Manager Vmware

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CAREER PROFILE

VMware/AWS certified professional with 10+years of enterprise-level technical expertise as a Vmware engineer specializing in VMware and AWS Cloud Operations and migrations leveraging cost efficient hyper-converged Vxrail environment, Experience configuring and deploying VMWare stack leveraging CISCO UCS and HP server Hardware, hands-on with windows 2003+, Linux-RHEL and CentOS 5.x+ Operating Systems. CERTIFICATIONS

VMware Certified Professional 6 – Datacenter virtualization (VCP 6 - DCV) AWS Certified Solution Architect Associate

SKILLSET:

Cloud/Virtualization : Vmware cloud on AWS (VMC),Vsphere 5.x,6.0,6.5,6.7 vCenter Server, Vmware Site Recovery Manager(SRM), VMware DRS, HA and FT,VMware Update Manager (VUM), vRealize Log Insight(vRLI), VMWare NSX, Vmware app Defense, Vmware vSAN, vRealize Operations Manager

(vROps), vRealize Automation (vRA), vRealize Suite, AWS – EC2, EBS, S3, EC2 container service (ECS), Elastic Load Balancer, RDS, CloudWatch, IAM policies/roles, Route53, Load Balancing, Dell EMC Vxrail Hyper converged environment, UCS Central, UCS Manager, HP One View, HP virtual Connect, HP onboard administrator

Operating Systems/shell: Windows Server 2016/2012/2008/2003/2000, Linux – RHEL 5/6/7 CentOS 5/6/7, Power CLI, Power Shell

Hardware : HP ProLiant BL and DL series Servers, HP c7000 enclosure, Cisco UCS B Series Blade and C series rack mount servers, UCS 5108 Enclosure, Dell Power edge R700 series Rack mounts, Dell EMC Vx Rail and Nutanix Hypercoverged Environment

Migration/Backup Tools: HCX,Veeam, Zerto,Vmware SRM,VMware Standalone Converter PROFESSIONAL HIGHLIGHTS

Vanguard – Wayne, PA June 2019 – Current

Principal VMware Engineer

Designed and deployed brand new vcenter 6.7 environment with ESXi 6.7 hosts on Vxrail 4.5 hyper- converged Dell Power edge hardware in multiple Remote site.

Designed, setup and configured VMWare cloud SDDC on AWS by creating new VPC, SDDC with specific North-south firewall rule setup in NSX edge gateway as well east-west firewall for VM traffic

Migrated Dev/Test remote site with 1500+ virtual machines to VMWare cloud on AWS using Vmware HCX

Configured vcenter 6.7 with embedded PSC in Enhanced Linked Mode. Also migrated vcenter 6.0 with external PSC to embedded PSC vcenter 6.7

Configured vcenter HA (VCHA) for high availability of vcenter server comprising active, passive and witness node.

Migrated vCenter server and all 400+ ESXi host from vSphere 6.0 to 6.7

Setup cisco UCS Fabric Interconnect pair 6296UP as well 6248UP with UCS 5108 enclosure and B200 M4 and M5 series blade servers.

Configured UCS Central with multiple UCS manager domains. Created Policies, service Profiles and templates within UCS central and UCS Manager.Patched multiple cisco fabric interconnect pairs.

Configured vRealized Log Insight(vRLI) as centralized log collector engine for all ESXi hosts.

Administration of 700+ ESXi hosts comprising 16000+ Virtual Machines across 12 different vcenters hosted on CISCO UCS B series and C series, HP ProLiant DL and BL series Hardware

Remote office Branch office (ROBO) site DR setup leveraging Vmware SRM and vSphere Replication

Vmware NSX 6.4 installation and configuration. Configured VXLAN, NSX edge gateway, Distributed edge logical routers (DLR), North-south and east-west firewall, NSX edge load balance setup with 3 tier web facing application

End to end NSX setup with BGP peering over cisco Leaf-spine switch architecture running vpc mode.

Updating and upgrading ESXi servers, vCenter Server leveraging vSphere Update Manager and VM Tools.

Managed ESXi hosts using vCenter Server/ vSphere Client and VMware Web Client.

Performed vMotion and Storage vMotion of Virtual Machines across different cluster with respect to storage migration project, security policies and application development requirements.

Creation of hot and cold Clones Templates from Virtual Machines (VMs). Deployed Virtual Machines from Templates based on requirements and build documents.

Performed Virtual Machine Snapshots for Application and Migration fallback plan

Experience with creating Standard vSwitches (vSS), Distributed vSwitches (VDs). Isolated networks were created with separate vSwitches and VMkernel Port Groups.

Automated configuration management and ensured compliance of vSphere hosts and virtual machines with vCenter Host Profiles.

Handled VMware solutions to support multiple storage connectivity options such as Fiber Channel-SAN, iSCSI, NFS (NAS).

Created LUNs and storage groups in EMC Vmax, EMC VNX

LUN creation, masking, storage pool creation in EMC VMax and EMC VNX

Resource management for VMs increasing CPU, Memory and DISK expansion etc.

Configured virtual and physical mode of raw device mapping (RDM) LUNs to Virtual machines

Installation/deployment of Windows 2008R2/2012R2 using Sysprep and configuration of DNS, DHCP and WINS servers.

Participated in meetings and planning for future migration of Windows server from 2008R2 to 2012R2. Teva Pharmaceuticals Inc – North Wales, PA October 2015 – June 2019 VMware Data center migration engineer

Migrated (P2V, V2V, Replication) 2000+ servers in record 10 months in order to close down 3 data centers

Managing 9000+ VMs and 400+ ESXi hosts across 5 different vCenters

Installed and configured CISO UCS 5108 Enclosure with B200 M4 and M5 blade servers and 6248 UP fabric interconnect pair by CISCO UCS manager and UCS Central along with CISCO C220/240 M4 rack mount servers.

Configured multiple CISCO UCS 6248UP fabric interconnect pairs to form UCS Domain managed trough UCS central

Migrated windows based vcenter 5.5 with external PSC to VCSA 6.5 with embedded PSC

Upgraded 300+ ESXi hosts from 5.5 to 6.5 using vcenter update manager (VUM)

setup vcenter HA(VCHA) by configuring passive and witness node vcenter node

multiple VMFS 5 and VMFS 6 datastore migration and creation.

Automated ESXi build by configuring PXE boot by Auto deploy leveraging Auto deploy rule set engine and configured ESXi host profiles.

Configured vRealized Log insight(vRLI) to log all ESXi host at centralized location along with syslog server.

Configure HP Oneview with HP c7000 enclosure comprising BL 460/660 G8, Gen 9 full width and half width blade servers

Also configure HP ilo and cabling on HP DL 460/480 G8 and Gen 9 rack mount hardware

patched and upgraded HP c7000 OA and flex fabric modules with HP ilo and one view

Setup and configured Vmware NSX 6.2 with VXLAN, VTEP, NSX edge gateway acting as north-south firewall with multiple NSX edge layer 4 and layer 7 internal internal load balancer.

NSX Controller, NSX Manager, logical switches, distributed logical Router( DLR) creation.

Design, installed and configured vRealize Operations manager(vROPs) 6.4 with 5 node HA configured master, master replica, data node and cople of remote collector node to monitor 10000+ objects

patched upgraded vROPs 6.4 to 6.6.

configured vROPs dashboard and monitoring matcics for various application owners as well monitoring team.

Migrated Linux environment to AWS/RHEL Linux environment and used auto scaling feature.

Migrated 200+ servers from VMware private cloud to AWS public cloud as EC2 instance leveraging AWS connector virtual appliance

Configure brand new VPC alongside networking team with Direct connect and site to site Ipsec (L3)VPN

Design and Configured AWS Cloud infrastructures to support Cloud migrations and transformation initiatives with EC2, S3, RDS, Route 53, cloud front CDN, IAM user accounts and access control policies

Implemented Zerto site to site virtual replication and Fail-over site protection as DR solution

Worked closely with Cloud Developers and Cloud Architects to engineer and deliver Cloud infrastructure Solutions on time and above expectations.

Virtualized(P2V) 200+ physical servers including Oracle Linux, Cent OS, Red hat Linux 6.x and all major windows OS to move out of data center

scripted many routine task using power shell for day to day operation.

Performed VMWare Administration, configuration, administration, and monitoring of vSphere 6.5,6.0, 5.x

Installed, configured and integrated vRealize suite in existing environment.

Created protection group and recovery plan for multiple 3 tier application in VMWare SRM

configured and setup vsphere replication (vR)appliances for multi site replication as disaster recovery.

Built ESX servers and implemented complete integration with SAN storage for vMotion in a VMware DRS and HA enabled environment.

Zodiac Aerospace - Irvine, CA Feb 2013 – Jun 2015

VMWare System Administrator -II

Migrated vCenter server and all 200+ ESXi host from vSphere 5.1 to 5.5

Administration of ESXi hosts on CISCO UCS Blade series and C series, HP ProLiant DL380 G7 and DL580 series servers.

Acted as administer and maintained the scalable system infrastructure within Amazon Web Services (AWS) EC2.

Migrated Linux environment to AWS/RHEL Linux environment and used auto scaling feature.

P2V conversions using VMware vCenter Converter.

Updating and upgrading ESXi servers, vCenter Server and virtual using vSphere Update Manager and VM Tools through Power CLI scrips updates.

Responsible for RHEL 5/6 Administration, Installation & Maintenance

Deployed Redhat Satellite Server with custom repositories to provide a stable management solution for the Linux environment.

Worked extensively with Network File System (NFS) for storage.

Patched RHEL5.x servers with Kernel Upgrading from EL5.3 to 5. 4 during scheduled outage.

configured RHEL file system management through Logical Volume Manager LVM.

Creating new file systems, mounting/unmounting file systems.

Installation, configuration and administration of apache/tomcat, samba and many more application packages in Linux Operating system

Responsible for Updating YUM Repository and Redhat Package Manager RPM.

Managed ESXi hosts using vCenter Server/ vSphere Client and VMware Web Client.

Performed vMotion and Storage vMotion of Virtual Machines across different cluster with respect to storage migration project, security policies and application development requirements.

Creation of hot and cold Clones Templates from Virtual Machines (VMs). Deployed Virtual Machines from Templates based on requirements and build documents.

Performed Virtual Machine Snapshots for Application machines for Migrations and failback.

Experience with creating Standard vSwitches (vSS), Distributed vSwitches (VDs). Isolated networks were created with separate vSwitches and VMkernel Port Groups. Third party tools such as Wireshark packet capturing tool were used for network traffic monitoring, vMotion, storage and Fault-Tolerance (FT) security and stability.

Automated configuration management and ensured compliance of vSphere hosts and virtual machines with vCenter Host Profiles.

Handled VMware solutions to support multiple storage connectivity options such as Fiber Channel-SAN, iSCSI, NFS (NAS).

Moving the running VM from one host to another using vMotion technology. Qualcomm – San Diego, CA June 2010 – Jan 2013

Windows/VMware system administrator

System analysis, monitoring and performance tuning for Windows 2000/2003/2008 Servers.

Monitoring the operating system, database & network by using the monitoring tools.

Performed backup and restore operations of VMware host configuration, Virtual Machines backup, snapshots

Administering production servers/network infrastructure that includes Windows Administration of Domain Controllers, IIS Web Servers, NAS, File and print Servers and Terminal Servers on Windows 2003/2008/2008 R2.

Responsible 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.

Familiar with windows, software and Hardware based Firewalls. Allow/Block ports, inbound/outbound TCP/ UDP traffic, NAT, Remote Access VPN and site-to-site VPN, and configurations of Syslog

Installed Windows 2003, 2008, RHEL 5 and ESXi servers on HP hardware.

Configured HA, DRS clusters and capacity planning for new clusters, configuring FT for important VM's.

Involved in troubleshooting the DNS, DHCP, IIS and Active directory.

Maintained Web Servers by installing Microsoft IIS

Active Directory and Operating System account management With NTFS permissions.

Maintaining FTP Sites and creating Virtual Directories in IIS

Created User Accounts and Groups in Active Directory.

Up gradation of Windows server's service pack and security patch as per schedule.

Configuration and Maintenance of Microsoft Windows cluster Servers.

Developed technical notes and user guides for new software installations for end users.

Involved System Administration support for Windows 2003/2008 Servers.

Installation, configuration & maintenance of Windows 2000, Windows 2003 & Windows 2008 Servers with Active directory Infrastructure, DNS, DHCP

Coordinate hardware and software installations and upgrades to ensure work is performed in accordance with company policy.

Troubleshoot the DNS servers by using tools like nslookup, tcpview, tcpdump, netstat, event logging,

Monitor server hardware, performance, and up time and respond to outages promptly.

Document server builds, server outages, and backup failures.

Installation/deployment of Windows 2008/2008R2 using Sysprep and configuration of DNS, DHCP and WINS servers.

Provide management of Microsoft Windows 2008, 2008 R2 servers. DNS DHCP and Active Directory.

Management and administration of Windows 2008 and 2008 R2 Active directory (Created Accounts, Reset Passwords, and Allowed Access to different Directories using NTFS permissions). Gujarat Insecticides Limited – Gujarat, India June 2007 – October 2008 IT Infrastructure Support Administrator

Responsible for installation, Configuration, maintenance and troubleshooting of HP servers

Installed and configured MS windows OS including Active Directory, WINS, DNS, DHCP, Group Policy

Configured DNS zones in active directory integrated and standalone modes, configuring DHCP scopes

Administered and configured IIS server on windows server 2003/2003 R2

Installing and updating the windows patches.

Creating NTFS shares on windows Servers and provide permissions to users.

Creating and managing user accounts and the groups in Active Directory users and computers.

Defining group permissions and creating local and global groups with account policies. Creating user rights and defining local and roaming profiles.

Education

Bachelor’s Degree from Shri Sad Vidya mandal Institute of Technology, Gujarat, India Employment Eligibility:

U.S Citizen

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