SUMMARY

• 8 Years of experience as Systems Engineer in area of VMware, Windowsand Linux & Hyper converged infrastructure platforms with Implementation and Administration.
• 5Years in Virtualization technologies like VMware vSphere, Horizon view and Citrix Xen Desktop.
• VMWARE Certified Associate in Data Center Virtualization (VCA - DCV)
• Installation & Administration of VMware ESXi 4.x/5.x/6.x and VMware vCenter 4.x/5.x /6. x.
• Implemented virtualization solutions on VMware vSphere 5.x and 6.x Environment.
• Extensive Experience working on vCenter server and vSphere client.
• Experience working with Installation, configuration and management of ESXi hosts.
• Expertise in advanced features of ESXi 4/5/6 such as Migrations, HA, DRS, SDRS and VUM.
• Expert in setting up HA & DRS in acquiring higher efficiency for VMware infrastructure.
• Implementing and managing VMware based solutions for Shared and Customer Owned Infrastructure.
• Experience in setting up VMware infrastructure and integration with Converged Infrastructure.
• Hands on experience working with configuration and management of VMware vSphere Standard Switch and vSphere distributed Switch.
• Extensive experience and good knowledge with installation, configuration and management of VROPS and VCOPS.
• Good Experience in various migrations while integrating and enhancing environment.
• Expertise with Patch Management of VMware and Windows by Major Patch Tools like WSUS and VUM.
• P2V and V2V conversions by using VMware Standalone Converter, Platespin& Double Take.
• Good Knowledge and Administration of Converged infrastructure (HP & CISCO UCS).
• Participated in VBlock RCM Upgradation on code 6.0.5 /VB540 and upgraded Infra to ESXi 6.0.
• Lead Role on Build, BAU, Transformation, Remediation and BCP Projects.
• Ownership on UCSM components IOM, FI, UCSM, Blade Firmware and ESXi Upgradation under RCM.
• Good Experience on various remote boards KVM, CIMC, ILO, DRAC, IMM, IRMC & PRISM.
• Expertise in design and implementation of Windows, VMware environments on Cisco UCS, HP Blade Servers, Dell Power Edge.
• Experience of installing, upgrading and configuring UCS B200M, UCSB250M2, UCSB230M2 and UCS C200
• Rack mount servers in UCS 5100 Chassis and configuring the Cisco UCS 6100 Fabric Interconnects.
• Extensive experience and Knowledge of ESXi Host & Windows physical server Commissioning and Decommission process.
• Experience with Design and Implementation of Active Directory Domains and Forests.
• Expertise in active directory design and support (GPO& AD Schema, OU, LDAP, Sites, etc.).
• Implemented Active Directory services for creation and maintaining users and group profiles based on company policies.
• Deployed servers such as IIS, Apache web server, DHCP, DNS, File Server, FTP server, Samba server.
• Implemented web clustering in Centos 5.5 Linux Server for load balancing.
• Experience in Writing/Maintaining and troubleshooting PowerShell scripts for build and operations environment to develop, test, and implement automation.
• Knowledge of VMware server automation and configuring Active Directory Domain using Scripting languages like PowerShell Scripts, VBScript, and Power CLI.
• Hands - on experience working on Microsoft SCCM, SCOM and SCVMM.
• Attended Daily meetings and conference calls to report system health and assist differentdepartments with SCCM issues.
• Worked with system, network, security and storage teams to prepare and configure new servers for the environment.
• Managed and resolved incident tickets opened by clients as well as those logged by event monitoring system.
• Hands on experience with AWS suite.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: Windows Server 2000/2003/2012 & R2/2016, VM Ware ESX/ESXI server, Linux, Windows XP/Vista/7, IBM AS400.

Virtualization: VMware vSphere 4.0/4.1/5.0, 5.5, 6.0 vCenter Server 4.0/4.1/5.0,5.5, 6.0 ESXi 4.0/4.1/5.0,5.5, 6.0 VMware Update Manager, HA, DRS, FT, vMotion, Storage vMotion, VMware Capacity Planner, VMware Workstation, Horizon View & NSX.

Windows Administration: Configuration of DHCP and DNS, installation and configuration of VPN client, Windows Server 2008/2012 and 2016 - installation and configuration, configuration and management of Active Directory. Patch management using SCCM.

Networking: OSI Reference Model, IPv4 and IPv6 addressing and subnetting, Ethernet LAN, TCP/IP, UDP, switches, routing concepts, virtual network concepts including vSwitches, VLANs, dvSwitch, TCP/IP stack for virtualization, configuration of printers and, scanners.

Hardware: HP ProLiant DL380, BL460c and BL465c blade servers, C7000 and C3000 HP Chassis, Cisco UCS5108 chassis, B460 and B260, EMC VMX, VNX and ISLON.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Senior VMWARE admin

Responsibilities:

• Administered VMware Infrastructure ­ vSphere/vCenter/VDI environments by running over 125 ESXi Hosts and 3000 Virtual Machines
• Supported Production, Development and Test environments with day-to-day maintenance activities of virtual environment.
• Installed and tested VSphere 6.0 to enable Hybrid cloud architecture and implanted open stack in test environment.
• Deployed vRealize Operations Manager (VROPS), leveraging its capability for proactive monitoring of health of the entire virtual environment.
• Installed and tested vRealize Automation and vRealize Operations, to enable cloud orchestration layer for Software Datacenter model in test bed.
• Working Knowledge of open stack environments like kilo, Havana, and Icehouse
• Installed and configured CISCO UCS Blade servers and troubleshooted issues on it.
• Managed Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) VMware View 5.0 by configuring VMware View Composer, View Connection Server, View Agent and View Client
• Configured Disaster recovery solution for VMware vSphere Environment using Site Recovery Manager (SRM) integrating with storage basedreplication.
• Integrated VMWARE with EMC backup technologies for image based backups which take advantage of change block tracking feature on VMWARE
• Enabled VSI plugins to view storage in vCenter for better path management and storage visibility.
• Good Experience in various migrations while integrating and enhancing environment.
• Expertise with Patch Management of VMware and Windows by Major Patch Tools like WSUS and VUM.
• P2V and V2V conversions by using VMware Standalone Converter, Platespin& Double Take.
• Good Knowledge and Administration of Converged infrastructure (HP & CISCO UCS).
• Participated in VBlock RCM Upgradation on code 6.0.5 /VB540 and upgraded Infra to ESXi 6.0.
• Analysis of existing shell scripts, determination of required functional changes, modification, testing, and implementation of script changes.
• Updating UCS firmware, drivers through policies & commission/ decommission of blades and chassis. Creating policies and building SAN boot blades servers.
• Performed Hardware and Software maintenance of VMware ESX/ESXiHost Clusters, Servers and Virtual Machines.
• Performed Daily Monitoring of System performance, capacity & managed Inventory; adjust System configurations to accommodate required loads and functionality.
• Experience with Physical System (rack/stack, cabling, hard drive replacement, hardware upgrades); also Installed, Configured and Supported Cisco UCS servers.
• Configured VMware on clustered environment, ImplementedvMotion and Virtualized Windows servers using VMware Converter P2V and setup Lab Manager
• Installed and configured windows Azure and Amazon web services in test environment.
• Utilize SCOM system management tool to monitor infrastructure health.
• Troubleshoot failed ESXi host connections, and virtual machine connections.
• Used powerCLIin order to modify configurations and perform basic operations like managing
• Used Remedy for Incident/problem management & Change Management.
• Migrating an existing on-premises application to AWS
• Implementing and controlling the flow of data to and from AWS
• Built servers using AWS, Importing volumes, launching EC2,RDS, AD, creating Security groups, CloudTrail, Auto-scaling, Load balancers (ELBs) using Cloud formation templates & AMI’s using Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS).
• Created IAM users and roles and managed the organization IAM roles.

Environment: Vsphere6.0, vRealizeOperations Manager, VMware Converter P2V, VMware Vcloud5, VMware View5.0, vRealize Automation Center, vCenter Operations, AWS, Puppet, Jira, Jenkins, Havana, vCenter Orchestrator, Cisco UCS servers, SCOM System management tool, PowerCLI, SRM.

Confidential

VMware Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Configuring & Managing ESXi4.1, ESXi5.0,ESXi 5.1, ESXi 5.5 &ESXi 6.x
• Host Upgradation from vSphere ESXi 4.1 to 5.5 and ESXi 6.0 U2 to 6.0 U3.
• VCenterUpgradation from vSphere 3.x to 4.x and 4.x to 5.x.
• Troubleshooting on ESXi,VM,Datastores,Vcenter and vSwitches.
• Good knowledge in Advanced Troubleshooting at BAU and Build Level
• VCenterCleanup activities (Datastore,Clone,Snapshot& VM) with help of Script
• Managing vCenter operations in regular schedule
• Host Patching and Hardware / Firmware Upgradations with VUM.
• Good knowledge on HP, Cisco, IBM, DELL& FIJUSTU Rack and Blade servers.
• Managing VCenter Administration.
• Analyzing the vCenter, ESXi and VM’s Logs to find root cause at PSOD Level.
• P2V and V2V conversions by using VMware Converter.
• Configuring and Managing VMware clustering like HA and DRS.
• Managing Tasks, Events and Alarms.
• Ownership on Storage Migration projects from old Storage to New Storage.
• Configure Virtual Network in ESXi server by creating vSwitches.
• Basic knowledge on Distributed switches
• Deployment of Virtual machines and Troubleshooting on VM Management.
• Managing Host Maintenance as on required.
• Experience in HP C7000 and Cisco UCS 2.2(8f) Hardware.
• Responsible to maintain the SLA for Project, Tasks and Tickets, as per Customer need
• Implementation and documentation of VMware vSphere 5.x and 6.x.
• Upgrade firmware on Cisco UCS manager and infrastructure elements
• Create VLAN’s in UCS manager and tag with vnics and create port groups in ESXi
• Worked on Tuning-up vSphere Performance and Optimized Virtual Machine.
• Provided documentation based on solutions and guidelines. Manage Cisco servers using UCS 2.X
• Patch all ESXi servers using Update manager every quarter
• Handle escalations from L2 engineers in troubleshoot the infrastructure issues
• Worked with business clients to evaluate, streamline, and improve current systems, processes.
• Cloning, Building and deploying new VM's and Installing different guest OS like Windows & Linux
• Creating virtual NIC's for the respective VM's and assigning the network connections.
• Troubleshooting hardware related issues in ESXi servers
• Raising case with product vendors in case of faults found in server hardware
• Extending disk space in VM’s according to the user requests.
• Updating Virtual Infrastructure Using Update Manager

Environment: Windows Server 2008R2/2012/2003, Windows 7/XP, Active Directory, VMware ESXi 4.0 Server, VMware View, HP DL & ML server series, IBM Xseries and System x servers, HP Insight Manager, IBM Director, Cisco Enterprise Network.

Confidential

Senior Specialist (System Admin)

Responsibilities:

• Installed and upgraded to vCloud Suite of products including vSphere 5.5 and vRealize operations manager, vCloud Director, vCAC and vCO
• Utilized VmwarePowerCLi and scripts to automate common and repetitive tasks in Vsphere
• Installed, protected, tested virtual machines to DR location with Site Recovery Manager 5.0
• Build, configure and deploy VMs and templates.
• Converted over 200+ P2V, V2V migrations of Windows 2000,2003,2008,2012 from legacy hardware and MS virtual Servers
• Configured VCB, VDR and Commvault as part of backup solution for the Vmware environment
• Made technical recommendations and identified administrative standards, issues and process improvements .
• Troubleshooting ESXi server and VCenter using command line.
• Apply patches to all the ESXi hosts in the environment whenever required.
• Configuring Resource pool and DPM.
• Hands on experience in VMware products Vsphere 5.0
• Server consolidation with VMware converter (P2V and V2V conversions).
• Creating Resource Pools and Setting limits on CPU and RAM.
• Configuring Virtual machines using Templates, Hot clone, Cold Clone and Cold Migration.
• Troubleshooting issues related to Virtual Machine, vMotion, snapshots, clone and template.
• Configuring VMware vSphere Cluster features like High Availability (HA), Distributed Resource Scheduling (DRS).
• Created a Host Profile and configured multiple hosts from well-built Host.
• Installed and configured multiple ESX/ESXi hosts using Auto Deploy. installing and configuring of Virtual Distributed switches and assigning them to VLANs.
• Monitoring ESX/ESXi hosts and Resource availability using vCenter operations manager.
• Installing and configuring of Virtual Standard Switches and assigning port groups to it.
• Troubleshooting ESX/ESXi hosts using ILO interfaces.
• Responsible for architecting, designing, implementing and supporting of cloud based infrastructure and its solutions.

Environment: HP ProLiant DL380, BL460c and BL465c blade servers, C7000 and C3000 HP Chassis, Cisco UCS B460 and B260, EMC VMX, VNX and ISLON, VMware vSphere 4.0/4.1/5.0, 5.5 vCenter Server 4.0/4.1/5.0,5.5 ESXi4.0/4.1/5.0,5.5 VMware Update Manager, HA, DRS, FT, vMotion, Storage vMotion, VMware Capacity Planner, VMware Workstation, Horizon View & NSX.

Confidential

System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Provide daily IT operations and maintenance support.
• Installing, configuring and managing Virtual Infrastructure ESX 3.5, VCenter, VSphere.
• Responsible for VMware ESX/ESXi server build
• Installation and configuration of Virtual Center 4.0.
• Apply patches to all the ESXi hosts in the environment whenever required.
• Configured ldap, ntp, and iptables on production servers as well as bonded network interface cards for active failover.
• Configured restricted shell (rbash) to limit developers from altering essential system files.
• Created ldap accounts for users to allow access to allow centralized logins to servers under there profile.
• Configured system group users to allow access to software channels for software installations via Red Hat Satellite Server.
• Provided 3rd tier internal support for end-users on a Linux platform.
• Responsible for various hardware and software acquisitions and implementations.
• Extensive experience in scripting.
• Expertise as an Oracle DBA and Oracle Application DBA, along with solid experience developing in SQL and PL and SQL.
• Experienced in the installation, patching and upgrading of Oracle and Oracle Applications on Unix and Linux.

Environment: Windows Server 2008R2/2012/2003, Windows 7/XP, Active Directory, ADDS, ADFS, Forest Migration, VMware ESXi 4.0 Server, VMware View, HP Insight Manager, IBM Director. RHEL4.x/5.x/6.x,AIX 6.1, HP BL460, DL 380 Dell and IBM X Series, SAN, LVM, RPM, Tivoli End Point.