VMware Consultant Resume

SUMMARY

Experience in Windows Administration and Virtualization implementation which includes Windows 2008/2008R2/2012/2016 and 2019 Server Administration, VMWare, Active Directory, VDI, DNS, DHCP servers, ITIL Process, LAN/WAN/Network.
Extensive experience in VMware vSphere & Windows administration.
Performed several Windows upgrades. 2008 /2008R2 /2012R2/2016.
Experience in creating and applying ESXi 5.0/5.5/6.0/6.5 Host profile, Storage profiles.
Experience in cloning and creating Templates from VMs, Snapshot and using vSphere features like VMotion, Storage VMotion, DRS and HA.
Experience in Active Directory, GPOs, DNS, DHCP, File & Print Server, IIS, FTP, Terminal Server, ADFS.
System Administration - Managing Users, Groups, Roles and Access Permissions.
Knowledge on Exchange and Office 365. Trend Micro &McAfee EPO Antivirus Virtual Server Implementation and Administration.
Demonstrated strong analytical, troubleshooting and Interpersonal skills with a customer focused approach.
Experience on tools like BMC Remedy, Tanium & Service Now.
Hands-on experience working with storage environments such as EMC, VNX, VMAX, Dell EqualLogic and HPE 3PAR.
Knowledge on iSCSI SAN, NAS, NFS storage and RAID concept.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

VMware Consultant

Responsibilities:

Implemented and administered Windows Server 2016/2012 R2/2012/ Servers in the Dev, Test and Prod Environments.
Performed VM Migration across different Vcenters.
Provisioning and Maintaining Windows 2012 and Windows 2016 Servers.
Installed and configured BigFix DSA server for Disaster Recovery purpose
Scheduled jobs for updating the Firmware and involved in the Data Center Transformation.
Resolved Problems related to Disk Space Usage, Processor Usage, Memory etc.
Perform day-to-day operation and troubleshooting of VM's.
Keep Virtual hardware and VMware tools updated to keep a healthy environment.
Maintaining Print servers, Application servers and File Servers.
Worked on installing and configuring vSphere ESX 6.0 and ESX 6.5 on Cisco UCS and Hp servers.
Extensive knowledge in advance features of VMware VMotion,, HA and DRS including vSphere Update Manager.
Worked on configuring VMware virtual machine port groups, console ports groups, VMkernal port groups and VLans.
Worked on creating host profiles and deploy to hosts in a VMware clusters.
Create thin provisioned VMs to suite client application requirements and expanding hard disk sizes as requested by clients.
Worked on deploying and configure VMs using VM Templates and Clones.
Responsible for the patching exercise in the Infrastructure team using Update Manager.

Confidential

System Administrator

Responsibilities:

Deployed and configured 2008 and 2012 R2 on virtual and physical platforms.
Installing, configuring and managing Virtual Infrastructure, ESXi VCenter, vSphere.
Apply patches to all the ESXi hosts in the environment whenever required.
Configuring Resource pool and DPM.
Creating Resource Pools and Setting limits on CPU and RAM.
Deployed windows server as vm's.
Daily monitoring of server's health status, Event Logs and disk spaces of critical servers to ensure availability.
Configuring Virtual machines using Templates, Hot clone, Cold Clone and Cold Migration.
Troubleshooting issues related to Virtual Machine, vMotion, snapshots, clone and template.
Configuring VMware vSphere Cluster features like High Availability (HA), Distributed Resource Scheduling (DRS).
Created VM images through VMware vSphere Client for enterprise environments and support virtualization process.
Created & Implemented Host profiles for Multiple Hosts & added FC LUNs as Datastores to multiple ESXi hosts.
Worked with vSphere6.0 features like HA, DRS, vMotion, Storage vMotion, Resource pools, permissions, Patches, Snapshots, Tools Upgrade, disk expansions and templates.
Creating and managing the VMware cluster with HA and DRS.
Created new VMware virtual machines to meet the specifications provided by the Client.
Created User Accounts and Groups in Active Directory.
Updated and upgraded the ESX servers using vCenter update manager.