SUMMARY

• Over 10+ years of proficient experience in IT Industry in VMware Virtualization products, Windows Administration.
• Prominent understanding of various methods in the vCenter server features like vMotion, Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS), Fault Tolerance (FT), Distributed Power Management (DPM) Storage vMotion, High Availability (HA), and other products of VMware.
• Experienced in Installation, Administration and Upgradation of Solaris 9/10/11, RHEL 4.x/5.x/6.x/7, using Jumpstart, Kickstart. Working knowledge of AIX installation via NIM.
• Experience with Red Hat Satellite version 6, to include systems provisioning, content view management, host group management, discovery, and capsule management
• Used Satellite server, Ansible & vCenter Protect for Linux patching and upgrades
• Migration, Patching, kernel tuning and Capacity Planning of Unix infrastructure for mid to large data centers.
• Monitoring and administering of Red Hat Linux on Enterprise class HP Blade servers and Sun Solaris Servers for operating systems, patches, packages, hardware, firmware drivers etc.
• Experience with Virtualization platform (VMWare, Xen)
• Experience with common protocols and associated services (e.g. DNS, DHCP, HTTP, LDAP, TLS)
• Monitoring and Maintenance on daily basis, administration of servers.
• Extensive experience in working with VMware vSphere Suite, vCloud Suite and vRealize Suite.
• Well experienced in provisioning virtual machines in a fly from Templates, Clones, creating Snapshots and managing user Roles and Permissions.
• Extensive experience in Windows 2012/2012R2/2008R 2/2008/2003/2000/ NT4.0 Servers at single or multi domain platforms.
• Motivated, enthusiastic, and pro - active System/Network Administrator with an excellent 'can-do' attitude. Expert in Windows Server System Administration skills.
• Experience in Active Directory, GPOs, DNS, DHCP, File & Print Server, IIS (Web Server), FTP, Terminal Server, NAT, Microsoft Clustering. Experience in iSCSI SAN, NAS, NFSstorage and RAID concept.
• Experience in with Virtualization technologies like installing, configuring, VMware vSphere. Creation, management, administration and maintenance of virtual servers and clients. Experience in Networking configuration & Security Configuration on ESX Host.
• Extensive knowledge in advance features of ESX VMOTION, SVMOTION, HA and DRS.
• Experience in P2V, V2V MIGRATION using VMware Converter. Creating host and client VM templates and cloning.
• Extensive understanding of networking concepts, (IE. Configuration of networks, router configuration and wireless security, TCP/IP, VPN, Content Filtering, VLANs, and routing in LAN/WAN, Ethernet Port, Patch Panel and wireless networks
• Experience in Microsoft Office Suite, Open Office, Visio, Outlook, Printing, and Windows networking.
• Experience with x86 / x64Intel, HP, Cisco UCS, Confidential & Dell hardware like rack-mounted servers, tower servers, desktop, laptop and other peripherals.
• Installed and Configured VMware vSphere 6.0, ESXi 5.1, ESXi 5.0, vSphere4, ESXi 4.x, ESX 4.0, ESX 3.5, Site Recovery Manager (SRM) 5.0,4.1, VMware View 5.2, 5.1, 5.0, 4.5 and 4.0, VMware vCenter 4.1 on Cisco UCS servers and upgraded to the latest vSphere ESXi 5.5 patch.
• Experience in EMC/VCE products includes Vblock 300 & 700 series, BLOCK& FILE LEVEL (UNIFIED) EMC storage arrays.
• Knowledge of Office 365 deployment models and best practices.
• Good Experience in creating port groups, VLAN networking and NIC teaming on VMware ESX 5.x/4.x and vCenter environment.
• Maintained Forward and Reverse Look up Zones, Conditional Forwarders through DNS.
• Installation and Configuration of networks, router/switches configuration and wireless access point/router with security, TCP/IP, VPN, Content Filtering.
• Experienced in Configuring FC, SAN, VMFS, iSCSI SAN and NAS Storage with Different Vendors like EMC, NetApp.
• Good Understanding EMC NAS Celera, Netapp FAS.
• Hands on experience in physical to virtual machine (P2V) conversions and virtual to virtual machine (V2V) conversions as well as conversions between different virtual machine formats using VMware Converter and vCenter Guided Consolidation.
• Strong experience in networking concepts such as vSwitches, VMkernel ports, VM ports and Service console, traffic shaping, NIC teaming, load balancing & failover detection.
• Good knowledge of storage concepts related to VBlock, iSCSI SAN, FC SAN, NAS, EMC CLARiiON, and Netapp.
• Experience in patch management and upgrading ESX hosts using VMware vSphere Update Manager and VMware Host Update Utility.
• Good understanding of various methods to back-up virtual machines as well as DR strategies utilizing Site Recovery Manager 5.0 (SRM).
• Hands on experience in System administration and troubleshooting in Windows NT/ 2000/2003/ 2008/2008 R2/2012 servers, RedHat, SUSE Ubuntu centos, Active Directory services, LDAP services, WINS, IIS, RAS, DNS, DHCP, FTP, RDP, Windows failover clustering, Microsoft Exchange Server and Microsoft Clustering Services.
• Experience in the Server and Desktop Management (Windows Administration), Support, Analysis and Maintenance.
• Demonstrated ability to work well with a wide variety of people at various levels, foster cooperation and collaboration among individuals in the work unit, help team resolve conflicts constructively and ability and willingness to communicate when help is needed.
• Motivated, enthusiastic, and pro-active System/Network Administrator with an excellent 'can-do' attitude. Expert in Windows Server System Administration skills.
• Ability to maintain a reliable and methodical approach to support and Documentation. Quick learner, highly motivated team player with excellent organizational and analytical skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Application and Virtualization: VMware vSphere 4.1, 5.0, 5.1, 6.0,6.5 (ESX/ESXi, vCenter server, VMware converter, vMotion, Storage vMotion VCenter Operations Managers (VCOPS), vRealize Operations Manager (VROPS), VMware Update manager) vConverter, VMware Data Recovery, VMware HA, FT, VMware vCLI, VMware converter, VMware SRM.

Hardware: HP ProLiant DL/BL series, Dell Power Edge, Cisco UCS, HP C class Blade servers.

Storage: Netapp, EMC, VMAX, VNX iSCSI SAN’s, NAS and VBlock.

Tools: RMAN, Active Directory, HP SIM, Avamar Proxy, DS View, RV tool, UCS manager Vclient, Web Client, VRanger, HP SIM, VMware converter, Plate spin, open filer.

Networking & Protocols: LAN/WAN routing, TCP/IP, FTP, Telnet, RAS, RIP, SMTP, LDAP, POP3, VPN and VLAN.

Databases: SQL Server 2000 and 2005, Microsoft Active Directory 2003/2008, Microsoft Exchange 2003and 2007, DHCP, DNS and WINS Services, Microsoft Internet Information Services 6.0 and 7.0. Moderate Experience with UNIX based OSs such as; Red Hat Linux 9, Ubuntu 12.1 and 13.1.

Scripting Languages: PowerShell, PowerCLI, Bash, Python.

Operating Systems: Windows Servers NT/ 2000/2003/2008/2008/2012 , Windows client OS XP/Vista/Windows7, RHEL, CentOS Ubuntu).

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Sr. System Admin - Windows, VMware

Responsibilities:

• Hands-on experience in Deployment, requirement gathering, Installation, administration.
• Successfully configured ESX servers for HA and DRS capabilities.
• Configured and deployed Cisco computing clusters with VMware ESXi 5.5, 6.0, 6.5 and vCenter.
• Experienced in applying monthly updates to windows servers 2008R2/2012/2016 versions.
• Good Knowledge on VMware products such as vRealize storage and networking.
• Maintained and Troubleshooted windows server’s windows 2008R2 and 2012 versions Creating disk spaces for windows servers.
• Install, configure and optimize reference implementations of partner solutions on NSX.
• Performing physical to virtual servers (P2V) migration without downtime.
• Involved in performing VMotion and Vstorage administration for successful data migration.
• Maintaining Backups of the VM's, taking snapshots. Managing VM's by vSphere Client and Web Client.
• Upgraded ESX hosts from ESX 5.5 to ESX 6.0, 6.5 using VMware Update Manager tool.
• Administration of user and group accounts and providing appropriate rights to user accounts according to their requirements.
• Installation and configuration of EMC Power Path in ESXi for SAN Storage Path optimization.
• Involved in creation of virtual switches and configuration of NIC for a clustered environment.
• Troubleshoot and resolve the Storage related issues generated in the production, Development and testing environments using vCOPS.
• Configured VMware on clustered environment, Implemented VMotion, Virtualized Windows servers using VMware Converter P2V and setup Lab Manager. Administration, VMware configuration and Administration, Network devices, Security devices for datacenter.
• Use of PowerCLI/Esxcli for the migration process and for troubleshooting.
• Troubleshoot VMware problems and some PowerCLI.
• Understanding and experience SAN concepts, snapshots, clustering and fail-over, file Permission management and disaster recovery.
• Successfully deployed and tested Disaster recovery solutions for selected business applications using EMC.
• Used VMware Update Manager to install critical and locally tested updates to the ESX Host.
• Grouped physical disks into logical volumes dynamically sized and resized volumes to fit in the application.
• Troubleshooted network issues between distributed V switch, Layer 2 switches and resolved slow performance between SAN network and VM networks.
• PowerCLI Scripts were developed to be dynamic so when VMs are added to host they are included in the scripts automatically. Goal was to have least amount of human intervention and save time.
• Upgrade current technologies with patches and firmware, as well as new versions.
• Utilize Zerto, vRealize Operations Manager, and PowerCLI to assist with daily tasks.
• Implement VMware vSphere technologies and utilize virtualization tools such as PowerCLI, Auto Deploy, and vCenter Operations Manager. Running patches and updates through update manager for the ESXi hosts.
• Build the entire VDI Environment in VMware horizon view by deploying Connection server; Security servers; Dedicated VCenter server and Transfer server and authenticating them in Horizon View Administration console.
• Created various types of desktop pools like Manual pools; Automated pools; Linked clone’s pools; full clone pools and RDP pools in Horizon View as per user’s requirements.
• Vulnerability Management: Responsible for WSUS/Ivanti update management to ensure all software is up to date. PsExec scripting to push new software to computers.
• Co-ordinated with storage team for the data store consolidation and resize project after the VSphere migration from 5.5 and 6.0, 6.5.
• Successfully worked on design and deployment of mid to large scale SCCM infrastructures.
• Experience in setting up and configuring SCCM Operating System Deployment (OSD) for Windows XP and Windows 7 and MDT within SCCM. Hyper-V host servers will be upgraded and migrated to build a Failover Cluster environment
• Expertise in SCCM Administration, deployment, packaging, network inventory, installer and network designing.
• Creating and Managing Virtual Machines in Windows Azure.
• Manage access control, create operations policies, groups and applications in vROPS.
• Used Windows Azure portal to manage Virtual Network and Traffic Manager
• Created, managed, monitored VM using Windows Azure portal admin.
• Worked with deployment of VM servers using PowerShell scripts.
• Maintenance, Troubleshooting and creation of workflows in vRealize Orchestrator
• Worked on VRealize Creating single tenant or multi- tenant and modifying the default tenant according to client requirement in VRAC.
• The configuration of Backup and Restore of NSX Manager and Data.
• Worked on VRealize Administration like Managing users and Managing Multi- Machine services.
• Monitoring the operating system, database & network by using the monitoring tools.
• Set up V-Motion, High Availability (HA), Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS), and related VMware products.
• Worked with SRM solution at the client environments. Installation and configuration of ESX server.
• Involved in migrating Windows 2008 server to Windows 2012 server & Windows 2016
• Automating the installs using Jumpstart and Kick start and building post install scripts using Shell scripting in SUN Solaris and RHEL Servers.
• Deployed VMware Vcenter operations manager and Infrastructure navigator in the production environment to monitor performance of Virtual servers and data stores.
• Worked on physical to virtual migration(P2V) and virtual to virtual(V2V) using VMware converter 6.5
• Experience in installing, configuring and maintaining VMware ESX 5.x, 6.x and server migrations from physical to virtual using hot and cold cloning technology in VMware.
• Experience in migrating the Physical environment into virtual environment (P2V), (V2V) using the tools like VMware / Double-Take/ Plate Spin. Managed resources within active directory as it pertains to Hyper V clustering
• Server migration physical to Virtual using Hot and cold cloning technology in VMware. Creating cluster in VMware.
• Performed P2V Hot conversions using converter enterprise and the P2V cold conversion using VMware Converter Boot CD.
• Responsible for day-to-day operational maintenance, support, and upgrades for Windows servers and VMware.
• Performed software installations and upgrades to operating systems and layered software packages.

Confidential

System Admin (Windows, VMware)

Responsibilities:

• Administration of vSphere infrastructure in our environment managing 4000 VMs and 450 ESX/ESXi host spread across multiple sites.
• Built ESXi hosts, Virtual Machines, Windows Virtual clusters, worked on ESXi clusters. Configured HA and DRS rules for new Clusters.
• Created HA affinity and Anti-Affinity rules, provided support for implementation, troubleshooting and maintenance of Information Technology (IT) systems and coordinating with the system, Network and Database administrators to troubleshoot various issues during implementation.
• Extensive experience with maintenance of Active Directory, DHCP, DNS, Global Group Policy, Windows IIS, SQL Server and Microsoft SQL Clustering.
• Excellent work experience on Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) on creating and defining the object classes and attributes that relates to users, computers, printers and services in addition to the extension of the object interface by managing permissions, group policies and delegations. Plan and implement Active Directory migration from 2008R2 to 2012.
• Build and configure DNS and DHCP servers for a vast infrastructure.
• Regular disk management like adding/replacing hard drives on existing servers/workstations, partitioning according to requirements, creating new file systems or growing existing one over the hard drives and managing file systems.
• Creating users, assigning groups and home directories, setting quota and permissions; administering file systems and recognizing file access problems.
• Maintaining appropriate file and system security, monitoring and controlling system access, changing permission, ownership of files and directories, maintaining passwords, assigning special privileges to selected users and controlling file access, monitoring status of process in order to increase the system efficiency, scheduling system related and Cron jobs.
• Resolve various issues such as Windows Policies, Application licensing through RDP.
• Coordinating with Vendors regarding production issues & solving problems.
• Responsible for Administration of Active Directory and delegating control / permissions.
• Installing, Configuring and Administrating ESXi hosts and vCenter Servers.
• Troubleshooting Critical and High priority VMware issues and driving to resolution.
• Windows & Linux server P2V consolidation and V2V using VMware Converter.
• Patching ESXi severs and VMs using VMware Update manager. Used Python scripts for automation of production tasks.
• Deploying VM from VRealize tool like windows 2008 and 2012r2 servers.
• Easy handling and troubleshooting ESXi servers through command line. Performing RCAs by analysis ESXi and vCenter logs.
• Conducting pre-sales sizing estimates of a customer’s data center environment, consolidation estimates provide guidance on what can be achieved via virtualization and consolidation assessments. Creating, Managing HA and DRS clusters, EVC, DRS Rules.
• Analyzing performance bottlenecks and fine tuning VMs for optimal performance.
• Extensive experience in managing vBlock using native element managers including vCenter, UCS, UIM, Unisphere, Cisco Nexus CLI and fabric manage.
• Responsible to verify Web services API request, response data validations in REST, SOAP protocols. Performed API Testing with Postman and Swagger. Perform VMware Horizon View upgrades for companies already using VMware Horizon View.
• Coordinated the conversion of a legacy server to Confidential JS20/JS21 / HP C7000 Blade Servers.
• Structured Virtual Local Area Networks (VLANs) on blades chassis servers and configured switches.
• Integrate vRealize Automation with vRealize Operations 6.1 including Endpoint Operations (Hyperic) and vRealize Insight (Log Insight)
• Maintenance, Troubleshooting and creation of workflows in vRealize Orchestrator
• Involved in setting up new vBlock 340 and Cisco UCS Blade Servers with EMC VNX2 storage.
• Experience in managing Azure Storage Accounts.
• Used Python based GUI components for the front-end functionality such as selection criteria.
• Developed Merge jobs in Python to extract and load data into MySQL database.
• Experience in migrating on premise to Windows Azure using Azure Site Recovery and Azure backups.
• Installed OS, patches and security policies through SMS2003/SCCM2007/ SCCM 2012 Admin Tools.
• Created Automatic Deployment Rules for Software update management using SCCM 2012 R2.
• Experience supporting Citrix XenApp 4.5/6.5/7.8. Administration of the CITRIX farms, publish applications, create new CITRIX servers. Maintain Desktops using tools such as XenApp Desktop Studio.
• Experience supporting Citrix XenApp 6.5/4.5. Administration of the Citrix farms; publish applications, create new Citrix servers. Maintain over 82 Citrix servers between 2008 and 2012 servers for legacy Applications.
• Hands-on experience with Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT), Windows Deployment Services (WDS), System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) for OS deployment, patch management, software distribution and to maintain application inventory.
• Building, provisioning and commissioning of Virtual Machines in a standardized format.
• Performing - vMotion, VMotion, Cloning, Snapshot, FT, Alarms, Roles and Host Profiles.
• Managing and maintaining Site Recovery Manager.
• Wrote PowerShell & PowerCLI scripts for the teams use with customers that have been heavily utilized thus saving much time with each case.
• Good understanding of various methods to back-up virtual machines as well as DR strategies utilizing Site Recovery Manager 5.0 (SRM).
• On-boarding of Privilege Accounts to Cyber-Ark, Configured CyberArk to MySQL, Oracle databases.
• Configured VMware Site Recovery Manager for datacenter redundancy.
• Supported AWS Cloud environment with 200+ AWS instances and configured Elastic IP & Elastic Storage and also experience working on implemented security groups. Ability to create scripts using Azure PowerShell during for automation and build process.
• Good working experience in Azure Logic apps, Service Bus, Document DB and SQL Database.
• Physical host Hardware Firmware/Drivers upgrade. Deep Understanding of SAN, NAS, iSCSI storage.
• VB SCRIPTS, PowerShell, Win Batch, PS tools and Windows command-line Scripting to automate the manual tasks on Servers and Client computers. Configured and used out of band management tools like Cisco UCS, Dell iDRAC and HP iLO.
• Patched ESXi Hosts using VMware Update Manager and host update utility. Deployed New ESXi 6.0 host to increase the capacity.
• Build and configure multiple ESXi 5.5, 6.0 hosts on Cisco UCS B200 blades according to the design documents.
• Created templates for rapid deployment of Virtual Machines.
• Configuring and managing User, Group, Permission, Role, and Resource pool, Alerts, Alarms on VMware virtual center. Resolved corporate server infrastructure problems and changes in support of the company split.
• Used PowerShell scripts to automate the task.
• Experience is racking hardware and Cutting network cables to specified lengths and label their lengths and configure switches and servers as part of data center activities. Comprehensive vBlock Management using vCenter, UCSM, Unisphere.
• Solved high severity tickets Sev1 and Sev2 in a timely fashion. Participated in a 24x7 on-call duty rotation.
• Worked closely with Storage and Networking teams to ensure allocated SAN, Fiber and networking infrastructure reflects specifications laid out in the initial VMware design to ensure successful deployment.
• Analyzed the existing decommissioning process for physical servers and virtual machines and created a custom workflow to make sure proper and consistent decommissioning of assets.
• Provides support to all IT systems, including day-to-day operations, monitoring and problem resolution for all client/server/storage/network devices. Performed (P2V, V2V) migration using VMware converter.
• Strictly adhered to Change and Incident Management process to keep up high ITIL standards.
• Deployed VMware Site Recovery Manager and assisted in creating policies and procedures for disaster recovery plans
• Monitored SCCM platform health and mitigated issues as needed. Documenting step-by-step process used for Repackaging and testing which includes Custom Action Scripts using VB Script, Wise Script, Auto IT, PowerShell.
• Build and manage VM’s on Amazon AWS for Test environment. Configured RAID levels 0, 1 and 5.

Confidential, Chicago IL

VMware, Windows Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Used Power cli scripts to automate Host deployment and VM provision
• Deployed 500+ VM’s using template and customization scripts. Created different scripts for variety of OS in new VSphere 5.1 infrastructure.
• Installed and configured Cisco UCS blade, fabric interconnect, Flex. Hands on Experience with UCS cabinet 5108, Fabric Interconnect 6120/6140/6248 , Flex 2100 series, B2 series blades. Manage cisco servers using CISCO UCS MANAGER 2.0
• Worked on EMC VNX, lun management. Build, maintain and troubleshoot environment from shared data center to dedicated DC.
• Configure fabric SAN switches zoning and troubleshoot multipath. Experience with windows mobility patching.
• Deploy virtual machines from templates and allocate resources, Manage VM's using VMware virtual center and web access.
• Domain Administrator managing 2008 R2 / 2012Domain Controllers, Group Policy, DNS, DHCP, Active Directory, supporting services like IIS, File Servers, FTP Server, Print Server running on servers in Data Center and Engineering Labs.
• Taking care of Patch Management in ESX Server through Update Manager & Accessing the ESX Server using Putty.
• Responsible for Virtual Provisioning and Monitoring. Experience in managing Azure Storage Accounts.
• Experience in migrating on premise to Windows Azure using Azure Site Recovery and Azure backups.
• Wrote PowerShell and PowerCLI scripts for reporting and automation addressing either a single customer's environment or multiple customer environments.
• Worked with Automation team, provided the rest service URL, Web service API details and SQL queries which will help to create the Automation Suit. Used VMware ESXi for Server Virtualization and VMware Horizon View 6.2 for Desktop Virtualization.
• Expertise in building the monitor server which can monitor network devices, servers with its available services and any SNMP enabled devices and send instant alert. Expertise in configure and managing DNS, DHCP etc.
• Provided detail documentation for whole physical and virtualized environment.
• Handling all Kinds of Wintel and hardware issues including racking and installing physical severs in Data center
• Racked the physical setup of new HP c7000 Blade System chassis and servers connected with Nexus B22HP Interconnects to Nexus 5000 core switches. Administered Windows Server 2003/2008R2, DNS, WINS, DHCP, IIS, FTP servers for multisite environment
• Created VM images to be used for deployment through Microsoft's Automated Deployment Services for test.
• Troubleshooting Windows OS and hardware related issues.
• SCCM 2012 was used extensively for deployment of packages (creating collections, Advertisement, Configuration Manager Console, Package definition, Distribution points, Reporting).
• Commissioning and decommissioning of windows servers. Administrating DNS, DHCP, FTP, SFTP.
• Coordinating with various vendors like VMware, Microsoft, DELL and Sun for escalations.
• Using VMware vCenter, created Datacenter Environment by creating VMware clusters, adding ESX hosts in the clusters, and implemented HA and DRS.
• Assisted headend engineer with the installation of new equipment by splicing and running coax cabling and racking physical servers from scratch. Migrated from HP DL360 G5 servers to HP c3000 Blade Chassis physical environment
• Performance, Capacity and Configuration analysis of the VBlock based Infrastructure.
• Installed, developed and maintained minor/major repairs to hardware, software, and peripheral equipment.
• Provided Remote Support and administration on network for internal and external clients using tools like Microsoft Remote Desktop Connection (RDP). Installed and configured network Printers.
• Created and installed Infrastructure requirement application, E.g. SCCM, SCOM, Casper, SEP etc.
• Worked with Network team to troubleshoot misconfigured network, VLANs etc.
• Handled extensive P2V & V2V of production servers of windows 2003, 2008 as well as Linux 5.8 & 6.3.
• Created VMware Horizon View VDI desktops for VIEW 5 using linked clone and upgraded vcenter 5.0 to 5.1
• Work with Cloud team to implement VCloud director 5.1. Created and managed Independence disk for VDC virtual machines.
• Made list of GPO’s for different OU and made replica of dedicated environment to dedicated environment.
• Capacity planning using vCOPS and install VCOPS for MHE.Handled technical documentation and Run books.
• Configured power path for all hosts. Worked with Office 365 team to migrate email acct to cloud.