Anurag Moudgil

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Motivated, energetic and results-oriented IT Infrastructure professional with excellent VMware Administrator experience.

5+yrs Experience of VMware vSphere, ESX4.0, ESXi, ESX 3.x servers, VCenter 4.0, Virtual Center server 2.5

Building and troubleshooting experience With VMware VSphere Suite and VMware ESX 3.x, vCenter server 2.5

Design, Implement & troubleshoot issues related to VMware Distributed Resource Scheduling (DRS), High Availability (HA), Enhanced VMotion (EVC), ESX Host Profiles, vNetwork Distributed Switch (vDS) and VMware Fault Tolerance (FT)

Hands on experience performing Assessment using Capacity Planner for Datacenters and assist customers in Datacenter virtualization and consolidation process

Knowledge of maintaining Business Continuity and hands on experience performing Disaster Recovery (DR) using VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM)

Hands on experience in updating /upgrading ESX servers, Virtual Center servers and windows virtual machines using VMware Update manager and manual upgrades

Worked on different VMware products like VMware View, VMware Workstation and VMware Player.

Experience in ESX Architecture, Guest O/S installation, setting up of VM priorities, Cloning, Creating Templates and Snapshots.

Experience in resource management framework like creation of resource pools, adding the VMs into resource pools.

Experience in Physical to Virtual (P2V) and Virtual to Virtual (V2V) conversions by using VMware Converter, Platespin Power convert and vCenter Guided Consolidation.

Extensive experience in working with the VMotion and Storage VMotion technology.

Experience working on HP Proliant, IBM xSeries and Dell Power Edge Servers.

Microsoft Windows 2000/2003/2008 Design, Implementation, Administration and Support.

Installing, Configuration, Troubleshooting and Managing Active Directory.

Summary of Products used:

Hardware Environment:

Server : HP Blade System C3000, HP ML/DL Series, Dell PE2900/ M1000 Blade Server

Storage : SAN Products EMC A10 Series, CLARiiON CX3 Series, NetApp V6000 Series

Switches : Cisco 2950/3550/6506 series switches, Nortel Bay Stack 420/450/4500 Series, MLPS

Router : Cisco 1700/1800/2600/3600 Series Routers

Firewall : Cisco PIX 506/515 series, ASA 5510, Sonic wall Pro Series and Fortigate

Laptops : Dell Latitude Series, IBM ThinkPad R-series and NEC Thin Client

Software Environment:

Server OS : VMware ESX4.0/3.x, vCenter 4.0/2.x Windows 2000/2003/2008, Novell 4.x, Red hat 8.0/EL3.0

Client OS : Windows 2000/XP/Vista/7, Unix, Ubuntu, Fedora,

Security Software : Sophos Enterprise, Symantec Corporate, NetIQ Security Manager.

Web Application : IIS, Apache, Tomcat, Web logic , IBM WAS

Storage : NetApp OnTap8, NetApp SnapManager, NetApp SnapMirror, NetApp deduplication

EMC Navisphere, EMC Powerpath, EMC Snapview, EMC Mirrorview and Sancopy

Database : Oracle 9i/10g, MSSQL 2000/2005, RMDS 5

Backup Software : NetApp Snap Manager, Symantec Exec 10, EMC Networker 7.3 (Legato), VERITAS Net backup

Email Clients : BlackBerry Enterprise Activation, Outlook Mobile Access, BES 4.x, Novell Evolution

Remote Management : Terminal Services, Citrix Environment (Presentation Server 4.0)

Helpdesk Software : Manage Engine Service Desk Plus 7.5, HP Service Manager (Peregrine)

Management Soft. : HP Smart Start 5.x to 7.x, Dell Open Management, Acronis Imaging,

IT Standards : Knowledge of ITIL & ITSM Processes, Quality ISO 9001, Security Standard ISO 27001

Scripting : VBScript, JavaScript

Education and Certificates

Professional Trainings Attended:

VMware vSphere 4 – ESX Server 4 and Virtual Center Server 4 Install, configure and troubleshooting

VMware Infrastructure 3: Deploy, Secure and Analyze training

VMware Lab Manager, VMware P2V assistant / Converter – Internal training

VMware View 4.0, ThinApp

Advanced SAN Troubleshooting for ESX Environment

EMC Storage Technology Foundations

NetApp Storage Foundations

Certificates:

VMware Certified Professional (VCP 4.0)

Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP)

Bachelor’s degree from Punjab University, India

Experience Summary

Collective

Amgen Fort Myers, FL Dec 2010 to March 2011

Consulted to create new infrastructure for VMware and implementation services for all business systems running HP 460C Blade, DL580 and DL380 Servers on VMware virtual platforms and NetApp Filer and EMC CLARiiON CX3 Series SANs.

Built and deployed VMware ESX4/ESX4i Servers, vCenter Sever Instance and client networks.

Guest OS Installations of Oracle server 11g on Redhat server, Weblogic servers and SQL server.

Worked with VCS team for implementation of the Veritas cluster nodes in 7 nodes environment.

Implement High Availability (HA) and Dynamic Resource Scheduler (DRS) in VMware Virtual Environment.

Converted Physical Servers into Virtual Machines and transitioned to the new storage platform using VMware SVMotion.

Upgraded the Virtual Infrastructure 3.0 to vSphere 4.1 with no impact to business.

Alorica Inc., Fort Myers, FL Jan 10 – Dec 10

VMware Consultant

Provide consulting and implementation services for all business systems running Dell M600 Blade Servers on VMware virtual platforms and EMC CLARiiON CX3 Series SANs.

Wrote the strategy document, designed and administrated the environment consisting of over 23 ESX hosts and 155 Virtual machines production environment.

Built and deployed VMware ESX4/ESX4i Servers, vCenter Sever Instances and templates for internal and client networks.

Used various methods to back-up virtual machines as well as DR strategies utilizing VMotion, HA, SAN snapshots.

Design and implement a disaster recovery solution using SAN replication and VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM). Careful planning was required to meet both the Recovery Point Objective (RPO) and Recovery Time Objective (RTO).

Worked with storage team to designed a new storage architecture using CLARiiON CX3 and performed a Virtual Infrastructure Health Check for the corporate Virtual Infrastructure. Identified and resolved all issues during the Health Check.

Transitioned to the new storage platform using VMware Storage VMotion which allowed all Virtual Machines to move without scheduled downtime.

Work with Cisco Engineers to configure and monitor Firewalls, switches, and Routers.

Strategize a plan to upgrade the Virtual Infrastructure 3.0 to vSphere 4.0 with no impact to business. Leveraging VMware Update Manager and VMotion all ESX Servers were upgraded with zero downtime and no impact to business.

First Care, Jacksonville, FL Aug 08 – Dec 09

VMware Consultant

Installation and configuration of VMware VSphere 4.0 on Dell 2950 PowerEdge M1000 Server, vCenter 4.0

Designed the Infrastructure and administered the environment running over 8 ESX Hosts and 62 Virtual Machines. Also, designed the performance monitoring processes and improved disaster recovery processes to utilize virtualization benefits.

Worked closely with Storage and Networking teams to ensure allocated SAN (NetApp V6000), Fiber and networking infrastructure reflected specifications laid out in initial VMware firm design to ensure successful deployment.

Creation and management of Virtual Machines, Installing VMware tools, creating templates, cloning, deploy Virtual Machines from Templates.

Create Snapshot and test Rollback, configure VMotion, Cluster and Failover.

Configure VCB, which dumps the backup to Veritas NetBackup Server and Seagate Backup- Backup Proxy Server.

Day to day support and maintenance of Operating Systems. Monitored Server Hardware and Operating Systems.

Disk management, Data management, Security management (applying patches).

Update the Patches for ESX Servers using VMware Update Manager in Virtual Center.

Participated in development and maintenance of Disaster Recovery & Backup.

Resource Management- Configuring VMware HA, VMware DRS Clusters for VMotion migrations between ESX Servers.

Kwikway Ent, Jacksonville, FL Mar 05 – Jul 08

VMware Consultant

Fulfill multiple duties, including designing, building and supporting VMware ESX and Windows Servers for quality assurance and production departments.

Designed, planned and executed multi-phase server consolidation project using VMware ESX Server software. Project goals included the decommissioning of physical servers, significant savings in annual operational expenses, increased availability and drastic reduction in server provisioning time.

Planned and Implemented active directory disaster recovery plan and documents for our hosting and messaging environment. Created, tested and deployed MSI and executable packages via SMS Desktop Authority using AdminStudio and InstallShield in conjunction with VMware Server and Workstation.

Design, Implement, Configure and Secure VMware ESX and ESXi Servers.

Virtual Machine Creation, VM Cloning, Templates and Snapshots.

Implement High Availability (HA) and Dynamic Resource Scheduler (DRS) in VMware Virtual Environment.

Analyzed and detected Physical Server candidates which are eligible for Virtual Conversion Process.

Converted Physical Servers to VMware Virtual Machines.

Converted Third Party Virtual Machines such as MS Virtual Machines to VMware Virtual Machines.

Implemented and maintained a Windows 2003 Server Active Directory Domain Test Lab with a representative test Environment in conjunction with VM instances of Windows Server, Generated concise technical reports and associated technical documentation.

Configured Tasks, Events and Alarms for the Host ESX Servers and Guest Machines.

ABN AMRO, Hong Kong Nov 03 – Feb 05

VMware Consultant

Infrastructure of HP Blade C3000 Servers, EMC A10 Series SAN, 15 ESX Servers , 120 Virtual Machines

Configurations in related to the VMware LANs, vLANs, Port groups and vSwitches.

VDI Provisioning and End User Support, Deploy application packages to the virtual desktop environment and ensure that said applications conform where necessary standard desktop configuration

Primary subject matter expert (SME) for the virtual desktop application environment, providing design, implementation.

Worked on the Migration of the ESX 2.5 to ESX 3.5 with Cross functional Teams involving in change process with project planning to the new hardware in terms of Servers, Network and Storage.

Working on the new Virtual Machine installation using VMware Templates created with the respective builds.

Responsible in diagnosing & troubleshooting of VMware ESX and Virtual Center Environments.

Reviewed the VMware Capacity planner and HP Mercury Application mapping results, worked with the Business Analyst Team, Application Owners, Server & Datacenter Administrators and created the Application profile and Server profile which will help the virtualization assessment team and physical to virtual (P2V) migration team for successful migration.

Responsible in performance tuning of ESX servers and Virtual Machines and management of servers resources between virtual machines and other problems related to the network and storage.

Responsible backup and recovery of Virtual machines and virtual Machines using the Tivoli Storage Manager and other Scripts. Responsible for the VMware Infrastructure patch Management and following the Patch management cycle for upgrade of the VC, ESX Host and VM tools.

Industrial and Commercial Bank of China Jun 03 – Oct 03

VMware Consultant

Description:

Industrial and Commercial Bank of China is providing financing solutions to companies ranging from SMEs to large corporations. Initially the bank would not allow users to connect to their corporate network via VPN. This project essentially played a crucial part in terms of proving Data security that exists through Virtualization. Role was as a Virtualization engineer responsible for implementing VMware environment. Played a lead role and worked in conjunction with the Solution Architect/Project Manager.

Environment: HP DL /ML Series Servers, Hardware RAID 5, Windows Disk Management, RAID1(Mirror), ASA 5510, Net Screen SSG5, VMware ESX 3.01, Windows 2003 Server, Virtual Center 2.0, Sigma System Center, VMware consolidated Backup, VMware Update Manager, MSCOM2007, MSCCM, Windows XP.

Analyzed and provided recommendation for building Remote Access Network environment using CISCO ASA5510 with RSA Token systems.

Identified and Prepared the Test plan for validating the Virtual Environment through remote access.

Installed and configured the ESX Server 3.0 VMware environment and Virtual Infrastructure Server 2.0 environment.

Updated necessary security patches, configured patch management, and configured ESX with APC UPS power chute shutdown script.

Installed and configured sigma system center 3.0 environment for Virtual infrastructure server 2.0 environments.

Virtual Machine prepared, installed, configured and tested with the user applications.

Configured and implemented

Enhanced thin client device security by restricting the device driver access.

Unique Software Associates, India Apr 02 – May 03

Soft. Technical Support

Responsibilities

Performed as a team member. Provided onsite, desk side, and telephone technical support.

Performed production job runs, recoveries, backups, and restorations.

Performed maintenance, repair, and upgrade of workstations.

Troubleshot hardware and software problems to include network connectivity. Performance monitoring and tuning

Installation and configuration of Operating systems like Win 95, win 98 and Windows NT

Ensured antivirus updates are being performed and kept end users informed of latest virus problems

Ensured system security measures are in effect to include password and screen savers

Designed, Installation and Maintenance of LANs.

Upgraded system Peripherals such as Hard disk & Memory Installation, Configuration, maintenance and support of Hardware/ Software services in a TCP/IP, IPX network-based platform

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