SUMMARY:

• Systems Administrator with 8+ years of experience in VMware vSphere - global virtualization and storage networking infrastructure.
• Experience in designing, deploying virtual networks and upgrading systems, including hardware, software, networks, databases, servers and peripheral equipment.
• Extensive experience withActive Directory, GPO’s, DHCP, DNS, IP, Sub Nets, VPNs, vLAN, Network routing, firewalls, LAN/WAN switching and Backup & Recovery,File & Print Server, IIS (Web Server), FTP, Terminal Server.
• Extensive experience inWindows 2012/2008/2003/2000/ NT4.0 servers at single or multi domain platforms.
• Experience configuring and supporting converged infrastructure systems like VCE Vblock.
• Motivated, enthusiastic, and pro-active System/Network Administrator with an excellentattitude.Expert in Windows Server System Administrationskills.
• Professional, outgoing tier 3 support and solutions provider for complex IT strategies and initiatives to reduce maintenance and costs along with providing stable and reliable services.
• Find services and Processes, Find Server IP address Server name, Domain, Domain Controller, OS type.
• Solid background in TCP/IP networking and troubleshooting in a Microsoft Windows networking environment.
• Experience withVirtualizationtechnologies like installing and configuring VMware vSphere. Creation, management, administration and maintenance of virtual servers and clients.
• Experience in Networking configuration & Security Configuration on ESX Host and Mobile Device Management.
• Extensive knowledge in advance features ofESX VMotion, SVMotion, HAandDRS.
• Experience inP2V, V2V MIGRATIONusingVMware Converter / Plate Spin 6.8.x. Creating host and clientVM templatesandcloning.
• Experience inMicrosoft Office Suite, Open Office, Visio, Outlook, Printing, Windows networking.
• Experience withx86 / x64Intel, HP, IBM & Dellhardware like rack-mounted servers, tower servers, desktop, laptop and other peripherals.
• Theability to lift 50 lbsand install computer and electronic equipment in a safe and careful manner.
• Strong communication and people skills, both written and verbal.Able to assess and resolve client issues quickly.A proven record of reliability, the ability to perform under time constraints, and good judgment under pressure.
• Ability to maintain a reliable and methodical approach to support and Documentation.Quick learner, highly motivated team player with excellent organizational and analytical skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

VMware: VMware vSphere 3.5/4.1/5.0, Workstation 6/7, ESX Server 5.0 - 5.5, VMware DRS, HA and FT, VMware Standalone Converter 3.0, VMware Update Manager 1, VMware Virtual Desktop Infrastructure VDI, VMware View.

Operating System: Windows Server 2012/2008 R2, Windows Server 2003/2012 SP1/ 2008, WindowsXP/Vista/7

Application Servers: Microsoft Active Directory 2003/2008,DHCP, DNS, Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) 6.0/7.0, SCCM

Backup Solutions: VMware VCB

Desktop Application: Microsoft Office 2003/2007, Outlook 2003/2007, Star Office, VMware Workstation 5.0 and 6.0

Networking Equipment: CISCO Routers 17xx, 26xx, 36xx and 76xx Series, CISCO 29xx, 39xx Series Switches, CISCO IOS 10.x 11.x and 12.x, IBM Routers and switches.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Houston TX

VMware & Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installation, Configuration and Upgradation of Redhat Linux 6,7, Windows 2008, 2012 operating systems.
• Installing, configuring and deployment of VMware products such as VMware Workstation, VMware converter, VMware View in virtual environment.
• Server maintenance along with software and hardware maintenance engineering.
• Enabled and simplified Administrative Management from Desktop view.
• Provisioned datastores and configured storage for VMs along with network connectivity on multiple ESXi hosts.
• Involved in Disaster Recovery design & planning.
• Hands on experience with Windows 2003, 2008, 2012, 7, 8, 10 and MS Office.
• Performed Physical to Virtual (P2V) and Virtual to Virtual (V2V) migrations for more than 100 servers.
• Provisioned Virtual Machines (servers) on ESXi host and installed Windows and RedHat Linux Operating System on more than 400 servers.
• Monitoring and managing performance of ESXi servers and VMs.
• Created templates from VMs and deployed VMs using templates.
• Worked on VMware clustering High Availability and DRS.
• Migration using VMotion and Storage VMotion.
• Creating, cloning Linux Virtual Machines, templates using VMware 4/5 and migrating servers between ESX hosts. vSphere NAS and SAN storage mounting, configuration and troubleshooting Windows server administration and configuration.
• Worked closely with the Client to streamline, improve the existing systems and managing workflow.
• Written/edited scripts for user administration, automation, system maintenance, security management, information gathering using Perl, Shell (Korn, shell, Bash).
• Disk mirroring and RAID (0/1/5) implementation using SVM/LVM/VxVM.
• Involved in trouble shooting issues and ticket resolving.

Environment: Red Hat Enterprise Server (RHEL 4, 6 and RHEL 7), Solaris 8/9/10, HPUX-11i,11.x,10.x, ESX/ESXi, VMWARE E3500, E4500, E6500, Storage Arrays and IBM Storage Subsystem DS6000, Veritas cluster server, VMware 5.X, Tomcat/Apache, JBoss

Confidential - Andover, MA

Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Install/configure and manage vBlock systems and infrastructure management software for testing, development and production environments.
• Installing vSphere 5.1/5.5 on half blade and full blade servers on Cisco UCS.
• Worked on vCOPS 5.8/5.7 configuration and performance analysis on vSphere 5.x infrastructure.
• Configures and documents VCE software, hardware and service solutions to meet customer and sales objectives.
• Configuration of Vblock components, including but not limited to Cisco UCS, Cisco C-class servers, Nexus 1000v, EMC VNX, and vSphere, UIM, Windows and Vision.

  Installation and configuration of EMC Power Path in ESXi for SAN Storage Path optimization.

• Comprehensive backup and testing of all installed Vblock components.
• Experience with SRM 5.x deployment and implementation using vSphere replication.
• Hardware, software and firmware upgrades of Vblock systems and components.
• Migrating ESX hosts between data centers and clusters to balance usage and capacity.
• VMwarevSphere administration and configuration in a large enterprise environment.
• VMwareESX performance monitoring to resolve host and virtual machine issues

  Virtual machine (V2V) conversions and reconfigurations between virtual centers usingVMwareConverter. vSphere NAS and SAN storage mounting, configuration and troubleshooting

  Windows server administration and configuration.

• Cross-datacenter and cross-cluster virtual machine moves using vMotion andVMwareConverter.
• Planning and implementation of virtual machine moves and clones between hosts and clusters.
• Planning and implementation of virtual machine resource (RAM, CPU, disk) expansions

  Using PowerCLI to gather vSphere data and set host and virtual machine properties.

Environment: Windows 2003/2008/2012 R2, Windows XP/Win 7, VMware ESX 5.0 Server, Open filer iSCSI SAN/NAS, EMC VNX 5100, Dell VRTX, HP Proliant Blade Servers, Remote desktop services.

Confidential - Hicksville, NY

VMware Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installation, configuration and deployment of VMware products such as VMware Workstation, VMware converter, VMware View, VCB and more in virtual environment
• Experience in installing, configuring and troubleshooting VMware View Composer and View Connection Manager to make Virtual Desktop Infrastructure efficient and to simplify desktop administrative management tasks. Responsible for successfully upgrading all hosts and vCenter servers to vSphere 4.1
• Reconfigured all ESX network connectivity utilization including VLAN tagging and teaming and also the configuration of many dv Switches with 802.1q VLAN tagging
• Good experience in using Cisco IOS commands and techniques to perform SAN zoning.
• Installed and worked on complete end to end infrastructure solutions like VCE Vblock.
• Efficient use of VDI( Virtual Desktop Infrastructure ) to simplify desktop administrative management tasks.
• Architectural design, installation and configuration of VMware View desktop virtualization infrastructure (VDI).
• Installed NetAppClustered DataOntapconfigurations of various sizes along with hundreds ofDataOntap 7-modeconfigurations from scratch including, cabling disk shelves, controllers, switches and installing Ontap.
• Experience configuring and supporting converged infrastructure systems like NetApp Flexpod, VCE vBlock.
• Experience of FC SAN/iSCSI SAN/NAS (EMC (CX3), NetApp, Dell MD3000i, Dell MD1000) storage technology and work with SANs in VMware environments
• Good experience in migrating production VMs using Storage vMotion to new Datacenter with zero downtime
• Configured storage LUNs for VMFS and raw disk mappings (RDM’s) on an HP EVA 4400
• Good experience in configuration of iSCSI storage box with the help of Openfiler
• Experience in troubleshooting SAN related issues and firmware upgradations of SANs in VMware and different environments
• Support Multiple (PSM and Core) VMware 3x and vSphere4 farm.
• Design and Plan Upgrade to vSphere5
• Installed new NetApp and EMC and implemented best practices.
• Involved in DR design and planning
• Actively involved in PSM VMware vSphere4/ESX5.0, Win2003/2008R2 Server deployment in DR environment
• Test and recommend Replication/Backup solutions for VMware, SAN and Disaster Recovery
• Carve LUN’s & Manage HP EVA4400 Fiber SAN and HP Lefthand P4500 Storage Solutions
• Provision VMware Datastore’s and configure storage for Virtual Machines
• Hands on experience with Windows 2k, XP, 7, 2003 and 2008R2 Server and MS Office

Environment: Windows 2000/ 2003/2008/2012 R2, Windows XP/Vista/Win 7, VMware ESX 5.0 Server, Open filer iSCSI SAN/NAS, HP Proliant Blade Servers, Remote desktop services.

Confidential, Phoenix AZ

Senior System /VMware Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installation and configuration of ESX server.
• Server migration physical to Virtual using Hot and cold cloning technology in VMware
• Creating cluster in VMware
• Configuring High Availability (HA), DRS.
• Creation of template
• Consolidation of Physical servers
• Deploying virtual servers using template
• Cloning of virtual server
• Rules creation.
• Creation of backup policy,alert configuration of backup policy.
• Configuration of VMotion, virtual switch,Vlan in Virtual center.
• Maintenance of virtual center server.
• Providing and maintaining user access in VC, configuring mail alert for any failure in HA,DRS,CPU or memory.
• Patch management using vmware update manager for ESX server.
• SAN space allocation for ESXi servers host. Scanning and configuring LUN for ESX server.
• Trouble shooting issues related to ESX host,VCB,HA,DRS,Vpxa, VMware update manager
• Updating documentation of complete process.
• Monitoring VMware backup
• Disk Space increase using VMware converter.
• Importing of virtual server using VMware converter.
• Testing and implementing disaster recovery
• Installation, implementation and migration of CLARiiON CX3-40, CX3-80, and CX4-960, into a Storage Area Network.
• Perform various methods of data migration from NetApp to EMC and EMC to NetApp and providing the customer with practical methods in transferring large amounts of data to remote locations
• Performed LUN management, metaluns, RAID groups, storage groups.
• Installed and configured SAN with EMC Director Switches/Edge switches and Zoning all Servers.
• Created aggregates/volumes/qtress/quotas and export NFS shares to Solaris, HP-UX hosts
• Administered NetApp FAS270, and FAS960/3070
• Allocated CIFS and NFS shares from NetApp filers.
• Troubleshoot NFS and CIFS issues and fine tune the filers for optimal performance
• Clone the data from production to development environment using FLEXCLONE technology
• Restored the data from snapshots on the filers in case of accidental deletion.
• Proactively identified and successfully troubleshoot technical issues in a timely manner.
• Using VMware vCenter, created Datacenter Environment by creating VMware clusters, adding ESX hosts in the clusters, and implemented HA and DRS.
• Installed and configured ESX 5.0 Servers on Blade Servers.
• Performed physical to virtual (P2V) migrations for approximately 500 physical servers utilizing VMware Converter.
• Installing, configuring and troubleshooting VMware View
• Performed tons of V2V Migration
• Created clones and templates of Virtual Machines
• Deploying VMs Through Templates
• Created & Troubleshot Virtual Networks and vSwitches
• Installed following servers Win98, Win XP, Win NT, Win 2000, Win 2003, Win 2008 etc.
• Configured DNS, DHCP etc.
• Configured HP Blade DL460 using the ILo & Onboard Administrator and HP Insight Manager.
• Responsible for deploying, managing, and maintaining HP Proliant BL-series C-class blade servers and DL-series servers.
• Worked with business clients to evaluate, streamline, and improve current systems, processes, and workflow.

Environment: Windows 2000/ 2003/2008/2012 R2, Windows XP/Vista/Win 7, VMware ESXi 5.5 Server, VMware View, VMware Lab Manager. Open filer iSCSI SAN/NAS, HP Proliant Blade Servers BL280C G6, BL460C and 620C Series, Dell PowerVault NAS, SonicWall Firewall, Remote desktop services, NetApp FAS3050, FAS3160, FAS270

Confidential, New York, NY

Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Administrating DNS, DHCP servers. Created and managed user and group accounts in User Manager.
• Experienced with x86 / x64 Intel, HP, IBM & Dell hardware like rack-mounted servers, tower servers, desktop, laptop and other peripherals.
• Responsible for Active directory, GPO, Domain users, Administrating users and groups and given appropriate permissions and privilege to access our LAN and Domain environment.
• Installed & configured Windows 2008 with Active Directory service.
• Installing, configuring, administering, troubleshooting VMware server on ESX platform and VMware client, workstation.
• Excellent understanding of SAN, NAS storage architecture.
• Responsible for Desktop, Laptop, Network and Outlook support & troubleshooting client’s issues.
• Troubleshoot and monitored network using SNMP and Solar winds network monitoring tools.

Environment: Windows 2000/2003, SMS, SQL Server 2000, IIS 6.0, Exchange Server, Microsoft WSUS, Windows XP, VMware ESX Server and Workstation, Open filer, IBM TSM, EMC SAN, SCCM 2007Dell NAS, Zywall and SonicWall Firewall.

Confidential

System Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Installation of ESX server and creation of VMs and install different guest OS.
• Installation of VC server and Installing Virtual center components
• Updating ESX host’s using VMware Update manager.
• Monitoring and managing performance of ESX servers and Virtual Machines.
• Creation of templates from VMs and Creation of VMs from templates.
• P2V and V2V conversions by using VMware Converter.
• Working on VMware clustering like HA and DRS clusters using VC.
• Working on Migration concepts like VMotion and cold migration, Storage VMotion
• Creation of templates from VMs and Creation of VMs from templates.
• Managing an ESX server host from Virtual center.
• Creating Virtual switch.
• Connecting to ESX server by using VIC, putty and Web access.
• Working on networking concepts like creation of Vswitches, different types of port groups, Nic

Environment: Windows 2003/2012, SMS, IIS 6.0, Microsoft WWSUS, Windows XP, VMware ESX Server, VMware Workstation.