SUMMARY:

• IT Sys Admin with over 8 years of experience with expertise in Windows and Virtualization suite administration.
• Installation, Configuration and Administration of Virtual Infrastructure using ESX/ESXi, VMware Vsphere 4.x, Virtual center 4.X, 5.x and 6.X Servers.
• Professional experience with VMware VSphere ESXi 6.5, 6.0, 5.5, 5.0, 4.1 and VMware VCenter, VMotion, Storage VMotion, HA, DRS, FT, Host Profiles, VApp, VMware VCenter Converter.
• Experience in Designing, Installing, Configuring, Administrating and Troubleshooting VMware Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) Environment.
• Expertise in VDI solutions like Citrix Xendesktop, VMware Horizon, Hyper - V, VMware ThinApp.
• Expertise in Creating VDI image catalogs, Templates for Provisioning VMs
• Experience in storage performance and Application performance testing on VMware Virtual Machines
• Deploy Secure, Analyze, Administer and Troubleshoot VMware VI platforms.
• Experience on Windows 2003,2008 and 2012 Patch Management and SCCM.
• Installation, Configuration and Administration of Virtual Infrastructure using ESX/ESXi, VMware Vsphere 4.x, Virtual center 4.X and 5.x Servers, vCloud Director, Consolidated Backup, DRS, HA, DPM, vMotion, VMware Data Recovery, VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM), vCenter Operations Manager, Horizon Workspace, Horizon Mirage, ThinApp and VMware View desktop virtualization infrastructure (VDI).
• VMware vSphere & Hyper-V - Design, Install, Configure and Manage.
• Strong expertise in Cisco Unified Computing Systems (Cisco UCS) design, deployment and configuration specific to vSphere environments for compute platform high availability, redundancy and efficiency.
• Experience in managing operations for about 600 plus servers and their backend storage arrays which included VNX, VMAX, Extreme IO, Isilon Storage arrays.
• Administration of Cisco, Dell, IBM, HP servers on different virtual platforms and storage backend systems.
• Involved in Installation, Configuration, and Maintaining of Microsoft Windows 2000/ 2003/ 2008/ 2012 Servers.
• Worked on configuring the servers with Raid Configuration on HP Proliant DL585, DL380 Servers.
• Configuring VMWare Virtual Distributed & Standard Switch.
• Experience on High Availability, Distributed Resource Scheduler & Resource Pools.
• Solid experience on vMotion, Storage vMotion, VMware Fault Tolerance, Update Manager and SRM, Access and Authentication control, ESXi advanced configurations, Network/Storage IO Control.
• VMFS Datastore, Host profiles, Storage profiles, Resource Management and Performance Monitoring, Cloning, Cold Migrations and Hot Migrations and taking Snapshots.
• Successfully completed Virtual Machines migration and ESXi boot LUNs from old VMAX to new Extreme IO storage.
• Performing initial Cisco UCS cluster setup and provide management IP addresses for blade servers.
• Experience in Network LAN/WAN deployment, including IP Addressing and Troubleshooting.
• Implemented, supported vCloud using vCloud Director (vCD), vShield Manager, vShield Endpoint, Chargeback Manager, vCenter, ESXi.
• Enterprise level Infrastructure network component management ranging from Cisco Nexus 1000v, Cisco F.I 6120/6140, Cisco Nexus 5548 and Cisco Catalyst 3560 Cisco Nexus 7K, VMWare Distributed virtual switch and standard switch.
• Create Virtual switches and port groups, configure virtual networking settings for redundancy by teaming up VNICs, and configure network traffic, security and load balancing policies.
• Configuring Cisco UCS Fabric Interconnect set up for upstream connectivity to LAN and SAN.
• Technical knowledge & proficiency in Windows Servers, VMware and Network Administration, Window Servers.
• Management and troubleshooting experience on Windows 2000/2003/2008/2012 R2 file servers, Active Directory, WINS, DHCP, DNS, FTP, IIS & storage servers, SQL server 2005/2008 and Exchange Servers,
• Service Manager, group policy.
• Experienced in Upgrading/Migrating Windows NT domain to Windows 2008 R2 Server, Active Directory and Windows 2008 Active Directory.
• Basic Scripting experience relating to the system administration tasks and creating workflows to address stringent deadlines for new VMs.
• Performance monitoring of VMs & ESXi Servers using vCenter and other monitoring tools like IPsoft, Splunk and SCOM along with Deployment and management of VMware vCOps (Operations Manager), for better diagnostics, performance trending, capacity planning, right sizing and growth projection.
• Handled hot migration and Cold migration depending on priority and severity of the server.
• Hands-on experience Using Update Manager for upgrading ESXi versions or applying ESXi OS hotfixes, patches. Worked with p2p, p2v, v2v using Platespin.
• Experience with vCloud Director 5,5.1 and vShield Networking and Security.
• Experience installing, managing and administering Windows 2012, 2008 and 2003 based Domain controllers, Backup / Additional Domain Controllers.
• Management, Client Installation, Remote control, Site database maintenance and Recovery
• Experience installing, configuring & administering Network services like DNS, DHCP, WINS and WSUS
• Supported a large-scale Data Center projects including server installation, hardware maintenance, and break/fix activities.
• Hands on experience installing, configuring & administering Network services like DHCP and DNS services.
• Experience in the Server and Desktop Management (Windows Administration), Support, Analysis and Maintenance
• Performed system administration activities, security policies and monitored system performance both at software and hardware levels
• Exceptional troubleshooting, organizational, interpersonal, written and verbal communication skills.
• Implementing vBlock advanced Management Pod (AMP) with Cisco C200 rack mount, EMC VNXe and Cisco 3560.
• Proficiency with vSphere PowerCLI, vMA, Cisco UCS power tool and EMC NaviCli, performed root cause analysis and taken necessary actions for permanent fix and handled the operations as per defined best practices and Performed Capacity Management functions.
• Collaborated with Storage / Network / Data Center / Facilities / Audit / Compliance and PMO teams in order to facilitate Business Continuation / Disaster Recovery infrastructure planning, building, and testing.
• Did project planning, documentation and reporting as well as Mentoring/ system engineers and support teams.
• Conducted KT sessions to the end client/customer when working through a vendor.
• Strong focus and understanding on the ITIL framework while handling the incident, problem, change tickets to meet SLA thereby Stabilizing Existing Infrastructure services bypro-actively analyzing known issues, testing upgrades and Implementing the technical solutions by considering the best practices from respective vendors.
• Creating standard Operating Procedures (SOP's), technical run books and technical guides for the client to handle operations after Vendor contract.

TECHNICAL KNOWLEDGE:

VMware products: VMware vSphere 6.0/5.5,5.1,5.0/4.0, VMware Infrastructure vCenter 4.0/4.1,5,5.1,6.0 ESX/ ESXi 3.5/4.0/4.1/5/5.1/5.5 , 6.0 vCenter Update Manage, vSphere Client and Hyper-V.

Operating Systems: ESX/ESXi, Linux (Redhat, SuSE, CentOS, Fedora, Ubuntu), Unix (Solaris, HP-US, AIX), Windows (2012 R2/ 2008 R2 /2003/2000/NT) Windows Server NT/ 2000/2003/2008.

Microsoft Technologies: Active Directory Domain Services (ADDS), Tivoli and Big Fix Microsoft Server 2008 file and print server, DNS, DHCP, DFS, File Service, Print Services, Web-Server (IIS 6,7,8 ), Application Server, TCP/IP Networking, FTP.

Hardware: Cisco UCS,HP PROLIANT Range of Servers (DL385, DL 585, DL 580), Dell Power Edge & IBM X Series Range of Servers like Dell (Dell Servers Power Edge 2950, Dell Power Edge R900, R710, R700).

Storage: ISCSI SAN, FC SAN, NAS, EMC (Clarion, DMX, CX4, VMAX).

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Olathe, Kansas

System Engg (Wintel/Windows & VMware)

Responsibilities:

• System administration with string hands-on tasks on VMWare Suite/UCS environment, including RCM upgrades.
• Involved In vSphere 5.1, 5.5 to vSphere 6.0 and 6.5 and 6.7 Migration Project and Updated VMware tools and Virtual Hardware.
• Installed Unified Infrastructure Manager Provisioning center and Unified Infrastructure Manager Operations center.
• Created ASD forms in VRA and linked to VRO workflows to execute the automated deployments.
• Performance tuning, Monitoring, Capacity planning and Alerting system implementation with VMWare vRealize Operations Manager.
• Assisted in troubleshooting and mitigating problems in vRA/vRO/vROPS production deployments.
• Involved in Setting up SRM 5 Testing of different recovery plans in SRM to ensure recovery of failover VM’s.
• Implemented windows terminal services (RDS) based applications and desktops in VDI environment. installed and configured the anti-virus software for VDI desktops and provided security and monitoring the traffic using vmware NSX & distributed switches.
• Enabled SSH, SFTP and SUEXEC access for functional accounts on Linux and AIX Servers supporting WebSphere Applications. Hyper-V on Win 2012 Datacenter, P2V, V2V
• Involved in Installation and Configuration of vCloud Director and vShield networking and Security.
• Involved in Creation vdc Organizations, Catalogs, and VXLAN Deployment for Internal Cloud
• Deploy the UCS environment using manual service profile creation (initial and updating) as well as automation using UIM.
• Installing RPM packages on Red hat Linux Security Servers and applying patching on RHEL 6 & 7 versions
• Troubleshooting ESX servers from virtualization perspective and also Cisco UCS servers from a compute perspective.
• Implementation and maintaining Azure Cloud Networking Infrastructure using SDN principles.
• Implement Azure Batch for compute-intensive tasks, use Azure Web Jobs to implement background tasks
• Migrated Exchange 2003 mailboxes to Microsoft Office 365.
• Performed vMotion and Storage vMotion of Virtual Machines across different cluster with respect to Linux security policies and application development requirements
• Knowledgeable on UCS Director Orchestration and vRealize Automation.
• Experience in managing the operational dashboards, widgets, views and reports in vRO.
• Hands on design and development experience with vRealize Automation (vRA) and vRealize Orchestration (vRO)
• Worked with Microsoft WSUS, SCOM, SCCM, SQL, and Terminal Services.
• Create package, advertisement and collection on the SCCM Console.
• Monitors the progress and sending SCCM reports prior to deployment.
• Installing troubleshooting, maintaining and coordinating the use and proper operation of the Wintel Server environment and also implemented in Python scripting.
• Migrated Physical Machines to Virtual Machines (P2V) and Virtual Machines to Virtual Machines (V2V), P2P, using VMware converter, Platespin and VCenter Guided Consolidation.
• Install and configure of vRealize Automation, Application Services, vRealize Orchestrator.
• Maintenance, Troubleshooting and creation of workflows in vRealize Orchestrator
• Experienced as a VDI admin in providing operational support for Active Directory
• Daily responsibilities included maintenance of Virtual machines for performance issues also implemented V-Motioning, Hot and Cold Migration of virtual servers and performed Storage VMotion.
• Configuring VMWare ESXi host features once the installation is complete.
• Provided desktop and network support for users on the GIL network.
• Image computers with the GIL corporate image to Install, configure, and support
• Experience in installation and configuration of vSphere 5.0/5.1, 5.5, 6.0 and vSphere 5.x products.
• Experience as a VMware Administrator in Data Center Environment using ESX server 5.x
• Build and troubleshooting experience with ESX and ESXi Servers, vSphere and vCenter manager.
• Configured and deployed Cisco computing clusters with VMware ESXi 5.5 and vCenter 5.5.
• Experienced in applying monthly updates to windows servers 2003/2008R2/2012 versions.
• Maintained and Troubleshooted windows servers’ windows 2003, 2008R2 and 2012 versions Creating disk spaces for windows servers.
• Created SCCM OSD for automated server deployment of Hyper V environment reducing time to deploy by 7 hours
• Worked on VRealize Operations manager (VROPS) for monitoring the vcenter alerts.
• Deploying VM from VRealize tool like windows 2008 and 2012r2 servers.
• Cloning, deploying new server VM’s from Templates different type of guest OS like Windows 2003/2008 R2, Red hat Linux. Adding servers to domain and managing the groups and user in AD, installing and configuring sendmail.
• Build migration strategies for moving workloads and data from on premise to Azure Cloud using Azure site recovery, Azure import\Export services, double take etc
• Experience with Physical System (rack/stack, cabling, hard drive replacement, hardware upgrades); also, Installed, Configured and Supported Cisco UCS and VM servers.
• Worked with VMware features: High Availability, V motion, Storage V motion and Fault Tolerance.
• Resource Management Configuring VMware HA, VMware DRS Clusters for VMotion migrations between ESX Servers. managed resources within active directory as it pertains to Hyper V clustering
• Installing and configuring .net applications on IIS 8.0/7.5/6.0 Web servers on Windows 2012/2008 R2 servers.
• Migrating applications from IIS 6.0 to 7.5 as well as IIS6.0 to IIS 8.0
• Experience in analyzing the IIS logs to collect information about server events, server performance, and user activity.
• Good knowledge of SCCM client installation, software distribution, remote control, and other SCCM issues.
• Successfully worked on design and deployment of mid to large scale SCCM infrastructures.
• Managed operations for about 800+ servers and their backend storage arrays which included VNX, VMAX, Extreme IO, Isilon Storage arrays.
• Handled ticketing system and designed SOP's for stabilizing after hour operations, assigned On-call duties to team members in a 24/7 set up.
• Worked on complex PL/SQL packages to design various custom API s, Interfaces and conversions.
• Work on Data migration Projects which uses SQL Developer, PL/SQL programming, coding Procedures, triggers and functions deployed approx. 25 2008 R2 Hyper-V 2,3, 6 and 8 node Clusters at all data centers and remote sites.
• End to end upgrades ranging from ESX servers, Cisco B series and R series server upgrades, CIMC (Cisco Integrated management controller), Fabric interconnects, IO modules,
• Network devices, Storage and compute element managers, Vsphere suite upgrade in a client/server set up.
• Implemented Azure Application Insights to store user activities and error logging.
• Performed a POC for Azure B2B and B2C for demonstrate internal and external access scenarios.
• Carving out boot and pool LUN's for facilitating storage allocations and ESX provisioning and shared storage set up in the cluster environment. Virtual Machine management, performance troubleshooting.
• Virtual Machine protection using vSphere Replication, Site Recovery Manager (SRM), Basic Avamar administration tasks Backup and Replication. Install ESXi, Configure and manage the ESXi firewall, lockdown mode, integrate with AD.
• Configuring and Managing Resource Pools, Compute resources optimization, alarms and event management, enhanced vMotion Compatibility.
• Fine-tuned procedures/SQL queries for maximum efficiency in various databases using Oracle Hints, for Rule based optimization.
• Install, configure Update Manager, Update Manager Plug-in, baselines, Scan and remediate to perform ESXi patching and host upgrades.
• Hands on and comprehensive understanding of Booting ESXi from SAN, vCenter Server deployment options, vCenter server, Database, Hardware requirements.
• Deploy, manage Private cloud using vCloud Director (vCD). Creating, managing Organizations, Provider virtual Datacenters, Catalogs, networking for organizations and VApp.
• Patch Management on ESX/ESXi servers, Windows OS and IT Applications.
• Access Management of VC. Configuring mail alert for any failure in HA, DRS, CPU or Memory.
• ESX, ESXi, VMs performance Monitoring and Capacity Planning.
• Install ESXi, Configure and manage the ESXi firewall, lockdown mode, integrate with AD.
• Install, configure Update Manager, Update Manager Plug-in, baselines, Scan and remediate to perform ESXi patching and host upgrades.

Confidential, Avon Lake, Ohio

System Admin (Windows, Wintel, VMware)

Responsibilities:

• Worked in a Team for managing and supporting applications in Citrix XenApp and Xen desktop environment on Windows Server 2003/2008 R2/ 2012 R2.
• Responsible for Maintaining Citrix XenApp and Xen Desktop environment, including Servers.
• Responsible for installing in-house and 3rd party applications on Citrix Terminal Servers and publishing to users through Citrix Delivery console.
• Involved in the depth experience with image builds, image updates, PVS image release process, and V-Disk management.
• Performed backup and restore of VMware host server configuration, Virtual Machine backup, snapshot, P2V, P2P, V2V conversation with VMware converter, Platespin and with other third party converters, Patch Update, monitoring/reporting, SSH and SNMP and notification of alerts.
• Experienced in WINS, DNS, DHCP, Virtual Server Administration, and Patch Management on Microsoft Windows Servers.
• Installing, configuring, administration of Windows 2008,2012 R2 servers, Active Directory Services, DNS DHCP, FTP, WSUS and Configure ADFS. Resolving various connections of Citrix Printer issues for client printing over Citrix.
• Worked on Citrix Administration with multiple sites and farms.
• In charge of Terminal server constructs and Citrix XenApp server arrangements in both Physical and virtual situations.
• Install, configure vRealize Operations Manager, vRealize Log Insight, vR Network Insight.
• Configuration of NIS, NFS, SAMBA, SENDMAIL, APACHE SERVICES on Linux & UNIX environment.
• Worked on Logon Failures, Account Lockouts, Group Policies, Network Connectivity, DNS and WINS Name Resolution, Authentication Problems, File and Printer Permissions etc.
• Monitoring policy server logs, trace logs, validating health check for all the servers.
• Developed Windows PowerShell script to automate setting of user credentials and activation of Windows
• Implemented PowerShell scripts that automated creation of contacts from Active Directory users and updating of address books -increasing productivity and efficiency
• Involved in live migration of VMs and data files using the vMotion and Storage vMotion
• Took active part in troubleshooting vCenter and ESXi issues and in system hardware failures
• Maintained user access in VMware virtual Center, and configured mail alerts for any failure in HA, DRS, CPU and memory. Managed Checkpoint Firewalls from the command line interface and Smart Dashboard.
• Troubleshooted Firewall Connectivity related issues using Smart view tracker on Checkpoint Firewall.
• Configured and troubleshoot Hyper-V 2008/2012 fail-over clustering environment.
• Work with SCOM monitoring team to tune SCCM Management pack to provide alerts and performance feedback.
• Working and managing the Security & Administration of servers including Windows 2008 R2, 2012.
• Managing service requests through HP Open view ticketing system and change management process Creation, Management & Administration of Active Directory user/Application accounts and groups in windows Server 2008 R2. Implemented Hyper-V and reduced the number of physical servers
• Troubleshooting file and folder access issues on Windows 2003 and Windows 2008 R2 servers.
• User Data migration from one location to another.
• Maintained and Supported Active Directory Services using Group Policy
• Working on providing security by configuring SSL s as well as authentication techniques.
• Working on creating CSR ( sign in request) and communicate with CA ( authority) to get new s and configure them on web servers to provide security to internet facing web applications.
• Involved in application migrations from IIS6.0 to IIS 7.0
• Administration of DNS and DHCP servers, Creation of user and group accounts in MS Exchange Administration. Installing & deploying application and patches, and validating patches & application.
• Troubleshooting, performance monitoring and optimizing of all aspects of the virtual infrastructure including underlying storage and network systems.
• Implemented and managed all aspects of core virtualization technology such as vMotion, Storage vMotion, HA, DRS, Affinity / Anti-Affinity rules and resource pools. Hot and Cold Cloning of Virtual Machines using VMware Converter.
• Worked on troubleshooting the triggered alarms generated from VMware vCenter Server and solved the SNMP traps Used Hot Plug feature for increasing the performances of virtual machine
• Involved in research, troubleshooting, and resolving system performance issues and outages and performing monthly patching on infrastructure servers
• Configured Puppet Server for monitoring and installing Puppet Agents in multiple servers.
• Perform automated user management, installation and configuration of various services and backup-using Puppet.
• Provided support for other users of Puppet and applications that were managed via Puppet, chef
• Worked on vSphere Data Protection for VM backups and disaster recovery
• Managed separate VMware clusters like QA, Development and Production
• Performed capacity analysis of existing physical production environment using VMware Capacity planner
• Involved in upgrading VMware tools and Windows patch updates, also created and managed resource pools for VMs. Experience in managing virtual instances and disks using Puppet.
• Deployed Puppet, Puppet dashboard for configuration management to existing infrastructure.
• Managed environments DEV, BCP, UAT and PROD for various releases and designed instance strategies
• Performed troubleshooting while break fix Citrix support and Ticket escalation resolution.
• Deployed Puppet, Puppet Dashboard and PuppetDB for configuration management to existing infrastructure
• Provided 24x7 supports for all Windows (2000/2003) server operating systems; Intel based server hardware components and infrastructure applications.

Confidential, Glendale, California

Windows, VMware Administrator

Responsibilities:

• 3rd Level Wintel/VMWare Support in support of numerous data centers with 2,000+ Windows 2000/2003/2008 servers, along with a complicated AD environment with multiple domains co-existing via trusts, running 2008 Active Directory.
• Involved with a team (one of 3 senior engineers) that is architecting and building a large-scale VMWare environment (ESXi 4.1, 40+ ESX hosts, supporting 1,000+ Windows guests) of ESXi servers using SAN storage, that is fully redundant utilizing HA and DRS.
• Attended VMWare’s Installation and Configuration class for VSphere 5.0, and am currently prepping for VCP 5.0.
• Perform day-to-day high-level Citrix administration which includes system administration (add additional capacity, install patches).
• Installing, configuring, administration of Windows 2003,2008 R2 servers, Active Directory Services, DNS DHCP, FTP, WSUS and Configure ADFS.
• Monitor the Remedy System to identify Citrix tickets that need to be resolved.
• Trouble shoot application related problems on Citrix Servers and co-ordination with both the user community and other IT Groups in resolving the issue.
• Experienced in WINS, DNS, DHCP, Virtual Server Administration, and Patch Management on Microsoft Windows Servers.
• Installing, configuring, administration of Windows 2003,2008 R2 servers, Active Directory Services, DNS DHCP, FTP, WSUS and Configure ADFS.
• Implemented, Supported and Documented Citrix XP enterprise environment.
• Implemented Citrix production server images.
• Introduced software packaging solution for Citrix environment.
• Troubleshooting various clients end problems, disconnecting idle client sessions, client drive issues.
• Responsible for server, Metaframe XPe, and thin client installation and administration.
• Troubleshoot Server Hardware issues.
• Created users, groups for securing the resources using local os authentication.
• Experienced in tasks like managing User Accounts and Groups, managing Disks and Filesystems.
• Configured and monitored DHCP server.
• Assisted in Administration of Windows Server infrastructure that included Domain Controllers, IIS Web
• Servers, File, Print and FTP/SFTP servers
• Administration, creation and modification of DNS records, DHCP scope and reservation, DFS, Web
• Servers including record/scope creation, troubleshooting and managing user and group accounts
• Participated and coordinated Weekly Status meetings and reported on the project status, Incident
• Reports and Change Management for the transition process
• Performed backup and recovery of all systems, configurations, applications and data in the data center
• Adding servers to domain and managing the groups and user in LDAP, installing and configuring sendmail.
• Migrating File server from Windows 2003 to Windows 2008.
• Install and configure chef server / workstation and nodes via CLI tools to AZURE nodes.
• Expertise in Terminal Server configuration and installing applications in Application mode.
• Developed scripts to map drives and inherit some application specific settings.
• Integrating new applications and maintaining existing application in the Citrix environment.
• Active Directory Administration and Troubleshooting.
• Installed Windows Server 2008 R2 in support of various projects both locally and remotely.
• Managed all Sev 1 server down type situations for my group for most of my first year of employment, 30+ situations, and was successful in all cases in server recovery.
• Migrated many servers from physical boxes to virtual (P2V, V2V, P2P Using Platespin and VMware converter).
• Assisted with DR tests as a technical resource for various government contracts.
• Main types of hardware expertise are Dell, IBM and HP both stand alone and blades.

Confidential, Seffner, Florida

System Admin (Linux, Windows, VMware)

Responsibilities:

• Installing, configuring, administering, troubleshooting VMware ESX/ESXi and VMs, and VMware workstation.
• Worked on Rehdat linux, Lvm’s, file systems.
• Installing, configuring Nagios on Linux, Solaris clients for monitoring system performance and identify bottlenecks. Setting up network environments using TCP/IP, NIS, NFS, DNS, SNMP agents, DHCP and Proxy.
• Worked on User administration setup, maintaining account, Monitoring system performance.
• Implementation of VMware Infrastructure 4 for Linux Ubuntu 10.10, with VMware ESX 3.5.
• Creating virtual switches and Port groups for the ESX servers.
• Managing Virtual center permissions.
• Created and Managed VMware cluster with HA and DRS.
• Created and managed resource pools for Virtual Machines.
• Monitored and managed performance of ESX servers and Virtual Machines.
• Used Virtual centre server for HA, DRS and vMotion.
• Configured VMware FT for mission critical servers.
• Worked on Migration concepts like vMotion and cold migration.
• Creation & Troubleshooting of Virtual Network.
• Performed Troubleshooting ESX & Virtual Machines.
• Creation of templates from VMs and Creation of VMs from templates.
• Performed monitoring and tuning for ESX Servers, Virtual Center Server and Virtual Machines.
• Installed Virtual center components. Created Virtual switch.
• Creation, Management & Administration of Active Directory user/Application accounts and groups in windows Server 2003.
• Installation, Configuration and administration of Windows 2003/2008 Servers
• Configured Virtual switch settings and policies.
• Service console and VMkernel Port groups.
• Work with the OS Support teams to resolve any O/S, hardware, or network based issues.
• Thorough understanding of DHCP and DNS network services and how they integrate with or compliment Active Directory. worked in deploying several sets of Linux guest builds from VMware templates using PowerCLI as well as Red Hat Satellite Server.
• Ability to understand problems and create an escalation process. Also, expertise in others.
• VMware tools upgrading and windows patch updates.
• Responsible for performing monthly patching on Infrastructure servers.
• Configuring ESX 3.x servers to use iSCSI& NAS storage.
• Build 200+ VMware vSphere hosts and added to new/existing VMware Clusters.
• Experience on creating new VMware Clusters with HA and DRS enabled.
• Building new VMware virtual machines to meet the specifications provided by the client.
• 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.
• Installed/updated patches on VMware ESX(i) hosts using VMware Update Manager tool.
• Created a kick start automated installation media for VMware 3.5. Managing Windows 2003 active directory forest consisting domain controllers running services such as DNS, WINS and Services.