.
• Over-night long tasks throughout 4 months to create and synchronize handles, successfully migrated +200 TBs of disks from old VMAX storage to new VNX ones without single outage incident.
• Created Migration-sheets for +1000 ESX and Mapping-sheets for +10000 VMs by gathering WWNs, data-stores and sizes. Inspecting LUNs for zombie VMs, logs, or any other data.
• Successfully migrated +900 TBs of VMs, ISO and other files from old LUNs to new ones (HOT & COLD & ADVANCED).
• Helped Storage team reclaimed storage by thoroughly inspecting disks and LUNs and creating accurate reclaim-sheets to ensure no outage in reclaiming process.
• Filled in for Operation Team (vROPs): monitored the environment, created contention, latency and high usage alerts added symptom definitions, acted proactively to reduce phone calls volume.

Environment: vCenter 4.0, 4.1, 5.0, 6.0, Windows Server 2003/2008/2012, CentOS Linux BMC Blade-Logic, EMC Power-Path, HP ProLiant Gen7,8,9, Symmetrix VMAX, VNX.

Confidential - Chicago, IL

VMware Engineer

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Installing and implementing VMware ESX servers and vCenter and setting up of VMware Features like V-Motion, HA, DRS.
• Site had VMware 3 and 3.5 environments. I started building from scratch.
• Managed ESX servers located at various data centres by one virtual centre. Each Data centre has multiple clusters with biggest of 15 clusters used for HA and DRS for disaster recovery, Load balancing and troubleshooting.
• Creating and Deploying of Virtual Machines from Templates and Snapshots with in no time, cloning of Virtual Machines for future Deployments.
• Creating and configuring Standard Switch (vSwitch) for port groups.
• Configuring vDistributed switches and migrating the networks from standard switches to vDistributed ones.
• Configuring different type of Port Groups Policies, Applying Security policies, Traffic Shaping, Load balancing, Failover detection, Hard and Soft zoning and VLAN Tagging.
• Migrated Physical Machines to Virtual Machines (P2V) and Virtual Machines to Virtual Machines (V2V) using VMware converter and vCenter Guided Consolidation.
• Daily responsibilities included maintenance of Virtual machines for performance issues also implemented vMotion, Hot and Cold Migration of virtual servers and performed Storage vMotion where the storage is migrated.
• Good experience with VMware Update Manager and Host Update utility to install patches and updates on ESX hosts and virtual machines.
• Good Knowledge about the VMware Capacity planner in planning, designing and implementing the virtual infrastructure environment and Monitoring of the virtual environment using Nagios.
• Good knowledge on data replication technologies, server migration and disaster recovery strategies VMware SRM .
• Solid NSX knowledge gained from other teams in the environment.

Environment: VMware ESXi 5.1/5.0/4.0, vSphere 4.0, 5.5, Windows Server 2008 R2/2003, Windows 7/Vista, Active Directory, HP ProLiant DL and Blade Servers.

Confidential - Cherry Hill NJ

VMware Horizon Admin

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Oversee Horizon environment, administration and troubleshooting skills in issues related to View Connection servers, View Manager, View Security servers, View Composer, View Pools, View desktops, VDI Virtual Center, Snapshot Creation and Templates for Win 7 OS, created AppStacks and Writable Volumes.
• Created and managed resource pools for Virtual Machines.
• Monitoring and managing performance of ESX servers and Virtual Machines using Virtual Center Server for HA, DRS.
• Involved in live migration of Virtual Machines and Virtual machines files using the vMotion andStoragevMotion.
• Handled the VMware solutions to support multiple storage connectivity options such as FC-SAN, iSCSI, NFS (NAS) and internalstorage.
• Creation of templates from VMs and deploying VMs from templates (Windows & Linux)
• Creating a test environment of VMs for Production Team to test their applications.
• Editing user login scripts and granting permission to directories and shared files.
• Provided technical support to troubleshoot network connectivity, network printing and user access issue.

  Environment: VMware ESX 4.0/3.5, VSphere 4.0, Windows Server 2008R2/2003, Active Directory 2003, HP ProLiant Servers and Dell Hardware.

Confidential, Pleasanton CA

VMware Admin

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Installed, configured andadministering Microsoft Windows 2003/2008 servers.
• Installation of ESX server and creation of VMs and install different guest OS.
• Installation of VC server and Installing Virtual center components.
• Updating ESX hosts using VMware Update manager.
• Monitoring and managing performance of ESX servers and Virtual Machines.
• Creation of templates from VMs and Creation of VMs from templates for Windows and Linux.
• P2V and V2V conversions by using VMware Converter.
• Working on VMware clustering like HA and DRS clusters using VC.
• Working on Migration concepts like vMotion and cold migration, Storage vMotion
• Creating Virtual switch.
• Connecting to ESX server by using VIC, putty and Web access.

Environment:Windows 2003/2008, Windows XP, SMS, IIS 6.0, Microsoft WSUS, VMware vCenter, HP ProLiant Gen7&8.

Confidential

Windows System Administrator

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Participating in building and configuring VMware vCenter and ESX hosts.
• Creating VMs and templates, deploying from templates.
• Installing, configuring &administering Windows 2003/2000 Enterprise Server.
• Managing Domain Controllers and Additional Domain Controllers.
• Implementing Disaster Recovery in Windows 2003/2000 Domains.
• Configuration of Domain Naming Server (DNS) and Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP).
• Created User Accounts, Configuring User Profiles, creating local and Global Groups and implementing Group Policies.
• Sharing Folders, Planning and Assigning NTFS Permissions and System Policies.
• Configuration and Managing Remote Installation Service (RIS).
• Implementing useradministration like adding, deleting and modifying user accounts.
• Responsible for operations and maintenance of TCP/IP.
• Planning and scheduling network down time for various upgrades and maintenance check.

Environment: Windows 2003/2000 Servers, vCenter 2.5, Active Directory, Network Printers.