PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Around 9 years experience with Installation, Configuring, Deploying, Trouble shooting, administration and maintenance of ESX3.5/ESXi 4.0/ESXi 4.1 and VMware VirtualCenter.
• 5 Years of Experience in Windows 2000/2003/2008 R2 Server Active directory administration.
• Experience in implementing VMware/VM view VDM Manager -VDI VDI Virtual Desktop Infrastructure / Virtualization solution for larger scale customers.
• Strong experience with the VMware HA High Availability , Fault Tolerance, Distributed Resource Scheduler DRS and VMware Distributed Power Management.
• Created, managed, and maintained Virtual server infrastructure utilized Vmware to build networking server lab environment that streamlined server OS and application deployments, Increased system uptime and improved reliability.
• Determining customer requirements and designing VMware-based solutions architectures spanning VMware's product portfolio from the vCloud Suite to the Horizon Suite to meet the functional and business requirements of a range clients of various sizes and across verticals.
• Good experience in configuring, optimizing and troubleshooting of RedHat Linux/Unix servers and the Networking setups.
• Develop, test, and maintain a disaster recovery plan for critical VMs and application data.
• Planning and Designing VMware vSphere ESX3.5/ESXi 4.0/ESXi 4.1 and VMware VirtualCenter .
• Installation, Configuration and Administration of VMware VSphere4, ESX 3.5 and ESXi Server, VMware View.
• Designing, configuring, and administering LAN and WAN connectivity on Cisco hardware
• Configured and managed Cisco network hardware servicing the corporate LAN and 40 remote point-of-sale offices.
• Configured and deployed over 30 Cisco UCS computing clusters with VMware ESXi 5 and vCenter 5
• Configured and deployed Cisco 1000v virtual switch module appliance within vCenter vSphere 5 infrastructure
• Deployed EMC VNXe SAN for vSphere 5 high availability management cluster configuration for customers
• Experience on High availability, Clustering, VMotion, Storage Vmotion, Snapshot manager and restoring a snapshot.
• System Administration-Managing Users, Groups, Roles and Access Permissions.
• Provided Risk Assessment and remediation guidance for SCCM infrastructures
• Provided best practice guidance on setting up and maintaining a solid patching solution using SCCM
• Interfaced with the various stakeholders business sponsors, application developers, and other support personnel to plan, deploy, troubleshoot, and support application deployments analyzed/rectified post deployment figures to meet optimum results.
• Monitored SCCM platform health and mitigated issues as needed
• Developed and executed on enterprise workstation imaging / deployment methodology for Windows XP and Windows 7
• Setting up and monitoring performance monitoring and capacity planning, Managing Tasks, Events and Alarms.
• Worked closely with storage and networking teams to ensure SAN and networking infrastructure met virtual infrastructure specification's
• Automated OS install procedures and prioritized custom maintenance configurations, significantly improving performance of both legacy and newly deployed solutions.
• Design, configure, and support Enterprise Desktop Virtualization Technologies.
• Management Troubleshooting of VM Environment for Desktops
• Experienced in setting up clustered environment for Load balancing and high availability of Web and Application servers.
• Installed and configured Multiple Websites and various web applications configuring IIS Environment.
• Experienced in using filemon, processmon, perfmon and debugging tools to troubleshoot runtime and performance issues with the platform and application.
• Experienced with using network tools like tracert, port query, and telnet, Perfmon, Netmon to identify and troubleshoot network issues in a distributed application environment.
• Experience in virtualizing the platform/environment using Hyper-v virtualization on windows server 2008 host servers.
• Creation, Management and Configuration of Virtual Machines, Clone and Templates.
• Customizing guest operating system on Virtual Machines.
• Experienced in installation, configuration and managing active directory on win2k3 and win2k8 domain environment.
• Experienced in configuring domain forests and managing trusts between multiple domains.
• Experienced in managing group policies, user accounts and configuring sites in a multi-site domain structure.
• Experienced in all phases of the software development lifecycle from feasibility study, requirements analysis, architecture, design, development, implementation, test, maintenance and enhancements.
• Experience in managing a team and the resources during Server Infrastructure migrations and platform upgrades.
• Experience in installing monthly security patches and fix packs on windows platform including with providing documentation.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills and a good team player, Extensive experience in working at 24x7 Support.
• Adapts to new systems and environments quickly, takes ownership of all duties, meeting management skills, Good work ethics, Group and individual based problem solving and decision making abilities.

Technological Skills:

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidenital

Position: VMware Windows Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Configured and managed Cisco network hardware servicing the corporate LAN and 40 remote point-of-sale offices.
• Designing, configuring, and administering LAN and WAN connectivity on Cisco hardware
• Installation, Configuration and Administration of VMware VSphere4, ESX 3.5 and ESXi Server, VMware View.
• Good experience in configuring, optimizing and troubleshooting of RedHat Linux/Unix servers and the Networking setups.
• Determining customer requirements and designing VMware-based solutions architectures spanning VMware's product portfolio from the vCloud Suite to the Horizon Suite to meet the functional and business requirements of a range clients of various sizes and across verticals.
• Experience with installing, configuring and maintaining ESX Servers ESX3.5/ESXi 4.0/ESXi 4.1 and VMware ESX 5.1 and Server migrations from physical to Virtual using Hot and cold cloning technology in vmware.
• Configured and deployed over 30 Cisco UCS computing clusters with VMware ESXi 5 and vCenter 5
• Configured and deployed Cisco 1000v virtual switch module appliance within vCenter vSphere 5 infrastructure
• Deployed EMC VNXe SAN for vSphere 5 high availability management cluster configuration for customers
• Providing and maintaining user access in vcentre, configuring mail alert for any failure in HA, DRS, CPU or memory.
• Design, configure, and support Enterprise Desktop Virtualization Technologies.
• Management Troubleshooting of VM Environment for Desktops
• Installed necessary security patches every month to our production and pre-production environments.
• Patch management usding vmware update manager for esx server.
• SAN space allocation for esx servers host .Scanning and configuring LUN for ESX server.
• Configured multiple static and dynamic IP addresses for forward and dynamic routing.
• Provided support for teams in activities such as Load testing, troubleshooting, and performance tuning.
• Involving in maintaining and updating Active directory, GPOs, Global Groups and Resultant set of Policy for authentication.
• Working on windows cluster services. .
• Managing Public key and private key Infrastructure VeriSign MPKI .
• Involved in trouble shooting and fixing day-to-day problems of the application servers in production.

Environment : VM ware ESX 5.1, UCS C240 M3, Windows 2008/2003, TCP/IP, DHCP, DNS, NTFS, Bluecat BCN XMB Adonis DHCP,DNS ,JUNOS Space ,Cisco Nexus 5K ,CISCO switches , HP P4000, Emulex NC553, NC551 HBA's ,JUNPER SRX 240 , VMware Lab Manager, VMware converter, VMware VSphere client, Fault tolerance, High Availability and Distributed resource scheduling.

Confidenital

Position: VMware Infrastructure Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Experience in installation, configuration, implementation, support and trouble shooting the maintenance of the VMware ESX 3.5 / Virtual Center 3.x servers and RedHat Linux.
• Creating, Installing, configuring and maintaining the Virtual Machines, installing Guest Operating Systems like Windows.
• Deploying VMs through OVF Templates, Created Troubleshot Virtual Networks and vSwitches.
• Performed tons of V2V Migration., Created clones and templates of Virtual Machines
• Worked on Migration concepts like vMotion and cold migration and Remediate.
• Creating Data centers in the VSphere Web client and adding the Hosts to the Data center
• Configured Net backup Client thorough planning was done for downtime, knowing each server usage there placement in Datacenter.
• VMotion configuration troubleshooting, includes Guest OS template creation and User Account Management.
• Installed and configured open source application like Apache, Tomcat.
• Installed SSL certificates in IIS web server for a secured communication to Application server.
• Good knowledge on SAN Integration with VMware ESX server.
• Created users and user groups and security roles and policies
• Incorporate authorization, auditing and non-repudiation services across the enterprise
• Performance monitoring tuning on ESX host's in production environment.
• Troubleshooted production issues for various IIS user authentication issues and browser issues
• Backup Restore management of the Virtual Machines, Network Configuration on ESX servers which include Bonds VLANs.
• Configuring DRS, HA Resource Pools in ESX 3.x
• Good understanding on SAN concepts like topologies, switch zoning soft hard , LUN masking on SAN Storage devices, LUN creation and Storage Management.
• Support on call schedule for Production support.
• Resolved/Worked on many IIS runtime issues in Production environment

Environment : HP DL 580 G5 G7 ,DL380 G5 G6 G7 G8 ,SRM5,vCenter Converter, vCenter Update Manager, Cisco Switches , Windows 2008/2003/2000 ,DNS, DHCP, WINS, TCP /IP, NTFS, Unix Sles and RedHat Linux.

Confidenital

Title: Vmware Windows Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Implemented Migration by performing P2V, V2V and V2P conversions using vConverter and Plate Spin.
• Creating, Installing, configuring and maintaining the Virtual Machines, installing Guest Operating Systems like Windows, RedHat Linux.
• Installing, configuring and maintaining the VMware ESX 2.5x / Virtual Center 2.x servers.
• Created documentation for Server Builds, Application Installations, Mapping the drives and Issues which occur during software upgrades.
• Troubleshoot network issues between Distributed vSwitch, Layer 2 switches and resolved slow performance between SAN network and VM networks.
• Monitoring and managing virtual servers
• Taking care of pre requisites for servers before going for production
• Updating service account passwords
• Installed, configured and managing network file servers, print servers and maintaining various logs.
• Created virtual machines using Hyper-V and deployed prepared pre-production environment.
• Maintaining active directory system data and file server volume backups. Monitoring active directory integrity and replication.
• Logs file analysis using the Event Viewer and troubleshooting to resolve issues
• Provided support for teams in activities such as Load testing, troubleshooting, and performance tuning
• Involved in trouble shooting and fixing day-to-day problems of the applications in production
• Supported 24 7 on call schedule for Production support.

Environment Windows Server 2000/2003, Windows xp/vista, Active Directory 2003, SQL Server 2000/2003, HP Proliant Servers, HA/DRS.

Confidenital

Title: Vmware Windows Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Implemented domain and local policies, GPOs using WMI ADSI Scripting, software deployment.
• Configured mandatory roaming profiles, and managed users at a domain level.
• Monitored network performance in order to determine whether adjustments needed to be made, and to determine where changes will need to be made in the future.
• Responsible for performing database backup and restore, replication and performance tuning.
• Responsible for configuring and maintaining Exchange Mail Server and Internet Information server, FTP SFTP Server and VPN server on Windows 2000/2003 Platform.
• Configured, hosted and maintained required internal and external websites through IIS 5.0/6.0 Configured and Managed VMware server technology for managing windows based network environment.
• Setup and prepared server to deploy a standalone server farm SharePoint 2003 solution on Windows 2003 Server.
• Used SharePoint Designer for site customizations to add the Hit count to the page .Edited the master page to display sites for the sub-sites
• Configured high Availability Techniques like database Mirroring and different Replication models like Merge, Snapshot and Transactional on test environment.
• Servers consisted of clustered Exchange 2003, Windows 2000 /2003 Enterprise Server, File, Application, and Database.
• Maintained test environment, and interfaced with other user support organization to assist in rollout of new product releases.
• Was responsible for setting up the remote offices cabling, desktops, servers, user administration, file printers, etc. and subsequent remote support and troubleshooting.
• Configured Symantec Antivirus corporate edition for secure the entire network.
• Installed, configured, administered RedHat Linux and Windows 2003 Servers, SMS 2003 primary server sites and clients to 800 systems across North America.
• Expert level troubleshooting of complex networks: Windows 200 / 2003 core networking, DNS, DHCP, TCP, Use and application of appropriate troubleshooting tools such as Windows 2003 Resource Kit utilities, diagnostic tools, custom scripts, etc.
• Research and evaluate new technologies, products, and services, and recommend acquisitions and modifications as per client application needs.
• Maintained test environment, and interfaced with other user support organization to assist in rollout of new product releases.
• Worked with contractors and subcontractors that provided cooling, electrical, fire protection, telecommunications, and security, cleaning, and cabling services for each of these Datacentre.

Confidenital

Title: Windows System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Designed, installed, and managed Microsoft Cluster Servers 2000, 2003 .
• Supported multi-node Windows server network, domain architecture Web hosting and clustering architecture.
• Configured and install new PC's, servers and network equipment in support of customer and internal projects.
• Configured network servers and trained local administrators on standard network server procedures, including virus protection and other security measures.
• Upgraded entire enterprise from Windows Server 2000 running in mixed mode to Windows Server 2003 Native mode that included a step by step reversion plan and without effecting production.
• Supported Microsoft SQL 2000 running IIS 5.0/6.0 in a production environment including backup, maintenance, performance, stability and security of sites.
• Assigned user accounts and granted permissions to shared resources. Assured senior management of data protection by demonstrating permission settings.
• Installed, configured, and updated server-based applications, including accounting system and records database.
• Established a backup and fault tolerance strategy to insure the reliability of data and decrease downtime for end-users.
• Deployed .Net and Java based Applications on IIS 6.0 and provide support of hosted internal external websites.
• Planned, implemented and maintained all IT equipment, including firewall, Web/E-mail servers and router / modem pools for a start-up ISP.
• Developed IIS scripts to automate various tasks such as backup of Metabase, query properties and configuration of all sites on IIS infrastructure.
• Responsible for desktop administration, including software and hardware upgrades, encryption, and VPN connectivity.