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New Jersey, United States

• Architect and administering the VMware 6.7/7.x/8.x environments, VSAN, VMware NSX 6.x, vRealize operation, log Insight, VMware Cloud Foundation and VCDR.• Providing expert Operations Management support for NSX, SRM, VxRail, Cisco UCS and Dell Rack servers.• Implemented the VSAN solution for all International Datacenters and setup VCDR Solutions for all Prod and Dev Workloads.• Work with vROPs for capacity analysis and dashboard design for environment optimization.• Configuring and management of Cisco UCS Manager including Fabric Interconnects, IOM module.• Created VCF on VxRail for Critical Applications.• Helped manage VCF on VxRail domain health, along with support readiness.• Helped Identify and build overall team knowledge by creating learning paths focused on improving VMware and VxRail skillsets.• Design and deployment of Disaster Recovery solution using VCDR for International Virtual workloads residing on-prem VMware environment.• Design and setup Data domain 6400 for Four Datacenters.• Design and Implemented Veeam backup & replication solution for all VM workloads and migrated from VCDR to on-prem backup solution.• Design, configure and administer end-to-end product on Amazon Web Services (AWS) infrastructure using various components including but not limited to VPC, EC2, RDS, S3, ECS/EKS.• Creating the IAM users, groups and policies according to the business requirement.• Setting up observability metrics using cloud watch and setting up alarms.• Building Kubernetes Clusters, configuring and setting up cloud infrastructure being the primary task, also received opportunities to test the security of the network meeting SLA and ISO standards• Administer Active Directory, file share permissions and GPO and Manages the Windows Server infrastructure.• Implement and maintain enterprise server infrastructure

United States

• Install, configure and administering the VMware 6.7/7.0 environments, VSAN, VMware NSX 6.4, vRealize operation, log Insight and SRM.• Designed and Implemented VEEAM replication solution to migrate the VMs across different datacenters and also to consolidate the remote datacenters.• Created and operationalized Disaster Recovery Solution with SRM for critical applications.• Designed and implemented the VMware VSAN Solution for Citrix VDI environment.• Development of ESXi host profiles to maintain uniformity across clusters in the environment. • Participate in after-hours requests that respond to business emergencies(on-call).• Work with vROPs for capacity analysis and dashboard design for environment optimization.• Automating the patch process and day-day operations.

Manhattan, New York, United States

• Architect and implement the vBlock Converged products, EMC storage array and Cisco UCS compute components.• Designed and deployed Hyperconverged Infrastructure (VxRail).• Design and implement complex Software Defined Storage platform for large Enterprises by leveraging vSAN.• Install, configure, Troubleshoot and Administration of vSphere 6.5/6.7,Virtual Center 6.5/6.7, VMware VSAN, VMware NSX 6.3.• Deploy and manage NXS Manager, install, VIB’s and transport zones, VXLAN, NSX Controllers, and configure Logical Router and Switches. • Working closely with Engineering & Product Management on developing new ideas and integrations of VMware products to IP Automation tool.• VBlock Infrastructure redesign from Standard Boot Lun’s to vSphere Autodeploy stateless Infrastructure.• Conduct Performance and Capacity analysis on large Enterprise virtual and cloud infrastructure.• Experience with complete life cycle of infrastructure projects – Design, Implementation, Installation, configuration and maintenance of vBlock, VxRail and VMware infrastructure resources including ESXi, VCenter, vSAN, SRM, NSX and vRealize products.• Perform storage migration from end-to-end in vBlocks from VMAX to XIO. • Experience in planning and implementing RCM upgrade on vBlock and hardening security of vBlock element managers including ESXi servers.• Designed and implemented Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery solutions using Site Recovery Manager (SRM).• Automating Build, patching process and day-day operations.• Working knowledge of Cloud services in IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS and coming trends in the Cloud space.• Design and articulate major aspects of highly-scalable, reliable, and performing technical data solutions that leverage AWS cloud platform to automate business solutions.• Experience architecting, deploying and managing RDS, EC2, Lambda, S3, RedShift instances.• Experience on S3/Glacier storage containers, EBS, snapshots, and FSx file sharing.

Wilson, North Carolina, United States

• Expertise in design and Installation, administration, upgrade and troubleshooting of vBlock Responsible for end to end management of the VBlock and its components • Configuring and management of Cisco UCS Manager including Fabric Interconnects, IOM modules.• Created the VMware DMZ environment – using Cisco UCS Blade and Rack-mount servers for VSAN implementation.• Implemented our first VSAN solution – for our Wilson Co-Lo/DR for DMZ production workloads.• Creation and management of Pools, Policies, Service Profile Template, Service Profiles, VLAN, User Administration using UCSM.

King Of Prussia, Pennsylvania, United States

• Responsible for end to end management of the Vblock and its components • Configuring and management of Cisco UCS Manager including Fabric Interconnects, IOM modules.• Creation and management of Pools, Policies, Service Profile Template, Service Profiles, VLAN,User Administration using UCSM..• Managing Cisco Nexus1000v, Nexus5K , Cisco CAT3K series, and Cisco MDS 9K series switches and upgradation of these components.• Creation of Port profiles on Nexus 1000v, creation of VLAN in Nexus 5K, creation of zones , managing zoneset in MDS9K switch.• Initial Configuration and Management of VBlock using UIM/P tool including creation of pools,service offerings,services, managing service manager including provisioning blades, storages and decommissioning.• Management of UIM using Service adaptation Utility for unmanaging the service, recreating the service,generating reports etc.• Provide operational and architectural advice to client on Vblock • Generating CRG report and working on Matrix Upgradation.• Hands on experience in setup, installation, configuration, maintenance and troubleshooting of VMware vSphere 5.0 & 5.5.• I have gained experience in Infrastructure Management Services, Project, Transition, Consulting, Architecture and leadership skills in streams like vBlock, VMware ESXi and Linux.• Proven history of implementing, deploying and administrating secure Environment. • I have taken position of Architecture and technical lead for various customers.• Good experience in framing PowerCLI script.• Hands on experience in setup of disaster recovery setup• Good interpersonal skills, commitment, result-oriented, hard working with a quest and zeal to learn new technologies and face challenges. Always maintained excellent customer interaction.

Chennai Area, India

• Configuring & Managing ESX servers, Virtual Networks and SAN storages.• Configuring HA & DRS and troubleshooting the cluster issues.• Initiating performance improvement activity in virtual environment.• Performing migration activities –SVmotion, P2V migrations.• Troubleshooting issues on the VM’s and storage LUNs.• Patching of ESX servers.• Configuring and Managing Virtual center and troubleshooting VC issues.• Load balancing of multipath among ESX Clusters.• Day to day Changes –Load balancing/adding storage/Migrations

Mumbai Area, India

• Handling ESX 3.5/4.0 servers.• ESX server installation and configuration on production environment.• Virtual machine creation and migration and managing virtual machines resource allocation.• Creating Alarm as per threshold.• Creating templates and cloning virtual machines of Windows XP/2000/2003 and RHEL servers in production environment.• Ensuring that the physical ESX servers are not overloaded.• Root Cause Analysis for recurring problems.• Configuring Virtual Switches, Vmotion, VMware HA, DRS, Alarms and updating VMware tools in all VMs. • Proactively monitoring the system's health and taking preventive or corrective action as required. • Monitoring the alert from the logs, errors and warnings and provided corrective action if required.• Following change management process for any changes that are done on the Infrastructure.• Maintaining a test server with a similar set up installed for doing any proactive testing and later applying it in the Production server

Chennai Area, India

VMware (Esx)¥ ESX server installation and configuration on production environment.¥ Virtual machine creation and migration and managing virtual machines resource allocation.¥ Participation on QA check for ESX server and VM’s.¥ Solving day to day Level-2 problemsLinux:¥ Installation of Linux¥ Basic system administration.¥ Configuration of Users and enable quota management for Users.¥ Checking of the File System and User Disk Quotas.¥ Configuration of services like FTP, DHCP.¥ Analyzing the problems from the log files for any system problems.¥ Applying Security and patches to the Servers.¥ Provide NFS sharing for the authorized clients in NFS server.

Chennai Area, India

¥ Basic system administration in VMware & Linux¥ Installation, configuration and administration of VMware workstation ESX 2.5, VC 1.3 & RHEL (4.0).¥ Creating & deploying new GOS (Guest OS).¥ Manage user accounts, groups, local security policies, and Configured disk quotas.¥ Installation, configuring and maintenance squid, samba, ftp, http, dhcp.¥ Manage the application related problems ¥ Responsible of the new software packages, hardware, drivers, and utilities. ¥ Troubleshooting operating system related problems.¥ Troubleshooting day to day problems in ESX & RHEL.Analyzing the problems from the log files for any system problems.