Vik Patel Email & Phone Number

Toronto, On, Ca

• Completed Projects to Virtualize Physical servers to Windows and Linux VMs• Implemented Server cost reduction projects while exceeding Infrastructure service quality and customer satisfaction targets.• Managed and Maintained VMWare Based Cloud Environment.• Assisted in a Project to Consolidate Servers and to reduce Server hosting Costs.• Design and Deployment of VMware vSphere 4 and ESX servers.• Configuration and deployment of Windows 2008 and Linux Servers.• Performance and Capacity analysis of Virtual Center and ESX servers.• Monitoring performance of VMWare vSphere environment and adjust configuration parameters to improve overall performance.• Investigate and troubleshoot technical issues of VMWare Cloud Infrastructure.

• Administration and configuration of IBM DS4800 system storage and IBM EXP 810 SAN attached disk arrays using IBM Storage manager 10• Configuration of SAN including mapping and assigning LUNs to IBM Blades and Servers. • Administration and configuration of Brocade Silkworm 200 series fiber switches including zoning and mapping HBA WWNs to Storage devices.• Administration and configuration of VMWare vSphere 4 and ESX servers.• Administration and configuration of Windows and Redhat linux servers.• Configure and Deploy SAN based Windows Cluster servers for hosting production SQL Databases.

• Performance Monitoring and Capacity Planning Prime of Toronto Hydro IT Infrastructure. • Technical Prime for configuration of Server Monitoring tools such as Compuware ServerVantage and ClientVantage as well as IPSwitch WhatsUp Gold.• Configured alerting to notify application primes in the event of application failures.• Configured Log monitoring using ServerVantage to notify administrators of critical application errors.• Design and Configuration of Monitoring Dashboards using Compuware VSM Software.• Administration of SQL 2005 Database Servers, Database backup and restore as well as data migrations between Various SQL Databases for Toronto Hydro Monitoring Servers.• Administration and configuration of VMWare vSphere 4 and ESX servers.• Design and Implement VMware ESXi to Consolidate Toronto Hydro Monitoring Servers.• Design and implemented virtualization strategies for TorontoHydro Monitoring Servers.• Designed and deploy strategies for Windows Servers to Boot from SAN.• Plan and Execute Disaster Recovery Procedures for Compuware Monitoring Servers.• Design and Develop IT Governance Process for DS3 (Manage Performance and Capacity) using COBIT 4.0.

• Technical prime for Bell Canada Server consolidation project. Responsible for designing the migration strategy to consolidate Legacy Physical servers to VMware platform• Successfully virtualized over 350 legacy Physicals servers to VMWare Virtual platform using various P2V processes realizing in significant saving in energy and real estate costs for the client.• Designed a strategy to successfully complete P2P migrations using Symantec Livestate software from old NCR hardware to HP DL380.• Designed and Implemented a Development environment for VMWare ESX 2.5 servers and Virtual center 2.0 to design and test P2V migration strategies in the lab.• Designed and documented a process to patch ESX servers using VMWare update manager.• Successfully upgraded Virtual Center from version 2.0 to 2.5 as well as ESX server from version 3.0.2 to 3.5.• Administration of Microsoft cluster environment for windows File and Web servers.• Successfully Upgraded Windows NT web servers to Windows 2003 Platform.• Installation and configuration of Citrix Presentation servers 4.0., Publish applications, as well as creating Citrix packages using installation manager for deploying applications.• Designed an IP based SAN solution using Linux iSCSI server(IET) to demonstrate POC for VMWare Vmotion and HA features.• Clustering of SQL 7.0 using Microsoft Cluster server and shared fiber channel disk array.• Administration of SQL 7.0 Database Cluster, Database backup and restore as well as data migrations using DTS and BCP utilities.• Implemented Database replication as well as Database restoration using DB transaction logs.• Backup and restore of servers using ARCserve and NetBackup 3.2 utilities, imaging servers using Symantec Ghost 6.0 software. • Significant experience in Designing and documenting technical process, procedures, MOPs and creating Buildbooks and Runbooks for the Production Servers.