SUMMARY

• Over 8+ years of experience wif windows Administration and VMware administration on primary focus on Hyper - V Implementation installation, configuration, and administration of Windows server, Microsoft Exchange Server, Office 365, and VMware vSphere, ESXI 6.0, VMware VCenter 4.1, 5.0 and 5.5,6.0 and 6.5
• Experience in handling more than 3000 + Windows server, 200+ ESXi servers, Remote data center, multiple vCenter,Excellent understanding on ESX/ESXI Architecture, guest OS installation, setting up of VM priorities, Cloning and Snapshots.
• Experience in creating and applying Host profile, Storage profiles.
• Installing and publishing applications in Citrix farms
• Experience in cloning and creating Templates from VMs, Snapshot and using vSphere features like vMotion, Storage vMotion, DRS and HA.
• Experience in building VMw are virtual servers and physical servers wif Windows.
• Experience in Installing and configuring Microsoft Hyper-V and administration.
• Expertise in Group Polocy,DNS, DHCP,WSUS andActive Directory servicesin Windows 2003/2008R2 & 2012/2012R2 /2016 servers
• Intensive experience in monitoring and tuning MS SQL Server database performance using DBCC Tuning Wizard.
• MS SQL Server database administration, configure Scheduled Tasks for regular Database Backup and Maintenance Activities
• Expert Experience in Database Installation, Configuration, Maintenance of SQL Server 2016, 2014, 2012
• Experience wif Confidential UCS hardware like UCS chassis 5108, Blade servers and Rackmount servers,experience wif VMware vSphere distributed switch and Confidential Nexus 1000V.
• Strong experience in Automating, Configuring and deploying instances on AWS and Azure cloud environments.
• Experience in AWS Cloud platform and its features which includes EC2, VPC, EBS, AMI, SNS, RDS, EBS, Cloud Watch, Cloud Trail, Cloud-Formation AWS Configuration, Autos calling, Cloud Front, IAM, S3.
• Expert in implementing VMware Horizon View (7.0) Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) from scratch to creating desktop pools, deploying golden images and assigning pools to users/groups.
• Experience in Managing Multiple Windows Systems wif Microsoft SCCM 2007 providing Patch Management, Remote Control, Software Distribution and OS deployment.
• Experience in installing Dell Power Edge M910, M710 Blade Servers on Dell Power Edge M1000e chassis and configuring teh chassis using Chassis Management Controller (CMC).
• Experience in installing HP Proliant BL460c G6/G7/G8, BL465c G7, BL660c G8 and BL680c G7Blade Servers on HP c7000 chassis and configuring teh chassis using Onboard Experience in Confidential UCS C200 M2, IBM System x3690 X5, EMC VNXe3100, VNX 5100 and EMC Data Domain DD640 Rack & Stack, Experienced in Office 365 activities
• Experience in Installing and configuring teh vCloud Director (vCD) 1.5 and vShield Manager
• Good Knowledge on Microsoft Azure and Create a Virtual Network on Windows Azure Implemented several best performance settings and group policies on VDI infrastructure for better performance of VDI environment and better user experience.
• Hands on Experience in Linux User management Creation of users and Groups
• Responsible for teh installation of Red Hat and Centos Linux for newly build environment
• Performing RPM and YUM package installations, patch and other server management
• Configuration, installation and maintenance of network services such as DNS, DHCP on Red Hat Linux, Implementing and setting up Puppet Master Server for configuring and installing teh modules for automatic deployment on AWS Environment.
• Well experienced in Creating Templates, VDI Pool creations, VDI Provisioning, VM priorities, Roles and permissions, Resource pools, VM Cloning and Knowledge of Snapshots.
• Excellent knowledge of Administrator Exchange server environment.
• Experience in installing and configure teh VMware NSX Appliance Developed strategy to migrate Dev/Test/Production from an enterprise VMware infrastructure to teh IaaS Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud environment including runbook processes and procedures.
• Design complex solutions which integrate AWS cloud, on premise physical & Virtual server, EC2, S3 storage, networking and security.
• Deployed key VMware ESX/ESXi technologies, expertise wif HA/DRS, P2V. ESX migrations from 3.01 to 3.5 to VSphere 4.0,5.x, Office 365 / Exchange email administration
• Experienced in Vmware Management and Automation Tools: Vcenter 6, (VCO) Vcenter Operations Manager, (VRO) VRealize Operations, Vcenter Orchestrator, VRealize Automation and VMware Configuration Manager.
• Extensive understanding of networking concepts, (IP Addressing, TCP/IP, VPN, VLANs,andLAN/WAN, Load balancing)
• Implementing and setting up Puppet Master Server for configuring and installing teh modules for automatic deployment on AWS Environment.
• Strong experience in System Administration, Installation, Upgrading Patches, Migration, Configuration, Troubleshooting, Security, Backup, Disaster Recovery, Performance Monitoring and Fine-tuning on UNIX (SUN Solaris, Red Hat Linux, Linux SUSE versions) Systems, Good knowledge of Microsoft SQL Database, Installing Databases
• Practical work experience in Installing, Maintaining, Monitoring, Troubleshooting and Managing Blade Center server, Configuring and Zoning Storage Area Networks and SAN Switches, Hands-on migration of a highly customized SharePoint internet using PowerShell including setup of Active Directory trusts, SharePoint security..
• Expertise ininstallation, configuration and administrationof Windows NT/ 2000/2003/2008/2008 R2 & 2012/2012R2 servers onHP/Compaq, Office 365,Dell Power Edge, IBM xserieshardware platforms.
• Experienced in configuring Confidential ASA firewalls in various contexts and modes to have teh network secure. Maintained remote and Site-to-Site VPN tunnels through teh Firewalls.
• Performed installation, configuration, upgrades, Package administration and support for Linux Systems on client side using Redhat satellite network server.
• Worked on Red Hat Linux installation, configuring and maintenance of applications on dis environment
• Performed automated installations of Operating Systems using kickstart for Linux.
• Experience wif using both CLI and ASDM,Strong skillset wif scripting, including PowerShell, Provided24/7 On Call production supportonsite and remotely on rotation basis.
• Working on Confidential UCS Initial setup,Working wif Confidential UCS Manager Auto install infrastructure Firmware upgrade
• Expert level knowledge of troubleshooting, implementing, optimizing and testing of static and Dynamic routing protocols such asEIGRP, OSPF,BGP; ability to interpret and resolve complex route table problems,Implementation of traffic filters on Confidential routes using Standard, extended Access list.
• Architecture and good experience on IP services.
• Extensively worked on Juniper models EX-2200, EX-4200, EX-4500, MX-480, M Series, SRX210 and SRX240, Experience in iSCSI SAN, NAS, NFS storage and RAID concept.
• Experience wif Virtualization technologies like Installing, Configuring, and Administering VMware ESX/ESXi.,Experience in Migrating from VMware ESXi to Hyper-V 2012 wif SCCM SP1 R2,Experience in iSCSI SAN, NAS, NFS storage and RAID concept.
• Proficient Experience in installation and configuration of VMwareESX 3.0/3.5, vSphere 4.0, VMware ESXi 4.1/5.0/5.1/6.0, VMware Virtual Center 2.0/3.5/4.0/5.0/6.0 & 6.2.
• Expertise in teh area of virtualization wif vSphere, VMware ESX 5.x, 4.x and 3.x hosts and Virtual Center server till 5.5,Deployed key VMware ESX/ESXi technologies, expertise wif HA/DRS, P2V. ESX migrations from 3.01 to 3.5 to VSphere 4.0,5.x
• Experienced in Vmware Management and Automation Tools: Vcenter 6, (VCO) Vcenter Operations Manager, (VRO) VRealize Operations, Vcenter Orchestrator, VRealize Automation and VMware Configuration Manager,Extensive understanding of networking concepts, (IE. Configuration of networks,TCP/IP, VPN, VLANs,and routing inLAN/WAN, Ethernet Port, Patch Panel),Sound knowledge on ESX Architecture, guest OS installation, setting up of VM priorities, Cloning and Snapshots,Strong understanding of VMware Networking concepts like creation of vSwitches, different types of Port groups, NIC Teaming and VLAN Problem management,Upgrading ESX 3.x to ESX 4.x, 5.x-using VMware Update Manager,Experienced in creating Virtual Machine Templates and deploy virtual machines from templates and allocate resources,Experience on deployment and creation of SCCM applications and support,Hands on VMware View, Netapp SnapProtect.
• Performed data store migration using VMware storage vMotion on Netapp NFS, EMC NAVISPHERE and EMC CLARiiON SAN Storage,
• Manage Virtual Machines using Virtual center and web access.
• Exposure on VMotion migration, High Availability feature, DRS feature and Setting VM priorities on CPU and Memory resources,Experience in Active Directory, GPOs, DNS, DHCP, File & Print Server, IIS (Web Server), FTP, Terminal Server, NAT, Microsoft Clustering and Exchange Mail Server in Windows

TECHNICAL SKILLS

VMware Tools: vSphere 6.2 / 6.0 /5.1 / 5.0 / 4.1 / 4.0, ESXi 5.1 / 5.0, ESX 4.1 / 4.0,VMware converter 4/3 and VMware VMotion.

VMware Virtualization Skills: ESX 3.5, ESXi, VSphere 3 and 4, VI3, Virtual Center Server, P2V, V2V, Storage VMotion, HA, DRS, SRM 4.0, Host Profiles, VApp, VMware Consolidated Backup, VMware Management Assistant, VMware VSphere Client, VMware View 4, VMware ThinApp, Events and Alerts, Capacity Planning, Plate Spin Power Converter.

Microsoft Products and tools: Active Directory Domain Services, AD lightweight Directory Services, AD Certificate Services, Active Directory Federation Services, Active Directory Rights Management Services, DNS, Exchange 2007, Exchange 2010, Exchange 2013 Hyper-V, WSUS server, SQL Server 2005, SQL server 2008, Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager, Microsoft System Center Operations Manager(SCOM), IIS 6, IIS 7, DHCP, TCP/IP.

Hardware: HP Proliant DL360, DL380, DL580 Servers, BL465c Blade Servers and Dell Power Edge Servers.

Operating System: Windows 2003, 2008, 2008 R2, 2012, 2012R2, LINUX.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, CA

Senior VMware/Windows Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Providing support to a large virtual infrastructure environment comprising of 5+ vCenters, 6000+ Virtual servers, 200+ ESXi hosts, 4000+ VDI.
• Installation, Configuration and Administration of VMware ESXi6.0, ESXi5.5, patching, management and troubleshooting of Servers.
• Systems Administration wif a primary focus on installation, configuration & administration of Windows server 2008R2 /2012R2.
• Active Directory Group Policy Management for Windows 2008R2 and Windows 2012R2.
• Installation and Migration of vCenter Server 6.0/5.5. Upgrading vCenter Server from 5.5 to 6.0, installing and upgrading ESX 6.0/ 5.5/5.1 Nodes using VUM, Administering VM's across 2 Datacenters running 1100 VM's,Configured HBAs and iSCSI SAN Storage.
• Upgrading ESX host wif vCentre update manager, Developing and Deploying Virtual Machines from Templets and Creating Snapshots, Cloning and Golden Image of teh Virtual Creating and Configuring VM Kernel Ports, VM Ports, Service Console and NIC Teaming.
• Using PowerShell scripting to find teh problems and fetch teh VM environment data.
• Managing EMC Fiber channel storage for VMware infrastructure.
• Install configure new/upgrade of Horizon View Connection Servers and or Security Brokers.
• Troubleshoot existing Horizon view deployments.
• Created roles and permissions for specified users to give control over teh VM's
• Worked on VMware HA and resource load balancing by configuring HA and DRS clusters.
• Responsible for installing and Configuration of VMware NSX platform.
• Deployed vRealize Operations Manager (VCOPs/VROPs), leveraging its capability for proactive monitoring of health of teh entire virtual environment.
• Troubleshoot report and work wif respective clients regarding their system's alerts, events and failed jobs from Monitoring tools such as Nagios.
• Administration of VMware ESX and ESXi Servers on HP Chassis 7000, DL380P GN8.
• Build and support HP's public cloud platform including HP Storage VMware 5.5 and Openstack that is used by Fortune 100 customers.
• Performing day to day operational tasks like storage provisioning and maintaining high Availability as per EMC best practices.
• Configuration, and deployment of SCCM 2007 and SCCM 2012 for imaging and deployment of applications and Operating Systems across enterprise environments.
• Provided Risk Assessment and remediation guidance for SCCM 2012 infrastructures.
• Build and troubleshoot Windows 2008/2012/2016 servers, on Physical Dell PowerEdge Hardware Dell R720/730.
• Experienced in Configuring Windows Server 2012, Active Directory Domains, Configuring DNS, DHCP, Trust relationship, Permissions.
• Coordination wif teh deployment team after package creation and promoted teh applications to teh Production environment for deployment and testing teh application on various clients which consisted of Windows 10, Windows 8 and Windows 7 client machines.
• Performance monitoring, resource monitoring of teh ESXi nodes using graphs, Executed and performed server system operations and support consisting of Windows 2008, 2012, IIS 7
• Installation and configuration of Red Hat Linux 6.x on Dell PowerEdge, HP ProLiant.
• Managing Disks/Filesystems using Logical Volume Manager for Red Hat Linux. support Azure Resource Manager (ARM), Azure IaaS VM Backup & Hyper-V vm
• Created Azure Resource Manager templates auto-provisioning scripts in PowerShell Supported customers on various implementations of Windows Azure AD, MS office 365, Azure Single Sign On, On-premise, Single Sign On, Windows Azure Saas, and Iaas.
• Provide ongoing support to small and medium business customers for teh migration from Exchange to office 365,Responsible for all components of Office 365 including One Drive for Business, Skype for Business, Share Point Online, Delve, Yammer and Exchange Online.
• Managed and Administered Microsoft Exchange/Skype for Business server and AD
• Responsible in successful migration of teh Microsoft Exchange 2010 environment to an Exchange 2013 scenario, Provided support & administration and Complete documentation.
• Installing and configuring IIS and FTP Site, and Using IIS FTP Professional software.
• Working wif vRealize automation and understanding of workflows to deploy vm.
• Implemented vRealize Operations Manager 6.x and created intuitive and customizable dashboards, views and reports for Enterprise customers in monitoring their infrastructure environment wif analytics and proactive remediation.
• Service now integration wif vRealize Automation.
• Implemented teh VROP (vRealize operations manager) for VMware environment to have a scrutiny across teh environment, Worked on Puppet, Unix Shell scripting to build automated deployment tools.
• Implementing Active Directory Services, maintaining Replication, Trust Relationship and enforcing Domain wide Group Policies.
• Performed installation, configuration, upgrades, Package administration and support for Linux Systems on client side using Redhat satellite network server.
• Worked on Red Hat Linux installation, Performed automated installations of Operating Systems using kickstart for Linux.
• Manages Windows network (users, computers, printers, etc) wif Active Director, Managed user moves including exchange mailbox, person network folder, AD organizational Unit relocation through Active directory
• Deployed, configured and managed vRealize suite products vRealize Automation, vRealize Operations, vRealize Orchestrator, vRealize Business Suite, vRealize Log Insight.
• Upgrade ESX hosts from ESX 5.5 to 6.0 and applying patches to teh present esx 5.5 u2 to 5.5 u3,Maintaining and troubleshoot windows servers windows 2008R2 and 2012 versions and configuring them for SolarWind monitoring and Symantec NetBackup.
• C Rebuild and promoting AD and Isolate DC’s from network before going to decommission DC and coordinate wif Server Provisioning team while decommission of legacy Domain Controllers and performing Meta data cleanup for retired DC.
• Provide support to end users related to Identity and Directory management issues(Server level permissions, Group level permissions) and guide users how to make request through self-service, PKI issues(Users not able to login to JNJ network, Token Lockout, reset token, authentication issues). Support/troubleshoot for LDAP integration wif various applications.
• Preparing KB articles and uploading to SharePoint. Providing on-call and Queue Manager
• Configuring HA/DRS related advanced configuration settings per VMware Best practices.
• Understanding of SAN and NAS concepts, snapshots, clustering and fail-over in teh virtual environment, Backup administration using Symantec Backup Exec and Symantec NetBackup.
• Configured Dell M1000E Blade chassis wif M820 Full-height and M620 and half-height blades wif VLAN configurations and Port Groups.
• Involved in teh deployment/implementation of new servers in teh new Southfield Data center (both physical and virtual) including teh deployment and configuration of a standardized OS
• Administration of DNS and DHCP servers, Office 365, Creation of user and group accounts in MS Exchange 2013 Administration.
• Installing & deploying application and patches, and validating patches & application.
• Troubleshooting, performance monitoring and optimizing of all aspects of teh virtual infrastructure including underlying storage and network systems.
• Hands on New Flexpod operations validating wif proper hypervisors, applications and software's including VMware vSphere, VMware View, Netapp SnapProtect, Confidential Nexus Datacenter switches.
• Provision and Administer Hyper-V hosts, Guest OS wif SCVMM 2012 SP1 admin console.
• Manage and administer private clouds in Hyper-V infrastructure.
• Migrating legacy environment from VMware to new Hyper-V 2012 dynamic datacenter.

Environment: VMware ESX 5.1/5.5, VSphere 4.0, 5.0, 5.5 & Windows Server Proliant Servers & Dell Hardware (Rack and blade servers), NetApp FAS, brocade DS 5300, Flexpod, SCOM, Oracle linux5.4, Symantec Netbackup, Active Directory and vRealize automation.

Confidential, FL

Senior VMware Server Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Installed and configured ESX 4.0 / ESXi 5.0/ESXi 5.1, 5.5 hosts on Blade Servers.
• Used VMware VCenter, created Datacenter Environment by creating VMware clusters, adding ESX/ESXi hosts in teh clusters, and implemented HA and DRS.
• Installed and configured ESX 4.0 / ESXi 5.0/ESXi 5.1, 5.5 hosts on Blade Servers.
• Installing and Managing ESX and ESXi servers on HP, DELL and Installation of vCenter Server, vCenter Components and upgrading VMware Tools.
• Configured ESXi 5.5 infrastructure environment for huge Data Center migration.
• Performed physical to virtual (VMware) Migrations for over 180 servers using VMware Converter Standalone,Troubleshooting IIS application based on monitoring and logs generated on teh server.
• Maintained high degree of competency across teh Microsoft Application Platform, focusing on .NET Framework, WCF, Windows Azure, AppFabric, and SQL Azure.
• Expert working knowledge of Microsoft Windows Server 2012 r2, Active Directory/LDAP and Group Policy administration in a hybrid-cloud configuration (Windows Azure) wif 40+
• Develop PowerShell script to automate Active Directory and server tasks and Generate reports for administrators and management.
• As a member of teh team, participated installing Exchange 2010 servers, created & configured DAG, installed Mailbox, HUB and CAS servers.
• Used Windows Azure portal to manage Virtual Network and Traffic Manager
• Installed, configured, administered, monitored Azure, IAAS and PAAS, Azure AD.
• Involved in Creating and Managing VMware cluster wif HA and DRS.
• Extensively worked wif Active Directory Services, IIS Servers, DNS, and DHCP.
• Installation of Linux servers and creation of VM's using teh web console vcenter on VMware
• Expertise in security hardening (iptables/selinux) major Production Servers, and compiling, building and installing web server based Linux tools.
• Experiencing wif Nagios, splunk and snmp monitoring
• Scripting using Shell for Day to Day tasks.
• Worked on Puppet, Unix Shell scripting to build automated deployment tools.
• Worked on Microsoft Office 365 (Installed, Configured, Documented )
• Implementation of Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) Solutions for remote global users.
• Configured DHCP server and VMware View Personal Management that managed 200 floating-licensed virtual machines wif 2000 roaming profiles.
• Assist in troubleshoot VM performance issues wif teh help of Vrealize Operations.
• Packaged applications wif VMware ThinApp and Citrix for deployment in virtual desktop environments.
• Involved in building a datacenter that includes domain controller, DHCP, DNS, Exchange, and Open Filer server.
• Migration of all teh legacy ESX/ESXi v5.x to V5.5 update 3b, in teh current environment.
• Involved in installing and configuring ESXi5.5 /Win 2008R2/Win Server2012 on HP Blade (BL460c G8) and Rackmount server (DL 580 G8) using iLO.
• Installed and configured vCenter server 5.5, created virtual Datacenters, multiple clusters and added ESXi hosts.
• Installed and configured SRM 5.5 like adding Array managers, creating protection group and recovery plans, tested teh recovery.
• Installed and configured Operations Manager, generated day to day reports to monitor and manage teh performance of virtual environment.
• Built Windows 2008R2/2012 on Blade Servers and Rackmount Servers.
• Built windows 2008R2/2012 virtual servers.
• Configuring HA, DRS clusters, creating Affinity rules and configuring FT when required.
• Used PowerShell, PowerCLI scripts for migrating VMs, creating snapshots.
• Worked wif various Windows Servers and server roles, including 2008, 2008r2, 2012. Active Directory, DNS, Web Services, File Services, Print Services, SQL server, Exchange AD integration.
• Plan and design clusters and Datacenters. Design Backup and recovery plan for VMware
• Certificate renewal process for vSphere 5.5 using teh SSL automation tool (command line utility),Disabling and enabling eCloud replication using VC installer tool.
• Managed 2000+ servers utilizing Windows 2008 and 2012R2 and VMware platform, providing monitoring and support of production hardware and application servers.
• Deployment of theSCOMAgents to teh client machines for enabling teh monitoring
• Deploy and Integrate SolarwindsProducts to monitor various organization's infrastructure
• Implemented teh migrations of ESX servers from 5.1 to ESXi 5.5.
• Configure and implement Resource Pools, VMware Clusters, HA, DRS, Patch Management using VUM in high-end ESX environments.
• Building new servers daily in legacy VMware from, and Hyper-V for applications those are ready to move to new Dynamic Data Center.
• Upgraded VCenter and ESXi to 5.5 using VMware Update manager and manual upgrades.
• Configuring and troubleshooting vsphere Networking (VSS and VDS policies)
• Build, configure and deploy VMs and templates. Completed Physical-to-Virtual (P2V), Virtual-to-Virtual (V2V) and Virtual-to-Physical (V2P) migration of Windows 2008, and 2012 as well as Linux servers from VMware.
• Creating and setting up alert management window and tickets in SDP.
• Administering Active Directory domain services, DHCP.

Environment: VMware ESX 5.1/5.5, VSphere 4.0, 5.0, 5.5 & Windows Server Proliant Servers & Dell Hardware, VCE / UCS, VBLOCK, Confidential, emcvnx5800, FlexPod comprised of vCenter, SCOM, Solarwinds, oracle Linux 6.4, Confidential UCS and Nexus and NetApp FAS.

Confidential, Philadelphia, PA

Senior VMware Server/Storage Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Creating/Managing Virtual Machines, creating clones and templates/images for deploying VMs, audit them for perfection and manage utilities and applications installed on those VMs
• Performed Virtual Machines backup, snapshots, cloning, P2V and V2V conversion using VMware stand-alone convertor.
• Installation, configuration and management of multiple server suites (Windows on VMwareESX server and Prepared teh strategy and implemented ESXi Migration.
• Planned and built out Validatedflexpodenvironment wif Confidential UCS, Netapp SAN, and Nexus
• Install multiple Operating Systems in different VM's and configure VM tools on them to accelerate hardware functionality and also maintain and configure unattended VM's builds.
• Worked wif team in upgrading VCenter and ESXi to 5.5 using VMware Update manager and manual upgrades for Patching.
• Administration functions including deploying code solutions (.wsp), PowerShell scripts, server optimization, server management, term store maintenance, taxonomy, content deployment, web and service applications in Central Administration.
• Implemented teh migrations of ESX servers from 3.5 to 4.0 and from 4.0 to ESXi 5.1
• Performed datastore migration using VMware storage vMotion on Netapp NFS, EMC NAVISPHERE and EMC CLARiiON SAN Storage.
• Create and maintain database maintenance plans for SQL
• Setup custom vApps and resource pools to individually manage specific groups of VMs and provide custom priorities,Performed necessary storage infrastructure maintenance in accordance wif EMC and Customer change management policies,Supported design creation of data migration architectures.
• Integrate wif enterprise SAN that included several Symmetrix V-Max arrays and CLARiiONs connected to several Windows & UNIX servers in teh Data center.
• Involved wif capacity planning and hardware procurements as per PwC standards.
• Federation Services implementations, wif ADFS, ADFS-PRX and DirSync server installation and configuration 2008R2 AD and 2012 Server DirectAccess design and implementation.
• Migration design for Novell eDirectory to Exchange 2010
• Troubleshoot exiting Solarwindsdeployment
• Novell eDirectory & GroupWise migration to Microsoft Exchange and Office 365.
• Involved in Data center migration more Than 500 ESX servers and large number of teh windows physical servers,Installed and maintained teh Cloud setup in Linux cell to deploy vCloud Director (VCD) to service teh local teams in teh organization.
• Configured virtual networks and vShield to service vCloud Director (VCD)
• Performed VMware view upgrade from 4.0.1 to 4.6, 4.6 to view 5.0.
• Migrating Linux based machines and Power off Machines to virtual machines using VMware converter, Worked wif NFS, DHCP, SAMBA, HTTP, FTP, SMTP, SMB, PXE BOOT and HP Service Center,Security hardening and Monitoring of VM's & ESX servers (CPU, Memory, Disk, Network Utilization) for Security Compliance.
• Operated as 24-hour on-call escalation point for all project-effecting problems related to all Migration efforts. Anticipated obstacles and recommended solution options.
• Worked on service requests from teh client through service-now
• Created documentation for teh server and VMware trouble shooting procedures.
• Remote design, implementation and administration of multiple Citrix farms including Presentation Server 4.0 and 4.5, XenApp 6.0,Performance monitoring, tuning and troubleshooting of EMC SAN,EMC or IBM enterprise class storage systems experience.
• Management, maintenance, and implementation of data storage solutions, EMC Avamar, EMC recoverpoint, Symantec net backup 6.5, and utilizing EMC Symmetrix/DMX and Clariion arrays.
• Configuring and Troubleshooting FAS3200 Series NetApp Filers
• Managed protection manager, provisioning manager and operations manager for automation monitoring and reporting purposes

Environment: VMware ESX 4.0/3.5, VSphere 4.0, 5.0, 5.5 & Windows Server Active Directory 2003, VCOPS, EMCVNX5700, HP Proliant Servers & Dell Hardware, VCE / UCS, VBLOCK, SCOM, Confidential, VMAX, Flexpod, Solarwinds, VNX, Citrix XenApp 6.0 etc. PowerCLI Server OS: Windows Server

Confidential, Orlando, FL

VMware/Windows Admin

Responsibilities:

• Using VMware vCenter, created DataCenter Environment by creating VMware clusters, adding ESX hosts in teh clusters, and implemented HA and DRS.
• Using VMware vCenter, created DataCenter Environment by creating VMware clusters, adding ESX hosts in teh clusters, and implemented HA and DRS.
• LUN protecting on SAN Storage contraptions, LUN production and Storage administration.
• Configuring ESX 4.0 servers to use iSCSI & NAS storage.,Configuring and managing VCB backup proxy server.,Backup & fix management of teh virtual Machines.
• Experience wif tools like VMware Converter, Plate Spin, Power Convert & VeeamFastSCP to work on ESXi environment for teh P2V and V2Vconversions.
• Implementation of Active directory infrastructure and Vcenter Fundamentals, protocols (such as TCP/IP, DHCP, DNS), and Profile administration.
• Knowledge in deploying VM's, running applications, making use of System Center Configuration supervisor SCCM, Manage Production and Test environment server maintenance including monthly patching Maintained & managed Microsoft Azure platform & its applications like cloud, app service, active directory, visual studio,Created Snapshots according to customer requests and requirement,Maintained internet Servers by installing IIS 6, FTP websites and creating Virtual Directories,Expert on Managing, installing, and helping desktop, windows 2008 Servers, and VMware ESX Servers 4.0/4.1,Building ESXi 4.0/4.1Hosts and preserve these ESXi4.0 servers via Vsphere customer,Taking care of potential planning for brand new clusters
• Configured HA, DRS clusters, for primary VM's,Creating and managing Virtual machines, data stores, clusters,Updated Firmware and Proliant aid percent for /windows servers.
• Created Snapshots and reverted them back on user's requirement.
• Maintained web Servers by using putting in IIS 6, FTP websites and Experience in managing ESX 4.0 server, installing, configuring it,Installed and configured windows and Linux servers on VM's,Configuring excessive Availability (HA), DRS.
• Installing VMware Tools in a Linux virtual machine using RPM and Compiler.
• Upgrading VM tools, VM hardware versions and Datastores upgrade to VMFS 5.
• Worked on building new VMware Active directory exchange and MS Exchange
• Install and configure VMware vSphere 5.0 servers on Confidential UCS chassis and B250 blade server
• Ensured that all teh software and hardware components are upgraded properly, and also designed teh company's networking policyco-ordination wif network team for implementation and upgrade services Confidential MDS, Working experience on different planning migration strategies wif SAN and NAS data,Supported a large-scale Data Center projects, including server installation, hardware maintenance and break/fix activities,Solved many issues considering windows and VMware performance.,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

Environment: Windows 2000/2003/2008/2012 R2, Windows XP/Vista/Win 7, VMware ESXi 4.0 Server, VMware View, VMware Lab Manager. Open filer iSCSI SAN/NAS, HP Proliant Blade