PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

• Over 7+ Years of experience in implementing and Managing enterprise scale VMware vSphere Infrastructure.
• Expertise in Installation, Configuring, Deploying, Trouble shooting, administration and maintenance of ESX3.5/ESXi 4.0/ESXi 4.1/ESXi 5.1/ESXi5.5 and VMware Virtual Center 4.0, 4.1 and 5.0/5.1.
• Extensive experience in performing System Integration/Administration for Microsoft Windows 2008 Enterprise Server, Windows 2003 Standard/ Enterprise Server, Windows 2000 Standard/ Advanced Server, Windows NT4.0, Windows98/XP/Vista/7, Linux, IIS5.0/6.0/7.0, Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration 2000.
• Experienced in ESX & ESXi Architecture, guest OS installation, setting up of VM priorities, Cloning and Snapshots.
• VMware vCenter Operations Manager deployment for Cloud infrastructure performance and capacity monitoring.
• Experienced with the VMware HA, FT and VMware DRS.
• Had a better experience working with SAN and NAS technologies.
• Extensive knowledge in advance features of vMotion, Storage vMotion, VM Lab Manager, Vmware Heartbeat, Vmware Usage meter and vCenter and VMware Orchestrator.
• P2V (Physical to Virtual) and V2V (Virtual to Virtual) conversion using VMware Convertor.
• VMware Site Recovery Manager Implementation and Management for Virtual Infrastructure Automated Disaster recovery.
• Administering and managing Windows server 2003/2008 Active Directory services, DHCP and DNS servers. Updating servers with latest service packs, security patches and antivirus definitions.
• Network Infrastructure involving DNS, DHCP and WINS servers, TCP/IP Protocol Stack.
• Ability to implement VMware’s Virtual Switch technology; port aggregation, NIC teaming, VLAN trunking and port groups.
• Implementation of VCloud Director, vShield Director.
• Experienced in resource management framework, creating resource pools, adding the VMs into resource pools.
• Install and configure vCloud Automation Center 6.0.
• Extensive knowledge vCAC - Virtual Center Automation Center.
• Handled the installation of operating systems and post configuration on Microsoft and Linux platforms.
• Deploying and supporting large scale RHEL (Redhat Enterprise Linux) and Windows in virtualized environment.
• Implementing and Managing Vblock Advanced Management Pod.
• Having good knowledge on Cisco MDS switches, Fiber channel HBAs in SAN environments.
• Knowledge experience in iSCSI, SAN, NAS, NFS storage and RAID concepts. Strong understanding of Networking Protocols like TCP/IP, UDP, SMTP, POP3, HTTP, DNS DHCP.
• Knowledge Transfer, Best practices sharing and Run Book Documentation.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Hardware: Cisco UCS 5108, HP C3000 and C7000 Enclosures, Dell PowerEdge and Rack mount servers.

OS: Redhat Enterprise Linux 4 & 5, Sun Solaris 9 & 10, Windows Server 2003 & Windows 9x/XP/Vista

Applications: MS Office 2003, 2007 and MS Visio.

Backup: VMware vCB, Symantec backup exec, vRanger Pro.

VMWare: VMware ESX 3.5, 4.0, 4.1, 5.0 Virtual Center, Vsphere, VMware DRS & HA, VMware P2V Converter, vCenter Server 2.5, Virtual Infrastructure 3.0, vSphere 4.0, vSphere 5.0. ESX/ESXi 3.5, 4.0 and 5.0, VMware Converter, VMware View, VMware Thinapp, VMware Update Manager, HA, DRS, DPM, FT, vMotion, Storage vMotion, VMware Guided Consolidation, Lab Manager and VMware Workstation.

Database: Oracle 9i/10g/11g, MSSQL 2000/2005/2008 R2, IBM DB2, MySQL

Third Party VMWare Applications: Plate Spin power convert, Vision core, VCharter Pro, Plate Spin Power Recon, Solar winds. vFoglight.

PROFFESIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, ST Louis, MO

VMware Administrator and System engineer

Responsibilities:

• Installing, configuring, Troubleshooting and management of ESX 4, ESXi 5 and vCenter Server 5.
• Well Experienced with designing, installing and implementing Vmware ESX servers and vCenter server 4.0 and setting up ofVMwareFeatures like V-Motion, HA, DRS.
• Configuring windows platforms and working with the local storage.
• Deploys server images and do the patch management.
• Configures windows platforms and experienced in the SQL server database.
• Managed 300+ ESX servers located at various data centers by one virtual center. Each Data center 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 creating Snapshots with in no time, Cloning of Virtual Machines for future Deployments.
• Implementing backup and recovery of files.
• Creating and configuring VNetwork Standard Switch (VSwitch), VM Kernel Ports, VM ports, Service console and NIC teaming.
• Configuring vNetwork Distributed switches and migrating the networks from VNetwork standard switches to vNetwork Distributed switches.
• 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) usingVMwareconverter and vCenter Guided Consolidation.
• Daily responsibilities included maintenance of Virtual machines for performance issues also implemented V-Motioning, Hot and Cold Migration of virtual servers and performed Storage VMotion where the storage is migrated.
• Created and maintained SQL server cluster for HA, DRS, VC, ESX servers and VM's.
• Good experience withVMwareUpdate Manager and Host Update utility to install patches and updates on ESX hosts and virtual machines.
• Experience in administering Windows Terminal Server, Group Policy management and Active Directory environment.
• Responsible for supporting system design and implementations as well as provide first level of support for any issues.
• Supports integration between virtual platforms and desktop tools to deliver optimal environment for Customer support representatives.
• Have a better knowledge on distributed computing concepts, network routing and data center switching.
• Planning migration strategies, DR plans with SAN and NAS data.

Environment: vSphere 4.0 and 5.0, Hyper-V, Windows 2008/2003 Server, Windows platforms and storage, Cisco UCS 5108, HP Blade C7000 and C3000, IPv4 AND IPv6, DHCP and DNS services, P2V Experience, Dell Power Edge Servers, Citrix and SQL, SQL server database, SAN and NAS technology.

Confidential NC

VMware Administrator/Windows Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Upgrading vCenter Servers /ESXi hosts from vSphere 4.x to 5.0 and Upgrade VMs hardware components according vSphere requirement.
• Tested on VMware ThinApp and upgrading older versions.
• Worked on SRM 5.0 deployment and configuration of DR site.
• Experience with Cisco UCS and HP c7000 blade administration.
• Implementation and upgrade services for ECC.
• Configures windows platforms and experienced in the SQL server database.
• Upgrading VM tools, VM hardware versions and Datastores upgrade to VMFS 5.
• Creating Protection Groups and Recovery Plans using SRM 5.0 and VMware best practices.
• Testing of different recovery plans in SRM to ensure recovery of failover VM’s.
• VM migration across the clusters using v2v, Mount file option and WinSCP.
• Involve in the installation of user environment including on hardware and software (operating system, customize environment, application software) as measured by meeting the schedule, all equipment properly allocated, vendor and department procedures followed.
• Planning migration strategies, DR plans with SAN and NAS data.
• Involve in technical discussion and design and prepare recommendations for purchase, including impact analysis and risk analysis.
• Experience with Cisco Nexus 1000V appliance.
• Administration on VM clones and snapshots.
• Responsible for Virtual Environment maintain and well-organizing.
• Managed Windows 2008-2003 Active Directory Domain Administration and configuration of DNS/DHCP services.
• Was involved in building, configuring and hardware upgrades of Windows servers.
• Worked on Performance Analysis and Tuning/Optimization Operations, Virtual machine creation, cloning, configurations.
• Was involved in maintaining and managing servers on backup and restore systems as a part of the company’s disaster recovery plan.
• Worked on Windows Server 2008 and worked on failover configurations on windows Scheduled and unscheduled Outages.

Environment: vSphere 4.0 and 5.0, Hyper-V, Windows 2008/2003 Server, Configuring windows platforms, Cisco UCS 5108, HP Blade C7000 and C3000, HP VCEM- Virtual Connect Enterprise Manager, Dell Power Edge Servers, Citrix and SQL, SQL server database

Confidential, Wisconsin

VMware Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Designing and Documentation for Racks move from one cage to other big cage in datacenter.
• Worked on large datacenter consolidations and completed them successfully using multiple P2V conversion using Vcenter Converter.
• Job includes installation and configuration ofVMwareESX 4.x, installation and configuration ofVMwareVirtual Center Server and creating Virtual Machines.
• Assist in P2V conversion of Windows 2000, Windows 2003, and Linux based server editions using enterpriseVMwareconverter and also installed theVMwaretools on that machines.
• Provided disaster recovery and backup services using theVMwareconsolidated Backup (VCB).
• Job also includes creating templates and deploying Virtual Machines through templates, cloning Virtual Machines and managing Virtual Center permissions.
• Creating and ManagingVMwarecluster with HA and DRS.
• Creating and Managing resource pools for Virtual Machines.
• Monitoring and managing performance of ESX servers and Virtual Machines.
• Using Virtual center server for HA, DRS and VMotion.
• Working on Migration concepts like VMotion and cold migration.
• Creation & Troubleshooting of Virtual Network.
• Troubleshooting ESX & Virtual Machines.
• Creation of templates from VMs and Creation of VMs from templates.
• Performance monitoring and tuning for ESX Servers, Virtual Center Server and VMs.
• Installation, configuration and management of VM Backup and Replication for virtual machine backup.
• Management of HP SIM for hardware monitoring.
• Installation, configuration and management of Windows Server 2003.
• Management for Active Directory and patch management.

Environment: Virtual Infrastructure 3, vSphere 4.0, Hyper-V, Windows 2008/2003 Server, HP EVA 8400, HP Blade C7000, HP Blade C3000, HP VC Flex 10.

Confidential, San Antonio Texas

VMware Administrator/ Windows Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Experience with installing, configuring and maintaining ESX Servers (ESX3.5/ESXi 4.0/ESXi 4.1 and VMware ESX 5.1) and Server migrations from physical to Virtual using Hot and cold cloning technology in VMware.
• Determining customer requirements and designing VMware-based solutions architectures spanning VMware's product portfolio from the vCloud Suite to the Horizon Suite to meet the functional and business requirements of a range clients of various sizes and across verticals.
• Installation, Configuration and Administration of VMware VSphere4, ESX 3.5 and ESXi Server, VMware View.
• Designing, configuring, and administering LAN and WAN connectivity on Cisco hardware
• Configured and managed Cisco network hardware servicing the corporate LAN and 40+ remote point-of-sale offices.
• Configured and deployed Cisco UCS computing clusters with VMware ESXi 5 and vCenter 5.
• Configured and deployed Cisco 1000v virtual switch module appliance within vCenter vSphere 5 infrastructure.
• Deployed EMC VNXe SAN for vSphere 5 high availability management cluster configuration for customers.
• Monitoring and maintenance of Vcenter sever heartbeat.
• Providing and maintaining user access in Vcentre, configuring mail alert for any failure in HA, DRS, CPU or memory.
• Installing and Configuring VMware vCenter Orchestrator.
• Design, configure, and support Enterprise Desktop Virtualization Technologies.
• Management & Troubleshooting of VM Environment for Desktops.
• Installed necessary security patches every month to our production and pre-production environments.
• Patch management using VMware update manager for ESX server.
• SAN space allocation for ESX servers host Scanning and configuring LUN for ESX server.
• Configured multiple static and dynamic IP addresses for forward and dynamic routing.
• Provided support for teams in activities such as Load testing, troubleshooting, and performance tuning.
• Inventory and health management using insight manager.
• Involving in maintaining and updating Active directory, GPOs, Global Groups and Resultant set of Policy for authentication.

Environment: VM ware ESX 5.1, UCS C240 M3, Windows 2008/2003, TCP/IP, DHCP, DNS, NTFS, Blue cat BCN -XMB Adonis (DHCP, DNS), JUNOS Space, Cisco Nexus 5K, CISCO switches, HP P4000, Emulex NC553, NC551 HBA's, SQL Server 2008, Linux, VMware Lab Manager, VMware converter, VMware vSphere client, Fault tolerance, High Availability and Distributed resource scheduling.

Confidential

System Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Designed, implemented and administered a VMware ESX/ESXi environment.
• Supported and maintained the ESX architecture consisting of 30 ESX hosts, 6 HA and DRS clusters w/ vMotion, and over 250 Virtual Machines in which 53 has FT enabled.
• VMotion Managing and implementing various projects with all phases of life cycle for virtualization.
• Build, configure and deploy VMs and Templates.
• Cloning Virtual Machines.
• Managing Virtual center permissions.
• Creating and Managing VMware cluster with HA and DRS.
• Sizing hardware according to needs and requesting quotes from different vendors.
• Administration of Linux, Sun Solaris and Windows Servers, including oracle instances.
• Responsible for planning and implementation of the company’s system and network.
• Modify, patch, and rebuild the Linux kernels.
• Maintain DNS, DHCP and Trust Relationship between domains.
• Experience in network monitoring and patch management using VMware Update Manager.
• Implimented Resource Pool to divide the VM’s according to their resource requirements.
• Responsible for creating Host Profile and with that I developed 100 hosts.
• Platespin PowerConvert, VMware Converter used for Physical to Virtual/Virtual to Virtual conversion/Physical to Physical conversion.
• Recommended, redesign of VI3 environment.
• Application Migration from physical to virtual/virtual to virtual platform.
• Develop, test, and maintain a Disaster recovery plan for critical VMs and application data.

Environment: VMware vSphere, EMC Avamar, Cisco UCS, P2V Conversion, Plate spin migration, vCenter upgradation.