SUMMARY

• IT Professional with 5 years experience in Systems and Network Administration with a primary focus on Installation, configuration, and administration of VMware vSphere, ESX 4.0,4.1 and 5.0,5.1,6.0 VMware Vcenter 4.0,4.1 and 5.0, 5.1,6.0 and Windows server 2000/2003/2008 R2.
• Sound knowledge on ESXi and ESX Architecture, guest OS installation, setting up of VM priorities, Cloning and Snapshots.
• Sound knowledge on Virtual Center server 4.0, 4.1 and 5.0, 5.1, 6.0 for managing multiple ESX servers and linked vCenter servers.
• Excellent experience and knowledge with designing installing and implementing VMware ESX server, VMware virtual center, setting up V - Motion, HA, DRS, and related VMware products such as VM Workstation, VMware converter VM Backup products and other products for virtualization.
• P2V and V2V conversions by using VMware Converter and PlateSpin.
• Strong understanding of VMware Networking concepts like creation of Vswitches, different types ofport groups, NIC Teaming and VLAN Problem management on VMware ESX 3.X and Virtual Center and vMotion.
• Experience with VMware updates manager to install patches and updates on ESX hosts and virtual machines.
• Experience with designing and implementing VMware backup products and disaster recovery solutions.
• Experience in monitoring and controlling various cloud-computing components such as security virtual machine (VM) provisioning using vCloud Director (vCD).
• Experience of fiber SAN/iSCSI SAN/NAS (EMC (CX30), NetApp) storage technology and work with SANs in VMware environments and troubleshooting SAN related issues and upgraded firmware of SANs in VMware and different environments.
• Experience with HP Blade System C-class enclosure (3000/7000) using Onboard Administrator and Virtual Connect.
• Fair knowledge of Virtual connects, HP Sim, HP VCEM.
• Windows 2000/2003 and 2008 Server Active Directory Administration
• Excellent troubleshooting skills both with hardware and software in windows environment
• Exceptional work ethic,routinely use available time to solve organizational problems, ability in multitasking and timely completion of all assignment.
• Extremely self-motivated, quick learner, team player
• Has worked on HA environment on 24/7 basis and oncall.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

VMware: VSphere, VMware ESXi 4.0, ESXi 4.1 and 5.x, Virtual center 4.0, 4., 5.x and 6.x VMware converter, VMware Update Manager, HA, DRS, VMotion and SVmotion, ThinApp, VMware Workstation, VMware capacity planner.

Operating System: Windows XP, vista, windows 7 Windows Server OS - 2000, NT, 2003, 2008, 2008 R2, 2012 R2 Linux.

Application Servers: DNS, DHCP, Windows Active Directory Services, SCCM 2007. 2012, FTP.

Infrastructure Hardware: HP Blade servers, HP Proliant servers and Other HP hardware G5-G8 Cisco UCS, DELL Power Edge serversNet gear, Cisco & HP Switches.

Backup Software’s: Symantec backup exec and, Veeam tools

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, CA

VMware/Windows Administration

Responsibilities:

• Working closely with the Project Delivery, Service Delivery, EA teams, and other infrastructure t
• Provide technical expertise regarding Microsoft, VMware, HP hardware.
• As part of Server team major responsibility include build and deliver windows physical servers and VMs to application team and troubleshoot issues during that stage.
• Take part in SEV1 & SEV2 calls to restore failed services.
• Responsible for managing Windows OS ISOs and images, HP c7000 Enclosure configuration standards and Rack and Stack servers, Group Policy management.
• Create/manage SWI and SOP technical documentation.
• Configured and installed ESXi 5.1 on HP DL and BL series servers.
• Created VMs, Host Clusters, Storage Clusters, Host Profiles and Storage Profiles.
• Created VM Templates, Configured Templates and deployed Templates.
• Reconfigured Alarms and Alerts for newly deployed ESXi Hosts.
• Created and managed the VMware cluster with HA and DRS.
• Monitoring and managing performances of ESX/ESXi servers and virtual machines.
• Working on Migration concepts like vMotion and Storage vMotion.
• Analyze existing infrastructure using VMware Capacity Planner
• Performed data store migration using VMware storage vMotion on Netapps NFS, dell ISCSI SAN Storage
• Assisted in P2V conversions of Windows servers using VMware vConverter
• Hands on exposure on VMware Data Protection, vCenter Operation Manager, vSphere Multi-Hypervisor Manager, vSphere Replication and VMware Site Recovery Manager.
• Configured the NTP server in ESX Server for the time synchronization between ESX and VM’s.
• Generated report summary and performance for ESX Servers and VM’s.
• Created snapshot’s for the VM’s and also created new folders, data centers, clusters and resource pools in the VC.

Confidential, WOONSOCKET, RI

IT Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Major Responsibilities Include Installation, configuration, and maintenance organization’s server environment. Stack, Analyze and resolve problems associated with server hardware, OS and application software
• Responsible for ESX server deployments, system updates/upgrades, system health and status monitoring.
• Installed and configured VMware ESX 4.x and 5 and configured VMware Virtual Center Server, Installing Virtual center components and Managed Virtual center permissions
• Hands on experience in updating / upgrading ESX servers, Virtual Center servers and windows virtual machines using VMware Update manager and manual upgrades.
• ThinApp Packages Applications Upgrades and deployment testing and Production Implementation.
• Worked on Active Directory for creating Users and Groups.
• Involved in Installation and Configuration and Maintenance of Windows 2008/2003on HP Proliant Servers for Dev, Test and Production Instances.
• Created User Accounts and Groups in Active Directory (AD).
• Design, implement and maintain Microsoft WSUS infrastructure.
• Used Vranger to backup and restore vmdk files of windows VMs.

Confidential, California

VMware Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Virtualized 250+ servers using VMconverter.
• P2V conversions of Windows servers using VMware vConverter.
• Performing upgrade of the Virtual Infrastructure.
• Configuring and managing VMware cluster with High Availability and Distributed Resource Scheduling.
• Monitoring and managing performances of ESX/ESXi servers and virtual machines.
• Design and Implementation of VMware ESX server infrastructure in multisite/multi Datacenter environments.
• Health check on VMware Infrastructure using VMware Health check tool and custom scripts
• Installation and configuration of Windows 2008 environment.

Confidential 

VMware Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Major Responsibilities Include AD user management in Windows 2003 Server.
• Provide tier one support to end users (about 150 Faculty & Staff members, 2 labs and around 300 computers at School of Nursing, University at Buffalo) by phone, e-mail, or in-person.
• Managed Domain Controllers and Additional domain controllers.
• Configuring & administering Domain Naming Server (DNS), Dynamic Host Configuration.
• Troubleshoot basic and advanced software packages working on multiple OS platforms such as Linux, Android, Mac and Windows.
• Hands-on support to end users in troubleshooting of network server issues and remote network connection.
• Performed proper escalation of second and third tier requests, Interfaced between technician and end users to TEMPeffectively identify problems and formulate solutions.