SUMMARY

• VCP certified with over 8+ years of experience with expertise in VMware administration and Windows Administration, Windows Systems and VMware Administrator, in Implementation, Installing, Monitoring and Troubleshooting of network and communication equipment.
• Solid experience in Network set - up & Management, System Administration including Server Implementation & Administration, Disaster Recovery Management, Virtualization, Technology Support and Technical troubleshooting.
• Design and Implement virtualization solutions based on VMware vSphere ESXi 5.5/5.1/5.0/4.1, ESX 4.1/4.0/3.5/3.0 platform, vCenter 5.5/5.1/5.0/4.0.
• Installation, Configuration and Administration of VMware ESXi 5.5, vCenter 4.0 Servers and also patching, management and troubleshooting of VMware, and ESX Servers.
• Administrated the VBlock 100/200/300/700 Series environment and also monitored the entire VBlock hardware infrastructure.
• Experience with VBlock solutions including setup and configuration for UCS, VNX systems and Cisco Nexus 1KV, 5K Switches.
• Technical knowledge & proficiency in Windows Servers, VMware and Network Administration, Window Servers.
• Experience with Virtualization technologies like Installing, Configuring, and Administering VMwareESX/ESXi.
• Managing VMware vSphere environments including vSwitches, Distributed Virtual Switches.
• Experience on High Availability, Distributed Resource Scheduler& Resource Pools.
• Solid experience on vMotion, Storage vMotion, VMware Fault Tolerance,Update Manager and SRM.
• Setting up Access and Authentication control, ESXi advanced configurations, Network/Storage IO Control.
• Worked on VMFS Datastore, Host profiles, Storage profiles, Resource Management and Performance Monitoring.
• Experienced in performing Cloning, Cold Migrations and Hot Migrations and taking Snapshots.
• Performed successfully physical to virtual and virtual to virtual conversions of physical/virtual machines using VMware Converter.
• Strong knowledge and hands on experience in Data Center Migration using PlateSpin.
• Performed Data Center Migration of Physical Servers to Virtual Servers (P2V) Using VMWare converter and Double-Take Move.
• Create and maintain scripts using VMware vSphere PowerCLI and vSphere CLI, to manage the infrastructure efficiently.
• Hands on Experience implementing transition path from virtual infrastructure to Private Cloud using vCloud Director.
• Deployed and managed VMware vCloud Suite based Private Cloud with Multi-tenancy, Self Service Portal.
• Deployed and configured vCloud director to coordinate with VMwareOrchestrator to deploy vCloud Server.
• Deployed and Managed VCAC (vCloud Automation Center) based Private Cloud for self-service provisioning and lifecycle management of VM services that comply with established policies.
• Implemented and managed vCenter Operations Manager for performance and capacity management of the private cloud.
• Create and manage Power shell Script to manage server more efficiently.
• Knowledge in Data center and Server farm environment. Worked with x86/x64Intel, HP, IBM, Dell hardware - Tower Servers, Rack-mounted Servers, Desktops, Laptops.
• Strong in providing SAN security using Zoning, Masking & Mapping
• Involved in Installation, Configuration, and Maintaining of Microsoft Windows 2003/2008/2012 Servers.
• Worked on configuring the servers with Raid Configuration on HP Proliant DL585, DL380 Servers.
• Administered user accounts, domain accounts, administrative rights, security, and distribution groups with Active Directory.
• Experience with EMC PowerPath for Storage Path optimization
• Experience on EMC storage like VNX, VMAX storage systems.
• Successfully completed Virtual Machines migration and ESXi boot LUNs from old VMAX to new VMAX storage.
• Performing initial Cisco UCS cluster setup and provide management IP addresses for blade servers
• Experience in Network LAN/WAN deployment, including IP Addressing and Troubleshooting.
• Experience with Cisco UCS and HP Blades for ESXi hosts
• Worked on Remedy Incident & Change request tickets
• Experience on Puppet opens source.
• Experience in installing and configuring storage technology such as SAN, NFS, FC, NAS, ISCSI, and RAID.
• Good 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 and Wireless Networks.
• Extensively worked with Windows server architecture and administered them successfully.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Virtualization: ESXi 5.5/5.1/5.0VMware vSphere5.5/5.1/5.0, Virtual Center Server 5.5/5.1/5.0/4.1 /4.0., VMware HA, DRS and FT, vMotion, Storage vMotion, VMware Converter 5/4/3, VMware Converter boot CD.

Operating System: Windows 2012R2/2008R2/2003 Servers,Windows 7/Vista/XP, Ubuntu Linux, RedHat Linux.

Servers: IBM x3850/x3950 Servers, HP Blade Servers, HP Proliant ML & DL series 580, 380, 360, Compaq Proliant 3000/5500 Series Servers, Wintel Servers.

Storage: IBM XIVs, EMC Centerra.

BackupSoftware: Symantec NetBackup and Backup exec, Vranger Pro, Veeam tools and VMware.

SystemsMgmt: Microsoft SCCM 2012 and 2007, HP iLO, Raritan Dominion KVM Switches, IBM XIV Management studio and EMC Management.

Databases: Microsoft SQL Server 2008/2005.

DocumentationApps: MS Visio, MS Project, MS Office 2010/ 2007/2003.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Fort Worth, TX

VMware-Migration/Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Implemented & Maintained a VBlock environment and worked with Cisco UCS administration and EMC SAN storage, VBlock 700 infrastructure as a service.
• Install and configure VMware ESXI 5.1 on cisco 220 B series server (UCS)
• Experience upgrading and configuring RedHat Linux 3.x, 4.x, 5.x & 6.x using Kickstart Servers and Interactive Installation.
• Configuration and troubleshooting on Juniper EX4500 and EX8200 switches and MX series, SRX series universal edge routers
• Experience testing CISCO routers and switches in lab environment before deploying them on site.
• Worked on configuring routers and switches with knowledge on protocols - RIP, OSPF, BGP, VLAN, VTP
• Coordinate implementation of configuration changes, review and approve changes in configuration standard documents.
• Project technical lead in “End of life refresh project”, replacing 6509 distribution switches to nexus 5k.
• Experience in Creation and managing user accounts, security, and rights. Disk space and process monitoring in RedHat Linux.
• Implementation and documentation of VMware vSphere 5.1, vCloud Director 5 and 5.1, View 4.6 - 5.1, Cisco UCS systems, and EMC SANs.Create and configure new V-Center server and configure with DV switch for over 1400+ vm’s.
• Capacity planning for vmware, EMC hardware.•Experience in performance monitoring using Unisphere for VMAX.
• Installed, support and maintain EMC VMAX, VNX and XtremIO Flash array
• Installation and configuration of EMC Power Path in ESXi for SAN Storage Path optimization.
• Migrate the physical server with Plate Spin migrate. This will replicate physical server with new server with full and incremental Sync.
• Create Multiple PowerShell script to automated post migration steps such as DNS address, Gateway, Tools and Firmware
• Transfer the AD role from old server to new server and then do the Meta data clean for old Domain controller.
• Decommission of Old Vcenter and data base server. Removed SSO and update manager.
• To be confirm to delete raid and wipe out server before un racking the server.
• Transfer the AD role from old server to new server and then do the Meta data clean for old Domain controller.
• Worked on Tuning-up vSphere Performance and Optimized Virtual Machine.
• Designed and Implemented Windows servers (such as server Hardware, RAID, OS and Hardening) in Data Centre.
• Configure, rebuild, implement, and administer ESX/ESXi 5.5 Servers including patches and updates, and assist in resolving associated system outages and other incidents for 18 Clusters, 68 Esxi hosts and 1238 VM's environment
• VMAX and VNX storage system Implementation and administration in VMware environment.
• Monitoring of Vblock resources using UCS Central and UCS Manager.
• Worked on Cisco UCS and Cisco nexus 1000v, 5K and 7K Switches.
• Performed long distance Data center migration of 1200+ virtual servers from old data center to new data center.
• Migrated 1000+ servers using PlateSpin migrate.
• Performed Physical to Virtual conversation using VMware converter and Double-Take.
• Promoted Domain controllers for different server locations.
• Performed physical to virtual (P2V) migrations for approximately 500 physical servers utilizing VMware Converter.
• Performed tons of V2V Migration in VMware
• Handling the P2V and V2V server virtualization using different tools like VMware convertor, Acronis Data Recovery and PlateSpin.
• Maintained a VBlock environment and got a good understanding of its components, worked with Cisco UCS administration and EMC SAN storage.
• Enhanced work flow during application deployment by using VMWare vCAC.
• Experience with Cisco UCS blades and HP C7000 Blades
• Provided documentation based on solutions and guidelines. Manage Cisco servers using CISCO UCS MANAGER 1.4 and 2.0.
• Performed Storage migrated from HP 3PAR to EMC VNX.
• Migrated FTP users from Windows 2000 servers to Windows 2003 servers.
• Worked on Remedy Incident & Change request tickets
• Administered Global Print server.
• Created clones and templates of Virtual Machines.
• Deploying VMs Through Templates
• Created & Troubleshot Virtual Networks and vSwitches
• Configured DNS, DHCP severs.
• Configured HP Blade DL460 using the ILo & Onboard Administrator and HP Insight Manager.
• Responsible for deploying, managing, and maintaining HP Proliant BL-series C-class, P-class blade servers and DL-series servers.
• Worked with business clients to evaluate, streamline, and improve current systems, processes, and workflow.

Environment: VMware ESX 3.5/4.0/4.1, ESXi 5.5/5.1/5.0, vSphere 5.5/5.1/5.0, vCenter 5.5/5.1/5.0, MS Windows Server 2012 R2/2008 R2/2003, Clusters, SAN, NIC, EMC, Virtual Switches.

Confidential, Lexington, SC

VMware Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Experienced in Installation, Configuration and Administration of VMware vSphere 5.5, vCenter Servers and Deploying HA & DRS Cluster, Managing cluster resources
• Implemented VBlock 320, VBlock 700 infrastructure, identified migration candidates and established the new Virtual infrastructure utilizing VMware vSphere suite 5.5 bundled with ESX hosts, vCenter Servers
• Worked on Implementing VBlock VB720 in Prep Prod, Prod and VDI environment
• Created, cloned Linux Virtual Machines, templates using VMware Virtual Client 3.5 and migrating servers between ESX hosts.
• Installed RedHat Linux using kickstart.
• Experience in setting up the alerts using Unisphere for VMAX.
• Involved in generating performance tending reports for executive management for storage growth planning using Unisphere for VMAX.
• Migrated production servers from VMAX and VNX to VPLEX by encapsulating the LUNS.
• Configured and deployed Cisco UCS computing clusters with VMware ESXi 5.5 and vCenter 5.5.
• Monitoring vBlock Hardware health/Availability status and event alarms for Incident Management
• Experienced in applying monthly updates to windows servers 2003, 2008R2 and 2012 versions
• Maintained and troubleshooted windows servers windows 2003, 2008R2 and 2012 versions Creating disk spaces for windows servers.
• Resolving tickets in ServiceNow and TechExcel and coordinating with offshore team.
• Cloning, Building and deploying new VM's and Installing different guest OS like Windows server 2003/2008/2012 and Linux. Creating virtual NIC's for the respective VM's and assigning the network connections to a particular port group in the Vswitch's
• Maintaining disk spaces, RAM and connections to SAN of virtual servers
• Performed V2V and P2V migration of Physical servers to VMware ESXi hosts
• Deployed EMC VNXe SAN for vSphere5.5 high availability management cluster configuration.
• Maintaining Backups of the VM's, taking snapshots
• Managing VM's by vSphere Client and Web Client.
• Upgraded 100+ ESX hosts from ESX 5.0 to ESX 5.5 using VMwareUpdate Manager tool.
• Upgraded the VMware tools, VM Hardware 9 on all the VM's as a part Upgrade process and also Upgraded VirtualCenter to VSphere and created a linked mode environment for VC's
• Administration of user and group accounts and providing appropriate rights to user accounts according to their requirements
• Installation and configuration of EMC Power Path in ESXi for SAN Storage Path optimization.
• Configuring and managing Multi-pathing with EMC Powerpath.
• Deploying and configuring Nexus 1000v switch on a virtual machine on vCenter.
• Created new VLAN’s and port-profiles on Nexus 1000v as per the requirements.VNX Storage Array monitoring and advanced performance analysis using Unisphere Analyzer
• Troubleshooted network issues between Distributed vSwitch, Layer 2 switches and resolved slow performance between SAN network and VM networks..
• Migrating virtual machine configuration files and virtual disks from one Datastore to another Datastore Customizing VM's (Memory, hard disk, Nic). Analyzing log files, Resources utilizing monitoring.

Environment: VMware ESX 4.0/4.1, ESXi 5.5/5.1/5.0,vSphere 5.1/4.x, vCenter 5.1/4.x, Wintel Servers, MS Windows Server 2012/2008 R2/2003, Windows 8/7/XP, Active Directory, DNS, TCP/IP, SQL Server 2005, Remedy, Exchange 2007, SAN, NAS, VMAX and VNX.

Confidential, Chicago, IL

VMware/Windows Server Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Administrated server consolidation program through use of VMware ESX server and VMware Virtual Center, using Virtual Center, ESX, creating VMs, using/building VM templates and customization files, and scheduling tasks
• Installed VMware ESX server 5.0/5.1 and created virtual machines on ESX Servers
• Configuring HA/DRS related advanced configuration settings per VMware Best practices
• Configuring VMFS based storage in virtual center
• Configuring virtual networking related security, traffic shaping and load balancing policies
• Worked Cisco Nexus 1000V in vSphere environment.
• Created standard templates and deployed virtual machines from these templates
• Involved in operational support of Active Directory, WINS, DNS, and AD enabled applications.
• Experience in configuring and setting up HP ILO for physical HP servers.
• Upgraded 100+ ESX hosts from ESX 4.0 to ESX 5.0 using VMware Update Manager tool.
• VMAX and VNX storage system Implementation and administration in VMware environment.
• Installing vSphere 5.0/5.1 on half blade and full blade servers on Cisco UCS
• VNX Block Storage Provisioning and Management and integration with vSphere
• Cisco UCS integrations with Cisco Nexus 5548 for LAN and Cisco MDS for SAN
• Experienced deploying VMs using VMware templates.
• Installation of Vcenter server and Configuring ESXi - host's within the cluster using VMotion and HA.
• Providing and maintaining user access in VMware virtual Center, configuring mail alert for any failure in HA, DRS, CPU and memory
• Creating and configuring Standard Switch (vSwitch), VM Kernel Ports, VM ports, Service console ports and NIC teaming through vCenter Server.
• VNX Block Storage Provisioning and Management and integration with vSphere
• Manage security groups and user and computer account permissions for 2000+ users
• Backup administration using Symantec BackupExec and Symantec NetBackup.
• Performed data center Migration & Maintained data center Environment
• Monitoring vBlock Hardware health/Availability status and event alarms for Incident Management
• Conduct Windows server implementation, migration and patching as needed to ensure minimal service impact.
• Administered user accounts, domain accounts, administrative rights, security, and distribution groups with Active Directory.

Environment: VMware, ESXi 5.5/5.1/5.0,vSphere 5.0/4.x, vCenter 5.0/4.x,Wintel Servers,MS Windows Server 2008 R2/2003, Windows 7/XP, Active Directory, HP Proliant DL and Blade Servers.

Confidential, NC

VMware/Windows Server Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Experienced in creating Virtual Machine Templates and deploy virtual machines from templates and allocate resources.
• Experience in Network LAN/WAN deployment, including IP Addressing and Troubleshooting
• Backup administration using Symantec Backup Exec and Symantec Netback up.
• Installation, Configuration and Administration of ESXi 3.5 and 4.0 Servers.
• Performed the day to day administration of Windows Server Windows NT/ 2003/2008/2008 R2.
• 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 and Wireless Networks.
• Installation of Citrix Presentation server 4.0/ XenApp 4.5 Citrix Client Tools
• Administration of Citrix XenApp Farms
• Configuration of Citrix server policies, Load Management and Printers in the Farm.
• Manage security groups and user and computer account permissions for 1200+ users
• Establishing backup procedures using various backup solutions.
• Migrate Physical Servers to Virtual Server using VMware Converter (P2V Converter).
• Investigated new technologies, software, patches, and security packages, which will improve systemperformance and systems administration procedures.
• Experience in administration of Active directory for users and computers.
• NIC teaming for ESX/ESXi Servers.
• Taking Snapshots and reverting back as per the requirements.
• Migration of Data, Shares, Users, Rights, and Configure printers and printer software.
• Regular backup and maintenance of critical data and user specific data from Servers.
• Managing User Accounts, Computer Accounts, Files and Folders.

Environment: VMwareESX 4.1, ESXi 5.5/5.1/5.0,vSphere 4.x, Windows Server 2008/2003, Active Directory 2003, SQL Server 2008/2005, HP ProLiant Servers.

Confidential

VMware Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Developed and enhanced an enterprise wide VMware and x86 hardware standard for multi-site organizationincluding ESX/ESXi, Windows 2000/2003/2008 operating systems and server built standards.
• Designed and Implemented virtualization solutions based on VMware ESX 3, 3.5 and vCenter Servercomponents and managed virtual center permissions.
• VM migration across cluster level using v2v, Mount files option and SCP.
• Implementation of Host Profile in development cluster.
• Perform troubleshooting of operating system and software infrastructure issues on Domain Controllers,Member Servers, Server Clusters, and Virtual Machine Farms
• Configured VMware on clustered environment, Implemented Migration of Virtual Machines using VMotion,Storage VMotion
• Configured the standard cluster settings on vCenter clusters.
• Configured windows clustering for vCenter server high availability.
• Implementation of different Host Profiles for Multiple Clusters across Multiple Data centers
• Worked with system, network, security, and storage engineering teams to prepare and configure new servers for the VMware ESX environment.
• Performed backup and recovery of all systems, configurations, applications and data in the data center environment using Netback up and other backup and recovery systems.
• Administered VMware environment, evaluated and implemented new hardware and software solutions that benefited architecture and operations.
• Identified and fixed ESX performance bottlenecks by working with clients and other teams.
• Configured NFS server to share resources across multiple servers.
• Resolved Production Server problems related to web applications, Cluster failover, File system, DNS and network connectivity.
• Implemented successful recovery by VMware SRM 5.0 (Planned Migration, Disaster Recovery) and eliminated the complexity of managing and testing recovery plans.
• Installed and configured vCenter update manager for installing ESXi patches and also to upgrade ESXi
• Kernel.
• Took active part in troubleshooting vCenter and ESXi issues and also in system hardware failures.
• Migrating infrastructure VMs from VSphere ESXi hosts.
• Configuration of VMotion, vSwitch, and VLAN in VMware Virtual center.
• Created resource pools and added VM's into the pools.
• Providing and maintaining user access in VMware virtual Center, configuring mail alert for any failure in HA, DRS, CPU and memory.

Environment: VMwareESX 4.1, ESXi 5.5/5.1/5.0,vSphere 4.x, Windows Server 2008/2003, Active Directory 2003, SQL Server 2008/2005.