SUMMARY

• Over 8 years of experience in the areas of Systems/VMware, network and computer related technology including over 7 in supporting Windows 2003/2008/2012 Servers and VMWare Virtualization, 2 years in Application Packaging and Network Security.
• Expertise in Designing, Installation, Configuration and Administration of Windows 2003/2008/2012 servers on HP hardware platform.
• Experience wif HP Proliant hardware both Blade Enclosure & Rack - Mounted physical servers, Cisco UCS.
• Experience in installing, configuring & administering Windows 2003, 2008 & 2012 Operating Systems and deployment through HP RDP and Acronis.
• Expertise wif Data Center/Server Farm environments.
• Familiar wif Hyper-V configurations.
• Involve in HP RDP Upgrades along wif the OS image upgrades and sync the RDP servers globally by updating the OS jobs wif the new images.
• Update the vCenter servers globally wif the new OS image VM templates.
• Mentor other Deployment team members and act as a point of escalation for issues that they cannot resolve.
• Competent in troubleshooting a broad range of OS & Hardware related issues.
• Good experience in RAID, Microsoft Windows Clusters, Geo Clustering, HP Insight Manager
• Excellent skills in server hardening and patching of Win 2003/2008/2012 servers using BladeLogic Console and WSUS.
• Expertise in taking the OS Backup Image and restoring back using Acronis.
• Experience wif Virtualization technologies like installing, configuring, administering VMware ESX/ESXi. Creating and managing VMs through vCenter.
• Proficient Experience in installation and configuration of VMware ESX 3.5, vSphere 4.0, VMware ESXi 4.1/5.0/5.1/5.5 , VMware Virtual Center 2.5/4.0/ 4.1/5.0/5.1/5.5
• Expertise in creating VM Templates and Customization wizards for VM Deployments and deploying Virtual servers in the farm.
• Administration of VMware vCenter and virtualization services VMware DRS, VMware HA, VMotion and SVMotion.
• Patch management through VMWare Update Manager.
• Experience in configuring hardware iSCSI and NFS storage to VMware ESXi hosts from vSphere client.
• Experience in configuring VMware Standard vSwitch.
• Expertise in cloning and migration of Virtual servers in Vmware Farm.
• P2V conversions using VMware vCenter Converter as a part of decommissioning legacy server’s effort.
• Working knowledge of SAN, NAS and IBM XIV storage concepts.
• Expertise in Server Commissioning & Decommissioning process flow.
• Working experience in Disaster Recovery process flow and implementation.
• Implementing design procedures and documenting the builds for optimization of application services and hardware.
• Experience wif Backup & Restore procedures and working knowledge on TSM & AVAMAR Backups.
• Firewall port requests for servers in DMZ segments and behind firewall.
• Expertise wif Quality review and the process flow for having the servers handed over to Production Support.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Hardware: HP Proliant (DL 380/385 G5/G7/G8, DL 580/585 G7/G8BL 460c/465c, BL680c/685c (G7 & G8) ) UCS B200 M3

Operating Systems: Windows Server 2003, 2008 & 2012

Software: Microsoft Cluster, Geo Cluster, HyperV, Onboard Administrator, Virtual Connect, HP Insight Manager, HP Openview

Virtualization Technologies: Vmware ESX/ESXi, Microsoft Hyper V

Vmware: vCenter Server, vSphere Client, Vmware Converter, Vmware Virtual Appliance, SCVMM

Deployment Tools: HP Rapid Deployment Console (RDP), Acronis, PE

LDAP: Windows Active Directory

Backup: Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM), EMC Avamar

Storage: EMC VMAX, IBM XIV, SVC, NetApp

Monitoring Tools: HP Openview, Solarwinds Orion, SNMP

Ticketing Tool: BMC Remedy

Packaging Tools: Wise Package Studio, SCCM Server

Virtualization Tools: Soft Grid Virtualization Tool using Soft grid 4.1 and 4.5

Testing Tools: Application Compatibility Tool Kit, Works Wif Tool, Software Certification Tool, CA, SUA & SAT

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, San Mateo, CA

Windows Server Administrator

Responsibilities:

• As a part of Distributed System Engineering and Deployment, need to Configure Physical and Virtual Windows servers as per the Line of Business/Customer requirements across various Datacenter's globally.
• Windows Server administrator responsible for designing, configuration and administration of 2003/2008/2012 servers & Vmware Virtualization.
• Work closely wif Engineering, Infrastructure, Network, DBA, Project Management and Production support teams to deliver the service the Customer/LOB intends to have, by collaborating wif the teams.
• Involve in various phases of the project which include Design, requirements gathering, Provisioning, Coordination, Build & Configuration, and Handover to Application team along wif smooth turnover to Production Support.
• Configure HP Blade Enclosures and setup Onboard Administrator (OA) and Virtual Connect (VC) for setting up the Blade server profiles.
• Update Server BIOS, Array Controller and ILO firmware to current level.
• Updating Firmware and HP Proliant Support Pack (PSP), HP Service Pack for Proliant (SPP) in servers to bring them upto Current level.
• Deploying OS via HP RDP, Acronis, PE CD.
• Installed and configured highly available (HA) systems utilizing Microsoft Clustering and Geo Clustering.
• Experience and knowledge wif designing, installing and implementing VMware VSphere ESX 3.5 & ESXi 4.1/5.0/5.1/5.5 U2, VMware VCenter, setting up V-Motion, HA, DRS, and related VMware products such as VM Workstation, VMware converter as a part of Virtualization of the environment .
• Configured HBAs and iSCSI/NFS SAN Storage and Create the Datastores wifin the Host by importing the LUN’s provisioned by Storage team.
• Create and configure the Clusters wifin vCenter environment having vSphere HA & DRS features so that the resources are managed TEMPeffectively.
• Deploying Virtual machines through VM Templates, Cloning the virtual servers wif the Gold Images after Application installation and testing are done.
• Deploying virtual machines using Hyper-V Virtual Machine Manager (VMM)
• Creating VM templates and Customization wizards that eases the deployment of Virtual servers.
• Experience in deploying new Virtual Machines and Virtual Appliances from OVF/OVA templates.
• Experience in installing and configuring VMware Virtual Center servers and VMware vCenter Appliance.
• Patch the serves to current level wifout having any security vulnerability patches rolled out.
• Install and configure Backup software either TSM or Avamar depending on the type/functionality of the server.
• Participate in Enterprise DR, preparing DR site and Business Continuity Plan (BCP) test, Server life cycle project including retiring physical and old windows platform server and convert physical 2 virtual and coordination wif Application team.

Environment: Windows 2003/2008/2012 servers (HP Proliant DL & BL Series), SAN (EMC, IBM XIV), NAS (Netapp), BladeLogic, Vmware ESX/ESXi, Hyper-V, Backup (TSM & EMC Avamar), BMC Remedy.

Confidential, Nashville, TN

Sr Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Install, manage and configure Windows physical servers using HP RDP.
• Build, configure and deploy VMs and templates. Completed Physical to Virtual (P2V) and Virtual to Virtual (V2V) migration of .
• Live migration of VMs and VMDK files using VMotion and Storage VMotion.
• Configuring ILO for HP servers.
• Installation, configuration and troubleshooting of server hardware wif proper RAID and wif various server OS, patching, security updates
• Backup and Restore using TSM.
• Installing and upgrading Antivirus server security via Symantec Endpoint Protection (SEP).
• MS Clustering for providing high availability of Applications.
• Re-packaging of applications using Wise Package Studio 7.0 SP3.
• Sequencing the applications using Soft Grid 4.5.
• Classifying the applications for Re-packaging and Sequencing based on virtualization criteria.
• Publishing the Virtualized applications through SCCM server.
• ACT and remediation of the non-compatible business applications for the entire enterprise is done and made ready for Windows Vista applications.
• Using ACT sub tools such as Setup Analysis Tool, Internet Explorer Compatibility Test tool, Standard User Analyzer, Application Verifier to identify the compatibility issues. Resolving compatibility issues by applying shims, patches, hot fixes and creating custom scripts.
• Troubleshooting Application Compatibility issues

Environment: Windows Server 2003/2008, Vmware ESX/ESXi, TSM, Wise Package Studio, SoftGrid, ACT, and Windows Vista

Confidential, Sunnyvale, CA

Windows Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Involve in the Design phase and make sure that it is in sync wif the standards, providing high end features to Customer and optimizing costs.
• Teaming NIC’s using HP Teaming software for redundancy during failures.
• Used Altiris to Install the Operating System and WSUS to update patches on HP Servers.
• Working Experience wif Active Directory Components.
• Datacenter Operations Support.
• Working experience of Server provisioning & coordination.
• Worked wif backup team for backup failure issues.
• Decommissioning of servers.

Confidential

System Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Installation and configuration of ESX servers and VM virtual servers using VM-templates to facilitate server consolidation, migration and testing.
• Managed server clones, templates during patch releases and new server deployments.
• Assisted in P2V conversions of Windows servers using VMware converters
• Configure Backups and assist in case of Backup failures.
• Worked in coordination wif Application teams to arrange downtime & raise change management.
• Raise Archer requests for opening Firewall ports.

Environment: Windows 2003, HP servers, IIS, VMWare ESX 3.5