SUMMARY:

• About 13 years of experience on heterogeneous System, Network, SAN & VMware Administration.
• Expertise in designing, implementing and supporting of VBlock, Cisco UCS, VMware Infrastructure.
• Expertise in installing, configuring, managing, troubleshooting of VBlock, Cisco UCS, AWS, VMware vSphere, vCenter Server, SRM, vCenter Operations Manager, vCenter Update Manager.
• Assessment, design and Implementation on the vSphere Upgrade, 1000 plus ESX host’s upgraded from VMware ESX 3.5 to ESX 4.0, SRM 4.5, VDI View 4.5 and ThinApp 4.5
• Executed Data Center migration projects concurrently about 1200 + Windows applications migrated P2V, V2V by using VMware Converter.
• Cisco UCS chassis, UCS Blade servers install, configure, administration and troubleshooting.
• Experience on Cisco UCS firmware upgrade from 1.x to 2.x on all UCS Chassis, Fabric Interconnect and UCS Blade servers.
• Experienced VBlock 300 platform firmware upgradation to VCE support Matrix version 3.0.3 as part of bug fix activity. Understanding of VCE Release Matrices
• Executed VBlock 300 platform shutdown and startup process during in Master Datacenter power maintenance.
• Experienced Administration of 25 vCenter servers, 1800 ESXi hosts and 5000 + Virtual Machines.
• Upgraded VMware tools, VM’s hardware 7 on all the VM’s as a part Upgrade process.
• Coordination with vendor / Service provider on problem analysis and providing RCA & CAPA
• Troubleshoot hardware and proved hands and feet support.
• Upgraded Virtual Centers to vSphere and created a linked mode environment for vCenter server.
• Migrating Virtual Machines across various VMware products like ESXi, GSX server, Workstation and VMware server.
• Provided Change Impact analysis and Change coordination on VBlock, Cisco UCS, vSphere server
• Perform advanced trouble shooting of Windows AD, VMware failures - L3 level support.
• Building /Configuring /Supporting of New Datacenters, Clusters with HA, DRS, & Resource Pools.
• Administering and managing Windows server Active Directory services, DHCP and DNS servers. Updating servers with latest service packs, security patches and antivirus definitions.
• Installation, Configuration & Troubleshooting of hardware including Tower, Rack & Blade Servers.
• Experienced in LAN/WAN configuration and troubleshooting of the SAN devices (Fiber channel VLAN Switch, Network Storage Router, Modular Data Router, Tape Library and Tape Controller).
• Solid experience in configuration and maintenance of LAN/WAN on CISCO Routers and Switches.
• Experienced in maintaining the Router local, Remote and Backing up of IOS Software.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

VMware Products: VMware vSphere 6.0/5.0/4.0, ESX 3.5, vCenter 5.x vCenter 2.5, VMware Workstation 6.x, VMware Converter, VMware View (VDI), Site Recovery Manager (SRM), vCenter Operations Manager (VCOPS).

System Administration: VBlock, VMware vSphere, Windows 2003/2008, Solaris & Linux 6.0Cloud & Orchestrator:Cisco Cloud Portal 9.x (CPO), Cisco Process Orchestrator (TEO), Amazon AWS, VMware vCloud.

Backup Applications: Commvault Galaxy, Symantec Netbackup

SAN Switches: Brocade, Cisco MDS Switches

Databases: Oracle 9i, SQL Server, My SQL

Routing: RIP, IGRP, EIGRP, OSPF and BGP.

Switching: VLANs, Spanning Tree, and VTP.

Remote Access: PPP, ISDN, Frame Relay, NAT/PAT.

Security: Cisco PIX 515, 525 and IOS-based Firewall.

Packages: Oracle, MS office, Visual Basic 6.0, C, C++, JAVA

HARDWARE: Servers: VBlock 700, VBlock 300, UCS 5108 Blade chassis, Dell 2650, Dell 5000, Dell R900, Dell R710, Dell EqualLogic PS-4000XV, Hp Proliant DL 380 G4, G5, Compaq ProLiant 3000/5500 Series Servers, Dell, IBM I-series AS/400, Sun Ultra SPARC server, Sun SPARC 20, Sun Ultra Enterprise 2.

Networking Devices: Cisco UCS Fabric Interconnect, Cisco 2503, 2611, 3500, 6500, 7600 series and Cisco 1900, 2950, 4500, 4900, 6500 series Switches.

SAN Devices: Adic 24, Adic 100, Adic 1000, HP Network Storage Router M2402, Hp EVA 5000, Hp EVA 6000, EMC Clariion CX4, MSA 1510i, DLT & LTO tape drives, iSCSi Drives and HBA Cards, IBM SAN Storage DS8300, DS4800, IBM XIV gen2 and gen3.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Denver, CO.

VMware Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Experienced Installation, Configuration, Administration of Cisco UCS chassis, VMware vSphere4.x, 5.x/ vCenter Servers and Deploying HA & DRS Cluster, Managing cluster resources.
• Responsible for managing on day to day VBlock environment focusing on Cisco UCS and VMware vSphere which will include daily operations, troubleshooting and client interaction.
• Successfully completed VBlock 720 series transition & firmware upgradation to VCE Release Matrix (RCM) version.
• Migrated all Windows Exchange 2010 Virtual Machines servers to new VBlock 720 series
• Administration of 25 vCenter servers, 1800 ESXi hosts and 5000 plus Virtual Machines.
• Perform inventory of existing server environment and gather server utilization statistics such as CPU, RAM, Memory and Network.
• Upgraded Cisco UCS firmware from 2.x to 2.x on all UCS Chassis, Fabric Interconnect switch’s, IOM modules, UCS Blade servers
• Supported in largescale Data Center projects including server installation, hardware maintenance, and break fix activities.
• Responsible for ESXi server deployments, system upgrades, system health and status monitoring.
• Experience install, configure, administration and troubleshooting of Cisco UCS chassis, UCS Blade servers, Cisco Fabric Interconnect switches.
• Administrated VBlock 700, VBlock 300 Series environment and monitored the entire VBlock hardware infrastructure by consolidating the UIM provisioning center into UIM Operations. Provided 24/7On-call for the VBlock Environment.
• Converted Physical Machines to Virtual Machines (P2V migration) using VMware Converter.
• Experienced in identifying, resolving VM and ESXi Host level performance issues.
• Upgraded vCenter Servers/ ESXi hosts from vSphere 5.0 to 6.0 and performed health check for the existing environment.
• Maintained all Virtual Machine application owners contact information into Masters list.
• Experienced preparing monthly VMware capacity report for entire VMware Infra for all VMware clusters CPU, RAM, Storage usage. We also give recommendation to the customer if any action required.
• Upgraded VMware Tools, VM Hardware version on all Windows based Virtual Machines, which will enhance Virtual Machine performance and ability to perform block level incremental backup.

Confidential, Milpitas, CA.

VMware Engineer

Responsibilities:

• in Installation, Configuration and Administration of VMware vSphere4.x, 5.x, vCenter Servers. Deploying HA & DRS Cluster and managing cluster resources.
• Administration of VMware user & group accounts and providing access permission as per customer requirement. Configured license files on ESXi hosts & vCenter server.
• Executed Data Center migration projects concurrently about 1200 + Windows applications migrated P2V, V2V by using VMware Converter.
• Cisco UCS chassis, Blade servers Install, Configure, Administration and Troubleshooting.
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• Experienced VBlock 300 platform firmware upgradation to VCE support Matrix version 3.0.3 as part of bug fix activity.
• Executed VBlock 300 platform shutdown and startup process during in Master Datacenter power maintenance.
• Coordination with vendor / Service provider for problem resolution and providing RCA.
• Performed Virtual Machine Datastore (LUN’s) cleanup for unused Virtual Machines files, VM snapshot’s, Templates
• Upgraded VMware Tools and VM Hardware version on all Windows based Virtual Machines, which will enhance Virtual Machine performance and ability to perform block level incremental backup.
• Upgraded vCenter Servers/ ESXi hosts from vSphere 4.0 to 5.0 and performed health check for the existing environment.
• Experienced preparing monthly VMware capacity report for all VMware clusters for CPU, RAM, Storage usage and also given recommendation to the customer if any action required.
• ESXi4.1 Host patches has been deployed on all regional sites which will avoid security vulnerability.
• Migrated more than 1200 Virtual Machines using storage vMotion and ESXi boot LUNs from old VMAX to new VMAX storage as part of the new storage implementation.
• Deploy Virtual Machines from templates and allocate resources, Manage VM's using VMware Virtual Center server and web access, Configurations of Virtual switch and network connections.
• Creating vSwitch’s, different type of port group’s like Service Console, VMKernel, Virtual Machine and assigning the VLAN no’s. Configured NIC Teaming for load balance & failover.
• Configured SAN, NAS and iSCSi storage on ESXi host’s installed iSCSi Software, Hardware Adapters on ESX and ESXi hosts.
• Configured NTP server on ESXi hosts for time synchronization between ESXi hosts & VM’s.
• Generating performance report of ESX, ESXi hosts and VM’s. Creating VM snapshots before upgrading VMware tools and Virtual Machine Hardware.
• Scheduling tasks, monitoring tasks, creating alarms. Deploying load balancing, implementing Network security.

Confidential, San Jose, CA.

VMware Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Administrated end-to-end integration of Cisco Cloud Portal 9.3.1 (formerly NewScale), Cisco Process Orchestrator (formerly Tidal Enterprise Orchestrator) with Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS), VMware, NetApp, FlexPod and Cisco Server Provisioner and other proprietary Cisco applications, enabling self-service provisioning of applications, network elements and their respective infrastructure environments.
• Expertise in Installation, Configuration and Administration of Cisco Cloud Portal (CPO) and Cisco Process Orchestrator (TEO) on Windows 2008 Server.
• Expertise creating runtime users, targets, process with variables on Cisco Process Orchestrator (TEO) server. Worked on Cisco UCS Chassis with B200 and B200 M2 blades.
• Experienced in Installation, Configuration and Administration of VMware ESXi 5.0/vCenter Servers. Assessment, design and Implementation on the VSphere Upgrade, 1000 ESX hosts upgraded from VMware ESX 4.0 to ESXi 5.0.
• Executed Data Center migration projects concurrently about 5,000 Windows applications migrated P2P, V2V by using VMware Converter.
• Upgraded the VMware tools, VM Hardware 8 on all the VM’s as a part Upgrade process and also Upgraded Virtual Center to VSphere and created a linked mode environment for VC’s.
• Creating new VM’s and Installing different guest OS like Windows server, Linux and Sun Solaris. Creating virtual NIC’s for the respective VM’s and assigning the network connections to a particular port group in the vSwitch’s.
• Creating vSwitch’s, different type of port group’s like Service Console, VMKernel, Virtual Machine and assigning the VLAN no’s to that. Configured NIC Teaming for load balancing and failover.
• Managing VM’s and ESX servers by using vSphere Client, Putty and Web Access and installing the VMware Tools on the VM’s.
• Administration of user and group accounts and providing appropriate rights to user accounts according to their requirements. Configured the licensed files on ESX and VC server.
• Configuring NAS, SAN, and iSCSi storages to the VMware ESX servers and installed the iSCSi Software and Hardware Adapters to the ESX servers.
• Cloning, deploying VM’s to Template, Templates to VM’s, VMotion, Storage VMotion etc. Configured the NTP server in ESX server for the time synchronization between ESX and VM’s.
• Generating performance report summary of ESX hosts and VM’s. Creating new folders, data centers, clusters and resource pools in the VC.
• Scheduling tasks, monitoring tasks, creating alarms. Deploying load balancing, implementing Network security.
• Deploying HA & DRS Cluster, Managing resources.
• Migrating virtual machine configuration files and virtual disks from one Datastore to another Datastore. Customizing VM’s (Memory, hard disk, Nic). Analyzing log files, Resources utilizing monitoring.
• Problem analysis and Troubleshooting of ESX Server with service console. Resolving issues on servers, VLANs, routers, and switches in the data center.

Confidential, San Francisco, CA.

VMware Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Installation, Configuration and Administration of VMware ESX 3.x, 4.x and vCenter servers. Installing patch and troubleshooting of ESX 3.5 and VC 2.5 servers.
• Assessment, design and Implementation on the VSphere Upgrade, ESX hosts upgraded from VMware ESX 3.x to ESX 4.x.
• Executed Data Center migration projects concurrently about 2,000 Windows applications migrated P2P, V2V per quarter.
• Upgraded VMware tools, VM Hardware 7 on all VM’s as part of Upgrade process.
• Upgraded Virtual Centers to VSphere and created a linked mode environment for VC’s.
• Creating and Deploying of Virtual Machines from Templates and Snapshots with in on time, cloning of Virtual Machines for future Deployments. Creating virtual NIC’s for the respective VM’s and assigning the network connections to a particular port group in vSwitch’s.
• Creating vSwitch’s, different type of port group’s like Service Console, VMkernel, Virtual Machine and assigning the VLAN no’s to that. Configured NIC Teaming for load balancing and failover.
• Used Cisco UCS 1.3 for managing Cisco B200 M2 and B440 M2 Blade servers.
• Administration of user accounts & groups and providing appropriate rights to user accounts according to their requirements. Configured the licensed files on ESX and VC server.
• Configuring NAS, SAN, and iSCSi storages to the VMware ESX servers and installed the iSCSi Software and Hardware Adapters to the ESX servers.
• Configured the NTP server in ESX server for the time synchronization between ESX and VM’s.
• Generating report summary and performance for ESX servers and VM’s. Creating a snapshots for the VM’s. Creating new folders, data centers, clusters and resource pools in the VC.
• Scheduling tasks, monitoring tasks, creating alarms. Deploying load balancing, implementing Network security. Responsible for Remote and Local server builds through HP-ILO
• Deploying HA & DRS Cluster, Managing resources.
• Migrating virtual machine configuration files and virtual disks from one Datastore to another Datastore. Migration of servers P2V and V2V by using VMware Converter and PlateSpin.
• Used to work on “Double Take Availability” for high availability solutions like affordable data protection and immediate recovery.
• Customizing VM’s (Memory, hard disk, Nic). Analyzing log files, Resources utilizing monitoring.
• Problem analysis and Troubleshooting of ESX Server with service console. Resolving issues on servers, VLANs, routers, and switches in the data center.

Confidential

System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Creating, Modifying, Deleting Users and Groups using GUI on Commvault Galaxy backup servers.
• Creating the policies and rules based on the requirement of the users. Sending the user password for Galaxy upon verification of the request.
• Data Age maintenance and pruning of the jobs on CommServe’s tape library. Obtaining the Site Focal point contact information from the CommServe’s.
• Responsible for fetching the CommServer (Backup Server) information of all the servers across the domain using windows registry and check the storage policy selected in that for the respective server.
• Generating various reports of the CommCell Summary and Storage Policy, including Job Schedule with Schedule view list.
• Taking RAID Array hosts information in EVA Servers and taking the HBA cards information from RAID Array hosts for Master List Documentation.
• Documenting the newly commissioned or decommissioned SAN devices (Fiber channel Switch’s, Network Storage Router’s, Tape Library’s) and Servers in Master List and maintaining the Shell Security H/W information with confidentiality standards.
• Trust Domain (TD) auditing of the SAN Switch’s for successful and unsuccessful logins.
• DNS, IP Address and password checking of the SAN devices (SAN Switch, Network Storage Router, Tape Library, Tape Controller) on primary server and secondary server. Documenting tnew SAN devices information into master list.
• Responsible for logging into the EVA console to find out the RAID configurations and the disks allocated to each of the server, and also document the HBA cards Driver version, Firmware, HBA Boot Bios Firmware, Secure path version and HP Support pack version etc.,
• Verifying storage space needed to be upgraded on Backup Server's internal slots.
• Checking the access leakage from the LAN according to access Lists defined.
• Providing the screen shots for all audit settings of the StMS Servers (C:\windows\system32\telnet .exe, C:\server\tools\sectelnet.exe.)
• Services restarting on Commvault Galaxy backup application servers and checking escalation problems on the Galaxy backup servers.
• Configuring the IP address and password for the devices (Switch, Router). Setting the telnet timeout value for the switch and router. Configuring the zone create, zone add, zone remove on the SFP 4GB or 2GB Switch 4/32

Confidential .

System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Maintenance, Configuration, Troubleshooting of more than 4500 Systems.
• Branch administration and supervision of technical staff.
• Ensuring availability of System resources to users and taking timely corrective actions on user requirements.
• Troubleshooting of PC and Hardware, Computer Assembling, retrieving the user data, configuring the local & remote printers and installation of outlook 2003 and other software. Configuring the PCs to the Novel servers.
• Supporting of software applications and System Support.
• Taking backup of data and Ghost image of the existing OS and deploying the same sort of image in the laptops or desktops and maintaining the LAN network (Novel Netware 6.0).
• Installation/ troubleshoot & maintain Local Area Networks.
• Installation and configuration of Ms-Office and latest version of MacAfee anti virus.
• Disaster Recovery Plan, System fines tuning. Patching Systems and update virus definitions.
• Implementation of System Policies, Ids, Password Policies, Share restrictions, SLA etc.
• Monitoring performance of network infrastructure.
• Adding, Configured and maintained network printers and local printers on Novel Netware 6.
• Installing latest Service Packs & Patches on Windows NT & 2003 servers.
• Installing & maintaining desktops, laptops with required software for operational business process.
• Adding packages and patches on all other Servers and Workstations.
• Troubleshooting of TCP/IP network using various tools such as ping, trace and telnet.

Confidential .

Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Installing and configuring the interoperability of all the Network Operating Systems (Windows 2000/2003, Linux, and Solaris).
• Block & unblocking the ports stop and start the services. Creating & Managing User and Group Accounts.
• Installation and configuration of MS Windows Exchange server 2003, creation of the mail boxes for the new users. Implementation of the security policies and group policies, deployment of operating system service packs.
• Setting idle telnet timeout value on Switch and Router. Configuration and testing of Leased Lines.
• Configuring the all types of router interfaces from Console port. Setting up Network Printers and Backup & Restoring of Data.
• Router & Switch configuration - Routing-OSPF, BGP, EIGRP, Switching-VLANS, Trunks & HSRP.
• Configured CISCO 2611 Router with 64 kbps leased line modems.
• Implementing Standard and Extended Access lists on the Router.
• Configure VPN with Cisco IOS IPSec and Configuration 2500 and 3500 series switches.
• Configured the VLAN Trunking and VTP mode Server, Client and Transparent.
• Monitoring the Bandwidth on the router using Solaris, UNIX and Windows software.
• Restoring the IOS from TFTP Server and Maintaining the Backup of IOS, Startup and Running Configuration.
• Password Recovery - Telnet, Console Password, Auxiliary Password, & Enable Secret Password.
• Trouble shooting of the Router Local and Remote interfaces.

Confidential .

Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installation, Configuration and Administration of Solaris 2.7/2.8/2.9 on SUN SPARC 5,10,20, Ultra1, 2,5,10,20,E250, E450 and Adding patches.
• Creating, Modifying and Deleting Users and Groups using CLI and GUI.
• Creating, Modifying and deleting the file permission to user and groups.
• Package management Installing, removing, and checking packages by using pkgadd, patchadd commands.
• Configuring Local and Remote Network Printers. Managing the DNS and Mail servers on Sun spark servers.
• Creating a new file system using mkfs command and Mounting using mount command.
• Configured Solaris on networked mode and Implemented Disk quotas for users at file system level with soft and hard limits
• Retrieve the password from the Solaris server (on Intel or Spark Machine).
• Installation and configuration of ORACLE database and Apache Web Servers. File Servers Implementing Samba for accessing shared resources for Windows.
• Implementation of RAID levels (RAID 0, 0+1) and Crash recovery of Volumes and disk groups.
• Configuring and maintaining the NIS master & slave servers, NFS servers with auto mount clients.
• Administering file systems and devices. Monitoring Disk I/O performance optimization.
• Performing the health check and Monitoring process of applications.
• Configuring & Trouble shooting TCP/IP and services like FTP, TELNET. RLOGIN, RCP, RSH etc.