SUMMARY

• Around 8 years of experience in IT Industry as a system administrator specialized in the area of VMware Virtualization products and Windows Administration.
• Extensive experience in working with VMware vSphere Suite, vCloud Suite and Horizon View along with vBlock.
• Good experience in working with vSphere Suite and their management using vCenter server.
• Expertise in various VMware Suites of products involving Cloud (vCD, vCAC, vCM, vCO, vCOPs), Datacenter (vSphere, SRM, vConverter)and End User Computing (Horizon View).
• Installed and Configured VMware vSphere 5, ESXi 5.1, ESXi 5.0, vSphere4, ESXi 4.x, ESX 4.0, ESX 3.5, Site Recovery Manager (SRM) 5.0,4.1, VMware View 5.2, 5.1, 5.0, 4.5 and 4.0, VMware vCenter 4.1 on Cisco UCS servers and upgraded to the latest vSphere ESXi 5.5 patch.
• Have good understanding of various methods in the vCenter server features like vMotion, Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS), Fault Tolerance (FT), Distributed Power Management (DPM) Storage vMotion, High Availability (HA), and other products of VMware.
• Hands on experience in physical to virtual machine (P2V) conversions and virtual to virtual machine (V2V) conversions as well as conversions between different virtual machine formats using VMware Converter and vCenter Guided Consolidation.
• Well experienced in provisioning virtual machines in a fly from Templates, Clones, creating Snapshots and managing user Roles and Permissions.
• Hands on experience in building HP ProLiant DL/BL series and Dell Power Edge Servers with RAID 0, 1, 5, 10 configurations for Failure/Recovery.
• Strong experience in networking concepts such as vSwitches, VMkernel ports, VM ports and Service console, traffic shaping, NIC teaming, load balancing & failover detection.
• Good knowledge of storage concepts related to iSCSI SAN, FC SAN, NAS, EMC CLARiiON, Netapp, Celerra storages.
• Experience in patch management and upgrading ESX hosts using VMware vSphere Update Manager and VMware Host Update Utility.
• Monitoring of virtual infrastructure using vCenter Operations Manager, and HP Insight Manager (HP SIM), SCCM.
• Good understanding of various methods to back - up virtual machines as well as DR strategies utilizing Site Recovery Manager 5.0 (SRM).
• Hands on experience in System administration and troubleshooting in Windows NT/ 2000/2003/ 2008/2008 R2 servers, Active Directory services, LDAP services, WINS, IIS, RAS, DNS, DHCP, FTP, RDP, Windows failover clustering, Microsoft Exchange Server and Microsoft Clustering Services.
• Administration and Installation of operating systems such as Windows XP/Vista/7/NT/ 2000/, RHEL, HP UX, IBM AIX, Ubuntu, Solaris.
• Active team player and an individual with excellent communication, Interpersonal skills, self-motivated, fast learner and good listener.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Application and Virtualization: VMware vSphere 4.0, 4.1, 5.0, 5.1 (ESX/ESXi, vCenter server, VMware converter, vMotion, Storage vMotion VCenter Operations Managers (VCOPS), VMware Update manager), vConverter, VMware Data Recovery, VMware HA, FT, VMware vCLI, VMware converter, VMware SRM, VMware Infrastructure (VI) 3.0 and 3.5 and Citrix XenServer.

Hardware: HP ProLiant DL/BL series, Dell Power Edge, Cisco UCS, HP C class Blade servers

Storage: EMC CLARiiON, VMAX, VNX, Hitachi, Netapp using FC, iSCSI SAN’s and NAS

Networking & Protocols: LAN/WAN routing, TCP/IP, FTP, Telnet, RAS, RIP, SMTP, LDAP, POP3, VPN and VLAN

Operating Systems: Windows servers NT/ 2000/2003/2008/2008 R2, Windows client OS XP/Vista/Windows 7, HP-UX, AIX and Solaris(x86 and SPARC)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Plano TX

VMware/Systems Admin

Responsibilities:

• Installation, customization, capacity management and maintaining vSphere ESXi and other components of Cloud Infrastructure.
• Installing and Configuring VMware vSphere 5.1 servers on Cisco UCS chassis and HP Proliant B250 blade servers.
• Administration of HP C7000 chassis with Onboard Administrator and Virtual Connect using VCM.
• Building Windows 2008, 2012 Servers and upgrading Windows 2003 on both physical and virtual machines.
• Hardware management and configuration of HP C7000 and Cisco UCS.
• Upgraded vSphere 5.1 to vSphere 5.5 using VMware’s Update Manager.
• Monitoring of virtual infrastructure using vCenter Operations Manager, and HP Server Manager.
• Used vCloud Director for provisioning the VM’s and vApps.
• Generate reports with health analyzer for continuous monitoring of Virtual environment availability through VCOPS.
• Implement VMware SRM, configure protection groups and integrate it with RecoverPoint in the environment.
• Evaluate and analyze systems, performance, issues and metrics in order to provide recommendations for service improvements.
• Patched the windows servers by validating the patches with the application vendor.
• Diagnose, solve and provide root cause analysis for application, hardware, network, and operating system issues.
• Configuring the standard cluster settings for the vCenter clusters according to company policy.
• Validating the Hosts, Clusters and vCenter as per the company standards.
• Provide documentation forVMwarevirtual machine/datastore configurations, network topologies and virtual architecture.
• Configuring virtual environments forVMwareHigh Availability (HA), vMotion, NIC Teaming, Host Profiles, VLAN tagging and Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS).
• Troubleshoot issues with VMware and document the VM mapping with the LUNs allocated from the array.
• Work with network team to get the VMware internal network configured properly.
• Develop and implement maintenance plans and activities for Cloud infrastructure: Applying fixes, security patches and upgrades, capacity increases and other Cloud related maintenance.

Confidential, Richardson TX

Windows/VMware Admin

Responsibilities:

• Installed and configured VMware vCenter 5.1 servers to enable centralized management of multiple hosts.
• Configured linked mode configuration on vCenter servers for the ease of operations.
• Administrated the environment having about 200+ ESXi hosts and about 3000+ VMs.
• Supported a large scale Datacentre projects including server installation, hardware maintenance, and break/fix activities.
• Design and implement various VMware server consolidations using Virtual Center, ESX Sever and various P2V conversion tools such as Platespin and VMware Converter.
• Created and maintained environmental specific installation and configuration guides for P2V conversions, ESX Server, vCenter Server, vSphere Clients, VMware Tools, Patch upgrades.
• Implemented and tested Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI).
• Configure and implement VMware SRM protection groups.
• Troubleshoot any issues with the SRM sync issues.
• Administrated 12 fully populated vBlock 300HX series environments.
• Worked with the VCE Technical support team, CISCO TAC, UIMP and UIMOPs engineering team to fix the unknown bugs, helped them to replicate the issues.
• Installed and Configured UIMOPs for vBlock Infrastructure monitoring.
• Configured the standard cluster settings for the vCenter clusters.
• Used vCloud Director for provisioning the VMs and vApps.
• Providing resource allocation and deployment via vCloud Director

Confidential, Tennessee

VMware Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Install and configure VMware vSphere 4.0 and 4.1 servers on HP C7000 chassis and BL 680c blade servers.
• Upgrade experience from VMware Infrastructure 3.5 to vSphere 4.1 using Update Manager (VUM) also includes virtual machine tools and hardware version 7 of virtual machines.
• Administration of HP C7000 chassis with virtual connects using VCM and OBA.
• Administration of vSphere ESX/ESXi nodes using the vCenter across 2 datacenters.
• Configured Clusters for the ESX/ESXi hosts and created affinity and anti-affinity rules in the DRS to either keep the VMs together or separate them.
• Creating and Managing resource pools for VMware Virtual Machine.
• Creation & Troubleshooting of Virtual Network (vSwitch / VDS) with HP Virtual Connects.
• Experience with EMC & Netapp SAN Infrastructure with VMware Environment.
• Experience of Storage Migration on 500 VM’s (Fiber channel Upgrade from EMC DMX-3 to DMX-4).
• Large number of P2V migration using tools like VMware convertor 5.0, Platespin and Doubletake.
• Completed Physical-to-Virtual (P2V), Virtual-to-Virtual (V2V) and Virtual-to-Physical (V2P) migration of Windows NT, 2000, 2003, & 2008 as well as Linux servers from VMware.
• Implementation of SRM 5.0 on vSphere across multiple sites to provide Disaster recovery solution for VMware VSphere Environment.
• Failback testing from Protected Site to Recovery Site in SRM and shared Recovery Site across multiple Protected Sites.
• Building Windows 2008 Servers and upgrading Windows 2003 on both physical and virtual machines.
• Building VM’s and new Templates for new Projects and allocating them to appropriate Resource pools.
• Database Upgrade for vCenter and update manager from SQL 2005 to SQL 2008 on 2 VCenter Servers.
• Installed the VMware Capacity Planner in planning, designing and implementing the virtual infrastructure environment and monitoring of virtual environments.
• Administering Windows 2003/2008 Active Directory, DNS, DHCP and building new windows physical/virtual servers as per the requirement of the project.

Confidential, Hagerstown, MD

VMware Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Design, Install and configure VMware vSphere 5.0 servers on Cisco UCS chassis and B250 blade servers.
• Hands-on implementation and support of Cisco UCS with UCSM.
• Experience with implementing server/storage solutions using Cisco UCS solutions for virtualized platforms.
• In-depth knowledge of Cisco UCS components and able to define and implement service profiles using UCSM.
• Deploy, install and maintain VMware View 5 with Windows 7 images.
• Implementation of View Connection servers and View Composer.
• Deployment of automated Windows 7 based desktop pools with linked clone.
• Capture, store and maintain application packages and upgrade ThinApp packages.
• Assign ThinApp applications to pools and/or global groups.
• Provide support with VMware issues including VMware View, networking, storage, vMotion, snapshots etc.
• Patch management of VMware ESXi and Windows servers using Update manager and SCCM respectively.
• Creating virtual switches and distributed switches using Power CLI.
• Created and managed Virtual Machines and Templates, worked with clones and snapshots of Virtual Machines.
• Experience in configuring VMware vCenter Alarms for data store and host memory and CPU usage.

Confidential, Seattle WA

Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Install and configure VMware vSphere 4.0 and VI 3.5 environment for hosting the servers on HP C7000 blade enclosure.
• Reconfigured all ESX network connectivity utilization VLAN tagging and teaming.
• Consolidated many smaller ESX clusters and hosts to provide optimum resource utilization.
• Migrate Virtual machines from one environment to newly build Environment using vMotion and VMware Converter.
• Deploy VMs using Templates as per requirements. Clone VMs and took snapshots of VMs.
• Responsible for well-organized and maintain Virtual Environment.
• Implementing and managing Windows 2003/2008 ADS, DNS, DHCP Server with client requirements.
• Administered the Group Policy, Also used group policy to automatically upgrade, repair software installation online.
• Troubleshooting of System Hardware & Application issues.Implementation and administration of LAN.
• Locally & remotely managing Microsoft Windows 2003/2008 Server issues fixing the same with in defined SLA.
• Schedule and managing the backup as per the client requirement
• Configure and manage Symantec Enterprise Protection Manager to protect the Network from the tread attacks.
• WSUS server implementation and manage the Windows Network with latest updates and patches.
• Capacity planning with the help of HP Performance Insight Manager reporting tool.

Confidential

System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for providing level 1 technical support to customers from various countries.
• Fixed problems in HP AIO (All-in-one) printers and maintained the customer chat queues in our team.
• Worked for Hewlett-Packard in AIO (All-in-One) printers division.
• Administrating production servers/network infrastructure that includes Windows Administration of Domain Controllers, IIS Web Servers (HTTP/S, FTP and SMTP), Exchange 2003/2010 Mail Servers, NAS, File and print Servers, RADIUS, Blackberry 5.0 and Terminal Servers on Windows 2003/2008/2010.
• Responsible production support of Active directory (AD), GPO, Domain users, Users and groups and given appropriate permissions, shares and privilege to access LAN and Domain environment.
• Administrating/Responsible production Exchange 2003 Email Server, creating/disabling users, Mailboxes management, public folders administration, monitoring server health, LDAP, SMTP traffic/queues, Resolving Outlook issues.
• Installed, Configured and Implemented Terminal Server (TS) RemoteApp on IIS 6.0 Windows 2003 R2 published applications using TS Web Access, RemoteApp program and TS Gateway.
• Familiar with web based .Net application, xml integration in IIS web server, IIS Clustering, Load Balancing, Logging and Reporting.