SUMMARY

• 8 years of professional experience in System Administration and IT experience in multiplatform VMware ESX/ESXi, Linux, UNIX &Windows with hands - on expertise in networking and system integration.
• Responsible for L2 & L3support for all Server related issues. Operation and maintenance of Windows, VMwareESXi, Backup, Network.
• Certified VMWareProfessional VCP5
• Successfully Installed VSphere 6.0 for testing in non-production environment and participated in migrating 5.5 to 6.0.
• Accomplished systems administrator managing server infrastructures and data-center operations across multiple platforms (Linux, Windows).
• Expertise in installation, configuration and administration of Windows and VMWARE servers on different platforms.
• Powershellscripting(Automated tasks, Deployment, Active Directory, Office 365 Exchange)
• Enterprise Windows/Intel infrastructure of over two thousand servers as part of teh Wintel Server team. Removed over 25 physical and 80 virtual servers from teh Muscatine Datacenter to increase VMware performance and increase teh amount of SAN storage available also to cut down on utility cost
• Experienced in Performance Monitoring, Security, Troubleshooting, and Backup, Disaster recovery, Maintenance and Support of UNIXsystems.
• Migrated Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VMwareHorizonView 5.3 toHorizonview 6.2.2) with 1500+ Windows 7 virtual desktops for a Retailer Client in 2016.
• Virtualizing desktop applications for use in aVDIenvironment throughVMwareThinApp and App Volumes
• Experience in implementation and administration VMware vSphere ESXi 5.x/4.x, ESX /3.x platform, vCenter 5.x/4.x andvBlock 100/200/300/700 series.
• Extensive knowledge in advance features like vMotion, StoragevMotion and Network/StorageIOControl.
• Excellent experience in working on configuring ESXi hosts and clusters with all advanced features like HA, DRS, DPM etc.
• Experience in P2V, V2V MIGRATION using VMwareConverter and PlateSpin tools.
• Experience in working on HostProfiles, Resource Pools, Storage Profiles, VMFS data store and templates for client VMs.
• Very good experience in creating DRS affinity, anti-affinity rules as required by business.
• Extensive experience in upgrading vCenter server and associated components like SSO and database servers.
• Upgraded ESXi servers using VMwareUpdateManager (VUM), CLI and DCUI.
• Consolidating resources via Virtualization VMware and Hyper-V
• Excellent experience in working on vSwitches such as StandardvSwitches (vSs), Distributed vSwitches (VDs), and CiscoNexus1000V.
• Infrastructure design, build and operational management. • Data Center InfrastructureSME, DC migration
• Good Experience in creating port groups, VLAN networking and NIC teaming on VMware ESX 5.x/4.x and vCenter environment.
• Built ESXi hosts using multiple technologies including HPSA, VUM, Host Profiles, and PowerCLI scripts Performed routine maintenance on VMware environment such as vCenter upgrades, firmware upgrades, Patching.
• Experience in installing and configure teh VMware NSX Appliance for setup including VMware VSphere.
• Installed and configured SAMBA, Apache server for Unix/Linux and Windows File sharing.
• Strong knowledge and extensive experience in data center migration projects.
• Good experience on working on VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM) for maintaining business continuity and performing disaster recovery (DR) activity.
• Monitoring of VM’s&ESXi server components (CPU, Memory, Disk, Network Utilization) and security hardening for Security Compliance.
• Experience and understating in monitoring performance of Hosts and virtual machines, datacenters, monitoring backups using Net backup operations Manager.
• Writing and developing from scratch windows PowerShell scripts for automating procedures within VMware VSphere environment.
• Troubleshot switch to server and back to teh secure cloudconnection.
• Extensive experience with Windows clustering on virtualized environments.
• Extensive experience in managing vBlock using native element managers including vCenter, UCS, UIM, Unisphere, Cisco Nexus CLI and fabric manager.
• Experience in working on day to day networking tasks across teh converged infrastructure platform me.e. Cisco (7k, 5k, 3k, 1k & MDS) switches.
• Configured EMC/Netapp/HP SAN/NAS storage as data stores in VMWARE environment and as volumes in windows environment.
• Experience managing multipleOracleZFS storage arrays (7420, ZS3-2, ZS4-4) hosting NAS/NFS storage.
• Responsible for OS maintenance activities like upgrading teh OS, updating teh services and third party software’s. Installation of Vcenter server and Configuring ESXi - host’s within teh cluster using VMotion and HA.Runningpatches and updates through update manager for teh Esxi hosts.
• Mentor teh Teams on VMware, Linux, FC & iSCSI Storage (Compel lent, 3PAR, Netapp, EMC VMAX), Tape Libraries, and Enterprise Class - Data Center Infrastructure, Hi-end Servers & Blades (HP & Dell).
• Capacity planning tools like VMware Realize operations system. Installation of Vcenter server and Configuring ESXi - host’s within teh cluster using VMotion and HA.
• Running patches and updates through update manager for teh Esxi hosts.
• Participate and develop action plans during Post Mortem meetings.
• Provided 24/7 On Call production support onsite and remotely on rotation basis.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

VMware: VMware VSphere 4.x,5.0,5.1&5.5, ESX Server 3.x,4.x,5.x VMware Virtual Center Server(Vcenter) 2.x,3.x,4.x,5.x VMware DRS, HA and FT, VMware Converter 3.0, VMware Update Manager, VMware vShield manager, CommvaultSimpana, VRangerPro, vCloud, vCOP’s, VMWarevRealize Automation (VRac), vSphere Web client, VMWare Orchestrator,Hyper-V

Server Hardware: HP Rack servers & HP Blades, Cisco UCS Blades, Dell Power Edge server

Databases: Microsoft SQL servers, Oracle.

Web Services: Microsoft IIS and Apache.

Ticketing Tools: BMC Remedy, Service now & Cherwell Management.

Antivirus: Trend Micro, Symantec & McAfee.

SAN Hardware: EMC VNX, LefTEMPthand and 3PAR storage arrays, commvaultsimpana

Operating Systems: Microsoft Windows Server 20**, Red Hat Linux, Windows XP/Vista/Win 7,and VMware ESX/ESXi server.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, San Jose,California

VDI/System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Built an Entirely new infrastructure of Horizon View 7 and Integrating with existing Infrastructure.
• Installed and configured View Connection Servers (Standard&Replica7.02) Successfully.
• Installed and configured View Security servers in Dmz and paired them with teh Connection servers.
• Configured Vcenter and Deployed Windows 2012R2 Servers for each and every component.
• Troubleshooting Issues regarding replication errors for connection servers.
• Installed and Configured View Composer for Linked Clone feature.
• Installed Esxi as a (Bare metal hypervisor) on Hp blade servers.
• Installed and configured AppVolumes 2.11, Assigned Appstacks and Writable volumes to specific users.
• Installed and configured Horizon UEM 9.0(User Environment manger) and created user and admin file shares to save their personalized settings.
• Installed and configured horizon identity manager (Formerly known as Workspace Portal) with which teh user can see all teh desktops and applications assigned to them by logging in.
• Installed and configured VROPS (V realize opertions Manager) For monitoring teh environment.
• Imported SSL Wildcard certificates to ensure teh safety of teh components.
• Provided In class training to desktop Team to Transfer Knowledge on each and every Horizon Component
• Built teh Master Image (windows 7*64) according to teh needs of teh organization.
• Created desktop pools using Linked Clones and Instant clones.
• Performed a wide variety of cross functional activities, and served as a single point of contact between theIsilonStorage Division (formallyIsilonSystems Inc. acquired 2011), and EMC's Global Hardware Engineering.
• Deployed Vdi Instances and created over 500+ desktops and tested all teh components successfully.
• Five teams were formed to test teh components and each component Installed worked successful according to teh needs of teh Client. configured and supported CISCO UCS chassis and UCS B200-M3 blades and call teh Cisco support if needed. Worked on FI, create template and deploy new ESXi host from teh template. Add VLAN to teh profiles and configure teh VLANs from teh VMware side and teh UCS side.
• Configured ESX clusters with HA and DRS as required by teh system, performed VMotion and Storage-VMotion as per teh environment requirement based on teh resources.
• Touch based with and gained some Understanding and Knowledge Vblock and components and experience
• Worked on installation and configuration of SRMto implement Disaster Recovery of Critical VMs.
• Testing of different recoveryplans in SRM to ensure recoveryof failover VM's and Expertise in providing support for Windows 2008/2012 servers and Active Directory's.
• Maintained a virtual infrastructure dat mainly uses Nimble Storage hosting a range of systems including but not limited to Windows / R2 /2012/2012-R2, many variants of LINUX/UNIX including Ubuntu/RedHat/Centos, MS SQL Servers, MS Exchange Servers, MS-AD Servers. Servers being mostly hosted on teh ESXi 5.1/5.0 at first and ESX1 5.5 afterwards
• Perform upgrade teh vCenters from 5.0 to 5.5, and install all teh components single sign-on, web-client, inventory service, and vCenter servers. Closely work with DB team to take teh full backup of teh DB. Also configure teh upgrade teh Update-manager.
• Performed capacity planning and planned storage migration by using RV tools and Microsoft excel for dynamic environment dat required storage and tech refreshes frequently.
• Experience in Installing and configure teh Vmware NSXappliances for a setup includingVMware vSphere,VMware NSX and open stack.
• Implement VXLan, NSX Manager, NSX Controllerin teh environment.
• Manage Logical Switches in NSXand vSphere and Manage ESXi cluster in NSX
• Responsible for using NSXfor replacing VMwarevswtich and vSphere distributed switch to provide true networking.
• Updated ESXi hosts in Prod/Dev/CAT/QA environments with newly released patches and driver extensions using VMware vCenter Update Manager
• Provided infrastructure and design guidance for setting up and maintaining SCCM 2012 environments.
• Provided Risk Assessment and remediation guidance for SCCMinfrastructures..
• Worked on implementation of new Data center and decommissions for SAN/NAS& backup Devices.
• SAN andNAS share configuration and management for virtualization

Environment: VDI, Windows2012, Connectionservers, Securityservers, AppVolumes,UEM,VROPSHorizon Identity Manager,SSL,Linked Clones,Instant Clones., ESX/ESXi 6, vCenter 6, CISCO Blade, Zerto, HP DL Series, iLO, Raritan command center,vCenter Update Manager, ServiceNow, VMWare Horizon View 6,7, Nimble Storage, FI, MS SQL, MS Exchange, Ubuntu/Redhat/Centos Linux

Confidential, North Dakota

VmWare/Storage Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Part of Level 3 team, managing 120 hosts and 5000 virtual machines and 10+vCenters. VMware/vSphere Infrastructure Upgrade project -Lead teh team technically in migrating from VMware5.x to VMware vSphere 6.0.
• Design, Implementation and TroubleshootingVMwareESXi 5.5 Hosts,VMwarevSphere virtual center.
• Administration ofVMwareESX and ESXi Servers on HPBladeServersC7000 and C3000.
• Skilled in updating / upgrading ESX servers and Virtual Center servers usingVMware Update manager and manual upgrades.
• Installation, configuration, monitoring and maintenance of storage infrastructure consist of EMC VNX, XtreamIO storage, EMC VPlex, EMCIsilonand Brocade FC switches.
• Exposed to vSphereHost Profiles, Standard and Distributed Switches setup.
• Efficient in maintainingVMwareESX / ESXi environment, VCloud Suite, Microsoft Windows Server, EMC Storage Arrays, CitrixXenapp, Xen Desktop, Data Center management and day-to-day operations.
• Handled theVMware solutions to support multiple storage connectivity options such as FC-SAN, iSCSI, NFS (NAS) like interconnection of Fiber Channel Cables with switches, Fabric interconnects.
• Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS) 5108 running ESX cluster.
• Involved in Updating Patches and VMware tools Using Tools like HPSAand SCCM.
• Configuring and managing Cisco UCS Service Profiles, vNIC/vHBAinterfaces,MAC/UUID/WWPN/WWNN identity pools, various Server, Network and Storage related policies.
• Worked with vRealize Operations Manager (VROPS)administrator on capacity planning, created and reserved VM’s in a datacenter for an upcoming project.
• Implemented Horizon 7 (VDI) Environment Parallel to teh one with Horizon6.
• Installed and configured App Volumes 2.11
• Installed and Configured UEM(User Environment Manager)9.
• Installed and configured Identity Manager,VROPS for Horizon 7 environment
• Designing of vSphere for implementation of vCloud infrastructure.
• Integration of vCloud Director withvShieldand vCenter.
• Deployed and managed vCenter manager for vCloud Operations Management.
• Experience in VSphere Replication using Site Recovery Manager 5.0 (SRM 5.0) for backup in case of disaster.
• Performed P2V and V2V migration for approximately 100 physical servers using VMware converter.
• Assist in P2V andV2Vconversion of Windows 2000 and Windows 2003 server editions using enterprise VMware converter and also installed teh VMware tools on dat machines.
• Worked on Nexus 9k and 5k switches.
• Designing, deploying, and maintainingNSXinfrastructure.aving experienced in Agile Methodologies, Scrum stories and sprints experience in aPythonbased environment, along with data analytics, data wrangling and Excel data extracts.
• ProvideNSXMicro-Segmentation Security for ASW Data Center.
• Support Big Data Domain, VNX, VPLEX, ExtremeIO, VMAX, and Recover Point
• Strong understanding of ITIL V3.0 infrastructure management(Service Lifecycle, service operations, service transitions).
• Installed and ConfigredVsphere 6.0
• Monitoring oldCitrixXenApp 6.0 farm while migrating to XenApp 7.6
• Monitored and raised SLA’s on Level 2 and Level 3 tickets during outages.
• Extensive experience in vMotion and storage vMotion, Distributed Resource Scheduler and HA during Maintenance.
• Configured vmnics, vNIC, VLAN, vSAN and service profile templates.
• Experience in Command Line Interface (CLI) in MDS switches.
• Upgrading of ESXi from version 5.1 to version 5.5 while keeping teh VM’s in maintenance mode.
• Troubleshoot and Resolve configuration related VMware issues.
• Also worked on creating access and permissions to end-user on Windows Server 2008.
• DeployedVcenterOperations Manager (VCOPS), leveraging its capability for proactive monitoring of health of teh entire virtual environment.
• Timely update of patches, drivers and firmware's for all our Global ESX/ESXi hosts.
• Installation and configuration of WINTEL Windows 2008, 2008 R2, 2012 and 2012R2 Servers on Virtual Machines.
• Configuring and Managing Active Directory, DNS, and DHCP.
• Provided system administration and technical support for Windows 2008, 2008 R2, 2012 and 2012R2 Servers on a daily basis.
• Enabled customers to significantly accelerate application performance and dramatically improve operational efficiencies. Co-engineered with Oracle Database 12c, Oracle ZFS Storage ZS4-4
• Installed and tested vRealize Automation(VRA) and vRealize Operations(VRO), to enable cloud orchestration layer for Software Datacenter model in test bed.
• Use VMware User Environment Manager (UEM) to virtualize User Profilesinvestments and drives down costs
• Created a custom client refresh process utilizing USMT, PowerShell scripting, and Tivoli Endpoint Manager; resulting in an automated process dat more TEMPthan doubled teh output of technicians and moved teh refresh process to less skilled lower level
• Managed Oracle’s high-end flagship NAS storage product, theOracleZFS Storage ZS4-4
• Designed target state architecture for a client's production and testing data warehouse environments leveraging OracleExadata (X5-2) and ZFS (ZS4-4) hardware.
• Hands on working with cloud foundry, vCloudDirect, VMware5.0, 5.1 and 5.5 versions
• Configure and install new servers utilizing VMWare, MicrosoftHyper-Vand various Microsoftserver platforms
• Responsible for NSX configurations and creating workflows
• Create and Manage Logical Switches and vDS in NSX and vSphere and Manage ESXi cluster inNSX
• Creating and Managing NSX IP sets, Security Group and Security Policies
• Delivered server and client support for all issues such as: logon failures, account lockout, network connectivity, DNS and name resolution, authentication problems.
• Creating newVMware virtual machines to meet teh specifications provided by teh client.
• Savvy in deploying new Virtual Machines from OVF/OVA templates.
• Getting new software operating properly in teh environment which include planning, installation, upgrade, applying updates, configuration, and running and testing teh installed software, as well as uninstallation and reinstallation activities by deploying with Commonvault.
• Creating Roles and permissions inVMwareESX/ESXi Server 4.1/5.1.
• MigratedVMwareESX 4.1 to ESXi 5.1usingVMware update Manager.
• Managing and Configuring Cisco switches.
• Managing and Configuring F5 load balancers.
• Managing and Configuring VMware vSphere and Hyper-V servers.
• Connecting and configuring SAN and NAS storage into teh ESXi and Hyper-V servers.
• Providing support for teh QA and developing team.
• Monitoring Virtual machines and teh Physical servers and teh various infrastructure applications and networking equipment.
• Enhanced storage performance, efficiency and scalability and also backwards compatible with existing compellent fiber channel and SATA drives
• Have updated from view4.0 to Vmware Horizon view
• Added and pooled over 500 desktops using Vmware Horizon view 6.0
• Installing and configuring and troubleshooting Active Directory Servers based on Windows Server 2008 & 2008R2.
• Performed Red Hat Linux Kernel Tuning, memory upgrades.
• Installation & Configuration of software packages in Redhat Linux(RHEL6,7) using both yum and rpm installations.
• Worked on Power Shell scripts and Perl scripts for automation of daily tasks using Cron tab.
• Troubleshooting Unix/Linux network and security related issues.
• Troubleshooting Windows Server 2008 R2 and 2012 OS related issues both on production environment and development and QA environments.
• Converting (P2v) Windows and Linux Physical Large Scale datacenters to VMware vSphere virtualize while using VMware vCenter Converter software.
• Designing, Architecting, configuring and troubleshooting virtual networks within VMware vSphere involving VSS (Virtual Standard Switch) and VDs (Virtual Distributed Switch).
• Configuring and troubleshooting VMware vSphere Cluster, HA Services, DRS, FT and vMotion.
• Proficient in hot and cold clone process.
• Installed/updated patches onVMwareESXi hosts usingVMware Update Manager tool

Environment: ESXi 5.5/5.0, Windows 2003,2008 R2, 2012 R2, EMC VNX, VMAX, EMC Avamar, HPSA, Data Domain, EMC Power Path, HP EVA Storage, cloud foundry, Virtualization (Hyper-V, VMware), Dell Blade Servers, Dell Open Manager, vCOPS, ORACLE.Solar winds VM Monitor, VMWARE SRM, MS SCCM, Microsoft SQL Server, MS SharePoint, MS Exchange, VMware NSX

Confidential, San Antonio, TX

VMware/V Block Admin

Responsibilities:

• Worked on teh converged infrastructureVBlockand handled VMware, Compute, Network and storage components of it.
• VMware vSphere VDI Engineer for VMware View 5.3/6.0 Environment.
• Responsible for Configuration and Maintenance of VMware 5.5 Hosts for Horizon Viewenvironments.
• Build and configure Disaster Recovery View environment on HP Hosts.
• Provide architecture documents for Disaster Recovery and Production.
• Build a Cluster of HP Hosts for ThinApp and App Volumes testing.
• Configure HP chasis and blade servers for Disaster Recovery Hosts.
• Capacity management for VMware vSphere Hosts and HP 3-Par Storage.
• Storage system administration (OracleZFS appliances, IBM Flash Systems, Brocade)
• Involved in teh storage operations on all teh models of VNX 5300, 5500, 5700, VNX-e 3100 and closely worked with EMC team on VMax storage as well.
• Installing ESXI on CiscoUCSblades and C200racks, using KickStart installations, configuring and hardening ESXiservers.
• Identified and developed automation for routine infrastructure tasks; notably, auto scaling virtual machines using vRealize Operations, vRealizeOrchestrator, and PowerCLI.
• Administration of various network infrastructure components including Nexus1000v, UCSFabric Interconnect 6120/6140, Nexus 5548.
• Design and implementation of VMware vRealize operation to monitor VMware and vRealize Automation(VRA) environment.
• • Designed, developed, and implemented an infrastructure service catalog using vRealize Automation. Featuring complete virtual machine service automation and Day 2 actions; encompassing DNS, vSphere, Windows, and Linux. Utilized vRealize Automation, vRealizeOrchestrator, and Chef for provisioning and configuration management. Server delivery time was improved by 98%, from weeks to less TEMPthan 30 minutes
• CiscoUCS integrations with Cisco Nexus 5548 for LAN and Cisco MDS for SAN.
• Installing and implementing teh VMware ESXi 5.1 host servers with vSphere Client, vSphere CLI. Configured HBAs and iSCSI SAN storage.
• Provisioning and maintaining VMWARE VDI and teh entire VDI Environment in Horizon View for 2300+ Windows 7 Desktops.
• Creating and maintaining pools for Horion view 5.2 environment.
• Build physical and virtual (Hyper- V)Windows Server 2008 R2 (500+ servers)
• Working with Wintel to streamline and 'tweak' WSUS patching related issues (ensure all applicable servers are patched, update ITAM fields as needed and with consistency in naming conventions). Creating step by step process for HW break/fix change orders in Data Centers (approval process, change order task assignment, and implementation steps).
• Configuration of vMotion, vSwitch, and VLAN in VMwarevCenter.
• Trouble shooting issues related to VMware ESX host, VMware virtual center, HA, DRS, VMwareupdatemanager.
• Hand's on experiences working with vSphere, vCloud, vCenter and Netapps blade installation
• Part of teh Data Center migration team, handling server backups and maintaining teh server inventory list, getting server up and running after teh Data Center migration.
• Created teh Images for Windows and using those Images for bringing back teh physical servers, which went down after migration. Performed teh back up of virtual machines by taking snapshot.
• Establishing Single Sign on access between two applications using Active Directory Federation Service Software (AD FS 2.0).
• Created service profiles, zones and zonesets, WWPN: WWNN and installed up to 50 ESXi 5.5 hosts on servers by cloning teh existing VM’s.
• Cisco UCS Platform delivery based on VDI requirements.
• Configured Cisco UCS uplink port channels for upstream LAN/SAN connectivity with Cisco Nexus/MDS switches.
• Performed large scale vSphere and Cisco UCS upgrades.
• VMware orchestrator Deployment and Configuration.
• Proficient on VMware technologies--VMware High-Availability, VMware vMotion, VMware DRS, VMware vCenter and vCenter Update Manager.
• Designed and Implemented HP Blade center system for vSphere.
• Implemented various vSphere performance monitoring processes.
• Managing VMware Lab Manager to provide on demand access for teh private cloud for Dev/test to Developers/Testers.
• Participated in Backup migration project from TSM toVeritasNetBackup7.6.0.3
• Integration of vCloud Director with vCenterandvShield manager. Implementation of dedicated out of band vCloud Management Platform. Configuring vCloud networking, External, organization andvApp networks and corresponding network pools.
• Application Packaging and Deployment with VMware ThinApp. Comprehensive Health Check of all aspects of teh VDI environment. View based rebalancing to update Desktop Guest operating systems, Applications. Performance Benchmarking for Virtual Desktop’ s CPU, Memory, Network and Storage sizing based on worker type.
• Virtual Port Channel configuration on teh Cisco Nexus 5K series. Configuring vSANs, Zones and Zonesetson teh MDS switches for ESXi HBA connectivity with VNX frontend ports.
• Comprehensive Administration of VDI environments using View Management Server, vCenter, Cisco UCSM, EMC Unisphere, Cisco Nexus CLI and Fabric Manager.
• Provided BC/DR replication for VMware and Hyper-V infrastructures incorporating OTV and NSXvirtual networking.
• Worked on NIC teaming for load balancing and optimization.
• Experience on creating and deploying VM’s via clones and templates.
• Administered teh Domain and Services, Active Directory, GPO, IIS (performing code loads on teh production environment), Generating certificate request and Installing VeriSign certificate on teh website.
• Configuring and administrating DNS, DHCP, web servers and other Active Directory Services.
• Worked with teh IBM Tivoli Storage Manager, for taking teh Incremental backup of teh server.
• Rack-mounted servers like IBM & Dell hardware, tower servers, desktop, laptop and other peripherals.
• Worked on IBM Orchestrator for cloud support
• Hardening Windows Server 2003/2008/2008 R2, CentOS Linux and Red Hat Linux Servers.
• Managing and Configuring security appliances such as Fortigate Firewall and ASA Firewall.
• Managing and Configuring HP and Cisco switches.
• Managing and Configuring load balancers.
• Managing and Configuring VMware vSphere and Hyper-V servers.
• Connecting and configuring SAN and NAS storage into teh ESXi and Hyper-V servers.
• Managing teh Backup servers running on CA ARC SERV & VEEM BACKUP & Backup EXEC and working with both taping and hard disks media.
• Providing support for teh QA and developing team.
• Monitoring Virtual machines and teh Physical servers and teh various infrastructure applications and networking equipment with monitoring software such as Nagios, Cacti and IPmonitor.
• Installing and configuring SQL / MySQL Servers and troubleshooting application connectivity with teh databases.
• Responsible for administration and maintenance RedHat 5,6 and sun solaris 9.
• Troubleshooting Windows Server 2008 R2 and 2012 OS related issues both on production environment and development and QA environments.
• Writing and developing from scratch Windows PowerShell/PowerCLI scripts for automating procedures within VMware vSphere environment.
• Converting (P2v) Windows and Linux Physical Large Scale datacenters to VMware vSphere virtualize while using VMware vCenter Converter software.
• Designing, Architecting, configuring and troubleshooting virtual networks within VMware vSphere involving VSS (Virtual Standard Switch) and VDs (Virtual Distributed Switch).

Environment: Windows 2000/2003/2008 R2, IIS 6.0/7.0, vCloud, vSphere, NETapp, VMware ESXi 5.1 Server, Hyper-V, Dell Power Edge Servers, PowerShell scripting, CISCO UCS blade servers, HP Servers, IBM Blade Servers, Remote desktop services, IBM TSM, IBM NAS, Cisco Nexus 5K.

Confidential, Houston, TX

System Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Build, configure and install and Kick start Red hatLinuxoperating system. Install, configure and troubleshoot Apache, Tomcat, DNS, DHCP, SAMBA servers.
• Extensive use of Logical Volume Management (LVM) to create volume groups, logical volumes (LVs), extended volumes to support file system growth.
• Configured TCP/IP, NFS, NTP, Auto mount and send mail etc. as per teh requirement.
• Installation, Configuration & upgradation of Solaris, Linux HP-UX, AIX operating systems using Jumpstart/Flash/live upgrades for Solaris, Kickstart for Red Hat and Ignite for HP-UX for automated installations.
• Configuring and Administering NIS, NFS, DNS, DHCP, Sambain heterogeneous environment.
• Installation, Maintenance, Administration and troubleshooting of Sun Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, Linux.
• Performed automated installations of Operating System using Jumpstart for Solaris and kick start for Linux.
• Installation and configured Solaris 10 with Zone configuration
• Installation and configuration of Veritas Volume Manager, Solaris Volume Manager and Veritas File System.
• Installation and configuration of Solaris Custom Jumpstart servers, and creating zones for different applications.
• Installation, configuration and maintenance DNS servers, Mail servers, FTP servers, NFS, NIS, LDAP and SambaWeb servers on Sun Solaris, and Redhat Linux platforms.
• Expertise in setting up HPSAfor automated installation, software distribution, configuration changes and operating system updates to a network of Linux Machines.
• Efficiently managed disk and File system through Veritas Volume Manager, Solstice Disk Suite/ Solaris Volume Manager and Logical Volume Manager.
• Extensive experience with working on Solaris Volume Manager (SVM), creating metadevices, soft partitions, mirroring teh devices.
• Implementation of RAID techniques and teh creation of Disk groups and volumes, plex using Veritas Volume Manager.
• Installation of VMware vCenter5.1 and vSphere client 5.1.
• Operations supporting implementationof Cisco B series, C series servers.
• Installation of ESXi 4.0 and guest OS ranging from Windows to Linux.
• Created resource pools and added teh VM’s into teh pools.
• Upgraded ESXi from 3.4 to 4.0 using Host update utility.
• Created LUN’s for VMFS and Raw disk mappings (RDM’s) on HP Eva 4000 disk arrays.
• Expertise on EMC Celerra -960/480/240 unified storage arrays and configured teh NAS using iSCSI adapter and Celerra Multi Path File System.
• Test and replication/backup for VMware and disaster recovery.
• Creation of VM’s from templates and templates from VM’s.
• Expertise in performing tuning of Guest OS and VM’s.
• Conducted load-balance test for different VM’s, network bandwidth for ESX, number of VM’s on ESXi for optimal performance, identify bottlenecks to set VM benchmarks.
• Planning and execution of VM’s required for Dev/QA teams comprising of around 800 members.
• Configuring and monitoring of Unisphereelement manager.
• Creating linked clones and full clones for VDI's and connected to teh parent template
• Experience on Unisphere element manager tabs like Dashboard, Hosts, data protection and monitor VNX information, storage capacity summary, raid group summary, hosts and connectivity issues.
• VNX arrays storage performance analysis for VDI user desktops.
• Configuring zones andzonesetsfor HBA connectivity on VNX front end ports on MDS switch.
• Monitored VMware vSphere Logs for security, using syslog for login repository.
• Created and maintained ZFS filesystems.
• Involved in configuration of NIS, NIS+ and LDAP.
• Manage ACTT ticket queue resolving Operating Systems issues related to process failures, software and hardware system alarms which generate Trouble Tickets for Sun servers.
• Involved in Disaster Recovery testing every quarter.
• Trouble shooting of day to day system and user problems.
• Used VMware for testing various applications on different operating systems.
• Interacting with various teams such Oracle database team, and Net Backup team.
• Troubleshooting various problems, logging call with vendors.
• Participated in on-call rotation to provide 24x7 technical supports.

Environment: Red Hat Linux5/4/3, Solaris 10/9, HP-UX … AIX 4.3, 5.3L/5.1L, Sun Fire 280R Server, Sun Fire V480 Server, Sun Enterprise … Servers, HPSA, Samba, Sun T-Series, M-Series, NIS LDAP, HP 9000 K, L, N class server, … IBM RS/6000, pSeries servers.

Confidential, Medford, OR

Windows Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Installing and Configuring Windows 2003/2008 servers
• Administered and configured AD Integrated DNS and DHCP for printers, PC's, and servers.
• Configured backups using Symantec NetBackup for critical applications. Scheduled and administered daily, weekly, monthly and yearly backups using NetBackup and Net Vault software.
• Managing Users, User Profiles, Groups and Group Policies in ActiveDirectory.
• Taking Active Directory, DHCP and DNS backup and restoring as on required.
• Applying Windows Security Updates and Critical Updates.
• Configuring Terminals Services to Remotely Administer teh Servers.
• Installed and configured SonicWALL firewalls to provide Remote Access and internal Security.
• Troubleshooting teh Windows Alerts.
• Troubleshoot LAN and WAN Connectivity related problems.
• Troubleshooting teh Event Logs on teh Server.
• Administered ESXi 4.0 and Vcenter 4.0 environment which were having 100 plus of virtual machines in different datacentres.

Environment: Windows 2000/2003, VMWare ESXi 4.0, Vcenter 4.0, Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, Symantec NetBackup, Net Vault, SonicWALL firewall, Dell servers. Voice

Confidential

IT Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Installed and configured Windows 2003 servers.
• Successfully Implemented ESXi 3.5 in testing environment and installed Vcenter 2.5 for teh first time.
• Built datastores in Prod, Non-Prod, SQL and Oracle environments.
• Built more TEMPthan 50 virtual machines in non-production environment.
• Monitoring server performance, troubleshooting server service issues and handling Critical job alerts.
• Maintaining teh SQL databases, Tables, schedule tasks, reporting services and ETL jobs with ERP systems
• SQL server monitoring: Monitoring disk space usage, Monitoring memory usage, Monitoring CPU usage, and Monitoring Network usage.
• Preparing process document, SLA documents, Case subcategories & Process flowchart.
• Preparing pivot table every month for teh Ticket SLA Vs Standard and Pivot Chart for every quarter.
• Supporting workflow web applications for Accounts payable team
• Preparing and Implement Backup Plans, Database creation/Migration/Upgrade.
• General Maintenance me.e. Monitor and support client server databases on Windows 2000.Document weekly and monthly jobs for reporting to client managers.
• Was giving L3 support in Optika and .Net application
• Code and support provided through Microsoft SQL Server.
• Supporting Accounts payable(Finance) Workflow tools Optika(Oracle),ERP Baan, Fourth Shift, Infimacs
• Worked on Share Point application to maintain teh financial documents
• Worked with EBPM applications. VMF, CMF, VPL, POAT, IAA are 5 inherit applications dat comes under teh roof of EBPM suite. It engage teh concept of SMTP, Reports build through SSRS,FTP and Oracle BPM tool
• Solving teh Issues which have raised by teh Accounts Processing global users of Flex
• Providing Service delivery with Process documentation, Process adherence, Customer satisfaction
• Worked with theKofax and ecapture tools for implementing teh scanning system.
• Prepare and send monthly case analysis of Workflow team and maintaining teh teams Six sigma scores
• Trained end users in using full process related to maps