SUMMARY

• Over Seven Years of Experience in the Information Technology with Strong emphasis in VMware Vsphere, VBlock, VMware ESX, ESXi, Wintel, Cisco Network Switches and EMC Storage Arrays etc.
• Virtualization Skills - Highly experienced in implementing and managing VMware vSphere 4.x,5.x based virtualization technologies including VMware ESX/ESXi, VMware vCenter, Standard and Distributed virtual switches, vMotion, Storage vMotion, Resource Pools, High Availability, Fault Tolerance, Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS), Storage Profiles, Host Profiles, Storage DRS and VMware Data recovery.
• Excellent knowledge of VMware vCloud Director, Lab Manager, vCloud Network Security Services, vCenter Operations Manager.
• Physical-to-Virtual Migration Experience - P2V migrations using VMware’s P2V tool, VMConverter and PlateSpin. Provided 24/7 support for large scale datacenter migration using the Physical 2 Virtual (P2V) technology from VMware.
• Storage Arrays - Administering EMC VNX/VNXe Series Storage Arrays, Fully Automated Storage Tiering Virtual Pools (FAST VP), FAST Cache, Raid Groups, LUNs, Storage Groups, SnapView Snapshots, Snapview Clones, Unisphere Analyzer, Unisphere Service Manager.
• Server Hardware: Implementing and Managing Cisco Unified Computing System(UCS), UCS B-Series Blade servers, Fabric Interconnect, IO Module(Fabric Extender), Converged Network Adaptor, Stateless Service Profiles, MAC/UUID/WWNN/WWPN Pools, VN-link as well as Cisco Rackmount servers. Configuring HP C7000, HP integrated Lights Out (iLO), HP Smart Array, HP Proliant DL385/585, BL460/685 G7/Servers.
• Network Switches - Managing Cisco Nexus1000v, Nexus 5548, Cisco catalyst 3560, Cisco UCS 61xx/62xx Fabric Interconnect and Cisco MDS 9148 SAN switches.
• Converged Infrastructure Platforms: Deep expertise in deployment and administration of VCE vBlocks. Implementing EMC Unified Infrastructure Manager for fully integrated management of compute, network and storage as one complete offering.
• Enterprise Monitoring Tools - Highly experienced with implementing and supporting vCenter Operations Manager for Virtualization, Storage and Network infrastructure monitoring.
• Amazon Web Services - Knowledge on AWS Cloud Platform and its features which includes EC2, AMI, EBS, Cloud Watch, Auto-Scaling, VPC and AWS S3. Managing Virtual Machines using AWS CLI.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Cleveland, OH

Sr. VMware Engineer

Responsibilities:

• VMware implementation and troubleshooting VMware ESXi 4.1, 5.1 and 5.5 hosts.
• Installing, configuring, upgrading and supporting Red Hat Enterprise Linux servers in an enterprise Data Center environment P2V and V2V conversions using VMware vCenter Converter and Double Take.
• Administration of ESXi hosts on HP ProLiant DL385p Gen8 and DL580 Gen8 servers.
• Updating and upgrading ESXi servers, vCenter Server and virtual using vSphere Update Manager and VM Tools through manual updates.
• Managed ESXi hosts using vCenter Server/ vSphere Client and VMware Web Client.
• Performed vMotion and Storage vMotion of Virtual Machines across different cluster with respect to security policies and application development requirements.
• Creation of hot and cold Clones Templates from Virtual Machines (VMs). Deployed Virtual Machines from Templates based on requirements and build documents.
• Performed Virtual Machine Snapshots for Application machines for Migrations and failback.
• Experience with creating Standard vSwitches (vSS), Distributed vSwitches (VDs). Isolated networks were created with separate vSwitches and VMkernel Port Groups. Third party tools such as Wireshark packet capturing tool were used for network traffic monitoring, vMotion, storage and Fault-Tolerance (FT) security and stability.
• Automated configuration management and ensured compliance of vSphere hosts and virtual machines with vCenter Host Profiles.
• LUN creation and storage mapping along with Multipathing and VAAI.
• Handled VMware solutions to support multiple storage connectivity options such as Fiber Channel-SAN, iSCSI, NFS (NAS).
• Provide management of Microsoft Windows 2008, 2008 R2 servers. DNS DHCP and Active Directory.
• Management and administration of Windows 2008 and 2008 R2 Active directory (Created Accounts, Reset Passwords, and
• Allowed Access to different Directories using NTFS permissions)
• Installation/deployment of Windows 2008 using Sysprep and configuration of DNS, DHCP and WINS servers.
• Participated in meetings and planning for future migration of Windows server from 2008R2 to 2012R2.
• Design and implementation of global monitoring solution using SolarWindsNPM (Network Performance Monitoring) tool.
• Establishing ESX Deployment strategy, policies and procedures and deploying ESX cluster builds based on predefined policies.
• Infrastructure testing on the new ESX builds to identify potential flaws/failures from implementations before its release in production. vSphere Performance monitoring and analysis using Quest Foglight monitoring solution.
• Implementing Change requests for different configuration changes within the virtual infrastructure.
• Troubleshooting vSphere performance related issues.
• Performed a production wide VM networking migration from Standard Virtual Switches to Distributed Virtual Switch with live traffic.
• Built HP DL380/580 G Servers for VMware deployments.
• Knowledge to design, develop, document, etc using VMware vRealize product suite.
• Knowledge on Power Shell scripting, vRealize Command Line interface.
• Ability to automate develop automation solutions on Infrastructure components and related activities using vRealize Automation, v Realize Operations, vRealize Orchestrator, vSphere, vCenter etc.
• Executed a large scale live VM Storage Migration from EMC CX3-480 TO CX3-960.
• P2V of approximately 400 physical Windows 2008 servers to HP P-class blades using PlateSpin, while ensuring computing, memory, and disk capacity were maintained at acceptable levels.

Environment: VMwareESX 4.2 and ESXi 5.5 vSphere, Windows2008 R2, RHEL 5.X, 6.X, HP DL 380/580G and EMC Storage Array, WINTEL, Windows XP/Vista/Win 7, iSCSI SAN, NFS, Active Directory, Dell PowerEdge Servers, P2V-V2V conversation, Remote desktop services.

Confidential, Pittsburg, PA

Sr.VMware Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Built new Windows virtual servers based on client requirements
• Installed Windows 2008 on virtual machines and also installed the required software and tools
• Administrating production servers/network infrastructure that includes Windows administration of Domain Controllers, IIS Web
• Servers (HTTP/S, FTP and SMTP), Exchange 2012 Mail Servers, NAS, File and print Servers and Terminal Servers on Windows 2008 and Windows Server 2012(test)
• Install, configure and troubleshootVMwareLab Manager
• Administer Microsoft Windows Servers (Active Directory), Microsoft Workstations, and network security devices for 350 users
• Sharing Folders, Planning and Assigning NTFS Permissions and System Policies based on security requirements accepted by the CISO team
• Design, implementing and managing Active Directory(AD), Internet Information Server (IIS), Microsoft Operations Manager
• (MOM)/System Center Operations Manager (SCOM), Systems Management Server (SMS)/System Center Configuration Manager(SCCM)
• Responsible for production support of Active directory (AD), GPO, GPP, Domain users, Users and groups and given appropriate permissions, shares and privilege to access LAN and Domain environment.
• Experience with SRM 4.5/5.0 deployment and implementationcreated VDI lab environment for IT architects usingVMwareView 4.6, 5.0 and vSphere 5.0migrated (XP to win7 or win7 to win7) machines with PCT migration tool
• Windows 7 task sequencing, application and OS deployment using SCCM
• Deployed Windows 7 images on Workstations and laptops using SCCM
• Administrating Symantec Endpoint Antivirus console, managing 300+ antivirus client's computers like definition updates, Exception policies, Scanning, reporting etc.
• Administered the IIS application efficiently
• InstalledVMwaretools and upgraded the virtual hardware
• Requested IP addresses essential in the P2V process.
• Performed the DNS reverse and forward look up tasks
• Created pools of networks, servers and storages using theVMwarevCloud Suite 5.1
• Provided user access to the users for any required server based on the requirements
• Worked with the SCCM software and managed a large cluster of windows systems and additional features like software distribution and third party tool/software patching
• Migration of production Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V cluster to Server 2012 Hyper-V cluster
• Experience in implementation and deploying View 4.5(VDI) virtual desktops and ThinApp 4.5 Application packages with vSphere ESXi4.1 environment.
• Performed up gradation of ESX 3.5 to vSphere 4.0, vCenter 2.5 to 4.0
• Handled snapshots, clones, templates during patch releases and new server deployments
• Worked on the virtualization using the Citrix Xen Desktop and XenApp
• Worked with off-shore team and provided required support
• Analyze existing infrastructure usingVMwareCapacity Planner
• Performed datastore migration usingVMwarestorage vMotion on NetApps NFS, dell ISCSI SAN Storage
• Worked with Microsoft share point for various applications
• Installed and managed the Symantec Endpoint Protection
• Assisted in P2V conversions of Windows servers usingVMwareVconvertor
• Provide research intoVMwareThinApp initiative for increasing server virtualization
• Involved in Assessment of current environment for desktop virtualization.
• Experience with Microsoft Hyper-V POC environment
• Performed the day to day administration of Red hat Linux
• Created use cases for desktop design and implementation
• Set up V-Motion, High Availability (HA), Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS), and relatedVMware products such as VM Workstation
• Worked on Migration concepts like vMotion and Storage vMotion
• Updating/upgrading the HP Onboard Administrator, Virtual connections
• Installing and configuring Site Recovery Manager (SRM)

Environment: Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration (ISA) Server 2004, Windows 2000 Server, Windows 2003 Server, Upgrades and Performance Management for ESX and ESXi.

Confidential, Norwalk, CT

Systems & UCS Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Implement VMware, Cisco and EMC based virtualized infrastructure for enterprise scale cloud deployments.
• Design, Implementation and Management of Vblock 300 HX & 700MX family platform for Private Cloud deployments
• Deploying and Supporting Enterprise scale VMware vSphere based virtual infrastructures.
• Design of vSphere as foundation for vCloud infrastructure.
• End to End Cloud Network design as it relates to vCloud, vSphere, Access(N1K), Distribution(Cisco UCS) and Aggregation(Nexus 5k/7k) layers.
• Deployment of VMware vCenter Orchestrator as the cloud orchestration engine for service delivery automation and operational process automation.
• Managing all aspects of VMware vSphere environments including vSwitches, Distributed Virtual Switches, High Availability, Distributed Resource Scheduler, vMotion, Storage vMotion, Fault Tolerance, Access and Authentication control, ESXi advanced configurations, Network/Storage IO Control, VMFS Datastore, Host profiles, Storage profiles, Resource Management and Performance Monitoring.
• EMC VNX Unified(5300,5500,5700,7500) Storage Implementation and Administration in vSphere environments.
• Cisco Unified Computing Systems implementation and configuration specific to vSphere for compute platform high availability, redundancy and elasticity.
• Comprehensive Management of virtual infrastructure using native element managers including vCenter, UCS, EMC UIM, EMC Unisphere, Cisco Nexus CLI and fabric manager.
• EMC Unified Infrastructure Manager implementation for fully integrated administration/provisioning of compute, network and storage as one complete service offering.
• Implementing vSphere Management Pod with Cisco C200 rack mount server, EMC VNXe NFS and Cisco 3650 switches.
• Configuring and managing Cisco UCS Service Profiles, identity pools and network policies for automated deployment of stateless servers on 10GE converged network.
• Cisco UCS Fabric Interconnect integration with upstream LAN and SAN.
• Cisco Nexus5548 Virtual Port-Chanel Implementation and Administration for Vblock network high availability and load balancing.
• Vblock Infrastructure provisioning, reconfiguration and decommissioning using EMC UIM.
• Advanced troubleshooting and Performance analysis of all aspects of virtualized environments.
• Deploying and supporting vCenter Operations Manager for Performance and Capacity Management of the vSphere Infrastructure.
• Performing seamless upgrade of the entire cloud infrastructure including Cisco UCS, vSphere, Cisco Nexus switches and EMC VNX array ensuring firmware compatibility and interoperability.
• Redhat Enterprise Linux 5/6 and Windows server 2003/2008 administration.
• Proficiency with Cisco UCS Powertool, vSphere Powercli, vCli and EMC navicli for routine tasks automation.
• Large scale P2V(Physical to Virtual) and V2V(Virtual to Virtual) conversion using VMware Converter and Platespin tools.
• Execute production wide Live Virtual Machine network migration from Standard vSwitch to Nexus 1000v.
• Provided Operational support on the VMware escalation issues and Troubleshooting L3 SRs.
• Advanced Monitoring and Performance Analysis of the vSphere and EMC infrastructure with vCenter Operations Manager.
• Fine tuning VM’s configurations to achieve best performance/resource consumption depending on Application characteristics and requirements.

Environment: Cisco UCS, V-Block, Cisco 1000v virtual switchs, ESXi Hosts, Linux and Windows 2008 OS, Migrations using vCenter Converter standalone.

Confidential, San Jose, CA

VMware Consultant

Responsibilities:

• End to End Implementation of VMware based virtualization environments.
• VMware virtual Infrastructure ESX 3.5/4.0 Administration and Management
• Performance tuning of ESX hosts and Guest OS on VMs.
• EMC Clarrion CX3-40 and CX3-80 based Storage Provisioning and Administration using Navisphere.
• Responsible for ESX server deployments, system updates/upgrades, system health and status monitoring.
• Creating LUNs, Storage groups, RAID groups and Pools in CX3-480/960.
• MDS fiber channel switch zoning for connectivity between CX3-480/960 arrays and HP blade center.
• Configuring virtual networking related security, traffic shaping and load balancing policies.
• Configuring HA/DRS related advanced configuration settings per VMware Best practices.
• Implementation of Shared storage across ESX Hosts to leverage vMotion and svMotion capabilities.
• Establishing ESX Deployment strategy, policies and procedures and deploying ESX cluster builds based on predefined policies.
• Infrastructure testing on the new ESX builds to identify potential flaws/failures from implementations before its release in production. vSphere Performance monitoring and analysis using Quest Foglight monitoring solution.
• Implementing Change requests for different configuration changes within the virtual infrastructure.
• Troubleshooting vSphere performance related issues.
• Managing/troubleshooting Cisco UCS in VMware Environments.
• Performed a production wide VM networking migration from Standard Virtual Switches to Distributed Virtual Switch with live traffic.
• Built HP DL380/580 G Servers for VMware deployments.
• Executed a large scale live VM Storage Migration from EMC CX3-480 TO CX3-960.
• P2V of approximately 400 physical Windows 2008 servers to HP P-class blades using PlateSpin, while ensuring computing, memory, and disk capacity were maintained at acceptable levels.

Environment: EMX CX3-40/3-80 Storage Array, HA/DRS, MDS fiber Channels, Cisco UCS Manager, HP DL 380/480 G.

Confidential

VMware Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Involved in design, implementation, and maintenance of current large scale physical and virtual consolidated infrastructures as well as with the design, test and implementation of future technologies within virtual space.
• VMwareESX 4.0 & 5.0 Host Server Installation, Configuration & Maintenance.
• SupportedVMware, specifically ESX VSphere 4 to monitor cluster performance, optimize the server environment, diagnose and resolve production issues amongst 3 Data Centers and over 1800 servers.
• Performed ESX Hosts and Virtual Machine migrations between Development, Integration, and Production environments and across Datacenters.
• Experience in the V2V and P2V migration of Physical servers toVMwareESX hosts
• Good experience working on vFabric products and vblock 300.
• Implemented and Tested desktop virtualization and introducedVMwareView to the client.
• Planned and Set up the Web Server environment for SSO (Single Sign On) technology.
• Windows systems administration including installing system Security Patches, Hot Fixes.
• Reviewed tasks, issues and recommend changes to reduce problem reoccurrences.
• Performed Production Server Support and Automated Information Systems assistance.
• Configured Network and Server Software, Hardware and peripheral devices to resolve network issues.
• Provided performance metrics, work-load status update, and project status updates at biweekly workload tracking meetings.
• Experience using a formalized change management and incident management process.
• Experience in troubleshooting DRS Cluster errors with shares, pools, and limits.
• Involved in Troubleshooting ESX host issues withVMware.
• Configuration of VMotion, VSwitch, and VLan in Virtual center.
• Experience utilizing Virtual Center, including VSphere Command-Line Interface commands.
• Install new and rebuild existing Servers and configure hardware, peripherals, services, settings, directories, storage, etc in accordance with standards and project/operational requirements.
• Installed, Configured and Maintained infrastructure systems such as ticketing systems.
• Maintained data center environment and monitoring equipment.
• Performed daily system monitoring, verifying the integrity and availability of all hardware, server resources, systems and key processes, reviewing system and application logs, and verifying completion of scheduled jobs such as backups
• Created, changed, and deleted the User Accounts per request.

Environment: VMwareESX 4.0 & ESXI 5.0 Servers, vblock300, vFabric products, Windows Windows7, Microsoft DFS, Active Directory, DNS, WINS, WSUS, DHCP, TCP/IP, NTFS, Dell Power Edge, IBM xSeries, HP/Compaq ProLiant G3, G5 Blade Servers, IIS Servers, VERITAS Net backup.