SUMMARY:

• Technology professional with a 8+ Years strong background in VMware server virtualization, cloud computing, storage, network and Microsoft technologies - VMware vSphere and private cloud architecture, implementation, management and support of enterprise infrastructure for commercial clients utilizing best practices for availability, reliability and performance of compute, network, and storage resources to achieve dense virtualization ratios while maintaining SLAs.
• Experience in building VMware virtual servers and physical servers with windows.
• Experience with VMware vSphere distributed switch and Cisco Nexus 1000v.
• Experience in installing Dell PowerEdge R710,R620 blade Servers on Dell PowerEdge M1000e chassis and configuring the chassis using Chassis Management Controller(CMC).
• Experience in installing HP ProLiant BL460c G6/G7/G8,BL660c G8 and BL680C g7 Blade Servers on HP C7000 chassis and configuring the chassis using Onboard Administrator(OA).
• Performance tuning and capacity planning using various monitoring tools-vRealize Operations Manager (vRops),Splunk, VMware Log insight.
• Good knowledge on Microsoft Azure and Create a Virtual Network on Windows Azure to connect all the servers.
• Experience in installing and configuring the VMware NSX appliance for setup including VMware vSphere.
• Developed strategy to migrate Dev/Test/Production from an Enterprise VMware infrastructure to this IaaS Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud environment including runbook process and procedures.
• Implementing and setting up Puppet Master server for configuring and installing the modules for automatic deployment on AWS Environment.
• VMware Process automation using vSphere power CLI and windows power shell.
• Design Complex solutions which integrates AWS cloud on Premise Physical & virtual server EC2,S3 storage, Networking and security.
• Strong experience in system administration,installation,upgrading patches,migration,Configuration,Security, Backup, Disaster Recovery, Performance Monitoring and Fine-tuning on UNIX systems.
• Worked on various environment giving production support 24/7 for Intel Windows System.
• Analyze,log,track and complex software and hardware matters of significance pertaining to networking connectivity issues,printer,server and application on a daily basis.
• Working knowledge of network device management, i.e.switches,router,firewall,load balancers.
• Experience in the server and desktop Management,Support,Analysis and maintenance.
• Supported a large-scale Data Center projects including server installation hardware maintenance and break/fix activities.
• Experience in implementation and administration Software Define Network technologies such as VMware NSX, VMware vCloud Networking and Security.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Austin, TX

Senior VMware Virtualization Engineer/VDI engineer

Responsibilities:

• Installed, configured and maintained the VMware Horizon View 7.6 Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) environment.
• Monitored, tuned and troubleshooted the VDI environment using vRealize Operations Manager for View.
• Design and implement VMware vRealize Operations Manager(vRops) in 2 Datacenters and act as an SME for the project.
• Installing, configuring, upgrade and troubleshoot VMware View Composer, View Connection Manager and new VMware View (VDI Virtual Desktop Infrastructure) efficient and simplifies desktop administrative management tasks.
• Responsible for the installation, configuration and support of VMware VDI Environment and the daily management/monitoring of the virtual environment.
• Provided highly detailed reporting of system performance and capacity utilization/planning using Horizon integrated with vRops.
• Deployed, configured and maintained network monitoring tools such as vRops,LogInsight.
• Implemented VDI(Virtual desktop infrastructure)technology using VMware view/Horizon 6.0.
• Maintained configured VMware Horizon suite. Monitored logs by using VMware log insight.
• Created Customized dashboards for data store alerts using vRops, generated email notifications.
• Created thresholds and automate reporting with customized policies through vRops.
• VMware health check Data Store alerts checking with vRops.
• Working with VMware vRealize Operations manager and Export utilization reports through vRealize operation manager. Developing custom dashboard within vRops.
• Experience in Designing, Installing, Configuring, Administering and Troubleshooting VMware Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) Environment.
• Implement and manage VMware VDI environment consisting of: Horizon 7, UAG 3.3, UEM 9.4, AppVolume 2.14
• Deployed VDI Instances and created over 500+ desktops by building an entirely new infrastructure of Horizon View 7 also integrated with existing Infrastructure.
• Deployed RDSH Desktop Hosts, DS Hosted Apps and Horizon Linux Desktops using Horizon 6.6 and 7.0 using the newly improved Blast Extreme protocol and PCoIP protocol to VDI users.
• Responsible for the implementation of VMware View VDI upgrades, Change Management, Problem Management, and ITIL related process.
• Maintain OS versions RHEL 5,6,7 & Solaris, IBM Blade Server and CISCO C-Series Racks.
• Installation and Configuration of RHEL Servers 6.4 and 7.0 and DHCP and FTP.
• Provided technology assessment in support of automation, recommended improvements, maintained/monitored production and non-production RHEL/Windows system to ensure infrastructure performs at maximum efficiency
• Monitor and maintain VDI systems Health Status & Work with Desktop Enterprise groups in resolving VDI related issues & performing other tasks as assigned by client manager.
• Installed and configured vRops with multi node cluster.
• Created Customized dashboards for data store alerts using vRops, generated email notifications.
• Created thresholds and automate reporting with customized policies through vRops.
• VMware health check Data Store alerts checking with vRops.
• Working with VMware vRealize Operations manager and Export utilization reports through vRealize operation manager. Developing custom dashboard within vRops.
• Worked on vRops by Customized dashboards for data store,Hosts,VM,Services alerts using vRops, generated email notifications, create thresholds and automate reporting with customized policies through vRops.

Confidential, Jacksonville,FL

Infrastructure engineer-Server & Data Center Operations

Responsibilities:

• Responsible to Build and maintain all aspects of the VMware vSphere environment, vCenter 5.5/6.0/6.7,ESXI 5.5/6.0/6.7 and virtual server (Windows /Linux).
• Creating custom Workflow in vRo and Customizing schema, modifying scripts to automate tasks in vCenter.
• Worked on upgrading vCenter and ESXI from 6.0 to 6.7 version in the environment.
• Responsible to Maintain Security Vulnerabilities by patching ESXi, vCenter and VMware Appliances to latest patch level.
• Worked on Version control setups like GIT and integration tools like Jenkins.
• Used JIRA for ticket tracking change management and Agile/SCRUM tools. Involved in setting up Jira as defect tracking system and configured various workflows, customization and plug-ins for the Jira bug/issue tracker.
• Experience in working as DevOps engineer for release automation to achieve continuous integration and continuous delivery(CI and CD).
• Patching ESXI host using Auto Deploy Rule and VMware update manager Patching Linux Server using ansible automation tool.
• Developed Cloud Formation templates and deployed EC2 instances creation for multiple applications and created Cloud Formation templates and deployed AWS resource using it.
• Perform installation,Configuration,monitoring,troubleshooting,optimizing & maintaining of mostly Linux and Windows servers, applications and backup and recovery of the systems.
• Experience in writing PowerShell Scripts to automate manual tasks in VMware Environment.
• Worked on major migration project in migrating VM’s to different vCenter through automation process using PowerShell and PowerCLI Scripts.
• Performing upgrades and applying patches or firmware updates to the virtual infrastructure hardware and software.
• Dell Open Manage Essentials-infrastructure monitoring and firmware upgrades across the organization.
• Virtualized the servers using the Docker for the test environment and dev-environments needs and configuration automation using Docker containers.
• Remotely monitored and managed NetApp filers using Data fabric manager and Enterprise monitor
• Managing VMware NSX network components like VMware NSX manager,Controllers,DLR(Distributed Logical Routers),ESGs(Edge Services Gateways),Load Balancers and DFW(Distributed Firewalls).
• Managing VMware vSphere, which is underlying Hypervisor layer for vCD & NSX.
• Designed and implemented Splunk infrastructure in clustered environment. Used Splunk to Monitor the application logs, Server Logs, Indexes and server data.
• Managing Operations with VMware vRealize Operations and VMware vRealize Log Insight.
• Creating Proof of Concept with vRealize Automation for the already implemented multi-tenant private cloud.
• Deploy and manage vRealize Automation 6.x,7.0 and 7.1,vCloud Orchestrator and vCloud Network and security for DevOps and private Cloud implementation.

Environment: vCenter 6.0/6.7,vRops 6.7,Jira,IT360,Dell IDRAC,Cisco UCS B200,Dell OME,Jira,Service now,BMC,Ansible

Confidential, Charlotte, NC

VMware/DevOps engineer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Datacenter migration Projects and Performed Preparatory work for Physical And virtual migrations and worked with the storage team regarding the storage and LUN Capacity.
• Broad experience with designing, implementing and troubleshooting VMware ESX server, VMware virtual center, setting up V-Motion, HA, DRS, and related VMware products such as VM Workstation, P2V converters, VM Backup products and other products for virtualization.
• VMware ESXi 6.0 installation and configuration and Installing VMware tools, upgrade of virtual hardware on virtual machines.
• Automated ESX host deployment using scripted install(http protocol) to save about 45 minutes for each ESXi deployment.
• Involved in the cut-over and decommissioning of the physical server after the P2V server by working closely with the command center during the process.
• Migration of virtual machines from one enclosure to another within the same environment in different enclosure.ds
• Created monitors, alarms and notifications for EC2 hosts using Cloud Watch.
• Implemented and maintained Chef Configuration management.
• Creating S3 buckets and managing policies for S3 buckets and Utilized S3 bucket and Glacier for Archival storage backup on AWS.
• Dockized applications by creating Docker images from Docker file.
• Monitoring system performances using Nagios and managing network issues.
• Supported AWS Cloud environment and configured Elastic IP & Elastic Storage and experience working on security groups.
• Involved in configuring S3 versioning and lifecycle policies to and back up and archive files in Glacier.
• Experience with installation and configuration of VMware update manager, managing its baselines and Baseline Groups. Upgraded multiple ESXi hosts and virtual machine using VMware update manager to achieve 100% compliant level with the baselines.
• Monitored and responded to phone and email requests for technical support.
• Handled the various web servers and provide the support to the clients on the chat, through Tickets and phone calls.
• Responsibilities include designing and developing new back-end services, maintaining, and expanding our AWS Infrastructure, and providing mentorship to others on my team.
• Deploying,managing,and Operating scalable, highly available, and fault tolerant systems on AWS.
• Implementing,using,and troubleshooting backup and recovery Commvault Platform.
• Responsibilities include designing and developing new back-end services, maintaining and expanding our AWS infrastructure, and providing mentorship to others on my team.
• Responsible for Migrating Production Virtual Machines running on Legacy IBM Blades to Brand New Vblock Environment without downtime.
• Resolved all issues related with Performance of SAN backed VMware ESXI infrastructure to determine proper allocation of resources to a multi-department user population with widely varying needs.

Environment: VMware vSphere5.5,6.0,vCenter 5.5,6.0.Vcenter update manager,vRA,AWS,Cisco UCS,Blades,Commvault,SCCM,vROPS 6.2,McAfee,windows server 2003/2008/20012.

Confidential, SFO, CA

VMware Admin

Responsibilities:

• Implementing vRealize Operations Manager 6.x and Created intuitive and customizable dashboards, views and reports for enterprise customers In monitoring their infrastructure environment with analytics and proactive remediation.
• Deploying, Configuring and managing vRealize suite products vRealize Automation, vRealize Operations, vRealize orchestrator, vRealize Business Suite, vRealize Log Insight.
• Administration of VMware ESXI servers on Dell PowerEdge servers.
• Experience in installation and configuration of Single sign on server (SSO),vCenter Inventory Services and vCenter 6.x.
• Setup/confirm daily backup of SQL data/virtual machines, upkeep DNS/DHCP.
• Design, Implementation and Troubleshooting VMware ESXI 6.0 Hosts, VMware vSphere virtual Center.
• Deployed json template to create a stack in CloudFormation which include services like Amazon EC2,Amazon S3,Amazon RDS,Amazon Elastic Load balancing, Amazon VPC,And other services of the AWS infrastructure.
• Creating virtual machines, cloning virtual machines, converting P2V VM-Provisioning taking Snapshots of virtual servers,HA,DRS,vMotion and storage vMotion making sure that the data stores are not over provisioned within the DRS clusters.
• Redesigned infrastructure for high availability using multiple AWS availability zones.
• Dynamically add and remove servers from AWS production environment.
• Installation and configuration of EMC Power Path in ESXi for SAN storage path optimization.
• Involved in creation of virtual switches and configuration of NIC for a clustered environment.
• Troubleshoot and resolve the storage related issues generated in the production, development and testing environment using vRops.
• Worked on vRealize Operations manager(vRops) for monitoring the vCenter alerts.
• Used VMware vCenter, Created Datacenter Environment by creating VMware clusters, adding ESX/ESXI hosts in the clusters, and implemented HA and DRS.
• Used PowerShell, PowerCLI scripts for migrating VM’s creating snapshots.
• Install,configure,monitor,Troubleshoot and administer Linux And Windows systems in physical and virtualized environment.
• Efficient on working with system performance and monitoring tools like SolarWinds and Splunk.

Environment: VMware ESX 5.x/6.x vSphere 5.5/6.x,MS Windows server 2016/2012R2/2008/2003,Office 365,NIC,Virtual Switches,P2V,V2V,AWS,Red Hat Linux 6,SQL Server,SCCM,Office 365,Nagios,Splunk,Azure,BMC remedy. VCenter.

Confidential, Cupertino, CA

System Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Creating and Managing Virtual machines, data stores,clusters,hosts and useful resource pools.
• Updated firmware and ProLiant aid percent for /windows 2000/2003 servers.
• Created Snapshots and reverted them back on user’s requirement.
• Extensive experience installing, configuring, monitoring VMware vSphere, VMware Horizon (VDI) environments.
• Installation & Administration of VMware ESXI 5.5,6.0,6.5 and VMware vCenter 5.x /6. x.
• Experienced in Patching and Upgrading ESXi servers using VMware Update manager (UM).
• Design and Implement virtualization solutions based on VCenter server and Vblock series.
• Experienced in Patching and Upgrading ESXi servers using VMware Update manager (UM).
• Performed physical to virtual (P2V) and virtual to virtual (V2V) migrations using VMware converter.
• High Knowledge in VMware High-Availability, DRS, vMotion, Storage vMotion, DVS and vCenter Update Manager.
• Upgrading VM tools, VM hardware versions and datastores upgrade to VMFS 5.
• Design, install and configure VMware vSphere 5.0 servers on Cisco UCS chassis and B250 blade server.
• Deploying and configuration of virtual machines from templates and administration of any associated tasks like installing VMware tools and upgrading the hardware.
• Ensured that all the software and hardware components are upgraded properly, and also designed the company’s networking policy.
• Hands on experience working with configuration and management of VMware vSphere Standard Switch & distributed Switch.
• Experience in VMware networking concepts like creation of switches, vDS, different types of port groups, NIC teaming and VLAN.
• Experienced in maintaining performance and security on Linux servers
• Supported a large-scale DATA Center Projects, including server Installation, Hardware maintenance and break/ fix activities.
• Solved many issues considering windows and VMware Performance.
• Entry-level support of Citrix NetScaler and Access Gateway.
• Implemented various applications on Citrix Servers.
• LUN provision and presenting to ESXi hosts based on the storage utilization and alerts.
• Settings up the UCS Servers from scratch such as configuring Fabric interconnect and MDS Switch for Cisco UCS.
• Creating Service profiles and performing day to day operations of Cisco UCS.
• Worked extensively with team in case of Cisco UCS failure and fixed the issues.
• Effective interpersonal skills work well as a team member with people at all levels of an organization and of various cultures. Equally capable working independently.
• Ensure compliance of all Standard Operating Procedures and other network related procedures for the SAN environment.

Environment: VMware vSphere 5.1/5.5, VDI View5, Cisco UCS and HP Blades, SRM 5.X, VCOPS 5.8/5.7, vCloud Director, IIS, Active Directory, DNS and DHCP, SAN, Cisco MDS Switches.

Confidential, Milpitas, CA

VMware/Windows Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Install and configure VMware vSphere 6.x and VI 3.5 environment for hosting the server on HP C7000 blade enclosure.
• Reconfiguring all ESXi Network Connectivity utilization VLAN tagging and teaming.
• Consolidated many smaller ESXI clusters and hosts to provide optimum resource utilization.
• Deploy VMs using Templates as per requirements. Clone VMs and took snapshots of VMs.
• Created and maintained environment specific installation and configuration guide for P2V migrations, ESXI server, vCenter server, vSphere Clients, VMware Tools, Patch Upgrades.
• Created the user accounts and profiles, assigned permissions using Active Directory.
• Installed, configured, and troubleshoot windows servers 2003/2008.
• Implemented and managed IP addressing; configured TCP/IP addressing on a server.
• Worked on troubleshooting of virtual network, ESXI virtual machines.
• Locally & remotely managing Microsoft windows 2008/2012 servers.
• Capacity planning with the help of HP performance insight Manager reporting tool.
• Scheduled tasks for manual vMotion and Storage vMotion of VM’s and managed snapshots prior to planned patch install or upgrade.
• Handle the VMware solutions to support multiple storage connectivity options such as FC-SAN, iSCSI, NFS (NAS) and internal storage.
• Build multiple templates working with application teams and desktop team for both persistent and non-persistent pools.
• Deployed multiple Desktop pools both persistent and non-persistent from templates.
• Create new OUs and assign the desktops based on the requirement.
• Troubleshooting and performing day to day operations on Cisco UCS.
• Creating and assigning the service profiles for Cisco UCS.
• Handled the Cisco UCS firmware Upgrade.
• Administrating the Domain and Services, Active Directory, GPO, IIS, generating request and Installing VeriSign on the website.
• Produced new system and network designs for clients.
• Documented the new Windows server settings that have been applied to the network.
• Implement VMware vSphere, a new EqualLogic SAN, virtualize existing hardware.
• Configured Management and Resource Cluster, Add Host to a Cluster, Configure its licenses, Network Configuration, DNS and NTP.
• Designed lab infrastructure, created testing plans and test cases.

Environment: vSphere 5.0/5.1, NFS(NAS),, Windows server 2003/2008, Active Directory, DNS, Windows SCVMM.

Confidential

System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Scheduled and coordinated level-appropriate maintenance.
• Responsible for Windows 2000/2003 server,DNS and TCP/IP support.
• Experience with IIS and SQL server 2003 and good knowledge of DNS.
• Virtual memory defragmentation issues.
• Troubleshoot layer 1 up to layer 7.
• Responsible for capacity planning and testing for the remote office’s LAN/WAN environment.
• In depth knowledge on VMWare ESXi Server and Desktop Virtualization products.
• Wireless Back office and guest network support.
• Troubleshoot systems and network.
• Building servers and creating templates/images for deploying virtual machines.
• Troubleshooting equipment malfunctions, failures, and develop resolutions in a timely fashion.
• Setup and configured various RAID 1 and RAID 5. Applied patches and upgrades to the servers.
• Work with Systems team to build and deploy standardized desktops.
• Database setup and design Installed and configured Oracle RDBMS on UNIX and Windows.

Environment: Windows 2003 Servers, NAS filers and Zoning, VMware ESX servers, Oracle RDBMS on Windows and UNIX.