SUMMARY

• VMware Engineer with 8+ years of experience in IT Industry as a System Administrator specialized in the areas of VMware Virtualization, upgrading systems, Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI), Citrix Xendesktop, Windows Server (, 2012, 2016 & 2019), Desktop Environment (XP, Win7, Win10), Azure/AWS cloud administration and Active Directory Administration.
• Expertise in VMware in Virtualizationadministration with a primary focus on installation, configuration, and administration of VMware, vSphere Suite, ESX/ESXi 4.0/4.1/5.0/ 5.5/6.0/6.5/6.7/7.0 , VMware vCenter 4.0/4.1/5.0/ 5.5/6.0/6.5/6.7/7.0 , vSphere Suite 4.0/5.0/5.1/ 5.5/6.0/6.5/6.7/7.0 and Windows Servers. Experience on Group policies, SCOM, SCCM and configuring file/print services.
• Expert knowledge on configuring hardware iSCSI and NFS storage to VMware ESX (i) hosts from vSphere client.
• Experience in Migrating from VMware ESXi to Hyper - V with SCCM.
• Installing &Upgrading of VCenter, vSphere Client, ESX &ESXi Hypervisors, and VMware workstation.
• Installing, Configuring and troubleshooting of Active directory services and Domain naming systems in windows environment.
• Experience in Active Directory, GPOs, DNS, DHCP, File & Print Server, IIS (Web Server), FTP, Terminal Server, RIS/WDS, RRAS, NAT, WSUS, Microsoft Clustering, Exchange Mail Server and ISA Server
• Working Experience with Active Directory Components (AD Users and Computers, DNS, DHCP and WINS etc.).
• Performing Snapshots, Cloning, Cold Migrations, Hot Migrations and Templates. Played role as a VMware/Windows Admin to provide L3 support in a complex Environment. Configured the SCCM 2012/2010/1802/1806 and monitored the production servers
• Comprehensive Administration of VDI environments using ViewManagement Server, vCenter, Cisco UCSM, EMC Unisphere, Cisco Nexus CLI and Fabric Manager. Administered Active Directory and Group Policy in a 5000+ user environment.
• Build and maintain an AWS cloud infrastructure architecture aligning security, compliance, performance and resilience with cost
• Configuring Resource Pool, Alerts, Alarms. Experience on vMotion and svMotion, HA feature, DRS feature as well as Windows 7/8/10 Professional desktops and laptops. Administration and troubleshooting DNS relative problems on Windows/ wintel environment.
• Flawless Experience in RHEL/Windows Server provisioning, Upgrades, Patching, Configuration and Performance Tuning in Linux, and VMware environments, HPC Environment. Design build and implementation of new infrastructure ofSCCM
• Sound knowledge ESX and ESXI Architecture, guest OS installation, setting up of VM priorities, Cloning and Snapshots.
• Installation, Configuration and Administration of Virtual Infrastructure using ESX/ESXi, VMware V sphere 4.x, Virtual center 4.X and 5.x Servers.
• Hands-on experience and project management including Windows Server 2003,2008,2012,2016,2019 and VMware Virtualization VMotion, P2V, V2V, VMware Update Manager, VMware Workstation, Citrix Xen Desktop, Xen App, XEN Server. Installation, configuration, Administration of VM Ware ESX/ ESXi, Virtual Center. Experience implementing AzureAD Connect and sync on prem active directory toazure.
• Installed & configured Windows 2008/12/16/19 with Active Directory service. Responsible production support of Active directory (AD), GPO, Domain users, Users and groups and given appropriate permissions, shares and privilege to access LAN and Domain environment.
• Administration of VMware Virtual Center and virtualization servicesVMware DRS, VMware HA, VMotion and SVMotion. Good at Manage hosting plans for Azure Infrastructure, implementing & deploying workloads on Azure virtual machines (VMs). Administration and troubleshooting DNS relative problems on Windows/ wintel environment. In-depth knowledge of Active Directory and SCCM integration with Active Director.
• Implementation of leading-edge technologies around the Software Defined Data Center and Automation such as VMware NSX, VMware VSAN, and the vRealize Suite.
• Work with Monitoring MySQL Database Backup onAWScloud S3 (CLI).
• Expertise in Configure, build, implement, and administer ESX/ESXi Servers including patches and updates, and assist in resolving associated system outages and other incidents.
• Experience in Microsoft Active Directory, infrastructure solutions, messaging, and Unified Communications areas to perform configuration, testing, and deployment of all Microsoft virtualization, Exchange, and related technologies.
• Completed application deployments via SCCM and troubleshooting of problem clients/installations.
• Proficient in Server Builds, Installs, Upgrades, Patches, Configuration and Performance Tuning in Red Hat Linux/Windows Server 2003/2008 R 2/ 2012/2016/2019 on VMware virtualized environments. Experience in Wintel Windows clustering Administration and troubleshooting
• Experienced in Active Directory Services creating User accounts, groups, computer accounts, group policies in Windows based server environments. Hands on experience on Backup and Recover from a Recovery Services Vault usingAzurePowerShell andAzurePortal.
• Experience in allocation and configuration of emc storage arrays such as clarion, DMX, VMAX and VNX.
• Worked VMware Data Center Virtualization and Microsoft Azure Cloud Computing, Failover Clusters. Experience in configuring VMware standard vSwitch&dvSwitch.Responsible for building out the new non-production Environments using Wintel and VMware
• Experience in Planning, Installing, Configuring, and Upgrading vCenter Server and VMware ESXi products
• Expertise in creating AD (Active Directory) 2003, 2008 R2, 2012, 2016, 2019 accounts, file permissions, DNS records administration. Installing upgrading of VCenter, vSphere Client, ESX & ESXi Hypervisors, VMWare workstation.
• Expertise inAzureInfrastructureAzureWeb Roles, Worker Roles, VM Role,AzureSQL,AzureStorage,AzureAD Licenses, Virtual Machine
• Design, implement and maintain all AWS infrastructure and services within a managed service environment
• Aiming to leverage my skills to successfully fill the VMware VDI Administrator role at your company.
• Expertise in Design, installation and configuringSCCM2007,SCCM2012,SCCM1511
• Experience in creating/Managing AMI/Snapshots/Volumes, Upgrade/downgradeAWSresources (CPU, Memory, EBS)
• Worked with creatingAWSInstances and Resources Bills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: Windows Server 2003, 2008 R2, 2012, 2016 and 2019, Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8.1, 10, MAC, Android, Ubuntu, Linux.VMware 7.0, 6.x, 5.x, 4.x

Networking: DNS, WINS, DHCP, TCP/IP, HTTP, LAN / WAN Technologies

Scripting languages: Power shell, Power CLI Batch, Shell scripting.

Databases: SQL server, Azure SQL DB2 and MS Access.

Migration Tool: Migration Manage, ADMT, PlateSpin

Ticketing: CA Service Desk, Lotus notes, Tracer. remedy

Patching Tool: SCCM, Blade Logic.

Workstations: Windows XP, 7,8,10.VMware workstations

Virtualization: VMware ESXi, Hyper V,Citrix Xen server, Wintel server,Exchange server2003,2007,2010, 2013, 2019

Cloud: Azure Cloud, AWS

LDAP Directories: Active Directory and Sun Directory Server.

Backup Tool: Dell Recovery Manager Tool

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Broomfield, Colorado

System Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Administered Windows 2008/ 2012/2016/2019 Active Directory, SharePoint, Exchange, DNS, DHCP, WINS, LAN, WAN, TCP/IP and building new windows physical/virtual servers as per the requirement of the project.
• Create and manage AWS S3 buckets as well as its policies
• Managed and maintained IAM policies for organizations inAWSto define groups, roles and assign permissions to users
• Configured security groups to AWS EC2 Windows instances
• Deployed Azure IaaS virtual m0achines and Cloud services (PaaS role instances) into secure virtual networks and subnets.
• Exposed Virtual machines and cloud services in the virtual networks to the internet using Azure External Load Balancer.
• Installing, configuring, Troubleshooting and management of ESX 4.x, ESXi 5.x, ESXi 6.x, ESXi 7.0 and vCenter Server 5.x/6.x/7.0.
• Installations of VMware 5.0,5.5, 6.0, 6.5, 6.7, 7.0 versions along with the Active directories, DNS and DHCP services, File servers etc.PowerShell, VB Scripting and related tools for automated installations and functions.
• Manage existing Healthways VDI environment (VMWare Horizon View), including desktop pools, image management, and physical/virtual infrastructure. Develop and maintain O&S Standard Operating Procedures for VDI Environment
• Experience in configuration and deployment of network security devices, including Firewalls, Intrusion Detection Systems, Network.
• Security hardening and Monitoring of VM's & ESX servers (CPU, Memory, Disk, Network Utilization) for Security Compliance.Install and publish applications in Citrix, provide permissions. Managing Citrix XenApp 6.x and 7.x.
• Provide support to Active Directory Replication Services, Active Directory Sites and Services, Active Directory integrated DNS, Sysvol Replication, DFRS. Provisioning and de-provisioning of Domain Controllers.
• Configured and managed SAN (storage area networks) and DAS (direct-attached storage) volumes using Fiber-Channel, SCSI and Windows Storage server iSCSI connections. Designed and Implemented Microsoft Active Directory.
• Built Windows 2012/2016/2019 Wintel Servers on standalone and blade servers based on application design and deployed stack on these servers. Resolving server issues - Windows 2012/2016/2019 server, Network connectivity, etc.
• Experience in Private Cloud and Hybrid cloud configurations, patterns, and practices in SQL Azure and Azure Web and Database deployments End to End patching of hundreds of Windows serves spread across different time zones using IBM Tivoli End Point manager (Bigfix).Inventory management, software distribution, OS deployment using TEM (Bigfix) and resolved various inter-operability issues between Wintel Windows
• Securing the distributed environments and helps organizations to comply with regulatory standards on security using TEM (Bigfix). VMWare vRealize Operations Manager installation, support, reporting, and maintenance
• Experience in Cisco UCS /HP C7000 blades administration and troubleshooting, Writing PowerShell Scripts, vb and power CLI scripts. Worked with VMware NSX.Administration and Architect of public and private cloud platforms.
• Worked with VMware Clone, Templates and vMotion, svmotion and VMware tool Update with latest version with VDI
• Responsible for VDI delivery, facilitating escalations, statements of work, reporting, etc. Configured DRS in a Cluster and the DRS Automation Level Using DRS Affinity Rules.
• Performed the configuration in the vCenter, ESXi, Horizon View, SRM & SolarWinds Monitored infrastructure.
• Performed VMware Host updates and upgrades from 6.0 to 6 5/6.7/7.0 using update manager &CLI.
• Installed and configured Microsoft Windows 2012 R/2016/2019 Servers from ILO management tool on Rack servers and blades.
• Experience with vSphere Host Profiles, Standard and Distributed Switches setup. LUN creation and storage mapping administration and configuring Multi pathing.
• Experience in deploying virtual networks and upgrading systems, including hardware, software, networks, databases, servers and peripheral equipment. Install and configure VMware NSX manager in vCenter at customer sites
• Worked with Creation of workflows, deployments, patching and upgrade along with maintenance of Azure Infrastucture.Deployment of various Components on the Azure Platform.
• Involved in Operational support for B-Series and C-Series Cisco UCS hardware that runsVMwarevSphere 5.5/6.0/6.5/6.7/7.0
• Implemented and designed cloud solution based onVMwareV Cloud Director for users.
• Expertise in creation of RHEL and Windows 03/08/ 2012/2016/2019 servers utilizing templates, custom iso's and vbscripts, power CLI scripts. Experience in creating protection groups, recovery plans, test dr plans, and sra's in srm. Installing, configuring and managing the wintel windows and Linux servers. Created User Accounts and Groups in AD .
• Experience in developing documentation and runbooks for disaster recovery plans via SRM by coordinating with multiple datacenters across the us.Implemented and designed cloud solution based onVMwareV Cloud Director for users.
• Experience in working with the vMotion technology and Storage vMotion and HA technology.
• Virtual Machine's deployment, Provisioning and Configurations, Imaging for windows, Linux and Appliance and maintaining Templates and Perform updates when necessary.
• Implementation of Active Directory infrastructure and protocols (such as TCP/IP, DHCP, DNS), Group Policy and Profile Management.
• Installation of vCenter server and Configuring ESXi - hosts within the cluster using Motion and HA. Configured CMC and Idrac for remote management of chassis and ESXi hosts. Responsible for building and deploying large number of servers running Windows 2008 R 2/2012/2016/2019
• Experience deploying ESXI based servers using hp ILO and cisco UCS for datacenter production and lab servers. Sound knowledge in migrating on premise to Windows Azure using Azure Site. Develop one off PowerShell scripts for the customer's support teams to efficiently fix errors found through the environment. Created and provided system reports, viaSCCM
• Work with Storage team and design the storage requirements for VSANVMwareenvironment.
• Installation and configuration of Windows 2008, 2012, 2016 and 2019 virtual machines in ESX clusters.
• Configured VMware HA, VMware DRS in acquiring higher efficiency for VMware Infrastructure
• Installed and worked on VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM 4.0) for the disaster recovery and managed recovery plans.

Confidential, Irving, Texas

System Admin (Windows, VMware)

Responsibilities:

• Building new ESXi hosts from the scratch and Performed migration of all the VMs from ESXi 4.1 to 5.5 with less downtime. Installing, Configuring & Trouble shooting of the new ESXi 5.5 in Cisco UCS B420 M4 Blade Server.
• Co-ordinate with the network team to plan the structure of network to be used for the new ESXi hosts like number of NICs, vLANs, subnets etc. Installation and configuration of Windows servers 2008 R2 / 2012.
• Worked with infrastructure monitoring through SCOM.Installation, configuration, and Administration of IIS web servers.
• Installation and configuration of Domain Controllers and implementation of trusts.
• Supported MS Windows network infrastructure; including any of the following: Active Directory, WINS, DNS, DHCP, Group Policy, Exchange. Manage change requests for all environments using Change Management process.
• Configured and managed View Desktop Virtualization (VDI).
• Used tools for data backup, mirroring, and recovery such as Commvault, vRanger and Microsoft System Center Operation Manager SCOM.
• Installing, configuring and Managing ESXi 6.5, 6.0, 5.5, 5.1, 5.0, vCenter 6.5, 6.0, 5.5, 5.1, 5.0 and vSphere with STIG implementation (security lockouts, VIBs, updates) vCenter migrate from 5.x to vCenter server Appliance 6.0
• Performed several Windows R2/2012/2016upgrades. Windows 2008/2012/2016 Servers deployment, troubleshooting and configuration.
• Managing windows Services - AD, Group policy, DNS, DHCP, Terminal Services and WINS. Disaster Recovery planning, design, implementation and testing AntiVirus updates and MS Patches Management. Active Directory Services - Managing Users & Other Resource objects.
• Installation and configuration of Windows servers 2003, 2008, 2008 R2, 2012, 2016 Virtual Machines in the ESXi host clusters. Migrated virtual machines within different datacenters using vMotion and VMware standalone converter
• Built Windows 2016 and 2012 R2 Wintel Servers on standalone and blade servers based on application design and deployed stack on these servers and Exchange users on Wintel server environment.AdministeredVMwareESXi Servers on HP C7000/Cisco UCS Blade Server Environment.
• Deployed vApp workflow is to provide a single call workflow that can instantiate a vApp Template from vCloud Director (vCD) and performing several operations on the resulting vApp before actually deploying and powering it on.
• Experience in migrating on premise to Windows Azure using Azure Site Recovery and Azurebackups.
• Domain Controllers, Managing the disks, complete installation and configuring windows 2012/2016servers.
• Cloning, Building, and deploying new VM's and installing different guest OS like Windows server 2012R2/2016and Linux.
• Developed and Designed Multiple VM Templates for Windows Server 2012R2, 2016.
• Installing, configuring and Managing ESXi 6.0, 5.5, 5.1, 5.0, vCenter 6.0, 5.5, 5.1, 5.0 and vSphere with STIG implementation (security lockouts, VIBs, updates) vCenter migrate from 5.x to vCenter server Appliance 6.0
• Participate in weekend’s maintenance activities and testing and validating virtual infrastructure during critical changes and Hardware upgrades. Expertise in configuring JSON files for the vCenter upgrade process with Command line interface.
• Configured VM's HA, DRS, FT settings and Configured permissions, Roles in VMware virtual center. Setup trust between on premise and cloud server using WIDOWS AZURE. Deployed the tools Microsoft Azure Cloud Service (PaaS, IaaS), and Web Apps.
• Extensive experience in managing Data Center environment with Administering, Installing, and Troubleshooting of Microsoft Servers and Workstations that includes Active Directory Services, IIS Servers, DNS, and DHCP.
• Manage various AWS/AZURE environment for provisioning of windows /Linux servers and services implemented by the providers.
• Assist in P2V and V2V conversion of Windows 2008 R2/2012/2016 server editions fusing enterpriseVMwareconverter and also installed theVMwaretools on that machine.
• Creating and ManagingVMwarecluster with HA and DRS. Creating and Managing resource pools for Virtual Machines
• Monitoring and managing performance of ESX servers and Virtual Machines. Using Virtual center server for HA, DRS and vMotion.Working on Migration concepts like Motion and Cold migration
• Implemented vRealize Operations Manager (vROps) and created intuitive and customizable dashboards, views and reports for Enterprise customers in monitoring the infrastructure environment with analytics and proactive remediation.
• Experience in maintaining vSphere Center 6.0, 5.5, 5.1, 5.0, ESXi 6.0, 5.5, 5.1, 5.0, Realize Automation, Operationalizations Manager, vRealize Orchestrator in aVMwarevirtualized environment.
• Service Delivery & Operations for Windows, Active Directory, ADFS, DNS, DHCP, failover Clustering, Hyper - V and Azure Infrastructure. Managing VM on Azure using Azure Resource Manager and Templates.
• Worked on creating templates and deploying Virtual Machines through templates, cloning Virtual Machines and managing Virtual Center permissions. Involved in operational support of Active Directory, WINS, DNS, and AD enabled applications.

Confidential, San Francisco, California

Windows and VMware Sys Admin

Responsibilities:

• Monitoring and managing performance of ESX servers and Virtual Machines. Creation of templates from VMs and Creation of VMs from template. Installed and configured several vCenters and ESXi servers as required.
• Created Active directory group policies (GPOs) based on Domain, Site and OU structures to apply restriction to users, workstations and Servers. Extensively used Services to manage Domain controllers and domain trusts and replication.
• Documented disaster recovery procedure for Active Directory Domain Controllers and FSMO role holders.
• Worked majorly on Datacenter rationalization project to get the VM’s moved out of non-strategic DC to strategic DC locations.
• Administered and troubleshot DNS, DHCP and DFS issues. Installed and configured Microsoft SQL 2008 on failover cluster..
• Configuring vNetwork Distributed switches and migrating the networks from vNetwork standard switches to vNetwork Distributed switches. Involved in P2V, V2P Migration using Stand Alone VMware Converter Server and Plate Spin.
• Installed and configured Active Directory Domain Controller 2012/2016 R2.
• Worked on troubleshooting efforts on a day to day basis and resolved the issues, experience in writing Root Cause Analysis documents. (Involves log analysis to identify cause of failure, co-ordinate with VMware support etc.)
• Performing Virtualization tasks, NFS migration, disk alignment, etc.
• Handled the VMware solutions to support multiple storage connectivity options such as FC-SAN, iSCSI, NFS (NAS) and internal storage.
• Responsible for configuring Protection Plan & initiating Protection Installed and upgraded VMware vSphere.
• VMware ESX/ESXi Host Server Installation, Configuration & Maintenance. Design and Implementation of migration strategy for consolidating Data Centers from around the world to centralized locations in US which involves numerous servers of various LINUX versions. Responsible to maintain cluster servers and ensure the load balancing among the nodes.
• Configuring High Availability (HA), Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) and vNetwork Distributed Switch (VDS).
• Configured VMware HA, VMware DRS in acquiring higher efficiency for VMware Infrastructure.
• Creating and managing Virtual Machines and Templates, worked with clones and snapshots of Virtual Machines.
• Administering, troubleshooting and automating vSphere ESXi using Power CLI.
• Installing, configuring and managing the wintel windows and Linux servers.
• Experience in VMware View 4.x/5.0, Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI), Update Manager, DRS, HA, VMware vCenter Orchestrator (vCO), vCenter Operations Manager (vCOps), vSphere Replicator, vSOM.Experience with MS clustering and maintain the quorum disk.
• Implemented, and administration a Microsoft Systems Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) solution to apply the patches and deploying the applications. Created standard template and deployed Virtual machines through templates, involved in Cloning Virtual Machine. Used OSD task sequence scheduler in SCCM to package applications for deployment.
• Converted physical machines to Virtual machines (P2V migration) using VMWare enterprise converter and PlateSpin.
• Maintaining system data and file server volume backups. Monitoring Active Directory integrity and replication.
• Logs file analysis using the Event Viewer and troubleshooting to resolve issues.
• Provided support for teams in activities such as Load testing, troubleshooting, and performance tuning.
• Involved in trouble shooting and fixing day-to-dayproblems of the applications in production.
• Execute Installation of Single Sign On (SSO) server for ESXi 5.0/5.0/6.0/6.5 upgrade with existing MySQL database, upgrade Inventory services for ESXi 5.5.
• Worked with the team in configuring the environment with HA, DRS, FT, vMotion and Storage vMotion, VMware Data Recovery, VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM), vCenter Operations Manager and VMware View desktop virtualization infrastructure (VDI).
• Advanced Monitoring and Performance Analysis of vSphere Environment using native tools as well as vRealize Operations Manager.
• Experience in creating new VLAN’s on UCS and Nexus devices. Upgraded ESXi servers, Nexus devices and Cisco UCS as part of RCM upgrades. Created LUN’s and Volumes on EMC storage arrays and added them as data stores to the ESXi hosts.

Confidential, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Windows/Unix Admin

Responsibilities:

• Installation of patches and driver updates on Microsoft windows servers and VMware ESX hosts.
• Installed and configured Netbackup and Networker BAC software on servers.
• Installed RHEL on HP DL585/385 G5 Rack mount servers using PXE boot and ILO.
• Installed, configured, and Upgraded RedHat Enterprise Linux 3.x to 4.x and configured various patching schedules to meet patching criteria quarterly.
• Provided technical support, administration and troubleshooting of Microsoft Windows 2003 & Windows 2008/2012 cluster servers.
• Installation, administration and troubleshooting Active Directory DC's, DNS, DHCP, WINS and DFS issues.
• Performed installation, configuration, administration and troubleshooting on VMware ESX 3.5 & 4.1 environments including support for Virtual Center management, DRS, HA & vMotion
• Typical duties included 64-bit Linux/Unix system administration, installing and configuring servers and Linux workstations, administration and maintenance of VMware, creating and maintaining user accounts, managing NAS/SAN storage systems, backing up user data and monitoring performance, provide level three supports on Remedy ticketing systems.
• Configured Nagios monitoring tool, maintaining systems located in four different sites. Maintained Zabbix monitoring tool.
• Added new development user accounts, removing users, resetting user accounts in RedHat Enterprise Linux to allow new developers to access to RedHat Servers.
• Utilized Nagios based Open Source monitoring tools to monitor Linux Cluster nodes configure using RedHat Cluster Suite.
• Effective provisioning, installation/configuration, operation, and maintenance of Windows Serves, VMware servers, systems hardware and software and related infrastructure. Manages AD, DNS, DHCP, IIS and file servers. Implementation and up gradation of VMware infrastructure.
• Installed and configured NetBackup and Networker BAC software on servers.
• Wrote knowledgebase documents for incident and support cases. Troubleshooting performance issues on physical and virtual machines
• Performed installation, configuration and maintenance of 32-bit and 64-bit wintelWindows 2003/2008 servers and 64-bit Windows 2008 servers.