PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• VMware certified with over 9+ years of experience with expertise in Virtualization suite administration on top of a vblock environment.
• Implementing vBlock based converged infrastructure for large scale private cloud deployments with over 600 servers with EMC storage backend.
• End to end administration experience in vBlock series 300, 100, 700, 720, 540.
• End to end vBlock RCM upgrade experience.
• Installation, Configuration and Administration of Virtual Infrastructure using ESX/ESXi, VMware Vsphere 5x and 4.x, Virtual center4.X and 5.x Servers, vCloud Director, Consolidated Backup, DRS, HA, DPM, vMotion, VMware Data Recovery, VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM), vCenter Operations Manager, Horizon Workspace, Horizon Mirage, ThinApp and Powershell scripting experience.
• End to end vBlock Infrastructure Management using individual element managers for all the compute, virtual, network and storage areas using vCenter, UCSM, Unisphere, Nexus CLI and EMC UIM.
• Installed the VRealizesuitein different DC or cluster in our Cloud Infra.
• Managing all aspects of vSphere environments including vSwitches,Distributed File, Distributed virtual switches, HA, Distributed Resource Scheduler, vMotion, Storage vMotion, Access and Authentication control, VMFS, host profiles, storage profiles, Resource over commitment, contention management and Advanced Troubleshooting.
• Expert level EMC VNX implementation specialist and LUN deployment design to facilitate shared and boot storage.
• Strong expertise in Cisco Unified Computing Systems (Cisco UCS) design, deployment and configuration specific to vSphere environments for compute platform High availability,redundancy and efficiency.
• Installation of Citrix Presentation server 4.0/ XenApp 4.5/5.0 & Citrix Client Tools.
• Excellent experience in migrating NAS Shares , from EOLS EMC Celerra array to New EMC VNX 5600 Storage arrays using rsync EMCopy, host level migration technique. Knowledge of AD Groups, Users, Security, permissions, Network IPs requirements involved in NAS migration .
• Experience inmanaging operations for about 600 plus servers and their backend storage arrays which included VNX, VMAX, Extreme IO, Isilon Storage arrays.
• Expertise in creating Citrix Streaming Profiles and Publishing Applications to users in Citrix XenApp 4.5/5.0
• Experienced in VMware Management and Automation Tools: VCenter 6, (VCo) VCenter Operations Manager, (VRo) VRealize Operations, vSOM, VCenter Orchestrator, VRealize Automation (vRA), and VMware Configuration Manager.
• Experienced in Virtualization Technologies for Client and Mobile environments including: VMware Realize Horizon View, VMware ThinApp, Microsoft Hyper - V RDP Clients, Citrix XenDesktop / XenApp.
• Administration of Cisco, Dell, IBM, HP servers on different virtual platforms and storage backend systems.
• Involved in Installation, Configuration, and Maintaining of Microsoft Windows 2000/2003/2008 /2012 Servers.
• Worked on configuring the servers with Raid Configuration on HP Proliant DL585, DL380 Servers.
• Configuring VMWare Virtual Distributed, Standard Switch, Citrix server policies, Load Management and Printers in the Farm.
• Experience on High Availability, Distributed File, Distributed Resource Scheduler & Resource Pools.
• Solid experience on vMotion, Storage vMotion, VMware Fault Tolerance, Update Manager and SRM,Access and Authentication control, ESXi advanced configurations, Network/Storage IO Control,VMFS Datastore, Host profiles, Storage profiles, Resource Management and Performance Monitoring, Cloning, Cold Migrations and Hot Migrations and taking Snapshots.
• Implemented, Supported vCloud using vCloud Director (vCD), vShield Manager, vShield Endpoint, Chargeback Manager, vCenter, ESXi.
• Implementing vBlock advanced Management Pod (AMP) with Cisco C200 rack mount EMC VNXe and Cisco 3560.
• Proficiency with vSphere PowerCLI, vMA, Cisco UCS powertool and EMC Navicli, performed root cause analysis and taken necessary actions for permanent fix and handled the operations as per defined best practices and Performed Capacity Management functions.
• Creatingstandard Operating Procedures(SOP's), technical run books and technical guides for the client to handle operations after Vendor contract.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

VMware products: VMware vSphere 6,5.5,5.1/4.0, VMware Infrastructure 3.0/3.5, vCenter 4.0/4.1,5,5.1,6.0 ESX/ESXi 3.5/4.0/4.1/5/5.1/5.5, 6.0 vCenter Update Manager 4.0,Citrix XenApp 4.5/5.0, vRealize 6.x, vSOM,Vmware VCM, vSphere Client, VMware Horizon.

Operating Systems: ESX/ESXi, Linux (Redhat, SuSE, CentOS, Fedora, Ubuntu), Unix (Solaris,HP-US, AIX),Windows (2008/2007/2003/2000/ NT)WindowsServerNT/ 2000/2003/2008 R2/2012

Microsoft Technologies: Active Directory Domain Services (ADDS), Tivoli and Big Fix Microsoft Server 2008 file and print server, DNS, DHCP, DFS, File Service, Print Services, Web-Server (IIS 6), Application Server, TCP/IP Networking, FTP

Hardware: HP PROLIANT Range of Servers (DL385,DL 585,DL 580), EMC Avamar, Dell Power Edge & IBM X series Range of Servers like Dell(Dell Servers: Power Edge 2950, Dell Power Edge R900, R710, R700).

Storage: ISCSI, FC SAN,NETAPP, NAS, EMC (Clarion, DMX, CX4, VMAX,ViPR Controller).XtremIO, VMAX, CX480, VNX

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Sr. Systems Engineer

Confidential, TX

Responsibilities:

• Planned and executed a SAN migration from a legacy VMAX array hosting VMware vSphere, file services, and Exchange to a multifaceted storage portfolio including EMC XtremIO and Isilon. Accomplished with no major downtime.
• Provisioning new storage as per requests to AIX, Windows and VMware environments from VNX2/ VMAX/XtremIO using ViPRCONTROLLER.
• Trouble shooting performance issues with VMAX,VNX and XtremIO in the SAN environment
• Worked with EMC in installation of new VMAX 40k and new XtremIO and in solving issues in the SAN environment and Confidential
• Configuring advanced settings, connections, inventory preferences, placeholder datastores, array managers also Managing protection groups, recovery plans and Protecting virtual machines
• Installed and Configured ViPR CONTROLLER.
• Created virtual pools and defining the storage capabilities and assigning physical storage pools to virtual pools.
• Experienced in Configuringand managing disaster recovery activities.
• Discovered, the VMAX and XtremIO storage system to ViPR and registered.
• Experienced in creating Host, Cluster, Export groups, storage groups in ViPR CONTROLLER.
• Experienced in Setting up the physical storage infrastructure of the ViPR virtual data center and configures the physical storage into two types of virtual resources (virtual arrays and virtual pools)
• Migrated Windows, VMware Esxi, LINUX,AIX servers from VMAX to XtremIO.
• Developed automated VM deployment methodology using VMware templates and Ansible which reduced deployment effort from dozens of manual steps to several automated ones.
• Developed detailed cost models for virtual hosting and storage services used to inform purchasing decisions and develop sustainable chargeback rates in a large institutional setting.
• Developed a modular compute and storage model which streamlined the process of acquiring equipment and provided a corresponding cost model to inform business decisions.

Confidential, St Louis, MO

Sr. Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• System administration with string hands-on tasks on VMWare Suite/UCS environment, including RCM upgrades and worked on vBlock series 300, 700, and 540.
• Design and deploy the UCS environment using manual service profile creation(initial and updating) as well as automation using UIM.
• Managing backup infrastructure for an US based clients, as Commvault Simpana 9.0 & 10.0 are the backup applications for the clients (Purely Windows 2008 Server environment).
• Installed and ConfiguredVMware VSOM (vSphere with Operations Management Suite).
• Design, Installed, configured Upgraded the VMAX/VNX/NetApp/Isilon/Equallogic/HPEVA Products
• Worked on Allocating storage space to VMAX/VNX/NetApp/Isilon/Equallogic/HP/IBM/STK.
• Design, install, and configure VMware Data Recovery, VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM).
• Created custom management packs to monitor non-native Microsoft application in SCOM to reduce outages by 95%
• V-MAX 10, 1/20, 40K. VNX 5600, 5800, VSP, USP-V, HNAS. Currently getting ExtremeIO, VMAX2, VSP G1000 on the roadmap.
• Monitored, analyzed and cleared network alarms at Network Operation Center (NOC ).
• Monitoring the Health, Performance and Efficiency of vSphere with vCenter Operations Manager (VSOM).
• Microsoft Office SharePoint Services 2007 and Microsoft SharePoint Server 2003 in the same VMware environment.
• Experience in installation, configuration and technicaldocumentation of vSphere 6/5.1, and vSphere 6 and 5.5 products,VMware vRealize vRAsuite, VMware VCenter Configuration Manager (VCM), Microsoft Hyper-V, Citrix, KVM, Cisco UCS, PowerShell, and PowerCLI.
• Experience as a VMware Administrator in Data Center Environment using ESX server 5.x.
• Responsible for administration of organizations backup solution using EMC Avamar.
• Build, configure and deploy VMs and templates. Completed Physical-to-Virtual (P2V), Virtual-to-Virtual (V2V) and Virtual-to-Physical (V2P) migration of Windows NT, 2000, 2003, 2008, and 2012 as well as Linux servers from VMware, Hyper-V, Xen and legacy hardware.
• Configured and deployed Cisco computing clusters with VMware ESXi 5.5 and vCenter 5.5.
• Product support and implementation for leading cloud ready EMC products like ViPR, ViPR SRM, Watch4Net, VNX monitoring & Reporting.
• Design, Installed, configured Upgraded the VMAX/VNX/NetApp/Isilon/Equallogic/HPEVA Products
• Worked on Allocating storage space to VMAX/VNX/NetApp/Isilon/Equallogic/HP/IBM/STK.
• Worked extensively on NAS based migration products including Robocopy, EMCopy, Beyondcompare, EMC Rainfinity (CTA)
• Worked on SRDF, Open Replicator, SAN-Copy, Isi Volcopy, SyncIQ, Aspera, robocopy, rsync, EMcopy, Snapmirror, Snapview Technologies.
• Installed, configured upgraded Core/EDGE Switches in Brocade Cisco.
• Gained working knowledge on RecoverPoint and assisted the client on RPA based data migration from one data center to the other.
• Maintained, monthly updates and Troubleshoot windows servers windows 2000,2003, 2007, 2008R2,2012 versions and Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) creatingdisk spaces for windows servers with Outlook Support.
• Worked with VMware features: High Availability, V motion, Storage V motion and Fault Tolerance.
• Resource Management Configuring VMware HA, VMware DRS Clusters for VMotion migrations between ESX Servers.
• Managed operations for about 600 plus servers and their backend storage arrays which included VNX, VMAX, Extreme IO,Isilon Storage arrays.
• Handled ticketing system and designed SOP's for stabilizing after hour operations, assigned On-call dutires to team members in a 24/7 set up.
• Carving out boot and pool LUN's for facilitating storage allocations and ESX provisioning and shared storage set up in the cluster environment.
• Virtual Machine protection using vSphere Replication, Site Recovery Manager (SRM), Basic Avamar administration tasks Backup and Replication.
• Managed Server/Switch Migration project and coordinated with Network Support, Hub Maintenance, and Wintel server support.
• Hands on and comprehensive understanding of Booting ESXi from SAN, vCenter Server deployment options, vCenter server, Database, Hardware requirements.
• Install, configure Update Manager, Update Manager Plug-in, baselines, Scan and remediate to perform ESXi patching and host upgrades.

Confidential, San Francisco, CA

VMware/UCS administrator

Responsibilities:

• Administration, VMware configuration and Administration, Network devices, Security devices for datacenter.
• Administration of VBlock 300 FX model with VNX as backend storage systems.
• Support for NetApp storage systems in VMware environments using NFS, iSCSI, and FC SAN.
• Designing,Configuring, monitoring, and troubleshooting CIFS and NFS storage on VNX File. -Configuring and managing disaster recovery activities on VMAX, xtremIO, recover point, ViPR and DMX arrays.
• Experienced in moving information from primary storage to other EMC unified storage using Cloud Tiering Appliance(CTA)
• Responsible for Migrating Block level and file level data from End of Support life Storage arrays to the New EMC VMax, VNX Storage arrays. NAS Shares, both CIFS and NFS using rsync and EMCopy techniques.
• Experienced in Configuration, backups with Vsphere data protection and Data Domain.
• Monitoring Using the vSphere Web Client, vSphere Data Protection Configuration UI.
• Installed and configured SCOM application as well as monthly SCOM quarterly update.
• Performed physical to virtual (VMware) Migrations for over 180 servers using VMware Converter Standalone.
• NAS Migration using Incremental and Full copy using EMCopy for CIFS Shares and rsync for NFS Shares.
• Multiple installations, configurations, and testing using VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager
• SRM 5.1 and VMware VSOM (vSphere with Operations Management Suite).
• Expertise in creating Citrix Streaming Profiles and Publishing Applications to users in Citrix XenApp 4.5/5.0.
• Worked on migration tools like Rsync, NDMP, Emcopy, SRDF, PPME, VNX replicator.
• SAN Administration of a complex multi peta byte storage environment consists of EMC Symmetrix VMAX/DMX4, and VPLEX.
• Experienced working on NetApp SAN, NAS and IBM SAN Technologies.
• Design and Implementation of FAS2000, FAS3000 and FAS6000 Filer's.
• Experience in NetApp Filers quota Management, CIFS shares, NFS exports, Data migrations
• Provided IT support for monitoring emails and service desk call for wintel platform servers
• Managing backup infrastructure for an US based client, as Commvault Simapana 9.0 is the primary backup application for the entire client (Windows 2003, 2008 Server environments).
• Created and managed the internal Server Migration Team Test Lab. Lab included (HW: Cisco UCS, HP Srvrs, Dell Srvrs, Netapp Stg, and DMC Stg HV: VMware Vsphere, MS HyperV, and Citrix).
• Publishing of App-V 5.0 applications as seamless applications via Citrix XenApp.
• Extensive knowledge in advance features of VMware VMotion, Storage vMotion, HA and DRS including vSphere Update Manager, VMware Data Recovery, vCenter Lab Manager and vCenter Orchestrator.
• Hands on experience in P2V, V2V, P2C MIGRATION using VMware vCenter Converter / Plate Spin Power Convert and Creating host and Windows client VM templates and cloning.
• Evaluate which VDI solution would fit the customer requirements better (Vmware, Citrix, MS, Hybrid).
• Used Vmware VCenter and VCM to configure and manage the Cisco UCS infrastructure.
• Strong knowledge on concepts in iSCSI SAN, NAS, NFSstorage and RAID (0, 1, 10, 01, and 5) concepts.
• End to end VBlock infrastructure administration, ranging from VMWare, Cisco UCS, and EMCAvamar and managing them using their element managers.
• Understanding and experience FC SAN concepts, snapshots, clustering and fail-over, file Permission management and disaster recovery.
• Successfully deployed and tested Disaster recovery solutions for selected business applications using EMCAvamar.
• Used VMware Update Manager to install critical and locally tested updates to the ESX Host.
• Experience in configuring and troubleshooting vSphere Networking (VSSand VDS policies)
• Troubleshooting issues with SAN Storage, Active Directory (AD), DNS, and DHCP.

Confidential, Helena, MT

VMware Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Installing, configuring, administering, troubleshooting VMware ESX/ESXi 3.5 and VMs, VMware workstation, Horizon Workspace, Horizon Mirage, ThinApp and scripting experience.
• Lead design, deployment, and maintenance of a broad range of Microsoft technologies including: Windows Server 2003, 2008, 2008 R2; Exchange Server 2003 & 2007; SharePoint Server 2003, 2007, 2010; Internet Security and Acceleration (ISA) Server 2004, 2006; SQL Server 2000, 2005, 2008; Windows Server Update Services (WSUS), Outlook Support.
• Build, Configure, Administered and Supervise 100 + Wintel Servers
• Experienced in migrating data between different NAS arrays using a wider ange of Migration Tools (synciq, robocopy, emcopy, VNX replicator,isi vol copy, rsync, snapmirror).
• Designed custom software distribution packages and advertisements to be distributed via SCCM and MDT 2007.
• Upgraded Operations Manager 2007 to SCOM 2012 with no or little customer downtime increasing user experience, application performance and ability to monitor additional resources by 10%.
• Used Virtual centre server for HA, DRS, vMotion and Configured VMware FT for mission critical servers.
• Created Consistency Groups, configured journal volumes and created RecoverPoint session for RPA based data migration.
• Have done POC on Flash technology EMC Xtreme IO, Netapp EF550, IBM V840, Purestorage.
• Implemented System Center Orchestrator runbooks to automate SCOM maintenance mode functions during monthly Microsoft patching.
• LDAP integration with Windows Active Directory.
• Thorough understanding of DHCP and DNS network services and how they integrate with or compliment Active Directory
• Worked in deploying several sets of Linux guest builds from VMware templates using PowerCLI as well as Red Hat Satellite Server.
• Ability to understand problems and create an escalation process. Also expertise in training others
• VMware tools upgrading,windows patch updates with Outlook Support.
• Responsible for performing monthly patching on Infrastructure servers
• Configuring ESX 3.x servers to use iSCSI& NAS storage.
• Virtualized 50+ and Building new VMware virtual machines to meet the specifications provided by the client.
• Creating Roles and permissions in VMware ESX Server 3.0/3.5/4.0
• Created a kick start automated installation media for VMware 3.5. Managing Windows 2000/2003 active directory forest consisting domain controllers running services such as DNS, WINS,and Certificate Services.

Confidential

Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Designed and administrated server consolidation program through use of VMware ESX server and VMware Virtual Center. Migrated over 75 physical servers to virtualization and managed the ESX 2.x to VI3 migration as well.
• Involved in operational support of Active Directory, WINS, DNS, and AD enabled applications.
• Installing and updating the windows patches.
• Creating NTFS shares on Windows Servers and provide permissions to users.
• Responsible for planning and implementation of the company’s system and network.
• Modify, patch, and rebuild the Linux kernels.
• Maintain DNS, DHCP and Trust Relationship between domains.
• Experience in network monitoring and patch management using VMware Update Manager.
• Implemented Resource Pool to divide the VM’s according to their resource requirements.
• Responsible for creating Host Profile and with that I developed 100 hosts.
• Plate spin, Power Convert, VMware Converter used for Physical to Virtual/Virtual to Virtual conversion/Physical to Physical conversion.
• Recommended, redesign of VI3 environment.
• Application Migration from physical to virtual/virtual to virtual platform.
• Develop, test, and maintain a Disaster recovery plan for critical VMs and application data.
• Setting up windows servers to analyze performance issues.
• Built and manage Virtual servers on VMware ESX Server 3.0/3.5.
• Experience in creating Clusters in Virtual Center and adding ESX Hosts to Virtual Center Cluster.
• Experience in setting up VMkernel Network and Enable VMotion.
• Created the ESX test environment and plans, and handled communication with the business units. The project also included the upgrade of multiple mission critical NT4 member servers using ESX server and P2V to prevent downtime and production outage.
• Experience in configuring VMware DRS Rules and VMware HA on Clusters in Virtual Center.
• Experience in creating and monitoring Resource Pool for Virtual Machines Resource Reservation and Limits.