Manager Management
Resume:
Pramod
Email: ******.**********@*****.***
Infrastructure Cloud Virtualization consultant with 8+ years of expertise in enterprise level, highly virtualized IT infrastructure environments. Exceptionally proficient in designing and implementing automated infrastructure processes with vRealize Orchestrator, vRealize Automation, and PowerShell. Skilled in the planning, design and deployment of VMware6.x,vCloud Suite, datacenter virtualization, and workflow automation.
CERTIFICATIONS
VCP 5.0: VMware Certified Professional
EMCIE: EMC VNX Implementation Engineer
MCSA: Microsoft Certified Solutions Associate
PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY
Deploying and Managing EnterpriseScale vSphere based Virtual Infrastructure.
Cisco Unified Computing Systems design, deployment and configuration specific to vSphere environments for compute platform high availability, redundancy and elasticity.
Implementing vBlock based converged infrastructure for large scale private cloud deployments.
Implementing EMC Unified Infrastructure Manager for fully integrated provisioning of compute, network and storage as one complete offering.
Delivering and managing IAAS based private cloud with multi-tenancy and self-service with vCloud Director Suite.
Design and implementation of VMwarevRealize operation to monitor VMware and vRealize Automation environment.
Network security services using VMware vShield for cloud multi-tenancy support
Design and Implementation of VMware View based VDI on VMware, Cisco UCS and EMC VNX infrastructure.
EMC VNXStorage Design specific to VDI.
Managing all aspects of vSphere environments including vSwicthes, Distributed virtual switches, HA, Distributed Resource Scheduler, vMotion, Storage vMotion, Access and Authentication control, VMFS, host profiles, storage profiles, Resource overcommitment, contention management and Advanced Troubleshooting.
Configuring and Managing Cisco MDS based SAN switches for fibre channel connectivity between VNX and UCS.
Configuring Cisco UCS Fabric Interconnect upstream connectivity for LAN and SAN.
Advanced troubleshooting and performance analysis of all aspects of the virtualized environments from CPU, Memory, and Network to storage.
Proficiency with vSphere Powercli, vMA,Cisco UCS powertool and EMC Navicli.
Installing and managing Cisco Nexus 1000v and integration with vSphere.
TECHNICAL SKILLS:
Virtualization Tools: Vmware vSphere 5.5, 5.0,5.1,4.1/Virtual Infrastructure
VMware vCenter Operations Manager, vCloud Director, VMware
Hyperic,vCenter Orchestrator
Network : Cisco MDS/Nexus/Catalyst Switches, NSX
Storage : EMC VNX, VMAX, Isilon ( NAS)
Server Hardware : HP Rack servers & HP Blades, Cisco UCS Blades, Dell Power
Edge server
Operating Systems : Microsoft Windows Server 20**, Red Hat Linux, Windows
XP/Vista/Win 7,and VMware ESX/ESXi server.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
C.I.T. Group, Livingston, NJMar 2016 - Current
Sr. VDIEngineer
RESPONSIBILTIES:
Responsible for design and architecture planning for Horizon View 6 Implementation.
End to end implementation of entire VDI infrastructure capable of handling up to 2000 dektops.
Collaborating with vendors EMC, Supermicro and hardware experts to determine the best possible hardware for VDI with least operational costs and maintenance in long run.
Install and configure vSphere ESXi to conform to industry standard best practices.
Proposed architectural planning and changes for effective operation of Vcenter serversin linked mode to avoid bottlenecks.
Install & Configure multiple PSC, Vcenter server 5.5 and 6.0 for both VDI infrastructure support and internal uses.
Built several SQL 2012,2008 Servers for composer, app volumes, event logging and Vcenter server database.
Assisted in creating GPOs, DNS forward reverse lookup zones after migrations.
Maintained L2 team of 5 people for daily operations.
Installed & Configured Connection servers, Composer Servers.
Planned implementation of security servers with Radius, Smart card two factor authentications for added security in DMZ network to protect the environment from external attacks.
Implemented multiple Workspace managers with SAML2.0 authentication capable of supporting DaaS, Citrix apps, Thinapps across different datacenters for redundancy.
Proposing best possible security by load balancing using SSL Offloading, TCP Tunneling as per the ports and application behavior.
Orchestrated workloads with VMware Vsphere, Horizon Orchestration to automate provisioning of desktops.
Expert at deep level troubleshooting to reclaim underutilized storage.
Co-ordinated with Security Review Board in analyzing the only required and allowable ports on DMZ network using Skybox Appliance.
Install & Configure VMware App volumes, writable volumes for application packaging.
Involved in building the building master base image for cloning VDI Instances.
Installed & Configured Vrealize Operations 6, Horizon User Environment Manager.
Proposed and executed the migration of management clusters using SRM from one data center to another for redundancy purposes.
Developed Scripts on powershell for automating the tasks during the migration process.
Analyzed and documented the scope of identity manager in the existing environment.
Tweaking the environment to meet the proposed RPO, RTO.
Worked on hyperconverged infrastructure EVORail, VXRailsalong with VSAN for VDI implementation.
Proposed the architecture for 10 VXRail appliances with 6 clusters with 40 ESXi hosts with underlying network requirements.
Worked on creating storage pools, policies, workload calculations based on user traffic to handle sudden spikes.
Proficiency in creating firewall rules and F5, NetscalerLoad balancers deployed in DMZ Network.
Worked on Skybox Appliances and ticketing systems.
Worked with EMC in upgrading the hardware from EVORail to VXRail.
Excellent expertise with cross datacenter migrations and inter datacenter migration using NFS shares, VMconverter, VEEAM Backup.
Excellent expertise in migrating virtualization workloads to cross vendors and cloud utilized azure site recovery to migrate workloads to azure cloud.
Migrated workloads of 800TB consisting of citrixxendesktops and horizon machines across multiple datacenters using various replication strategies including Recoverpoint, SRM, Vmotion, XVmotion.
Collaborated with VMware in fixing APPvolumes Backup Fling developed by VMware.
Responsible for executing multiple DR Tests for failover and failkback testing.
Excellent proficiency with ServiceNow.
Building a test plan for failover and failback policies with targeted RPO & RTO.
Solving complex problems for the client as far as VMware and Horizon Architecture.
Troubleshooting day to day problems with connection, composer, security servers and network related issues.
Developed operational procedures, best practices, environmental changes for maintaining the overall health of environment.
Documenting SOPs and Architecture for future references.
Caterpillar INC, Peoria, ILJan 2015 – Feb 2016
Sr. VMware/Cloud Engineer
RESPONSIBILITIES:
End to End Implementation of VMware vCloud suite based Private Cloud on vBlock Platform.
Deployment of vSphere 5.5 infrastructure from the ground up, including vCenter Server, External vCenter Database server, vCenter Update Manager server ( VUM), automated ESXi hosts installation and configurations.
Deploy and manage EMC VNX 5700 array as the shared storage for frontend vSphere.
Implementing multi cell vCloud Director Environment.
Deployment and configuration of vShield Manager for network related services.
Integration of vCloud Director with vCenter and vShield manager.
Automated Provider Virtual Datacenter creation with different classes of service with associated performance, availability and cost characteristics.
Deployment of vApp Templates and Catalogue Publishing.
Designed Citrix XenApp 6.5 environment performed seamless side-by-side migration from Presentation Server 4.0 for 7000+ users with an availability requirement of 99.999%. Directed Citrix XenApp 6.5 to XenApp 7.0 migration from Citrix XenServer to VMware ESXi 5.1.
Defined and incorporated corporate policies, standards, and refined procedures for enterprise backup and recovery.
Deployment and integration of vCenter Operations Manager with EMC VNX for comprehensive performance monitoring.
Configuring vSANs, Zones and Zonesets on the MDS switches for ESXi HBA connectivity with VNX frontend ports.
Performing large scale vSphere and Cisco UCS upgrades.
Development of moderately complex scripts using Powershell,Python to automate various vSphere related administrative tasks.Determined technical requirements for all new IT projects. Assessed infrastructure capacity and submitted purchases for all required hardware and software.
Reviewed new appliance and software products and solutions. Built proof of concept environments to test and compare technologies to determine product selections that are best in alignment with IT and organizational goals.
Worked in managing VMs using AWS EC2.
Experience in various configuration and automation management tools such as Chef.
Managed servers on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) platform using chef configuration management tools.
Performed configuration, deployment and support of cloud services including Amazon Web Services (AWS).
Monitoring AWS and on premise resources using Nagios.
Virtual Port Channel configuration on the Cisco Nexus 5K series.
Conoco Phillips, Houston TX Jan 2013 to Dec 2014
VMware/VDI Consultant
RESPONSIBILITIES:
Vmware View Connection server, Replica Server, Security Server, View Composer and External Composer Database Installation and Configuration.
Implementation of stateless Cisco UCS service profiles with boot from SAN policy for VDI based ESXi hosts.
View Connection Server Cluster Design and Implementation.
MSSQL Based Database configuration for View event reporting.
View Desktops Performance Monitoring from vCenter Operations Manager.
Active Directory Management specific to VMware View deployment.
Deploying and configuring different desktop pools including floating linked clone and dedicated full clones based
VDI Users and Desktops management using AD Group Policy Objects
Implementing VMware vSphere Infrastructure as foundation of VDI
End to End network implementation for VDI environments.
Deploying View Connection Server in Replica Mode for High Availability and Load Balancing
Accountable for contributing to engagements through the infrastructure assessments and build/test/rollout phases of Citrix XenApp, VDI and provisioning services platform
Installation, Configuration of XenApp 5.0/6.5 & Citrix Client Tool and also Citrix Xen Desktop 5.0/5.6, Provisioning Services.
AnalyzeCitrix system performance, root cause problem determinations, capacity planning and preparation of reports.
Experience with client virtualization and application virtualization using AppV 5.0 packaging and SCCM, Citrix integration, application deployment and provisioning.
Designed and developed a virtual desktop environment using Citrix XenDesktop 4.0 and 5.5/7.0, and all integrated components such as Provisioning Server (PVS), Citrix XenApp, and Active Directory.
Responsible for MaintainingCitrix XenApp environment, including provisioning Servers.
Installation, Administration, and Configuration of Citrix XenApp, Citrix XenDesktop, Citrix Provisioning.
Installed Citrix XenApp 6.5 and joined to respective farms based on the geographical region and to the respective farm.
Desktop Pools planning and implementations based on User workload profile and application requirements.
Integration of View Connection server with vCenter server, View Composer and Active Directory.
Application Packaging and Deployment with VMware ThinApp.
Comprehensive Health Check of all aspects of the VDI environment.
View based rebalancing to update Desktop Guest operating systems, Applications.
Performance Benchmarking for Virtual Desktop’s CPU, Memory, Network and Storage sizing based on worker type.
Designed and implemented VCOPS 5.7 for VDI Infrastructure as a monitoting tool.
Country Financial, Bloomington IL Jan 2011 -Dec 2012
VMware consultant
RESPONSIBILITIES:
Managing VMware Lab Manager to provide on demand access for the private cloud for Dev/test to Developers/Testers.
Assessing the existing testing/dev environment based on physical servers and understanding different constraints posed.
Planning and designing the virtualized cloud for development/testing environment based on vSphere4 platform and a customized VMware Lab Manager implementation.
Executing Proof of Concept of the new proposed system design.
Performing Load-balance testing for determining VM benchmarks, best VM configuration for optimized performance, Maximum number of VM’s per ESX, maximum number of VM’s per datastore, Network bandwidth on each ESX
Drafting and executing the implementation plan for rolling out the new design for the Dev/QA user community comprising of 1500+ users.
Development of a customized self-service portal built on top of Lab Manager based on business service automation use cases(pre-provisioning designated virtual machines once templates are published and make them available to developers for fast access)
Designing Template publishing system for streamlining publishing of new certified Templates every week to Lab-Manager Template Library.
Deploying vCenter Heartbeat server for vCenter High Availability and failover.
Hands on management on different Lab Managers features such as rapid provisioning, Template publishing, Configuration management, Linked clones and their context, storage leases, deployment leases, Image Library, Auto archive, Media store, Organizations and workspaces, Live-link, network spanning, Host spanning, roles and previliges, IP Pools, Storage and deployment Quotas.
Handling different aspects of the project such as Capacity planning, Performance /Capacity Monitoring, Storage optimization, Provisioning process, Virtual infrastructure management & automation.
VMwarevSphere Infrastructure administration and management
Performance tuning of ESX hosts and Guest OS on VMs.
VMware orchestrator Deployment and Configuration.
Proficient on VMware technologies--VMware High-Availability, VMware Vmotion, VMware DRS, VMware vCenter and vCenter Update Manager.
Designed and Implemented HP Blade center system for vSphere.
Implemented various vSphere performance monitoring processes.
Creation and management of Virtual Machines, Installing VMware tools, creating templates, cloning, deploy Virtual Machines from Templates.
Thomson Reuters, Rockville, MD Feb 2009 – Dec 2011
VMware/ Citrix and windows Consultant
RESPONSIBILITIES:
Involved with all major datacenter projects that involve SAN storage or virtualization
Architected and designed VMware ESX server infrastructure for multi-site/multi datacenter environment
One of the first companies to fully integrate ESX virtualization in the DMZ network, eliminating 75 hardware based IIS web portal Servers
Consolidated over 300 End of life servers into ESX 3 HA and DRS clusters.
Responsible for keeping all VMware ESX servers up to date with patches and updates with minimal downtime using vMotion for SAN attached VMs and Storage vMotion for Local storage VMs
Performed desktop migration from Windows 95/NT4 to Windows 2000. Provided technical support for corporate client/server systems.
Installed configured, upgrade and maintained Windows 2000, 2003 and 2008, MS Office 2003/2007, Exchange Server 2003/2007 Operating Systems.
Responsible for the management of servers and duties include regular and proactive monitoring of servers, responding the alerts
Created User Accounts, Configuring User Profiles, Creating local and Global Groups and implementing Group Policies
Worked extensively in the active directory and the group policy
Created a virtual desktop solution for over 2000 mobile and offshore user base ensuring company data stays in the company
Worked and administered the Hyper V.
Cisco router and Switch administration.
Citrix Xenapp, Xenserver, Xendesktop Support for the users.
Worked with off-shore team and provided required support
Worked closely with MS SQL and Oracle DBA groups to determine best possible configuration for Storage LUN assignments and raid levels
Install & troubleshoot patches and updates on ESX hosts and virtual machine using VMware Update manager.
Administered SRM (Site Recovery Manager) support for Failover from one site to the other
Perform P2P conversions using Platespin from old HP & Dell Hardware to New G5 HP Blades
Perform P2V conversions for old severs which are out of support using VMware Converter to new vSphere 4 environment
Soft solInc., India Feb 2007 - Dec 2008
Windows/ Linux Admin.
RESPONSIBILITES:
• Experience with installing, Configuring Windows 2003/2008/2008R2.
• Experience in installing, Configuring IIS 6.0/7.0/7.5
• Experience in installing and managing Active Directory 2003, 2008
• Created user accounts, modified and deleted according to the environment using user administration.
• Installed necessary patches.
• Monitored WINS and DNS Servers.
• Experienced in creation and management of the forest.
• Responsible for overall security and reliability of the forest.
• Experienced in creation and removal of domains
• Involved in management of trust relationship with domains.
• Experienced in Windows Cluster Services.
• Experienced in configuring the application pool recycling for greater reliability.
• Involved in monitor and reporting associated with the reliability and security of the domain
• Use the domain admin account only for actions that require the privilege level of this account
• Day-to-day management of domain controllers
• Managed group policy at root of domain and for Domain Controllers OU
• Involved in creation, testing, and management of GPOs intended to be used by multiple OU Admins
• Sound knowledge on MS SQL Server 2003, 2008 like Installing, creating databases, creating tables, inserting rows, columns.
• Experienced in making SQL connections with database.
• Experience in DNS, NIS, NFS, Send mail, ftp, remote access, security management, and system troubleshooting skills.
• Expert in setting up SSH, SCP, SFTP connectivity between UNIX hosts.
• Resolved many Application Startup problems, PATH problems, and Name conflicts, TCP/IP, LAN /WAN, Sys logging and Networking Problems.
• Experience with working in Production, Development and testing environment.
• Upgrade windows server operating system from 2003 to 2008.
• Installation and configuration of Microsoft Windows 2008 Servers.
• Installing and configuring Apache and supporting them on Linux production servers.
• Taking care of network related issues and DNS settings to protect systems from unwanted viruses from unwanted websites.
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