Engineer Manager

Dharanidhar Bapathu

Piscataway, NJ ***** C: 732-***-**** E: ***.***@*****.***

Summary

IT Professional with experience in Systems and VMware Administration with primary focus on installation, configuration, and administration of VMware vSphere 6.7/6.5/6.0/5.5/5.1/4.1 environment including ESXi 3.5/4.1/5.1/5.5

/5.5U1,5.5U3,6.0U3,6.5,6.7 VMware vCenter4.1/5.1/5.5/6.0/6.5/6.7, Update manager, SSO server, inventory services, Web client server, associated vCenter Database, Postgress Database and Platform services controller. Learnt Devops, AWS Cloud Services. Also, AWS and VCP-DCV 6.5 Certified. Experienced in every role of engineering, including design, development, testing, implementation, and maintenance. Experienced in administering and configuring various hardware vendors servers - HP c7000, Cisco UCS, Dell,Nutanix,vBlock.

Experienced in administering and troubleshooting Windows and Linux servers Proficient in PowerShell Scripting.

Certifications

VMware Certified Professional Datacenter Virtualization- VCP-DCV 6.5 AWS Cloud Solutions Architect Associate SAA-C01

Education and Training

George Mason University - Fairfax, VA Master of Science Computer Networking And Telecommunications, 05/2014 JNTU Hyderabad - Hyderabad, India Bachelor of Technology Electrical And Electronics Engineering, 05/2010

Skills

VMware

VMware ESX 3.5, 4.0, 4.1/ESXi 5.0,5.1,5.5,6.0, 6.5, 6.7 vCenter Server 4.1, 5.0,5.1,5.5,6.0,6.5,6.7 Update manager, P2V convertor, VMware SRM, VMware Horizon View, VMware VDP and VDP advanced, vSphere

Replication, vSAN, VSA, VMware Orchestrator, vRealize Operations Manager, vRealize Automation,NSX.

Operating Systems

Windows Server OS - 2000, 2003, 2008,2008 R2,2012, 2016, CentOS, Oracle Linux,Red Hat Linux, Ubuntu, Cisco IOS Hardware

HP Proliant DL360 G7, DL380 G6, DL385 G7, Gen8, G9, DL385 G6

HP Blade Server BL460c G6, G7 BL 465c G6

Applications and monitoring tools

Vfoglight, SCOM, HP SIM, Nagios, vADP, HP one view, HP operations manager,RV tools

Microsoft products and services

Hyper-V, Active Directory, ADFS, IIS, DNS, DHCP, SCOM, SCCM, DFS,

Active Directory

Scripting Languages: Powershell Scripting

Cloud Services : AWS EC2, S3, IAM,Load Balancing-

ELB,ALB,NLB, Autoscaling,Route53; Database services - Dynamo DB, RDS, Amazon Aurora,Datawarehouse

service- Redshift, Data Streaming and Analytics- Kinesis; Networking and Monitoring - Nat Gateway, Internet

Gateway,VPC peering,VPN and Direct Connect,

HP Blade chassis c3000, c7000

CISCO UCS 5108 Chassis, Cisco UCS B230 M2, B250 M3, B440 M1, M2,M3, M4, M5,B200 M1, M2,M3, M4,M5.

Dell poweredge servers R720, R920, R630, R730

Dell PowerEdge,2850, 2950, 6950, Dell R710

Backup Softwares

Symantec Net backup, VMware VDP, Veeam, EMC

Avamar

Cloudwatch and Cloudtrail and Trusted advisor;

Application services: SES, SNS, SQS, AWS lambda,Simple Workflow;Cloudformation,Opsworks.

Hyperconverged Infrastructure

Nutanix NX-3170-G6, vBlock 100,200,300,700,720

Storage Arrays

VNX 5400, Unity 600F, Unity 650F, Unity 651F, Unity 600H,Isilon, XtremeIO.

DevOps: Git,Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, Ansible, Puppet, Jenkins.

Experience

SR. VMWARE SPECIALIST 12/2019 to Current

ConEdison - Newyork, New York

Migrate vSphere environment from 6.0 to 6.7 U3

Build ESXi 6.7 hosts to increase cluster capacity

Decommission servers that are no longer required.

Upgrade ESXi hosts from 6.0 to 6.7 U3

Resolve Linux and Windows server issues

Configure Cisco UCS service profiles and templates Provision LUNs to ESXi hosts from VNX, EMC unity and Xtremeio storage arrays Write up ESXi host build documents from scratch that includes screenshots and steps on how to : 1.)Configure the Cisco UCS boot policies,

2.)Create service profile templates and service profiles from the templates 3.) Associate the profiles to the UCS blade servers 4.)Deploy ESXi on the blades and configure them

5.) Run BASH script to customize the configuration settings on the host Write up documents on how the migration from 6.0 to 6.7 was performed Write powercli scripts to automate the administration activities as much as possible. Perform code and drive firmware upgrades on the EMC Unity, VNX and XtremeIO storage arrays Built ESXi clusters with Nutanix G6 nodes.

Performed Nutanix nodes' ESXi upgrade to ESXi 6.7 U3J from the Prism Central Built new vCenters for the new datacenter and especially for Nutanix ESXi clusters. Upgraded firmware on the Nutanix nodes from Prism Central. Setup multiple ESXi clusters using Nutanix G6 servers and ran shell scripts to customize the settings. Day-to-day storage administration activities like provisioning new LUNs to the servers on UNITY and ExtremeIO storage arrays, registering initiators to the hosts.

Built multiple bare metal windows servers

Setup RDMs for multiple windows clusters' virtual machines. Configured windows 2012 clusters for file servers. Increased memory and compute resources on the windows servers. Office 365 training

Customize Office 365 applications including word, excel, skype for business,outlook and powerpoint VMWARE, WINTEL AND DATA CENTER MIGRATION ENGINEER 06/2019 to 11/2019 Nokia - Chicago, IL

Cold migrated virtual machines from hosts on vCenter 2.5 to 5.5 ESXi hosts using scopy. Resolved multiple high priority tickets within the SLA times. Built multiple windows virtual machines.

Resolved multiple file share issues.

Provided multiple powershell scripts to automate the auditing tasks. Provided on call support whenever required.

Worked on Antivirus migration from Mcafee to Symantec. Managed and handled deployment and implementation activities that includes RCM (release certification matrix) upgrades for the entire vBlock environment.

Handled all day-to-day storage related activities that pertain to vBlock. Worked on troubleshooting issues that are related to network, storage and VMware as per the best practices for vBlock administration for better performance and redundancy. Built multiple bare metal windows servers

Setup RDMs for multiple windows clusters' virtual machines. Configured windows 2012 clusters for file servers. Increased memory and compute resources on the windows servers. Office 365 training

Customize Office 365 applications including word, excel, skype for business,outlook and powerpoint VMWARE, WINTEL AND DATA CENTER MIGRATION ENGINEER 09/2017 to 05/2019 Dow AgroSciences - Indianapolis, IN

Built vCenter server appliance 6.5.0 Build 5973321. Created LDAP identity sources on the VCSA to provide single sign on. Successfully completed the 18 ESXi hosts' and 300 virtual machines' live migration from the Midland, MI vCenter to the newly created Indianapolis, IN vCenter with zero issues. As part of the live migration process:.

Migrated the virtual machine port groups and kernel ports groups from the virtual distributed switch to standard switches and vice-versa to facilitate smooth migration. Used multiple powercli scripts to create standard switches and port groups etc. To automate and fasten the live migration process. Racked and stacked and cabled 3 Dell Inc.

PowerEdge 630 servers for Oracle forms cluster.

Resolved Powerpath issues and issues with qlogic 8262 CNA cards. Deployed VMware ESXi, 5.5.0, 5230635 on the above 3 hosts and readied a fully functional highly available cluster for oracle forms.

Resolved a storage adapter issue with the QLogic 57810 10 Gigabit Ethernet Adapters. Racked and stacked and cabled a Dell Inc.

PowerEdge R930 server for SQL.

Wrote a few documents like how the migration was done, etc. And uploaded to the SharePoint site.

Updated all the ESXi hosts kernels to ESXi, 5.5.0, 5230635 from lower kernel versions. Updated firmware on all the Dell physical servers. Created data store clusters to facilitate storage DRS and balance the datastores. Deployed VMware ESXi, 6.0.0, 6765062 on two of the management servers, discovered all the snapshots in the environment using RV tools so as to remediate the snapshots and reclaim storage space. Extracted vCenter reports using RV tools.

Get detailed inventory reports of the physical machines in the environment using PowerShell Scripts. Resolve all VMware and Wintel tickets within the SLA times and support business as usual activities. Contribute to the service improvement plans and process improvement plans. Continue to support the data center migration activities. Build new ESXi hosts and clusters for capacity management. Participate and contribute in all the technical discussions and meetings. Support any Linux issues.

Build new x86 hardware chassis or standalone servers whenever required. Created multiple service accounts for SCOM and vCSA 6.5. Built IIS server for SCOM reporting server.

Built a SQL instance and configured databases for SCOM reporting and dataware house and SCOM management. VMWARE AND DATA CENTER MIGRATION ENGINEER 04/2017 to 08/2017 AON-Hewitt - IL

Provisioned vitual machines using vRealize automation. Worked with the service now developers and VMware engineers for VRA-SNOW integration. Transferred VMware knowledge to AON employees.

Attended multiple knowledge transfer sessions on VMAX storage, NSX, vipr controller,Avamar Backup and CISCO UCS. Troubleshot permission issues on the vCenters.

Pulled reports using RV tools and worked to sync SNOW CMDB with vCenter inventory. Configured monitoring alerts on vCenter.

Enabled EVC and set it the latest Haswell baseline on multiple ESXi clusters. Configured storage DRS on multiple datastores.

Setup high availability on multiple clusters.

Set up logging levels on the vCenters and all ESXi hosts to 'info' level from verbose. Did a host of storage vMotions and vMotions.

Did licensing consolidation analysis for both Windows and VMware. Setup storage DRS on a few vCenters.

Gave users permissions to access a few virtual machines and console into them. Gave a real low-level plan on how to setup a CISCO UCS 5108 8 blade chassis from scratch. Pulled a bunch of vCenter reports using RV tools.

Browsed through the various SRM protection groups already setup in the environment. VMWARE AND LINUX ENGINEER 11/2016 to 03/2017

Metropolitan Utilities District - Omaha, NE

Worked on day to day Linux tickets- configuring new samba shares, giving users' permissions to existing samba shares. Gave users file and folder permissions on linux and permissions to access a Linux server. Built new Linux servers and configured them with new IP addresses and hostname. Gave reports on cluster capacity and recommendations on possible vCenter consolidation. Did crash log analysis on a few linux server crash issues. Gave implementation plans on implementing Nagios for monitoring a new environment. Set up alerts on vRealize 6.2.

Ran a host of scripts to find windows servers percentage uptime for the past 730 days. Upgraded a Linux servers to RHEL 6.6 kernel and aboveBuilt a 4 node ESXi cluster for citrix farm build out. Did multiple storage vMotions and also applied SDRS recommendations. Did a host of cross cluster vMotions to balance the loads. Also checked the various protection groups setup in SRM. VMWARE AND DATACENTER MIGRATION ENGINEER 10/2015 to 10/2016 Worldpay Inc - Atlanta, GA

Working as a VMware and Wintel server Datacenter Engineer, facilitating Datacenter (DC) migration. All 11 Move events have been a success.

Deployed HP oneview to manage all the HP c7000 enclosures in the new DC. Added all enclosures to HP oneview, created server profile templates and server profiles and built ESXi 5.5 U3B clusters and Windows SQL clusters and Oracle enterprise Linux 6.7 Clusters. Resolved multiple operational issues and helped with smooth day to day operations. Deployed vRealize to monitor and manage the virtual environment. Configured and installed hyper converged compute and storage appliance - Nutanix. Successfully consolidated 3 vCenters into 1.

Successfully completed virtual cluster consolidation. Completed P2V'ng multiple rack mounted and blade servers. Worked on VSS to DVS migration and vice-versa.

De-racked and decommissioned 175 physical servers and 100 VMs. Upgraded vCenters from 5.5 to 5.5 U3B.

Worked on the move event days to migrate all VMs to the new data center without any issues. Ran a host of PowerShell and visual basic scripts to get servers' information. Built and configured around 25 HP c7000 virtual connect enclosures. Upgraded ESXi hosts to kernel build ESXi 5.5 U3C.

Did a few thousand storage vMotions and vMotions as part of the datacenter migration. VMWARE AND WINTEL ENGINEER 07/2014 to 09/2015

Hospira - Lake Forest, IL

Planned upgrade drive for existing ESXi hosts to version 5.5, this included upgrading few of the virtual machine hardware versions as well.

Upgraded vCenter from 5.0 to 5.5, this needed additional components to be installed such as SSO server, web Client Server.

Planned and implemented disaster recovery solution using VMware SRM 5.5 that includes setting up SRM Servers, array-based replication, installation of SRA, defining RTO/RPO, creating protection groups and recovery plan. Monitoring and management of entire virtual infrastructure using vCenter operations Manager. Planned and implemented VMware Data Protection Advanced to backup and replicate SQL/Exchange databases running inside Virtual machines.

Worked on spinning up VDIs for almost 100 users and worked with view horizon, worked with VMware view 5 5.1 and horizon view 5.2, 5.3.

Administrated server consolidation program through use of VMware ESX server and VMware Virtual Center, creating VMs, using/building VM templates and customization files, and scheduling tasks. Installation, configuration and management of multiple server suites (Windows 2003/2008) on VMware ESX server. Prepared the strategy and implemented conversion of few leftover physical servers to virtual servers. Designed and implemented vSphere 5.0/ 5.5 Lab environment. Involved with capacity planning and hardware procurements. Involved in Data center migration project with more than 200 ESXi hosts, we used VMware SRM for Virtual machine, used P2V convertor to convert physical machines into virtual machines before migrating. Configured 12 node host clusters with features like HA, DRS, Datastore heart beating to detect isolation, affinity rules, anti-affinity rules, Fault Tolerance.

Configured dedicated port group for newly added iSCSI storage into the environment and did setup storage adaptor for the same.

Security hardening and Monitoring of VM's & ESX servers (CPU, Memory, Disk, Network Utilization) for Security Compliance.

Operated as 24 hour on-call escalation point for all project effecting problems related to all Migration efforts. Anticipated obstacles and recommended solution options. Solved numerous tickets related to performance issues, provisioning requirements, tools update, BSOD, PSOD, unable to start services issues and many more.

Focused on client values and satisfaction while balancing corporate objectives, feasibility and scalability of solutions. Assisted with technical and stakeholder requirements and overall project plan including cost, scope, portability, compatibility and usability.

Prepared documentation and provided training for offshore resource in VMware. Worked on Microsoft's HYPER-V environment as well to setup the virtual infra-structure. Worked on RHEL, CentOS and Ubuntu platforms.

Configured and deployed different Linux VMs.

Worked on spinning up VDIs for almost 100 users and worked with view horizon, worked with VMware horizon view 5.2, 5.3

Experience with HP Blade System C-class enclosure (3000/7000) using Onboard Administrator and Virtual Connect. Have experience working on windows NT,2003,2008 R1 and R2 and 2012 servers. Supported the daily operational activities and issues outside of office hours and during weekends whenever required, on call 24/7.

Have real good experience with change management, incident management and problem management processes.

Have worked on hardware qualifications and software qualifications and very good with complying the new server builds and all the compliance processes.

Worked with HP blades and standalone machines right from HP-Compaq G1 to HP G9 series servers. Experience with windows clustering 2003,2008 and 2012. Design, configure, and support Enterprise Desktop Virtualization Technologies. Experience with working on HYPER-V environment.

Sound knowledge on ESXi and vCenter Architecture, guest OS installation, setting up of VM priorities, Cloning, templates, ovf, .ova and Snapshots.

Excellent experience and knowledge with designing, installing and implementing VMware ESX server, VMware virtual center, setting up clustering features like V-Motion, Storage v-Motion, Enhanced vMotion, HA, DRS, DPM, sDRS, FT, Verifying EVC, Standard and Distributed switch configurations required for vMotion. P2V and V2V conversions by using VMware Converter and platespin. Exposure to vCenter Operations Manager, VMware.

Strong understanding of VMware Networking concepts like creation of Standard and distributed vSwitches, creating different types of port groups with advanced configurations including failover and load balancing policies, NIC Teaming, VLAN Problem management.

Experience with standard and distributed switches. Experience working with various different storage technologies and features, communication SAN protocols include iSCSI, NAS and FC.

Features include, RAID, Disk Mirroring, FW upgrades, Volume Expansions, Disaster Recovery, and Backup and restore solutions by different storage vendors such as DELL Equallogic PS6000 series, HP P6000 EVA, EMC SRDF, and EMC VNX. Excellent exposure to VMware SRM - Automated disaster Recovery Tool. Troubleshooting and change control management using BMC remedy software. Experience with 3 flavors of Linux- RHEL 5 and 6, CentOS and Ubuntu. Experience troubleshooting almost all domains of vSphere Environment including performance issue that requires good knowledge of ESXTOP command and vCenter operations Manager, collecting logs bundles for Virtual Machine, ESXi, vCenter server, troubleshooting BSOD and PSOD. Excellent experience with VMware update manager to install patches and updates on ESX hosts and virtual machines. Experience installing, configuring and troubleshooting Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, VMWARE ENGINEER AND WINTEL ENGINEER 03/2011 to 01/2013 Tata Consultancy Services - Hyderabad, India, India Directly responsible for deployment and support of VMware vSphere ESXi4.1/ESX 4.0. Performed upgradation of ESX 3.5 to vSphere 4.0, vCenter 2.5 to 4.0. Experience in Deployment and Implementation of VDI View 4.5. Manage snapshots, clones, templates during patch releases and new server deployments. Experience with installing, configuring and troubleshooting VMware Lab Manager. Hands on experience in updating / upgrading ESX servers, Virtual Center servers and windows virtual machines using VMware Update manager and manual upgrades.

Installation and configuration of Microsoft Windows Vista, XP, 2000 server, Professional, Windows 2003 and 2008 Servers. Updated ESX host's using VMware Update manager.

Supported a large-scale Data Center projects including server installation, hardware maintenance, and break/fix activities.

Assisted in P2V conversions of Windows servers using VMware vConverter. HP Blade Center administration on HP blade models C7000/C3000. Connecting to ESX server by using VIC, putty and Web access. Provide research into VMware Thinapp initiative for increasing server virtulization. Involved in Assessment of current environment for desktop virtualization. Involved in definition of success criteria for use cases. Created use cases for desktop design and implementation. Design and implementation of ThinApp environment.

Application virtualization using VMware ThinApp 4.5 version. ThinApp Packages Applications Upgrades and deployment testing and Production Implementation. Experience in writing and debugging multi-threaded applications and packaging. Assist staff with the installation, configuration, and ongoing usability of desktop computers, peripheral equipment and software within established standards and guidelines. Worked on resource management framework like creation resource pools, adding the VMs into Resource pools. TECHNICAL SUPPORT ASSOCIATE 09/2010 to 12/2010

Dell International services - Hyderabad, India, India Supported USA and Canada Dell customers resolve their laptop, desktop and printer and scanner issues over phone calls and chat Recovered data from corrupted computer hard disks.

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