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Manager Engineer

Location:
Reston, VA
Salary:
$20 -$25 per hr
Posted:
December 03, 2016

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Mikesh Rajbhandari

832-***-****

acxq6y@r.postjobfree.com

EDUCATION

Louisiana Tech University, Ruston, Louisiana Graduated March 2014

Bachelor of Science in Computer Information systems

Harrisburg University, Harrisburg, PA

Masters Degree in Computer Information Systems Current Student

SUMMARY:

3 and half Years of experience in System Administration, Storage area networks (SAN), Virtulization, Backup and Disaster recovery in heterogenous environment.

Experience in Assissting System Administrator with server migration using VMWare storage vMotion.

Experience in installing and configuring VMWare ESX clusters and managing using Virtual Center.

Knowledge in VMware ESX Server provisioning VM’s.

Experience with VPLEX/VMAX/VNX/Clariion/Recoverpoint/xtremIO platforms.

Experience configuring Virtual/Thin Provisioning luns and FAST/VP using SMC.

Extensive experience provisioning/masking/configuring with EMC Control Center and SMC.

Experience working on Linux/Solaris/HP/AIX/Windows O.S platforms.

Good experience in administration, design, configuration, monitoring, tuning and troubleshooting of high end disk storage systems such as EMC Symmetrix/DMX, CLARiiON in 24x7 mission critical production environment.

Good Communication Skills, smart thinking and ability to handle critical issues promptly.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Technical Skills

Virtualization Products:

VMware vSphere ESXi 4.0, ESXi 4.1, ESXi 5.0, ESXi 5.1, vCenter Server 4.x/5.x, VMware View 4.x/5.0 (VDI),CITRIX,VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM), VMware Converter, VMware DRS, HA, vMotion, SVMotion

Operating Systems / Services:

Windows Server 2003/2008 - Active Directory Domain Services (ADDS), DNS, DHCP, TCP/IP Networking, FTP, LINUX

Database:

MS SQL 2008/2005, Oracle 11g/10g

Professional Experience

Consumers Energy – Jackson, MI

Role: VDI Engineer February 2016– current

Ticket handling and troubleshoot problems with deadlines according to Priority basis

Experience includes ESX/ESXi Server and vSphere, vCenter and vMotion, DRS, HA and VCB in addition to earlier versions of ESX Server and Virtual Center.

Analyze and troubleshoot performance and configuration issues of SAN-backed VMware ESXi infrastructure.

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

Perform daily system monitoring and ongoing performance tuning.

Administered and upgraded vCenter and ESXi servers from vSphere 4 to vSphere 5.1.

VMware 4.1, 5.1, and 5.5 vCenter management to include Storage and Compute vMotions during a migration, Monthly snapshotting of servers prior to patching, VMware tools updates, and troubleshooting of downed or under-performing servers.

Making a report of the monthly VDI count

Maintained 24/7 on-call rotational schedules.

Maintained system efficiency

Installed, modified, and repaired computer hardware and software.

Maintained daily performance of Virtual Machine’s.

Walk customer through problem-solving process.

Install, modify, and repair computer hardware and software.

Ran diagnostic programs to resolve problems.

Develop, test, and maintain a disaster recovery plan for critical VMs and application data.

Worked on VMware ESX 5.0 Installation and virtual machines setup using Virtual Infrastructure client.

Performed Daily Monitoring of System performance, capacity & managed Inventory; adjust System configurations to accommodate required loads and functionality

Configured VMware on clustered environment, Implemented vMotion

Created and managed Virtual Machines, Installed VMware tools, Templates, Cloning, Deploy Virtual Machines; including deploying link Clones using View Composer. Assigned dedicated/floating Pools as per requirement

Environment

VMware vSphere 5.x/4.x, VMware ESX 4.x/ESXi 5.x, VDI view 6.0, Windows Server 2003/2008/2012 R2, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, EMC VNX Family, EMC VMX, and EMC VNX storage systems

Dow Corning – Midland, MI March 2015– December 2015

VMware Infrastructure Engineer

Administered VMware Infrastructure – vSphere/vCenter/VDI environments from Development and Support to day today maintenance; running over 350 ESX / ESXi Hosts and 3000 Virtual Machines

Experience in VMware Horizon View 6.x virtual desktops

Managed Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) VMware View 5.0 by configuring VMware View Composer, View Connection Server, View Agent and View Client

Deployed Windows Servers –2003 / 2008 / 2012: Installed, Configured, and Troubleshoot Operating Systems, Network Setup and Clusters. Run, Maintain, Monitor and Optimize both Physical and Virtual System Infrastructure

Installed, Configured & provided Technical Support –Windows AD, DNS, DHCP, GPO, DC, IIS6/7 etc.; also updated script & manage objects using PowerShell &VBscript

Performed Hardware and Software maintenance of Windows Server environment, including VMware ESX 4.x/ESXi 5.xHost, Clusters, Servers, Clients and Virtual Machines; and Interfaced with different Venders

Build, Installed and provided Technical Support for Windows & Red Hat Linux Servers both Physical and Virtual, including System Installation/De-commission and initial testing of all Operating system patches, updates, and fixes

Performed Daily Monitoring of System performance, capacity & managed Inventory; adjust System configurations to accommodate required loads and functionality; also Setup & Configured McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator (McAfee ePO)

Configured VMware on clustered environment, Implemented vMotion, Virtualized Windows servers using VMware Converter P2V and setup Lab Manager

Created and managed Virtual Machines, Installed VMware tools, Templates, Cloning, Deploy Virtual Machines; including deploying link Clones using View Composer. Assigned dedicated/floating Pools as per requirement

Environment

VMware vSphere 5.x/4.x, VMware ESX 4.x/ESXi 5.x, VDI view 6.0, VMware Standalone Convertor,Cisco UCS, Windows Server 2003/2008/2012 R2, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, McAfee ePO, HP Proliant BL blade server series, HP Insight Manager, HP Service Manager, EMC VNX Family, EMC Clarion, and EMC Celerra storage systems

Client : Fiserv, GA

Role: Storage Engineer Duration: Feb 2014– Jan 2015

Day to day administration which includes storage allocation from VMAX/DMX/VNX/Isilon arrays and zoning on Brocade and Cisco fabrics.

Performed Auto-provisioning for VMAX by creating storage groups, initiator groups, port groups and masking views using SMC and SymCLI.

Created and managed Virtual Machines, Installed VMware tools, Templates, Cloning, Deploy Virtual Machines; including deploying link Clones using View Composer. Assigned dedicated/floating Pools as per requirement

Provided technical support for Systems Engineering -including Operating System builds, Security, Access controls, User Account set-up, Storage solutions, Performance tuning & analysis, Backup/recovery, and business continuity activities

Day to day jobs include Provisioning, Monitoring and Reporting using Symmetrix Performance Analyzer of the Data Center Environment.

Based on EMC recommendations, updated required patches (Operating System) and HBA drivers on all systems that are part of the data migration.

Created Consistency Groups, configured journal volumes and created RecoverPoint session for RPA based data migration

Implemented FAST Policy based on the Performance required and extensively worked on FAST/VP.

Generated Configuration reports for both Array and servers for future Capacity planning and made design recommendations based on Raid Type, Hot spares and numbers of drives per Application.

Identified underutilized resources (FA ports and Host based assets) using Storage Scope reporting and proactively resolved the capacity allocation issues.

Co-ordinated replacement of Break/Fix Activities such as Drive replacement, SPS cable replacement, replacement of fan of an engine, Power Supply Replacement and LCC cables

Problem Analysis & Capacity monitoring/planning

Implemented auto provisioning by creating Initiator Groups, Port Groups, Storage Groups, and Masking Views for the V-MAX system.

Responsible for managing VPLEX/VMAX/VNX/DMX/Clariion/RecoverPoint on daily basis.

Involved in Encapsulating VMAX/VNX luns under VPLEX environment.

Well-versed on Managing VPLEX/VMAX/VNX/RecoverPoint on daily basis per EMC Best practices.

Performed VPLEX Local mobility migrations from array-array non-disruptively.

Ochsner Health System INC, Louisiana

Duration : Jan 2013- Dec 2013

Associate System Engineer

Implemented FAST-VP on VMAX and Fast on VNX5500/5700.

Created thin pools for thin provisioning the storage from VMAX arrays.

Created and configured RAID groups, Resizing, Unbinding LUN’s through Navisphere manager and NaviCLI.

Ran emcgrab and generated heat reports to troubleshoot SAN storage related issues including identifying the software requirements to bring up the server to the current EMC Standards

Implemented thin provisioning on CLARiiON CX4 arrays using Navisphere Manager

Create zones between DMX FA’s and VMAX FA’s

Create VMAX target luns size with CLI and Gui

Wroking knowledge in Recover Point environment in both CDP/CRR modes.

Worked with EMC customer support to troubleshoot issues in the environment

Configuring Virtual/Thin Provisioning luns and created and assigned FAST VP policies using Unisphere on VMAX.

Created and updated the storage documentation.

Problem Analysis & Capacity monitoring/planning

Extensive knowledge transfer on several VMAX functionality and using management tools SMC, Unisphere, SPA, Symcli and Navicli

Based on EMC recommendations, updated required patches (Operating System) and HBA drivers on all systems that are part of the data migration.

Configured Zoning on Brocade switches DCX and 48K through Brocade CLI, Web Tools and Cisco MDS 9509 and 9513 through Cisco CLI and Cisco Fabric Manger.

Configured Virtual Provisioning, created thin devices and striped meta's and bound it to FC pool

Performance analysis of Symmetric arrays using SPA and troubleshooting several performance issues

Experience in SAN related host connectivity for various Operating systems like Solaris, Linux, HP-UX, AIX, Windows and VMware.

Environment:

EMC VMAX, Vplex, VNX, DMX-4, Brocade DCX, 48K, 12K, 4900, Cisco MDS 9513/9509, CLARiiON CX4-480/960, CX3-40, Unisphere, EMC, Isilon, Solaris 8/9, HP-UX 11.i, AIX Windows 2000/2003



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