VISHNU REDDY

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Professional Summary:

8+ years of IT experience, specializing in planning, designing, installing, configuring and administering converged infrastructure.

Experience in VMware based Datacenter virtualization solutions, Private Cloud Implementations/Operations, Virtualization Management, Converged Infrastructure Platform, Business Continuity and Enterprise level EMC Storage Solutions.

Deploying and Supporting Enterprise scale VMware vSphere based Virtual Infrastructures.

Experience with Cisco UCS and HP C7000 Blade server Environment with VMware vSphere5.5.

Implementing vCenter Operations Manager for performance and capacity management of the private cloud.

Excellent backup and recovery skills focusing primarily on performing disaster recovery and data migration related activities.

Experience in managing large scale environments using VMware, vCloud Director, EMC Storage and Cisco Switches.

Experience in ESX & ESXi Architecture, guest OS installation, setting up of VM priorities, Cloning and Snapshots.

Experience in vSphere 5 and vCenter.

Experience in resource management framework, creating resource pools, adding the VMs into resource pools.

P2V and V2V conversions by using VMware Converter.

Experience with the VMware HA,FT and VMware DRS.

Extensive knowledge in advance features of VMotion, Storage vMotion, and VMware Orchestrator.

Experience in VM Snapshots and Templates.

Knowledge on KVM and Hyper-V technologies.

Implementation of VCloud Director, vShield Director.

Ability to implement VMware’s Virtual Switch technology, port aggregation, NIC teaming and port groups.

Successful deployments of Cisco UCS Compute Cluster with ESXi 4 and ESXi 5.

Experience with Service Profiles and UCS Manager.

In-depth knowledge on Vblock Storage like EMC VNX and VMAX.

Experience in Implementing tiered SAN Solutions using FAST/VP per EMC best practices

Extensive experience in Encapsulating the Production LUNs in VPLEX to Virtualize the Storage environment

Installation, Configuration and Administration of Networker, Net backup and Avamar in large enterprise environments

Disaster recovery, planning and management.

Designing Backup Strategies.

Configuring various Tape libraries such as MSL 6000 Series and Dell Power Vault 132T & 136T Tape Libraries.

VM backups using EMC Networker, EMC Avamar and Net Backup.

In-Depth Knowledge on Installation, Patching and Troubleshooting Windows XP, 2000, 2003, 2008R2 and 2012R2.

Configuring backup policies, schedules, media pools, multiplexing and parallelism.

Network Infrastructure involving DNS, DHCP and AD servers, TCP/IP Protocol Stack.

Experience in disaster recovery in physical and virtual environments with vCenter Site Recovery Manager.

Knowledge of automation and monitoring tools such as Power CLI and vCenter Orchestrator

Installing Qlogic and Emulex HBA cards and driver updates.

Install and configure multipathing with EMC power path.

Delivery Assurance - Quality Focused & Process Oriented:

Ability to work in high-pressure environments delivering to and managing stakeholder expectations

Application of structured methods to: Project Scoping and Planning, risks, issues, schedules and deliverables.

Strong analytical and Problem solving skills.

Good Inter personnel skills and ability to work as part of a team. Exceptional ability to learn and master new technologies and to deliver outputs in short deadlines

Certifications:

VMware certified Professional 5 (VCP5.1).

Technical Skills:

Certifications

VMware certified Professional 5 (VCP5.1).

Hardware

Cisco UCS 5108, HP C7000 Enclosures, Dell PowerEdge and Rack mount servers, NetApp FAS2040A, VNX5500/5700 and VMAX 20K.

OS

Red hat Enterprise Linux 4 & 5, Windows Server 2000, 2003, 2008R2, 2012R2 & Windows 9x/XP/7/8.1.

Applications

MS Office 2003, 2007 and MS Visio

Backup

EMC Legato, EMC Avamar, NetApp SMVI (snap manager for virtualized infrastructure), Symantec Net backup and EMC Data Domain.

VMware

VMware ESX/ESXi 3.5, 4.0, 4.1, 5.0, 5.5 and Virtual Center Server. VMware Converter, VMware View, VMware Thinapp, VMware Update Manager, HA, DRS, DPM, FT, VMotion, Storage vMotion, VMware Guided Consolidation, and VMware Workstation.

Database

MSSQL 2000/2005/2008 R2.

Third party VMware Applications

Plate Spin power convert, Plate Spin Power Recon and Solar winds.

Antivirus

Symantec antivirus, MacAfee and Microsoft forefront.

Tools

BMC Remedy, and HP service manager and Jira

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Institutional Shareholder Services, Rockville, MD Oct 2014 to Till Date

Role: Sr. VMware Consultant

Responsibilities:

Administration of VMware, Windows, Backup and storage environment.

Member of vSphere 5.5 Implementation, Design and Upgrade.

Configure, manage, and optimize High Availability (HA) options, Distributed Resources Scheduler (DRS), Update Manager, Consolidated Backup, and Shared Storage and Data Stores.

Creating and configuring Standard Switch (vSwitch) and Distributed Switch (dvSwitch).

Creating and managing Virtual Machines using templates as per the project requirement.

Troubleshooting VM and ESXi performance related issues.

Installing the ESXi patches and and VM tools using update manager.

Migrated the Datacenter servers to virtual P2V/V2V migrations.

Deployed HP C7000 Environment with BL660 and BL460 blade servers.

Member of design and implementation of SRM 5.8 for the enterprise Disaster Recovery replicated data and successfully tested the failover and failback for DR.

Worked on vROps, related to performance monitoring and capacity planning.

EMC Recover point implementation for Continuous Remote Replication of Tier 1 VM data.

Extensive Experience with Windows 2008/2012 Active Directory /DNS/DHCP.

Configuring and managing of Active Directory, DHCP, DNS, FTP, DFS, and Group Policies on OU and Domain Levels.

System Administration-Managing Users, Groups, Roles and Access Permissions.

Installing service patches, server patches and antivirus.

Member of design and Implementation of SCCM 2012 R2 environment.

Managing the SCCM servers like pushing the patches and installing the applications and troubleshooting the issues.

Maintaince and daily tasks on Linux systems.

Creating the powershell scripts based on requirement.

Implemented the EMC networker 8.2 with Data Domain D4500.

Integrated the virtual environment with EMC networker and Data Domain.

Upgraded the VBA’s from 1.1.1.46 to 1.1.1.50.

Upgraded the Data Domain from 5.4 to 5.4.5.0.

Created the VBA policies for VM Backups.

Configured Zones in Cisco Switches using Cisco CLI and Fabric Manager.

Reclaimed the Storage on the VNX arrays and performed clean-ups for decommissioning.

Encapsulated Lun’s on VPLX from VNX 7200 and XtremIO for production hosts.

Configured consistency group’s and storage view on VPLX using VPLX Unisphere.

Allocated storage to vCenter hosts from VPLX using VPLX Unisphere.

Configured CG’s on Recover point for Virtual clusters (Continuous remote replication) and enabled SRM.

Worked on EMC Data Protection Advisor, related to storage, networker and data domain reporting and capacity planning.

Working on Xen App and Xen Desktop testing environment.

Environment: VMware vSphere 5.5, SRM 5.8 Array replication, HP C7000, Virtual Connect, Recover Point, EMC VNX 7200, EMC networker, Data Domain.

Verizon, Dallas, TX Jan 2013 to Sep 2014

Role: VMware & Windows Consultant

Responsibilities:

Installation, configuration and Administration of VMware, Windows, and Red hat Linux servers.

Building, testing and managing of VMware vSphere 5.x.

Configuring RAID 1, 1+0, 5 and 6 as per client needs.

Managing UCS Central and managing 6200 & 6300 series UCS’s with Global Service Profiles.

Create and Configure Virtual Machines, cloning and created Master Templates to create new virtual Machines.

Physical to Virtual Migration using vCenter converter standalone.

Creating Host profiles to automate ESXi configuration.

Configuring and troubleshooting of HA, DRS, distributed switch, Clustering, vMotion and Storage vMotion.

EMC VNX Block Storage Provisioning and Management for ESXi, Linux (RHEL) &Windows hosts.

EMC Power Path installation and configuration for Storage Path load balancing.

Planning & implementation of scheduled changes per change management policies.

Configuring and managing of Active Directory, DHCP, DNS, FTP, DFS, and Group Policies on OU and Domain Levels.

Built and administered Microsoft Clusters.

Documenting, assessing and troubleshooting Microsoft Clusters, pre and post SAN Migration.

Configuring Hyper-V hosts virtual networking, storage, cluster and Hyper-V VM’s high availability.

Applying patches using update Manager on ESX/ESXi hosts.

Zoning, LUN Masking and Mapping.

Performed Virtual Machine creation, VM Configuration changes and Cloning.

Performed storage and virtual machine migration using hot and cold migration type.

Troubleshooting issues related to ESXi host, vCenter, HA, DRS and VMware update manager.

Involved planning and implementation of migration process.

Pre-migration, Post-Migration and validation check list.

Worked on Storage related daily Change Request activities.

Environment: VMware vSphere5.0, EMC VNX 5700, Cisco UCS, Nexus N1000v, UCSM.

AT & T, Atlanta, GA Oct 2011 to Dec 2012

Role: Wintel Engineer

Responsibilities:

Designing and implementing of Site Recovery Manager for automated disaster recovery of virtual environment.

Implementing EMC Recover point for Continuous Remote Asynchronous Replication of production data.

Installing Site Recovery Manager Server on the Source and the DR site and Integrating with respective vCenters.

Implementing and managing Block based VNX storage system in VMware virtualization environment.

Integrating SRM with the backend recover point using SRA adaptor.

Configuring SRM Resource mappings, folder mappings, network mappings, protection groups and data store groups.

Creating and configuring Recovery plans and Recovery network options.

Managing SRM based protection in a highly dynamic environment ensuring newly deployed Tier1 VM’s are protected and on replicated data stores.

Manage all aspects of vSphere environments.

Configuring and managing Cisco UCS Service Profiles, vNIC/vHBA interfaces, MAC/WWPN/WWNN identity pools, various Server, Network and Storage related policies.

Environment: VMware vSphere5.0, SRM 5.0 Array replication, Cisco UCS,UCSM, Recover Point, EMC VNX 5500.

Accenture/RBS, India Mar 2009 to Aug 2011

Role: System Administrator

Responsibilities:

Installed and configured VMware ESX/ESXi 4.1/5.0 Hosts.

Upgraded vCenter Servers /ESXi hosts from vSphere 4.0, 4.1 to 5.0

Upgraded VMs hardware components according to the vSphere requirement.

Upgrading VM tools, VM versions and Data store upgrade to VMFS 5.

Deployed VM appliances from OVF templates.

Performed storage and virtual machine migration using hot and cold migration.

Troubleshooting issues related to ESX host, vCenter, HA, DRS and VMware update manager.

Disk Space increase using VMware converter and importing of virtual server using VMware converter.

Performed LUN management, MetaLUN’s, RAID groups, storage groups.

Planned and implemented High availability &Disaster Recovery on Datacenters using Site Recovery Manager (SRM).

Worked with VMware update manager to install patches and updates on ESXi hosts and virtual machines.

Installing, configuring and maintaining Win2K3, Win2K8 servers.

User Account administration, File and Printer permissions on windows OS. Patch administration and deployment using WSUS.

Expert knowledge on Windows Server 2008 R2.

Managing IIS 5.0 / IIS 6.0 Web servers and hosted web sites.

Ability to work independently in a technical environment.

Troubleshooting all backup failures on daily bases to ensure successful backups.

Configured VM backups using Networker.

Prepared Technical Documentation

Escalation Management – PIR preparation, handling Escalation Calls.

Root Cause Analysis.

Environment: VMware vSphere 4.1/5.0, SRM 5.0 Array replication, EMC Networker, HPVC, Recover Point, Microsoft Hyper-V, HP (C7000),VNX 5700.

Accenture Services/Internal, India Dec 2007 to Feb 2009

Role: System Analyst

Responsibilities:

Assisting in planning and implementation of virtual environment.

Created Virtual Machines and Installed VMware Tools.

Provided physical to virtual migrations for servers utilizing VMware Converter.

Worked on VMware clustering like HA and DRS clusters using VC.

Worked on resource management framework like creation resource pools, adding the VMs into Resource pools.

Customized 2003/2008 servers in terms of Registry, Audit/Account/Security policy, patching.

Maintaining, implementing and optimizing operating systems/software utilizing VMware virtualization technologies for vSphere 4.0/4.1 including configuration of VMware HA and DRS.

Assist staff with the installation, configuration, and ongoing usability of desktop computers, peripheral equipment and software within established standards and guidelines.

Responsible for taking Backup of multiple projects like daily, weekly, monthly backups and restoration as on required.

Scheduling backups and restoring backups as on required.

Taking the daily reports of backup.

Cloning and storing of Monthly data for longer durations.

Work with vendor support contacts to resolve technical problems with desktop computing equipment and software.

Trouble shooting the networking related problems

Environment: VMware vSphere 3.5, 4.0, EMC Networker, Dell Power Edge, P2V Conversion, vCenter up gradation and EMC Networker.

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