Summery

• Systems Administrator with 8 years of experience in VMware vSphere- global virtualization and storage networking infrastructure.
• Experience with Virtualization technologies like Installing, Configuring and administering VMware ESX/ESXi 3.5, 4.0, 4.1, 5.1 and 5.5 ,vCenter server 4.0, 5.0, 5.1 and 5.5 , vSphere and iSCSI SAN/NAS technologies.
• Deploying Virtual Machines through Templates, Converting Physical to Virtual P2V and Virtual to Virtual V2V Machines using VMware vCenter Converter Standalone and plate spin.
• Knowledge and proficiency with administration, configuration, troubleshooting of storage systems such as EMC Clariion, EMC Symmetrix ,IBM DS, IBM XIV,HP 3PAR and HP EVA.
• SAN/Brocade/McData/Cisco SAN switch zoning, configuration and administration.
• Experience on Brocade 48k DCX Directors and 3900, 4900, 5100, 5300 switches and Cisco directors MDS 9506/9509/9513 and departmental switches like 9120/9124/9134/9140 and Experience in Zoning Cisco, Brocade and McData switches
• Creation, management, administration and maintenance of virtual machines, clones and templets, and customizing guest operating system on virtual machines.
• Extensive experience in advance features like VMOTION, SVMOTION, and Creating Clusters for High Availability HA and Distributive Resource Scheduling DRS .
• Experience inP2V, V2V MIGRATION using VMware Converter, installing and upgrading VM tools.
• Experience in design, implementation, and support of VCE vBlock technologies.
• Expertise in Windows patching HPSA client , Linux patching and ESXi patching update manager .
• Experience in designing, deploying virtual networks and upgrading systems, including hardware, software, networks, databases, servers and peripheral equipment.
• Extensive experience with Active directory.
• Directory, GPO's, DHCP, DNS, TCP/IP, Sub Nets, VPNs, vLAN, Network routing, firewalls, LAN/WAN switching and Backup Recovery, File Print Server, IIS Web Server , FTP, Terminal Server.
• Performing Snapshots, Cloning, Cold Migrations and Hot Migrations
• Extensive experience Planning, configuration, maintenance and administration of Windows 2008/2003/2000/NT4.0Servers at single andmulti-domain platforms.
• Capacity planning using Capacityplanner and VMware guided consolidation for gathering the physical machines CPU and Memory usage metrics.
• Experience in generating reports using Jaspersoft.
• Presenting FC SAN LUN's, RDM's iSCSI LUN's and NFS mounts.
• Created vSwitches and different ports groups for different purposes.
• Taking care of NIC teaming at ESX server level for redundancy.
• Extensive experience and knowledge in vCloudDirector 1.5, 5.1, 5.5 and 5.6 , vCenterOrchestrator 4.2, 5.0 and 5.5 , vCenterusage meter 3.3, 4.0 and 5.1 , vCenter chargeback 2.5 and 2.6 .
• SAN Experience includes ECC/SYMCLI, VMAX,VNX,VPLEX, DMX-2, DMX-3000, DMX-3, DMX-4, CLARiiON CX 600, SMC, Replication Manager, Navisphere manager, NaviCLI, Fabric Manager/Device Manager, web tools.
• Having good knowledge on Cisco MDS switches, Fiber channel HBAs in SAN environments.
• Experience with Cisco UCS 5108 Chassis and UCS Manager UCSM .
• Upgrading Cisco UCS Firmware.
• Manage vCloud Automation Center 6.0 entities on VMware and third-party hardware and cloud infrastructures.
• Maintaining client networks including wiring, firewalls, switches, pc's, servers, nas, san and wireless access points.
• High understanding on resource management framework like creation resource pools, adding the VMs into resource pools.
• Troubleshooting issues relating to vmotion such as compatibility issues with help of event log.
• Configure and manage User, Group, Permission, Role, Resource pool on VMware virtual center.
• Performed technical expertise for windows systems environments on issues related to servers, local services, data centers, and server configuration.
• Maintained records for event, audit and application logs.

Professional experience:

Confidential

System Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Actively involved in complete environment up gradation to latest versions ESXi 5.1.0 to 5.5 U1, vCenter 5.1.0 to 5.5 U1, VCO 5.1.0 to 5.5.1, vCNS 5.1.2 to 5.5.3 and vCOPs 5.7.2 to 5.8.2
• 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. Participated in up gradation of CISCSO UCS Firmware from 3.3c to 3.3d.
• Upgrading VM tools, VM hardware versions and Data stores upgrade to VMFS 5.
• Creating Protection Groups and Recovery Plans using SRM 5.0 and VMware best practices.
• VM migration across the clusters using v2v, Mount file option and WinSCP.
• Planning migration strategies, DR plans with SAN and NAS data.
• Administered and managed EMC VNX/VMAX SAN storage.
• Provided installation and support of storage area networks SAN , Fiber Channel Configuration, Fabric zoning LUN Management.
• Experience in administration of Cisco MDS SAN switches
• Supported Brocade DCX4 and Cisco MDS9509 fiber channels switches.
• Involve in technical discussion and design and prepare recommendations for purchase, including impact analysis and risk analysis.
• Implementing Hyper-V new to the environment.
• Performing monthly patching round on Windows, Linux machines and ESXi hosts.
• Updating the McAfee on windows machines.
• Applying group policies on SQL servers using SQL server management studio.
• Experience with Cisco Nexus 1000V appliance.
• Implementing TIBCO loglogic server and Emulex into the environment as deploying OVF template.
• Administration on VM clones and snapshots.
• Responsible for Virtual Environment maintain and well-organizing.
• Developing the 2008 windows image catalogs in vcloud director.
• Developing PowerShell scripting for GuestOS Customization.
• Creating, managing and licensing plugins in vCenter Orchestrator and developing workflows.
• Working on data management using MySQL Workbench to create a report using Jaspersoft Report program
• Managed Windows 2008-2003 Active Directory Domain Administration and configuration of DNS/DHCPservices.
• Finding the vulnerabilities throughout the environment on windows boxes.
• Was involved in building, configuring and hardware upgrades of Windows servers.
• Worked on Performance Analysis and Tuning/Optimization Operations, Virtual machine creation, cloning, configurations.
• Worked on Windows Server 2008 and worked on failover configurations on windows Scheduled and unscheduled Outages.

Environment: vSphere 5.1 and 5.5, Hyper-V, Windows 2008/2003 Server, Cisco UCS 5108, HP Blade C7000 and C3000, EMC VNX, VMAX, Brocade, HP VCEM- Virtual Connect Enterprise Manager, Dell Power Edge Servers, Citrix and SQL, Tibco LogLogic, Emulex.

Confidential

VMware Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Installation, configuration and Administration of VMware, Windows, and Red hat Linux servers.
• Building, testing and managing of VMware vSphere 4.x 5.x
• Working with IDC, storage network team to troubleshoot networking issue
• Configuring BIOS RAID 0, 1 0, 5 and 6 as per client's needs
• Building ESX, ESXi, Hyper V, Red Hat 5.x 6.x using PXE and Kickstart
• Installing and configuring of vCenter 5.0 with Heartbeat 6.4, vCenter 4.0, 4.1, 5.0 servers.
• Create and Configure Virtual Machines, cloning and created Master Templates to create new virtual Machines.
• Physical to Virtual Migration using VMware and Hyper-V tools.
• Implementation and troubleshooting of vSphere Farm on ESXi 5.x platform
• Creating Host profiles to automate ESX configuration.
• Configuring and troubleshooting of HA, DRS, distributed switch, Clustering, vMotion Storage vMotion.
• Troubleshooting the vBlock systems and applications software issues that manage tickets opened by the customer for technical problem and supporting client by 24X7.
• vBlock deployment and install as the part of shared resource from VCE
• Creating Cloning, Snapshots Management and Templates on regular basis.
• Implementation ofvCloud Director, vShield.
• Deployment of vFabricApplication director and vFabric Data director.
• Planned, scheduled and migrated EMC, NetApp Storage frames and backup environments from one Data Center to another, meeting data center closure date.
• Created PowerCLIscripts for storage migration and routine health check for ESX/ESXi hosts.
• VCE vBlock Infrastructure provisioning, reconfiguration and decommissioning using EMC UIM.
• EMC VNX Block Storage Provisioning and Management for ESXi, Linux RHEL Windows hosts.
• Configure SNMP based monitoring alerts on all VBlock infrastructure elements.
• Configuring Hyper-V hosts virtual networking, storage, cluster and Hyper-V VM's high availability.
• Applying patches using update Manager or manually to ESX/ESXi hosts.
• Zoning, LUN Masking and Mapping and Scanning and configuring LUN for ESX servers.
• Configuring Virtual Machines on the VBlock and administering VBlock using UCS Manager, AMP.
• Configuring Nexus 1000v switches and MDS- SAN Switches.
• Implemented Disaster recovery site for production site.
• Performed storage and virtual machine migration using hot and cold migration type.
• Performed health check for the existing environment.
• Troubleshooting issues related to ESX host, vCenter, HA, DRS and VMware update manager.
• Worked with VMware update manager to install patches and updates on ESXi hosts and virtual machines.
• Upgrading VM tools, VM versions and Data store to VMFS 5.
• Migrated Physical Servers to Virtual Server using VMware Converter P2V Converter .
• Worked on Storage related daily Change Request activities.
• Have experience in NAS-NFS, NAS-CIFS and SAN storage administration.
• Managing iSCSI Networks.

Environment: VMware vSphere5.0, vBlock 300, NetApp, EMC VNX 5700, Cisco UCS, Nexus N1000v, Nexus 5548, UCSM, vCloud Director, AMP.

Confidential

VMware Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Upgrading vCenter Servers /ESXi hosts from vSphere 4.x to 5.0.
• Implementation of VMware vSphere 5.0 with Enterprise Plus Features of distributed Switch and Host
• Profiles Upgrade Experience from VMware Infrastructure 4.0 to vSphere 5.0 and Update 1 including vCenter5.0, ESX Hosts, Update manager, vSphere client, and Virtual machines tools and H/W upgrade to vSphere 5.0.
• Upgraded VMs hardware components according vSphere requirement.
• Have good knowledge on desktop virtualization.
• Establish and implement ongoing monitoring procedures as indicated by establishing a baseline and appropriate metrics, generating a security monitoring procedure, implement scripts, and auditing/verifying the system as reported on a periodic basis and participate in security audits
• Experience with Cisco UCS and HP c7000 blade administration.
• Have good working experience with VCE Vblock.
• Upgrading VM tools, VM hardware versions and Datastoresupgrade to VMFS 5.
• Was responsible for formulating disaster management techniques, and the course of action to be taken, in case of a network failure.
• Ensured that all the software and hardware components are upgraded properly, and also designed thecompany's networking policy.
• Co-ordination with network team for implementation and upgrade services CISCO MDS switches.
• Working experience on different planning migration strategies with SAN and NAS data.
• Supported a large scale Data Center projects including server installation, hardware maintenance and break/fix activities.
• Have good knowledge about Cisco MDS switches
• Having good knowledge in Administration of VM clones, Templatesand snapshots.
• Responsible for Virtual Environment maintain and well-organizing.
• Administering Windows 2003/2008 Active Directory , DNS, DHCP and building new windows physical/virtual servers as per the requirement of the project
• Was involved in building, configuring and hardware upgrades of Windows servers.
• Worked on Performance Analysis and Tuning/Optimization Operations, Virtual machine creation, cloning, configurations.
• Installed and configures software updates using Update manager using patches and created the baselines for the updates
• Creating Backup and restore of data by using windows backup and recovery utilities.

Environment: vSphere 4.0 and 5.0, ESXI 5.0, Windows 2008/2003 Server, Cisco UCS 5108, VCE V block, UCS manager, VNX, EMC Unisphere, HP Blade C7000 and C3000, putty, Power shell and SQL.

Confidential

System Engineer / VMware

Responsibilities:

• Involved in migration project from ESX 3.x to vSphere 4.0 and complete migration of VMs
• Worked on Datacenter consolidation projects.
• Migration of virtual machines from ESX 3.5 to ESX 4.0.
• Installation and configuration of ESX servers and facilitate server consolidation, migration and testing.
• Analyze performance of physical servers to determine and customize virtual server specification
• Deployment of VM Templates to deploy virtual machines.
• Installing patches and software upgrades recommended by security scan.
• Expertise in Thin provisioning, VMFS expansion, RAID technologies.
• P2V V2V conversions using System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2007 SCVMM .
• Upgrading of VMware tools to match ESX host level.
• Good experience working with HP EVA virtualization adapter.
• Server bang light fixing once every month.
• Clear-up of orphaned vmdk files periodically to clean up memory.
• LUN path mapping and keeping track of VM's along with their datastores.
• Implementation of Host Profiles in development cluster.
• Good experience in working on vShield manager.
• Implementation of EMC power path LUN path monitoring tool.
• Management of HP SIM for hardware monitoring.
• Experienced in migrating and importing virtual machines.
• Configured, deployed and involved in troubleshooting of VMs, ESX/ESXi servers, vCenter server, and vSphere 4.0.
• Configured Fault Tolerance FT for business critical servers.
• Implemented HA by configuring HA clusters with DPM enabled DRS clusters for automated power management and load balancing. Scheduled tasks for manual vMotion and Storage vMotion of VM's and managed snapshots prior to planned patch install or upgrade.
• Installation of vCenter server and Installing Virtual center components
• Updating ESX host's using VMware Update manager.
• Troubleshooting of file system issues with remote servers via telnet and putty.
• Monitoring and managing performance of ESX servers and Virtual Machines
• Creation of templates from VMs and Creation of VMs from templates.
• P2V and V2V conversions by using VMware Converter, VizonCore and PlateSpin Converters.

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

System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installed, configured and administering Microsoft Windows 2003/2000 servers.
• Involved in the VMware implementation and expansion work.
• Add 50 hosts bringing total to 105 managed hosts and administered more than 1500 VMs.
• Created and managed separate VMware clusters like QA, Development and Production.
• Perform capacity analysis of existing physical production environment using VMware Capacity Planner.
• VMware tools upgrading and Windows patch updates.
• Migrated datacenters and converted physical servers to virtual servers using VMware convertor and HP Blade servers resulting in a reduction of racks and power usage, decrease downtime during maintenance and upgrades and improved monitoring.
• Created and managed resource pools for Virtual Machines.
• Monitoring and managing performance of ESX servers and Virtual Machines using Virtual Center Server for HA, DRS.
• Involved in live migration of Virtual Machines and Virtual machines files using the vMotion and Storage vMotion.
• Handled the VMware solutions to support multiple storage connectivity options such as FC-SAN, iSCSI, NFS NAS and internal storage.
• Administered and setup print servers in Windows 2008/2003 server.
• Creation Troubleshooting of Virtual Network, ESXi Virtual Machines.
• Creation of templates from VMs and deploying VMs from templates.
• Administer for windows server 2003-2008R2 and all related server services including FTP, AD, DNS, DHCP and VPN.
• Created Virtual environment by using VMware ESX Server.
• Creating a test Environment in VM Machines for Production Team to test their applications.
• Used WDS and Acronis to deploy operating systems.
• Monitor around 600 physical servers with SCOM and SCCM 2007 and HP insight manager.
• Experience with data center hosting web sites maintaining application servers.
• Perform regular maintenance of Server 2008 and 2003, which consist of adding users, editing user login scripts and granting permission to directories and shared files.
• Monitor Sonic wall CDP Continues data protection 6.0 services for offsite backup.
• Provide Active Directory, Group policy and user profile maintenance.
• Maintain Symantec Endpoint protection management console.
• Provided technical support to troubleshoot network connectivity, network printing and user access issue.
• Troubleshoot windows infrastructure by resolving trouble tickets assigned by the users.
• Maintained and track hardware and software inventory and documents.
• Maintaining documentation and process for supported systems and applications.

Environment: VMware ESX 4.0/3.5, VSphere 4.0, Windows Server 2008R2/2003, Active Directory 2003, HP ProLiant Servers and Dell Hardware.