SUMMARY:

• SR. VMware ESX/ESXi, Servers on Virtual Machines, VSphere CLI, VMware vSphere; Windows Administrator, PowerShell and Linux Administration.
• Over 8 years of experience in delivering enterprise solutions in multiple domains.Expertise in conceptualizing, designing, high skilled, IT Professional with experience in Windows and VMware Administration with a primary focus on installation, configuration, and administration of VMware vSphere ESX/ESXi3.0, 3.5, 4.0, 4.1, 5.0,5.5,6.0, 6.5, VMware Virtualization, VMware Vcenter 4.0, 4.1, 5.0, 5.5 and 6.0, 6.5 and Windows servers (2000, 03, 08, 12),. Experience in implementing and administering VMware vSphere Permissions, HA settings, DRS settings, FT settings, Cluster groups, Resource Pools, Host Profiles, Licensing, Templates, ThinApp and Networking. Knowledge about how to implement VMware Vrealize Automation (VRA).
• Overall 8 years of professional experience in installing, configuring, integrating, and automating data center technologies in VMware/Windows and Linux administration
• Accomplished systems administrator managing server infrastructures and data - center operations across multiple platforms (Linux, Windows).
• Experience in deploying VM’s, managing users and groups, deploying domain controller to Azure, installing and configuring Azure Ad connect.
• Experienced in installing, upgrading, patching, configuring, administrating and maintaining various Windows Servers.
• Design the VMware environment including: vSphere, ESXI, SCCM, SCOM, vROPs, Log insight, SRM (site recovery manager).
• Experienced in Performance Monitoring, Security, Troubleshooting, and Backup, Disaster recovery, Maintenance.
• Extensive knowledge in advance features like vMotion, StoragevMotion and Network/StorageIOControl.
• Excellent experience in working on configuring ESXi hosts and clusters with all advanced features like HA, DRS, DPM, and EVC etc.
• Experience in P2V, V2V MIGRATION using VMwareConverter and PlateSpin migrate tool.
• Experience in working on HostProfiles, Resource Pools, Storage Profiles, VMFS data store and templates for client VMs.
• Developed and used Custom reports and built in reports in SCCM for reporting.
• Experience in Migration from SCCM 2007 to SCCM 2012.
• Used VMware vCenter Operations Manager (vCOPS / vROPS) for server and workstation monitoring.
• Very good experience in creating DRS affinity, anti-affinity rules as required by business.
• Extensive experience in upgrading vCenter server and associated components like SSO and database servers.
• Upgraded ESXi servers using VMwareUpdateManager (VUM), CLI and DCUI.
• Consolidating resources via Virtualization VMware and Hyper-V.
• Experience in Built and maintaining product and service standards for VDI capabilities that align with technology strategies.
• Excellent experience in working on vSwitches such as Standard vSwitches (vSS), Distributed vSwitches (VDs).
• Built Windows 2003/2008 Wintel Servers on standalone and blade servers based on application design and deployed stack on these servers
• Experience in configuring VMware DRS Rules and VMware HA on Clusters in Virtual Center.
• Good Experience in creating port groups, VLAN networking and NIC teaming on VMware ESX 5.x/4.x and vCenter environment.
• Strong knowledge and extensive experience in data center migration projects.
• Good experience on working on VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM) for maintaining business continuity and performing disaster recovery (DR) activity.
• Managing the VMware (ESX / ESXi / Cluster / Datacenter) environment Capacity. Both available capacity and utilization capacity.
• Used ESXi Image Builder CLI to create ESXi install images with custom updates, patches and drivers
• Monitoring of VM’s&ESXi server components (CPU, Memory, Disk, Network Utilization) and security hardening for Security Compliance.
• Experience and understating in monitoring performance of Hosts and virtual machines, datacenters, monitoring backups using Net Backup operations Manager.
• Writing and developing from scratch windows PowerShell scripts for automating procedures within VMware VSphere environment.
• Involved in Site minder SSO System integration and Application Production Support.
• Troubleshot switch to server and back to the secure cloud connection.
• Extensive experience with Windows clustering on virtualized environments.
• Responsible for OS maintenance activities like upgrading the OS, updating the services and third-party software’s.
• Capacity planning tools like VMware Realize operations system.
• Provided 24/7 On Call production support onsite and remotely on rotation basis.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

VMware: VMware VSphere 4.x, 5.0,5.1&5.5,6, 6.5 Workstation 6 and 7, ESX Server 3.x and 4.x,5.x, 6.x, VMware Virtual Center Server(Vcenter) 2.x and 3.x,4.x,5.x VMware DRS, HA and FT, VMware Converter 3.0, VMware Update Manager, VMware vShield manager, vROPS (Vrealize operational Manager) 6.4, 6.5, 6.6.1, VMWare vRealize Automation (VRA), vSphere Web client.

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

Monitoring Tools: Vrealize operational manager (vROPS), SCCM, SCOM, Solar winds, VRNI, Pandora, Nagios.

Databases: Microsoft SQL servers.

Backup tools: Veeam, Commvaultsimpana, Netbackup, TSM.

Web Services: Microsoft IIS.

Ticketing Tools: BMC Remedy & Service now, Foot prints.

Antivirus: Trend Micro, Symantec & McAfee.

Operating Systems: Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Microsoft Windows Server 2000, Windows XP/Vista/Win 7, and VMware ESX/ESXi server.

Cloud Platform: Vcloud Air, Vcloud director. Knowledge on AWS

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, West Chester, PA

Senior System Administrator

• VMware VSphere 6.5 / 6.7 deployment.
• Upgrade VMware infrastructure from 5.1 to 6.5 & 5.5 to 6.5.
• Implemented VDI (Virtual desktop infrastructure) technology using VMware VIEW / Horizon 6.0& 7.0.
• Managing cisco UCS servers through UCS manager / UCS central.
• Upgraded vROPS 6.5 to 6.6
• Resolving p1, p2, p3 tickets.
• Hp to cisco UCS hardware migration.
• EMC to PURE storage migration.
• P2v, v2p using VMware converter and plate spin migrate tool.
• Hands on experience in updating / upgrading ESXi servers, Virtual Center servers and windows virtual machines using VMware Update manager and manual upgrades for Patching.
• Configure and manage Blueprints for Linux and Windows systems on Dev, QA and Prod environments.
• Configure Tenants, Blueprints, Security Groups, End Points and Resource Pools in vRA Infrastructure (7.2)
• Experience working on Active directory, DNS, DHCP, Forward lookup zones and reverse lookup zones, TCP/IP protocols.
• Installing .net frame work / java / splunk software applications on windows servers.
• HA, DRs and Affinity rules.
• Creating port groups
• Experince in using PowerShell/PowerCLI to automate systems engineering repetitive tasks.
• Experience using Kanban board in JIRA( Project assiging and discussions), HP service manager for change management.
• Building new Windows Server 2012/2016 on Intel Server Platforms, Cisco/HP/Dell PowerEdge servers as per the company’s Windows build standards.
• Providing 24/7 on call support for critical and production issues.

Confidential, Philadelphia, PA

System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for day to day operations including installation, maintenance, and system administration of network servers primarily including Windows server 2008/2012 operating systems, VMware server, Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) virtualization technologies, and associated network storage devices
• VMware vSphere - Design, Install, Configure and Operational management of VMware ESXi 5.x & 6.x and vcenter 5.x & 6.x; administration of Windows/Linux Guest VMs. Develop and maintain technical standards documentation for Processing Platforms (VMware platform)
• Installed and configured View Connection Servers (Standard&Replica7.02) Successfully. Configured View Security servers in Dmz and paired them with the Connection servers and responsible for troubleshooting issues regarding replication errors for connection servers.
• Installation, configuration and Operating System upgrade on, Red Hat Linux 6, 7 and Sun Solaris9, 10, 11.
• Installed deployed and configured SRM 6.1.
• Installed deployed and configured VR appliance. Created protection groups, Recovery plans and testing plans
• Automation of routine tasks and reports using PowerShell and PowerCLI for Windows, VMware, AD, and Exchange.
• 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.
• Install, Setup and Monitor the Servers, NetApp Storage, Windows, Linux, Switches and other network device on Windows System Center Operation Manager.
• Experience in System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) 2012/2007 Design, Implementation, Administration and Management Packs Authoring.
• Migrated SCOM from .
• Configuring SNMP monitoring for firewalls, network routers and switches using SCOM 2012
• 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.
• Installing ESX and ESXi servers on HP, DELL hardware.
• Implement and manage vRealize Operations Manager solutions and management packs.
• 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.
• Update patches on Servers Working Experience with Active Directory Components (AD Users and Computers, DNS, DHCP and wins etc.)
• Experience working on Anti-virus Trend Micro, Symantec & McAfee.
• Played a vital role in Creating Virtual Machines, cloning virtual machines, converting P2V (used standard VMware converter tool), VM-Provisioning (Linked clones, thin disks, de-duplication) taking Snapshots of virtual servers, HA, DRS, v motioning.
• VMware View or Horizon View, or Virtual Desktop Infrastructure
• Horizon configuration, administration, creating pools, create and maintain Gold Master images, recomposing pools, deploying Linked Clones with persistent and non-persistent desktops, troubleshoot
• Support and Implementation of IBM Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) / Veeam 8.0 /9.0.
• Upgraded from 9.0 to Veeam 9.5 for backup and replication.
• 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.
• Racking and Stacking network DELL/HP/Cisco server chassis
• P2V cold conversion using VMware Converter Boot CD.
• Documented all procedures and standards from Linux environment perspective.
• Capacity planning of the virtual environment.

Technologies Used: 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, SCCM, SCOM, Dell IDRAC, solar winds.

Confidential, Des Moines, IA

System administrator/Vmware and VRA consultant

Responsibilities:

• Administered VMware 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.
• Upgraded from 6.2 to 7.0 Vrealize automation (VRA).
• Managing infrastructure and end points, compute, resources, reservations, users, groups and policies in Vrealize automation (VRA)
• Create and managing tenants and setting up email servers for notifications, view event logs in VRA.
• Deploying VM’s using Blue prints.
• Creating new services and blue prints in VRA and setting up upper fabric and business groups.
• Worked on VMware ESX 6.0/5.5 Installation and virtual machines setup using Virtual Infrastructure client.
• Worked on Share Point application to maintain the financial documents.
• Installing Maintenance Levels and updates on Windows Platform.
• Installed, configured & administer Windows 2003/2008 Standard and Enterprise Servers including installing IIS, .NET applications and Java Applications.
• Setup of Multi-Factor Authentication between the Azure and Ping Federated with AD on-prem passwords.
• Identifying opportunities to improve infrastructure that effectively and efficiently utilizes the Microsoft Azure Windows server 2008/2012/R2, Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Visual Studio, Windows PowerShell, Cloud infrastructure.
• Implemented Azure AD using AD connect, configured SSO and multifactor
• 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 Virtual 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.
• Migrated data between NetApp filers.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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 Powershell scripts for better management of VSphere and VDI environments.
• Experience using Veeam 9.0/8.0 and commvault for scheduling backups and replicating VM’s from one site to another.
• 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.
• 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.
• Knowledge of setting up of HP G7 Blade servers, Oracle business intelligence servers, IBM Blade servers, UNIX servers, DELL servers, AIX, cisco UCSB series hardware servers in datacenters in adding memory, storage, network cards and network cable setup
• Provide 24*7 hr. VMware and Windows/Linux production L3/L2 support.

Technologies Used: Horizon View 7.0, VMware Horizon 6.2/5.3, VMware App Volumes, VSphere Suite 5.1 and 5.5, ESXi 5.1 and 5.5, Virtual Center 5.1 and 5.5, ThinApp 5.0, Cloud, 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, Azure, Cisco IOS switches.

Confidential, Nashville, TN

VMware Admin

Responsibilities:

• Installed, Maintained windows server 2003/2008 on HP and IBM servers
• Worked on providing 3rd Level support for 2500+ Windows 2003/2008 Servers.
• Build servers with Raid Configuration RAID 5 and Raid 1+0on HP ProLiant DL380, 360, 580, ML370 servers.
• Worked on Change Management, Request Management and Incident Tickets in Service Center.
• Configuring windows firewall settings using group policy.
• Responsible for the network in general including switches routers, firewalls, systems (windows mostly) storage (NetApp, Store Vault), backup/restore
• Installed and Configured WIN, DNS, DHCP, IIS and Terminal Services.
• Extensively managed active directory like all the problems related to user accounts, domain accounts, managing permissions etc.
• Creating and maintaining user accounts, profiles, security, rights, disk space and process monitoring using Active directory using PowerShell.
• Responsible for providing 3rd level support to applications in Production.
• Experience in Remote deployment of Microsoft Windows 2003/2008 servers using Altiris deployment solution or manual installation of a server using ILO for remote connection to a server.
• Experience in Active directory, GPOs, DNS, DHCP, FILE & PRINT SERVER, IIS, FTP, terminal server, RIS/WDS, RRAS, NAT, WSUS, Microsoft clustering, MS exchange mail server and ISA server.
• Maintaining servers with latest security updates, critical patches, anti-virus, and backup
• Maintaining Print servers, Application servers and File Servers.
• Decommissioning of windows servers, including the disk wipes and drilling the hard disks depending on client requirements for each server.
• Experience in configuring Microsoft Load balancer (NLB) for Web Servers and Applications servers to distribute load and High Availability.
• Experience in Remote deployment of Windows 2000/2003 servers using Altiris deployment solution or manual installation of a server using RSA/RILO for remote connection to a server.
• Build 200+ VMware vSphere hosts and added to new/existing VMware Clusters on Wintel Stack and involved in the Data Center Transformation.
• Worked as LDAP admin and managed various ldap instances in GE environment. Helped in performance tuning of the ldap directories.
• Experience on creating new VMware Clusters with HA and DRS enabled.
• Building new VMware virtual machines to meet the specifications provided by the client.
• Experience in deploying new Virtual Machines from OVF/OVA templates.
• Creating Roles and permissions in vmware ESX Server 3.0/3.5/4.0
• Migrated vmware ESX 3.5 u2 to ESX 4.0 using vmware update Manager.
• Experience on hot and cold clone process.
• Installed/updated patches on vmware ESX (i) hosts using vmware Update Manager tool.
• Updated vmware tools on virtual machines using Update Manager tool.
• Provided 24/7 On Call support onsite and remotely on rotation basis.

Technologies Used: Windows 2000/2003/2008 R2, SMS, SQL Server 2000, IIS 6.0/7.0,vCloud, vSphere, NETapp, VMware ESXi 5.1 Server, Hyper-V, Dell Power Edge Servers, LDAP, SCCM, PowerShell scripting, CISCO UCS blade servers, HP Servers, IBM Blade Servers, Remote desktop services.

Confidential

VMware/Windows Administrator

Responsibilities:

• 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.

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