PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• 7+ years of professional experience in System Administration in VMware products and Windows, with hands - on expertise in networking and system integration.
• Experience with Cisco UCS and HP C7000 blade chassis and server administration.
• Experience on the Vblock 300,700series components.
• Experience with Dell PowerEdge M910, M710 servers.
• Experience large datacenter environments, design implementation and management.
• Extensive experience in Installing and Configuring vCenter, VMware vSphere (Infrastructure Virtualization suite), ESX/ESXi 5.5/5.1/5.0/4.1/4.0 and 3.5, Virtual Machines and vSphere Client.
• Experience in Hyper-V servers, versions 2008 and 2012.
• Experience in configuring Cisco Nexus 1000vDistributed Network Switch and vSphere Distributed Switch
• Managing Access Control through vCenter server, Optimizing Resource Utilization, Load Balancing (vSphere DRS) and ensuring High Availability (vSphere HA).
• Deploying Virtual Machines (VM’s) through Templates, Converting Physical to Virtual (P2V) and Virtual to Virtual (V2V) Machines using PlateSpin, Doubletake and VMware convertor.
• Created resourcepools as well as administering the resource pools in vSphere clusters
• Install patches, upgrade ESX/ESXi and Virtual Machines using Update Manager (VUM).
• Good experience with Power shell scripting and vSphere CLI.
• Extensive experience in performing System Integration/Administration for Microsoft Windows 2012/2008/2003 Server, Exchange Server 2008/2003, Windows98/XP/Vista/7/8/10, Red Hat Linux, Suse Linux and Ubuntu.
• Understanding of Windows Active Directory, Domain Services, DNS, DHCP, Windows Desktop and Remote Desktop.
• Administration of Active Directory in Windows 2012/2008/2003 environment. Managing Active Directory issues such as: Logon Failures, Account Lockouts, Network Connectivity, DNS and WINS Name Resolution, Authentication Problems, File and Printer Permissions etc.
• Experienced in Windows server failover clusters.
• Good knowledge of Microsoft SQL Database, Installing Databases, taking backup of the databases etc.
• Monitoring System Performance for both Server and User.
• Maintain daily System Health Checklist and work proactively to avoid any system issues.
• Install and manage Antivirus on all the servers and desktops.
• Install latest Microsoft Security Patches and application updates on all the servers and desktop.
• Maintain Cisco LANs/WAN devices (Cisco Routers and Switches).
• A good and complete understanding of SDLC and all its stages.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating Systems: Microsoft Windows 2012, 2008 R2, 2003, VMware vSphere 5.x, 4.x and ESXi server 5.x, 4.x, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6.

Virtualization: VMware vSphere 5.x, 4.x, ESX Server 5.5/5.0/4.1/4.0 and Virtual Center 5.x/4.x

Network Services: Cisco Nexus 1000v, DNS, DHCP, WINS, ADDS Remote Access Services, Routing and Remote Access

Server Applications: VMware vCenter, Active Directory Domain Services, DNS, DHCP, Microsoft Management Console, IIS/Web Servers, PlateSpin, VMware Converter, Double-Take, Remedy, Terminal Services, Remote Desktop

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Plano, TX

VMware/ Storage Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Installing, configuring and maintaining VMware ESXi 5.5 hosts and vCenter 5.5 Environment.
• Configure and worked on vCenter Linked mode.
• Installation and configuration of Microsoft Windows 2008 servers and 2012 R2 Servers on Virtual Machines.
• Worked on POC for vBlock300 for specific customer needs.
• Building and maintaining Physical servers on Dell PowerEdge M910 and M710 blade servers.
• Experience in administrating BIOS and firmware upgrades on Dell blade servers in Chassis Management Controller.
• Troubleshoot issues with Linked Mode connected with Update Manager.
• Updating and patching ESXi servers, Virtual Center servers using VMware Update manager.
• Perform server migration over Data centers using VMware converter 5.5.
• Creating and managing the VMware cluster with HA and DRS.
• Upgraded the test environment from vSphere 5.5 to 6.0 with external PSC along with the vSphere components like vCenter, vSphere Update Manager etc.
• Supported large scale Data Center activities including server installation, hardware maintenance, and break/fix activities.
• Taken care whole storage (Isilon X and N nodes) for our environment, day to day storage requirements, storage pools, extended data store, storage I/O controller, swing LUNs to migrate VMs between clusters.
• Worked with VMware engineers to build custom ESXi image for our environment, which includes (custom filter driver for Trend Micro, power path from EMC).
• Deployed and worked extensively on Trend Micro (Anti-Virus in Virtual Environment).
• Installation of filter drivers on each Host for Trend Micro, deployed about 500+ DSVAs (Deep Security Virtual Appliances) in our environment, custom installation of VMware tools in order to support Trend.
• Worked on VMware pCli for deploying vApps, for making any changes on VMs and Hosts like VMCI, Syslog settings, pulling any Host related or VM related data, also for setting Affinity rules for a VM on a host.
• Troubleshoot and remediated many issues related to VMware and windows, has very good experience in working with VMware BCS support engineers, also extensively worked with Dell enterprise engineer for any Hardware related issues, ex: system board failure, Bad Memory, CPUs also issues related to power, voltage.
• Experience in working with two different vendors at a time in SEV1, when a critical issue comes up in production environment, Ex: PSOD, APD situations.
• Hands on experience installing, configuring & administering Network services like DHCP and DNS services.
• Performance monitoring and tuning for ESX/ESXi servers, vCenter server and Virtual machines.
• Collaborated with multiple support teams to resolve critical time-sensitive issues.
• Maintaining the documentation and Run Books of the environment and updating them in Archives.

Confidential, Tampa, FL

VMware Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Handling complex enterprise environment with 3000+ Windows servers and 200+ ESXi hosts in two datacenter and multiple remote locations
• Installation and support of VMWARE ESX/ESXi 3.5/4.x/5.x server which hosts the virtual servers for the test/dev/staging environment.
• Build and administer vCenter 4.1/5.0, VMware cluster, HA, DRS, Snapshot, Clone
• Taking care of P2v, V2v, P2p using vConverter& double take
• Performance tuning for VMware ESXi hosts and Virtual Machine, setting up their CPU affinity rules, allocating resources and fine tuning storage
• Administering VMware VDI, allocating new VDI and maintaining
• Monitoring the resources and services on the servers using System Center Operation Manager (SCOM) 2007 R2, HP SIM& Confidential Director, worked as SCOM administrator.
• Storage configuration using SAN with Confidential Blade Center s, HP EVA series
• Supporting SAN infrastructure, NAS infrastructure
• Installation and Support of Windows NT/ 2000/2003/2008/2008 R2 servers functioning in Multi-Tier application environments.
• Analyzed the hardware and software requirements of Active Directory.
• Created the Forest Root domain, and a Child domain in a production environment.
• Installed and configured an Active Directory Domain Controller.
• Established external trusts and cross-forest trusts.
• Managed an Active Directory site; replication schedules, site links and boundaries, used ADUC to create and manage computer, user and group accounts in an Active Directory environment.
• Designed, planned and implemented Group Policy, delegation strategies and OU structure.
• Managed local, roaming, and mandatory profiles, planed strategy for placing Global Catalogue (GC) and evaluated the need to enable Universal Group Caching.
• Level-2/3 troubleshooting clustered file & print server support for user base over 2000 users.
• Installation and Administration of HP Proliant servers, C7000 Enclosure, Dell Power Edge, Compaq.
• Troubleshooting hardware issues like, RAM, HDD, CPU, Blue screen on all server hardware
• Installation, Configuration and troubleshooting of DNS and DHCP.
• Installation and Administration of Web servers and FTP servers.
• Responsible for running Wintel on host operating systems (and applications) such as Microsoft Windows to run in a protected, virtual environment in a window.
• Installation and Administration of Fail over cluster in Windows 2000/2003/2008 environment.
• Managing the backups using the Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) and Backup Exec System Recovery.
• Monitoring the servers using HP Systems Insight Manager to find any issues with the server’s hardware.
• Patch Management using System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM).
• Participation on disaster recovery planning, mock drill and preparation.
• Administering, designing, maintaining and troubleshooting various Windows environments, administering, designing and troubleshooting Hyper - V virtualization environments.

Sr. System Engineer

Confidential, San Diego, CA

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed existing Infrastructure for Implementation of Gradual Consolidation in Migrations phases after conducting extensive feasibility study
• Strong knowledge on Citrix Presentation/XenApp server
• Analyzing the application in Citrix environment.
• Implemented Migration by performing P2V, V2V & V2P conversions using vConverter& PlateSpin
• Worked to streamline the process of gathering & interconnecting machines, installing & maintaining operating systems, updating applications & resolving problems
• Designed & Implemented virtualization solutions based on VMware ESX 3, 3.5 & vCenter Server components & managed virtual center permissions.
• Configured automated VM migrationsusing automated scripts in PowerShell. Standardized network cable runs for VMware hosts across multiple data center.
• Worked with system, network, security, & storage engineering teams to prepare & configure new servers for the VMware ESX environment.
• Manage Juniper switches(EX4200), Firewalls(SRX3400) & Checkpoint IP350 for Primary Data center
• Interact & coordinate with different teams to meet the deadlines
• Documentation includes PCI compliance Requirements, Project Plan, Network Diagrams, P2V migration & Network design & upgrade recommendations
• Disaster recovery planning, implementation & recovering systems during crash or hardware failure.
• Update & patch all ESX servers & coordinate hardware-software installations & upgrades to ensure work is performed in accordance with company policy.
• Identified & fixed ESX performance bottlenecks by working with clients & other teams.
• Configured NFS server to share resources across multiple servers.
• Resolved Server problems related to web applications, Cluster failover, File system, DNS & network connectivity.
• Maintained vCenter Server 4.1 & implemented View Desktop Infrastructure
• Administered VMware environment, evaluated & implemented new hardware & software solutions that benefited architecture & operations. Implemented VMware SRM & troubleshoot performance issues
• Identified & fixed ESX performance bottlenecks by working with clients & other teams.
• Customized layer 2 & layer 3 networking between VMware, networking components & storage for high availability & maximum performance.
• Supported & Managed VMware ESX 3.5 & 4.0 infrastructure for production/non production environments including HA/DRS Clustering.
• Creating & managing security groups & reconciliation of the same regularly.
• Created documentation for Server Builds, Application Installations, Mapping the drives & Issues which occur during software upgrades.

Confidential, Wayne, OK

Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Architecture, design, install, configure VMware ESX, ESXi, vSphere 4 and vSphere 5 environments with Virtual Center management, LabManager, Consolidated Backup, DRS, HA, DPM, vMotion etc.,
• Deploying desktops with windows 7/vista/XP and managing desktops, user authentications and also trouble shooting end user issues.
• Assisted fellow admins with Storage and creation of Virtual servers.
• Created new virtual machines to meet the specifications provided by the Client.
• Configured vMotion for Hardware Resource Management.
• Set up vMotion, High Availability (HA), Distributed Resource System (DRS), Fault Tolerance (FT) and related VMware products such as VMware Workstation.
• Schedule VM Backup and Snare to be protected Snapshots and manage/reload Snapshots
• Troubleshooting the Hung VM Sessions on ESX Host and sending the files to VMware support for resolution.
• Supported and Managed VMware ESX 5.0 infrastructure for production/non production environments including HA/DRS Clustering.
• Creating and managing security groups and reconciliation of the same regularly.
• Involved in On Call rotation for supporting production strictly maintaining SLA's.
• Created documentation for Server Builds, Application Installations, Mapping the drives and Issues which occur during software upgrades.
• Build, configure and deploy VMs and templates. Completed Physical-to-Virtual (P2V), Virtual-to-Virtual (V2V) and Virtual-to-Physical (V2P) migration of Windows 2000, 2003 and 2008 servers from VMware and legacy hardware.
• Analyze and troubleshoot on an advanced level, performance of SAN-backed VMware ESX infrastructure to determine proper allocation of resources to a multi-department user population with widely varying needs.
• Customize layer 2 and layer 3 networking between VMware, networking components and storage for high availability and maximum performance.
• Develop, test, and maintain a disaster recovery plan for critical VMs and application data.