SUMMARY

• VMware/Linux Administrator with 7 years of System Administration in complex high end server/client environment consisting multiple operating systems, with expertise in AIX 7.1/6.1/5.x, Linux RedHat RHEL 6/5/4/3 SUSE SLES 11/10/9/8 and Windows NT/2000/2003 Server.
• Extensive experience in Administration of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.x/4.x/5.x, IBM AIX 6L/5L 5.x, Sun Solaris 8/9/10, SUSE Linux Enterprise 8, HP-UX 10.x/11.x and Windows servers advance features of ESX VMOTION, SVMOTION, HA and DRS.
• Proficient in all aspects of Red Hat Enterprise Linux RHEL , Sun Solaris and IBM AIX Operating systems from Installing, Configuring Hardware, and Customizing Applications using the latest technologies available to design fully automated operating systems.
• Extensive experience in installing, upgrading, maintaining and configuring Red Hat Enterprise Linux on Dell PowerEdge and HP servers using Custom and kickstart installation, SUN Solaris on Dell PowerEdge and Sun SPARC Servers using Jumpstart Servers and Interactive Installation.
• Experience in Upgrading, Migration, Backup, Disaster Recovery, Performance monitoring and Fine-tuning of systems running various Linux platforms.
• Performed Disk Mirrors and RAID 0, 1 and 5 levels on several UNIX and Linux servers.
• Discovered and attached LUNS provided by the Storage team to the required Unix/Linux Servers
• Performed monitoring of Linux cluster systems using Red Hat Cluster Suite.
• Experience with NIDS Snort open LDAP and Configured LDAP Server and LDAP Client on Linux.
• Installed and configured LAMP Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP for different application
• Experienced in installation and configuration of enterprise applications using IBM Web Sphere Application server 6.x/5.x on various Linux platforms and Windows Server 2003/2008.
• Installed and Configured - NFS, NIS, DNS, LDAP, DHCP, SAMBA, CVS, Mail Server, Apache Web Server on Linux and Solaris.
• Experience inP2V, V2V MIGRATION using VMware Converter / Plate Spin 6.8.x. Creating host and client VM templates and cloning.
• Supported NetApp Snap Manager products for Exchange, Oracle, Virtual Infrastructure, MS SQL, and Hyper-V .
• Build new servers Server 2008 R2 and SBS STD/Essentials utilizing VMWARE on HP/IBM/Dell servers.
• Experience in Virtualization technologies like installing and configuring VMWARE vSphere 4/5, vCenter. Creation, management, administration and maintenance of virtual servers and clients.
• Experience in Virtualization environment design, development, maintenance techniques, and processes.
• Experience in with Virtualization technologies like installing, configuring, VMware vSphere. Creation, management, administration and maintenance of virtual servers and clients.
• Extensive knowledge in advance features of ESX VMOTION, SVMOTION, HA and DRS.
• Server Installations, configurations, upgrades and migrations on Solaris, HP- UX, Linux.
• Configure and manage Middleware and web tools such as Apache, Tomcat, WebSphere, JBoss.
• Storage Provisioning, Volume and Filesystem Management using Veritas Volume Manager and Veritas Filesystem Veritas Storage Foundation , Configuring ZFS filesystems.
• Customized patching and maintenance of HPUX, Solaris, Linux servers on regular schedule.
• Configuring UNIX environments for Oracle Databases such as kernel configurations, filesystem layouts, ora file configurations.
• Setting up UNIX environments for Oracle Applications.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• VMWare: VMware vSphere 4/5, Workstation 6 and 7, ESX Server 3x,4x,5x VMware Virtual Center Server 2x and 3x, VMware DRS, HA and FT, UniDesk, VMware Capacity Planner, VMware Converter 3.0, VMware Update Manager 1, VMware Virtual Desktop, Infrastructure VDM 2.0, VMView, Thinstall, ThinApp and PlateSpin
• Operating Systems: Windows Server 2008 R2, 2012, Windows Server 2000/2003 SP1/ 2008, Windows XP/Vista/7, VMware ESX/ESXi server, Linux Red Hat 3.x/4.x/5.x, SuSE 9/10 .
• Application Servers : Windows server 2008/2003/2k, SQL Server 2000 and 2005, Microsoft Active Directory 2003, Microsoft Exchange 5.5, DHCP, DNS and WINS Services, Microsoft Internet Information Services 6.0
• Serves OS / Hardware / Storage: Cisco UCS Blades, HP Blade Enclosure C7000, and HP Proliant Blades BL Series extender 2000, EMC NS480.
• Protocols: TCP/IP, WINS, SNMP, DNS, DHCP, FTP, HTTP/S, SMTP, POP3, IMAP, LDAP, NNTP, RDP, Citrix ICA.
• Backup Software and Tools: ADMT, MS Baseline Security Analyzer, Symantec BackupExec, MS Visio, McAfee EPO, Symantec Endpoint Protection, Trend Micro Office Scan 8.0, Acronis, Symantec Imaging /Ghost, Dell Op Manager, VM backup tools/Scripts and vRanger Pro. Veeam tools.

Confidential

Sr. Unix Administrator

• Installation, configuration and administration of UNIX Operating Systems such as SUN Solaris 2.x/8, HP-UX 10.x/11.x, AIX 4.x, IRIX.
• Network implementations for Ethernet LAN, WAN. Configuration of TCP/IP, DNS, NIS and NFS services and protocols.
• Network management and administration using HP OpenView, CiscoWorks, SunNet Manager, Sniffer.
• Storage Management for HP XP Arrays, Sun A1000s.
• Logical Volume Management using VERITAS, DiskSuite, HP's LVM.
• Implementation and configuration of SAN Storage such as IBM DS8000/4000, EMC Clariion, DMX, NetApp.
• IBM SVC, Storage Navigator, Navisphere for Storage provisioning.
• Implementation of UNIX security procedures, installation and configuration of Secure Shell Openssh , configuration of firewalls Raptor, Checkpoint .
• Backup and Restore Strategies using tools such as OmniBack, Legato, Netbackup.
• UNIX SHELL scripting to automate several system administration tasks.
• Troubleshooting all kinds of UNIX problems and assisting users.

Confidential

Sr. Unix Systems Engineer

• Installation and Configuration of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.x and Solaris 8/9/10 operating systems on large distributed environment. Installing, testing and patching existing RPM's.
• Responsible for daily activities which included administration and maintenance of Enterprise and Advanced Servers ES/AS running Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
• Provided Administration support for server running on RHEL and Solaris at other facilities.
• Installed and Configured Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.2 in Dell PowerEdge 2970 and R905, Involved in System Analysis and Performance Monitoring of Red Hat Linux.
• Implemented and monitored clustering on SPARC servers using Veritas Clustering.
• Supported applications running on Solaris 8, 9, 10 and Linux Red Hat, SUSE , AIX 5.1/5.3.
• Installed and configured Veritas NetBackup on Red Hat Enterprise Linux systems.
• Troubleshooting performance issues in Solaris 9/10 and Red Hat Linux servers.
• Administration and maintenance of High end storage arrays from EMC Symmetrix DMX-3 .
• Implemented Web Application Servers like Oracle WebLogic, and Red Hat JBoss in and Red Hat Linux environment respectively.
• Creating volume groups, logical volumes, extending logical volumes based on the requirements using Logical Volume Management LVM , SVM, ZFS VERITAS commands.
• Upgraded Oracle WebLogic servers from 9.0 to 11g on Linux based servers.
• Backup and restoration of Database servers using SQL scripts.
• Installed and upgraded servers using the security patches and service packs released.
• Installed Red Hat Enterprise Linux over the network using Kickstart Installation and Solaris using Jumpstart.
• Monitored failovers and implemented automated recovery procedures for Dell Servers.
• Maintained troubleshoot SAN and Fiber card related errors on UNIX
• Used data from various monitoring tools and created vector diagrams using Microsoft Office Visio 2007 to analyze and design solutions based on the report.
• Installed, configured upgraded WAS 6.0, 7.0, and provided extensive support in code deploy, change management and application level troubleshooting for the Dev, Test, Pre-Prod Production environment.
• Installed and Configured Multiple OS using VMware ESXi on Dell using Virtual Center Server and VI client.
• Configured NFS and LDAP services in Red Hat Linux and IBM AIX systems.
• Performed troubleshooting of various bottlenecks including those found in the CPU and memory using system and network monitoring tools.
• Responsible for implementation, integration, problem resolution, root cause analysis, quality assurance, disaster recovery, audits hardware/software OS and application maintenance and all other daily system administration functions.
• Created new slices, mounted and un-mounted file systems.
• Used Logical Volume Manager to create disk groups, volumes, volume groups, and RAID's and used tools for backup and recovery
• Upgraded RHEL 4.x to 5.x
• Managed and implemented changes, upgrades, security procedures and policies to the UNIX client infrastructure.
• Wrote Shell scripts to automate the administrative tasks using cron.
• Tuning the kernel parameters based on the application/database requirement.
• Monitoring system resources, logs, disk usage, scheduling backups and restore using Nagios and Veritas NetBackup
• Created project report and wrote technical document for various projects.
• VMware Server management including server template creation and management, server deployments as well as ESX host troubleshooting.
• Performed ongoing hardware and software maintenance of Windows server environment, including VMware ESX Server and virtual machines.
• Managed project to migrate VMware ESX 3.0.2 Environment to ESX 3.5 and 5.0,5.1.
• Install and configured VMware ESX 5.0,5.1, HA, DRS, VDI on servers and workstations.
• Developed processes and standards patching ESX Hosts using HP Remote Deployment packages.
• Physical server's setup in datacenter including cabling/de-cabling to patch panels for networking.
• Virtualization environment design, development, maintenance techniques, and processes
• Architect and Engineer solutions based on virtualization automation suite of products and solutions: VMware vSphere 4/5, VMware vCenter Orchestrator vCO , RHEL 4, 5, 6, Windows Server, Configurations Management, etc.
• Extensively used VMware update manager to install patches and updates on ESX hosts and virtual machines.
• Updating ESX host's using Vmware Update manager.
• Monitoring and managing performance of ESX servers and Virtual Machines
• Working on Migration concepts like VMotion and cold migration, Storage VMotion
• Performed P2V migrations using PlateSpin Power Convert and VMware Converter
• Performed backup through Netback up and restore of VMware host server configuration, vCenter, Virtual Machine backup, snapshots.
• Configuring and troubleshooting of monitoring tools such as HP SIM, SolarWinds Orion, SCOM, and SCCM, Orchestration toolsets.
• Complete Datacenter/Cluster/Host/VM environment set up, configuration and operations including Vmware features such as HA, DRS, VMKernel through vCenter.
• Build and maintained the 18 ESX Host VDI Virtual Desktop Environment for application testing on various OS platforms.
• Resolve customer technical issues through diligent research, replication and troubleshooting. Keep the clients updated about the progress on their support tickets.
• Provide a detailed documentation about the problem description and the actions taken to fix the issue.

Environment: Windows 2000/2003, Windows Server 2008 SMS, SQL Server 2000, IIS 6.0, Exchange Server 2003, Microsoft WSUS, Windows XP, VMware ESX Server, vCenter and Workstation, Unix, Open filer, IBM TSM, EMC SAN, NAS, SRM, SCCM, ILO, HP SIM, SolarWinds, SCOM, Symantec, Firewall, EMC, BL/DL