PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Having 8 years of experience in the IT, I have acquired a tremendous amount of hands on experience and project management including Windows Server 2003, 2008 and VMware Virtualization VMotion, P2V, V2V, VMware Update Manager, VMware Workstation, Citrix Xen Desktop, Xen App, XEN Server. Installation, Configuration, Administration of VM Ware ESX/ESXi, Virtual Center.
• Create virtual machines, install Operating systems inside VM’s and installing VM tools and configuring these VM’s based on requirements.
• Performed daily system monitoring, verifying the integrity and availability of all hardware, server resources, systems and key processes, reviewing system and VM logfile, and verifying completion of scheduled jobs such as backups, checking alerts and alarms, managing private cloud.
• Implementation and after configuration maintenance of HA, DRS, FT and Resource pool.
• Installation, Configuration and Administration of Virtual Infrastructure using ESX/ESXi, VMware V sphere 4.x, Virtual center 4.X and 5.x Servers.
• P2V conversion of Windows 2003 server editions using enterpriseVMwareconverter and also installed theVMwaretools on the virtual machines and V2V conversion.
• Expert level skills in migration of Virtual machines using VMotion and Storage VMotion.
• Creating Templates, Taking Snapshots, Cloning, Cold Migrations and Hot Migrations.
• Create Virtual switches and port groups, configure virtual networking settings for redundancy by teaming up VNICs, and configure network traffic, security and load balancing policies.
• Install new and rebuild existing ESX/ ESXi Hypervisor, Citrix Xen App and configure hardware, peripherals, services, settings, directories, storage, etc in accordance with standards and project/operational requirement.
• Deploy virtual machines from templates and allocate resources, Manage VM's using VM ware virtual center and web access, Configurations of Virtual switched and network connections.
• Installing & Upgrading of VCenter, Vsphere Client, ESX & ESXi Hypervisors, VMware workstation.
• Expert in Configuring and administering Active Directory, Exchange Server 2007/2010, SQL server 2008 R2, IIS 6.0/7.0.
• Provide 24x7 on call support as part of scheduled rotations.
• Experienced in Upgrading/Migrating Windows NT domain to Windows Server 2003/2008 Active Directory and Windows 2008 Active Directory.
• Experienced in configuring Windows Domain Controller and ADC 2003/2008 Server.
• Group Policy Design & Implementation in Active Directory, Service Manager.
• Considerable experience in IT industry in the field of Network Management, Network Design, Voice networks, Network security and VMware infrastructure design.
• Excellent communication skills both written and spoken.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: Windows Server 2003, Widows 2008, Windows 7, Windows 8, RHEL, MAC OSX.

Applications: Microsoft Office 2007/2010 (Word, Excel, PowerPoint), Microsoft Project Planner, Microsoft Exchange Server 2003/2007/ 2010.

Networking: LAN / WAN Technologies, TCP/IP, DNS, Virtual LAN, VSwitch, Network Design and Troubleshooting, Active directories, DNS, DHCP, Web Servers.

Protocols / Standards: TCP/IP, RIP, EIGRP, OSPF, FRAME RELAY, ETHERNET, NAT, PAT, SPANNING TREE, ARP, SIP, MGCP, H232.

Security: Operating System/Network Hardening, Access controls, AAA, Firewall deployment, RADIUS< TACACS+

VOICE: SIP, H.323, SCCP, voice codecs, VoIP and IP telephony devices & standards, CUCM (Cisco Unified Communications Manager), CUC (Cisco Unified Communication), CUPS (Cisco Unified Presence Server), Microsoft LYNC Server 2010

VMWARE: VMware infrastructure design, VMware fusion, VMware Horizon, VDI, Vpex, VMware Vsphere, VMware ESX, ESXi and VCenter, VMware View with Thin App, VBlock private cloud, flexpod and VMware SPEX.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Omaha, NE

VMware Administrator

Job Responsibilities:

• Virtual Center Server & License Server Installation and Configuration
• Installation, Configuration and Administration of Virtual Infrastructure using ESX 3.X, VMware V sphere 4.x, Virtual center 4.X and 5.x Servers and Citrix XenApp.
• Cisco UCS Deployment and Implementation for Virtual Environments.
• Installation and configuration of virtual machines in physical ESX server
• Creating and managing Resource Pools and adding the VM's into Resource pools, Installing VM Tools into VM's and allocating for end user and Setting up priorities on CPU, Memory (RAM) and other resources.
• Configuring dedicated vmkernel & multiple service Console for better performance.
• Migrate and manage virtual machines and ensure high availability of applications.
• Deploy virtual machines from templates and allocate resources, Manage VM's using VM ware virtual center and web access, Configurations of Virtual switched and network connections.
• Controlling ESX Server's in Virtual Center Configuring HA & DRS for ESX Server.
• Adding additional hardware resources and expanding the OS partition of VM's.
• Implementation and after configuration maintenance of HA, DRS and V Motion, VDI, Vpex and Resource pool.
• Configured HA, DRS and Resource Pool and Manage the Cluster Level.
• VMware Connection Broker configured and managing the VM's through Connection Broker.
• Knowledge about the VMware Appliance software's. (ex. Thin stall, VDM, VMware Converter)
• Network Teaming & Bridge mode configured in ESX Servers and Virtual Servers.
• Patch Management in ESX Servers & Windows Servers through update Manager.
• Troubleshooting and repairing Hardware, software and network related problems.
• Performing Daily server checklist of servers from all over the locations.
• Install and maintain SQL server 2005/2008 and cluster services and setup automatic failover. Maintain SQL backup and troubleshoot connectivity issues. Configure cluster disc.
• Migrate physical server windows servers 2003/2008, Linux, SQL server, Cluster node servers to Virtual servers using VMware vCenter Converter and troubleshoot performance issue.
• Managed and troubleshoot Windows 2003/2008 file servers, Active Directory, WINS, DHCP, DNS, FTP, IIS & storage servers, SQL server 2005/2008 and Exchange Servers, Service Manager, group policy.
• Provide Level 3 and 4 Support and Implementation Engineer. Supported and/or Installed HP ProLiant Windows 2003/2008 Servers, Microsoft Virtual Servers, VMware vSphere Client and SQL Server 2005/2008.
• Provide support for systems and applications testing on the weekends by switching the production Environment to QA and normalize the systems after testing.
• Configuring private Cloud Storage system and managing Vblock, VSPEX, cloud resources.
• Environment: VM ware ESX 5.1, UCS C240 M3, Windows 2008/2003, TCP/IP, DHCP, DNS, NTFS, Bluecat BCN - XMB Adonis (DHCP,DNS), JUNOS Space, Cisco Nexus 5K, CISCO switches, HP P4000, Emulex NC553, NC551 HBA's, JUNPER SRX 240, VMware Lab Manager, VMware converter, VMwareVsphere client, Fault tolerance, High Availability and Distributed resource scheduling.

Confidential, Houston, TX

Remote Tech Support Engineer (RTSE)

Responsibilities:

• Resolving all Technical L3/L4 level Server issues in our organization, which are in Windows and Linux (Ubuntu) hosted on Virtual Environment (VMware).
• Working in an environment maintaining 100's of servers maximum on
• Installing/ Configuration/ Maintenance of Windows Servers (2003/2008), Linux (Redhat / Ubuntu / CentOS / Suse )and VMWare Virtualization ESXi/ESX servers.
• Expertise in Configuration / Maintenance of all roles on Windows and Linux servers like (DHCP, DNS, LDAP, Bind, Samba, Active Directory, File Server, Mail server (Exchange), Printer Service, IIS etc,.)
• Resolving the issues on Exchange server, AD, File Server and etc.., on the priority basis of SLA agreed.
• Migration work, p2v, v2v and also day to day Vmware troubleshooting, performance and fault management. Identify and tag(label) Fibre connections on Cisco Fibre Channel Switch, IBM DS4800 Disk array, IBM Blase Server HBAs for the migration of the data.
• Worked on ESX 4.1 Production Cluster to remove a host from the cluster and move few vm's of the cluster to Independent host in the datacenter to storage vmotion the vms to the independent host Local Disk.
• Move hardware Assets like consolidates VM's, for moving the physical servers/Hosts to a New Datacenter.
• Worked in the new datacenter to setup, configure and bring on line the Infrastructure Server's, assigning new vlans, ips and the like to the moved hosts.
• Worked on issues with Active Directory which was due to time needed to reconfigure the vms/physical boxes on the VLAN, Subnet, DNS settings.
• Performing at my best with my excellent communication skills to face clients and providing them with quick and effective solution for their incident tickets.
• Solving and responding the client under mentioned SLA on raised incident tickets.
• Documenting the solutions for Knowledge Base as per company standards.
• Installing all debian and targz packages required in System level and Domain level integration of packages in Update Manager in Linux Server.
• Configured Windows Server Update Service (WSUS) for the distribution of updates & hot fixes in the domain
• FTP access list editing and installing on clients in Linux and Windows.
• IIS (Windiows) and Apache (Linux) for hosting sites in organisation.
• Administrating and Troubleshooting Domain controller.
• Monitoring and Maintaining Daily, Weekly Backups through Backup Tool.
• Implementation & Management of ENPAQ Unified Gateway at customer locations remotely & On site.
• Creating users and Groups and providing access permission as per the customer's requirement.
• LDAP & DNS integration with the customized unified product.
• Configuration and Management of Firewall (Fortigate) ACLs, allow permit the access to the networks.
• Configuration of NAT and Port Forwarding for the internal hosted Servers to be available from the Internet.
• URL filtering in SQUID proxy server to enable trusted access to Internet.
• Grant/Deny access to the shared file server resources for over 1200+ employees.
• Configuration of File Server and clients for the same.
• Setup the backup solution through the FTP server in scheduled time periods.
• Configuration of LAN, WAN, Dialup connections at the remote locations.
• Setup of Wireless access points, Switches and routers.
• Configuration of Monitoring & Services Desk tool (Sapphire IMS) and helped in customizing the tool according to the requirement.
• Worked in 24/7 environments for Remote Infrastructure Monitoring and Alerting.
• Active participation in training colleagues on troubleshooting (Desktop, LAN/WAN issues, Handling tech problems with hand held gadgets by staff, etc..). for our clients.
• Server Installations for Active Teach -- Pearson project (Remote Assistance).

Confidential

VMware Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Managed and maintained large scale VMware ESX infrastructure
• Responsible for ESX server deployments, system updates/upgrades, system health and status monitoring.
• Installed and configured VMware ESX 3.x and 4 and configured VMware Virtual Center Server, Installing Virtual center components and Managed Virtual center permissions.
• Created Virtual Machines in large scale and Installed VMware tools
• Capacity planning, Using enterprise capacity planner for Data center consolidation
• Upgraded the ESX servers from Vi3 to Vsphere4
• Created standard template and deployed virtual machines through templates, involved in Cloning Virtual Machines
• Converted physical machines to virtual machines (P2V migration) using VMware enterprise converter and PlateSpin.
• Configured Vmotion, and performed Storage Vmotion and Monitored performance of ESX servers and Virtual Machines
• Configured fault tolerance (FT) for mission critical Virtual Machines Configured and Managed VMware cluster with HA and DRS
• Configured and Managed resource pools and VAPPS for Virtual Machines
• Used Virtual centre server for HA, DRS and Vmotion and cold migration
• Upgraded ESX servers using VMware Host update utility and update plugin
• Designed and implemented of Virtual Network and involved in troubleshooting network
• Guided and involved in Performance monitoring and tuning for ESX Servers, Virtual Center Server and Virtual Machines
• Created Distributed Virtual switch, Configuring Virtual switch settings and policies

Confidential

Sr. Linux/Solaris/Vmware Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installed and configured several hundred Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 /SUSE 9 Servers in both Physical Blade and VMware ESX Virtual Environment.
• Installing, configuring and maintaining theVMwareESX 2.5x / Virtual Center 2.x servers.
• Creating, Installing, configuring and maintaining the Virtual Machines, installing Guest Operating Systems like Windows, Linux.
• Implemented Migration by performingP2V, V2V and V2P conversions using vConverter and PlateSpin.
• Created documentation for Server Builds, Application Installations, Mapping the drives and Issues which occur during software upgrades.
• Troubleshoot network issues between Distributed vSwitch, Layer 2 switchesand resolved slow performance between SAN network and VM networks.
• Monitoring and managing virtual servers
• Taking care of pre requisites for servers before going for production
• Updating service account passwords
• Installed, configured and managing network file servers, print servers and maintaining various logs.
• Created virtual machines using Hyper-Vand deployed prepared pre-production environment.
• Maintaining active directory system data and file server volume backups. Monitoring active directory integrity and replication.
• Logs file analysis using the Event Viewer and troubleshooting to resolve issues
• Provided support for teams in activities such as Load testing, troubleshooting, and performance tuning
• Involved in trouble shooting and fixing day-to-dayproblems of the applications in production
• Supported 24*7 on call schedule for Production support.
• Architect, engineer and consolidate the entire OnStar Environment from a Solaris 9/10 environment to a commodity based VMware ESX based environment running RHEL 4 and SUSE 9 on IBM/HP Blades.
• Performed Data Center Migrations from HP to GM Site with multiple physical location, including a physical to virtual migration, utilization of Solaris Containers / Zones, Veritas Volume Manager / Cluster.
• Root cause, triage analysis and problem management of migration processes and failures.
• Shell scripting: automation of Solaris zone / container configuration, Veritas Cluster / Volume Manager Configuration, migration of groups and resources.
• Analysis and prep work for Solaris servers in the old environment for migration
• Administration of servers in the new data center, and subsequent handoff to client support staff.
• Installed and configured Red Hat Enterprise Linux in a VMware ESX Virtual Environment.
• Installing and configuring Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 on ESX 4 based environment residing on HP Blades as required for UAT/Production.