System Engineer

Syed

Email: ************@*****.***

Phone: 224-***-****

Education:

•Bachelors in Information Systems

•VMware Certified Professional

•MCITP Certified Professional

Summary:

Overall 7+ years of VMware/Windows/Linux experience and total 7+ years of System administration.

Expertise in the area of Virtualization with Installation, Configuration and Administration of VMware ESX 4.0, VMware ESXi 4.1.1, vSphere 5 servers, and vCenter Server 5

Expertise in advanced features of ESX/ESXi4/5, vMotion, Storage vMotion, HA, DRS, and Update Manager.

Expertise in upgrading of ESXi 4.1 to ESXi 5.0 hosts, vCenter 4 to 5, as well as upgrading 2000+ VM's from Virtual machine hardware 7 to 8 as part of a major enterprise upgrade.

Expertise with maintaining and updating the Domain Controllers and RODC in Windows Server 2003/2008.

Expertise in assisting with the administration and upgrading from Windows 2003 to 2008 active directory and domains.

Experience in RHEL/Windows Server provisioning, Upgrades, Patching, Configuration and Performance Tuning in Linux, and VMware environments.

Expert in Server Builds, Installs, Upgrades, Patches, Configuration and Performance Tuning in Red Hat Linux/Windows Server 2003/2008 on VMware Virtualized environments.

Expertise in creation of RHEL and Windows 03/08 servers utilizing templates, custom ISO's and PowerCLI scripts.

Expertise working on VMware Converter 4.3/5.0 to do virtual to virtual migration as well as Physical to virtual server migration

Experience writing both Power Shell and PowerCLI scripts to automate Virtual Machine builds and DNS entry configurations.

Experienced in installing, configuring Windows 2008 / 2003 and ESXi on HP C-7000 enclosures running BL460c, BL620c blades, Dell R-710 rack servers and Cisco UCSB200’s B250's.

Provide 24/7 support in a 99.999 environment to maintain maximum uptime and ensure server reliability using monitoring products such as SCOM and MOM.

Experience in creating protection groups, recovery plans, test DR plans, and SRA's in SRM 5. Experience in developing documentation and runbooks for disaster recovery plans by coordinating with multiple datacenters across the US. Experience implementing WSUS and SCCM for centralizing the OS patch management throughout the data center on the servers running windows operating system. Experience with tier three supporting servers and directory service issues. Any unresolved issues were escalated directly to VMware support,

Experience in managing and configuring multipath based solution and well experienced in configuring NetApp SAN based LUNs.

Experience in configuring and upgrading Flex-10 Shared Uplink Sets, SAN Fabrics, and Server Profiles on Virtual Connect Manager for BL460c, BL680c g6/g7 on HP C7000 enclosures. Expertise in configuring HP DL 580's, 380's G5's/6's/7's and upgrading servers using HP Smart update manager. Expertise in configuration of VEEAM and VCOPS for backup and monitoring the entire ESXi environment

Expertise with patch Management of hosts and VM's using VMware vCenter Update Manager to create baselines, baseline groups to stage and remediate.

Extensive experience in installing and configuring storage technology such as SAN, NAS, iSCSI, and RAID.

Oversaw Server Maintenance, including establishing Security Protocols, Configuring Network, and Troubleshooting Problems.

Ensured optimal network performance and documented administration practices for peers.

Technical Skills:

VMware Products: Design and implement Virtual Infrastructure 4/5 with Virtual Center, ESXi 4.x, ESXi 5.x, vMotion, SvMotion, HA, DRS, Managing Resource pools, ESXi, VMware Workstation, VMware Converter, Virtual Center, ESXi Patch management VUM, SRM 5.0, VCOPS.

Storage: iSCSI SAN, FC SAN, NAS, VMAX, VNX, NetApp 6240, 6040 FAS Solutions.

Microsoft: Windows Server (2012, 2008 and 2003), Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows XP, SCCM, SCOM, WSUS.

Hardware: Racks and CISCO UCS B200’s B250's 5108's HP BL460C, BL 620's, BL 680's C-7000, DL580's.

Racks and Cabling: Installation of Hardware HP, UCS Enclosures, Cable Management.

Professional Experience:

Location: Norfolk Southern (Atlanta, GA) Date: Dec 2013 Present

Title: VMware Systems Engineer

Responsible for capacity planning, design, install and configuration of newly provisioned servers.

Participating in 24x7 Production on-call Support of VMware ESXi and provided technical support to users at remote datacenters.

Installing and configuring ESXi 4/5 using custom based ISO's and Virtual Media based installs on several hundred HP BL-460's, 620's, 680's as required for UAT/Production deployments of Windows 2003/2008/2012/2012 R2 deployments.

Installation, configuration, support and upgrade ESXi 4.1.2 to 5.0 hosts, vCenter 4/5, Update manager, and Administering VM's across 2 Datacenters Running 2000+ VM's

Installation, Configuration and Administration of VMware ESXi 4.1.1 / Virtual Center 4.1, vCenter Servers as well as upgrading to ESXi 5.0 / Virtual Center 5.

Configure and maintain Host Profiles, Distributed Switch, DRS, vMotion, Sv-Motion, Resource pools, permissions, Patches, Snapshots, Tools Upgrade, disk expansions, and Templates.

Engineered and migrated 400+ RHEL/Windows Servers from physical to virtual using VMware converter 4.3/5.0 as part of a large datacenter migration project.

Provision, installation and configuration of Windows 2008 Servers utilizing templates, gold images and upgrading Windows 2003 to Windows 2008 on both physical and virtual machines.

Implementing GPO’s to control and monitor the environment.

Deploy VMware Operations Manager Suite for enterprise level monitoring, resource utilization and weekly and monthly reports.

Implementation of SRM 5.0 on vSphere across multiple sites to provide Disaster recovery solution for VMware vSphere Environment and working with SAN team to replicate storage across multiple datacenters.

Utilize applications such as MOM, SCOM, and VCOPS to improve the availability, performance, and ensure maximum uptime.

Administering Windows 2003/2008 Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, WINS and building new windows physical/virtual servers as per the requirement of the project.

Installing and configuring Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5/6/Windows Server 2003/2008 on ESXi 4.1.1/5.0 based environment residing on HP Blades as required for UAT/Production.

Deploy and Configure Red Hat Satellite Server 5.4/Spacewalk, including creating maintaining any customized kickstart configuration channels to deploy RHEL.

Implementation and administration of DNS, DHCP and WINS,

Distribute packages via SCCM server across all the desktops and servers

Review and remediate software distribution failures and to eliminate the problems that causes those failures.

Document and develop runbooks for the entire P2V migration project as well as coordinate with onsite support to maintain a smooth transition.

Provide level high support for ESXi servers running on HP ProLiant BL460's/HP DL 580's/380's and Windows/Linux Virtual Servers.

Active Directory user and security group creation in AD, create shares and designate permissions for specific groups.

Develop PowerCLI scripts to automate building both RHEL and Windows 2008 R2 builds, gather inventory information and automate vCenter Migrations.

Database Upgrade for VCenter and update manager from SQL 2005 to SQL 2008 on 2 vCenter Servers

Building VM's and new Templates for new Projects and allocating them to appropriate Resource pools.

Creating standard server builds, update servers with latest service packs and hot fixes.

Creating standard process for group policy deployment as well as Active Directory users and group's management.

Configure and upgrade Flex-10/Flex Fabric Shared Uplink Sets, SAN Fabrics, and Server Profiles on Virtual Connect Manager for BL460c, BL680c g6/g? on HP C7000 enclosures.

Configure and maintain MSCS (Microsoft Cluster Server) while utilizing VMware RDM feature.

Configure and deploy new Microsoft windows using WSUS, SCCM and HP Opsware for patch management throughout the data center on the servers running windows operating system.

Responsible for optimizing system performance which includes input/output, disk storage, CPU usage, memory allocation, disk throughput, network traffic, uptime and maintenance cost by monitoring current performance, analyzing possible problems/solutions and performing indicated modifications.

Maintain a disaster recovery plan by documenting current system configuration, identifying, analyzing, and evaluating critical data/hardware issues and documentation and testing plan.

Responsible for binding any new LUNs and configuring storage groups using OnCommand Manager on NetApp FAS Solutions Platform.

Created/managed LUNs/disk with NetApp FAS Solutions 6240, 6040 as well as 3040's.

Location: Hewlett Packard (Pontiac, Ml) Date: Nov 2011 – Jan 2013

Title: VMware Engineer

•Administer Unix/Linux and Windows Servers throughout the VMware ESX enterprise environment.

•24x7 support for the VMware ESX servers. Rotating on call pager responsibilities for Production environment.

•Creation and maintenance of VMware clusters and VUM (VMware Update Manager)

•Assist as part of a team in building and managing lab environments with complex settings, configurations, topologies and equipment including servers and various network elements.

•Responsible for the installation, configuration and support of VMware and the daily management/monitoring of the virtual environment.

•Creation of templates from VMs and Creation of VMs from templates

•Performance monitoring and tuning for ESX Servers, Virtual Center Server and Virtual machines

•Part of VMware migration team in implementing and updating the latest versions of VMware as well as building new VM instances as per the business requirement.

•Managed systems configuration and maintenance, problem troubleshooting, system and program security, applications and program management, planning and directing upgrades, and testing operations to ensure optimum system functionality.

•Using VM converter converting Physical machines in VMware VMs.

•Updating/patching Linux, Windows Virtual Machine in VMware clusters

•Involve in the installation Windows Server 2003 user environment including on hardware and Software.

•Build, Deployed and Configured VMware Guests with Windows 2008 and Windows 2003 Servers.

•Windows OS build, IP Configurations, Domain Builds, Active Directory Site Builds and Support & Administration.

•Establish and implement ongoing monitoring procedures with both Nagios, HPOVSD as indicated well by establishing a baseline and appropriate metrics, generating a security monitoring procedure, implement scripts, and auditing/verifying the system as reported on a periodic basis and participate in security audits.

•Participating in 24x7 Production on-call Support of Windows/Linux/ESXi servers and provided technical support to users at remote datacenters.

•Creating VMware Lab setup as per Internal QA team's requirement using VMware ESXi servers.

Location: FIS (Brown Deer, WI) Date: Oct 2009 – Nov 2011

Title: VMware Support Engineer

•Disaster Recovery operation setup & checkup at contracting facility

•Using VM converter converting Physical machines in VMware VMs.

•Updating/patching Linux, Windows Virtual Machine in VMware clusters

•Creating VMware Lab setup as per Internal QA team's requirement using VMware ESXi servers.

•Day to day duties for Unix/Linux server maintenance and support to developer's team for their issues with application, tuning, troubleshooting, software running on Unix/Linux Servers.

•Support and troubleshooting of Linux Apache, MySQL. Have solid knowledge on MySQL Database Administration.

•Support of multiflavor UNIX environment Linux and Windows with various responsibilities.

•Setup and configured network TCP/IP at all levels on Linux servers

Location: Seaton Corp (Chicago, IL) Date: Apr 2007 - Oct 2009

Title: Jr. NOC Engineer

•User management, security planning and implementation.

•Setup and configured network TCP/IP at all levels on LINUX servers.

•Administered and maintained Windows Servers for production roles and features such as ADDNS,

•Interacted with the global Wintel Engineering team regularly to understand and design solutions

•Plan, test and document WINTEL Disaster Recovery processes

•Involved in the installation, monitoring and support of WINTEL based servers, firewalls, Cisco networks, perimeter security technologies, Internet technologies and remote office WAN/LAN

•connectivity

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