SUMMARY

• 8 years of experience in the IT industry of which four years as a VMWare Administrator.
• Extensive experience in the area of Virtualization with VMware vSphere, ESX 4.1, ESX 4.0 servers, vCenter server 2.5, 4.0 and vCenter Converter
• Deployment of business critical technologies - VMware SRM 4.0 and VMware View
• Experience in ESX Architecture, guest O/S installation, setting up of VM priorities, Cloning, Creating Templates and Snapshots
• Experience in Physical to Virtual (P2V) and Virtual to Virtual conversions by using VMware Converter, Platespin Power convert and vCenter Guided Consolidation
• Application virtualization using VMware ThinApp 4.5 version
• Extensive experience in working with the vMotion and Storage vMotion technology
• Strong Experience in vNetwork concepts: vSwitch and dvSwitch.
• Experience with Cisco Nexus 1000v switch and Virtual distributed switch.
• Strong experience with the VMware HA (High Availability), Fault Tolerance, Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) and VMware Distributed Power Management
• Have knowledge in troubleshooting the issues and the incident management.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

VMware Tools: View 4.5 /ESXi4.1/VMWare VSphere 4.0, SRM VMware infrastructure 3.0/3.5,ESX 3/3.5, VCenter Lab Manager 4, vCenter Server, vCenter Update Manager, VVM, Symantec backup, VRangerPro, Citrix, Active Directory

Operating Systems: Microsoft Server 2003, Server 2008, Server 2000, Linux and VMware ESX server.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, IA

VMware/Virtualization Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Installing VMWARE tools and upgrade of virtual hardware.
• Worked closely with project manager and updated server information on HP service manager
• Requested IP addresses essential in the P2V process.
• Experience with SRM 4.5 deployment and implementation.
• Experience in implementation and deploying View 4.5(VDI) virtual desktops and Thinapps 4.5 Application packages with vSphere ESXi4.1 environment.
• Performed upgrades of ESX 3.5 to ESX 4.0, vCenter 2.5 to 4.0
• Manage snapshots, clones, templates during patch releases and new server deployments
• Assessment, design and implementation of View 4.5 environment
• Experience with installing, configuring and troubleshooting VMware Lab Manager
• Analyze existing infrastructure using VMware Capacity Planner
• Performed data store migration using VMware storage vMotion on Netapps NFS, dell Iscsi SAN Storage
• Assisted in P2V conversions of Windows servers using VMware vConverter
• Provide research into VMware Thinapp initiative for increasing server virtualization
• Involved in Assessment of current environment for desktop virtualization.
• Involved in definition of success criteria for use cases.
• Experience with Microsoft Hyper-V POC environment
• Created use cases for desktop design and implementation.
• Installation of VMware Tools and upgrade of ESX hosts.
• Creating and managing the VMware cluster with HA and DRS.
• Monitoring and managing performances of ESX/ESXi servers and virtual machines.
• Working on Migration concepts like VMotion and SVMotion.
• Design and implementation of ThinApp environment.
• Experience with Cisco Nexsus 1000V appliance
• Application virtualization using VMware ThinApp 4.5 version.
• ThinApp Packages Applications Upgrades and deployment testing and Production Implementation.
• Experience in updating/upgrading ESX/ESXi servers, Virtual Center servers and windows virtual machines using VMware Update manager and manual upgrades.
• Experience in updating/upgrading the HP Onboard Administrator, Virtual connects.
• Installing and configuring Site Recovery Manager.
• Create and maintain the user access group. Create and assign different roles and profiles.
• Set up V-Motion, High Availability (HA), Distributed Resource System (DRS), and relatedVMwareproducts such as VM Workstation.
• Schedule VM Backup and Snapshots and manage/reload Snapshots
• Implemented disaster recovery utilizing Veeam Backup and VDR.

Confidential, NC

VMware Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Involved in datacenter migration projects and P2V migrations
• Performed Preparatory work for physical and virtual migrations and worked with the storage team with regards to the storage and LUN capacity.
• Performed P2V migrations of Production, QA and Development Servers.
• Involved in the cut-over and decommissioning of the physical server after the P2V server.
• Management of Snapshots, clones, templates.
• Worked closely with the command center during the decommissioning process.
• Migration of virtual machine from one enclosure to another within the same environment in different enclosure.
• Installed, configured and maintained Windows 2000, 2003 and 2008 Operating Systems.
• P2V conversions of Windows 2000 and Windows 2003 servers using VMware Converter.
• Broad experience with designing, implementing and troubleshooting VMware ESX server, VMware virtual center, setting up V-Motion, HA, DRS, and related VMware products such as VM Workstation, P2V converters, VM Backup products and other products for virtualization.
• Monitoring and Health Analysis of datacenters to foresight issues during migration of datacenters using VMware Health Analyzer 3.3, Quest vFoglight and vEssentials Bundle.
• Generated reports with Health analyzer giving recommendations and resolving performance and tuning issues in the HA, DRS clusters and virtual Datacenters.
• Installing VMWARE tools and upgrade of virtual hardware.
• Migration of virtual machine from one environment (3.5) to another (4.1).
• Worked on Windows 2003 and Windows 2008 server.
• VMWARE ESX 4.1 installation and configuration.

Confidential, NJ

VMware Support Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Involved with all major datacenter projects that involve SAN storage or virtualization.
• Architected and designed VMware ESX server infrastructure for multi site/multi datacenter environment.
• One of the first companies to fully integrate ESX virtualization in the DMZ network, eliminating 75 hardware based IIS web portal Servers.
• Used HP DL585 G2 and IBM x3850 with quad dual core processors and 72GB RAM as ESX server platform.
• Consolidated over 300 End of life servers into ESX 3 HA and DRS clusters.
• Responsible for keeping all VMware ESX servers up to date with patches and updates with minimal downtime using Vmotion for SAN attached VMs and Storage Vmotion for Local storage VMs.
• Created a virtual desktop solution for over 2000 mobile and offshore user base insuring company data stays in the company.
• Deploying and managing Windows, Linux Operating systems in the virtual environment.
• Worked closely with MS SQL and Oracle DBA groups to determine best possible configuration for Storage LUN assignments and raid levels.
• Install & troubleshoot patches and updates on ESX hosts and virtual machine using VMwareUpdate manager.
• Administered SRM (Site Recovery Manager) support for Failover from one site to the other
• Perform P2P conversions using Platespin from old HP & Dell Hardware to New G5 HP Blades.
• Perform P2V conversions for old severs which are out of support using VMware Converter to new VSphere 4 environment.
• Implement VDI solutions using VMware ESX hypervisor on HP Proliant DL 360 G6 and BL 480 G6 servers

Confidential

Windows Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installation, configuration and system administration of Windows 2000/2003
• Maintaining network running on Windows 2000/2003 for 900 Users.
• Migrating users and their settings from Windows 2000 and Exchange 2000 server to 2003 server/Exchange server.
• Active Directory User’s Management for new employee joins and providing access to the resources and file permissions.
• Involved in the TCP/IP network configuration, Creating and deleting the user accounts across the location.
• Responsible for Domain controller’s throughout organization.
• Monitored and maintained backups in Symantec/VeritasBackupexec
• Managing Remote Servers through Terminal Services Manager.
• Maintaining corporate DNS system.
• Routine maintenance activities for optimal performance
• Installing .Net Framework 2.0 on Windows 2000/2003 Servers.
• Installing and Set up Print servers in the Network
• Installing and Maintaining Microsoft SQL server 2000 Backup and Restore.
• Creating Virtual Sites and Directories in IIS and FTP server.
• Prepared Network Documentation and Created Disaster Recovery Plan.
• Setting up user accounts, Permissions and Passwords.