SUMMARY

• Over 7+ years of experience as VMware/ Windows Administration and Systems Engineer.
• Comprehensive Hands - On experience on VMware vSphere 6.x/5.x, VMware vCenter 6/5.x, vCloud suite, vCenter Operations (vCOPS), VSAN,NSX and vRealize Operations(vROPS).
• Expertise in planning, designing and implementing VMware virtualization technologies, storage, virtual Network infrastructure and Microsoft Technologies.
• Designed, Installed and Configured VMware ESX/ESXi within vSphere 3.5, 4,4.1,5 and VMware View 4.5, 4.6 environments, Consolidated Backup, load balancing, DRS, HA, FT, DPM, vMotion and VMware Data Recovery, vCloud directory& VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM) 4.0/4.5 .
• Experienced in Physical to Virtual (P2V) and Virtual to Virtual (V2V) migrations using converters.
• Extensive understanding of VMware networking concepts like creating standard and Distributed vSwitches, Port groups, NICs and VLAN Management.
• Successfully migrated Citrix Presentation Server from 4.5 to Xenapp 5.0.
• Experienced with Active Directory, GPOs, DNS, DHCP, IIS (Web Server), FTP, Terminal Server, WSUS, Microsoft Clustering and Exchange Mail Server.
• Experience with deploying Windows servers using cloud portal Embotics Cloud Portal.
• Experienced in working with different hardware servers like HP Proliant, CISCO UCS, Dell and IBM.
• Experienced with migrations i.e. Long distance vMotion, Cross vswitch vMotion, Cross vCenter vMotion, vMotion & Storage Migration.
• Managed ESXi Host patches by downloading and installing VMware update manager in the vCenter.
• Extensive knowledge in System Administration, Installation, Upgrading, Configuration, Troubleshooting, Security, Backup, Disaster Recovery, Performance Monitoring and Fine-tuning on LINUX and UNIX Systems.
• Built and configured Templates and deployed Virtual Machines through templates.
• Planed, Designed and Implemented Hyper-V Clustered environment, providing High Availability and Failover and Migration of Hyper-V cluster 2008 R2 to Server 2012 Hyper-V cluster.
• Experienced with Shell Scripting i.e. PowerShell and PowerCLI.
• Experienced with iSCSI, SAN, NAS/ NFS storage and RAID concepts.
• Experienced with Hyper converged infrastructure and Flash storage.
• Experienced with installing, configuring, administering Microsoft SQL Server 2005/2008 /2012.
• Experienced in upgrading vCenter servers and components associated with it.
• Experienced in working with the updates required on the VMware ESXi hosts, Virtual Machine Tools/ Hardware and the changes required by the client in the environment.
• Implemented user administration by modifying, adding and deleting user permissions on the accounts.
• Ability to support reliable documentation and strong Confidential organizational and communication skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems / Networking: Microsoft Windows 2012/2008/2003 , Microsoft Active directory 2001/2008/2003

Virtualization tools: vSphere 5.x and 6.0, vCenter, VMware Update Manager, vROPS, VSAN,NSX,FT, HA, DRS, DPM, vMotion and Storage vMotion, SRM, Thinapp, VMware Workstation, P2V/V2V Converters, Citrix Xen Server, Hyper-V

Shell Scripting: Powershell, PowerCli & SSH

Remote Tools: RDP, DameWare, Horizon View, RADMIN, VNC, Team Viewer

Hardware: IBM, HP, Compaq, Dell desktops\laptops\servers, Cabling, Network printers, Cisco Routers & Switches, 802.11x Wireless gateways, Access Points, Network UPS, Storage Area Network, NAS, iSCSI SAN, Flash storage.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Englewood, CO

VMWARE/WINDOWS ADMINISTRATOR

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for maintaining complete VMware infrastructure for the customer.
• Involved Datacenter server migration and SAN storage migration Activities.
• Responsible for upgrading the Virtual Machines, VMware ESXi hosts and vCenter servers in the organization.
• Recently upgraded our environment from VMware ESXi 5.5 to ESXi 6 and vCenter 5.5 to vCenter 6.
• Responsible for Disaster Recovery process implementation for the critical servers in the infrastructure.
• Installed and configured vCenter Server, Clusters and resource pools.
• Implemented DRS affinity and anti-affinity rules for the Virtual Machines in a cluster.
• Worked on installing and maintaining Hyper converged infrastructure environment.
• Experienced in working with ESXi and VM storage issues, also co-ordinated with storage admin team to resolve.
• Experienced with installing and configuring VSAN and NSX.
• Responsible for building, configuring and deploying VMs through templates.
• Involved in troubleshooting DNS, DHCP and Active Directory.
• Experience with deploying Windows servers using cloud portal Embotics Cloud Portal.
• Created and managed Standard and Distributed Switches (dvSwitch) in the vCenter servers for making use of best network design and stability across the vCenter servers.
• Responsible for performing monthly patching on infrastructure servers.
• Took active part in troubleshooting vCenter and ESXi issues and also in system hardware failures.
• Responsible for VMware and ESX patch management using vCenter update manager.
• Responsible for upgrading the Hardware version and VMware Tools version on the Virtual Machines.
• Experienced with new vSphere vMotion concepts Long distance vMotion, Cross vSwitch vMotion, Cross vCenter vMotion.
• Experienced in automation reports using Shell scripting PowerShell & PowerCLI.
• Experienced in working with vRealization Operations & vRealization Login Insite.
• Strong working knowledge on the Wintel servers.

Environment: VMware vsphere5.5/6,NSX6.1x, Cisco UCS servers, Super micro servers, vCloud Director v5.5, Windows 2008 r2, SQL server, Active directory server, VMware ESXi 5.5 Server, RedHat 6.1,Ubuntu, VMware vCenter client, VMAX 40k,VMware Standalone Convertor, vShpere data protection, vShpere update manager, vCloud directory, VMware vCenter Realize operation manager (VROPS) .

Confidential, MILWAUKEE, WI

VMWARE/WINDOWS ADMINISTRATOR

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for maintaining about 200+ VMware ESXi servers and about 1000+ virtual machines in a datacenter.
• Worked in the migration projects from vSphere 4.x to vSphere 5.0 and 5.5 based on the hardware servers.
• Generated user accounts in Active Directory (AD).
• Maintained healthy environment of Virtual Machines by keeping on upgrading the VM Hardware and Tools versions up to date.
• Responsible for SQL server database administration of vCenter.
• Working on troubleshooting the triggered alarms generated from VMware vCenter Server
• Responsible for performing VMware patch updates.
• Upgraded the vSphere ESXi servers on the HP blade servers and CISCO UCS servers.
• Responsible for migrating the datacenter and converted the physical servers to virtual servers using convertors.
• Experienced with Live migration, Cold migration, vMotion & Storage vMotion.
• Responsible for taking the snapshots for backup before modifying or upgrading the VMs.
• Built servers and installed applications as per the company standards and requirement. Used windows 2003 Standard Edition. Upgraded the Firmware of the servers. Participated in mounting, racking and cabling of the servers.
• Managed separate VMware clusters like QA, Development and Production.
• Administration of VMware vSphere in production and lab.
• Physical to virtual conversions of Windows and Linux servers.
• Created and managed multiple snapshots.
• Installed and configured vCenter update manager for installing ESXi patches and also to upgrade ESXi Kernel.
• Using Hot Plug feature for increasing the performances of virtual machine.
• Created and Trouble shooting is performed on Virtual Network, ESXi and Virtual Machines.
• Analyze, log, track and complex software and hardware matters of significance pertaining to networking connectivity issues, printer, server, and application to meet business needs.

Environment: HP C7000 Chassis, GEN8 BL 480c servers, DL 380P, Windows 2008 r2, SQL server, Active directory server, VMware ESXi 5.5 Server, RedHat 6.1,SUSE Linux enterprise, Solaris OS, cent OS, VMware vCenter client, Storage HUS150, Juniper routers MX 960,VMware Standalone Convertor, vShpere data protection, vShpere update manager, HP virtual connect manager, VMware vCenter operation manager (VCOPS) .

Confidential, SIMPSONVILLE, SC

VMWARE/WINDOWS ADMINISTRATOR

Responsibilities:

• Built and configured VMware ESXi 5.x hosts and deployed Windows XP/ 2003/2008/2012 virtual guest operating systems.
• Experienced in working with vCenter and managing ESXi hosts using VMware vCenter.
• Responsible in creating Virtual Machines on the shared Datastores.
• Worked on Power shell scripting for managing the ESXi environment.
• Implemented and tested the Desktop Virtualization.
• Administered Virtual servers and the Windows guest operating systems.
• Performed host upgrades by using update manager in the VC as well manually through ILO of HP Proliant servers.
• Experience in IT decision-making, policy direction, planning, and team management. Participated in the migration planning, developing, testing and moving the migration process onto full-fledged production network.
• Managed vCenter server inventories using the VMware vCenter linked mode.
• Performed server utilization statistics and estimated capacity for the future servers to be installed.
• Decommissioned the legacy virtual servers as per the request from the end users.
• Responsible for the networker installation on the virtual servers specified by the owners.
• Performed Reverse DNS lookup to determine the domain name associated with the IP addresses of the servers.
• Identified and fixed ESX performance bottlenecks by working with clients and other teams.

Environment: VMware ESXi 5.5 Server, Windows 2003/2008 R2, SQL Server 2000, IIS 6.0/7.0, Dell Power Edge Servers, HP Servers, CISCO blade servers, IBM Blade Servers, Remote Desktop Services, IBM TSM, Microsoft Visual Studio TFS.

Confidential, REDMOND, WA

VMWARE ADMINISTRATOR

Responsibilities:

• Developed and enhanced an enterprise wide VMware and x86 hardware standard for multi-site organization including ESX/ESXi, Windows 2000/ 2003/2008/2012 operating systems and server built standards.
• Configured automated VM migrations using automated scripts in PowerShell. Standardized network cable runs for VMware hosts across multiple data center.
• VM migration across cluster level using v2v, Mount files option and SCP.
• Implementation of Host Profile in development cluster.
• Perform troubleshooting of operating system and software infrastructure issues on Domain Controllers, Member Servers, Server Clusters, and Virtual Machine Farms.
• Configured the standard cluster settings on vCenter clusters.
• Configured windows clustering for vCenter server high availability.
• Implementation Of different Host Profiles for Multiple Clusters across Multiple Data centers.
• Worked with system, network, security, and Storage engineering teams to prepare and configure new servers for the VMware ESX environment.
• Performed backup and recovery of all systems, configurations, applications and data in the data center environment using Netback up and other backup and recovery systems.
• Administered VMware environment, evaluated and implemented new hardware and software solutions that benefited architecture and operations.
• Resolved Production Server problems related to web applications, Cluster failover, File system, DNS and network connectivity.
• Implemented successful recovery byVMwareSRM (Planned Migration, Disaster Recovery) and eliminated the complexity of managing and testing recovery plans.

Environment: HP DL 580 G5\G7, HPUX, DL380 G5\G6\G7\G8, vSphere 4 and 5, SRM5, Clustering, Net App FAS Devices, IBM SVC, Cisco Switches, Windows 2012/2008/2003 , Linux SUSE(9-10), Linux Redhat and Citrix VDI.

Confidential, COLMBUS, OHIO

VMWARE/SYSTEMS ENGINEER

Responsibilities:

• Evaluated and implemented new technologies. Deployed and maintained 150+ servers, windows servers that include VMware, Microsoft and RedHat Linux platforms.
• Performed Troubleshoot on network issues between Distributed vSwitch, Layer 2 switches and resolved slow performance between SAN network and VM networks.
• Maintained and installed Open SUSE Linux servers.
• Provided Consultation for Troubleshooting in Virtualization, SAN Configuration, Active Directory group policy design & Implementation and ESXi Distributed vSwitch Network Configuration
• Provided Technical Recommendations for Installation and Implementation of Virtual Environments in Industrial Plants. Identified Administrative Standards, Issues and Process Improvements
• Migration and P2V conversion Experience on many applications like SQL Server, Exchange running on Windows and some applications running on Linux Red hat and SUSE and VMkernel Linux appliances.
• Built and maintained VMware and Windows Server Infrastructure for ‘Rockwell Automation Fair 2011 & 2012’
• Provided technical assistance and best practices for customers to simulate in their own environment
• Good experience in working on vShield manager as security virtual appliances built for VMware vCenter Server integration and configured through a web-based user interface, a vSphere Client plug-in, a command line interface (CLI), and REST API.
• Presenting LUNs, RDM and Storage to various different hosts such as windows, VMware along with host side configurations of SAN Storage.
• LUN path mapping and keeping track of VM’s along with their Datastores.
• Worked with vCloud directory to data services as virtual data centers that provide virtualized computation, networking, and Storage and security.
• Developed Proof of concepts for latest Technologies, Documentation and verifying Test cases for Future implementations of VSphere 5.5, VCloud Automation Center, and Windows Server 2012, VMware vCloud director, VMware VOPS (VMware Operations Manager) and VMware vShield.
• Troubleshooting VSphere ESX/ESXi, ESXi Clusters, Host Profiles, Distributed Switches, HA, DRS, vMotion, Storage vMotion, Fault Tolerance, Resource pools, vCenter Permissions, Snapshots, Disk expansions, Templates, snapshots, Disaster Recovery (DR) and High Availability (HA) using PowerCLI and Remote CLI
• Implementation Of different Host Profiles for Multiple Clusters across Multiple Data centers
• Developing Workflows with VMware PowerCLI, Microsoft Service Manager 2012 and Microsoft Orchestrator Run books for Automating tasks for Virtual Machine, Virtual Desktop, Application Approval and Deployment processes.
• Deploy vApp workflow is to provide a single call workflow that is capable of instantiating a vApp Template from vCloud director (vCD) and performing a number of operations on the resulting vApp before actually deploying and powering it on.
• Had deployed an automated provisioning workflow using VCOPS and checking performance of whole infrastructure.
• Interacting with business users for gathering the requirements for on boarding the applications to Citrix Servers.

Environment: VMware ESXi 5.0/4.0, VSphere 4.0, VCenter 4.0, Windows Server 2008 R2/2003, Windows 8/7/XP, Active Directory, DNS, TCP/IP, SQL Server 2005, Remedy, Cluster Services, LinuxSUSE, Perl, PowerShell, Citrix XenDesktop 5.0 / 5.6, Citrix XenApp, Oracle data base.

Confidential

SYSTEM ENGINEER

Responsibilities:

• Installation, Configuration and Administration of VMware ESXi 4.0, Virtual Center 3.0 Servers and also patching, management and troubleshooting of VMware, and ESXServers.
• Created Domain User Accounts, Distribution Groups with Active Directory/Exchange environment.
• Involved in day to day support related to Data Center, documentation of run books, training, support, and coordination with off-shore team for moving/relocating Widows/VMware/Applications/Backup Support to offshore team.
• Installation of desktops in VDI environment.
• Implemented and tested Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) with the terminal Services as in RDP Services, and Citrix Receiver.
• Configured automated VM migrations using automated scripts in PowerShell.
• Wrote Linux/Perl/XML monitoring script that launched failed processes and sent notification.
• Automation, Support and Implementation of Citrix XenDesktop (CITRIXVDI) infrastructure, Desktop Delivery Controller (DDC) and VDA (Virtual Desktop Agent) for VDEffort.
• Extensively worked with Active Directory Services, IIS Servers, DNS, and DHCP.
• Configured and maintained new VM’s and Installed Microsoft Windows 2008/2003 Servers, managing VM’s and ESX servers.
• Support on ESX and VM Storage issues and coordination with Storage Team on planning and administration.
• Installed and Configured WIN, TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, IIS and Terminal Services.
• Involved in Installing, Clustering and Administration of SQL Server 2005 on Windows Cluster.
• Responsible for monitoring Backups and Restoration using CommVault/Simpana on Dell PowerVault ml6000.
• Participated/coordinated Weekly Status meetings and reported on the project status, Incident Reports and Change Management for the transition process.
• VMware ESX server Hardware setup in all sites with HA/DRS Clustering/vMotion.
• Experience in setting a cluster environment for load balancing and HA
• Networking setup with the port group and VLAN on the ESX server and Physical switches.
• Monitoring and troubleshooting vSphere performance: CPU, memory, disk/Storage, and other issues.
• Involved in planning and design of Site Recovery Manager Environment for disaster recovery.
• Experience in troubleshooting issues during Site Recovery Manager Implementation.

Environment: IBM X Series, Dell Power Edge 2850,2950,.ESX3,ESX3.5 EMC Clarrion, Hitachi Storage, juniper switches .2003,NT, SLES UNIX .