SUMMARY

• Over 9 years of experience in Windows Server/Linux System Engineering, Administration and VMware virtualization.
• Expertise on ESXi 3.5/4.X/5.X/6.0, guest OS installation, setting up of VM priorities, cloning, templates and snapshots.
• Hands - on experience wif installation and implementation of VMware ESXi host 3.5/4.X/5.X/6.0, VMware vcenter 6.0, setting up vMotion, HA, DRS and related VMware products such as VM Workstation.
• Expert knowledge in configuration of hardware iSCSI SAN, FC SAN, NFS and NAS storage to VMware ESXi hosts from vSphere 4.X/5.X/6.0 client.
• Responsible for Active Directory, Windows 2008 and 2012 OS, Window 7 OS
• Experience in managing Active Directory Domain Controllers, DNS and DHCP Servers.
• Good understanding on teh networking concepts like teh LAN, WAN and SAN.
• Installed, configured and managed Windows server systems includingADDS, DNS DHCP, FTP, WSUS, IIS Web Servers, active directory AD, GPO, File and Print server management etc
• Installed and configureWindows IIS, Certificate Services, WINS, LDAP
• Configured EMC/Netapp/HP SAN/NAS storage as data stores inVMWAREenvironment and as volumes in windows environment.Experience in Group Policy Object to deploy teh SCCM Client and also LAPS
• Experience in Installing and Configuration of SCCM Client and Console for Deployment and QA of applications in teh test environment.
• Experience in installation and configuration of teh VMware NSX Appliance for setup including VMware vSphere.
• Installed Cisco UCS components including Chassis, Fabric Interconnects 6100/6200 series, firmware upgrade, service profiles, Cisco FEX switches, M3 and M4 blade servers B200 and M3 and M4 rack mount servers C240.
• Installed, configured and maintained RedHat Linux (RedHat Enterprise Linux 4.X, 5.X & 6.X) Servers on Power Edge Model rack, HP blade centers like HP C6000 & C7000 and Cisco UCS environment.
• Worked wif infrastructure team on installation, configuration and administration of CentOS 5.X/6.X/7, Red Hat Linux 8/9, RHEL 5.X/6.X/7, Windows Server 2003/2008 R2/2012 R2 and SUSE Linux 10.X/11.
• Migrated physical machines to virtual machines (P2V) and virtual machines to virtual machines (V2V) using VMware converter and vCenter guided consolidation.
• Configured resource pools, alerts and alarms, cloning and migrating VM’s and experience in vMotion and storage vMotion, HA feature and DRS feature.
• Involved in installing, configuring and troubleshooting Active Directory Services and Domain naming systems in windows 2012 R2 and 2008 R2 servers.
• Expertise level and experience in working wif VMotion and Storage VMotion technology.
• Experience in configuring & maintaining SSO (Single Sign-On) as part of teh build process for VCenter 5.1 and VCenter 5.5.
• Expertise in various VMware Suites of products involving Cloud (vCD, vCAC, vROPS, vCOPs), Datacenter (vSphere, vConverter) and End User Computing.
• Experience in configuration of vSphere standard switches (vSwitch), VM kernel ports, VM ports, service console, distributed vSwitches and Cisco Nexus 1000V.
• Good knowledge of VMware Networking concepts like creation of vSwitches, different types of port groups, NIC Teaming, VLAN Problem management on VMware ESXi 5X, vCenter 6.0 server and experience in adding VLAN ports and NIC adapters.
• Responsible for OS maintenance activities like upgrading teh OS, updating teh services and third party software's.
• Mentor teh Teams onVMware, Linux, FC & iSCSI Storage (Compel lent, 3PAR, Netapp, EMC VMAX), Tape Libraries, and Enterprise Class - Data Center Infrastructure, Hi-end Servers & Blades (HP & Dell) Capacity planning tools likeVMwareRealize operations system.
• Worked wif IPv4 and IPv6 addressing and subnetting, Ethernet LAN, TCP/IP, UDP, switches, routing concepts, virtual network concepts including vSwitches, VLANs, dvSwitch, TCP/IP stack forvirtualization, configuration of printers and, scanners.
• Experience implementing VMware Virtual Infrastructure environment dat consisted of ESXi Server, multiple Virtual Center, vMotion, HA, DRS, VCB, Update Manager.
• Experience in deploying Virtual Machines (VM's) through Templates, Converting Physical to Virtual (P2V) and Virtual to Virtual (V2V) machines using Platespin, Double-Take, VMware convertor and vCenter Guided Consolidation.
• Extensive experience wif Hyper-v, Windows clustering on virtualized environments.
• Remote management of servers using Cisco CIMC, HP ILO and Dell IDRAC and strong experience in advance TCP/IP, UDP, IPv4, IPv4 subnetting, IPv6.
• Created teh OU, security groups and distribution list creation and deployed VMs through OVF/OVA templates, created & troubleshot virtual networks and vSwitches.
• Created RAID groups, storage groups, LUNs and assigned LUNs to Windows/Linux and VMware hosts and strong experience on RAID levels RAID 0, 1, 5, 10 for disk management using RAID controller.
• Managed, implemented and maintained Microsoft Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, FTP and GPO and configured NetApp storage Plugin Virtual Storage Console (VSC)
• Configured Cisco UCS Fabric Interconnect upstream connectivity for LAN and SAN.
• Performed initial Cisco UCS cluster setup and provide management IP addresses for blade server B200 (M3/M4) models.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Virtualization Tools: VMwarevSphere 4.X/5.X/6.0,Hyper -V,VMwareESX 4.0, ESXi 4.1/ 5.X/ 6.0, vCenter server 4.0/4.1/ 5.X/6.0,VMwareconverter enterprise,VMwareUpdate Manager,VMwareSite Recovery Manger (SRM), vRealize

Storage: EMC Clarriion, Celerra, NetApp using FC, iSCSI SAN and NAS.

Operating Systems: Windows Server OS - 2003, 2008, 2008 R2, 2012, Red Hat Linux 4.0/5.0, CentOS 6/7.

Hardware: HP ProLiant, Cisco UCS, Dell, EMC, netapp, Brocade switches

Windows Admin Skills: Microsoft Active Directory, Microsoft Exchange Server,DHCP, DNS, SQL server,Microsoft Internet Information Services(IIS),WSUS, Microsoft failover Clustering.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Sr. Systems Engineer/Admin (VMware and Windows)

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for maintenance of VMware ESXi Hosts guest virtual machines (VMs) in Production and Development environments.
• Installed VMware vSphere 6.0/5.5 and created virtual machines on ESXi 6.0/5.5 Servers.
• Worked on active Directory, DNS, DHCP servers Management, Active directory User creation/ Modification/ Deletion, Group policymanagement.Install, configure, maintain, and upgrade Microsoft Windows serveroperating systems and applications.
• Perform initial Deployment and Validation of hardware, OS andAzure Cloud architectures
• Creating, Managing and Configuring Virtual machines on Hyper-V,Azure & ESX hosts.
• Worked wif HA, DRS, VDS, Affinity rules, VCenter, storage migrations and P2Vmigrations
• Worked wif Windows, Active Directory, vSphere Azure Cloud problemdetermination, capacity planning and root cause analysis (RCA).Worked on DHCP migration from Windows 2008 to 2012
• Extensively worked wif Active Directory Services, IIS Servers, DNS and DHCP and experience in vCenter upgrades from 5.1 to 5.5 & 5.5 to 6.0 including migrations of hosts from ESXi 5.1 to ESXi 5.5 and 6.0.
• Configured VMware virtual machine port groups, console ports groups, VMkernal port groups and VLANs.
• Responsible for Active directory, GPO, Domain users, Administrating users and groups and given appropriate permissions and privilege to access our LAN and Domain environment.
• Used PowerShell to execute commands/scripts, installed remote Server administration tools using PowerCLI.
• Configured VMware vSphere Cluster features like High Availability (HA), Distributed Resource Scheduling (DRS
• Used terminal server for login access for consoles like ILO, Flex switches, HP c7000 blades, Cisco UCS,
• Administration of Windows Server 2008/2012 servers.
• Installing and Managing software applications like SCCM, WSUS & HP Dataprotector.
• Completed routine Patch Management through System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) and Windows Server Update Services (WSUS), TCP/IP.
• Server Consolidation (Physical to Virtual Platform), Data Center Migration from old to new
• Worked wif Firmware and PSP up gradation on HP ProLiant servers.Patch management through WSUS on monthly basis released onMicrosoft site.Verifying replication on all domain controllers using sonar, replmon.
• Performing OAT and server hardening.Actively participated during teh migration of active directory from 2008 R2 to 2012.
• Configuration/working on NLB and Clusters on servers.
• Installation and configuration of VMware Virtual Center servers and VMware vCenter Appliance.
• Migrated Physical Machines to Virtual Machines (P2V) and Virtual Machines to Virtual Machines (V2V) using VMware converter and vCenter Guided Consolidation. Managed Hyper-v, VMware ESXi hosts 4.X/5.X/6.0 using vSphere client and Web client.
• Installed, configured and administered Windows 2012-R2, 2008-R2 Servers, Centos, SUSE, Red Hat Linux 6.X/5.X, Ubuntu servers and OS upgrades on RHEL 5.X/6.X/7.X, SUSE 11.X, 12.X.
• Performed Red Hat Linux Kickstart installations on Red Hat 6.X/5.X, performed RedHat Linux Kernel Tuning, memory upgrades.
• Configured VMware standard vSwitch, distributed vSwitch, virtual machines using templates, hot clone, cold clone and cold migration.
• Experience on Coordinate maintenance ofsecurity-related systems (firewalls, VPNs, IDP/IDS, Endpointsecurity, etc.) to ensuresecurityproduct lifecycles are proactively managed and up-to-date.
• Configured and implemented Anti-Virus andFirewallsolutions.
• Hands on experience wif Checkpointfirewalls, Cisco ASAs, Palo Altofirewalls, and FireEye NXs.
• Performed installation, configuration and troubleshooting of UCS Fabric Interconnects 6100 & 6200 Series, Fabric Extenders 2100 & 2200 series, UCS Blades and Rack mount servers (M3 and M4), UCS Palo VIC cards, Blade chassis 5108 and VMware ESXi 5.X and 6.0.
• MonitorSCOMhealth for Management Servers and Gateways.
• MonitorSCOMusing Resource Monitor, SQL profiler and SQL Activity Monitor.
• Utilized Wireshark Software to monitor network traffic and report potentialsecurityrisks
• Created and managed teh users, groups, GPO in teh Active Directory and resource pools for Virtual Machines and responsible for NSX configurations and creating workflows.
• Troubleshot issues related to Virtual Machines, vMotion, snapshots, clone and template and issues related to ESX/ESXi hosts using ILO interfaces.
• Deploy and perform system configurations to Network Device hardware’s such as; edge and core routers, access and aggregation switches,firewalls, load-balancers, and security appliances
• Configured VMware on clustered environment, implemented migration of Virtual Machines using vMotion, Storage vMotion.
• Worked wif hyper-v, NAS, VMFS, iSCSI storage and Fiber Channel over Ethernet (Fcoe) and NetApp SAN management & storage administration activities.
• Deployed employee OS andSecuritypatches, and software upgrades wif Microsoft SCCM
• Implemented, administrated and troubleshot common TCP/IP based services, including NTP, DNS, DHCP, SSH services.
• Handled teh VMware solutions to support multiple storage connectivity options such as FC-SAN, iSCSI, NFS (NAS) and provided system administration and technical support for Windows 2003, 2008 and 2012 Servers.
• Experience wif HP servers (DL360, DL380, DL580, ML 570, BLp20g), IBM servers and Dell Power Edge Servers and creation of host profiles and deployed to hosts in VMware clusters.
• Configured different type of port groups policies, applying security policies, traffic shaping, load balancing, Failover detection, hard and soft zoning and VLAN tagging.
• Troubleshooting network issues between distributed vSwitch, Layer 2 switches and resolved slow performance between SAN networks and VM networks.
• Good working experience wif PowerShell 3.0 for installingwindowsfeatures and roles and for automating monthlysecuritypatching.

Environment: Windows 2012 R2/2008 R2/2008/2012 Servers, MS SQL Server 2008, RHEL 5.5,5.6,6.X, DNS, DHCP, VMware ESXi vSphere 5/6, VMware HA, hyperv-v, and VMware DRS, Windows Client OS XP /Win 7, NetApp FC SAN/NAS storage, Cisco UCS 5108, VCE V block, UCS manager, Hyper-V Storage Replication, EMC SAN, Active Directory services, WSUS, DHCP, DNS, RDP, IIS, FTP, SCCM, Oracle 10g, 11g, SQL 05, 08, HP Blade Servers on enclosure c3000 and c7000.

Confidential, SantaClara, California

Senior System Admin (Windows/Wintel/Vmware)

Responsibilities:

• Maintaining Performance lab machines in teh datacenter.
• Installed ESXi 5.X in large environment on Cisco UCS on both protected and recovery sites.
• Managing Active Directory, DNS, WINS and DHCP Servers.
• Active Directory Services Managing Users & Other AD objects.
• Implemented different Host Profiles for Multiple Clusters across Multiple Data centers
• Deployed and updated services in n-tier architecture vCloud air environment.
• Designed and implemented scalable, secure cloud architecture based on vCloud air environment.
• Maintained awareness of business needs and changing technology landscape, relative to public cloud.
• Experience wif Cisco UCS and HP C7000 Blades for ESXi hosts
• Identified and developed automation for routine infrastructure tasks; notably, auto scaling virtual machines using vRealize Operations, vRealize Orchestrator, and PowerCLI.
• Designed, developed, and implemented an infrastructure service catalog using vRealize Automation. Featuring complete virtual machine service automation & Day 2 actions; encompassing DNS, vSphere, Windows, & Linux.
• Utilized vRealize Automation, vRealize Orchestrator, and Chef for provisioning and configuration management. Server delivery time was improved by 98%, from weeks to less TEMPthan 30 minutes.
• Implemented Hyper-v, VMware vSphere 5.0 wif Enterprise Plus Features of vDistributed Switch and Host Profiles Upgrade Experience from VMware Infrastructure 4.1 to vSphere 5.0 and 5.5 Update including vCenter, ESXi Hosts, Update manager, vSphere client, and Virtual machines tools
• Troubleshoot Network Devices issues (aggregation switches,firewalls, load-balancers, and security appliances) and connectivity issues wif copper and fiber cabling using test installation equipment.
• Worked on SRM 5.0 deployment and configuration of DR site
• Experience on Host Profiles, Distributed Switch, DRS, VMotion, SV-Motion, Resource pools, permissions, Patches, Snapshots, Tools Upgrade, disk expansions, Templates.
• Experience monitoring, tracking and managing of environment using vCOPS.
• Automated routine tasks using scripting languages such as PowerShell, Power cli
• Automated tasks for VMware using PowerShell.
• Worked wif service now, ITIL/ITSM Ticketing.
• Managed Windows 2008Active Directory Domain Administration
• Experience working wif SCCMadministration wif responsibilities including server patch management, deployment, System Center Endpoint Protection, group management, and monitoring
• Worked on Windows Server 2008 clustering, hyper-v, and worked on failover configuration on windows on Unscheduled and Scheduled Outages
• 300+ P2V migration of windows and Linux servers
• Experience working wif DNS, DHCP, WINS, FTP and printing.
• Experience working wif monitoring tools like SCOM and demoting Active Directory.
• Experience wif SAN Storage, done packaging using Appv 5.
• Created virtual machines using Hyper-V and deployed prepared pre-production environment.
• Worked SQL clusters on Windows 2008/2012 administration.
• Created Protection Groups and Recovery Plans using SRM 5.0 and VMware best practices
• Testing of different recovery plans in SRM to ensure recovery of failover VM's
• Expertise in providing support for Windows 2003/2008 servers and ADS.
• Experience in DatabaseSecurityincludes creating Logins and Roles for users to access teh database. Managedsecuritylogins and worked wifWindowsauthentication, SQL server authentication and mixed modes.
• Install new and rebuild existing Servers and configure hardware, peripherals, services, settings, directories, storage, etc in accordance wif standards and project/operational requirements.
• Installed, Configured and Maintained infrastructure systems such as ticketing (ITIL/ITSM)systems.
• Maintained data center environment and monitoring equipment.
• Configured, installed and maintainedSCOM2007/2012 environments andSCOMagents across 3 enclaves. Imported various management packs to increase monitoring visibility. Configured email notification to various groups to assist in troubleshooting systems issues.
• Created, changed, and deleted teh User Accounts per request.
• Performed daily backup operations, ensuring all required file systems and system data are successfully backed up to teh appropriate media, recovery tapes or disks are created, and media is recycled and sent off site as necessary.
• Provided support per request from various constituencies, Investigate and troubleshoot issues.
• Applied OS Patches and Upgrades on regular basis, and upgraded administrative tools and utilities.
• Configure/add new services as per teh requirements.
• Performed periodic performance reporting to support capacity planning.
• Performed ongoing performance tuning, hardware upgrades, and resource optimization as required and Configure CPU, memory, and disk partitions as required.
• Upgraded ESXi 5.0 to 5.1 on servers using update manager.

Environment: ESXi 5.X, Cisco UCS, HP C7000, ESXi hosts, vRealize Operations, vRealize Orchestrator, PowerCLI, vRealize Automation, DNS, vSphere, Windows, hyper-v, and Linux, Chef, VMware vSphere 5.0, vDistributed Switch, Windows Server 2008 clustering, service now, ITIL/ITSM, DNS, DHCP, WINS, Service now, ITIL/ITSM, FTP and printing, OS Patches, SRM, Upgraded ESXi 5.0 to 5.1, update manager.

Confidential, Atlanta, Georgia

System Admin (VMware, Windows)

Responsibilities:

• Design, Implementation and Troubleshooting VMware ESX 5.1 Hosts, VMware vSphere virtual center.
• Designed, Installed, configured VMware ESX, ESXi wifin vSphere 4 and 5 environments wif Virtual Center management, Vmware vCloud Director, VMware Data Recovery, VMware Site Recovery Manager, VMware View, Consolidated Backup, High Availability, DRS and deployed VMs and template.
• Build, configure and deploy Virtual Machines and templates.
• Completed P2V and V2V conversions by using VMware Converter, Plate Spin.
• Administration of VMware ESX and ESXi Servers on HP Blade Servers C7000 and C3000.
• Worked on installation and configuration of SRM to implement Disaster Recovery of Critical VMs.
• Worked on large datacenter consolidations and completed them successfully using multiple P2V conversion tools like VMware Converter and Platespin.
• Perform capacity analysis of existing physical production environment using VMware vCenter Operations Manager.
• Involved in live migration of Virtual Machines and Virtual machines files using teh vMotion and Storage vMotion.
• Building new VMware virtual machines to meet teh specifications provided by teh client.
• Implementing and managing Block based VNX/VMAX storage system in VMware virtualization environment.
• Installed/updated patches on VMware ESX (i) hosts using VMware Update Manager tool.
• Perform capacity analysis of existing physical production environment using VMware vCenter Operations Manager.
• Regular monitoring like maintenance of Virtual machines for performance issues also implemented V-Motioning, Hot and Cold Migration of virtual servers and technical writing, documentation, security assessments, vulnerability assessments or other related activities. Deployed Thin Print printing technology to ensure best printing performance.
• Provided day to day system administration and technical support for Windows 2003 and 2008 Servers.
• Worked extensively wif Active Directory services, Citrix Delivery Service Console, Group Policy Management and Computer Management.
• Assisted in teh maintenance and troubleshooting WMI andSCCMclient issues on workstations to decrease system vulnerabilities.
• Coordinated and worked closely wif teh SAN Admins for storage needs as per teh requirements along wif planning future storage needs. Prepared plans and documentation for many projects wif different environment architecture.
• Create Active Directory, Domain, Child Domain, Additional Domain& DNS, DHCP Server.
• Suggesting solutions for most of teh calls over teh Remote.
• Monitor and maintain an Active Directory Network, managed computer and user accounts.
• Installing and Configuring, Maintaining a Windows 2003 Server.
• Configuration of DNS/DHCP server services.
• Server into Client Pc's Applying Group Polices used in Organizational Unit. And shared level Security permissions.
• Installing and configuring IIS and FTP Site, and Using IIS FTP Professional software.
• Support and troubleshoot teh system, network and email related user issues remotely and on-site.

Environment: ESXi 5.X, Cisco UCS, HP C7000, ESXi hosts, vRealize Operations, vRealize Orchestrator, PowerCLI, vRealize Automation, DNS, vSphere, Windows, hyper-v, and Linux, Chef, VMware vSphere 5.0, vDistributed Switch, Windows Server 2008 clustering, service now, ITIL/ITSM, DNS, DHCP, WINS, Service now, ITIL/ITSM, FTP and printing, OS Patches, SRM, Upgraded ESXi 5.0 to 5.1, update.

Confidential, Phoenix, Arizona

Linux, Vmware, Windows System Admin

Responsibilities:

• Experience in VMware ESX Server 3.5/vSphere ESX 4.0/vSphere ESX 4.1/vSphere, Virtual Center 2.5/4.0
• Installation and configuration of Windows servers 2003, 2003 R2, 2008, 2008 R2 Virtual Machines in teh ESX host clusters.
• Created, installed, configured and maintained teh Virtual Machines, installed Guest Operating Systems like Windows versions and Linux Centos, SUSE, Red Hat Linux 4.5.x/4.x
• Troubleshot network issues between Distributed vSwitch, Layer 2 switches and resolved slow performance between SAN network and VM networks.
• Implemented migration by performing P2V, V2V and V2P conversions using vConverter.
• Design, configuration and troubleshooting of TCP/IP, UDP and Networking.
• Migrated infrastructure VMs from vSphere ESXi hosts 5X.
• Configuration of vMotion, standard vSwitch, distributed vSwitch and VLAN in VMware vCenter 4.0
• Creation and configuration of virtual machines, installed VM Tools in VMs and allocated for end users and managed teh users, groups, GPO in teh Active Directory.
• Managed VMware Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS), vMotion, storage vMotion and High Availability (HA) Clusters.
• Experienced in installing Cisco UCS chassis 5108 wif B200 M3 and M4 Blades and troubleshooting.
• Tested teh system manually to check Networking applications, protocols and products involve TCP/IP, UDP, DNS, DHCP, IPv4, IPv6.
• Worked closely wif Storage and Networking teams to ensure allocated SAN, Fiber and networking.
• Configured Terminal Server to access to teh servers using Remote Desktop Protocol.
• Installation and configuration of Domain Controllers and implementation of trusts, permissions and alerts/alarms.

Environment: ESXi 5.0, vCenter Server 4.0, Windows 2003/2008 Server, Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, Group Policy, Backup and Recovery, IIS (HTTP and FTP), ISA, Terminal Services, Disk Management and File Sharing, NTFS, Dell Power Edge, HP ProLiant G3, G5 Blade Servers.