Summary:

• Around 7 Years of experience in VMware Virtualization, VMware Virtual Desktop Infrastructure,Windows Systems, Server Administration and Network Administration in Data center Infrastructure environments
• Experience in creating maintaining Virtual Environment using VMware ESX
• Expertise in maintaining Virtual servers using VMware Vsphere Client.
• Experience in converting Physical standalone servers to Virtual servers using VMware Converter Standalone Client.
• Experience in Virtual Desktop Infrastructure VDI .
• Implemented Microsoft Windows Server Update Services WSUS for Windows Patch Management.
• Experience in VMware Sphere, VMware ThinApp.
• Experience with DR projects using VMware SRM 4.5/5.0
• Experience in Installation and Configuration of Windows 2000/2003/2008, Exchange 2003 Server
• Creating the Webservers IIS 5.1,6.0 7.0 maintain the installations, troubleshooting, Error modifications, Services configurations.
• Expertise in configuring and using Active Directory, DNS, DHCP and Group Policy
• Active Directory administration and migration from Windows 2000 to 2003 Server and Windows 2003 to Windows 2008 servers.
• Experience in User Administration, Resource Management, Performance Management and Network Management.
• Upgrading from vSphere 4.0 to vSphere 5.5.
• Experience in Microsoft Windows Clustering 2003/2008
• Installing, configuring, maintaining and troubleshooting VMware vCloud Director 5.1 in the environment along with vShield Director and VMware Orchestrator.
• Deploying and configuring vFabric server to build and run applications.
• Experience in configuring Network Load Balancing on windows 2000/2003
• Installing and Configuring the Internet Information Services IIS 5.0/6.0/7.0 server and application integration in the Web Server.
• Creating server profiles for ESX servers and physical Windows servers using HP Virtual Connect Enterprise manager VCEM
• Remote administration of Windows servers through Microsoft Terminal Services and Citrix Products.
• Installation and Configuration of Network Printers and Scanners.
• Expertise in Imaging, BOMC and Windows remote Installation.
• Strong Knowledge in the design and review of new windows application deployments in both workstations and Servers.
• Configure and maintaining the System Center Configuration Manager SCCM and System Center Operations Manager SCOM on the Windows 2003/2008 servers by deploying Enterprise and custom software's on the servers and workstations and monitoring them.
• Hands on Experience with Hardware Installation, Upgrade and maintenance.
• Expertise in Troubleshooting, research, Development and supported 24/7 on call.
• Expertise on Change Management, Incident and Problem Management, SLA metrics.
• Hands on Experience on using BMC Remedy ticketing tool and IBM Manage now and Maximo ticketing tool for Change, Incident and Problem management.
• Strong communication skills, systematic approach and quick adaptability to newer technologies.
• Work well both independently and as part of a team. Work well under tight schedules and high priorities.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Confidential

Windows VMware Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installing and Decommissioning windows 2008,2008 R2, 2012 servers
• Performing hardware replacement and troubleshooting for the HP Rack servers and Blade servers
• Configuring server using role based configuration and server manager
• Scaling and migrating virtual machines
• Administering VMware ESXi 5.1 servers and vCenter servers.
• Installing and Configuring Veeam Backup Solution for Deloitte Infrastructure
• Scheduling Backup Jobs and restoration points for Virtual Machines using Veeam Backup Soution.
• Installing VMware VSphere ESXi 5.1 servers and creating virtual machines on them.
• Upgraded vCenter and ESXi servers from 4.0 to 5.1.
• Upgraded VMware SRM 4.5 to 5.0
• Used EMC SAN replication for the SRM project
• Deployed servers from the images through standard Golden images.
• Deploying Windows Operating Systems and Windows Updates using Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager SCCM 2007
• Co-ordinating with offshore team members and implementing various server related tasks
• Managing Active Directory Sites and Domain Controllers across different sites.

Confidential

Windows VMware Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installing and Configuring around 80 ESXi 5 Hosts in Datacenter. Performing Daily activities like implementing and troubleshooting of the ESXi hosts.
• Instaling vCenter server on Win 2008 Server to maintain all the ESXi hosts and VMs.
• Creating and Configuring Clusters, Resource Pools inside the vCenter.
• Creating DvSwitches and vSwitches and configuring networking around the virtual environment.
• Setting up V-Motion, HA, DRS, SDRS, svmotion across clusters.
• Migrating VMs across Datacenters using vConverter 5.0/4.0 and also using SAN replications for SAN Disks of VMs.
• Deployment and configuration of Cisco UCS 5108 Chassis with B200 and B400 series blade servers.
• Experience in Cisco UCS manager version 2.0.
• Converting Physical Machines Windows 2000, Windows 2003 servers and Windows 2008 Servers in to Virtual machines using VMWare vCenter vconverter Standalone client.
• Installing and Administering VMs in a Datacenter Running 1200 VM's. Maintaining Performance lab machines in the datacenter.
• Upgrading from vSphere 4.0 to vSphere 5.0.
• Installing, configuring and troubleshooting VMware vCloud Director 5 in the environment along with vShield Director and VMware Orchestrator.
• Deploying and configuring vFabric server to build and run applications.
• Migrating users from workstations to virtual desktops VDI .
• Creating Server profile for ESXi servers and physical Windows servers using HP Virtual Connect enterprise manager.
• Deployed SRM 5.0 with VSphere 5 on CISCO UCS hardware
• Configuring Site recovery manager SRM 5.0 for Disaster recovery purpose, both protected and recovery sites, testing the array level replication for failover and failback.
• Implementation of SRM 5.0 on vSphere across multiple sites to provide Disaster recovery solution
• Coordinated with SAN team in the Datacenter Relocation Project using the EMC SAN storage replication
• Administering VMs and Servers through Dominion KVM using Raritan Web Console.
• Installed, configured and maintained Windows 2000, 2003 and 2008 Operating Systems, both physical as well as virtual.
• Creating Data Storesfor ESX Clusters. Attaching LUNs as RDMs.
• Used VMware Data Protection Manager and Veeam Backup for backing up the virtual machines.
• P2V converters, VM Backup products and other products for virtualization.
• Generated reports with Health analyzer giving recommendations and resolving performance and tuning issues in the HA, DRS clusters and virtual Datacenters.
• Migration of virtual machines from VMware ESXi 3.5 and live migrations from physical to virtual machines using hot cloning with VMware vCenter Convertor 4.3
• Monitoring HP Servers Raid disks with Disk utility tools.

Environment:Windows 2003/2008, SQL Server 2008, Exchange Server 2003, Microsoft WSUS, Windows XP, VMware ESX Server and Workstation, Cisco UCS Blades, Open filer, IBM TSM, EMC SAN, Hitachi SAN.

Confidential

VMware Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Installing and Administering VM's across 4 Datacenters Running 1000 VM's. Maintaining Performance lab machines in the datacenter.
• Monitoring and generating reports for virtual center using vFoglight. Upgrading to vFoglight 6.6.
• Administering VMs and Servers through Dominion KVM using Raritan Web Console.
• Installed, configured and maintained Windows 2003 and 2008 Operating Systems.
• P2V conversions of Windows 2000 and Windows 2003 servers using VMware Converter.
• Broad experience with designing, implementing and troubleshooting VMware ESX server, VMware virtual center, setting up V-Motion, HA, DRS, and related VMware products such as VM Workstation, P2V converters, VM Backup products and other products for virtualization.
• Installing, configuring and troubleshooting VMware View VDI infrastructure, Connection server and Composer server.
• Migrating users from workstations to virtual desktops VDI .
• Involved in research , documentation, testing and roll out of Citrix XenApp
• Web Server Administration/Application support -- IIS 5.0 / IIS 6.0:
• Managing IIS 5.0 / IIS 6.0 Web servers and hosted web sites.
• Planning and configuring new internal external websites.
• Website content and application release management and creating Virtual directories.
• Application support for asp, .NET java based hosted internal external websites.
• Deploying .Net based Applications and Java based apps on IIS 6.0
• Troubleshooting .Net application issues hosted on the IIS
• Creating, deploying, renewing and Import export of the SSL certificates.
• Monitoring and Health Analysis of datacenters to foresight issues during migration of datacenters using VMware Health Analyzer 3.3, Quest vFoglight and vEssentials Bundle.
• Generated reports with Health analyzer giving recommendations and resolving performance and tuning issues in the HA, DRS clusters and virtual Datacenters.
• Experience with Citrix XenApp and Xen servers.
• Analysis of physical server candidates which are eligible for Virtual Conversion Process using vCenter Guided Consolidation.
• Maintaining McAfee anti-virus solutions.
• Working with Symantec Vault for Archiving emails.
• Migration of virtual machines from VMware ESXi 3.5 and live migrations from physical to virtual machines using hot cloning with VMware vCenter Convertor
• Implementation of SRM 3.0 on vSphere across multiple sites to provide Disaster recovery solution
• Monitoring Dell and HP Servers Raid disks with Disk utility tools.

Environment:Windows 2000/2003, SMS, SQL Server 2000, IIS 6.0, Exchange Server 2003, Microsoft WSUS, Windows XP, VMware ESX Server and Workstation, Open filer, IBM TSM, EMC SAN, Dell NAS, Zywall and SonicWall Firewall.

Confidential

Windows System Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Installing Windows 2000 and 2003 OS Server.
• Installation, configuration and system administration of Windows 2000/2003.
• Supporting Citrix Meta frame Presentation Server XPfarm environment.
• Active Directory Infrastructure Administration, MS Exchange Server.
• Maintenance of clusters server, mail server, file and print server and backup servers.
• Providing internal IT support on IIS, NT Servers and Windows Desktops.
• Administrative support to mixed mode exchange 5.5 and exchange 2003 Organization.
• Responsible for the daily administration and maintenance of Active Directory, Exchange, Microsoft Operation Manager.
• Remote Desktop Monitoring using Microsoft Terminal Services/Client.
• Configuring and maintaining McAfee anti-virus solutions.
• Maintenance of cluster servers, mail server, file and print server and backup servers.
• Experience on VMWare ESX 3.5
• Building and Configuring Virtual Servers using VMWare Infrastructure Client
• Experience in Remediate patches for ESX Hosts.
• MS- clustered servers with exchange servers.
• Working on the regional server issues through Incidents Tickets of Remedy Tool
• Working on Change Management and Request Management Tickets in Remedy Tool
• SMS 2.0/2003 - designing, configuring, and managing.
• Provide support in performance tuning and issue resolution.
• Configure and good understanding of MOM for monitoring.
• Creates and troubleshoots Windows Security Patch packages.
• Experience of Virtual servers, Storage Array Networks SAN .
• Installation, configuration of IIS, DNS, DHCP.
• Installation, configuration and system administration of Exchange2003/2000
• Web Server Microsoft IIS administration.
• Ability to write scripts using win batch, batch files, VB script language.
• Monitoring SAN integrated with exchange for database.
• Supporting 24/7 on call Rotation
• Built the windows cluster server for exchange servers.
• Administration of cluster exchange servers.
• Documenting Procedures.

Environment: Windows XP/NT/2000/2003, ISS, Exchange 2000/2003, Citrix, VMWare ESX 3.5

Confidential

Windows System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installation, configuration and system administration of Windows 2000/2003
• Maintaining network running on Windows 2000/2003 for 900 Users.
• Migrating users and their settings from Windows 2000 and Exchange 2000 server to 2003 server/Exchange server.
• Active Directory User's Management for new employee joins and providing access to the resources and file permissions.
• Involved in the TCP/IP network configuration, Creating and deleting the user accounts across the location.
• Responsible for Domain controller's throughout organization.
• Monitored and maintained backups in Symantec/Veritas Backupexec
• Managing Remote Servers through Terminal Services Manager.
• Maintaining corporate DNS system.
• Routine maintenance activities for optimal performance
• Installing .Net Framework 2.0 on Windows 2000/2003 Servers.
• Installing and Set up Print servers in the Network
• Installing and Maintaining Microsoft SQL server 2000 Backup and Restore.
• Creating Virtual Sites and Directories in IIS and FTP server.
• Prepared Network Documentation and Created Disaster Recovery Plan.
• Setting up user accounts, Permissions and Passwords.
• Securing network resources with shared folder permissions, implementing file security system.
• Install Microsoft Patches on Windows 2000/2003 servers using Windows Update.
• Active Directory Infrastructure Administration, MS Exchange Server.
• Maintenance of clusters server, mail server, file and print server and backup servers.
• Configure and good understanding of MOM for monitoring.
• Installation, configuration of IIS, DNS, DHCP.
• Installation, configuration and system administration of Exchange2003/2000
• Web Server Microsoft IIS administration.
• Ability to write scripts using win batch, batch files, VB script language.
• Built the windows cluster server for exchange servers.
• Administration of cluster exchange servers.
• Supported 24/7 on call Rotation for critical issues.

Environment: Windows XP/NT/2000/2003, SQL Server 2000, IIS, Exchange 2000/2003, Citrix, LAN/WAN.