PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• System Enggwith over 8 years of experience with VMware, Windows/Wintel Systems Administration, Application Packaging and Technical Support.
• Extensive experience in installation, administration and troubleshooting in various environments, Seasoned Systems Administrator familiar with Microsoft Windows 2008 R2/2012 R2 Server.
• Extensive experience in Installing, configuring, and administering EdgeSight/Director for Load Testing to test performance of XenApp/XenDesktop environments.
• Expertise in creating Citrix Streaming Profiles and Publishing Applications to users in Citrix XenApp.
• Knowledge of NetScaler feature such as GSLB, SSL offloading, HA, and Application load balancing.
• Outstanding experience and knowledge with designing installing and implementing VMware ESX server, VMware virtual center, setting up V - Motion, storage vmotion, HA, DRS and related VMware products such as VM Workstation, VMware converter, VM Backup products and other products for virtualization.
• Expertise in Disaster recovery of environment; physical to virtual migration (P2Vs); Microsoft Hyper-V and Citrix virtual desktop support.
• Extensive experience with Citrix XenApp, XenDesktop, EdgeSight, Microsoft Server OS and Citrix Provisioning Services.
• Extensive understanding of networking concepts, (IE. Configuration of networks, TCP/IP, VPN, VLANs, and routing in LAN/WAN, Ethernet Port, Patch Panel virtual networking, wireless networks &Cloud computing concepts).
• Experience in Windows 2003/2008/2008 R2/2012R2 Server operating systems
• Experience on AD, DHCP, DNS, IIS, Exchange, Windows clustering and ODBC connections
• Experience on Group policies, SCOM, SCCM and configuring file/print services
• Configured, Monitored and Maintained Virtual server farms consistingVMWARE, and Hyper-V
• Configured AD, DHCP, DNS, IIS, FTP Servers and ODBC connections for database
• Experience with x86 / x64 Intel, HP, Cisco UCS& Dell hardware like rack-mounted servers, tower servers, desktop, laptop and other peripherals.
• Experience in Active Directory, GPOs, DNS, DHCP, File & Print Server, IIS (Web Server), IIS … FTP, Terminal Server, RIS, RRAS, NAT, WSUS, Microsoft Clustering, Exchange Mail and ISA Server.
• Experience in managing multiple Windows systems with Microsoft SCCM 2007 providing patch management, remote control, software distribution and OS deployment.
• Experience in administering Group Policy management, Active Directory environment DNS and DHCP.
• Expertise in configuring user performance for Citrix VDI and HDX environments though Citrix policies.
• Experience in creating Raid Groups, Storage Groups, LUNs & assigned LUNs to Windows and VMware hosts.
• Proficient in capturing base PVS images (Windows 7 OS, Server 2008 R2 and 2012 R2) with multiple target software (6.1 and 7.6) for both XenApp and XenDesktop (VDI and HDX).
• Hands on experience on VMware ESX, XenServer and Hyper-V.
• Expertise on ESXi and ESX Architecture, guest OS installation, setting up of VM priorities, cloning and Snapshots.
• Ability to troubleshoot, perform updates and other changes necessary to ensure maximum performance.
• Experience in Datacenter WSUS environment (automated approvals but segmented for approvals based on application group)
• Knowledge in python, perl and PowerShell in scripting.
• Experience in configuring DRS, HA, vMotion, storage vMotion, virtual networking, cloning, deploying VM’s from templates and automatingVMwareenvironment.
• Strong knowledge and experience onVMwareESXi 5.X, 4.X, andVMwarevSphere 5 features including Virtual SMP, Storage DRS, profile driven storage, auto deploy and vSwitch design.
• Proficiency in using Sphere, vCloud Suite /vRealizesuite -vRealizeOperations Manager (vRops), Log Insight,vRealizeOrchestration(vRO), andvRealizeAutomation (vRA/ vCAC),VMwareVirtual SAN (vSAN)
• Experience in Cisco UCS /HP C7000 blades administration and troubleshooting, Writing PowerShell Scripts.
• Administration and deployment of public and private cloud platforms (AWS
• End to End Implementation ofVMwarevCloud suite based Private Cloud on VBlock Platform.
• Expertise with Windows Active Directory Administration, Windows Server 2003,Windows Server 2008 R2, DNS, TCP/IP, DHCP; experience managing Microsoft SQL Server 2005/2008 R2.
• Extensive knowledge aboutVMwareserver automation using scripting language Power shell, VB Script, Power CLI, Python,puppet and details.
• Knowledge in EMC Clarion, NetApp SAN Storage, HP EVA 8400 and NAS storage environment
• Experience in migrating the virtual machines between the ESX (i) Hosts using cold migration and VMotion.
• Extensive knowledge of 24-7 implementation and management of information technology support operations to include help desk, Call-in support and work priority management.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Virtualization: vSphere 4.X/5.X/6.0, vCenter Server, SRM (Site Recovery Manager, vSphere Replication Manager, Lab Manager, VC Operations Lab,VmwareUpdate manager, Vmware vSphere web client, vCenter Operations Manager (VCOPS).

Citrix: Application Virtualization (XenApp), Server Virtualization (XenServer), Desktop Virtualization (XenDesktop), XenServer 5.6, XenDesktop 4/5, 7.0, 7.6Microsoft Windows 2012 Terminal Services/Remote Desktop Services, Hyper - V, App-V, Active Directory and Group Policy Windows.

Hardware: CISCO UCS C and B series server, HP ProLiant BL460C (G6 and G7) Blade Server series, Dell DL380, DL385, DL580 (G2, G3, G5, G8) physical servers, Dell Power Edge Servers

Operating Systems: Windows NT Server, Windows Server 2003, 2008, 2008R2, 2012R2 and Workstations, Windows XP/Vista/Windows 7, 8 (Professional), VM Ware ESX/ESXi server, Linux-RHEL.

Networking: Network Design and Troubleshooting, LAN, WAN, Frame Relay, ATM, Wireless, SSL VPN, Switches, Routers, Hubs, Bridges, Repeaters, TCP/IP, IPX/SPX, Ethernet, Token Ring, SNMP, SNA, ICA, RDP, Hardware and Software Load Balancing, Network Sniffers, Packet Shaping and Acceleration.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Little Rock, Arkansas

Windows, VMware Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Performed hardware and software maintenance of Windows/Wintel Server environment including VMware ESX/ESXi Host, Clusters, Servers and Virtual Machines; and Interfaced with different Venders.
• Created technical documents detailing P2V, V2V migrations and Windows upgrades.
• Created and managed Virtual Machines, installed VMware tools, Templates, Cloning, Deploy Virtual Machines; including deploying link Clones using View Composer. Assigned dedicated/floating pools as per requirement.
• Set up virtual network using VSphere Distributed Switch, standard switch, port groups and VM kernel.
• Maintained and troubleshot multiple Citrix XenApp 7.6 sites running 700+ virtual Windows 2012 R2 servers for production, qual and test environment.
• Planned, developed and performed testing for XenApp 6.5 to 7.6 migration in multiple qual phases to full-fledged production environment.
• Monitored XenApp 7.6 sites using Citrix Director, Dell Foglight and Opsview tool; provided recommendation for performance improvement.
• Worked with multiplatform SOA, worked with centrify, access management tools
• Cloud automation through VMware Orchestrator (vRO) and vRB (vRealize Business
• Monitoring & predictive analysis with vROPs (vRealize Operations ) -vCOPs, sizing and capacity planning of clusters.
• Worked on Converged Infrastructure such as vBlock,VMware horizon view, Cisco UCS.
• In place upgrade of Domain Controllers from Wintel,Windows 2012 to Windows 2012R2 in Hyper V.
• Engaged multiple teams like network, storage, backup, security, Windows, VMWare and Citrix plan/build in improving existing Citrix environment.
• Deployed large number of VMs/adding Data stores/ VLANs/ adding NFS storage using power shell, python, JSOn, scripts.
• Worked with DFS, DFSR services for replication between servers.
• Migrated Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VMware Horizon View 5.3 to Horizon view 6.2.2)
• Worked on Virtualizing desktop applications in VDI using VMware ThinApp and App Volumes
• Deployed VDI Instances and created over 500+ desktops and tested all the components successfully.
• Captured snapshots of unresponsive servers and extracted dump files from them.
• Worked and coordinated with Citrix, Microsoft and McAfee vendors on multiple issues of server being unresponsive in XenApp 6.5 and 7.6. active directory, IIS.
• Analyzed various inputs from multiple Vendors and suggested suitable changes to the plan/build and deployment team along with the right roll out process to be followed in order to avoid impacting users.
• Resolved high PVS retries by recommending network changes &schedule changes of TSM backups, McAfee On-Demand scans, Security scans to avoid network bottleneck.
• Provided few insights on enterprise wide rollout of upcoming VDI project in line with storage, UPM and administrator.
• Restoring files/folders on IBM TSM backups using Backup-Archive GUI on Windows 2003/2008/2012 Production servers.
• Participating with compliance team on updating process patches for Windows servers 2003, 2008 using IBM Endpoint Manger (BigFix) and configuring IIS 6.0, 7.

Confidential, Altoona, Pennsylvania

VMware, Windows System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Administration of VMWare VCenter, VM Datacenters located in all over sites in different Geographical locations in the world.
• Monitoring the vSphere VCenter, data store usage, alerts, upgrading VM ESXi Servers and Operating System under VM. Worked with DFS, DFSR services for replication between servers.
• Configuration and managing HA (high availability) and DRS.
• Creating & Managing the Virtual Machines & Migrating VMs between ESXi Servers.
• Consolidating Physical Servers to Virtualization through VMware vCenter Standalone Converter.
• Creating Cluster, resources pool, Template & Clone in ESXi 5.5.
• Creating & managing the iSCSI Shared Storage by HBA & Initiate the iSCSI software for accessing the Raw Disks by Virtual Machines.
• Working with Snapshots of Virtual Machines, Creating Cluster for High Availability, DRS & FT.
• Creating & managing the vSwitches, Port groups, & Distributed vSwitch (dvSwitch) for virtual networks.
• Setting up Alarms for various performance reasons like Host & VMs status, Data store status, CPU & Memory usage etc.,
• Worked with Sql, active directory, splunk, solarwinds, vcops.
• Operating System Upgrades using WSUS.
• Compiled WSUS Health Analysis for use in the monthly meetings.
• Worked on Server administrator for 2012 downstream Windows Server and Update Services (WSUS) servers.
• Creating Scheduled Tasks for different activities in virtualization.
• Moving VMs from one LUN to another LUN using Storage vMotion.
• Migrating the running VM from one host to another is using vMotion Technique.
• Taking VM Snapshots before updating the Patches
• Taking Virtual Machine clone before upgrading any applications
• Deploying virtual machines from Template
• Level 2 and level 3 Support on Windows 2003, 2008 Server Family infrastructure. Coordinating with different lines of services with SLA, capacity planning and sizing various projects and clusters.
• Creating Users, Groups, Profiles and manage permissions.
• Ability to create and modify group policies.
• Provide L3 level RIM/Server support for the organization.
• Remote Support for clients thru MSTSC, Dame ware & Symantec Pc anywhere.
• Installation and Configuration of Windows 2003, 2008 R2 Servers.
• Configuring and managing DHCP, DNS and Active Directory.
• Migration/Upgrade domain controllers.
• Active Directory, Domains, Organizational units (OU), Tress and Forests.
• Configured SSLs for web applications to ensure security transactions between client and web server
• Installed and configured server s to ensure the users/groups requests for the web applications and managed firewall settings.
• Migrated web applications to and from windows 2003/2008 servers by using MsDeploy and directories using XCOPY and ROBOCOPY tools.
• Installing Active Directory Services on the Production/Test/Pre-production Servers.
• Active Directory environment (i.e. Creating User Accounts, Security group, adding and removing users to group, Managing the logon scripts, sharing, giving permission, mapping the drives)
• Deployment of tools and processes to support role-based access control and delegation in Active Directory.
• Windows PowerShell experience for Active Directory Administration.
• Managing users and user groups and implementing policies to the users in domain.
• Enabled and disabled user accounts using PowerShell Scripting, python, json, bash.
• Adding and deleting members of a group using PowerShell.
• Provisioning new servers, handling other daily routines; leading new deployments from systems perspective by coordinating internal resources.
• Installation, Configuration and Troubleshooting of all of Desktops, Laptops, Operating systems such as Windows XP/Vista/Win7, Windows2003/2008 server.
• Monitoring, managing and reporting daily, weekly and monthly server status.
• Configuring and managed Active Directory, DHCP, SQL, DNS and Group Policy.
• Responsible for server deployments, which include application installations, operating system updates and security patches.
• Worked with automation using puppet, chef and ansible.
• Creating and Managing User accounts.
• Configuring MS Outlook, Outlook Express Clients.
• Taking up the user’s email client issues and login into their remote systems.
• All the new Software's / Hardware's / Upgrades / Patches / Service Packs are tested on the test environment to ensure that the production is not affected.
• Experience working with monitoring tools like SCOM and demoting Active Directory.
• Manage snapshots, clones, templates during patch releases and new server deployments
• Create templates for users, application servers for faster VM deployments
• Hands on experience in updating / upgrading ESX servers, Virtual Center servers and windows virtual machines usingVMwareUpdate manager
• ConfiguredVMwareHA,VMwareDRS, FT in acquiring higher efficiency forVMwareInfrastructure
• Create thin provisioned VMs as per client application requirements and expanding Hard Disk sizes as requested.
• ThinApp Packages, Applications Upgrades and deployment testing and Production Implementation.

  P2V and V2V conversions by usingVMwareConverter

• Design and implementation of ThinApp environment.
• Remote Server Administration through VNC, Remote Desktop Connection etc.
• Troubleshooting the event logs on the Servers.
• Troubleshooting LAN Connectivity related problems.

Confidential, Los Angeles, California

Windows and VMWare Admin

Responsibilities:

• Installing, configuring, administration of Windows 2003 servers, Active Directory Services, DNS DHCP, FTP, WSUS, IIS Web Server, Oracle and SQL Database Server,sql optimization, System Management Servers (SMS) servers.
• System management and administration for a large Regional Bank, with emphasis on VMware ESXserver. administration, and Citrix XenApp and XenServer.
• Build, configure and deploy VMs and templates. Completed Physical-to-Virtual (P2V), Virtual-to-Virtual (V2V) and Virtual-to-Physical (V2P) migration of Windows NT, 2000, 2003, 2008, and 2012 as well as Linux servers from VMware, Hyper-V, Xen and legacy hardware.
• Virtualization upgrade to Citrix platform utilizing XenServer6 and all integrated components.
• Experienced with x86 / x64Intel, HP, IBM & Dell hardware like rack-mounted servers, tower servers, desktop, laptop and other peripherals.
• Managing Exchange 2003 servers and troubleshooting issues related to User and group accounts, mail delivery, configuring MX records, to enable and disable domain.
• Administering DHCP Server-creation of reservation and under reservation options, configuring of router IP address.
• Responsible for Active directory, SQL, GPO, Domain users, Administrating users and groups and given appropriate permissions and privilege to access our LAN and Domain environment.
• Configure and Managed Microsoft Outlook 2003/2007for the users.
• WrotePowerShellscripts for administrative tasks and management of the server infrastructure.
• Installation and configuration of Microsoft Windows Vista, XP, 2000 server, Professional, Windows 2003 and 2008 Servers on Virtual Machines.
• Configured Terminal Server to access to the servers using Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP).
• Responsible for Security Patch Management and Deployment to all clients using Microsoft WSUS.
• Installing, configuring, administering, and performance tuning Microsoft SQL Server 2000 familiar with Database Creation, Database Security, Database Replication/ Migration, Database Performance Monitoring, User Management, Database Backup/Restoration, Import/Export of Oracle, SQL Database, Transact SQL, Microsoft SQL Clustering, SQL Query analyzer and profiler.
• Installing, configuring, administering, troubleshooting VMware ESX/ESXi 3.5 and VMs, and VMware workstation.
• Experience with vSphere Host Profiles/Distributed Switches setup
• Creation of VMs and install different guest OS
• Hands on configuring HA, DRS, vMotion and installingVMwaretools
• ManageVMwareDistributed Resource Scheduler (DRS), vMotion and High Availability (HA) Clusters.Worked closely with Storage and Networking teams to manage the allocated EMC SAN, Fiber and Networking Infrastructure.
• Design, implementation and troubleshootingVMwareESX 4.0/3.5 Hosts,VMwarevSphere virtual center.
• P2V and V2V conversions by usingVMwareConverter
• Experience in Deployment and Implementation of VDI View 4.5
• Administration ofVMwareESX and ESXi Servers on HP C7000 and Cisco UCS 5100 Chassis.
• Hands on experience in updating / upgrading ESX servers, Virtual Center servers and windows virtual machines usingVMwareUpdate manager and manual upgrades.
• Installation and Configuration of networks, router/switches configuration and wireless access point/router with security, TCP/IP, VPN, Content Filtering, Access Control Lists on router/switches, VLANs (port mapping, naming etc.), and routing IP address in both LAN/WAN and wireless networks.
• Creating a backup job and took backup of data center on daily, weekly and monthly basis.

Confidential, Bellevue, Washington

Linux, Windows & VMware Admin

Responsibilities:

• Installation and configuration of ESX/ESXiin New- HP Proliant series Servers in a core new Data-Center.
• Installation and configuration of Windows servers 2008 R2Virtual Machines in the ESX host clusters.
• Installation of Vcenter server and Configuring ESXi - hosts within the cluster using VMotion and HA.
• Running patches and updates through update manager for the ESXi hosts.
• Created Active directory group policies (GPOs) based on Domain, Site and OU structures to apply restriction to users, workstations and Servers
• Extensively used Active Directory Services to manage Domain controllers and domain trusts and replication.
• Documented disaster recovery procedure for Active Directory Domain Controllers and FSMO role holders.
• Installation, configuration and maintenance of 32-bit and 64-bit Windows 2003 serversand 64-bit Windows 2008 servers.
• Technical support, administration and troubleshooting of Microsoft Windows 2003 &Windows 2008 cluster servers.
• Administration and troubleshooting Active Directory, hyper-v, DNS, DHCP and DFS issues.
• Actively participated in Migration of Servers to the new Data-center.
• Configuration, maintenance and troubleshooting of RHEL and Windows VM's.
• Worked on vMotion, Storage vMotion, and Patch management and upgrades using VMware update manager.
• Implemented and managed HA and DRS clusters and Worked on VMware FT for critical VM's.
• Applied patches using VMware vCenter Update Manager and host update utility.
• Automated routine tasks using scripting languages such as PowerShell, PowerCLI.
• Migrated and imported Virtual Machines P2V, V2V and using OVF templates.
• Add storage to ESX cluster Gather WWNs, Scan for provisioned storage, and add storage to cluster.
• Worked on VMWare workstation to test the packages and after the testing process the packages are built for production.
• Worked on physical hardware like HPDL360p, BL460, BL480, G7, and G8.
• Planned and implemented VMware data protection advanced to backup and replicate SQL/MS Exchange databases running inside virtual machines.
• Migrate all PVM into small footprint on Xen hosts.