PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Over 7+ Years of professional experience as Systems/VMware in supporting Windows NT/ 2000/2003/2008 servers and VMware environment
• Expertise in installation, configuration and administration of Windows and VMWARE servers on HP/Compaq, Cisco UCS, Dell Power Edge, IBM xSeries hardware platforms.
• Proficient Experience in installation and configuration of VMware ESXi 4.1/5.0/5.1, ESX 3.0/3.5, VMware Virtual Center 2.0/3.5/4.0/5.0.
• Good hands - on knowledge of private cloud computing environment using vCenter Automation Center (vCAC), vCloud director.
• Good hands-on knowledge in Orchestrating and managing cloud workloads using vCAC and vCenter Orchestrator (vCO).
• Building VMWARE clusters for Prod, Test and Dev environments and enabling features like VMware HA, DRS, installing Powerpath to build a robust and redundant infrastructure.
• Creating VM’s from templates, configuring CPU and memory for virtual machines, creating templates, VM vMotion, Storage vMotion, cloning are some of the day-to-day activities.
• Experience in configuring VMware standard vSwitch & dvSwitch.
• Converted many (P2V) physical servers to Virtual Machines using VMware vCenter Converter part of decommission legacy servers effort.
• Configured VMWARE Site Recovery Manager to enable automated failover to the remote site.
• Expertise in WINS, DNS, DHCP and Active Directory services in Windows 2003/2008 servers.
• Experience in Implementing and Administration of Active Directory Services, replication, Trust Relationship and Enforcing Domain Group Policy.
• Experience in configuring storage while using FC and iSCSI topologies.
• Configured EMC/Netapp/HP SAN/NAS storage as data stores in VMWARE environment and as volumes in windows environment.
• Good experience in Dell, HP Blade Server and rack server hardware maintenance, like relacing failed drives, NIC cards, Memory Modules and HBA’s
• Experience with Microsoft Network Load Balancing and Microsoft Clustering technologies.
• Excellent skills in patching and hardening Win2000/Win2003/2008 servers using Windows Update and also by using the staged patches.
• Drive continuous high performance levels of the operations through process improvements & automation.
• Experience working on Change Management, Request Management and Incident Management in Service Center/Remedy.
• Provided 24/7 On Call production support onsite and remotely on rotation basis.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

VMware Platform Skills: vSphere 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, vCloud Director, 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 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, IIS 6, IIS 7, DHCP, TCP/IP

Server Operating Systems: Microsoft Windows 2000, 2003, 2008 R2, Unix, Red Hat Linux 4.x/5.x, SUSE Linux, Sun Solaris

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

Management Tools: Cisco UCS Manager, HP Onboard Administrator, HP Virtual Connect Manager, Dell Open Manager, MKS Integrity Change Management Software, Groundworks VI Monitoring Tool, Vkernel Monitoring Software, Microsoft Robocopy, Solar winds IP Address Tracker, Veeam Backup, FastSCP

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, NJ

Sr VMware Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Built, installed, upgraded and maintained over 60 VMware ESX/ESXi 3.5/4.0/4.1/5.0/5.1/5.5 hosts from the ground up, across 3 datacenters and 12 remote offices
• Responsible for all aspects of the vmware infrastructure - Configured kickstart ESXi installation scripts, networking - Trunk/access/Virtual port channels and lacp on nexus 7000, 5000, 2000/6509/4500.
• Setup and configure Cisco UCS Chassis, Fabric Interconnects and Blades.
• Performed non disruptive firmware upgrades of Fabric interconnects/IO Modules/blade servers
• Build service profiles/templates, policies, upgrade infrastructure and blade firmware’s in Cisco UCS
• Migrated ESX hosts and VM’s from Dell Server to Cisco UCS B, C and E Series Servers
• Maintained all current patches and upgrades with minimum production outage when migrating ESX hosts and virtual center through different versions.
• Configured, managed, installed and upgraded vsphere vcenter server through different versions 3.5 to 5.5
• Installed and upgraded to vCloud Suite of products including vSphere 5.5 and vRealize operations manager, vCloud Director, vCAC and vCO
• Utilized Vmware PowerCLi and scripts to automate common and repetitive tasks in Vsphere
• Installed, protected, tested virtual machines to DR location with Site Recovery Manager 5.0
• Responsible for SQL 2000/2005/2008/ SQL Express Database migrations - these include All Vmware related databases - View, Virtual center, SRM, Update Manager, SCOM, Sophos and OCS
• Build, configure and deploy VMs and templates. Converted over 200+ P2V, V2V migrations of Windows 2000,2003,2008,2012 from legacy hardware and MS virtual Servers
• Configured VCB, VDR and Commvault as part of backup solution for the Vmware environment
• Made technical recommendations and identified administrative standards, issues and process improvements
• Configured and enabled RSA 2 factor authentication with Vmware view
• Installed and deployed Systems Center Operations Manager 2007R1/R2.
• Responsible for Monitoring and Administration of Sophos Enterprise antivirus for entire organization.

ENVIRONMENT: vSphere 5.5/5.1/4.1, Windows Server 2003/2008/2012, Windows Client OS XP /Win 7, VSphere 4.1and 5.1, vCenter Server, vCD, vCAC, vCO, vRealize Operations Manager, NetApp FC SAN/NAS storage, Cisco UCS Servers, Dell Blade Servers, Microsoft SQL 2005 and 2008 servers, Microsoft Exchange server 2007, DNS, DHCP, AD, Sophos Enterprise Antivirus, SCOM, and other applications servers.

Confidential

VMware Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installing, Configuring and Managing VMware ESXi 4.5/5.0Server and Windows 2008/2012 servers
• Installing vCenter Server, vSphere Client and Web Client for operations and management.
• Configuring and Managing Virtual Networks, Storage, Memory and processers for the Virtual Machines.
• Creating and Managing Virtual Machines using templates and images, and building production ready VM’s
• Monitoring and managing performance of vSphere ESXi servers and Virtual Machines.
• Experience in adding NFS storage and iSCSI storage to vSphere hosts.
• Implemented Virtual Machine cold clone and hot clone procedure while cloning the VM’s.
• Implemented Virtual Machine cold migration and hot migration procedures.
• Configured Resource pools and Shares in VMware Environment for Prod, test and dev environments.
• Experience in configuring customized alarms in vCenter server for data store usage, host CPU and Memory usage.
• Experience updating vShere hosts using Update Manager Utility.
• Implemented storage vMotion to migrate VM’s from HP EVA to EMC VMAX, VNX storage.
• Maintain and administer all virtual backup’s with EMC Avamar/DataDomain Backup and Recovery technology.
• Create and manage maintenance process procedures for Vmware version updates patches on all ESXi Hosts. Ensuring seamless failover and testing during maintenance tasks.
• Report on VM improvements, and make recommendations for the upgrades, which includes VM virtual hardware versions, and VMware Tools with less business impact.
• Develop and implement processes to streamline management and VM builds within our ESXi environment.
• Integrated EMC storage array VNX, VMAX with vCenter server using VSI plugins, and enabled VAAI and VASA.
• Participate in strategic planning and guidance of ESXi environment, which includes various sites, and DR solutions including SRM and VSphere replication.
• Develop and maintain proper documentation for procedures, processes, and design builds in regards to the virtual infrastructure.
• Management, monitoring and troubleshooting of physical server environment using Dell Open Manager, Firmware and Bios updates and working with respective hardware vendors for ordering troubleshooting.
• Enabled monitoring and alerting of virtual environment with the utilization of Solarwinds VM Monitor, vCOPS and various other monitoring tools.
• Provide on-call support for server infrastructure or application failures resulting in the need to engage on-call IT personnel.

ENVIRONMENT: ESXi 4.5/5.0, Windows 2003,2008, EMC VNX, VMAX, EMC Avamar, DataDomain, EMC PowerPath, HP EVA Storage, Dell Blade Servers, Dell Open Manager, vCOPS, Solarwinds VM Monitor, VMWARE SRM, MS SCCM, Microsoft SQL Server, MS Sharepoint, MS Exchange

Confidential, CA

VMware/System 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 Active Directory, WINS, DNS, and AD enabled applications.
• Installing and updating the windows patches.
• Creating NTFS shares on Windows Servers and provide permissions to users.
• Built and manage Virtual servers on VMware ESXServer 3.5/4.0/4.5
• Experience in creating Clusters in Virtual Center and adding ESX Hosts to Virtual Center Cluster.
• Experience in setting up VM Kernel Network 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 Resource Reservation 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 2000/2003/2008, SMS, SQL Server 2000/2005, IIS 6.0, Exchange Server 2003/2005, Microsoft WSUS, Windows XP, VMware ESX/ESXi Server and Workstation, Open filer, IBM TSM, EMC SAN, Dell NAS, Zywall and SonicWall Firewall.

Confidential

Windows/Linux Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Administrating production servers/network infrastructure that includes Windows Administration of Domain Controllers, File and print Servers, POS servers, DNS, DHCP, WINS and ISA 2005 Servers and other Application Servers on Windows 2003/2008/2012 .
• Day-to-day maintenance of Unix servers and troubleshooting.
• Performed Red Hat Linux Kick start installations on Redhat 4.x/5.x
• Performed Red Hat Linux Kernel Tuning, memory upgrades.
• Installation & Configuration of software packages in Redhat Linux using both yum and rpm installations.
• Worked on Shell scripts and Perl scripts for automation of daily tasks using Cron tab.
• Troubleshooting Unix/Linux network and security related issues.
• Configured backups using Symantec Netbackup for critical applications. Scheduled and administered daily, weekly, monthly and yearly backups using NetBackup and NetVault software.
• Administration of GPOs, Domain Users and groups, and Computers on Active Directory 2003, 2008.
• Working with ISO Team on monitoring server health and fixing issues which on security vulnerable servers.
• Remotely managing physical rack mount/blade servers using HP ILO 2.0, 3.0, Avocent KVM switch, HP On board Administrator, and HP Insight Management tools.
• Managing Exchange 2003 servers and troubleshooting issues related to User and group accounts, mail delivery, configuring MX records to enable and disable domain.
• Configured Terminal Server to access to the servers using Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP).
• Installed and configured VMWARE ESX 3.5/4.0 virtual infrastructure and played key role to initiate path to virtualization.
• Created procedures to convert Physical environment to Virtual environment with out compromising the end use experience.
• Actively participated in assessment for virtualizing the physical environment, and participated in POC
• Creating new standards for VM’s which includes, installing patches, vmware tools, security tools and documented new standards.
• Restoring files/folders on IBM TSM backups using Backup-Archive GUI on Windows 2003/2008 Production servers.
• Participating with compliance team on updating process patches for Windows servers 2003, 2008 using IBM Endpoint Manger (BigFix).
• Configuring IIS 6.0, 7.0
• Resolving the day-to-day hardware and platform level incidents and requests through IT resource Management Tools such as HP Service Manager 9, Service Now.

ENVIRONMENT: Windows 2003/2008/2012, Active Directory, IIS, ESX 3.5/4.0, HP servers, Red Hat Linux 4.x/5.x., Symantec Netbackup, NetVault, SonicWall firewall.

Confidential

IT Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Served in computer maintenance, performed all types of hardware, software maintenance and engineering in addition to systems selection, backup and technical support.
• Installing, configuring of Windows 2003 servers and configuring DHCP, FTP, WSUS, Web Server and SQL Database Server.
• Creating and managing the users, groups, GPO in the Active Directory.
• Performed system administration of UNIX servers by using Operating Systems of Solaris 2.7/8 Managing SUN Solaris, Compaq and Linux workstations and servers.
• Installation of patches and other software packages Disk and File system management through Solstice Disk Suite on Solaris and other logical volume manager for other flavor of UNIX.
• Configuration of Hardware and Software RAID on Digital & Sun Servers.
• Implemented, Managed ISA server 2004 Firewall with web filtering and Remote Access VPN.
• Implemented and managed McAfee Antivirus EPO Server and clients for LAN security
• Monitoring of Internet usage, Antivirus statistics and reporting to Project Manager.
• Responsible & managing Online Trading applications, Servers & Connectivity with stock exchanges, providing remote support to end clients and branch users.
• Installation and Configuration of networks, router configuration and wireless access point/router with security, TCP/IP, VPN, Content Filtering, Access Control Lists on router/switches, VLANs (port mapping, naming etc.), and routing IP address in both LAN/WAN and wireless networks.)
• LAN Cabling, RJ-45 crimping, labelling, Patch Panel, PC Junction boxes, Phone Switches and Rack set-up.
• Investigated user problems, determined possible solutions, oversaw software, installation and upgrades.
• Creating a backup jobs and also took backup of critical applications on daily, weekly and monthly basis.
• Planned and coordinated with major vendors like ISP and V-SATs service providers for installation/Down Calls of branches.
• Assigned duties and supervised a team of junior network engineers.

ENVIRONMENT: Windows 2000/2003, Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, FTP, IIS, MS SQL Servers, Enterprise Applications, HP Servers, Cisco Network Switches, Hitachi Storage Array, Redhat Linux 3,4,5 Sun Solaris 8,9,10 Sun V440, V 20 T5240 Sparc Systems.