SUMMARY

• 7 Years of extensive experience in the area of Virtualization with VMware ESX / ESXI 3.5 and 4.0 4.1, 5.0, 5.1, 5.5 Servers and Virtual Center server. Hands on Experience in Windows System Administration 2000, 2003, 2008, 2012.
• Manage the deployment, maintenance, support and upgrade of servers, hardware, software, operating systems and distributed printers in a Microsoft Windows and server environment. Build and troubleshooting experience With VMware ESX Server and Virtual center server.
• Sound knowledge on VCenter server 4.0, 4.1, 5.0, 5.1, 5.5 for managing multiple ESX /ESXI Servers. Excellent understanding on ESX/ESXI Architecture, guest OS installation, setting up of VM priorities, Cloning and Snapshots.
• High understanding on resource management framework like creation of resource pools, adding the VMs into resource pools, P2V and V2V conversions by using VMware Converter tool. Generating Performance Reports on weekly basis.
• Installing VMware tools and Upgrading VMware tools on Windows Machines. Decommissioning Virtual Machines according to Service Requests. Creating and Configuring VMs and Preparing Build Verification lists for provisioned VMs.
• Patch Management of ESXi Hosts using VMware Update Manager. Extensive experience in working with vMotion technology and Storage VMotion technology. Strong knowledge of VMware HA, FT and DRS.
• Strong understanding of VMware Networking concepts like creation of vSwitches, different types of port groups, NIC Teaming and VLAN. Increasing resources like HDD, Memory and CPU.
• DNS/DFS/DHCP/WINS Standardizations, Implementations, and Management. Experience with HP Proliant Blades BL460C / BL620C Series, HP Blade C3000 Servers, Dell M1000 Blade Server, HP Blade enclosures, Dell Storage MD 3000i, 3600i series, HP ML/DL Series. Strong Knowledge of Windows Server 2003/2008/2008 R2/2012 server administration.
• VMware implementation and expansion work. Management of a 200 node ESX Farm running 1800 plus VM’s. Designed and implemented fully automated DRS and HA clusters with HP and Hitachi SAN storage.
• Patched/upgraded VMware vSphere hosts, VMs, Hyper - v Virtual Machines.
• Automated the process of report generation daily/weekly of VMware, physical servers, exchange, environments, created scheduled tasks in Windows servers.
• Extensively worked on VMware Update manager for Host upgrades and patches. Migrated / Upgraded ESX Host from 3.5 to 4.0-1 and from 4.0-1 to ESXI 5.0. Perform capacity analysis of existing physical production environment using VMware Capacity planner. Updated ILO versions of Physical hosts.
• VMware tools upgrading and Windows patch updates. Migrated datacenters and converted physical servers to virtual servers using VMware and HP Blade servers resulting in a reduction of racks and power usage, decrease downtime during maintenance and upgrades and improved monitoring.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

VMware: VSphere, VMware ESXi 3, 3.5 and 4.1/4.0, 5.0, 5.5, Virtual center server 2.5, 4.0 and 5.0.,VMware converter enterprise, VMware Update Manager, VMware Operations Manager, Foglight, HA, DRS, FT, vMotion and SvMotion, P2V and V2V migrations, SRM etc.

Operating System: Windows Server 2000/ 2003/2008/2008 R2/2012, Windows XP/Vista/7

Serves OS / Hardware /Storage: HP Blade Enclosure C7000, HP ProLiant Blades BL Series, Cisco Nexus switches.

Backup Softwares: ADMT, MS Baseline Security Analyzer, Symantec NetBackup exec, MS Visio, McAfee EPO, Symantec Endpoint Protection, VM backup tools/Scripts

Applications: MS Office 2003, 2007 and MS Visio, Microsoft Exchange Server 2003/2007/2010 , System Center Configuration Manager(SCCM) and System Center Operations Manager (SCOM).

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

VMware and Windows Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Worked on different projects for PepsiCo- storage refresh, server migrations- V2V, server builds.
• Worked on configuring the servers with Raid Configuration on HP Proliant DL580 Gen 7 and 8, DL380p Gen 8 Servers, ProLiant BL 460c Gen 8, and Dell PowerEdge R810.
• Installation, Configuration and Administration of VMware ESXi 5.0, ESXi 5.5, patching, management and troubleshooting of Servers.
• Involved in Installation, Configuration, and Maintaining of Windows 2003, 2008, 2008 R2, 2012.
• Migrated P2P, P2V and V2V using VMware Converter tool.
• Used HPSM Tool for Incident tickets, Change Management, and Request Management by meeting the SLA requirements.
• Installed Vcenter Operation Manager (VCOPS) VAPP and configured it for monitoring vSphere Infrastructure.
• Monitored physical and virtual servers using SCOM and VEEAM integrated with SCOM for VMs health monitoring and performance troubleshooting.
• Hands on experience with Microsoft Azure environment
• Configured and maintained new VMs and Installed Microsoft Windows 2012/2008/2003 OS, installing the VMware Tools and other tools like Symantec, Nimsoft on them.
• Worked on vSphere HA, DRS, FT, vMotion, SvMotion, configured new hosts, datastores, cluster, virtual machines.
• Experienced managing Microsoft Hyper-V Servers.
• Updated ESXi build version using VMware Update Manager, monitored servers using vSphere Web Client, Foglight and vCenter Operations Manager tools.
• Created PowerShell and PowerCLI scripts for automation.
• Worked on Windows servers for scheduling tasks, adding new disks, mount points, CPU and memory, troubleshooting issues.

Confidential, Bethlehem, PA

VMware/Windows Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Experience in the Installation of desktops using VDI environment.
• Migrated P2P, P2V and V2V using VMware Converter.
• Performed P2V conversions using converter enterprise 4 and 5 and also P2V cold conversion using VMware Converter Boot CD.
• Involved in Installation, Configuration, and Maintaining of Microsoft Windows 2003/2008/2012 Servers, SQL Database Server.
• Worked on configuring the servers with Raid Configuration on HP Proliant DL585, DL380 Servers.
• Installation, Configuration and Administration of VMware ESX 5.0, Virtual Center 4.0 Servers and also patching, management and troubleshooting of VMware, and ESX Servers.
• Performed the day to day administration of Windows Server 2008/2008R2/2012.
• Used Remedy Tool for Incident Reports/Tickets, Change Management, and Request Management in Remedy by meeting the SLA requirements.
• Created various automation tasks through SCCM/Scorch Process.
• Participated in Installation and configuration of VCenter Server, and VSphere licensing.
• Participated in creating the security policies in Active Directory, scheduling tasks using task scheduler, using PowerShell scripting.
• Monitored servers using SCOM.
• Used VM Convertor for converting Physical Servers to virtual mode.
• Supported ESX and VM storage issues and also coordinated with the Storage Admin Team.
• Installed and Configured WIN, TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, IIS and Terminal Services.
• Configured and maintained new VM’s and Installed Microsoft Windows 2012/2008/2003 Servers, managing VM’s and ESX servers and installing the VMware Tools on the VM.
• Monitor all windows backup and perform fine-tuning every 15 days.

Confidential, Las Vegas, NV

VMware Administrator

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.
• Performed Data Center Migration of Physical Servers to Virtual Servers (P2V) Using VMware Converter
• Installation, configuration and management of multiple server suites (Windows 2003/2008) on VMware ESX server.
• Responsible for Backup/Disaster Recovery planning, implementation and testing
• Designed and successfully implemented VMware ESX servers for server consolidation
• Installed VMware ESX server 5.0/5.1 and created virtual machines on ESX Servers
• Created standard templates and deployed virtual machines from these templates
• Installed Management Server vCenter Server to enable centralized management of multiple hosts
• Linked Different vCenter servers using linked mode to have a single instance of vSphere client to manage the whole Virtual environment
• Creating and managing Virtual Machines, Templates, Clones and Snapshots
• Configured VMware on clustered environment, implemented migration of virtual machines using vMotion
• Hot and cold cloning of Virtual Machines using VMware vCenter Converter.
• 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
• Installed & configured Windows 2008 with Active Directory service, involved in the maintenance and upgradation of DNS and DHCP servers.
• Used different Administration and support tools to perform regular backup and restore of the virtual machines disks and data
• Coordinate testing, upgrade and configuration of system files and services. Ensure changes are in accordance with appropriate company operating procedures.

Confidential, Boca Raton, FL

VMware/Windows Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Configured VMware on clustered environment, implemented Migration of Virtual Machines using vMotion, Storage vMotion
• Hot and Cold Cloning of Virtual Machines using VMware Converter
• Virtual Machine Cloning, Templates and Snapshots
• Implementation of Active Directory infrastructure and Network fundamentals, protocols (such as TCP/IP, DHCP, DNS), Group Policy and Profile Management.
• Configured VMware HA, VMware DRS in acquiring higher efficiency for VMware Infrastructure
• Provided server and client support for all issues such as logon failures, account lockout, network connectivity and authentication issues.
• Installed VMware vSphere 4 and created virtual machines on ESX 4.0 Servers. Created standard images and deployed servers from the images
• Designed and successfully implemented VMware ESX 4.0 servers for server consolidation
• Worked on vCenter Server to manage all the ESX hosts in the datacenter
• Creating and managing virtual machines and templates, worked with snapshots of Virtual Machines
• Upgraded 100+ physical servers with latest firmware version.
• Involved with designing and implementing VMware backup products and disaster recovery solutions
• Installed & configured VMware virtual center for production & DR site
• Perform server consolidation using VMware Converter to convert physical machines to virtual machines in a production environment
• Involved in VMware updates manager to install & troubleshoot patches and updates on ESX hosts and virtual machines
• Involved in Installation, Configuration, and Maintaining of Microsoft Windows 2008/2003 Servers.
• Worked on VMware Update Manager for updating or patching for all the ESX hosts and Virtual machines
• Integrated HP SAN volumes to the Virtual Infrastructure to store the Virtual Machine files

Confidential

VMware Technical Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Supported day-to-day issues in Microsoft Windows 2003 Server/ Microsoft Windows 2008 servers.
• Involved in operational support of Active Directory, WINS, DNS, and AD enabled applications.
• Working on Remedy Tool to solve the Incident Ticket, Change ticket and Request Management Tickets.
• Configuring Group policies, Domain security policies and Local security policies.
• Creating groups, users and assigning share permissions.
• System & Network administration on Microsoft Windows 2003 servers with Active Directory Domain including 14 Domain controllers.
• Experience in configuring and setting up HP ILO for physical HP servers.
• Installing and Maintaining VMware ESX4.0 u2Servers.
• Experienced in creating VMware templates and Cloning VMs.
• Upgraded 100+ ESX hosts from ESX 3.5 to ESX 4.0 using VMware Update Manager tool.
• Managed 250+ ESX servers located at various data centers by one virtual center.
• Each Data center has multiple clusters with biggest of 8 clusters used for HA and DRS for disaster recovery & Load balancing.
• Experienced deploying VMs using VMware templates.
• Created a test Environment in VMware for Production Team to test their applications.
• Migrated Physical Machines to Virtual Machines (P2V) and Virtual Machines to Virtual Machines (V2V) using VMware converter.
• Patched about 150+ VMware ESX servers using VMware update Manager Tool.
• Creating and configuring Standard Switch (vSwitch), VM Kernel Ports, VM ports, Service console ports and NIC teaming through vCenter Server.
• Migrated vSphere hosts network from Standard switch (vSwitch) to distributed switch (dvSwitch).
• Worked on various environments such as testing, implementation, Production support & Giving Production support on 24/7 bases (during critical issues).
• Resolving various issues such as Windows Policies, Application licensing through RDP, Net meeting. Coordinating with Vendors regarding production issues & solving problems.

Confidential

Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Configuration of Domain Naming Server (DNS)
• Configuration of Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP).
• Configuring New WAN links and Monitor Network Performance
• Installation of Operating Systems Win98, Win XP, Win NT, Win 2000, Win 2003 etc.
• Installed and maintained Hardware and Operating System.
• Monitor Routers and Internet Connectivity
• Administered user accounts, domain accounts, administrative rights, security, and distribution groups with Active Directory.
• Implement network monitoring tool for monitoring servers, routers other network resources
• Adding and deleting users and granting user level
• Resolving Network Problem related to connectivity and assessing resources.