Professional SUMMARY:

• Vmware Certified Professional VCP4 with Over 8 years of experience in IT industry
• 5 years of experience with Virtualization Using Vmware Vsphere and Microsoft Hyper V.
• Strong knowledge on Server, Desktop and Application virtualization.
• Worked on ESXi and ESX3, 3.5, 4.0 and 4.1.
• Worked on Vcenter server 4.0, 4.1 and Virtual center server 2.5 for managing multiple ESX servers.
• Build and troubleshooting experience with ESX servers and ESXi servers.
• Worked extensively on Cisco UCS and HP C7000 chasis and blades
• Strong knowledge on resource management framework using Resource pools.
• Implemented and managed VDI view 4.5 and SRM 4.0
• Worked on Vmware FT for critical VM's.
• Good Knowledge and trained on Vsphere 5.0 and POC experience on migration.
• Extensive knowledge on VBlock components and EMC VNX storage
• Patch management and upgrades using Vmware update manager.
• P2V and V2V conversions using Vmware converter enterprise 3 and 4. Platespin.
• Extensively worked on Vmotion and Storage Vmotion.
• Sound knowledge on FC SAN, Iscsi SAN and NAS storage.
• Worked on windows server 2003, 2008 and 2008 R2.
• Worked on Microsoft Active directory.
• Strong experience with DNS and DHCP.
• Excellent understanding of networking fundamentals and network security. Installation, Configuration and managing Firewalls like Fortinet, ZyWall, SonicWall, ISA with content filtering.
• Strong Technical documentation skills and ITIL certified

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• VMware: VMware VSphere 4 and 4.1. ESX Server 3, 3.5 and 4.0,4.1.
• Vcenter server 4.0, 4.1 and Virtual center server 2.5 and 2.0
• Vmware HA, DRS, DPM and FT, Vmotion, and Svmotion
• Vmware converter 3 and 4, Vmware converter bootCD.
• Operating System: Windows XP, Vista, 7, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows 2003 servers. REDHAT Enterprise Linux 5, SuSE Linux 10 Sun Solaris 9
• Backup Software: Symantec Backup exec, Vizoncore Vranger Pro, Veeam tools and VMware
• Documentation Applications: MS Visio, Ms Office 2003, 2007 and 2010.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Technical Consultant VMware/Windows/SAN Storage

• Experience and Administration on ESXi 4.1 deployment on Cisco UCS blades.
• Installation, configuring and monitoring ESX and ESXi 41/4.0 servers and Vcenter server
• Deploying VM's from templates, resource pools and adding the VM's into the pools
• Configured SRM 4.0 for the disaster recovery setup.
• Testing the SRM functionality between the protected site and DR site.
• Design and configured the recovery Plans using the SRM for the disaster recovery setup.
• Involved in the Datacenter Relocation Project using the EMC SAN storage replication
• Configuring HA,DRS clusters, Snapshots according to user's requirement
• Experience with SAN storage administration on EMC and Netapps hardware .
• Deployed and tested the VDI View 4.5 POC environment and implemented with Thinapps 4.5 for application packaging .
• Taking care of capacity planning for new clusters
• Configuring FT for important VM's
• Taking care of ESX and VM storage issues
• Coordinating with the storage team
• Capacity planning using Capacity planner and Vmware guided consolidation for gathering the Physical machines CPU and Memory usage metrics
• P2V Hot conversions using converter enterprise 3 and 4
• P2V cold conversion using Vmware Converter Boot CD
• Performance monitoring using Vizoncore Vfoglight and ESXTOP
• Creating VSwitches and experience with Nexus 1000V distributed switches .
• Creating different ports groups for different purposes
• Taking care of NIC teaming at ESX server level for NLB and redundancy
• Updating and upgrading ESX servers using Vcenter Update manager
• Vmotion according to the requirement
• Storage Vmotion according to the requirement

Confidential

VMWare/Virtualization Engineer

• Installation, configuring and monitoring VMware ESX 3.5 server.
• Maintaining and monitoring Virtual center 2.5.
• Troubleshooting VMware ESX related issues.
• Installation of REDHAT Enterprise Linux 5, SuSE Linux 10 Sun Solaris 9 Operating Systems.
• Creating and deleting Virtual servers.
• Implementation of VMware DRS and HA.
• Responsible for the Data center in a 24 7 Environment.
• Kickstart Jumpstart implementation and administration.
• Configuration Administration of SuSE Linux Systems with YaST.
• Installation and administration of DNS, NIS DHCP servers.
• Administration of Apache web server with HTTPS.
• Handled issues regarding Samba Servers.
• Configuration Setup of clustering.
• Administration of Send-Mail server.
• Administration of Network printers.
• Configuration of Storage Area Networks SAN .
• Installation and Management of VPN Remote Access.
• Managed Information security Compliance activities, UNIX server security administration Monitoring system performance.
• Oracle Database administration, backups database tuning and configuration.
• Performed network/Server security audits and vulnerability assessments.
• Provides enterprise risk assessment mechanisms and reporting.
• Responsible for Production Servers Deployments.
• Troubleshoot various problems in NFS, NIS and DNS environment.
• Interacting for day to day problem solving with various depts. Such as database division for oracle, with network department for problems pertaining to network problems, with data warehouse dept for backups and restores.
• Wrote Scripts for software Deployment in Bash and Ksh.
• Used already written scripts to solve various issues.
• Monitored Cron Jobs.
• Maintaining Periodic Backups.
• Responsible for the Installation Maintenance of Cisco Routers Switches.
• Upgrading to ESX 3.5, Vcenter 2.5

Confidential

VMWare/Network/System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Configured and managed VMware ESX server 3.0 and Virtual Center 2.0.
• Designed and implemented a 45 node ESX environment using multiple clusters.
• Converted 150 plus physical to Virtual conversions for datacenter consolidation project.
• Management and administration of Windows 2000/2003 Active directory.
• Management of Microsoft Clusters for File Print, SQL, and Tier1 applications.
• Member of Windows 2003 Baseline Project Support of distributed enterprise.
• Performed hands-on administration and monitoring of Computer networks LAN/WAN .
• Responsible for Technical training and Recruitment activities.
• Managed the installation and configuration of Windows 2003 Server and XP Workstations.
• Installation, configuration and Administration of IIS web servers.
• Installation and configuration of DNS, DHCP servers.
• Managed Active Directory services. Created Accounts, Reset Passwords, and Allowed Access to different Directories using NTFS permissions .
• Provided server and client support for all issues such as logon failures, account lockout, network connectivity and authentication issues.
• Troubleshot and resolve computer problems built and upgrade systems install software and perform general troubleshooting.
• Handled multiple tasks to meet project deadlines.
• Develop and update the required network/system administration documentation.

Confidential

Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installing and managing network infrastructure that includes Domain Controllers, Web Servers, Mail Servers, WSUS servers, Print Servers, Terminal Servers, RAS and File servers on Windows 2003 and windows 2000 in the data centre.
• Administrating DNS, DHCP, Exchange ISA servers.
• Responsible for Active directory, GPO, Domain users, Administrating users and groups and given appropriate permissions and privilege to access our LAN and Domain environment.
• Created and managed user and group accounts in User Manager and in MS Exchange Administration.
• Managing Exchange 2003 servers and troubleshooting issues related to mail delivery, configuring MX records to enable and disable domain.
• Administrating and responsible for Microsoft File and Print servers cluster on windows 2003. Managing printers' queues, spoolers, files and folders permission, maintenance/failover of cluster when required.
• Responsible for Desktop, Laptop, Network and Outlook support troubleshooting client's issues.
• Troubleshoot and monitored network using SNMP and Solar winds network monitoring tools and also used ping, Cisco CLI, trace route for debugging them.
• Monitored network to ensure network availability to all system users and perform necessary maintenance to support network availability.
• Familiar with web based .Net application integration in IIS web server.
• Analyze, log, track and complex software and hardware matters of significance pertaining to networking connectivity issues, printer, server, and application to meet business needs.
• Coordinate hardware and software installations and upgrades to ensure work is performed in accordance with company policy. Recommends resolutions to complex matters of significance and coordinate the implementation of the approved course of action.
• Coordinate and monitor troubleshooting to isolate and diagnose common system problems: document system events to ensure continuous functioning. Recommend course of action and implement as approved.
• Coordinate testing, upgrade and configuration of system files and services. Ensure changes are in accordance with appropriate operating procedures.

Environment: Windows 2000 / 2003, VMware workstation 6.0, SQL Server 2000, IIS 6.0, Exchange Server 2003, Microsoft WSUS, Windows XP.