Sr. System Engineer (VMware VCIX-DCV | VCIX6-NV| SDDC)
CNS
Total years of experience :18 years, 11 Months
Responsible for consulting VMWare Virtualization project include Datacenter server virtualization / Horizon VDI/vSAN/SDDC and vCenter, Esxi host designing, implementing and supporting services for VMware, Design HLD/LLD for VMware virtualization project related
Participate in pre-sales efforts including proof-of-concept engagements, RFP responses, architecture design discussions, including support VMware support call.
Projects included
• VBLOCK Project on VMware
• VMware SRM/EMC RecoverPoint - Disaster recovery project.
• VXRrail Project on VMWare
• EMC Data Domain Project
• EMC Network Backup Project.
• EMC Array based solution - Disaster recovery project
• VxRail Hyper converged infrastructure Project on VMware
• Ms Exchange deployment project
• Ms Skype of Business/Lync project.
VMWARE Infrastructure:
• Implementing/Planning and Design vSphere 5.5.x/6.5/6.7 in enterprise environment
• Deploy vCenter 5.1/5.5/6 with SSO and Database SQL Server 2012
• Installation and configuration VMware vCenter Appliance
• Experience in designing and implementing VMware VDI Horizon environments.
• Implementation of VMware VDI technologies and Plan, Design infrastructure solutions.
• vSphere distributed switch and Cisco Nexus 1000V Series Switches,
• Experience on sizing, analysis, tuning, planning and performance monitoring, Network Bandwidth
• Maintain and management Capacity Planning infrastructure components (Servers, Storage, Backup and Virtualization)
Working as a VMware/Microsoft Infrastructure specialist
• Creating/Expanding LUN’s and configuring LUN’s for replication/DR activities.
• Assigning lun’s to hosts and making them available in different Environments and
• Clusters visibility\[Windows, LINUX and VMWARE ESXi\]
• Configuring ELM Server for PowerPath, installing/uninstalling PowerPath, activating and registering, manging PowerPath via GUI and CLI.
• Configuring EMC VSI, Pooling, Tiering and managing thresholds for thin provisioning
• Configuring and implementing SAN Copy for migration activities from one array to other.
• Installing Enablers and performing NDU on Storage Array
• VMware Virtual Desktop deployed and demonstrated Proof-of-Concepts of VDI - VMware View.
• Planning and delivering server consolidations utilizing VMware ESXi 5 deployed on IBM/DELL/UCS blades with EMC SAN Storage
• Projects included Data center VMware Infrastructure redesign, capacity assessments/planning, P2V and V2V migrations, and maintenance.
• VMware VSphere Infrastructure 5
• VDI Infrastructure
• VMware View 5.0
• VDI Implementation for Windows 7
• VDI Implementation for Multiple locations.
• VMware capacity planning
Role & Responsibilities: -
VMware Virtualization and Microsoft Design and Implementation
VMware vSphere architecture, implementation and support for commercial and government clients utilizing best practices for availability, reliability, and performance of computing, network, and storage resources to achieve dense Virtualization ratios while maintaining SLAs and Specific tasks include:
• Design, install, configure VMware ESX, ESXi, within vSphere 4 and 5 environments with VCenter management, DRS, HA, vMotion and VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM).
• Migrate company from Microsoft Hyper-V to VMware ESXi
• Migrate company to the new SAN environment from the old IBM Storage Server.
• Migrate company to new data center on IBM blade chassis.
• Configured VMware vCenter, VMotion, FT/HA/DRS/ distributed switch/SRM/Update Manager 4.1 and Virtual machine
• Implementing the Life cycle Manager/CapacityIQ/Heartbeat
• Build, configure and deploy VMs and templates. Completed Physical-to-Virtual (P2V), Virtual-to-Virtual (V2V) migration of Windows 2003, & 2008 from VMware, Hyper-V, and legacy hardware.
• Analyze and troubleshoot the performance of VMware ESX infrastructure.
EMC Storage profile
• Experience of Storage migration and VM migration between difference vendors like IBM/Nutanix/EMC Storage/IBM Storage/HP
• Administration of EMC VNX Unified Storage /Clariion, Celerra/EMC Unity and EMC boxes for Storage provisioning
• Creating/Expanding LUN’s and configuring LUN’s for replication/DR activities.
• Assigning LUNs to hosts and making them available in different Environments and
Clusters visibility \[Windows, LINUX and VMWARE ESXi\]
• Experience of configuring and managing of VNX/VNXe storage
• Provisioning of Block-level storages to Hosts including VMware ESX/ESXi
• Provisioning of Storage Pools with Thin/Thick LUNs.
• Integrate Windows and VMware ESX Hosts to Block Storage
• Enabled FAST Tiering on Storage Pools
• Configure File systems for CIFS file servers, NFS servers and iSCSI LUNs
• Create and manage Virtual Data Movers
• Implement Snap View Snapshots, Snap View Clones
• File system Replications for data protection
• LUN Masking from Storage side to the Hosts
• Performance Monitoring of workloads on the storage systems
• Upgrades of the OE / operating environment of storages
• Configuring EMC VSI, Pooling, Tiering and managing thresholds for thin provisioning
• Configuring and implementing SAN Copy for migration activities from one array to other.
• Creating CIFS and NFS, shares, interfaces and exports and providing them to File
• Servers for NAS provisioning and troubleshooting issues related to NAS. Storage capacity Planning,
• Capacity planning for virtual infrastructure and Storages.
Backup and Data protection (EMC Networker and Data Domain)
• Install, configure and upgrade EMC Networker Server and modules, such as Networker Module for Microsoft
• Microsoft Applications (NMM), Networker Module for Exchange Server (NME),
• Networker Module for SQl Server (NMSQL), NetWorker Module for Database Applications (NMDA)
• To ensure reliable backups to meet operational and data recovery requirements.
• To allocate and monitor storage to meet backup and recovery requirements.
• Implement and administer a backup and restore system
• Backup schedules, rotation schedules, and a retention scheme.
• Determine backup time using throughput rates
• Read backup logs to verify a successful backup and restore process
• Monitor the backup and restore process.
• Data growth projections
• Determine Backup window availability
• Data Domain Boost, VTL and Networker clone jobs
Role & Responsibilities: -
• Experience with Exchange Server 2003 with active directory.
• Implementing Active directory, defining DHCP server, installation and the configuration of DNS.
• Handling the Active Directory and its users such creating and assigning proper groups and rights.
• Manage and Monitoring LINUX SERVER (IBM-X-236, DL-380, HP-DL-380GS, HP ML-350, 530)
• Dell PowerEdge M600 Blade Server/ R710, PowerEdge 2950
• Configuration of RAID 5, RAID 1 and RAID 0
• Installing, updating and managing antivirus Symantec Antivirus Corporate Edition & Trend Micro
• Installing all types of software, drivers and multimedia devices and Updated patches (WSUS)
• Maintain Global Address book and configured SMTP, NNTP, IMAP4, POP3
Role & Responsibilities: -
• Maintain servers (Windows 2000, Windows 2003)
• Computer Hardware Installation - install and configure systems at multiple locations
• Windows Support - maintain Microsoft Windows Servers (2000, 2003) and Active Directory for single site
• System Deployment - implement new system imaging procedures to improve consistency in end-user computer system deployment.
• Disaster Recovery - maintain and improve company tape backup systems (Backup Exec)
• System Monitoring - design, deploy and maintain company MRTG monitoring solutions