Ajay Vaaka

Phone: 201-***-****

adbz0f@r.postjobfree.com@gmail.com

SUMMARY

Experience with VMWare vSphere 5.x/6.x, vCenter Server, vRealize Operations, vRealization Log Insight, SRM & NSX

Engineered and certified new ESXI images and developed automated install process with PowerShell scripting and Auto-deploy .

Created and managed Virtual Machines and Templates.

Created Clusters for High Availability and Distributive Resource Scheduling.

Performance tuning of VMWare servers, Virtual sessions, and management of server resources between Virtual Machines.

Performed Snapshots, Cloning, Cold Migrations, and Hot Migrations.

Experienced in Certifying vSphere products, HPE OneView and delivered them in automated process for deploying and managing environment.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Flash storage: Violin, EMC,Netapp

Hardware: IBM, HP, Compaq, Dell desktops\laptops\servers, Cabling, Network printers, Cisco Routers & Switches, 802.11x Wireless gateways, Access Points, Network UPS, Storage Area Network, NAS, iSCSI SAN.

Hyperconverged: Dell,vBlock,HPE

Operating Systems / Networking: Microsoft Windows 2016/2012/2008/2003, Microsoft Active directory 2008/2003/2000

Virtualization tools: vSphere 5.x and 6.x, vCenter,vROPs,VSAN, VMware Update Manager, FT, HA, DRS, DPM, vMotion and Storage vMotion, SRM, Thinapp, VMware Workstation, P2V/V2V Converters, Pernix Data FVP.

CERTIFICATIONS

VCP6-DCV (VMWare Certified)

July 2016

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Ford Motor Credit Company, Dearborn, MI

VMware Engineer

November 2016-Present

Responsible for delivering fully engineered, global solutions to meet the server hosting requirements for a variety of infrastructure, line of business and third party applications.

Developing highly available infrastructure hosting solutions for VMWare platforms to meet application requirements for resilience and availability for Agile Hosting environments.

Provide consulting services to infrastructure and application architects in determining the appropriate solution for the hosting environment (e.g. annexed servers, shared farms, virtualized servers, B2X, Intranet, etc.).

Defining Security and Controls for the engineered solution and document them in the ICR system for review and compliance.

Experienced in wrapping ESXI image and testing in pipeline process

Experienced in automating deployment and auditing configuration on vCenter server using powershell and powercli using unit-test/pester methodology

Experienced with various ESXi deployment solutions Autodeploy and Scripted way of deployment using kickstarter .

Experienced maintaining and troubleshooting NSX environment .

Knowledge of docker, kubernatics and openshift4 environment .

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE – Continued

Working with installing, upgrade and configuring VMware vCenter appliances.

Working with Application Centric Infrastructure – Virtual Distributed Switch 5.5.

Performed Log Analysis and troubleshoot the performance of the ESXi environments, vRealization Operations & vRealization Log Insight.

Worked with Install and configuring vRealize Operation Manager.

Working with Bare-metal provisioning for Ford’s Environment.

Participate in server engineering projects (e.g. Agile Hosting, capacity on demand, technology refresh, etc.).

Automate the Bare-Metal Provisioning and ESXi Operations.

Manage technology lifecycle VMware Server Operating Systems and related Core components.

Working experience in NSX and SRM environment.

ClearFocus Technologies, Leesburg, VA

VMWare Administrator

March2016-November 2016

Design, implement, and manage VMware environment, including Datacenter cluster(s) and managed by vCenter.

Experienced in upgrading enterprise environment from VMware ESXi 5.5 to ESXi 6.x and vCenter 5.5 to vCenter 6.x.

Experienced with commercial compute hardware such as HP server models in a virtualization data center environment.

Worked with Windows (Preferred 2008 or later versions) and Active Directory

Demonstrated experience in a complex network data center environment

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE – Continued

Responsible for building, configuring, and deploying VMs through templates.

Experienced with server side flash Pernix Data FVP.

Worked on large datacenter consolidations and completed using V2V & P2V conversion using vCenter Converter.

Deployed Windows servers using Cloud Portal Embotics Cloud Portal.

Provided and maintained the access of users in the vCenter server.

Responsible for upgrading the hardware version and VMware Tools on the Virtual Machines.

Re-configured the networking of the ESXi hosts after upgrades were performed.

Responsible for vCenter consolidations and decommission of the legacy vCenters.

Experienced with vApp & Clustered Virtual machines maintainace.

Performed Log Analysis and troubleshot the performance of the ESXi environments.

vRealization Operations & vRealization Log Insight.

Installed, configured, and managed backups and replications for virtual machines.

Experienced in Various networking products ACI and NSX

Charter Communications, Simpsonville, SC

VMware and Windows Administrator

March 2015 – March 2016

Planned, designed, and implemented VMware virtualization technologies, storage and virtual network infrastructure.

Experienced in installing, configuring and managing ESXi servers, vCenter Servers, vROPs, SRM setting up of VMware Features like vMotion, HA and DRS.

Experienced on VMware vSphere 6.x/5.x, VMware vCenter 6/5.x, Operations, VSAN, and vRealize operations.

Experienced in installing, configuring and managing VDI environment.

Experienced in upgrading enterprise environment from VMware ESXi 5.5 to ESXi 6 and vCenter 5.5 to vCenter 6.x

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE – Continued

Performed root cause analysis troubleshooting of the hardware failovers, vCenter, VSAN ESXi host issues.

Experienced in installing and implementing the Active directories and DNS servers.

Worked on installing, upgrade and configuring VMware vCenter appliances.

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

Implemented DRS affinity and anti-affinity rules for the Virtual Machines in a cluster.

Extensive experience in setting up of VM priorities, creating VM clones and Snapshots.

Performance monitoring and tuning for ESX Servers, vCenter Server and VMs.

Worked on installing and maintaining Hyper converged infrastructure environment.

Created Snapshots and Clones of Virtual Machines for future Deployments.

Maintenance of virtual machines for performance issues, performing migrations across servers, storage and network.

Experience in Switch migration between vSwitch to vDS.

Created and managed VMware cluster with HA and DRS.

Created and configured vS, vDS, VM Kernel Ports, VM ports, service console, and NIC teaming.

Configured different types of Port Groups Policies, Failover detection, Hard and Soft zoning, and VLAN Tagging.

Installed patches and updates on ESXi hosts, vCenter Servers, and virtual machines using VMWare Update Manager and Host Update Utility.

Coordinated resolution of ESXi hardware related issues.

Installed, configured and troubleshot VSAN.

Troubleshot DNS, DHCP and Active Directory.

Vulnerability management related to VMware & Windows Server.

SL Data solutions, Andhra Pradesh, India

Systems Engineer

November 2011– August 2013

Experience in vSphere 5.x and 4.x deployment and management.

Experience in View and ThinApps deployments in production environment

Responsible for production support of Active directory (AD), GPO, Domain users, Users and groups and given appropriate permissions, shares and privilege to access LAN and Domain environment.

Installed and Implemented VMware ESXi 5.1 and 5.5 host servers. Configured HBAs and iSCSI SAN storage.

Familiar with backup and restore of VMware host server configuration, Virtual Machine backup, snapshot, P2V-V2V conversation with VMware converter 4/5 and with other third party converters, Patch updating, monitoring/reporting, SSH and SNMP and notification of alerts.

Installed ESX and ESXi servers on HP, DELL and IBM hardware.

Experience with report scripting using Shell Scripting.

Worked on ESX and VM storage issues and also coordinated with the storage admin team.

Performed P2V Hot conversions using vCenter Converter Standalone 5 and also the P2V cold conversion using VMware Converter Boot CD.

Worked on Disaster Recovery Exercises for DR Plan for Production Servers.

Administrating Symantec Endpoint Antivirus console, managing 300+ antivirus client’s computers like definition updates, Exception policies, scanning, reporting etc…

Responsible for helpdesk support using Remedy ticketing system, inventory and system reporting.

Participated in the migration planning, developing, testing and moving the migration process onto full-fledged production network.

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Science, Electronics and Communication Engineering, Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Kakinada, India, (Graduated: May 2013)

Master of Science, Electrical Engineering, Fairleigh Dickinson University, Teaneck, New Jersey, (Graduated: May 2015)

Master of Science, Information Technology Management, Campbellsville University,Louisville,Kentucky,(completed : major courses)

Ph.D in Information Technology, University of the Cumberlands,Kentucky(Pursuing, Expected Graduation: Dec 2021)

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