Mikesh Rajbhandari
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