SUMMARY

• Technologist with around 13 years of experience in enterprise level Infrastructure Management.
• Expertise in design and implementation of VMware Virtualization, Vmware Horizon view (VDI) solution.
• VMware VCP6, VCP5(Desktop) and Cloud (vRealize automation) certified with extensive experience in VMware Virtualization administration with a primary focus on design, installation, configuration, and administration of VMware VSphere Suite, ESX/ESXi 5.1/5.5, VMware VCenter 5.0/5.5
• Expertise in administration and implementation of ESX/ESXi servers (6.0,5.5,5.1)and VCenter Servers (6.0,5.5,5.1) from scratch and upgrade.
• Extensive knowledge on cloud technologies such as VCAC and VRA.
• Designing and Creating Tenants, Fabric Groups, Business Groups, Reservations and Blueprints.
• Install, configure, and administer VMware 6.x vSphereand Horizon View onto Dell and HP Intel x86 servers.
• Upgrade of ESXi 5.1 to 5.5 using VMware update Manger (VUM).
• Administration of Fusion ioVDI for virtual workstation image deployment for better performance.
• Implementation of VMware vRealize Operation.
• Proactively assess performance and identify potential resource bottlenecks of virtual environment.
• Installation and configuration of HP P4800 left - hand SAN solution, Creating Management group /Clusters / volumes and assign to ESX servers
• Installation and configuration of HP C7000 blade enclosures having HP Blades server (HP P460C G7) with virtual connect (Flex10), 3G SAS switch.
• Administration of EMC CLARiiON CX3-80/CX4-80, Creating and managing Storage LUN and Assigning to Virtual/Enterprise server environment.
• Management of Enterprise server backups using EMC Avamar and VMware Data Protection (VDP)
• Preparing documentation and runbooks for day to day activities
• Extensive experience with VMware Horizon View (VDI) 5.1,5.3 and 6.2 Versions.
• Designed and Implemented Virtual Desktop infrastructure with more than 8000 Virtual Desktops using VMware Horizon View 5.1/5.2/5.3/6.2
• Application Virtualization using VMware thinapp.
• Implementation of Windows 7 master Image optimization for better performance.
• Designed and Implemented VMware Horizon View for Linked clone technology using View Composer
• Implementation of VMware SRM (Site Recovery Manger) for Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery (BC/DR)
• Participated in Datacenter migration and physical to virtual conversions using VMware converter.
• Responsible for the implementation of VMware View VDI upgrades, Change Management, Problem Management, and ITIL related process.
• Implemented several best performance settings and group policies on VDI infrastructure for better performance of VDI environment and better user experience.
• Excellent Administration and troubleshooting skills in issues related to View Connection servers, View Manager, View Security servers, View Composer, View Pools.
• Implementation of vShield Endpoint with trend micro deep security 9.0 for agentless security solution
• Perform infrastructure provisioning tasks such as creating Cisco UCS service profiles
• Administering and Monitoring vBlock components using element managers (UCS Manager, vCenter Server, Unisphere)
• Installing, configuring, administration of Windows 2008/2012 servers, Active Directory Services, DNS, DHCP roles.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Server Virtualization: VMware Vsphere suite ESX/ESXi 3.x, 4.x, 5.0, 5.1,5.5

Desktop Virtualization: VMware Horizon view 5.1/ 5.2/5.3/6.2

Storage: HP P4800 left-hand SAN solution, EMC Celerra NS-480 and CX-480

Hardware: HP c7000 class Blade Systems, virtual connect (Flex10) SAS switch configuration, firmware and saniq upgrade.

Backup: EMC Avamar, VMware Data Protection ( VDP )

Wintel: Microsoft Windows server 2003,2008,2012

Database: SQL server 2008

Data center operation: Design consolidation / implementation and migration

Monitoring tools: HP Sim,vcops

Antivirus: Trend Micro deep security

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

VMware & VDI Architect / Infrastructure Lead

Confidential, NYC, NY

Responsibilities:

• Requirement gathering and working with PM’s and stake Holders.
• Installation, configuration & Mange Windows 2008/2012 servers
• Installation and Configuration of DNS, WINS and DHCP servers.
• Installation of VMware ESXi Servers and managing using Vcenter Server
• Setup and configure vRealize Automation, Install IAAS components
• Create and configure Tenants, endpoints,Fabric groups, Reservations, Create blueprints and entitlements.
• Installation of SQL 2008 servers and database creation for View composer, Vcenter, VUM, Trend deep security.
• Configured VMware HA, VMware DRS in acquiring higher efficiency for VMware Infrastructure
• Installation and configuration of HP C7000 blade enclosure for View infrastructure having HP Blades server (HP P460C G7) with virtual connect (Flex10), 3G SAS switch configuration, firmware and saniq upgrades.
• Installation and configuration of HP P4800 left-hand SAN solution, Creating Management group /Clusters / volumes and assign to ESX servers
• Installation of View connection server, replica servers, composer servers, security servers.
• Implementation and configuration of VMware View 5.1 in 4 different Sites
• Created various view pools with linked clone feature to reduce storage and improve OS management and rapid desktop deployment.
• Implementation of vShield Endpoint with trend micro deep security 9.0 for agentless security solution.
• Implemented VMware Data Protection (VDP) for management server backups.
• SANIQ upgrade of hp storage bladed using CMC
• Implementation of VMware SRM (Site Recovery Manger) for Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery (BC/DR)
• Upgrade of ESXi 5.1 to 5.5 using VMware update Manger ( VUM).
• Worked on View upgrade project from 5.1 to 5.2,5.3 and 6.2 Managed service provider (MSP)
• In this project I was part of design and implementation team to deploy VMware VDI (Horizon view 5.3) solution for Outsourcing projects.
• Setup and configure vRealize Automation, Install IAAS components
• Create and configure Tenants, endpoints,Fabric groups, Reservations, Create blueprints and entitlements.
• Requirement gathering and working with PM’s and stake Holders.
• Installation of VMware ESXi 5.1/ ESXi 5.5 Servers and managing using Vcenter Server
• Installation of Vcenter/ View connection / replica and security servers.
• Creation / maintain of VM templates for pools.
• Creating various dedicated pools with different sizes of CPU/DISK/RAM as per the customer requirement.
• Creating knowledge articles for GSD for support.
• Administering and Monitoring vBlock components using element managers (UCS Manager, vCenter Server, Unisphere)
• Active Member of Server consolidation Team.
• Requirement gathering and working with PM’s and stake Holders.
• Installation and configuration of HP P4800 left-hand SAN solution, Creating Management group /Clusters / volumes for VMware Infrastructure.
• SQL 2008 installation/ creation of database for Vcenter, VUM.
• Installation and configuration of ESXi, virtual center server, HA, DRS and configuring of ISCSI and NFS volumes.
• Performing P2V for end of support hardware infrastructure using VMware converter.
• Consolidation plans that require target milestones and target measures, including targets for server reduction via virtualization and storage consolidation.
• Managing EMC CLARiiON CX3-80/CX4-80, Creating and managing Storage LUN and Assigning to Virtual/Enterprise server environment.
• Managing EMC Celerra NS-480, creation of new CIFS server and CIFS shares.
• Design and implementation of SRM for Disaster recovery .
• Installing, configuring, administration of Windows 2008 servers, Active Directory Services, DNS, DHCP roles.

Confidential

Senior Infrastructure Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Upgradation of ESX and vCenter server from 4.1 to 5.1
• Involved in developing virtual application sizing, a virtual machine layout and a vSphere cluster layout.
• Configuration and administering consoles like ILO and DRAC to perform server management remotely.
• Installation and configuration of HP C7000 blade enclosure
• Management of windows 2003/ 2008 infrastructure.
• Perform infrastructure provisioning tasks such as creating Cisco UCS service profiles,
• Patch Management using Shavlik & WSUS
• Deploying and configuring ESXi, creating data stores, creating VLANs.
• Implementation and Administration of VMware ESX 4.X & 5.X environment.
• Migration of Physical to Virtual Migration using P2V Converter.
• Managing Critical application and file servers.
• Creating New Scripts & analyze the existing scripts on PoweCLI & PoweShell

Confidential

Senior Infrastructure Server support engineer

Responsibilities:

• Production support for Windows and VMWare systems of the firms Infrastructure.
• Installed management server (vCenter server) instances to enable centralized management of multiple hosts
• Leveraged technical experience and knowledge to support on over 1400 enterprise class Windows based servers supporting various infrastructure technologies. Technologies hosted on this environment included 1000+ client Backup systems in several major datacenters.
• Administration of VMWare Infrastructure for North America and EMEA region.
• Worked on VMware HA, DRS, VMotion and Virtual center issues.
• Performing RCA for repeated incidents.
• On boarding (Go-live) of new servers to production support.
• Deploying windows patches to Test, production and UAT servers using DVMT tool.
• Integrated 600 ILO's to Active directory authentication.
• ESX patching using customized script.
• Creating VM's as per the customer requirements.
• Supporting oncalls for priority/severity issues on weekends.
• Analysis of the environment and perform root cause analysis for identified problems
• Good Understanding of virtualization technology
• Experiences with enterprise scale security solutions including anti-virus.

Confidential

Senior Infrastructure Server support engineer

Responsibilities:

• Installation and configuration of new servers
• Deploying hot fixes for the servers as when it’s released by Microsoft and approved by the security team
• Creating privileged accounts in AD and assign rights based on business requirements.
• Creating shares on filers (NAS) and map the same to the corresponding DFS paths Increase the quota’s for the shares on filers.
• Configuration of MOM agents and trouble shooting for errors for the high availability of production environment.
• Maintain the print servers in the network.
• Managing the large number of clusters deployed in the network.
• Configuration of remote access hardware’s for accessing the servers remotely. (RILO, DRAC and IBM blade consoles.)
• Analyzing various crash dumps and find out the solutions for the same.
• Root cause analysis of unexpected server reboots
• Database maintenance includes updating new hosts as and when it is required.
• Windows 2003 Server builds using winbuild (Unattended installation)

Confidential

Senior Infrastructure Server support engineer

Responsibilities:

• Active Directory users and groups management.
• Implementation and administration of DHCP
• Installation, Administration and Monitoring the antivirus system
• Administration and Maintenance of Windows based network of over 500 workstations and 10 servers (Dell servers) running windows 2000/2003 operating systems.
• Remote Administration using terminal service, VNC.
• Installing and administering network printers
• Implementing RAID 1 and RAID 5 on mission critical servers such as domain controllers.
• Troubleshooting of OS, network and application related problems
• Installations of user required applications and support for the same.
• Creating User Accounts in ADS.