SUMMARY:

• Systems Engineer with over 9 years of VMware virtualization infrastructure implementation, and troubleshooting experience. I offer an innovative and pragmatic approach to analyze customer’s business needs; enabling me to conceptualize, design and implement solutions based on the latest virtualization technologies.
• Expertise in building Windows 2000, Windows 2003 and Windows 2008 Servers
• Experience with HP servers, IBM servers and Dell Power Edge Servers.
• Experience working in large international complex directory environments with experience supporting Windows 2000 Active Directory (AD).
• Maintaining the File Server and Print Server and cloning the Desktops on Network in Windows environment.
• Experience in Active Directory, GPOs, DNS, DHCP, File & Print Server, IIS (Web Server), FTP, Terminal Server, RIS, RRAS, NAT, WSUS, Microsoft Clustering, Exchange Mail Server and ISA Server
• Experience in iSCSI SAN, NAS, NFS storage and RAID concept.
• Extensive understanding of networking concepts, (IE. Configuration of networks, TCP/IP, VPN, VLANs, and routing in LAN/WAN, Ethernet Port, Patch Panel)
• Expertise in the area of Virtualization with vSphere, VMware ESX 4 and 3.x hosts and Virtual Center server.
• Knowledge in EMC Clarion SAN Storage, HP EVA 8400, NAS storage environment and IBM DS4800 SAN storage
• Creating a test Environment in VMware for Production Team to test their applications.
• P2V conversions of Windows 2000 and Windows 2003 servers using VMware Converter.
• Broad experience with designing, implementing and troubleshooting VMware ESX server,
• Sound knowledge on ESX Architecture, guest OS installation, setting up of VM priorities, Cloning and Snapshots.
• Strong experience with the VMware HA and VMware DRS..
• Strong understanding of VMware Networking concepts like creation of vSwitches, different types ofportgroups, NIC Teaming and VLAN Problem management on VMware ESX 3.X and Virtual Center and vMotion.
• Providing comprehensive documentation for system builds.
• Experience in Microsoft Office Suite, Open Office, Visio, Outlook, Printing, Windows networking.
• Experience with x86 / x64 Intel, HP, IBM & Dell hardware like rack - mounted servers, tower servers, desktop, laptop and other peripherals.
• Work well both independently and as part of a team. Work well under pressure and conflicting priorities.
• Worked on various environments giving Production support 24/7 for Intel Windows System (during critical issues).
• Provided daily, weekly and monthly health reports on Existing Windows System & suggesting up gradations of servers or license.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating Systems: Windows server 2008 R2/2008/ 2003 / Windows 2000 / Windows XP / Vista

VMware: ESX Server 2.5, 3.0, 3.5, and 4.1. Virtual Center 2.0, 2.5, and 4.1, vSphere 4 and 4.1, VMware converter 3, 4 and 5.0. Site Recovery Manager (SRM), vCloud Director

Hardware: Compaq, HP, IBM, Dell Servers, Routers, Switches.

Applications: MS Office 2003, 2007 and MS Visio,Microsoft Exchange Server 2003, Microsoft Exchange Server 5.5,System Center Configuration Manager(SCCM).ExchangeServe2000Microsoft Exc Server 5.5.

Database: SQL Server ODBC connectivity

Networking Protocols: TCP/IP, Token Ring, Ethernet, RAS, RIP, OSP, SMTP, DNS and DHCP.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Alpharetta, GA

VMware-Migration/ Sr. Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Worked as a migration technical team lead in large Multiple Datacenters (QTS at Suwanee, IO at Phoenix, Databank at Dallas and Alpharetta) migration project which involved VMware vSphere 5.0 & 5.1, VMware Site Recovery Manager 5.0, vSphere Replication (VR), VMware vCloud 5.0 & 5.1, VMware Desktop Infrastructure
• Configured Dell PowerEdge M1000E Chassis, Dell PowerEdge M620 & M710 HD Blades, Dell PowerEdge R820 Rack Mount Servers
• Maintained a virtual infrastructure that uses Dell Equal Logic PS41x0 Series Arrays, EMC FC Storage and, of course, Windows 2003 Servers, Windows 2008 & Windows 2008 R2 Serves, RedHat Enterprise Linux, MS SQL Servers, MS Exchange Servers, MS AD Services Servers
• Performed capacity planning and server migration planning by creating a runbook for every migration wave. This included working very closely with the storage engineers. Also created an alternate protocol for the VM’s that were not supported for replication due to storage limitations in a very short period of time
• Started to group non-critical production VMs (Servers) first, setup in SRM Consistency Group & Recovery Plan and migrated VMs using SRM Plan migration then applied same process to rest of the critical business Servers
• Worked with a lot of moving pieces including pieces: IPPlan, VMTools Deployment, P2V, V2V, VR, analyze the Storage requirement & project estimate, Deployment and Configuration of new Blades, OS installation and configuration
• Acted as a liaison between the management and technical staff by maintaining proper coordination & communication with Project Managers, Business managers, DBAs, Application Team, outside vendors
• Performed level 2 and 3 troubleshooting, also provided day to day support for the infrastructure operation plus train the new hires in an environment which is more than 95% virtualized

Confidential, VA

VMware-Migration/Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Configure, rebuild, implement, and administer ESX/ESXi Servers including patches and updates, and assist in resolving associated system outages and other incidents for 9 Clusters, 35 Esxi hosts and 623 VM’s environment.
• VM migration across the clusters using v2v, Mount file option and WinSCP.
• Troubleshot hardware issues of HP Blade servers in Datacenter.
• Using VMware vCenter, created DataCenter Environment by creating VMware clusters, adding ESX hosts in the clusters, and implemented HA and DRS.
• Performed physical to virtual (P2V) migrations for approximately 500 physical servers utilizing VMware Converter.
• Performed tons of V2V Migration in VMware and Microsoft Hyper-V Environment.
• Hands on experience in ESX Build & Configurations, Storage VMotion and P2V/V2V migrations using VMware Converter and Platespin.
• Handling the P2V and V2V server virtualization using different tools like VMware convertor, Acronis Data Recovery and Platespin.
• Good Understanding and Knowledge VBlock and components and experience with Cisco UCS administration and EMC SAN storage.
• Experience with Cisco UCS blades and HP C7000 Blades
• Experience in Physical to Virtual (P2V) and Virtual to Virtual conversions by using VMware Converter, Platespin Power convert and vCenter Guided Consolidation.
• Provided documentation based on solutions and guidelines. Manage cisco servers using CISCO UCS MANAGER 1.4 and 2.0.
• Performed Storage migrated from HP 3PAR to EMC VNX.
• Migrated FTP users from Windows 2000 servers to Windows 2003 servers.
• Administered Global Print server.
• Created clones and templates of Virtual Machines.
• Deploying VMs Through Templates
• Created & Troubleshot Virtual Networks and vSwitches
• Configured DNS, DHCP severs.
• Configured HP Blade DL460 using the ILo & Onboard Administrator and HP Insight Manager.
• Responsible for deploying, managing, and maintaining HP Proliant BL-series C-class, P-class blade servers and DL-series servers.
• Worked with business clients to evaluate, streamline, and improve current systems, processes, and workflow.
• Participated in weekly meetings
• Worked on Remedy Incident & Change request tickets

Confidential

Systems Administrator/VMware

Responsibilities:

• Installing ESX and ESXi servers on HP, DELL and IBM hardware.
• Installation of Vcenter server and its components.
• Taking caring of Vsphere licensing.
• Installing Virtual machines.
• Installing and upgrading VMware Tools.
• Creating resource pools and adding the VM’s into the pools.
• Deploying VM’s from templates.
• Snapshots according to user’s requirement.
• Configuring HA, DRS clusters.
• Taking care of capacity planning for new clusters.
• Configuring FT for important Vm’s.
• Taking caring of ESX and VM storage issues.
• Coordinating with the storage team.
• P2V Hot conversions using converter enterprise 3,4 and 5.0
• P2V cold conversion using VMware Converter Boot CD.
• Performance monitoring using VizoncoreVfoglight and ESXTOP.
• Capacity planning of the virtual environment.
• Presenting FC SAN LUN’s, RDM’s iSCSI LUN’s and NFS mounts.
• Creating Vswitches.
• Creating different ports groups for different purposes.
• Taking care of NIC teaming at ESX server level for NLB and redundancy.
• Updating and upgrading ESX servers using Vcenter Update manager.
• Vmotion according to the requirement.
• Storage Vmotion according to the requirement.
• System Analyst for Windows servers.
• Experience with troubleshooting DNS, DHCP, IIS and Active directory.
• Responsible for Microsoft exchange server 2010, SQL and database server.
• Provide technical supports for Microsoft outlook 2007/2010.
• Maintained Barracuda Spam & Virus Firewall for Exchange Server.
• Successfully Migrated Win XP users to Windows 7 using USMT (User State Migration Tool).
• Provide Level 3 support to end users.
• Creating technical notes and user guides for new software and database for end users.
• Perform technical expertise for windows systems environments on issues related to servers, local services, data centers, server configuration.
• Maintain records for event, audit and application logs.
• Monitor all windows backup and perform fine tuning every 15 days.

Confidential

System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Install and manage ESX 3.5/4.1 VMware servers.
• Build VMs on demand using this client provisioning.
• Create VMs for Disk sharing for Oracle and Windows clustering.
• Build and maintain HA and DRS clusters health.
• Design and implement new Data Center VMware infrastructure.
• Assist users with slow and unresponsive VMs by troubleshooting issues with CPU and Memory.
• Migrate VMs according to load balance across different hosts.
• Installed ESX patches using Update manager.
• Run reports from Virtual center for usage and health of ESX hosts and Datastore usage.
• Create & manage LUNs for Datastore on Compellent storage systems by mapping LUNs to HBAs.
• Troubleshoot issues with slow Datastore access.
• Added Raw Disk mappings to VMs from available storage.
• Perform health checks of the storage and SAN infrastructures.
• Upgrade and migration of VMs from 3.5 to 4.0.
• Provided 24/7 on-call support for Windows servers and VMware infrastructure.

Confidential

System Administrator/VMware Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for participating in providing transition support and services for the Delphi Automotive Widows servers to gather and define the processes needed for the HP global delivery teams.
• Publishing and assigning the user permissions to access the Applications in Windows Management Console.
• Creating the load evaluators for load balance purpose while users accessing the Applications.
• Maintaining the file server, application and Print Server.
• Created User Accounts, groups and running scripts on production servers.
• Assigned local security policies on member servers and standalone servers using RDP.
• Manage and monitor Active Directory services and group policies.
• Worked elaborately on different windows environment which include Windows NT version 4.0, Work Station, Terminal, 2000 and 2003.
• Running VB Scripts to validate logins on 1000 + servers and check the server access on weekly basis.
• Strong Knowledge in creating various objects like User Accounts, Computer Accounts, and Auto logon accounts.
• Assigning folder permissions to the users by gathering approval from the group owners.
• Efficiently created and managed various Groups (Domain Local and Global Security).
• Worked on HP Open View Service Desk (OVSD) tickets.
• Raised tickets for any issues discovered during validation.
• Using Net Use command to check whether we can connect to member servers or not.
• Categorization of server in terms of complexity and effort required to complete the primary system access tasks.
• Working on Ticket process in receiving Incident tickets in Remedy Tool in 24x7 environments.
• Created standard operating procedures and process documents for off shore resources.

Confidential

Windows Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for monitoring and maintaining systems which includes +150 servers; + 2500 user base and more than 100 various applications. Up till current date built several VMware servers with more than 30 applications.
• Assist in development of an India-to-India support model for these technologies.
• Migrated more than 300 users from Metaframe Presentation Server 1.8 to 4.0.
• Monitoring and managing the performance and the load balance of the Servers.
• Working on deadline, multitasking, simultaneously working on multiple projects and coordinating with various vendors. Applying Securities Policies.
• Creating a test Environment in VMware for Production Team to test their applications.
• Working with various production system and Network administration on Windows2003 advance server with Active Directory Domain Services.
• Publishing the Desktops and Individual Applications according to the Department requirements in the organization.
• Coordination with the Marimba Team for Creating packages for server build to install the application in the Test server.
• Providing users with access rights and permission for accessing the applications.
• Installing and updating the windows patches.
• Coordination/implementation of hardware and software installations and upgrades.
• Performance and capacity monitoring and management.
• Weekly server maintenance planning and coordination.
• Monitor and act on problem tickets.
• Created Process Documents and Standard Operating Procedures as per the ITIL standard and was reviewed by Managers.
• Introduced the procedure of templating the details and requirements captured from the Users for of all the Team and Managers.
• Updated the Managers with a weekly Status reports with the current status, issues and reasons for delays of the applications.

Confidential

Windows Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Created and managed separate VMware clusters like QA, Development and Production.
• Added 80+ hosts bringing total to 120 managed hosts and administered more than 2000+ VMs.
• Continue VMware implementation and expansion work.
• Perform capacity analysis of existing physical production environment using VMware Capacity Planner.
• 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.
• Created and managed resource pools for Virtual Machines.
• Monitoring and managing performance of ESX servers and Virtual Machines using Virtual center server for HA, DRS.
• Involved in live migration of Virtual Machines and Virtual machines files using the VMotion and Storage VMotion.
• Handled the VMware solutions to support multiple storage connectivity options such as FC-SAN, iSCSI, NFS (NAS) and internal storage.
• Creation & Troubleshooting of Virtual Network, ESX & Virtual Machines.
• Creation of templates from VMs and deploying VMs from templates.
• Administration of windows server and all related server services including FTP, AD, DNS, DHCP and VPN.
• Perform regular maintenance of Server, which consist of adding users, editing user login scripts and granting permission to directories and shared files.
• Provide Active Directory, Group policy and user profile maintenance.
• Maintain Symantec Endpoint protection management console.
• Provided technical support to troubleshoot network connectivity, network printing and user access issue.
• Troubleshoot windows infrastructure by resolving trouble tickets assigned by the users.
• Maintained and track hardware and software inventory and documents.
• Maintaining documentation and process for supported systems and applications.