SUMMARY:

• 7+ years of experience as a Systems administrator working on Windows and Linux Environments.
• Proficient in VCloud air, VMware vcenter, vROPS (Vrealize operational manager), VMware vCloud Director, Open Stack, VMware NSX, OS installations and Troubleshooting.
• Proficient in Server maintenance - Configuration, Backup and Troubleshooting and router configurations.
• Expert in working on Microsoft technologies like Hyper-V, Active directory, Exchange, WSUS, DFS, IIS. Etc.
• A team player with excellent communication skills and self-motivation. Possess enthusiasm and willingness to learn and implement new technologies. Possess exemplary analytical and problem solving skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

VMware: VMware VSphere 4.x,5.0,5.1&5.5,6,6.5 ESX Server 3.x and 4.x,5.x, 6.x, VMware DRS, HA and FT, VMware Converter 3.0, VMware Update Manager, VMware vShield manager, vROPS 6.4, 6.5, 6.6.1, VCloud Air, VCloud director, Open stack, VMware NSX.

Server Hardware: HP Rack servers & HP Blades, Cisco UCS Blades, Dell Power Edge server

Databases: Microsoft SQL servers.

Web Services: Microsoft IIS.

Ticketing Tools: BMC Remedy & Service now, Foot printsAntivirus: Trend Micro, Symantec & McAfee.

Operating Systems: Microsoft Windows Server 2012, 2012 r2, 2008, 2008 R2, Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Microsoft Windows Server 2000, Windows XP/Vista/Win 7.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Pennsylvania

System Administrator

RESPONIBILITIES:

• Responsible for day to day operations including installation, configuration, and maintenance of systems hardware, software and related infrastructure used to provide Windows services. Participating in technical research and development to enable continuing innovation within the infrastructure.
• Administer and support ESX migration and deployment. Configure and automate server build and provisioning. Standardize VMs and Windows security and performance tuning.
• Managing Virtual Environment of more than 6000 virtual servers
• Provisioning of virtual servers with templates for Windows Server 2008, 2008 R2, 2012 & 2012R2.
• Worked with change management software's to create and apply change tickets in the Production environment.
• Upgraded vSphere 6.0 to 6.5 and Created documentation of best practices and upgrade policies for vSphere 6.0 to 6.5.
• Installed and configured DNS and DHCP server and Involved in troubleshooting of DHCP and other IP conflict problems.
• Inst Manage a global virtual infrastructure consisting of hundreds of ESXi hosts, thousands of virtual machines, across many Penn Datacenter sites.
• Develop custom PowerCLI scripts to automate VMware vSphere administration and deployment.
• Designing, Implementing & Managing vROPS (vRealize Operations Manager) to monitor the Complete Infrastructure. ESX and ESXi servers on HP, DELL and Cisco hardware and VCloud air environment.
• Implement and manage vRealize Operations Manager solutions and management packs.
• Managed Groups and Applications within vRealize Operations Manager.
• Created and managed operational dashboards, widgets, views and reports and managed property, metric and alert definitions within vRealize Operations Manager.
• Experience in hybrid-cloud environments (vCloud Air) implementation.
• Migrated Virtual machines from VCloud air to Premises.
• Integrated and configured on VMware virtualization NSX, VRNI ( vRealize network insight) deployment
• Micro segmentation of Tiers and datacenter segments using NSX, LS, DLR, ESG.
• Team member responsible for install and configure VMware NSX manager.
• Support and Implementation of IBM Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) / Veeam 8.0 /9.0.
• Deploying VM’s from templates.
• Working on Active Directory for new user creations and new policy creations.
• Configuring HA, DRS, Storage DRS clusters.
• Taking care of capacity planning for new clusters.
• Configuring FT for important High-End Vm’s.
• Taking caring of ESX and VM storage issues.
• Coordinated with storage teams and storage vendors on support tickets
• Coordinating with raising Support Tickets for ESX Hardware.
• Capacity planning using Capacity planner and VMware guided consolidation for gathering the Physical machines CPU and Memory usage metrics.
• Provided problem troubleshooting, analysis and resolution to issues escalated to backup & restore, tapes.
• P2V cold conversion using VMware Converter Boot CD.
• Capacity planning of the virtual environment.
• Presenting FC SAN LUN’s, RDM’s iSCSI LUN’s and NFS.

Environment: VMware Vsphere 6.0 and 6.5, ESXI 6.0,6.5, vROPS, VCloud Air, VMware NSX, Active directory, Service now, TSM backup network, Cisco ucs, Dell IDRAC, solar winds, VDI horizon view.

VMware/Windows Admin

RESPONIBILITIES:

• Administered VMwar e Infrastructure -vSphere/vCenter/VDI environments from development and supporting day today maintenance, running over 150 ESX / ESXi Hosts and 2500 Virtual Machines.
• Supported 5000+ Microsoft Active Directory and Exchange users on Wintel server environment.
• Worked on VMware ESX 6.0/5.5 Installation and virtual machines setup using Virtual Infrastructure client.
• Deployed Azure services for a hybrid based authorization and encryption system.
• Worked on Share Point application to maintain the financial documents.
• Experience on Veeam Backup.
• Installing Maintenance Levels and updates on Wintel/Windows Platform.
• Installed, configured & administer Windows 2003/2008 Standard and Enterprise Servers including installing IIS, .NET applications and Java Applications.
• Involved in the installation, monitoring and support of firewalls, Cisco networks, perimeter security technologies, Internet technologies and remote office WAN/ LAN connectivity
• SCCM 2012/2007 experience focused on deploying, Packaging, administering, and troubleshooting an enterprise wide SCCM environment on large scale environment
• Configured VMware on clustered environment, Implemented vMotion.
• Created and managed Virtual Machines, installed VMware tools, Templates, Cloning, deploy Virtua
• Machines, including deploying linked Clones using View Composer. Assigned dedicated/floating Pools as per requirement.
• Administration and troubleshooting skills in issues related to View Connection servers, View Manager, View Security servers, View Composer, View Pools, View desktops, Snapshot, Win7 OS Templates creation and Share Point.
• Monitored performance, capacity and health of infrastructure using VCOPS 5.7.
• Application migration, deployment with ThinApp and ThinApp Factory used VMWare Horizon View Composer to provision desktop pools using manual provisioning methods.
• Managing and provisioning virtual resources using vCloud Director 5.1
• Well versed with DRP and Business Continuity Planning using SRM 5, Recover Point.
• Built ESX servers and implemented complete integration with SAN for vMotion in a VMware DRS and HA enabled environment.
• Performed backup and restore operations of VMware host servers' configuration, Virtual machines backup, snapshots, P2V-V2V conversion using VMware stand-alone convertor, applying Patch updates, monitoring/reporting, SSH, SNMP and alerts notification. Configured and used EMC Recover Point for replication.
• Performed Inter-Forest migration of users, workstations, and servers to Active Directory 2012 using Microsoft's Active Directory Migration Tool (ADMT) v3.2.
• Administering production server’s/network infrastructure that includes Windows Administration of Domain Controllers, IIS Web Servers (HTTP/S, FTP and SMTP), Exchange 2003/2010 Mail Servers, NAS, File and print Servers and Terminal Servers on Windows 2003/2008/2008 R2.
• Responsible production support of Active directory (AD), GPO, Domain users, Users and groups and given appropriate permissions, shares and privilege to access LAN and Domain environment.
• Installed, Configured and Implemented Terminal Server (TS) RemoteApp on IIS 7.0 Windows 2008 R2 published applications using TS Web Access, RemoteApp program and TS Gateway.
• Configured storage devices along with iSCSI disks in SAN using RAID 1, 5 and 10.
• Participated in the migration planning, developing, testing and moving the migration process onto full-fledged production network.
• Ensure successful completion of all Symantec Backup Exec and NetBackup jobs, restore files and systems as needed.
• Configure constrained delegation in Active Directory for Kerberos enabled applications.
• Maintain systems using SCCM and SCOM, Install new System Center environments and services, Microsoft Windows XP/7.
• Integrated MDT 2012 with SCCM 2012 for effective Migrations and Deployments and Creating Custom Migration Task Sequence for User State Migration.
• Hands on technical supporting and Monitoring Operations Manager 2007 R2 to enterprise environment.
• Troubleshooting of misconfigured or malfunctioning monitoring, operations manager infrastructure issues, Agent provisioning / de provisioning, test patches and service packs.
• Hands on Experience in Network Cloud integration with AWS & on premise. VPC, VPN, Direct Connect, and Route 53.
• Responsible for the implementation of VMware View VDI upgrades, Change Management, Problem Management, and ITIL related process.
• Worked with vRealize operations manager administrator on capacity planning, created and reserved VMs in a datacenter for an upcoming project.
• Work in conjunction with VDI Project Teams in design, development and implementation of VDI-related operational procedures, standards and deliverables pertaining to new VDI projects.
• Monitoring and Reporting the health status of VMware Horizon View VDI Environment and Vsphere Environments using vCOPS/vROPS.
• Responsible for using Power CLI and Power shell scripts for better management of VSphere and VDI environments.
• Responsible for running Wintel on host operating systems (and applications) such as Microsoft Windows to run in a protected, virtual environment in a window on Mac OS X.
• Testing of different recovery plans in SRM to ensure recovery of failover VM's and Expertise in providing support for windows 2008/2012 servers and Active Directory's.
• Installed and tested vRealize Automation and vRealize operations, to unable cloud orchestration layer for software datacenter model in test bed.
• Implemented PCoIP Network bandwidth optimization techniques over long distance WAN VDI using PCOIP ADM templates and applied PCoIP Optimization settings using Group Policies.
• Strong Knowledge of P2V and V2V, V2C Conversions using VMware Converter.
• Storage Knowledge of setting and configuring of EMC SAN, NAS, iSCSI, Netapp storage from Virtual platform end.

Environment: VSphere Suite 5.1 and 5.5, ESXi 5.1 and 5.5, Virtual Center 5.1 and 5.5, ThinApp 5.0, Cisco vDS, VCAC, VCO, VMware Converter, Commvault, Avamar, RSA Secure ID, SCCM, SCOM, Service Now (Ticketing Tool), Solar winds, Data Domain, IBM Blade servers, DELL servers, Netapp Storage, Cisco IOS switches.

VMware/Windows Administrator

RESPONIBILITIES:

• Building new Windows Server 2003/2008 on Intel Server Platforms, IBM/HP/Dell PowerEdge servers as per the company’s Windows build standards.
• Administered and setup user profiles in Win2003/2008 servers and ADS maintenance
• Administered and setup Print servers in Win2003/2008 server.
• Implementation of Microsoft DHCP, DNS, and Domain trust relationship, file and print services, user and group management.
• Implemented RAID5 for Fault Tolerance on Domain Controllers.
• Installed SQL server 2005 and deployed many SQL cluster deployments for clients for database requirements.\
• Migrated IIS6.0 to IIS7.0 using windows deployment tool 2.0.
• Patching the Production Servers during the green zone window with security patches.
• Maintain the Software deployment and management solution and ensure proper patching on client systems. Maintain the Domain environment, including setting policies as per the security settings.
• Defining group permissions and creating local and global groups with account policies using Enterprise Administrator. Creating user rights and defining local and roaming profiles.
• Responsible to maintain the server inventory and document the server build/decommission, application installation/configuration, backup verifications, Operating System user accounts auditing, etc.
• Working on Change Management and Request Management Tickets in Remedy Tool
• Built and configured ESX 3.5/4.0 hosts and deployed XP/Vista/2003/2008 VMware Virtual Guests on Wintel Stack
• Experience in configuring and enabling VMware EVC on VMware clusters.
• Experience with VMware system patching using update manager.
• Responsible to ensure servers are current with firmware, drivers, patches and security updates.
• Proficient in managing ESX Hosts using VMware vCenter.
• Linked Different vCenter servers using linked mode to have a single instance through vSphere client to manage the whole Virtual environment.
• Experience in configuring Hardware iSCSI to Rack servers and add storage to VMware ESX hosts.
• Experience in configuring VMware vCenter Alarms for data store and host memory and CPU usage.
• Experience in configuring and management of VMware Clusters, Vmware DRS, High Availability (HA) and VMotion.
• Experience in setting up Vmware standard vSwitch and ports groups (Service Console, Virtual Machine and VMKernal)
• Created and managed Virtual Machines and Templates, worked with clones and snapshots of Virtual Machines.
• Experience in creating Virtual Machines on Shared Data Store.
• Worked on Migrating Virtual Machines with VMotion.
• Providing 24/7 on call support for critical and production issues.

Environment:: ESXi 5.5/5.0, Windows 2003,2008 R2, 2012 R2, Active Directory, EMC VNX, VMAX, EMC Avamar, Data Domain, EMC Power Path, HP EVA Storage, cloud foundry, Virtualization (Hyper-V, VMware

VMWARE/WINDOWS ADMINISTRATOR

RESPONIBILITIES:

• Main role is to provision virtual machines and physical as per client requirements.
• Extensively managed Active Directory like all the problems related to user accounts, domain accounts, managing permissions etc.
• Involved in operational support of Active Directory, WINS, DNS, and AD enabled applications.
• Installing and updating the windows patches.
• Creating NTFS shares on Windows Servers and provide permissions to users.
• Setting up perform windows servers to analyze performance issues.
• Built and manage Virtual servers on VMwareESXServer3.0/3.5.
• Experience in creating Clusters in Virtual Center and adding ESX Hosts to Virtual Center Cluster.
• Experience in setting up VMKernel Network and Enable VMotion.
• Worked on Migrating Virtual Machines with VMotion.
• Experience in configuring VMware DRS Rules and VMware HA on Clusters in Virtual Center.
• Experience in creating and monitoring Resource Pool for Virtual Machines Resource Reservation and Limits.
• Troubleshoot computer/network, Internet and email problems for users.
• Creating and managing user accounts and the groups in Active Directory users and computers.
• Involved in daily Performance monitoring and Active Directory troubleshooting with the ability to analyze server performance and make recommendations for improvement.
• Helped in auditing Datacenter Inventory in the process of Data center migration.

Environment:: Windows 2000/2003, Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, Symantec NetBackup, Net Vault, SonicWALL firewall, Dell servers.