SUMMARY

• IT Professional with over 7 years of experience in the area of Virtualization with Installation, Configuration, Administration, Support of VMware ESX 3.0/3.5/4.0, VMware ESXi 4.1.1, vSphere 5 servers, and vCenter Server 5, Windows Server 2003/2008/2008 R2, RHEL 5.x, and SUSE 10.3/11.1.
• Expertise in the area of Virtualization with Installation, Configuration and Administration of VMware ESX 4.0, VMware ESXi 4.1.1, vSphere 5 servers, and vCenter Server 5.
• Expertise in advanced features ofESX/ESXi 4/5, vMotion, Storage vMotion, HA,DRS,and Update Manager (VUM).
• Expertise with patch Management of hosts and VM’s using VMware vCenter Update Manager to create baselines, baseline groups to stage and remediate ESXi hosts.
• Experience writing both Power Shell and PowerCLI scripts to automate Virtual Machine builds and DNS entry configurations.
• Expertise in creating AD 2003, 2008 accounts, and file permissions, DNS records administration.
• Expertise in assisting with the administration and upgrading from Windows active directory and domains.
• Expertise with maintainingand updating the Domain Controllers and RODC in Windows Server 2003/2008.
• Experienced in running Windows /RHEL/ESXi on Cisco UCS 5100 series enclosures running B200’s, B250’s blades.
• Experience in pre - provisioning new Cisco UCS service profiles from service profile templates designed for various projects
• Experience configuring QOS policies, Boot from SAN, MAC pools, WWPN pools, WWNN pools, BIOS policies, Boot Policies on CISCO UCS profiles.
• Experitise of converting from physical machine to virtual (P2V) and Virtual to Virtual (V2V) by using VMware converter 4.3/5.0 & Platespin to migrate entire datacenters.
• Expertise in configuring new Cisco UCS 6140xp Interconnects, 2104xp Fabric Extenders with Hostnames, IP Address, Virtual Cluster IP Address, server ports, and uplink ports.
• Experience in developing documentation and runbooks for Physical to Virtual utilizing VMware Convertor/PlateSpin by coordinating with multiple datacenters across the US.
• Experienced in installing, configuring Windows, RHEL, SUSE and ESXi on HP C-7000 enclosures running BL460c, BL620c blades, Dell R-710 rack servers, Cisco UCS B200’s B250’s and IBM Blade Center HS22V/HS23.
• Provide 24/7 supports in a 99.999 environment to maintain maximum uptime and ensure server reliability using monitoring products such as HPOM, Nagios, and VCOPS.
• Experience implementing WSUS and SCCM for centralizing the OS patch management throughout the data center on the servers running windows operating system.
• Hands on experience of converting machine from physical machine to virtual (P2V) and Virtual to Virtual (V2V) by using VMware converter Version 4.3/5.0, Platespin, Double Take.
• Experience with tier three supporting servers anddirectoryserviceissues. Any unresolved issueswereescalated directly to VMware support.
• Experience in managing and configuring multipath based solution and well experienced in configuring NetApp/EMC/Hitachi SAN based LUNs for ESXi Datastores.
• Expertise in VMware environment architecture, maintenance and performance tuning the Virtual environment.
• Expertise in configuration of VEEAM backup and replication to manage the multiple data centers.
• Oversaw Server Maintenance, including establishing Security Protocols, Configuring Network, and Troubleshooting Problems.
• Extensive understanding of networking concepts, Configuration of networks, Router Configuration and wireless security, TCP/IP, VPN, Content Filtering, VLANs, and routing in LAN/WAN, Ethernet Port, Patch Panel and wireless networks.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

VMware Products: Design and implement Virtual Infrastructure 3/4/5 with Virtual Center, ESXi 4.x, ESXi 5.x vMotion, HA, DRS, Resource pools, VMware Converter, Virtual Center, ESXi Patch management (VUM)

VMware Converter: Expert Level in Physical to Virtual migration of datacenter, Virtual to Virtual Migration (VMware 4.x to VMware 5.x), Physical to Physical Hardware refresh.

Microsoft: Windows Server (2008 and 2003), Windows 7, Hyper-V, MOM, SCCM, SCOM, WSUS

Storage: iSCSI SAN, FC SAN, NAS, EMC CLARiiON, VMAX, VNX, NetApp 6240, 6040 FAS Solutions.

Linux: SUSE, Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

Hardware: Cisco UCS B200’s B250’s M2’s HP BL460C, C-7000, DL580’s, IBM Blade Center HS22V/HS23.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Herndon, VA

VMware/Windows Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Configured VMware HA, VMware DRS in acquiring higher efficiency for VMware Infrastructure.
• Managed Active Directory services using predefined company scripts (Creation of Accounts) and provided server and client support for all issues such as logon failures, account lockout, network connectivity and authentication issues
• Rack & Stack HP DL 380 G8 and configure ILO.
• Upgrade OS from Windows R2 with new hardware
• Migrate domain controllers, file servers from windows 2003 to windows 2008 R2
• Deploying VMware vSphere 5 by upgrading VMwareinfrastructure 4.1.2 tovSphere 5and also Upgrade Experience from VMware vSphere 4.0 to Update 1.
• Provision, installation and configuration of Windows 2008 Servers utilizing templates, gold images and upgrading Windows 2003 to Windows 2008 on both physical and virtual machines.
• Implementing GPO’s to control and monitor the environment.
• Administering Windows2003/2008 Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, WINS and building new windowsphysical/virtual servers as per the requirement of the project.
• Provide level high support for ESXi servers running on HP ProLiant BL460’s/HP DL 580’s/380’s and Windows/Linux Virtual Servers.
• Active Directory user and security group creation in AD, create shares and designate permissions for specific groups.
• Implementing group polices and security policies and restricting log on times and access to remote computers.
• Engineered and migrated 100+ Windows/RHEL Servers from physical to virtual using PlateSpin/VMware converter 4.3/5.0 as part of a large datacenter migration project.
• Develop PowerCLI scripts to automate building both RHEL and Windows 2008 R2 builds, gather inventory information and automate vCenter Migrations.
• Configure and maintain Host Profiles, Distributed Switch, DRS, vMotion, Sv-Motion, Resource pools, permissions, Patches, Snapshots, Tools Upgrade, disk expansions, and Templates.
• Configured and deployed patches, upgrades, bug fixes on both physical and virtual Red Hat Linux servers using Satellite Server/Spacewalk.
• Responsible for binding any new SAN LUNs and configuring storage groups using OnCommand Manager on NetApp FAS Solutions and EMC VMAX/UNISPHERE.
• Created/managed LUNs/disk with NetApp FAS Solutions 6240, 6040 as well as 3040’s.
• Increase efficiency and ROI of VMware hosts by cutting down on VMs memory usage closely matching recommended memory usage by vCenter Operations Manager.
• Worked closely with Network Ops team to configure Cisco Nexus 1000v VDS and VMware VDS and on network isolation of critical VMs using PVLANs.
• Built and supported Microsoft clusters on VM's using RDM's and iSCSi storage.

Confidential, Phoenix, AZ

VMware/Windows Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installation, configuration and support ESXi 4.1.2 and 5.0 hosts, vCenter 4/5, Update manager, and Administering VM's across2 Datacenters Running 1500+ VM's
• Installation, Configuration and Administration ofVMwareESXi 4.1.1/ VirtualCenter 4.1, vCenterServers as well as upgrading to ESXi 5.0 / Virtual Center 5.
• Deploying VMware vSphere 5 by upgrading VMwareinfrastructure 4.1.2 tovSphere 5and also Upgrade Experience from VMware vSphere 4.0 to Update 1.
• Design the runbooks to upgrade from ESXi 4.1 to ESXi 5.0 hosts, vCenter 4 to 5, as well as upgrading 1500+ VM’s from Virtual machine hardware 7 to 8 as part of a major enterprise upgrade.
• Provide leadership to 1st level support team via Knowledge transfer to handle level1/2 support tickets and resolve any incidents.
• Provide level high support for ESXi servers running on CISCO UCS B200’s B250’s and Windows/Linux Virtual Servers.
• Configure vSAN id and FCOE vLAN id to ensure successful connectivity on MDS SAN Switch Environment.
• Create WWPN, WWNN, and IQN Pools for FC and iSCSI Storage connectivity for storage provisioning on UCS profiles for ESXi and RHEL servers.
• Created various Cisco UCS service profile templates and service profiles based on the requirement for VMware ESXi v4/5 Deployment.
• Installing and configuring Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5/6/Windows Server 2003/2008 on ESXi 4.1.1/5.0 based environment residing on CISCO UCS B200’s, B250’s, HP Blades as required for UAT/Production.
• Convert 80% of the RHEL/Wintel Infrastructure from Physical servers to VM’s utilizing a combination of VMware converter and PlateSpin.
• Configure and upgrade Flex-10/Flex Fabric Shared Uplink Sets, SAN Fabrics, and Server Profiles on Virtual Connect Manager for BL460c, BL680c g6/g7 on HP C7000 enclosures.
• Create WWID pools, MAC pools and service profiles in Cisco UCS Manager.
• Created various Cisco UCS service profile templates and service profiles based on the requirement for VMware ESXi v4/5, Windows 2008 R2 Deployment.
• Database Upgrade for vCenter and update manager from SQL 2005 to SQL 2008 on 2 vCenter Servers
• Creating standard server builds/templates, update servers with latest service packs and hot fixes.
• Utilize applications such as HPOM, MOM, SCOM, and VCOPS toimprove the availability, performance, and ensure maximum uptime.
• Configuring VMware on clustered environment implemented Migration of Virtual Machines using vMotion, Storage vMotion.
• Hot and Cold Cloning of Virtual Machines using VMware Converter and restored VM's using Veeam Backup.
• Virtual Machine Cloning, Templates and Snapshots and upgraded windows 2003 servers to 2008 servers, Installed Boot from san windows servers.
• Configured MPIO for windows servers for redundancy and Boot for iSCSi for windows and ESXi hosts.
• Creating a backup job and also took backup of data center on daily, weekly and monthly basis.
• Created standard Templates and deployed servers from the Templates.
• Built number of VMs through templates/clones, created templates/clones for future use and physical servers/hosts 4.0/4.1 from ISO Images.
• Designed and successfully implemented VMware ESX servers for server consolidation.
• Virtualized Windows servers using VMware Converter P2V and V2V.

Confidential, Little Rock, AZ

VMware/Windows Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the installation, configuration and support of VMware ESX/ESXi environment and the daily management/monitoring of the virtual environment.
• Application Migration from physical to virtual/virtual to virtual platform.
• Windows OS build, IP Configurations, Domain Builds, Active Directory Site Builds and Support & Administration.
• Build, configure and deploy VMs and Templates and cloning Virtual Machines.
• Build, Deployed and Configured VMware Guests with Windows 2008 and Windows 2003 Servers.
• Implemented resource pools to divide the VM’s according to their resource requirements.
• Responsible for creating, configuring and applying the Host Profile to specific hosts.
• Develop, test, and maintain a Disaster recovery plan for critical VMs and application data
• Supporting the windows server for various customers in shift basis.
• Perform daily systems monitoring, verifying the integrity and availability of all hardware, server resources, systems and key processes, reviewing system and application logs.
• Developed processes and standards patching ESX Hosts using HP Remote Deployment packages.
• Excellent experience with designing and implementing VMware backup products and disaster recovery solutions.
• Extensively used VMware update manager to install patches and updates on ESX hosts and virtual machines.
• Performed P2V migrations using PlateSpin Power Convert and VMware Converter.
• Responsible for all change management documentation for the VMware environments.
• Globally supported and built out VMware ESX Environments.
• Troubleshot issues ranging from storage to HA and DRS.
• Create a Virtual Desktop Environment used for testing applications
• Ensuring the Network Infrastructure is up and running.
• Creation of templates from VMs and Creation of VMs from templates
• Involved in P2V, V2P Migration using Stand Alone VMware Converter Server and Plate Spin.
• Configured ESX 4.0 with SAN Attached storage (LUN Assignments, Data stores)
• Utilized VMware Converter for Physical to Virtual/Virtual to Virtual conversion/Physical to Physical conversion.

Confidential, Minneapolis, MN

VMware/Windows Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installing VMware vSphere ESXi and ESXi server.
• Identification, planning and migration of P2V candidates and new builds from each site without any downtime.
• Performed tons of V2V Migration., Created clones and templates of Virtual Machines
• Created VM's on ESX servers and deployed VMs Through OVF Templates, Created & Troubleshot Virtual Networks and vSwitches
• Worked on Migration concepts like vMotion and cold migration and Remediate.
• Configured Netbackup Client thorough planning was done for downtime, knowing each server usage & there placement in Datacenter.
• Creating Data centers in the vSphere Web client and adding the Hosts to the Data center
• Hands on experience with VCOPS, configuring dashboards for clients.
• Installing and configuring Windows 2003 servers of DHCP, FTP, Web Server and SQL Database Server.
• Installation and administration of Windows Active Directory, DNS, DHCP servers. Administrating and responsible for Microsoft File and Print servers cluster on windows 2003. Managing printers’ queues, spoolers, files and folders permission, maintenance/failover of cluster when required
• Managing Exchange 2003 servers and troubleshooting issues related to User and group accounts, mail delivery, configuring MX records to enable and disable domain.
• Responsible for Security Patch Management and Deployment to all clients using Microsoft WSUS 4.0/3.0.
• Administering DHCP Server creation of reservation and configuration of server options.
• Configured Terminal Server to access to the servers using Remote Desktop Protocol.
• Maintaining Local Area Network (LAN), using Cisco Switches.
• Responsible for Active directory, GPO, Domain users, Administrating users and groups and given appropriate permissions and privilege to access our LAN and Domain environment.
• Troubleshooting UCS hardware if the Hosts are disconnected in the Vcenter
• Design, Installation and configuring of new vSphere ESXi servers for the P2V candidates on UCS Cisco C240 M3 Rack Server
• Installed Management Server (vCenter Server) instances to enable centralized management of multiple ESXi hosts
• Designed and successfully implemented VMware ESX servers for server consolidation.
• Virtualized Windows servers using VMware Converter P2V and V2V.

Confidential, New York, NY

Jr. VMware/Windows Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Performance monitoring and tuning for ESX Servers, Virtual Center Server and Virtual machines
• Participating in 24x7 Production on-calls Support of ESX/Windows Server/Linux and provided technical support to users at remote datacenters.
• Creating Virtual switch and configuring Virtual switch settings and policies
• Maintaining backups and restores of the Production and Development data.
• Network Attached Storage Implementations.
• Analyzing system logs and identifying potential issues with servers and Desktops
• Windows Server and Desktop administration.
• Upgraded RHEL 4.x to 5.4 along with the middleware applications and Apache Webservers.
• Performing RHEL LVM changes, adding Users in Active Directory and Exchange Server.
• Experience in both hardware and software level RAID Configurations & troubleshooting
• Sizing hardware according to needs and requesting quotes from different vendors.
• Maintain DNS, DHCP and Trust Relationship between domains.
• Support & Training - Provide necessary halp / training to IT Helpdesk / Telecom Support Personal to resolve day-to-day issues.
• 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.
• Monitored the servers and trouble shot the server issues.
• Resolved the user issues related to Active Directory Users and groups