Manager Engineer
Resume:
Varun Patel
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Professional Summary:
• Eight years of experience in the IT industry of which five years as a VMWare Administrator.
• 5 + years in the area of Virtualization with VMware vSphere, ESXi 5.0/ESXi4.1 and , ESX 3.X servers, vCenter server 4.0,2.5 and vCenter Converter
• Build and troubleshooting experience With VMware ESXi 4.1/ESXi 3.X, vCenter server 2.5 and VMware vSphere Suite
• Experience with VDI View 4.5/4.0 desktop virtualization deployment
• Worked on the Application Packagaing with VMware ThinApps
• Deployment of business critical technologies in DR site with VMware SRM .
• Experience in ESX Architecture, guest O/S installation, setting up of VM priorities, Cloning, Creating Templates and Snapshots
• Experience in Physical to Virtual (P2V) and Virtual to Virtual conversions by using VMware Converter, Platespin Power convert and vCenter Guided Consolidation
• Application virtualization using VMware ThinApp 4.5 version
• Good Understanding of the VBlock and Vcloud director .
• Extensive experience in working with the vMotion and Storage vMotion technology
• Strong Experience in vNetwork concepts: vSwitch and dvSwitch
• Strong experience with the VMware HA (High Availablility), Fault Tolerance, Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) and VMware Distributed Power Management (DPM)
• Experience in administration, maintenance and troubleshooting of EMC Symmetrix DMX-2000, DMX-3, DMX-4, VNX ,V-MAX and Clariion CX600, CX700, CX3 series CX4 series.
• Experience in managing storage arrays using SymCLI, SMC for Symmetrix and NaviSecCLI, Navisphere Manager for Clariion.
• Experienced in configuring VSANs with TE ports on Cisco enterprise directors MDS 9513, 9509, 9506 and departmental switches 9124, 9134 using Cisco CLI, Fabric Manager.
• Have knowledge in troubleshooting the issues and the incident management.
Technical Skills:
• VMware : VMWare VSphere 5.0/4.0, VMware infrastructure 3.0/3.5,ESX 3/3.5, VCenter Lab Manager 4, View , ThinApps, SRM ,vCenter Server, vCenter Update Manager, VVM, Symantec backup , VRangerPro, VCloud Directory .
• SAN Hardware: EMC VNX ,Symmetrix DMX-2000,DMX-2, DMX-3, DMX-4, VMAX, ClariionCX-600, CX-700, CX3-20, Netapps 3040 and 6040 filers.
• Operating Systems: Microsoft Server 2008, Server 2003, Server 2000, Redhat Linux, Solaris 8,9,10, IBM AIX (5.2/5.3), VMware ESX/ESXi server and HP-UX.
Certifications:
• VCP 4/3 - VMware Certified Professional
• MCSE – Microsoft Certified System Engineer
Work Experience:
ING, St Cloud, MN Nov 09 – Oct 11
VMWare Consultant
Responsibilities:
• 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 .
• Experience with Cisco UCS 5048 chassis and Blades B20 M2 administration
• Manage snapshots, clones, templates during patch releases and new server deployments
• Experience with installing, configuring and troubleshooting VMware Lab Manager
• Analyze existing infrastructure using VMware Capacity Planner
• Vblock POC setup with EMC VNX storage and cisco UCS Blades
• Performed datastore migration using VMware storage vMotion on Netapps NFS , EMC CLARiiON SAN Storage
• Cisco UCS Chassis with B200 and B200 M2 blades.
• 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.
• 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 .
• 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 writing and debugging multi-threaded applications and packaging.
• Intergrate with enterprise SAN that included several Symmetrix V-Max arrays and CLARiiONs connected to several Windows & UNIX servers in the Data center.
• Implemented Autoprovisioning for provisioning storage by creating storage groups, initiator groups, port groups and masking views for Symmetrix V-Max using SE 7.1.1 and SMC 7.1.1
• Configured and allocated storage for production and corporate VMware hosts from DMX-3/DMX-4 using Symcli and Clariion CX4-120/CX4-960 using Navisphere Manager.
Fannie Mae, Urbana, MD May ‘08 – Nov ‘09
VMware Consultant
Responsibilities:
• Involved with all major datacenter projects that involve SAN storage or virtualization.
• Architected and designed VMware ESX 4.0/ESX 3.5server 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.
• Used HP DL585 G2 and IBM x3850 with quad dual core processors and 72GB RAM as ESX server platform.
• 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.
• Created a virtual desktop solution for over 2000 mobile and offshore user base insuring company data stays in the company.
• Deploying and managing Windows, Linux and Solaris Operating systems in the virtual environment.
• Installing and configuring geo dispersed Microsoft Clusters with HP and Unisys 7000 hardware.
• Installing, managing and supporting hardware for HP Enterprise Virtual Array and XP 24000 Enterprise Storage systems IBM/XIV Virtual Array and a range of Brocade Directors and switches.
• Worked closely with MS SQL and Oracle DBA groups to determine best possible configuration for Storage LUN assignments and raid levels.
• Implemented HP System insight manager server to manage P series HP blade systems and HP hardware SNMP traps.
• Manage and support HP Polyserve virtual file cluster and virtual SQL cluster.
IBM, Poughkeepsie, NY May ‘06 – Apr ‘08
Technical Consultant
Responsibilities:
• Installation, configuring and management of ESX 3, 3.5 and vCenter Server 2.5.
• Excellent experience and knowledge with designing installing and implementing VMware ESX servers and vCenter server and setting up V-Motion, HA, DRS.
• Site stuff had a VMware 3 and 3.5 environments. I started building VMware VSphere from scratch.
• Managed 100 ESX servers located at various data centres by one virtual centre. Each Data centre has multiple clusters with biggest of 15 clusters used for HA and DRS for disaster recovery, Load balancing and troubleshooting.
• Creating and Deploying of Virtual Machines from Templates and Snapshots with in no time. Creating clusters, Resource pools and adding VM’s to them and installing VM Tools
• Creating and configuring VNetwork Standard Switch (VSwitch), VM Kernel Ports, VM ports, Service console and NIC teaming.
• Configuring VNetwork Distributed switches and migrating the networks from VNetwork standard switches to VNetwork Distributed switches.
• Configuring different type of Port Groups Policies, Applying Security policies, Traffic Shaping, Load balancing, Failover detection, Hard and Soft zoning and VLAN Tagging.
• Migrated Physical Machines to Virtual Machines (P2V) and Virtual Machines to Virtual Machines (V2V) using VMware converter and vCenter Guided Consolidation.
• Daily responsibilities included maintenance of Virtual machines for performance issues also implemented V-Motioning, Hot and Cold Migration of virtual servers and performed storage VMotion where the storage is migrated.
• Created and maintained SQL cluster for HA, VM’s, VC, ESX servers and
• Good experience with VMware Update Manager to install patches and updates on ESX hosts and virtual machines.
HSBC Bank, Buffalo, NY June ‘03 to May '06 System Administrator
Responsibilities:
• Part of the Server support team supporting Network Systems on AIX(DHCP and DNS)
• Supporting the Content Management systems environment, this comprises of Solaris, AIX, HP-UX and Linux systems.
• Supporting the Redbrick environment, this comprises of Solaris, AIX, HP-UX and Linux systems, using NIS (no password) and NFS.
• Implementing a Password tool for the unix environment in place of NIS
• Supporting the BD2XML teams systems environment, comprised of Solaris, AIX, HP-UX and Linux systems.
• Part of the Server migration team, responsibilities include identifying systems that have to be moved behind a firewall depending on the OS and its vulnerabilities and the classification of the system.
• Part of the Security Assurance Testing team, responsibilities include reviewing machines and getting them prepared for IT Audits.
• Health Check of Systems according to the guidelines laid out by the IT Audits teamand Business Control Group.
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