SUMMARY

• Over 7 years of total IT experience with specialization in Windows Server 2008/2008 R2/2012/2012R2,RHEL 4/5/6, AIX 5/6 and Virtualization with VMware ESX and ESXi hosts 3.x/4.x/5.5
• In - depth knowledge and hands on expertise on VMwarevSphere ESX 4 and 5, VMwarevCenter Server, vCloud director, Site Recovery Manager, LabManager, VC Operations Manager and Solar Winds Network Performance Monitor
• Extensive experience in the area of Virtualization with VMware vSphereESXi 4.1, ESXi 5.5 servers, vCenter server 2.5, 4.0and vCenter Converter
• Proficient in Windows 2000/2003/2008 R2/2012serverupgrade and active directory administration
• Experienced in installation, configuration, tuning, security, backup, recovery and upgrades of IBM AIX and Linux (Red Hat)
• Expertise with SRM 5.0
• Good Understanding and Knowledge VBlock and components and experience with Cisco UCS administration
• Extensive experience with the Active Directory tools
• Implemented VDI (Virtual desktop infrastructure) technology using VMware VIEW 4.5/4.6
• Deployment of business continuityand DRtechnologies such asVMware SRM 4.0(Site Recovery Manager) and VMware VDP
• Expertise in Thin provisioning, VMFS expansion, RAID technologies
• Experience in working with the SCCM management of Windows systems
• Hands on experience with the HP blade c7000 enclosures and the ML, DL, BL series servers
• Hands on experience in updating / upgrading ESXi servers, Virtual Center servers and windows virtual machines using VMware Update manager.
• Experience in Physical to Virtual (P2V) and Virtual to Virtual conversions using VMware Converter, PlateSpinPower convert and vCenter Guided Consolidation
• Experience in Windows clustering Administration, troubleshooting and Microsoft failover clustering manager
• Strong experience with the VMware HA (High Availability),Fault Tolerance, Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS)and VMware Distributed Power Management
• Extensive experience in diagnostics & troubleshooting of ESXi server environment includingESXi CLI, ESXi patch management
• Managed vRealize Automation (vRA) hostnames of its provisioned machines
• Created vRealize Orchestrator (vRO) hostnaming workflow
• Proficient with developing and using Power Shell scripts to manage/maintain the VMware ESX environment
• Proficient with Datacenter operations and administration
• Proficiency in tools / concepts like - VMware vCenter, VMware VCD, VMware VUM, VMware SRM, VMware vChargeback, VMware VCOPS, VCM, CapIQ, VMware vCenter Converter, VMware Host Profiles, PowerShell, EMC PowerPath/VE, Dell Open Manage Server Administrator, Dell racadmin utility, Dell IT Assist/Open Manage Essentials, Dell DSET utility, Dell PSM portal, Dell diagnostics, APC InfrastrXure Central.
• Participate in regular VMware administration & provisioning activities on VMware environment.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

VMware Tools: VMware vSphere 4/5, Workstation 6 and 7, ESX Server 3x,4x,5x VMware Virtual Center Server 2x and 3x, VMware DRS, HA and FT, UniDesk, VMware Capacity Planner, VMware Converter 3.0, VMware Update Manager 1, VMware Virtual Desktop, Infrastructure VDM 2.0, VMView, Thinstall, ThinApp and VCloud.

Operating Systems: Win 98/2003/2007/ XP/Vista, Windows Server 2008 R2/2012, Windows 2003 SP1, Linux RHEL 4/5/6 and ESXi 4.x/5.5.

Server Services: Windows server 2012/ 2008 R2/2003/2k, SQL Server 2000 and 2005, Microsoft Active Directory 2003, Microsoft Exchange 5.5, DHCP, DNS and WINS Services, Microsoft Internet Information Services 6.0

E-mail Clients: Microsoft Outlook, Lotus Notes

Designing Languages: SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL, Sybase, DB2, MS Access

Third Part Tools: MS Access, Wire shark, Workflow Engines, Orchestration toolsets.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, IL

Sr. VMware Consultant/Engineer

Responsibilities:

• VMware implementation and troubleshooting VMware ESXi 5.0 and 5.5 hosts.
• Installing, configuring, upgrading and supporting Red Hat Enterprise Linux servers in an enterprise Data Center environment.
• P2V and V2V conversions using VMware vCenterStandalone Converter.
• Administration of ESXi hosts on HP ProLiant DL385p Gen8 and DL580 Gen8 servers.
• Updating and upgrading ESXi servers, vCenter Server and virtual using vSphere Update Manager and VM Tools through manual updates.
• Managed ESXi hosts using vCenter Server/ vSphere Client and VMware Web Client.
• Performed vMotion and Storage vMotion of Virtual Machines across different cluster with respect to security policies and application development requirements.
• Creation of hot and cold Clones Templates from Virtual Machines (VMs). Deployed Virtual Machines from Templates based on requirements and build documents.
• Performed Virtual Machine Snapshots for Application machines for Migrations and failback.
• Experience with creating Standard vSwitches (vSS), Distributed vSwitches (VDs). Isolated networks were created with separate vSwitches and VMkernel Port Groups. Third party tools such asWireshark packet capturing tool were used for network traffic monitoring, vMotion, storage and Fault-Tolerance (FT) security and stability.
• Automated configuration management and ensured compliance of vSphere hosts and virtual machines with vCenter Host Profiles.
• LUN creation and storage mapping along with Multipathing and VAAI.
• Handled VMware solutions to support multiple storage connectivity options such as Fiber Channel-SAN, iSCSI, NFS(NAS).
• Provide management of Microsoft Windows 2008, 2008R2 servers. DNS DHCP and Active Directory.
• Management and administration of Windows 2008 and 2008 R2 Active directory (Created Accounts, Reset Passwords, and Allowed Access to different Directories using NTFS permissions)
• Installation/deployment of Windows 2008R2/2012R2 using Sysprep and configuration of DNS, DHCP and WINS servers.
• Participated in meetings and planning for future migration of Windows server from 2008R2 to 2012R2.
• Design and implementation of global monitoring solution using SolarWindsNPM (Network Performance Monitoring) tool.
• Management of ShavlikAntivirus and Patch Management Software.

Environment: VMware ESXi 5.0 and ESXi 5.5vSphere, Windows 2000/2003/2008, RHEL 5.X, 6.X, P2V Exchange Server 2003/2010, WINTEL,Windows XP/Vista/Win 7, iSCSI SAN/NAS, Active Directory, iSCSI SAN, Dell PowerEdge Servers, P2V-V2V conversation, Remote desktop services

Confidential, MD

VMware Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Built new Windows virtual servers based on client requirements
• Installed Windows 2003/2008R2R2on virtual machines and also installed the required software and tools.
• Administrating production servers/network infrastructure that includes Windows administration of Domain Controllers, IISWeb Servers (HTTP/S, FTP and SMTP), Exchange 2003/2010 Mail Servers, NAS, File and print Servers and Terminal Servers on Windows 2003/2008R2/2010.
• Install, configure and troubleshoot VMware Lab Manager.
• Administer Microsoft Windows Servers (Active Directory), Microsoft Workstations, and network security devices for 350 users.
• Sharing Folders, Planning and Assigning NTFS Permissions and System Policies based on security requirements accepted by the CISO team
• Design, implementing and managing Active Directory(AD), Internet Information Server (IIS), Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM)/System Center Operations Manager (SCOM), Systems Management Server (SMS)/System Center Configuration Manager(SCCM)
• Responsible for production support of Active directory (AD), GPO, GPP, Domain users, Users and groups and given appropriate permissions, shares and privilege to access LAN and Domain environment.
• Experience with SRM 4.5/5.0 deployment and implementation created VDI lab environment for IT architects using VMware View 4.6, 5.0 and vSphere 5.0 migrated (XP to win7 or win7 to win7) machines with PCT migration tool
• Windows 7 task sequencing, application and OS deployment using SCCM
• Deployed Windows 7 imageson Workstations and laptops using SCCM
• Administrating Symantec Endpoint Antivirus console, managing 300+ antivirus client’s computers like definition updates, Exception policies, Scanning, reporting etc.
• Administered the IIS application efficiently
• Installed VMware tools and upgraded the virtual hardware
• Requested IP addresses essential in the P2V process.
• Performed the DNS reverse and forward look up tasks
• Created pools of networks, servers and storages using the VMwarevCloud Suite 5.1
• Worked with the SCCM software and managed a large cluster of windows systems and additional features like software distribution and third party tool/software patching
• Migration of production Server 2008R2 Hyper-V cluster to Server 2012 Hyper-V cluster
• Experience in implementation and deploying View 4.5(VDI) virtual desktops and ThinApp 4.5 Application packages with vSphere ESXi4.1 environment.
• Performed up gradation of ESX 3.5 to vSphere 4.0, vCenter 2.5 to 4.0
• Handled snapshots, clones, templates during patch releases and new server deployments
• Worked on the virtualization using the Citrix XenDesktop and XenApp.
• Analyze existing infrastructure using VMware Capacity Planner
• Performed datastoremigration using VMware storage vMotion on NetApps NFS, Dell iSCSISAN Storage.
• Worked with Microsoft share point for various applications.
• Installed and managed the Symantec Endpoint Protection
• Assisted in P2Vconversions of Windows servers using VMware Vconvertor
• Provide research into VMware ThinApp initiative for increasing server virtualization
• Involved in Assessment of current environment for desktop virtualization.
• Experience with Microsoft Hyper-V POC environment
• Set up V-Motion, High Availability (HA), Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS), and relatedVMwareproducts such as VM Workstation
• Worked on Migration concepts like vMotion and Storage vMotion
• Application virtualization using VMware ThinApp 4.5 version
• Experience in updating/upgrading ESX/ESXi servers, Virtual Center servers and windows virtual machines using VMware Update manager and manual upgrades
• Updating/upgrading the HP Onboard Administrator, Virtual connections
• Installing and configuring Site Recovery Manager (SRM)

Environment: Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration (ISA) Server 2004, Windows 2000 Server, Windows 2003 Server, Windows Server 2008 R2 Windows NT Server, Windows XP, VMware ESXi 4.1/5.0.

Confidential, VA

VMware/Linux Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Experience includes installation, configuration, administration and support of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (RHEL) versions 5.x and 6.x and to a lesser degree additional Linux distributions such as
• Installed AIX, i5 OS, VIO server OS, TSM back-up servers/ clients, tools and middle-ware related software, applications and security firewalls over the entire MTA ICCU cluster consisting of VMware, TSM, Windows AD, Cyber-Arc etc
• Linux instances are installed as VMware vSphere hosted virtual machines or as bare metal installation on Intel based physical hardware.
• Linux administration includes regular patching of Linux software and other enterprise supporting components. VMware vCenter is used to perform virtual machine cloning, snapshots and vMotion.
• VMware - Extensive knowledge on install and Configure VMware infrastructure handling.
• VMware Admin, VM Windows and VMware Implementation VMwarePolicy implementation and Security Review Working with VMwaremanagement tools.
• Review SMTD and EPD Documents and proposing the industrial Best practices.
• Perform Health Check of VMware Servers Infrastructure Perform and access Security Audit Placement of ESXi/vSphere servers across Geos to accomplish business and DR requirements
• Perform Capacity planning using VMware capacity planner
• Prepare the capacity forecasting requirement of Hardware and Software requirement
• Contributed to the wider technology community in terms of POC and proven white papers.
• Converting business processes into operational service levels.
• Installing, configuring, upgrading and supporting Red Hat Enterprise Linux servers in an enterprise Data Center environment.
• Benchmarking, performance monitoring, debugging and tuning Linux systems for distributed projects deployed as multiple server instances.
• Networking experience integrating, supporting and troubleshooting Linux systems in N-Tier firewalled, load balanced Data Center networks.
• Installing, optimizing and supporting Web related software applications on Linux servers.
• Installing, configuring, profiling, upgrading and supporting Linux servers running as VMware vSphere/ESXvirtual machines.
• IT Service Management (project, service catalog, change and incident management) interaction with customers, other support teams and vendors on projects supporting 24x7 systems.

Environment: LINUX,AIX,VMware ESXi 4.0 Server, VMware View, vCenter, VMware Lab Manager, Windows 2000/2003/2008 R2 R2, Windows XP/Vista/Win 7, Open filer iSCSI SAN/NAS, HP Proliant Blade Servers BL280C G6, BL460C and 620C Series, Dell PowerVault NAS, SonicWALL Firewall, Remote desktop services, Workflow Engines, Orchestration toolsets.

Confidential, TN

Windows/VMware Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Experience supporting / troubleshooting distributed / client server / virtualized servers and applications in an enterprise environment >200 servers.
• Deep knowledge in virtualization technologies; including the following: VMware vSphere 5.
• Experience on VMware performance, capacity planning, monitoring, virtualization analysis, and consolidation activities.
• Experienced with VMware enterprise features (DRS, HA, VMotion, VCB, SRM, Update Manager)
• Experience with security\vulnerability patching of VMware\vSphere hosts and Virtual machines, including deployment and process documentation.
• Specialized in PowerShell, VBscript, PowerCLI& Windows batch scripting. Strong propensity to automate routine tasks via scripting. Ability to author scripts.
• Experience supporting MS Windows network infrastructure; including any of the following: ActiveDirectory, WINS, DNS, DHCP, Group Policy, Exchange.
• Solid experience in Storage and Networking concepts
• Reviewed supporting our MS Windows infrastructure and virtualization technologies
• Sharp hand in monitoring tools, assesses and interprets the logical and physical requirements of systems and applications in relation to hardware, software and operational needs.
• Design, development and support of client and server technology infrastructure, hardware, software and office systems.
• Created and configured VPN accounts via Cisco Secure ACS client, Citrix ICA Client and Active Directory
• Installs, configures, and maintains operating system workstations and servers, including web servers, in support of business processing requirements.
• Functional knowledge of core protocols such as TCP/IP, SSH, SMTP, LDAP, NFS, DNS, activedirectory, SSL, apache, tomcat, IIS
• Experience with managing VMware/ESX in Production environments.

Environment: VMware ESX 3.5, ESXi 4.1 and ESXi 5.0/5.1/5.5,Windows 2000/2003, Windows Server 2008 SMS, SQL Server 2000, IIS 6.0, Exchange Server 2003, Microsoft WSUS, Windows XP, VMware ESX Server, vCenter and Workstation, Unix, Open filer, IBM TSM, EMC SAN, NAS, SRM, SCCM, ILO, HP SIM, SolarWinds, SCOM, Symantec, Firewall, EMC, BL/DL G1/G2/G3/G5/G7 servers, Cisco UCS.