Vmware Administrator

Role & responsibilities:

Requirements-

Virtualization Infrastructure technologies & tools: vCenter 5.x/6.x,6.7 & 7.x ESXi 5.x/6.x,& 7.x VMware NSX-T, vRealize (vRops, vRA, vRO), , Site Recovery Manager (SRM), VR HA, DRS, Certificate Lifecycle, Patch management - Update Manager (VUM), SUM, AD, DNS, SCCM, BigFix, RV Tools etc.

Administered and managed configured VxRail SDDC stack including vSAN, NSX, vSphere and SDDC Manager.

Dell Power Edge Blades(DL/BL), Cisco UCS Blade as a Server platform for delivering Server Virtualization; Fabric Interconnects, Fabric Extenders, Compute Blades, Mezzanine Adapters, GBIC, Connectivity and Bandwidth Options.

Deployed & Administration of Certificate Lifecycle Management - Identity & Encryption Services: Venafi Platform & DigiCert (Symantec), CA, TLS/SSL certificates, Reporting, Alerts, Logs, Security, SOPs, Runbooks, Training & Problem resolutions etc.

Administered, Implemented & Maintained Infrastructure: vSphere Client, ESXi, vCenter, SRM, vRops, Kickstart, BigFix, SCCM; including HA, DRS, vMotion, svMotion, P2V, V2V, NAS, SAN, vSAN, VSS, DVS, NSX, Patches, Snapshots, Templates, Routers & Firewalls

Migrated Infrastructure both P2V/V2V (vMotion) using VMware Converter & RV tools; including Lift & Shift (Assessment, Migrate, Decom, Re-purpose, Disposition & Data erasure); Protected Site to DR Site.

Administered & managed EMC XtremIO, VPLEX, VMAX, VNX, CLARiiON, Celerra & UNITY storage systems; Supported NAS, SAN & vSAN to meet technical computing requirements & troubleshoot Hardware, Software &Network issues

Backup Enterprise Systems & provided Disaster recovery solution, SRM, HA for VMware vSphere Environment, Linked Mode, Replicated VMs, Storage & Failback; worked with NAS Storage, NetApp SMVI backup, iSCSI, FC, NFS for Performance and Optimization

Upgraded & maintain (Firmware, Applications, OS, Tools) & Virtualization technologies: Venafi, DigiCert, New Relic, BigFix, ServiceNow (Change control), Infrastructure solutions - vCenter, vSphere Client, UCSM, EMC Unisphere & vRealize SuiteOutline the day-to-day responsibilities for this role.

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