Summary:

Over 3 years of IT experience in the field of System Administration, Computer Networking and Virtualization with VMware vSphere ESX, ESXi, ESX 5.0, EMC SAN VNX,. Experience working with HP, DELL, UCS servers, Data center switches, Windows 2003, 2008, Linux operating systems and applications. VMware ESX, ESXi hosts. Domain and Active Directory installation, configuration, maintenance, Managing Users, Groups, Roles and Access Permissions.

Professional Experience:

Confidential

VMware Engineer

• Involved in design and implementation of P2V migrations of servers ranging from Windows 2003, Windows 2008, SQL Server, and Linux Servers using VMware Converter and Platespin Power Convert.
• Experience in Installing and managing ESX servers, vCenter server, Vcenter Orchestrator, cloud automation and VMware update manager
• Configured several ESXi servers as per the standards.
• Patched ESX hosts using VMWare Update Manager
• Experience in installing, configuring and upgrading of UCS manager, activating licence for fabric interconnects using UCS manager.
• Configured and Installed server ports and FC uplinks for UCS 6100 Fabric Interconnects.
• Implementation boot from SAN and configured boot policies with UCS manager
• Configured High Availability HA , Distributed Resource Scheduler DRS , Distributed Power Management DPM and vNetwork Distributed Switch VDS .
• Upgraded Windows 2003 and deployed Windows 2008 Servers on both Physical and Virtual machines.
• Experience with the Remedy and change management process
• Experience working with vMotion for VM migration and Storage vMotion for moving VM's from one LUN to another LUN as per the requirement
• Deployed, configured and managed Windows and Linux servers on the VM's
• Configuration of TCP/IP with DHCP, WINS and DNS.
• Installed and Configured VMware vSphere4, ESX 4.1 and ESXi 5.x
• Implementation of VMware High availability and resource load balancing by configuring HA and DRS clusters.
• Installed and configured software updates using Update manager using patches and created the baselines for the updates
• Involved in the ESX Hardware Upgrade and OS Upgrade process.
• Experience in managing VMware data store, configuring and administering Clusters in Vmware environment
• Allocated storage from storage arrays such as VNX.
• Gathering Host environment issues using EMC Reports and EMCGrab to resolve host related issues on the San network.
• Involved in file server migration and robocopy.
• Experience in reviewing and generating the performance reports weekly/monthly using capacity planner
• Experience working with vlans, port groups and assigning IP's.
• Created host profiles and templates in vmware environment.
• Handled Antivirus remediation as part of Stabilization process.
• Experience in using power shell script and PowerCLI.
• Involved in documenting the technical process and procedures.

Environment: VMwarevSphere 5.0, VMwarevSphere4.0,vCenter Sever, vCenter Update Manager, ,vCenter Converter, VNX, Cisco UCS 5100 Blade server, HP DL 380 Gen8, Windows server 2003/2008,LINUX, DNS, WINS, DHCP, Active Directory, NetBackup

Confidential

Systems / Network Engineer

• Confidential is the leading global business process outsourcing provider of customer care and complementary back-office processes. According to the Black Book of Outsourcing, Confidential is the number one global call center outsourcing provider and received the top score in 11 critical performance categories including vertical expertise, reliability, innovation, trust, flexibility and customization.
• Implemented and Integrated the EMC-Clariion products with the VMware ESX Server 3.5 to check the HA and DRS features of the product at EMC Lab.
• Installation and configuration of EMC Clariion CX600 series array.
• Day to day monitoring of performance of all application/databases/VMS that is running on the CX4
• Involved in Monitoring all the CLARiiON/Brocade Switch s onsite and offsite, check and view all the Events logs on the daily based.
• Coordination with DBAs/System Admin/Server Ops Group and resolve all storage problems.
• Experience of running a weekly SP Collect on all the CLARiiON Equipment and also run a SAN Health Check on all the Brocade Switches
• Involved in Binding Unbinding LUN'S through Navisphere
• Experience in creating zones and zone sets and fabric configuration
• Implemented MirrorView, SnapView, SAN Copy methods.
• Use of EMC Powerlink/Brocade website for any updates and quick fix.
• Implemented a monitoring solution via EMC Control Center ECC alerts/agents to monitor SAN environments.
• Implemented Supervised the installation and management of Emulex and QLogic HBAs on HP-Unix, Windows, and VMware hosts
• Administration of Enterprise storage allocations and managing Backup Recovery
• Installation of setup and maintained MS Windows NT 3.x and 4 servers, Windows NT small business servers, MS Back office products for the specific needs of the enterprise environment.
• Creating Active Directory sub domains creating and managing user accounts Group Policies in Active Directory files, folders and shares sharing printers on the network remote server administration connecting Windows clients to your network.
• Implemented Created Standard process for Group Policy deployment
• Added and maintained printers and printer queues on Windows NT and UNIX servers.
• Installation and maintaining of servers. Creating establishing user accounts, network security, troubleshooting printer problems and back-up devices.
• Implemented Created network policies, templates, assisted with help desk and IT procedure improvements
• Experience in Installing and maintaining tape backup software, firewall software and internet servers.
• Experience in Installation, configuration and maintenance of Cisco hubs, switches, and routers on new and existing networks.
• Configuration of TCP/IP with DHCP, WINS and DNS.

Environment: EMC, VMware, ESX, HP-Unix, Windows, Clariion CX600 series array, CX4 arrays, EMC Control Center, Navisphere Manager, NaviCLI, MirrorView, SnapView, SAN Copy, TimeFinder, SRDF, PowerPath v5.1, Connectrix Manger, Fabric Manager, Veritas NetBackup.

Technical Skills

VMware:

• VMware vSphere 5.0, 4.0,
• VMware ESX 4.0, ESXi 4 , ESX 3.5
• VMware vCenter Server, VMware vCenter 2.5
• VMware vCenter update Manager
• VMware vCenter Converter
• VMware Consolidated backup, DRS
• VMware High Availability, FT
• vMotion, Storage vMotion

Storage:

• DMX, VMAX, VNX 5300, Clariion,
• Unisphere manager
• Replication Manager, SMC, SPA
• Cisco Brocade Switches
• Emulex HBAs, QLogic HBAs
• Fabric Manager

Operating Systems:

• Windows XP, Windows7, Windows8
• Windows server 2003/2008/2012
• RedHat Linux,
• Cisco IOS, NX-OS

Network:

• Network Storage Protocols: ISCSI, FTP, NFS, NTFS, HTTP, DNS, DHCP
• Knowledge of Routing Protocols RIP, OSPF, IGRP, EIGRP, BGP
• Knowledge of TCP/IP and Sub netting

Databases: SQL

Programming: HTML, CSS, PHP

PROJECT:

MID TERM PROJECT: IMPLEMENTED SPLUNK FOR TRACKING AND REPORTING Instructor's Student's user activity in a college network.

Confidential collects, indexes the machine generated IT data to identify problems, risks and provide the better decisions for the IT and the institution. Confidential is the engine for machine data that delivers operational intelligence with primary capabilities such as search, real time visibility of different services in a single window, and also the historical analytics report can be generated and analyzed. The report of the number of professors and students accessing the Moodle on a regular basis and their individual activities such as posting assignments or grading's tracked within seconds using splunk. The history of the student access in a timely fashion was also tracked in no time.