OBJECTIVE:

• Seeking a challenging position as VMware/Windows Systems Admin .IT professional in the Telecom, Networking, Server Consolidation and Virtualization Environment. A challenging and creative position in a professional organization. Looking for implementation, network/server admin and support roles that will provide me an opportunity to make significant contributions towards productivity and the performance of the organization’s offerings.

SUMMARY

• With Approximately 11+ years of the total experience in IT. In implementation and support of the mentioned technologies to medium and Enterprise Corporations, 5years of which is in VMware,6 years in Windows System Administration &Network Administration and 1year in Telecom delivery management and quality management.
• Expert level knowledge on Telecom. Cisco, Brocade, Microsoft & VMware VSphere3.5, 4.x, 5.x, 6.x Handling 8,000 server App ( Together in Prod & DR environments) with about 1500 physical machines where vm’s are hosted on.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

VMware Products: Designing and implementation of Virtual Infrastructure 4 with Virtual Center, ESX3.x, ESX4.x, ESXi,VMotion, HA, DRS, Managing Resource pools, ESXi,VMwareWorkstation, VMware Server VMware Player, VMware Converter, Virtual Center, ESX Patch management, VMware SRM.

VMware converter& Double Take: Expert Level in Physical to Virtual migration of datacenter, Virtual to Virtual Migration (VMware 3.x to VMware 4.x & VMware 5.x,6.x).

Microsoft: Win NT, 2000/2003/2008 R2/2012, 2012 R2,Azure Cloud.

Storage: iSCSI SAN, FC SAN, NAS, Knowledge on EMC (CLARiiON).

Racks and Cabling: Installation of Hardware, Cable Management, Point to Patch panel, Point to Point.

Hardware: HP &Dell (Dell Servers Power Edge 1950, Power - Edge 2650, Dell Power-Edge R710, R210, R410) Cisco (2921, 3845, 7200 Routers and Catalyst 4500 and 6500 series switches) CISCO UCS Blades

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

System Administrator/Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in up-gradation of the environment from VSphere 4.1 & 5.1 to VSphere 5.5 (Host, VCenter)
• Involved in managing the network configurations including configuration of kernel ports,
• Documented the different procedures involved in the up-gradation of environment, solution and Troubleshooting of the issues.
• Helped test, implement and support VMware in the test and production environment. The focus was on the redundant internal support systems (DNS, Terminal Servers, Domain Controllers, etc.)
• Hot and cold cloning of Virtual Machines using VMware Converter.
• Involved in Windows patch update using Microsoft WSUS server
• Involved in client OS upgradation using SCCM 2012
• Worked on Central Management Server (VCenter Server) to manage all the ESX hosts in the datacenter.
• Creating and managing Virtual Machines and Templates. Working with snapshots of Virtual Machines.
• Involved with designing and implementing VMware backup products and disaster recovery solutions
• Installed & configured VMware virtual center for production & DR site.
• Perform server consolidation using VMware Converter to convert physical machines to virtual machines in a production environment.
• Involved in VMware updates manager to install & troubleshoot patches and updates on ESX hosts and virtual machines.
• Configured VMware on clustered environment, Implemented Migration of Virtual Machines using VMotion, Storage VMotion
• Virtualized Windows server Migration using VMware Converter & Plate Spin.
• Configured VMware HA, VMware DRS and Fault Tolerance in acquiring higher efficiency for VMware Virtual Infrastructure
• Worked on VMware Update Manager for updating or patching for all the ESX hosts and Virtual machines
• Analyzing the VM-support logs for ESX servers and Virtual Center logs to diagnose the root cause for the
• Deploy New Guest machines as when needed by the application owner request through Master craft.
• AD user creation & group creation, hardening the server with appropriate credentials. File and Folder share permissions
• Group Policy update and configuration needed for WSUS patching & User level permissions
• Managed multiple Domain Active Directory forest with 4,000+ users.
• Creating and updated network shares, adding permissions software and groups for users through Active Directory
• Managed account moves using ADMT, personal folder, and account OU.
• Implementing network security policies and procedures.
• Setting up Windows Azure Infrastructure for configuring a private domain and set Active Directory and DNS in Azure IaaS

Confidential

VMware / Windows System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• virtual environment with Windows serversand ESXi hostsacross four datacenters and multiple remote locations
• Performed capacity planning and server migration planning by creating a run-book for every migration wave. This included working very closely with the storage engineers. Also created an alternate protocol for the VM's that were not supported for replication due to storage limitations in a very short period of time
• Design, Implementation and Troubleshooting VMware ESX 5.5/5.0/4.1 Hosts, VMware vSphere virtual center..
• Server migration P2V and V2V conversions by using VMware Converter, Double Take, Recovery Point Approach.
• Vital role in VM-Provisioning (Linked clones, thin disks, de-duplication) taking Snapshots of virtual servers, HA, DRS, VM monitoring.
• Responsible for creating Clusters with High Availability and Dynamic Resource Scheduling.
• Creating/Managing host profiles and deploy to hosts in a VMware clusters.
• Hands on experience in configuring ILO and DRAC and use them for debugging and troubleshooting purpose
• Provided day-to-day system administration and technical support for Windows 2003, 2008 and 2012 Servers. With Identity management ( Web Services, Single Sign On, Web services & Security Access)
• Handling Windows patch updates (WSUS) and HP updates (HP update manager) on regular intervals when the maintenance windows is approved for Prod servers.
• Enabling Hyper V host and creating VM’s as required by the PM description
• Ensure system connectivity of all servers, shared software and other applications.
• Strong understanding of Windows system administration, installation, security, user management, networking, disk configuration
• As Microsoft Windows 2008R2/2012 Active directory Tier 3 team member, administered and maintained customer global catalog and child domain server environment.
• Administering Windows Terminal Server, Group Policy management and Active Directory environment
• Build, deploy, and administer VMware virtual servers.
• Manage and deploy system patches.
• Administer, monitor, and troubleshoot backups.
• Plan, implement and troubleshoot upgrade of Net worker servers and over clients.
• Design and deploy new server farms.
• Monitor System Performance for newly built servers and tune systems for optimal production.
• Perform system hardware and software inventories of production servers.
• Administer Windows2003/2008 & R2/2012 servers in a distributed enterprise environment using standard Microsoft tools.
• Monitor server hardware, performance, and up time and respond to outages promptly.
• Document server builds, server outages, and backup failures.
• Handling the tickets that are generated by other teams in Jira & Service now and opening the tickets in Jira for the ongoing Projects
• Working on the tickets like user access and permissions and any changes that are required by the client services to the client DB with the help of App’s team to resolve the issues

Confidential

VMware / Windows System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Configuring State Street is a leading financial services provider serving some of the world’s most sophisticated institutions. It offer a flexible suite of services that spans the investment spectrum, including investment management, research and trading, and investment servicing.
• Installing, and administrating t Windows 2008 & 2008 R2 on HPServers in the level 2 Application deployment team.
• Performing P 2 V Migrationsfor Windows Virtualization lifecycle management projects.
• Working on different volume managements includingVeritas Storage Foundation 5.1,Installing, Configuring and Troubleshooting ofVERITAS Cluster Server 5.1 SP1for MQM, Oracle 11g and differentweb Applications.
• Installation and Deploying Windows Servers 2008 and 2008 R2 in Physical and Virtual Environment.
• Installing various IBM tools TLM,TEM,TSM
• Migrations from P2V using Double-Take
• Resolving Tickets as raised by the App owner (Remedy)
• Analyzed existing infrastructure using VMware Capacity Planner.
• Day to day support and maintenance of Operating Systems.
• Resource Management Configuring VMware HA, VMware DRS Clusters for VMotion migrations between ESXi Servers.( VSphere 4.1& 5.x)
• Upgrading the Server Builds. As per the App owner requirements and specifications.
• Hardening the security of the server according to the company policies.
• Deploying Virtual appliances using OVF Template and configuring with the company standards.
• Configuring network( CNA) cards on HP DL 580G7 and HP DL380 G6
• Patch updates and Configuration upgrades in virtual and physical environments.
• Installation of Citrix Presentation server 4.0/ XenApp 4.5/5.0 & Citrix Client Tools
• Administration of Citrix XenApp Farms
• Configuration of Citrix server policies, Load Management and Printers in the Farm
• Experience in administering Windows Terminal Server, Group Policy management and Active Directory environment,

Confidential

VMware Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installation and Deploying Windows Servers 2003,2008 and 2008 R2 in Physical and Virtual Environment.
• Migrations from P2V using Double-take and V-converter
• Resolving Remedy Tickets as raised by the concerned departments.
• Create Snapshot and test Rollback, configure VMotion, Cluster and Failover.
• Analyzed existing infrastructure using VMware Capacity Planner.
• Day to day support and maintenance of Operating Systems.
• Monitored Server Hardware and Operating Systems.
• Provided remote support and Administration on network for Internal and External clients using tools like Microsoft Remote Desktop connection, Putty and Team Viewer.
• Participated in development and maintenance of Disaster Recovery & Backup.
• Resource Management Configuring VMware HA, VMware DRS Clusters for VMotion migrations between ESX Servers.
• Updated the Patches for ESX Servers using VMware Update Manager in Virtual Center.
• Upgrading the Server Builds.
• Hardening the security of the server according to the company policies.
• Performance tuning using performance monitor and event viewer to identify and resolve performance bottleneck.
• Updating servers with latest service packs and hot fixes.
• Creating standard server build as per the company policies.
• Working closely with the network Administrators for issues related to physical connectivity for the performance issues that occurred in the regular day to day operations with storage connectivity.
• Upgrading the NIC from 4gig to 10gig, teaming and Vlan tagging for redundancy and fault tolerance.

Confidential

System Admin

Responsibilities:

• Well versed in Implementing, Managing and Maintaining a Microsoft Windows Server 2003/2008 Network Infrastructure including Active Directory, Group Policy, VPN, DFS, WINS, DNS, DHCP, IIS, IP-Addressing, Plan to offer Remote-Assistance to Client computers, file replications and logon scripts. Installing and configuring File and Print Servers.
• Implementing Windows Servers and peer-to-peer communication using Windows for Workgroups and Windows 95, 98, 2k, XP, Vista, Win7.
• Ample knowledge in Windows \ Xp \ 2000 \ 2003 Server\2008 Server
• Active directory management, NTFS security, disk quota management
• Deployment of OS via RIS
• Working knowledge of IIS Server, DHCP Server, DNS Server, Proxy Server on windows
• Coordinating with technical support team which is responsible for infrastructure services on Microsoft Windows technology and VMware VSphere.
• Creating standard server build.
• Updating servers with latest service packs and hot fixes.
• Troubleshooting Active Directory replication problems.
• Implementation of VMware vSphere4.1 with Enterprise Plus Features of VD Switch and Host Profiles Upgrade Experience from VMware Infrastructure 3.0, 3.5 to vSphere4.0 & 4.1 and Update 1 including VCenter, ESX Hosts, Update manager, VSphere client, and Virtual machines tools and H/W upgrade to VSphere4.0 & 4.1 (Versions 6.5 & 7).
• Huge P2V Experience using VMware converter (78 % virtualized) running different applications with Different Hardware.
• Working closely with the Network Admins for issues Occurred in the Environment for the performance issues and Network Connectivity that occurred in the regular day to day operations
• Building Windows 2008 Servers and upgrading Windows 2003 on both physical and virtual machines.
• Database Upgrade for VCenter and update manager from SQL 2005 to SQL 2008 on VCenter Servers
• Building VM’s and new Templates for new Projects and allocating them to appropriate Resource pools.
• Administering Windows 2003/2008 Active Directory, DNS, DHCP and building new windows physical/virtual servers as per the requirement of the project.
• Upgrading the Firmware to the latest version/date on the BIOS/ controllers/ hard drives.

Confidential

VMware System Admin

Responsibilities:

• Installation and configuration of VMware VSphere 4.0, ESX 3.5 on a Dell R900, R710 Server, VMware Infrastructure Client, VMware Virtual Center and VCB Setup.
• Designed the Infrastructure and administered the environment running over 30 ESX Hosts and 450 Virtual Machines. Also, designed the performance monitoring processes and improved disaster recovery processes to utilize virtualization benefits.
• Worked closely with Storage and Networking teams to ensure allocated SAN, Fiber and networking infrastructure reflected specifications laid out in initial VMware firm design to ensure successful deployment.
• Creation and management of Virtual Machines, Installing VMware tools, creating templates, cloning, deploy Virtual Machines from Templates.
• Managed VMware, Windows Server 2003, Active Directory and Microsoft’s SMS 2003.
• Designed and implemented Microsoft SMS 2003 server site hierarchy for Asset Management and managing security update.
• Create Snapshot and test Rollback, configure VMotion, Cluster and Failover.
• Analyzed existing infrastructure using VMware Capacity Planner.
• Day to day support and maintenance of Operating Systems.
• Disk management, Data management, Security management (applying patches).
• Monitored Server Hardware and Operating Systems.
• Provided remote support and Administration on network for Internal and External clients using tools like Microsoft Remote Desktop connection, Putty and Team Viewer.
• Participated in development and maintenance of Disaster Recovery & Backup.
• Resource Management- Configuring VMware HA, VMware DRS Clusters for VMotion-migrations between ESX Servers.
• Updated the Patches for ESX Servers using VMware Update Manager in Virtual Center.
• Technical support of Operating System (Windows NT/ 2000/2003/2008 )
• Implementation of Windows 2003 domain.
• Working closely with the network Administrators for issues related to Brocade & Cisco for the performance issues that occurred in the regular day to day operations with storage connectivity.
• Migrating User accounts from Windows NT to windows 2008 domain.
• Installation and maintenance of Windows NT and 2000/2003/2008 DNS, DDNS, DHCP and WINS Servers for the DOMAIN.
• Implementation of TCP/IP and related Services-DHCP/DNS/WINS
• Performance tuning using performance monitor and event viewer to identify and resolve performance bottleneck.