PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• 6+ years of IT professional experience in Systems and Network Administration with a primary focus on installation, configuration, and administration of VMware vSphere, Confidential 4.0,4.1 and 5.0,5.1,6.0 VMware Vcenter 4.0,4.1 and 5.0, 5.1,6.0 and Windows server 2000/2003/2008 R2. Ensure Data Center operation success through network, server, and infrastructure monitoring and troubleshooting.
• Sound knowledge on ESXi and Confidential Architecture, guest OS installation, setting up of VM priorities, Cloning and Snapshots. Datacenter Virtualization, Server Consolidation, Virtual Desktop Infrastructure, Private Cloud Computing (IAAS), Virtualization Management.
• Sound knowledge on Virtual Center server 4.0, 4.1 and 5.0, 5.1, 6.0 for managing multiple Confidential servers and linked vCenter servers.
• Excellent experience and knowledge with designing installing and implementing VMware Confidential server, VMware virtual center, setting up V - Motion, HA, DRS, and related VMware products such as VM Workstation, VMware converter VM Backup products and other products for virtualization. Configured on StoreFront or the Web Interface with Management Console.
• P2V and V2V conversions by using VMware Converter and PlateSpin, XenServer and Provisioning Services.
• Strong understanding of VMware Networking concepts like creation of Vswitches, different types of port groups, NIC Teaming and VLAN Problem management on VMware Confidential 3.X and Virtual Center and vMotion.
• Experience with VMware updates manager to install patches and updates on Confidential hosts and virtual machines.
• Experience with designing and implementing VMware backup products and disaster recovery solutions. Reviewed blueprints, created punch lists and expanded existing structured cable system infrastructure (copper and fiber). A data center migration is the logical and operational migration of a data center, then physically moving the data center to a new site. However, in the case of end users, data center migration refers to adopting cloud or managed data center platforms in favor of in-house or standard data center facilities.
• Built Cabinet/Relay Rack systems with supporting power systems and custom ladder tray.
• Experience in monitoring and controlling various cloud-computing components such as security virtual machine (VM) provisioning using vCloud Director (vCD).
• Install and configure StoreFront. For details, see StoreFront in the Technologies > StoreFront section of Product Documentation. For administrators who need more control, Citrix provides a template you can use to create a download site for Citrix Receiver for iOS.
• Experience of fiber SAN/iSCSI SAN/NAS (EMC (CX30), NetApp) storage technology and work with SANs in VMware environments and troubleshooting SAN related issues and upgraded firmware of SANs in VMware and different environments.
• Experience with HP Blade System C-class enclosure (3000/7000) using Onboard Administrator and Virtual Connect.
• Fair knowledge of Virtual connects, HP Sim, HP VCEM.
• Windows 2000/2003 and 2008 Server Active Directory Administration
• Excellent troubleshooting skills both with hardware and software in windows environment
• Exceptional work ethic,routinely use available time to solve organizational problems, ability in multitasking and timely completion of all assignment.
• Extremely self-motivated, quick learner, team player
• Have worked on HA environment on 24/7 basis and oncall.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

VMware: VSphere, VMware ESXi 4.0, ESXi 4.1 and 5.x, Virtual center 4.0, 4., 5.x and 6.x, VMware converter, VMware Update Manager, HA, DRS, VMotion and SVmotion, Thinapp, VMware Workstation, VMware capacity planner.

Operating System: Windows XP, vista, windows 7 Windows Server OS - 2000, NT, 2003, 2008, 2008 R2, 2012 R2 Linux.

Application Servers and Networking protocols: DNS, DHCP, Windows Active Directory Services, SCCM 2007. 2012, FTP. TCP/IP, HTTP, SMTP, POP3, Ethernet, Token Ring.

Infrastructure Hardware: HP Blade servers, HP Proliant servers and Other HP hardware G5-G8, Cisco UCS, DELL Power Edge servers, Net gear, Cisco & HP Switches, Data Centre migration, Data centre Racking and Stacking.

Backup Software’s: Symantec backup exec and, Veeam tools

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, CA

VMware/Windows Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Working closely with the Project Delivery, Service Delivery, EA teams, and other infrastructure
• Provide technical expertise regarding Microsoft, VMware, HP hardware.
• As part of Server team major responsibility include build and deliver windows physical servers and VMs to application team and troubleshoot issues during that stage. End users using Citrix Receiver for Windows or Mac can take advantage of the Email Based Discovery feature that allows users to add their Citrix Store account using their own email address. For more information, refer to Citrix Documentation
• Take part in SEV1 & SEV2 calls to restore failed services. Determined project installation/interconnect requirements, selected standard data and power cabling components, and interconnected subsystems/connected systems to the LAN. (Examples: mainframe, SAN, blade server, LAN switches, WAN routers, VoIP servers and gateways, DS-1 circuits and T1/PRI circuits.
• Responsible for managing Windows OS ISOs and images, HP c7000 Enclosure configuration standards and Rack and Stack servers, Group Policy management.
• Create/manage SWI and SOP technical documentation.
• Configured and installed ESXi 5.1 on HP DL and BL series servers. Manual configuration. You can directly inform users of the Access Gateway or store URLs needed to access their desktops and applications. For connections through Access Gateway, users also need to know the product edition and required authentication method. After installation, users type these details into Citrix Receiver, which attempts to verify the connection and, if successful, prompts users to log on.
• Created VMs, Host Clusters, Storage Clusters, Host Profiles and Storage Profiles.
• Created VM Templates, Configured Templates and deployed Templates.
• Reconfigured Alarms and Alerts for newly deployed ESXi Hosts.
• Created and managed the VMware cluster with HA and DRS.
• Experience in automation of monitoring, Alerting and reporting for large scale Citrix environment
• Monitoring and managing performances of Confidential /ESXi servers and virtual machines.
• Working on Migration concepts like vMotion and Storage vMotion.
• Analyze existing infrastructure using VMware Capacity Planner
• Performed data store migration using VMware storage vMotion on Netapps NFS, dell ISCSI SAN Storage
• Assisted in P2V conversions of Windows servers using VMware vConverter
• Hands on exposure on VMware Data Protection, vCenter Operation Manager, vSphere Multi-Hypervisor Manager, vSphere Replication and VMware Site Recovery Manager.
• Configured the NTP server in Confidential Server for the time synchronization between Confidential and VM’s.
• Generated report summary and performance for Confidential Servers and VM’s.
• Created snapshot’s for the VM’s and also created new folders, data centers, clusters and resource pools in the VC.

Confidential, CA

IT Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Major Responsibilities Include Installation, configuration, and maintenance organization’s server environment. Stack, Analyze and resolve problems associated with server hardware, OS and application software
• Responsible for Confidential server deployments, system updates/upgrades, system health and status monitoring.
• Installed and configured VMware Confidential 4.x and 5 and configured VMware Virtual Center Server, Installing Virtual center components and Managed Virtual center permissions
• Hands on experience in updating / upgrading Confidential servers, Virtual Center servers and windows virtual machines using VMware Update manager and manual upgrades.
• ThinApp Packages Applications Upgrades and deployment testing and Production Implementation.
• Worked on Active Directory for creating Users and Groups.
• Involved in Installation and Configuration and Maintenance of Windows 2008/2003on HP Proliant Servers for Dev, Test and Production Instances.
• Created User Accounts and Groups in Active Directory (AD).
• Used Vranger to backup and restore vmdk files of windows VMs. VM migration across cluster level using v2v, Mount files option and SCP. Administration on VM clones and snapshots.
• Deployed, provisioned the shared NFS storage for Confidential servers and virtual machines
• Created LUNs, storage groups and RAID groups.
• Worked all day on support troubleshooting client's problems

Confidential, California

Network Administrator/System Admin

Responsibilities:

• Virtualized 250+ servers using VMconverter.
• P2V conversions of Windows servers using VMware vConverter.
• Network cabling, server room/Datacenter cabling using Cat5/6 cables and all other hardware peripherals and testing experience.
• Performing upgrade of the Virtual Infrastructure.
• Configuring and managing VMware cluster with High Availability and Distributed Resource Scheduling.
• Monitoring and managing performances of Confidential /ESXi servers and virtual machines.
• Responsible for the configuration of the switches and routers for the switch upgrade.Design and Implementation of VMware Confidential server infrastructure in multisite/multi Datacenter environments.
• Health check on VMware Infrastructure using VMware Health check tool and custom scripts
• Installation and configuration of Windows 2008 environment. Cisco UCS Deployment and Implementation for Virtual Environments.
• Assisted in the development and testing of the POE configurations.
• Migration of existing VMs from HP Blades to Cisco UCS.
• Performing upgrade of the Virtual Infrastructure.
• Configuring and managing VMware cluster with High Availability and Distributed Resource Scheduling..
• Monitoring and managing performances of Confidential /ESXi servers and virtual machines.
• Monitored availability and performance with What's Up Professional and MRTG.
• Design and Implementation of VMware Confidential server infrastructure in multisite/multi Datacenter environments.

Confidential

VMware Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Major Responsibilities Include AD user management in Windows 2003 Server.
• Provide tier one support to end users (about 150 Faculty & Staff members, 2 labs and around 300 computers at School of Nursing, University at Buffalo) by phone, e-mail, or in-person.
• Managed Domain Controllers and Additional domain controllers.
• Configuring & administering Domain Naming Server (DNS), Dynamic Host Configuration.
• Troubleshoot basic and advanced software packages working on multiple OS platforms such as Linux, Android, Mac and Windows.
• Hands-on support to end users in troubleshooting of network server issues and remote network connection.
• Performed proper escalation of second and third tier requests, Interfaced between technician and end users to effectively identify problems and formulate solutions. Virtualized 250+ servers using VMconverter.
• P2V conversions of Windows servers using VMware vConverter.
• Performing upgrade of the Virtual Infrastructure.
• Configuring and managing VMware cluster with High Availability and Distributed Resource Scheduling.
• Monitoring and managing performances of Confidential /ESXi servers and virtual machines.
• Design and Implementation of VMware Confidential server infrastructure in multisite/multi Datacenter environments.
• Health check on VMware Infrastructure using VMware Health check tool and custom scripts
• Installation and configuration of Windows 2008 environment. Attended professional training from VMware
• Involved in installing of Confidential servers and configurations
• Used capacity planer in consolidating the datacenter
• Created Virtual machines and installed OS and applications according to standards
• Configured and troubleshoot the network settings to virtual environment created
• Migrated the physical machines to virtual environment using VMware enterprise converter