SUMMARY

• VMware Certified Professional (VCP - 5-DCV, VCP-6-DCV, VCP-6.5-DCV) versions 5, 6, 6.5 with atleast 7 yrs experience in implementation and management of a wide array of virtualization scenarios including Data Center, Private Cloud, and Disaster Recovery.
• Strong communication skills, including a long successful history interfacing with customers, end users, and reporting to management.
• Particularly adept at migrations and upgrades in both the Compute (P2V, V2V) and as well as built Hyper Converged Infrastructure VSAN.
• Experience in creating, analyzing and managing Resource pools, virtual clusters, alert structures, security Groups, Permissions and virtual network.
• Experience in creating Templates for deployment of new virtual machines, managing multiple Snapshots, Cloning Virtual machines.
• Expertise with Deploying, Administration and monitoring tools like SCOM and Solar Winds.
• Experience with Patching Windows servers using Shavelik and SCCM.
• Sound knowledge in implementing Disaster recovery solution using VMware SRM.
• Experience with various storage arrays like VMAX2 in provisioning LUNS to the host using SymCli, and ECC/SMC/Unisphere.
• Comprehensive knowledge on VNX platform using Unisphere like implementing administration and managing VNX 5300.
• Full understanding of Windows Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, Windows desktop and Remote desktop. Implementation and administration of Active Directory in Windows 2008, 2012 and 2003 environment.
• Experience with Administration and Troubleshooting of VMware Horizon View 6.0/6.2.
• Experience with Backup tools like EMC Avamar, Symantec Backup Exec, Veeam, VCB (VMware Consolidated Backup), Quantum Tape Library for exporting/importing tapes.
• Experience with x86 / x64 Intel, HP hardware like rack-mounted servers, tower servers, desktop, laptop and other peripherals
• Experience with ticketing tools like Remedy, VSTS and SCSM.
• Demonstrated ability to work well with a wide variety of people at various levels, foster cooperation and collaboration among individuals in the work unit, help team resolve conflicts constructively and ability and willingness to communicate when help is needed.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: Windows Server 2003/ 2008 R2/ 2012 R2/ Vista/ Windows7/ Windows8/Windows10

Virtualization Technology: ESX, ESXi, VSphere 4.x to 6.x, vCenter, High Availability (HA), Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS), Resource pools, Host Profiles, RDM’s(Raw Device Mappings), vSphere Distributed switches/vSphere Standard Switches, Templates, Snapshots, Cloning, vApps, Content Libraries, Storage DRS, vMotion, P2V, Plate-spin, vCops, Update Manager, Microsoft Hyper-V, MVMC 3.1, Solar Winds, vROPS, F5, Horizon 6.0, Shavelik, Tenable, Nexpose, SCCM, EMC Avamar, Backup Exec, Quantum Tape Library, SCCM, UCS Central/Manager, Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, ADFS, IIS, Exchange, vSphere Power CLI, vSphere 6.5(POC), Remedy, VSTS, Data Domain, Unity, Isilon, VMAX, VNX, SRM, Veeam, VCB.

Hardware: HP ProLiant 6500 / 1600 / DL360 / DL 380 / DL 580/ DL 585 HP Blades BL 460 and BL 660HP Blade Enclosures C 7000, C3000 DELL Rack R815/810/620DELL Blades M630 & M830, M620DELL 2650/2600/1750/1650 , DELL Blade Enclosure M1000eCISCO Blades B440/B250/B200 CISCO Rack C 220/240/260/460.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Bowie, MD

Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Managed 350 - 400 ESXi hosts and 4000 VM’s across 6 datacenters.
• Deployed new ESXi hosts, build/modify/troubleshoot guest servers using vCenter, updated VM templates and configured/managed clusters, HA, DRS, vApp and resource pool settings.
• Experience with vcenter 5.5/6.0/ESXi 5.5/6.0/vSphere Update Manager RDM’s/Datastores/vSphere Networking (vSS & vDS)/Snapshots/vMotion/Storage vMotion/vSphere web client/Resource pools.
• Performed an Upgrade of the Cisco UCS firmware version from 2.28b to 2.28f on 60+ Cisco UCS blades using both UCS manager and UCS central.
• Performed migration of ESXi hosts and virtual machines from Windows vCenter to the vCenter Appliance.
• Worked on various Production outages and incidents related to the VDI, Windows, VMware issues and providing RCA’s.
• Experience in administration and troubleshooting of desktop pools like linked clones and Full clones using Horizon VDI 6.0. Worked on troubleshooting the issues on Connection servers, Security servers and VDI Composer.
• Work in conjunction with VDI Project Teams in design, development and implementation of VDI-related operational procedures, standards and deliverables pertaining to new VDI projects.
• Monitoring and reporting the health status of VMware Horizon View VDI environments and VSphere environments using vCOPS/vROPS. Responsible for using Power CLI and power shell scripts for better management of VSphere and VDI environments.
• Hands on Experience in deploying new VMware Horizon 7 features instant Clones, Blast Extreme, Identity Manager, Smart policies, Horizon Access Point, Horizon Linux Desktops.
• Performed P2V migration of windows 2003 physical servers using P2V converter.
• Experience in patching windows 2003, 2008 and 2012 servers using Shavelik and pushing the applications/softwares/updates to workstations through SCCM.
• Scanning all the servers and workstations with Tenable and Nexpose for any vulnerabilities. vRealize Operations Manager 6.6 and 6.5 - Decommissioned virtual machines, Performance analysis of VM’s and Reclaimed Compute resources using vROPS metrics.
• Patching ESXi hosts, Virtual machine tools and hardware Upgrades using VMware Update Manager and applied Host Profiles for all the hosts to maintain compliance.
• Responsible for generating SSL certs and renewing them on the concerned applications before causing any interruptions/Worked on a project for replacing the SSL certs issued by Symantec to Digi Cert.
• Experience with replacing certificates on ADFS servers/F5’s/Created party relying trusts on ADFS servers for various URL’s and updated various Internal/External Certificates.
• F5 Big IP - Creating new pools, adding members to the respective pools, creating VIPS and uploading the SSL/SAN certificates to the VIPS on F5 for Load balancing.
• Administration, configuring and troubleshooting EMC Avamar for backups.
• Exposure to storage arrays like Isilon, VMAX, VNX 5300, Data Domain, IBM XIV, XIO and Unity.
• Responsible for adding around 500+ virtual and physical boxes into the Solar Winds to be monitored and stood up a new Solar Winds instance and deployed Pollers.
• Installing/Administering Windows 2008, 2012 server for setting up new Domain Controllers, Active Directory services, File/Print servers, Applications servers/Web servers/Failover clusters.
• Working on various incidents and requests from Users and keep tracking them through Remedy ticketing tool. Work on various projects and keep track of the work through sprints in the VSTS.
• Responsible for Administration and troubleshooting ESXi hosts, Windows 2008 and 2012 boxes using iDRAC of Dell chassis and KVM console UCS chassis.
• Responsible for scheduling backup jobs for physical servers and Databases using Backup Exec and taping them out suing Quantum Tape Library.
• Performing an upgradation of TMOS software version of the F5 Big IP from 11.1.0 to 12.1.2 for resolving the sync issues between the primary and secondary F5 servers in case of failover.
• Troubleshooting various issues and coordinating with various vendors like EMC, VMware, VCE, Microsoft and CISCO whenever needed.

Confidential, Parsipanny, NJ

Systems Admin

Responsibilities:

• Coordinating with offshore teams and responsible for maintaining, configuring, and supporting VMware Virtual Infrastructure.
• Setup environment from ground up including uplinks design and server’s setup.
• Managed in Installing and configuring ESXi 5.5, 6.0 onto different HP and Dell servers remotely, using the application ILO and iDRAC, and using them for debugging and troubleshooting.
• Installed and maintained a Cisco virtualized data center with Cisco UCS Manager.
• Server builds on Cisco UCS blade (B440, B250, B200) and C-Series rack servers.
• Performing an upgradation of the VMware infrastructure from 5.1 to 5.5 manually by taking Snapshots of the existing Virtual machines.
• Responsible for generating reports, diagnostics, and evaluating performance metrics using SCOM 2012 R2 as well as Veeam Management Pack for System Center and recommending improvements, changes, and corrections.
• Performed the Storage consolidation and cleaned up the Data Store and gained app 6TB of space.
• Mapping LUN (RDM) to the SAP Guest machines as required coordinating with the storage team in LUN provisioning & Enabling Multiwrite on the disk allocated.
• Responsible for creating Clusters with High Availability and DRS with the implementation of the Affinity and Anti-affinity rules on the VM’s.
• Creating/Managing Host Profiles and deploy it to the hosts in a VMware cluster to make the hosts compliant with the other hosts in the cluster.
• Daily responsibilities include maintenance of Virtual machines for performance issues, also performing Vmotion, Cold migration of virtual servers and Storage Vmotion. building and maintaining VMware, vSphere, Horizon View, and vCenter environments working with VMware ESX/ESXi technologies using versions 6.x
• Design, Install, Configure and Administration of VMware Horizon View 6.2/5.3 and vCloud Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) environment.
• Excellent Administration and troubleshooting skills in issues related to View Connection servers, View Manager, View Security servers, View Composer, View Pools, View desktops, Snapshot, Win7 OS Templates creation.
• Provide 24*7 hr. VMware and VDI production L3/L2 support.
• Configured and managed GPO’s and Active Directory.
• As part of a Server refresh Excelled in migrating Physical servers to virtuals using the Plate-spin convert and Virtuals to Virtuals from one datacenter to another using the VMware converter.
• Responsible for the conversion of VMware virtual machines to Hyper-V using Microsoft Virtual Machine Converter (MVMC).
• Successfully created, managed, and monitored a variety of users, groups, and GPO’s in Active Directory services and group policies.
• Responsible for Creating Baselines and Remediating the Baselines for the hosts and virtual machine’s hardware using the VMware Update Manager in virtual center.
• Provided a POC on VMware NSX and its advantages over the standard ESX network communicating infrastructure.
• Working with SAN Admins to design & configure VNX (5100, 5300 series) and Symmetrix VMAX based LUNs.
• Created storage pools and provisioned block storage on VNX 5100, 5300 Arrays following EMC Best Practices.
• Coordinating with technical support team which is responsible for infrastructure services on Microsoft Windows technology and VMware VSphere.
• Working on the tickets like user access and permissions and any changes that are required by the client servers to the client DB with the help of App’s team to resolve the issues.

Confidential

Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Requirement gathering, Data analysis, Design and Implementation of the application.
• Installed and configured VMware ESXi 4.0, 4.1 on HP Blade and Rack servers, Virtual Center, vMotion, VMware HA, DRS, Virtual Machines templates, Sysprep, etc.
• Created 6 Datacenter Infrastructures based on Windows Server 2008 64bit Active Directory with 3 parallel networks i.e. Business Network, DMZ and Management.
• Responsible for successfully upgrading all hosts and vCenter servers from vSphere 4.0, 4.1 to 5.0.
• Reconfigured all ESX network connectivity utilization including VLAN tagging and teaming and also the configuration of many dvSwitches with 802.1q VLAN tagging
• Administrated and Implemented Citrix Presentation Server 4.0, built and maintained Farms, Member Server, Citrix License Server, Data Collector, Data Store.
• Manage and support, Citrix Presentation Server 4.0 to provide secure access to published applications with some exposure to XenApp 6.5.
• Primary administrator of all SCCM functions: software packaging, pc images and backups, querying and reporting, as well as full automation of all application, scripts, and batch file deployments.
• Served in computer maintenance; performed all types of hardware, software maintenance, and engineering in addition to systems selection, backup, and technical support.
• Performed the upgradation of multiple mission critical windows 2000/2003 member servers using VMware ESX 3.x Server and P2V using VM Converter to prevent downtime and production outage.
• Decent amount of experience in migrating production VMs using vMotion and Storage vMotion to new Datacenter with zero downtime
• Configured storage LUNs for VMFS and raw device mappings (RDM’s) on an HP EVA 4400
• Good experience in configuration of iSCSI storage box with the help of Openfiler
• Support Multiple (PSM and Core) vSphere4 farm. Designed and Planned an Upgrade to vSphere 4.0
• Involved in creating Runbooks for Disaster Recovery and planning.
• Actively involved in PSM VMware vSphere4/ESX4, Win2003/2008R2 Server deployment in DR environment
• Test and recommend Replication/Backup solutions for VMware, SAN and Disaster Recovery
• Carve LUN’s & Manage HP EVA4400 Fiber SAN and HP Lefthand P4500 Storage Solutions.