Summary

• Over 13 years of experience as a System administrator in Hardware , Windows Administration , VMware ESX/ESXi, vCenter Operation Manager, vMA , vCloud Director, Nexus 1000v , Sun Solaris and Cisco UCS.
• Experience in Windows 2000/2003/2008 server administration and active directory installation and configuration
• Experience in implementation of VMWARE ESXi 3.5/4.1/5.1/5.5, vSphere, and Virtual center Server, VMware Workstation and Configuration of Nexus 1000v Distributed switch.
• Experience in implementing and administering VMware vSphere, Permissions, HA settings, DRS settings, Cluster groups, Resource Pools, Host Profiles, Licensing, Templates, Data Stores, and Networking
• Extensive experience in advance features of ESX VMOTION, SVMOTION, HA and DRS.
• Experience in Patching ESX/ESXi using VMware update Manager.
• Experience in Managing and troubleshooting VMware ESXi, VM's and vCenter server
• Implemented Cisco Nexus 1000V Distributed switch
• Experience in P2V, V2V MIGRATION using VMware Converter / Plate Spin 9.1. Creating host and client VM templates and cloning.
• Experience in migration From ESXi 4.1 to 5.1 and Vcenter Upgradation
• Capacity planning using VMware vCenter Operation Manager.
• Analyzing ESXi/VM performance issue using ESXTOP and vCenter Performance report and provide recommendation for Performance Improvement
• Troubleshooting ESXi/VM issues and provide root cause analysis and fix the issues permanently
• Consolidation of servers and provide utilization reports regularly
• Create the LUN report and Reclaim the unused storage.
• Experience in Virtual and DV switch creation and VLAN, Port group creation in Nexus 1000v.
• Strong understanding of VMware Networking concepts like creation of Vswitches, different types of port groups, NIC Teaming and VLAN Problem.
• Experience in New Chassis discovery, New VLAN, Associating, De-Associating service profile, VNIC template creation in UCS.
• Configuring vMA for ESX/ESXi Management.
• Experience in iSCSI SAN, NAS, NFS storage and RAID concept Handling SAN requests.
• Allocating LUN to servers from SAN
• Experience with x86 / x64 Intel, HP, IBM Dell hardware like rack-mounted servers, tower servers, desktop, laptop and other peripherals.
• Experience in Migration of Two major Data Centers .
• Updating and documenting the customer environment regularly
• Experience in windows 2003/2008 Microsoft clustering
• Experience in Active directory Management, Group Policy Implementation Window servers Patching using WSUS
• Basic Knowledge in Linux
• Strong analysis skills that include insight on successfully applying technological solutions and best practices to resolve business issues, while improving overall efficiency
• Excellent leadership qualities, good communication skills and interpersonal skills
• Extremely self-motivated, quick learner, team player.

Professional Experience

Confidential

System Administrator

Lafarge is the largest diversified supplier of construction materials in the France, United States and Canada. Our products are used in residential, commercial, and public works construction projects across North America .Lafarge products-cement, ready-mix concrete, aggregates, asphalt, and related products, Lafarge Head Quarters located in Paris.

Responsibilities:

VMware:

• Providing L3 level support for VMware environment
• Installing and Configuring the ESXi 4.1/5.1 and Virtual Machines based on customer requirement
• Maintaining and Providing support for ESX 4.0 and ESXi 4.1/5.1 environment
• Troubleshooting ESX/ESXi and VM issues
• HA and DRS configuration
• Vmotion and Cold Migration, Storage Motion
• Disk drive C,D,etc.. expansion for VM's depends on the client requirement.
• Port group creation for new VLAN, Virtual switch creation and configuration.
• New VLAN creation in UCS and Nexus 1000v appliances
• Adding the ESXi server in Nexus 1000V distributed switch
• Add the vCenter server in to VCOPS and monitoring the ESXi and VM using VCOPS.
• Performing health check for ESXi servers and VM's Using Vcenter Operation Manager
• Performance Monitoring and tuning for ESXi and VM using vCOPS.
• LUN allocation, Assigning RDM and creating Microsoft clustering in VM's
• RDM to VMDK conversion , claim Rule implementation and LUN reclamation
• ESXi upgrade/vCenter Upgrade
• V2V and P2V, migration using Plate spin and VMware standalone convertor
• VMware vCloud director installation and configuration
• Microsoft clustering setup in windows 2008 VM's
• Capacity Management using VCOPS.
• Creating LUN Report/RDM report using scripts
• Recommend the customer to follow the Best practices in VMware and Implement the same
• Provide the value add's to customer which will help to improve the service Management

Cisco UCS:

• Cisco UCS Installation and configuration of New chassis
• Commissioning and decommissioning the chassis
• Service profile creation and Template creation
• Associating and de associating a blade from service profile.
• VNIC template creation and binding the template
• Boot/BIOS/Maintenance Policy creation
• Troubleshooting the issue in UCS
• UCS Firmware and BIOS up gradation
• Installation of ESXi and Windows OS
• Template creation for different OS
• MAC Pool creation and extension
• Integrating UCS with Active directory
• Backup UCS
• Creating support files for troubleshooting the issue

Windows:

• Remotely system monitoring administration for 2000 2003/2008 servers.
• Administration of Windows 2003/2008 Domain
• Maintaining and supporting more than 1000 windows servers with different hardware
• Installation and configuration of DNS,DHCP servers
• Installing Administrating Active Directory installation, creating and implementing group policy, security policy.
• Administration, maintenance, troubleshooting of Server / Operating system / User problems.
• Group Policy Implementation User policy
• Analysis of Root Cause for critical problems and document in knowledge DB.
• Analyzing the memory dump and find out the root cause given the solution
• Handling RILO issues, teaming issues.
• Managing/ upgrading RAID levels in IBM/Dell servers.
• Server administration for disk space, hardware failure, driver firmware updates.
• Implementing Microsoft Cluster and configuring 2 node cluster

Confidential

System Administrator

Responsibilities:

VMware :

• Providing L3 level support for VMware environment
• Installing and Configuring the ESX 3.5, ESX 4.0 Virtual Machines
• Maintaining and Providing support for ESX 3.1,3.5 4.0 and 4.1 ESX environment
• Troubleshooting ESX and VM issues
• ESX up gradation from 3.5 to 4.1 and virtual machine migration
• VC up gradation
• HA and DRS configuration
• Vmotion and Cold Migration, Storage Motion
• Disk drive C,D,etc.. expansion for VM's depends on the client requirement.
• Port group creation for new VLAN, Virtual switch configuration.
• Regular BAU activities such as Increasing Space, Adding additional drives, performance issue etc.
• Snapshot management.
• New VM built using Template. Windows 2008 VM built
• Done ESX host migration from 2.5 to 3.5
• Performing regular health check for ESX servers and VM's
• Performing ISec remediation in ESX servers
• LUN allocation, Assigning RDM and creating Microsoft clustering in VM's
• V2V and P2V, migration using Plate spin and VMware convertor
• Regular ESX patching using update manager
• Microsoft clustering setup in windows 2008 VM's
• Performance Monitoring and tuning.

Windows:

• Remotely system monitoring administration for 2000 2003/2008 servers.
• Administration of Windows 2003/2008 Domain
• Data Center Maintenance and Contingency activities
• Maintaining and supporting more than 1000 windows servers with different hardware
• Antivirus Server migration.
• Migration of DHCP/WINS servers
• Backup of DHCP
• Installation and configuration of DNS,DHCP servers
• Installing Administrating Active Directory installation, creating and implementing group policy, security policy.
• Administration, maintenance, troubleshooting of Server / Operating system / User problems.
• Group Policy Implementation User policy
• Analysis of Root Cause for critical problems and document in knowledge DB.
• Analyzing the memory dump and find out the root cause given the solution
• Handling RILO issues, teaming issues.
• Managing/ upgrading RAID levels in IBM/Dell servers.
• Server administration for disk space, hardware failure, driver firmware updates.
• Implementing Microsoft Cluster and configuring 2 node cluster

Confidential

IT analyst

Responsibilities:

• Done successful 3 month knowledge transfer for project onsite account.
• Transition given to offshore members
• Participating weekly regional meeting, discussing about critical issues, creating MOM document and shared with Service delivery manager.

Windows administration

• Remotely system monitoring administration for 2000 2003 servers.
• Administration of Win 2003 Domain
• Data Center Maintenance and Contingency activities
• Installing Administrating Active Directory installation, creating and implementing group policy, security policy.
• Installation and configuration of DNS,DHCP servers
• Administration, maintenance, troubleshooting of Server / Operating system / User problems.
• Group Policy Implementation User policy
• Implemented users and computer migration from windows 2000 domain to 2003 domain.
• User Creation, deletion and OU creation, applying Group Policies in OU.
• Handling information Security issues like Access control, Vulnerability assessments, Intruder Detection and Patching
• Maintaining and supporting more than 2700 windows servers across globe.
• Hardening of all Servers.
• Implemented RAID conversion. Migration of RAID 1 volumes to RAID 5 volume
• Performance monitoring and tuning the servers
• Analysis of Root Cause for critical problems and document in knowledge DB.
• Analyzing the memory dump and find out the root cause given the solution
• Handling RILO issues, teaming issues.
• Server administration for disk space, hardware failure, driver firmware updates.
• OS administration for regular patch management Service Pack updates.
• Administrating NAV console
• Creating backup policy and taking backup on daily, weekly and monthly basis
• Patch management planning and installation
• Coordinating with site support whenever assistance required.
• Coordinating with hardware vendors whenever hardware failure.
• Coordinating with application teams in resolving the problem.
• Performing the Health check and Remediate the Violation based on ISeC security standards for Windows servers.
• Administration of VERITAS net backup and creating the backup policies
• Installing and Managing 2 node Microsoft Clusters.
• Performing restoration like file database using TSM.

VMware Administration:

• Installing and Configuring the ESX 3.5, Virtual Machines.
• Vmotion and Cold Migrations
• Migrating disks from one data store to another data store
• Regular BAU activities such as Increasing Space, Adding additional drives, performance issue etc.
• Snapshot management.
• Cloning and Teaming
• Done ESX host migration from 2.5 to 3.5

Sun Solaris 9.0

• Installation and configuration
• Network configuration
• Adding new disk and creating partition.
• Creating users and giving permission
• Mail configuration
• Samba configuration
• Printer and Tape drive configuration

Confidential

System Administrator

• Windows NT PDC/BDC installation configuration.
• Handling hardware issues in server.
• Reinstalling Desktop Os for client and update all Patches and required tools.
• Regularly updating Patches Antivirus DAT file in clients.
• Installing and Administration TCP/IP, RIS Server, DHCP and DNS/WINS servers.
• Solving Application related issues.
• Printer installation and configuration support
• Win2000, 2003 NT server configuration in client site.
• Maintained Provide support for Compaq, HP, Dell IBM servers Desktops.
• Active directory installation and configuration
• Provided Server Desktop support for Client site. SSI ltd, Ramco Systems onsite support
• System monitoring administration for NT, 2000 2003 servers.
• Data Center Maintenance activities
• Mail configuration and solving outlook problems in client side.
• Os installation using ghost imaging software

Hardware Engineer

• Mail configuration and solving outlook problems in client side.
• System monitoring administration for NT, 2000 2003 servers.
• Assembling the system and printer
• Provided Server Desktop support for Client site.
• Handled Printer Issues.
• Maintained Provide support for Compaq, HP, Dell IBM servers Desktops.
• Printer installation and configuration support
• Solving Application related issues.
• Regularly updating Patches Antivirus DAT file in clients.
• Reinstalling Desktop Os for client and update all Patches and required tools.
• Handling hardware issues in server.
• Os installation using ghost imaging software