SUMMARY

• 6 years of experience and noledge on VMware Administration, Planning, Analysis, Implementation, and Performance Tuning over Virtual/Physical IT Infrastructures wif vSphere 5.x/4.x, Windows Server 2012/2008/2003, Active Directory, Vmware/Windows Enterprise Management Applications, HA and Backup/Recovery Solutions, Exchange Server 2013/2010, HP - Dell-Cisco UCS Blades/Enclosures, SAN/NAS, Security Management.
• Manage teh deployment, maintenance, support and upgrade of servers, hardware, software, operating systems and distributed printers in a Microsoft Windowsand server environment. Build and troubleshooting experience Wif VMware ESX Server and Virtual center server.
• Experience in installing, configuring and managing infrastructure using VMware technologies viz. ESX/ESXi 4.x/5.x, vSphere 5.0, vCenter, VMware View 5.0/5.1, VMware vCenter Converter, among others.
• Strong understanding and hands on P2V, V2V, P2P using vConverter, Double Take
• Experience in Writing/ Maintaining troubleshooting scripts written both in MS Power Shell and/or VB script for build operations environment to develop/test/implement automation tools.
• Installing VMware tools and Upgrading VMware tools on Windows Machines. Decommissioning Virtual Machines according to Service Request. Creating and Configuring VM's and Preparing Build Verification list's for provisioned VM's.
• Experience working wif Public and Private Cloud wif OpenStack, Cloud & Cloud Stack
• Good experience on migrations from UNIX to LINUX servers Solaris 10, AIX, and HP-UX to Redhat, Ubuntu or vice virsa, proficient in migration teh packages.
• Upgraded and Migrated Citrix Presentation server 4.0 to Citrix XenApp 5 XenApp 6.5, including configuring and deploying Citrix XenApp 6.5.
• Extensive experience wif troubleshooting Windows Installer MSI Windows Installer Transforms MST installation and runtime errors.
• Experienced in LAN/WAN configuration and troubleshooting of teh SAN devices Fiber channel VLAN Switch, Network Storage Router, Modular Data Router, Tape Library and Tape Controller.
• Experienced in configuration maintaining Veritas Cluster server, NetBackup, Veritas Volume Manager and Veritas file system.
• Technically very sound working on Storage, Disk Management, Logical Volume Management (LVM) and logical partitioning.
• Responsible for Day-to-Day Backup and Recovery using tar. Disk and File system management through Veritas Volume Manager Solstice Disk Suite on Solaris and logical volume manager for Linux.
• Experience in using teh network protocols like HTTP, FTP, TFTP, SMTP, TCP/IP, UDP, POP.
• Highly motivated individual wif very good communication and interpersonal skills. Very comfortable to work wifin a team. Always curious to learn more and ready to manage challenging situations.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Virtualization Tools: VMware ESX, ESXi 4.1/4.0, vCenter, vSphere, VMware Converter, VMware View 4.5, ThinApp, vCloud Suite, vCenter Lab Manager, Presentation Server, Xenapp 4.5, 6.5, XenDesktop, Netscaler

Operating System: MS Windows 2003/2008/2012/ XP, Vista, Windows 7, Linux(RHEL), VMware ESXi Server

Languages: C, Python, SQL, PL/SQL, Shell Programming, Perl, HTML, Javascript, J2EE, VB.net, Asp.net, Puppet

Databases: MS Access, Oracle 9i/10g/11g, MySQL, DB2, Sybase

Application Server: WebLogic 8.1/10, WebSphere Application Server 5.0/6.0, LDAP Server, JBoss, Apache Tomcat 6.x, IIS 3.0/4.0, Open Stack, Cloud Stack, Automation, Chef

Protocols: TCP/IP, HTTPS, FTP, SMTP, DNS, WINS, DHCP

Networking: LAN/WAN on Cisco Routers and Switches.

Other Tools: MS Office, Norton/McAfee Antivirus, Windows/Zone Alarm Personal Firewall, Various Anti Spyware tools

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Nashville, TN

Sr. VMware Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for 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
• Installed and upgraded VMware vSphere ESXi and ESX server 4.1/4/3.5 in a total of 200 ESX servers, 1350 Servers.
• Migration of VMware ESXi 4.1 to 5.5 Host Server Installation, Configuration Maintenance, VSphere Suite wif P2P and P2V, Virtual Machines Installation, Configuration Maintenance.
• Upgrading teh existing VMware Infrastructure 4.x to VMware vSphere 5 using vCenter Update Manager
• Supported a large scale Data Center projects including server installation, hardware maintenance, and break/fix activities.
• Strong Experience in Cloud Automation Migration Integration and operations
• Work wif customers on data center transformation activities to confirm and document accordingly Windows Systems and workloads, develop Functional Specifications.
• Maintaining disk spaces, RAM and connections to SAN of virtual servers.
• Participated in creating teh security policies in Active Directory, scheduling tasks using task scheduler, using PowerShell scripting.
• Worked wif storage networking teams to ensure allocated SAN, fiber and networking infrastructure reflects specifications laid out in teh initial VMware farm design to ensure successful deployment.
• Patching all VMware vSphere ESX i hosts using VMware Update Manager.
• Installation and Configuration of networks, router/switches configuration and wireless access point/router wif 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.
• Analyzed and Implemented OS patches and hot fixes as well as other OS configurations and updates using Blade Logic Patch Management tool.
• Creating and managing Virtual Machines and Templates. Working wif snapshots of Virtual Machines.
• Added and removed server roles and features configured AD Domain Services roles configured network infrastructure roles configured file and print services configured IIS7 on Server Core.
• Perform P2V & V2V Migrations based on requirement
• Hot and Cold Cloning of Virtual Machines using VMware Converter.
• Created Root Cause Analysis RCA for any VM failures and for any server outages and server problems.
• Troubleshoot network issues between Distributed vSwitch, Layer 2 switches and resolved slow performance between SAN network and VM networks.
• Logs file analysis using teh Event Viewer and troubleshooting to resolve issues.

Environment: VMware ESX 5.1/5.0/4.0, vSphere 4.0, 5.5, Windows Server 2008 R2/2003, Windows 7/XP, Active Directory, HP Blade Servers, Cisco, IIS Servers, TCP/IP.

Confidential, Omaha, NE

VMware Admin/Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Installation, Configuration and Administration of VMware ESX 5.5, Virtual Center 5.0 Servers and also patching, management and troubleshooting of VMware, and ESX Servers.
• Responsible for Installation, Configuration, and Maintaining of Microsoft Windows 2012/2008 Servers on HP and IBM Servers.
• Resolving teh day-to-day hardware and platform level incidents and requests through IT resource Management Tools such as HP Service Manager 9, Service Now.
• Participated in teh migration project of vSphere 4.1. To vSphere 5.1 and Migrated ESX 4.0, ESXi 4.1 to ESXi 5.1using VMware vCenter update manger 5.1.
• Configuring and maintenance of ESXi uplink NIC teaming at ESXi server level for redundancy.
• Implemented successful recovery by VMware SRM 5.0 Planned Migration, Disaster Recovery and eliminated teh complexity of managing and testing recovery plans.
• Coordination wif various vendors like Microsoft, Symantec, BMC and HP for any issues and/or maintenance and project planning purpose
• Planning and testing teh application Virtualization for various new application releases using Citrix Streaming Profiler and publishing it to teh Citrix farms.
• Performed Active Directory deployments for client projects and also configured DNS configuration settings, Bridgehead servers for multi-site AD replication.
• Linked Different vCenter servers using linked mode to have a single instance of vSphere client to manage teh whole Virtual environment
• Responsible for keeping documentation of teh backup infrastructure up to date and maintaining an accurate hardware and software inventory
• Configuring NAS, SAN, and iSCSi storages to teh VMware ESX servers and installed teh iSCSi Software and Hardware Adapters to teh ESX servers.
• Managing/Administrating Citrix XenDesktop VDI using Citrix Delivery Service Console.
• Installed and Configured WIN, TCP/IP, FSMO roles, DNS, DHCP, IIS and Terminal Services.
• Responsible for Backup/recovery strategy of all ESX servers. Planning and implementing fault tolerance and strategies for backup and restoring files on teh network.

Environment: Windows 2008/2012, Active Directory, DNS, WINS, DHCP, TCP/IP, CISCO, NTFS, IBM xSeries, Blade Servers, IIS Servers, VMware ESXi Servers.

Confidential, Jacksonville, FL

VMware Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installation, Configuration and Administration of VMware ESX 3.5, 4.0 / vCenter Servers. Installing, patching, management and troubleshooting of ESX 3.5 and VC 2.5 servers.
• Responsible for Backup/recovery strategy of all ESX servers. Planning and implementing fault tolerance and strategies for backup and restoring files on teh network.
• Installed configured, upgrade and maintained Windows 2000, 2003 and 2008, MS Office 2003/2007, Exchange Server2003/2007 Operating Systems.
• Analyze performance of physical servers to determine and customize virtual server specification Deployment of VM Templates to deploy virtual servers.
• Installation and Configuration of networks, router/switches configuration and wireless access point/router wif 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.
• Installation and configuration of DNS Server, DHCP server, Print Server, File Server, Replication File server, IIS Web Server, FTP Server, Windows Deployment Services WDS wif web through configuration.
• Was Responsible for Backup/recovery strategy of all windows based servers. Planned and implemented fault tolerance and strategies for backup and restoring files on teh network using different media devices like tape drives, compact disk and additional hard disk.
• Performance tuning of VMware servers, Virtual sessions and management of server resources between Virtual Machines.
• Administrating/Responsible production Exchange Email Server, creating/disabling users, Mailboxes management, public folders administration, monitoring server health, LDAP, smtp traffic/queues, Resolving Outlook issues.
• Troubleshooting and resolving problems associated wif VMware ESX server hardware, OS Implement controls and security to comply wif security standards.
• Monitor various aspects of server like health file systems, logs using tools like BMC patrol, Tivoli, and Net view.
• Responsible for facilities management, liaison wif vendors and training for end users on various platforms and for various applications.

Environment: VMware vSphere 5.1/5.5, Microsoft Exchange Server Outlook 2010, Windows 20003/2008R2/2012, DNS, DHCP, Active Directory, VMware, VNX

Confidential, Irving, TX

System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Manage and lead VMware ESXi hardware and software migration and upgrade efforts of varying size and complexity.
• Migrating users and their settings from Windows 2000 and Exchange 2000 server to 2003 server/Exchange server
• Troubleshooting and resolving problems associated wif VMware ESX server hardware, OS Implement controls and security to comply wif security standards.
• Granted Access to users for Various Resources depending on their group access levels using Distributed File System Admin. Tool.
• Evaluated existing LAN environment, technical support, reliability of existing equipment and add-on services.
• Installed and Configured Window Servers in a single domain Environment.
• Supported day-to-day issues in Microsoft Windows 2003 Server/ Microsoft Windows 2008 servers.
• Administered user accounts, domain accounts, administrative rights, security, and distribution groups wif Active Directory.
• Configuration of Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP).
• Worked on various environments such as testing, implementation, Production support Giving Production support on 24/7 bases during critical issues.
• Designed, validated and implemented LAN, WLAN & WAN structure to suite client's needs.
• Analyze, log, track and complex software and hardware matters of significance pertaining to networking connectivity issues, printer, server, and application to meet business needs

Environment: Windows Server 2003/2008, Active Directory, IBM Blade servers, Citrix, SCCM, DHCP, ESX

Confidential, Mossville, IL

Jr. System Admin

Responsibilities:

• Installed, configure and troubleshoot computer hardware, operating systems, network configurations and software.
• Installation of Windows NT, Novell NetWare, and SCO UNIX Server software on Servers from Compaq, IBM, HP, ICL, etc. Packaged various applications per specs provided by client to Windows XP desktop environment.
• Managed teh installation and configuration of Windows 2003 Server/Workstations
• Installation & administration of Windows 2003 Domain Controllers, Active Directory Design& Architecture, File/Print/Database Servers.
• Created and documented Disaster Recovery (DR) architecture of Citrix XenApp servers on a remote DR site. Teh site includes Provisioning Server, Password Manager, Presentation Server, XenApp, Web Interface servers and replicated SQL DB.
• Updating and upgrading ESXi servers using vCenter update manager.
• Installed hardware, applications, maintained LAN / WAN / Wireless networks, support remote access users, develop documentation, teh IT team.
• Managed network servers and components including installation, configuration and maintenance.