Managing VMware infrastructure environment with 35 ESX servers, 50 plus virtual machines.
VM Servers build & rebuild (Deploying the New VM from the Template and Cloning an Existing VM) as per the client request through change management process.
Installing and configuring ESX servers.
Installing, configuring and managing virtual infrastructure and virtual center.
Creating and managing resource pools and adding the VM’s into resource pools.
Creating and managing virtual machines and installing VM Tools into VM’s.
Manage VM’s using VMware virtual center.
Managing VM’s through web access.
Installation and configuration of virtual machines in an Enterprise SAN and NAS environment.
Security hardening and Monitoring of VM’s & ESX servers (CPU, Memory, Disk, Network Utilization) for Security Compliance.
Creating and managing VM Ware cluster. Enabling HA and DRS features in a cluster.
Configurations of Virtual switches and network connections.
Experience on VMware installation, Configuration and Administration of VMware VSphere4, ESX 3.5 and on Vsphere VMotion and VMware virtual center.
Diagnostics & troubleshooting of ESX server environment.
Understanding of HA and DRS environment.
Understanding of Virtual Infrastructure &Components of Build
Involved into Windows server troubleshooting
Managing & Build Windows Cluster
Managing Virtual machines
Managing Data stores, Clusters, DRS & HA Policy
Maintaining and configuring Datacenter
Maintaining Virtual Infrastructure
Thin and Thick provisioning
Creating and Modifying Virtual guest Machine
Understanding and using task, Event and Alarm
Installing and configuring VMware Tools
Performance and Optimization with DRS
Using Vsphare Distributed Virtual Switch
Moving Virtual Storage Vmotion
Moving virtual Storage with SVmotion
Super High Availability with VMware Fault Tolerance
Thick and thin provisioning.
• Server migration physical to Virtual using Hot and cold cloning technology in VMware
• Creating cluster in VMware
• Configuring High Availability (HA) ,DRS.
• Creation of template
• Consolidation of Physical servers
• Deploying virtual servers using template
• Cloning of virtual server, Rules creation.
• Creation of backup policy, alert configuration of backup policy.
• Configuration of Vmotion, virtual switch, Vlan in Virtual center.
• Maintenance of virtual center server.
• Providing and maintaining user access in VC, configuring mail alert for any failure in HA,DRS,CPU or memory.
• Patch management using VMware update manager for ESX server.
Planning and Designing VMware VI3/vSphere (ESX3.5/ESXi 4.0/ESXi 4.1 and VMware Virtual Center)

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Server Virtualization combines flexible compute, easy scaling, and availability with the easy management and advanced features of VMware virtualization technology. We'll architect, build, and manage your VMware environment for you.

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Storage Virtualization Software
Essential To Your VMware® Virtual Infrastructure

Experience SANs with the highest availability, fastest
performance and fullest utilization

Virtually everything hinges on storage. VMware® vSphere™ and VMware® View™, in particular, place extraordinary demands on it. Too often, disks slow down, interrupt or endanger these centralized IT operations not because they are poorly designed or built, but because they are physically constrained. VMware Virtual Infrastructure helps you to overcome similar limitations in CPU and memory however when it comes to advanced functions such as workload migration, load balancing, fail-over and disaster recovery, server virtualization is completely dependent on highly available (HA) shared storage. You will be shocked at the high hardware costs and major overhaul generally proposed to put such a storage infrastructure in place.

DataCore™ storage virtualization software delivers a radically simple, high availability solution to meet vSphere shared storage requirements. The software abstracts your storage into idealized, virtual disks akin to virtual machines. It pools and mirrors disk blocks across available devices, despite differences in make and model. In the process, it speeds up I/O response and throughput using extensive SAN-wide caching. This lets you take optimum advantage of VMware’s full suite of capabilities without hesitation. A plug-in for VMware vCenter™ allows you to non-disruptively provision, share, clone, replicate and expand virtual disks among physical servers and virtual machines. DataCore yields the highest availability, fastest performance and fullest utilization from your storage assets, making it an essential element of your VMware Virtual Infrastructure deployment.
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Overcome Storage-Related Challenges to Server Virtualization

Ensure your virtual machines have non-stop, high-performance access to data

As you virtualize physical servers into virtual machines you quickly come to realize the urgency to:

Prevent any planned or unplanned shared storage outages from disrupting applications
Avoid I/O bottlenecks getting to and from centralized disks

Depending on where you are in your rollout, you may also have a sense for how expensive this storage overhaul can get. These reasons drive server virtualization clients to virtualize their storage infrastructure with DataCore Software. They probably make sense for you as well.Virtual machine live migration, load balancing and failover between clustered servers are just some of the attractive hypervisor capabilities completely dependent on continuous, speedy access to shared storage. Disruptions and slowdowns don’t merely impact a single server with an isolated application; they will cripple many virtual machines running numerous workloads.

Aside from making good hardware choices, there’s much more that you can do. Start by recognizing that storage devices, like servers will occasionally be out-of-service; sometimes intentionally, other times without warning, often because of facility problems, like constructions, roof leaks, and power outages. DataCore virtualizes storage across physically separated devices housed in different rooms to:

* Prevent single points of failure
* Accelerate data storage, retrieval and updates across physical and virtual SANs
* Maximize the value of the storage assets in the physical storage pool

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Storage Virtualization Software that Empowers Your Storage

Storage Virtualization is the 3rd Dimension in the Virtualization Stack

Consider the 3 dimensions to virtualization and their relationship in the IT hierarchy. At the top and middle of the stack, virtualization software from VMware, Microsoft and Citrix enable users and applications to float between different desktop devices and physical servers without concern for their underlying hardware differences.

Furthermore, these sophisticated hypervisors and VDI software move virtual servers and virtual desktops from one physical machine to another without having to take down applications.

They effectively insulate users from shifting hardware variables occurring underneath.

DataCore applies similar principles to storage where even more hardware volatility is likely. As we all know, rapid technology innovations soon render obsolete today’s biggest, fastest storage devices to be replaced by another generation of more attractive gear.

Our storage virtualization software maintains smooth operations, consistent performance and a perpetual suite of advanced functions despite changes, disruptions and differences in the underlying equipment. In other words, the stable virtual infrastructure remains in place while hardware comes and goes.

• VMware VMotion enables the live migration of running virtual machines from one physical server to another. Live migration of virtual machines enables companies to
perform hardware maintenance without scheduling downtime and disrupting business operations. VMotion also allows the mapping of virtual machines to hosts to be
continuously and automatically optimized within clusters for maximum hardware utilization, flexibility, and availability.

• VMware DRS works with VMotion to provide automated resource optimization and virtual machine placement and migration to help align available resources with pre-defined
business priorities while maximizing hardware utilization.

• VMware HA enables broad-based, cost-effective application availability, independent of specific hardware and operating systems.

• VMware Consolidated Backup provides an easy-to-use, centralized facility for LAN-free backup of virtual machines. Full and incremental file-based backup is supported for virtual
machines running Microsoft Windows operating systems. Full image backup for disaster recovery scenarios is available for all virtual machines regardless of guest operating system.
VMware Clusters

Clusters, a new concept in virtual infrastructure management, give you the power of multiple hosts with the simplicity of managing a single entity. New cluster support in VMware Infrastructure 3 reduces management complexity by combining standalone hosts into a single cluster with pooled resources and inherently higher availability.