OBJECTIVE

• SR.VMwareESX/ESXi,Servers on Virtual Machines, VSphereCLI, VMwarevSphere; Windows Administrator, PowerShell and Linux Administration.
• Overall 8 years of experience in delivering enterprise solutions in multiple domains.
• Expertise in conceptualizing, designing,highskilled,IT Professional with experience in Windows andVMwareAdministration with a primary focus on installation, configuration, and administration ofVMwarevSphere ESX/ESXi3.0, 3.5, 4.0, 4.1, 5.0,5.5,6.0, 6.5, VMwareVirtualization,VMwareVcenter 4.0, 4.1, 5.0, 5.5 and 6.0, 6.5 and Windows servers (2000, 03, 08, 12). Experience in implementing and administeringVMwarevSphere Permissions, HA settings, DRS settings, FT settings, Cluster groups, Resource Pools, Host Profiles, Licensing, Templates, ThinApp and Networking. Knowledge about how toimplementVMwareVrealizeAutomation (VRA).

SUMMARY

• Overall 8 years of professional experience in installing, configuring, integrating, and automating data center technologies in VMware/Windows and Linux administration
• Accomplished systems administrator managing server infrastructures and data - center operations across multiple platforms (Linux, Windows).
• Designed, implemented and managed multiple scalable VDI environments consisting of Xen Desktops, multiple XenApp Farms | Sites, and published applications.
• Knowledge on AWS platform, EC2 instance, RDS, S3, cloud front, cloud watch (monitoring), IAM, AMI, Volumes, snapshots, Migrating Ec2 to different locations, Bash scripting and other services.
• Experience in deploying VM’s, managing users and groups, deploying domain controller to Azure, installing and configuring Azure Ad connect.
• Experienced in installing, upgrading, patching, configuring, administrating and maintaining various Windows Servers.
• Design the VMware environment including: vSphere, ESXI, SCCM, SCOM, vROPs, Log insight, SRM (site recovery manager).
• Experienced in Performance Monitoring, Security, Troubleshooting, and Backup, Disaster recovery, Maintenance.
• Extensive knowledge in advance features like vMotion, StoragevMotion and Network/StorageIOControl.
• Excellent experience in working on configuring ESXi hosts and clusters with all advanced features like HA, DRS, DPM, and EVC etc.
• Experience in P2V, V2V MIGRATION using VMwareConverter and PlateSpin migrate tool.
• Experience in working on HostProfiles, Resource Pools, Storage Profiles, VMFS data store and templates for client VMs.
• Developed and used Custom reports and built in reports inSCCMfor reporting.
• Experience in Migration fromSCCM2007 toSCCM2012.
• Used VMware vCenter Operations Manager (vCOPS / vROPS) for server and workstation monitoring.
• Very good experience in creating DRS affinity, anti-affinity rules as required by business.
• Extensive experience in upgrading vCenter server and associated components like SSO and database servers.
• Upgraded ESXi servers using VMwareUpdateManager (VUM), CLI and DCUI.
• Consolidating resources via Virtualization VMware and Hyper-V
• Excellent experience in working on vSwitches such as StandardvSwitches (vSS), Distributed vSwitches (VDs).
• Built Windows 2003/2008WintelServers on standalone and blade servers based on application design and deployed stack on these servers
• Experience in configuring VMware DRS Rules and VMware HA on Clusters in Virtual Center.
• Good Experience in creating port groups, VLAN networking and NIC teaming on VMware ESX 5.x/4.x and vCenter environment.
• Strong knowledge and extensive experience in data center migration projects.
• Good experience on working on VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM) for maintaining business continuity and performing disaster recovery (DR) activity.
• Managing the VMware (ESX / ESXi / Cluster / Datacenter) environment Capacity. Both available capacity and utilization capacity.
• Expertise in implementation and supporting VMware vSphere ESXi Vmware Workstation NSX environment.
• Integration of Vmware NSX with VMware's suite of products (Vrealize Automation, Vrealize Operations).
• Used ESXi Image Builder CLI to create ESXi install images with custom updates, patches and drivers
• Monitoring of VM’s&ESXi server components (CPU, Memory, Disk, Network Utilization) and security hardening for Security Compliance.
• Experience and understating in monitoring performance of Hosts and virtual machines, datacenters, monitoring backups using Net Backup operations Manager.
• Writing and developing from scratch windows PowerShell scripts for automating procedures within VMware VSphere environment.
• Involved in Site minder SSO System integration and Application Production Support.
• Troubleshot switch to server and back to the secure cloudconnection.
• Extensive experience with Windows clustering on virtualized environments.
• Responsible for OS maintenance activities like upgrading the OS, updating the services and third-party software’s.
• Capacity planning tools like VMware Realize operations system.
• Provided 24/7 On Call production support onsite and remotely on rotation basis.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

VMwarePlatform Skills: vSphere 6.2 / 6.0 /5.1 / 5.0 / 4.1 / 4.0 , ESXi 5.1 / 5.0, ESX 4.1 / 4.0, Virtual Center Server, VMware View, VMware vCenter Orchestrator, HA, DRS, Storage VMotion, Site Recovery Manager, Host Profiles, vApp, VMware vCenter Heartbeat, VMware vSphere Client, VMware Thinapp, P2V, V2V, VMware Consolidated Backup, VMware Management Assistant, Capacity Planning, Plate spin Power convert.

Microsoft Products and tools: Active Directory Domain Services, AD lightweight Directory Services, AD Certificate Services, Active Directory Federation Services, Active Directory Rights Management Services, DNS, Exchange 2007, Exchange 2010, Hyper-V, WSUS server, SQL Server 2005, SQL server 2008, Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager, Microsoft System Center Operations Manager, IIS 6, IIS 7, DHCP, TCP/IP.

Server Operating Systems: Windows 2000, 2003, 2008 R2, 2012

Desktop Operating Systems: Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7

Management Tools: HP Onboard Administrator, HP Virtual Connect Manager, HP Service Manager, Avocent DS View, Putty, MKS Integrity Change Management Software, Vulnerability Management, groundworks VI Monitoring Tool, VMKernel Monitoring Software, IBM Tivoli Storage Manager, Microsoft Robocopy GUI, Solar winds IP Address Tracker, Veeam Backup, FastSCP.

Switching: DNS,DHCP,SAN Storage, TCP/IP

Remote Accesses: VDI, VRA, Storage vMotion

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Bowie, MD

Sr.VMware/Windows Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Was responsible for maintaining and supporting 1500+ servers with about 1000+ users
• Installing and Maintaining Windows 2008 and Windows 2012,2012 R2 Servers.
• Worked with all components of HP (Smart Start, Insight Manager, Diagnostics, Network Configuration Utility etc) and Wintel Stack
• Scheduled jobs for updating the Firmware and ProLiant Support Pack (PSP) through scripting and Altiris Tool and involved in the Data Center Transformation.
• Teaming NIC’s using HP Teaming software for redundancy during failures.
• Used Altiris to Install the Operating System and to run scripts to update patches on HP Servers
• Update patches on Servers Working Experience with Active Directory Components (AD Users and Computers, DNS, DHCP and WINS etc.
• Responsible for conducting vulnerabilityscanning and identify system and network vulnerabilities.
• Resolved Problems related to Disk Space Usage.
• Resolved problems related to performance metrics such as Processor Usage, Memory etc.
• Perform day-to-day operation and troubleshooting of VMs.
• Keep Virtual hardware and VMware tools updated to keep a healthy environment
• Maintaining Print servers, Application servers and File Servers.
• Hosting websites in IIS and configuring the apppools.
• Experience in installing and configuring Microsoft Windows 2008 Servers from ILO management tool on Rack servers and blades.
• Work with storage team to create LUNs/NFS and Map it to VMware vSphere ESX (i) hosts.
• Experience in installing and configuring vSphereESX (i) 4.1 on HPbladeservers.
• Experience in migrating VMware vSphere hosts from ESX 3.5 U2 to 4.0 and ESX (i) 4.1 to ESX (i) 5.0.
• Experience in configuring VMware standard vSwitch&dvSwitch.
• Experience in configuring VMware virtual machine port groups, console ports groups, VMKernal port groups and VLANs.
• Experience in installing and configuring VMware Virtual Center servers and VMware vCenter Appliance.
• Managed VMwareESX (i) hosts using vSphere client and Web client.
• Played a vital role in Creating Virtual Machines, Cloning virtual machines, converting P2V(used standard VMware converter tool), VM-Provisioning (Linked clones, thin disks, de-duplication ) taking Snapshots of virtual servers, HA, DRS, VMotioning.
• Experience on creating host profiles and deploy to hosts in a VMware clusters.
• Created and documented process for deploying Virtual machines on VMware.
• Create thin provisioned VMs to suite client application requirements and expandingHardDisksizes as requested by clients.
• Used Remedy Tool for ticketing (Change Management, Incident Management, and Request Management).
• Provided On Call support 24x7 during Critical Issues for Production Environment.

ENVIRONMENT: VMware ESX 5.1/5.5, VSphere 4.0, 5.0, 5.5 & Windows Server Proliant Servers & Dell Hardware (Rack and blade servers), NetApp FAS,brocade DS 5300, Flexpod,SCOM, Oracle linux5.4, Symantec Netbackup, Active Directory and Vrealize automation.

Confidential, Irving, Texas

Senior VMware Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installed, Maintained windows server 2003/2008 on HP and IBM servers
• Worked on providing 3rd Level support for 2500+ Windows 2003/2008 Servers.
• Build servers with Raid Configuration RAID 5 and Raid 1+0on HP ProLiant DL380, 360, 580, ML370 servers.
• Worked on Change Management, Request Management and Incident Tickets in Service Center.
• Configuring windows firewall settings using group policy.
• Installed and Configured WIN, DNS, DHCP, IIS and Terminal Services.
• Extensively managed Active Directory like all the problems related to user accounts, domain accounts, managing permissions etc.
• Experience in Remote deployment of Microsoft Windows 2003/2008 servers using Altiris deployment solution or manual installation of a server using ILO for remote connection to a server.
• Maintaining servers with latest security updates, critical patches, anti-virus, and backup
• Maintaining Print servers, Application servers and File Servers.
• Decommissioning of windows servers, including the disk wipes and drilling the hard disks depending on client requirements for each server.
• Experience in configuring Microsoft Load balancer (NLB) for Web Servers and Applications servers to distribute load and High Availability.
• Experience in Remote deployment of Windows 2000/2003 servers using Altiris deployment solution or manual installation of a server using RSA/RILO for remote connection to a server.
• Build 200+ VMware vSphere hosts and added to new/existing VMware Clusters on Wintel Stack and involved in the Data Center Transformation.
• Experience on creating new VMware Clusters with HA and DRS enabled.
• Building new VMware virtual machines to meet the specifications provided by the client.
• Experience in deploying new Virtual Machines from OVF/OVA templates.
• Creating Roles and permissions in VMware ESX Server 3.0/3.5/4.0
• Migrated VMware ESX 3.5 u2 to ESX 4.0 using VMware update Manager.
• Experience on hot and cold clone process.
• Installed/updated patches on VMware ESX (i) hosts using VMware Update Manager tool.
• UpdatedVMware tools on virtual machines using Update Manager tool.
• Provided 24/7 On Call support onsite and remotely on rotation basis.

ENVIRONMENT: VMware ESX 5.1/5.5, VSphere 4.0, 5.0, 5.5 & Windows Server Proliant Servers & Dell Hardware, VCE / UCS, VBLOCK, Cisco, emcvnx5800, FlexPod comprised of vCenter, SCOM,Solarwinds, oracle linux 6.4, Cisco UCS and Nexus and NetApp FAS.

Confidential, San Jose, CA

VMware Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Building new Windows Server 2003/2008/2008 R2 & 2012/2012R2 on Intel Server Platforms, IBM/HP/Dell PowerEdge servers as per the company’s Windows build standards.
• Administered and setup user profiles in Win2003/2008 servers and ADS maintenance
• Administered and setup Print servers in Win2003/2008 server.
• Implementation of Microsoft DHCP, DNS, and Domain trust relationship, file and print services, user and group management.
• Implemented RAID5 for FaultTolerance on DomainControllers.
• Installed SQL server 2005 and deployed many SQL cluster deployments for clients for database requirements.
• Migrated IIS6.0 to IIS7.0 using windows deployment tool 2.0.
• Patching the Production Servers during the green zone window with security patches.
• Maintain the Software deployment and management solution and ensure proper patching on client systems. Maintain the Domain environment, including setting policies as per the security settings.
• Defining group permissions and creating local and global groups with account policies using Enterprise Administrator. Creating user rights and defining local and roaming profiles.
• Responsible to maintain the server inventory and document the server build/decommission, application installation/configuration, backup verifications, Operating System user accounts auditing, etc.
• Working on Change Management and RequestManagementTickets in Remedy Tool
• Built and configured ESX 3.5/4.0 hosts and deployed XP/Vista/2003/2008 VMware Virtual Guests on Wintel Stack
• Experience in configuring and enabling VMware EVC on VMware clusters.
• Experience with VMware system patching using update manager.
• Responsible to ensure servers are current with firmware, drivers, patches and security updates.
• Proficient in managing ESX Hosts using VMware vCenter.
• Linked Different vCenter servers using linked mode to have a single instance through vSphere client to manage the whole Virtual environment.
• Experience in configuring Hardware iSCSI to Rack servers and add storage to VMware ESX hosts.
• Experience in configuring VMware vCenter Alarms for data store and host memory and CPU usage.
• Experience in configuring and management of VMware Clusters, VMwareDRS, High Availability
• (HA) and VMotion.
• Experience in setting up VMwarestandardvSwitch and ports groups (ServiceConsole, VirtualMachine and VMKernel.
• Created and managed Virtual Machines and Templates, worked with clones and snapshots of Virtual Machines.
• Experience in creating Virtual Machines on Shared Data Store.
• Worked on Migrating Virtual Machines with VMotion.
• Providing 24/7 on call support for critical and production issues.

ENVIRONMENT: VMware ESX 4.0/3.5, VSphere 4.0, 5.0, 5.5 & Windows Server Active Directory 2003, VCOPS, EMCVNX5700, HP Proliant Servers & Dell Hardware, VCE / UCS, VBLOCK, SCOM, Cisco, VMAX, Flexpod, Solarwinds, VNX, Citrix XenApp 6.0 etc. PowerCLI Server OS: Windows Server FAS3040, FAS3270, FAS3240, FAS2040, FAS3140 Filers

Confidential, Houston, TX

WINDOWS ADMINISTRATOR

Responsibilities:

• Main role is to provision virtual machines and physical as per client requirements.
• Extensively managed Active Directory like all the problems related to user accounts, domain accounts, managing permissions etc.
• Involved in operational support of ActiveDirectory, WINS, DNS, and AD enabled applications.
• Installing and updating the windows patches.
• Creating NTFSshares on Windows Servers and provide permissions to users.
• Setting up perform windows servers to analyze performance issues.
• Built and manage Virtual servers on VMwareESXServer3.0/3.5.
• Experience in creating Clusters in Virtual Center and adding ESXHosts to Virtual Center Cluster.
• Experience in setting up VMKernelNetwork and Enable VMotion.
• Worked on Migrating Virtual Machines with VMotion.
• Experience in configuring VMware DRS Rules and VMwareHA on Clusters in Virtual Center.
• Experience in creating and monitoring ResourcePool for Virtual Machines ResourceReservation and Limits.
• Troubleshoot computer/network, Internet and email problems for users.
• Creating and managing user accounts and the groups in Active Directory users and computers.
• Involved in daily Performance monitoring and Active Directory troubleshooting with the ability to analyze server performance and make recommendations for improvement.
• Helped in auditing Datacenter Inventory in the process of Data center migration

Environment: Windows Server Windows 7/XP, Active Directory, SCOM, VMware ESXi 4.0 Server,VMware View, HP DL & ML server series, IBM Xseries& System x servers, Flexpod, HP Insight Manager, Solarwinds, IBM Director, Cisco Enterprise Network, MS PowerShell, NetApp FAS 960c, FAS2020, FAS3040, DMX 4

Confidential

WINDOWS ADMINISTRATOR

Responsibilities:

• Worked as systems engineer for support and maintenance of server hardware and applications.
• Helped in preparing documentation for server deployments and configurations for application installations.
• Performed Windows server installations for expansion of existing servers to handle server CPU and Memoryload.
• Performed few infrastructure application installations in clustered environment as part of load balancing to handle application load and to reduce downtime.
• Worked as a hardware technician for hardware maintenance and replacement.
• Used monitoring tools for server monitoring and maintenance.
• Performed troubleshooting on windows event logs and errors for system and application event logs.
• Took active part in administrative tasks and maintenance of servers.