RAJESH

Mobile No: 925-***-****

Mail ID: acr31c@r.postjobfree.com

Summary

More than 9 years of experience in IT with demonstrated expertise in the installation, configuration, and administration of Windows/Linux servers, VMware ESX 3.5, 4.x, 5.x and 6.0 VMware vcenter server and other software products.

Installed and tested VMware vSphere 6.0 in a test bed setup for future vSphere upgrade.

Installation and configuration of virtual machines in an Enterprise SAN and NAS environment.

Experience of maintaining Business Continuity and performing Disaster Recovery (DR) using VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM).

Experience with SRM 5.5 (beta)/5.1 deployment and Implementation.

Knowledge in ESX Architecture, guest OS installation, setting up of VM priorities, Cloning, Snapshots.

Experience installing, managing and administering Windows 2012 and 2008 based Domain controllers, Backup / Additional Domain Controllers

Experience in the Server and Desktop Management (Windows/Linux Administration), Support, Analysis and Maintenance.

Provide troubleshooting for assigned level, operating system upgrades, patch management and provisioning on a daily basis.

Architecture, design, install, configure VMware ESX, ESXi, within VI3, vSphere 4 and vSphere 5 environments with Virtual Center management, Lab Manager, vCloud Director, Consolidated Backup, DRS, HA, DPM, vMotion, ESX Host Profiles, vSphere Distributed Switch (vDS), VMware Data Recovery, VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM), vCenter Operations Manager, Horizon Workspace, Horizon Mirage, ThinApp and VMware View desktop virtualization infrastructure (VDI).

Knowledge in creating users and user permissions.

Excellent knowledge in updating / upgrading ESX servers, Virtual Center servers and Virtual machines using VMware Update manager and manual upgrades

Configuration and analysis physical systems convert into virtual environment through consolidation

Performing Snapshots, Cloning, cold migrations and hot migrations.

Migrating Virtual machines across various VMware products like ESX Server, GSX Server and Workstation.

Hands on experience in iSCSI, NFS, and Fiber Channel protocols

Good knowledge on Network Configuration on ESX servers which include NIC Teaming / Bonding for Failover and load balancing purpose, VLAN’s configuration etc.

My skills include configuration and maintenance of different services like DNS, ISC DHCP, Remote Administration, Server Migration, Network Monitoring using Nagios and MRTG, Configuring and Maintaining APACHE servers, SAMBA and NFS services, RAIDs, LVM, performing the Automated Installations using Jumpstart and Kictstart, Performance Monitoring & Tuning, Backups and Restoration.

Experience in Creating and maintaining user accounts, profiles, security, rights, disk space and process monitoring.

Experience in Package management using RPM and YUM in Red Hat Linux.

Short learning/conversion curve in case of different technologies and methodologies to be used and implemented.

Work Summary:

Duration

Organization

Role

Jun 2013 – till date

Dell, Nashua, NH

VMware Engineer

Apr 2012 – May 2013

SSA (SocialSecurity Administration), MD

VMware Administrator

Nov 2010 – Mar 2012

Dentsply, PA

VMware Administrator

Jun 2009 - Oct 2010

Arbitron, MD

VMware Administrator

Apr 2007 - May 2009

CHEP, FL

Systems Administrator

Jun 2004 - Mar 2007

Frontier Information Technologies

Systems Administrator

Technology:

Hardware

Software Products

Tools

Dell PowerEdge

HP Proliant

HP Blade machines

IBM X-series

VMware vSphere 6.0, 5.x, 4.x, VMware SRM,

VMware VIEW,

Windows Administration,

Linux Administration,

Knowledge of Shell Scripting, JAVA

DNS, NFS,

ISC-DHCP,

SMTP,HTTP,HTTPS,

FTP and TFTP Services

Apache 2.x, Samba

Nagios, Outlook, Microsoft Lync, Jenkins, Maven, Subversion, JIRA, Test Link, Bugzilla, TestNG,

Microsoft Sharepoint.

Certifications/Trainings Attended:

VMware Certified Professional 5.0, 5.5 (VCP5-DCV)

Professional Experience:

Client: Dell, Nashua, NH Jun 13 – Till Date.

Role: VMware Engineer

Responsibilities:

Experience working on vSphere 6.0/5.5/5.1 environments.

Installed and configured vCenter server.

Experience working on the new vSphere web client.

Experience working in vSphere 6.0 includes providing host access via protocol endpoints, creating and managing VVol storage containers and VVol VM’s.

Experience working on Dell Power edge servers R610’s and R620’s.

Set up V-Motion, High Availability (HA), Distributed Resource System (DRS), and related VMware products.

Deployed SRM 5.5 solution at the client environments.

Developed scripts using Power CLI for the easy deployment of VM’s, creation of data stores etc.

Used Remote CLI to manage vSphere Infrastructure.

Experience working on the Dell PS series 6000 iSCSI storage arrays.

Performed firmware updates on the storage arrays.

Setup replication between the storage arrays at different sites.

Co-ordinate with the VMware and opened artifacts to come up with solutions for the issues at the client place.

Installed, configured and maintained Windows 2008, 2008r2 and 2012 Operating Systems.

Experience working on the Dell VSM (Virtual Storage Manager) for the creation of datastores, snapshots creation of replicas of the volumes etc.

Configure VM Storage Policies from storage capabilities provided by Dell VASA provider and assign policy to VM's during deployment

Configured security policies associated with Dell VSM.

Updated ESX hosts and virtual machine using VMware Update manager.

Creation of Users/Roles and granting them privileges.

Experience in troubleshooting of storage and networking issues.

Client: SSA (Social Security Administration), MD Apr 12 – May 13

Role: VMware Administrator

Responsibilities:

Performed VMware vSphere 5.1 installation, configuration and firmware updates on Dell R710 servers.

Managed patches and updates on ESX Hosts and Virtual machines using VMware Update Manager and scripting.

Configurations of Virtual switches and network connections.

Part of Datacenter migration project, involved in migrating Virtual Machines to the new Datacenter.

Experience working for desktop and application virtualization using VMware view 4.6 and VMware Thinapp 4.6.

Experience in the installation, configuration and administration of the View connection server, View composer.

Created parent images for use by View Composer to deploy and manage linked clone desktops.

Created Automated, Manual and Linked Clone pools in VDI infrastructure.

Create and maintain the user access group. Create and assign different roles and profiles.

Responsible for installing configuring and troubleshooting on Windows 2003 and 2008 servers using enterprise standards.

Worked on Wintel based servers, implementing the new technologies, troubleshooting the problems related to Wintel Platform.

Providing the support for different services like DNS, DHCP and NFS

Configured and deployed patches, upgrades, bug fixes on both physical and virtual Red Hat Linux servers.

Installing and updating packages using YUM (custom YUM servers/repositories)

Performing Linux automated installations – Kickstart, PXE installations.

Configuring RAIDs and LVMs.

User Management, ACLs and User Quotas.

Worked assigned work orders as they came into the queue.

Configure and maintain Windows servers 2008 and related infrastructure systems for the company.

Creation of standard Virtual Machines and templates for VMware ESX, Lab Manager & Workstation.

Provided support for Windows & VMware tickets.

Supported virtual Infrastructure comprising of 100+ VMware ESX/ESXi servers.

Worked on configuring Clusters (HA & DRS), VMotion and Enhanced VMotion.

Client: DENTSPLY, PA Nov 10 – Mar 12

Role: VMware Administrator

Responsibilities:

Installation, configuration, testing, support of VMware ESX server and Virtual Center.

Installed and configured vCenter server with Oracle as backend Database.

Upgrade of ESX server from ESX 4.1/ ESXi 4.1 to ESXi 5.0.

Experience working on Hp Proliant DL 580 G5 and G7 blades.

Administrated the environment consisting of 158 Esxi hosts and 1200 Virtual Machines.

Deployed Vm’s in ERP environment using Power Cli script.

Co-ordinated with the EMC storage team for the presentation of the RDM’s to the VM’s.

Worked with the Wintel team for the configuration of the MSCS service in ERP.

Provisioned access to the users in the AD.

Provided assistance to the VDI team for desktop and application virtualization using Vmware view 4.6 and Vmware Thinapp 4.6.

Supported Enterprise Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Citrix, XenDesktop 5.5 Server, Citrix Provisioning 6.0 server and VDI environment. Troubleshoot and support Citrix environment.

Set up V-Motion, High Availability (HA), Distributed Resource System (DRS), and related VMware products such as VM Workstation.

Schedule VM Backup and Snapshots and manage/reload Snapshots

Implemented disaster recovery utilizing Veeam Backup and VDR.

Install & troubleshoot patches and updates on ESX hosts and virtual machine using VMware Update manager.

Installed the EMC Power Path across all the ESXi Hosts.

Configured the standard cluster settings on vCenter clusters.

Experience in the execution of the build PowerCli scripts for adding up of the datastore to the servers.

Documenting desktop and network problems and their resolution for future reference.

Monitoring system performance and network connectivity to remote offices.

Develop and deploy automation solutions to streamline the install and upgrade processes.

Use scripting languages to automate tasks and gather data.

Shadowing of the P2V migrations using the Platespin tool.

Shadowing of the Symantec backup of the VM’s.

Worked with product vendors (HP and Vmware) to resolve the product issues.

Followed Change Management Process.

Handled incident and request management through integrated service management tool.

Built and executed DR plan in ERP.

Provided ONCALL support.

Client: Arbitron, MD Jun 09 – Oct 10

Role: Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

Capacity planning of existing infrastructure (Server, workstation & desktop) in labs was done.

8 ESX/ESXi servers, 5 Hyper V servers and 10 File server's storage migration were done with zero downtime. The entire server's storage is now on 4GB/s active-active connection.

IBM Build Forge servers at various Adobe offices were consolidated to virtual machines in a 3:1 ratio. VMware convertor was used for physical to virtual consolidation.

180 servers (HP, DELL & IBM) from different labs and data centre were moved to central managed engineering server room. Thorough planning was done for downtime, knowing each server usage & there placement in racks.

Ensures application and databases high availability using Veritas Cluster Server.

POC for imaging solution was done for global image deployment solution. Supported hardware servers, workstation and desktops were tested.

Creation of standard Virtual Machines and templates for VMware ESX, Lab Manager & Workstation.

Automated many tasks by scripting.

Consolidation and Capacity planning of physical hardware servers, workstation and desktops.

Supporting services like IIS, File Servers, FTP Server, Print Server running on servers in Data Center and Engineering Labs.

P2V and V2V migration was done using VMware Converter and PlateSpin Migrate.

Creation of standard images using Power Quest and Microsoft ImageX tools.

Managed build replications from various offices.

Client: CHEP, FL Apr 07 - May 09

Role: VMware Administrator

Responsibilities:

Installation and configuration of virtual machines in an Enterprise SAN and NAS environment.

Creating templates from VM’s and deploy VM’s from templates and allocate resources.

Creating and managing virtual machines and installing VM Tools into VM’s.

Deployed Templates for various operating environment.

Creating, Installing, configuring and maintaining the Guest Operating Systems like Windows and Linux.

Deploying Virtual Machines, using clone, template methods.

P2V, V2V migration was also done using PlateSpin tools.

Network Configuration on ESX servers which include NIC Teaming / Bonding for Failover and load balancing purpose, VLAN’s configuration etc

Configure and add Storage to ESX server.

Troubleshooting ESX & Virtual Machines.

Working on networking concepts like creation Vswitches, different types of port groups, Nic Teaming and VLAN.

Manage users, groups, permissions and roles.

Troubleshooting problems with the help of Event Logs.

Involved in both the types of migrations – HOT migration and COLD migration depending on the priority and severity of the server including Oracle, SQL database servers and application servers

Created Resource pools and distributed available resources in different resource pools according to their tier levels (in production and development)

Updating Patch’s ESX servers, Virtual Center servers and Virtual machines and operating systems like windows and Linux using VMware Update manager and manual upgrades

Analyze existing customer environment and helping them in migrating to virtual environment using various VMware products like VMware Capacity Planner, VMware converter / Physical 2 Virtual etc.

Creating monthly and weekly reports regarding storage, memory, CPU usage and summary of the vm’s sent to site in charge.

Daily check the backup report and if any failures, raise the ticket and assign to backup team.

Frontier Information Technologies, India Jun 04 – Mar 07

Role: Desktop Engineer

Responsibilities:

Responsible for installing, configuring, troubleshooting on Windows XP/2003 and associate applications such as MS Office, Visio, project, Lotus Notes, Frames Maker, and re-imaging XP PCs and laptops using GHOST Software Installing, configuring Palm Pilots on PCs and laptops.

Setup software RAID-1 disks for mirroring data for integrity and redundancy.

Used LVM for dynamically extending and reducing partition sizes when there is a need.

System support to Rigs and interior locations either remotely via VNC or by visit.

Co-ordination with call centre based Helpdesk for the fast resolution to meet SLA.

Handling the escalations from the first level desktop support team and help desk.

Hardware support and Up gradation of servers and desktops.

Maintaining windows 2003 file server.

Supporting the mail client like ms outlook, outlook express, Netscape.

Re-imaging PC and Laptops using GHOST software and installing applications such as Visio, Project, Exceed, Frame Maker and setting up the new PCs and Laptops for end-users, Creating users, User’s groups, group’s profiles, group’s policies.

Analysis report of problems of PCs, laptops, network issues and resolutions of these problems to the manager.

Education: Bachelors

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