SUMMARY

• VMware Technology Professional having 7+ years of I.T experience in VMware, SAN Storage, and IT Support.
• Actively demonstrated strong analytical, troubleshooting and Interpersonal skills with a customer focused approach.
• VMware vSphere ESXi 5.1/5.5 setup installation configuration and Administration.
• Installation, Configuration and maintenance of Hosted VMware products.
• Design, Implementation, Testing and Deployment of VMware Infrastructure
• Installation, Configuration and Administration of VMware vSphere4.0, ESX 3.5 and ESXi Server, VMware View
• Upgrading vSphere 4.1 environment to vSphere 5.5
• VMware sphere client, Virtual Venter Server.
• Virtual Networking(Virtual Switches, VM Kernel Ports)
• Add Virtual Storage (Access Control and VMFS Data stores)
• Creation, Management and Configuration of Virtual Machines, Clone and Templates.
• Customizing guest operating system on Virtual Machines.
• Created DRS and Custom roles for users and Administrators
• High availability, Clustering, vMotion, Storage vMotion.
• Server Consolidation with VMware Converter (P2P and P2V Conversions)
• Snapshot manager and restoring a snapshot.
• Knowledge of DR using SRM for VMs.
• Installation and Managing VMware View 5.0 Setup.
• Configure and maintain Desktop pools.
• Creating linked clone desktop using snapshots.
• Knowledge on Power shell.
• Performance and capacity planning for vCenter environment using vCenter operations Manager.
• System Administration - Managing Users, Groups, Roles and Access Permissions.
• Setting up and monitoring performance monitoring and capacity planning.
• Managing Tasks, Events and Alarms
• Wyse Thin Client Configuration, implementation, setup, support and Administration.
• McAfee EPO Antivirus Virtual Server Implementation and Administration
• Strong leadership and communication skills and working experience with customers, end users and colleagues.
• Demonstrated ability to work in both individual and team environments.
• Highly Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite: MS Project, PowerPoint, Excel, MS Word and Microsoft Productivity applications.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving and communication skills, with particular emphasis on clear, detailed Business Requirements into Functional Specifications, and generating reports for management.
• Adapts to new systems and environments quickly, takes ownership of all duties, meeting management skills, Good work ethics, Group and individual based problem solving and decision making abilities.
• Strong leadership and communication skills and working experience with customers, end users and Colleagues.
• Demonstrated ability to work in both individual and team environments.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

CORE VMWARE VIRTUALIZATION SKILLS: ESX Server 5.0/4.0/3.5/3 , vSphere 5.0/4.0, VI3, vCenter/ Virtual CentreServer 4.1/4.0/2.5/2.0 , Storage VMotion, HA, DRS, DPM, FT, SRM 4.0, Host Profiles, vApp, VMware Consolidated Backup, VMware Management Assistant, VMware vSphere Client, VMware View 4, VMware Thinapp, Events and Alerts, Capacity Planning, Plate-spin Power Convert, SV Motion, VMware Converter 5/4/3

DESKTOP OPERATING SYSTEMS: Microsoft Windows 2000, Win XP sp2, Vista, Windows 7

SERVER OPERATING SYSTEMS: Microsoft Windows 2000, 2003, 2003 R2, 2008, 2008 R2,2012

SERVER SERVICES: Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, TCP/IP, Clean Server Installation/Migration

SERVER STORAGE HARDWARE: HP blades C7000,IBM blades HS21, HP Proliant DLs and Blade Servers, Dell Power Edge Servers, HP Enterprise Virtual Array Family, Netapp FAS2000 series, Cisco UCS, EMC SAN storage VNX and Symmetric DMX-3

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, ATLANTA, GA

WINDOWS & VMWARE SYSTEMS ADMINISTRATOR

Responsibilities:

• System analysis, monitoring and performance tuning for Windows 2000/2003/2008 Servers.
• VMware ESX 5.1& 5.1 Host Server Installation, Configuration & Maintenance, VSphere Suite with P2P andP2V, Virtual Machines Installation, Configuration & Maintenance.
• Monitoring the operating system, database & network by using the monitoring tools.
• Installed ESX and ESXi servers on HP, DELL and IBM hardware.
• Configured HA, DRS clusters and capacity planning for new clusters, configuring FT for important VM's.
• Created resource pools and also added VM's into the pools.
• Performed Microsoft File and Print services management tasks.
• Worked on ESX and VM storage issues and also coordinated with the storage admin team.
• Experience in creating Virtual Data Centres (VDCs), vApps and VMs in vCloud Director 1.5/5.0.
• Experience in creating Network pools, Adding hosts in VMware vCloud Director 1.5/5.0
• Performed P2V Hot conversions using converter enterprise 4, 5 and also the P2V cold conversion using VMware Converter Boot CD.
• Worked on Disaster Recovery Exercises for DR Plan for Production Servers.
• Analyzed and Implemented OS patches and hot fixes as well as other OS configurations and updates using Blade Logic Patch Management tool.
• Involved in creating vSwitches and created different ports groups for different purposes.
• Involved in troubleshooting the DNS, DHCP, IIS and Active directory.
• Maintained Web Servers by installing Microsoft IIS7.
• Active Directory and Operating System account management With NTFS permissions.
• Maintaining FTP Sites and creating Virtual Directories in IIS7.
• Created User Accounts and Groups in Active Directory.
• Experience in migrating Windows 2003 server to Windows 2008 server & Windows 2008 server to Windows 2012 server.
• Experience in Configuring & Troubleshooting Microsoft Windows Clusters.
• Experience in Configuring & Managing Virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI).
• Updated and upgraded the ESX servers using vCenter update manager.
• Compaq/HP Blade Server hardware maintenance and HP Insight Manager.
• Involved in the migration of Virtual Machines and Virtual machines files using the VMotion and Storage VMotion.
• Up gradation of Windows server's service pack and security patch as per schedule.
• Configuration and Maintenance of Microsoft Windows cluster Servers.
• Developed technical notes and user guides for new software installations for end users.
• Used Remedy Tool for ticketing process on fixing Incident Reports and Change Requests.
• Involved System Administration Level III support for Windows 2003/2008 Servers.
• Installation, configuration & maintenance of Windows 2000, Windows 2003 & Windows 2008 Servers with Active directory Infrastructure, DNS, DHCP.
• Performed LUN management, metaluns, RAID groups, storage groups.

ENVIRONMENT: Windows 2008/2003, Windows 7, Microsoft DFS, Active Directory, DNS, WINS, DHCP, TCP/IP, NTFS, Dell Power Edge, IBM xSeries, HP/Compaq ProLiant G3, G5 Blade Servers, IIS Servers, VERITASNet backup, VMware ESX 4.0 & 5.0 Servers.

Confidential, PA

VMWARE ADMINISTRATOR

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, + 1000 users.
• Using Altiris to Install the Operating System on HP Servers.
• Experience in configuring and setting up HP ILO for physical HP servers.
• Build servers using HP ILO and HP smart start CD.
• Upgraded 200+ physical servers with latest firmware version.
• 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.
• Maintained detailed documentation and procedures for building, troubleshooting, installing, recovering, and supporting all Wintel servers and applications.
• 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.

ENVIRONMENT: Windows 2003/2000 Servers, VMware ESX 4.0/3.4/3.0, vMotion, DNS, DHCP, NTFS, WindowsXP/98, TCP/IP, LAN/WAN.

Confidential, SANJOSE, CA

VMWARE ENGINEER

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Installation and Configuration and Maintenance of Windows 2008/2003/2000 on HP Proliant Servers.
• Created User Accounts and Groups in Active Directory (AD).
• Involved in troubleshooting the issues related to Servers, Local Services, Data Centers, and ServerConfiguration for Microsoft Windows Systems.
• Configured HA, DRS clusters and capacity planning for new clusters and configured FT for the important
• VM's and also Maintained FTP Sites, Web Servers and created Virtual Directories in IIS7.
• Cloning, deploying VM's to Template, Templates to VM's, VMotion, Storage VMotion etc. Configured the NTPserver in ESX Server for the time synchronization between ESX and VM's.
• Generated report summary and performance for ESX Servers and VM's. Created snapshot's for the VM'sand also created new folders, data centers, clusters and resource pools in the VC.
• Involved in Scheduling Tasks, Monitoring Tasks, Created alarms and Deploying load balancing, implementingNetwork security.
• Deploying HA & DRS Cluster, Managing resources. Migrating virtual machine configuration files and virtualdisks from one Data store to another Data store. Migration of servers P2V and V2V by using VMware Converter and Plate Spin.
• Involved in Customizing VM's (Memory, hard disk, NIC) and Analysing log files, Resources utilizingmonitoring.
• Problem analysis and Troubleshooting of ESX Server with service console. Resolving issues on servers,VLANs, routers, and switches in the data center.
• Up gradation of Active directory and troubleshooting AD problems.
• Responsible in using BMC Remedy System for incident, change and problem management.
• Created new VMware virtual machines to meet the specifications provided by the Client.
• Configured VMotion for Hardware Resource Management.
• Troubleshooting the Hung VM Sessions on ESX Host and sending the files to VMware support for resolutions.
• Supported and Managed VMware ESX 3.5 and 4.0 infrastructure for production/non production environments including HA/DRS Clustering.
• Creating and managing security groups and reconciliation of the same regularly.
• Involved in On Call rotation for supporting production strictly maintaining SLA's.
• Providing 24 X 7 Server/Network/Wintel/Citrix/VMware/Help Desk support
• Created documentation for Server Builds, Application Installations, Mapping the drives and Issues whichoccur during software upgrades.

ENVIRONMENT: VMware ESX 4.0/3.5, VSphere 4.0, Windows Server 2008/2003, Active Directory 2003, HPProliant Servers.

Confidential

SYSTEM ADMINISTRATOR

Responsibilities:

• Configured and maintained Active Directory - User Management, Implementing various policies for the userusing the group policies on Windows 2000 & Windows 2003 Server
• Implement Root, Forest and Child Domain System with Additional Domain Server in the different sites
• Configure the Remote Access Server for the remote client
• Configured Print and File Servers and allowed access to users using Group Policies
• Created User Accounts, Configured User Profiles, Created local and Global Groups and implemented GroupPolicies
• Updates, patching and software installations via group policies (GPO)
• Implemented Windows 2003 Server as Backup Domain Controller for Active Directory
• Configured and Maintained DNS, DHCP and WINS on Windows 2000 & Windows 2003 Server
• Shared Folders, Planned and Assisted in configuring NTFS Permissions
• Installation of Operating Systems Win98, Win XP, Win NT, Win 2000, Win 2003
• Coordinate hardware and software installations and upgrades to ensure work is performed in accordancewith company policy
• Coordinate and monitor troubleshooting to isolate and diagnose common system problems: document systemevents to ensure continuous functioning.
• Recommend course of action and implement as approved
• Troubleshoot the DNS servers by using tools like nslookup, event logging, debug logging
• Monitor server hardware, performance, and up time and respond to outages promptly
• Document server builds, server outages, and backup failures

ENVIRONMENT: Windows 2000/2003 Servers, Active Directory, Network Printers, Windows XP

Confidential

LAN ADMINISTRATOR

Responsibilities:

• Installed and Configured Window Servers in a single domain Environment.
• Installed, Migrated, Performed troubleshooting on Servers and maintenance of Ethernet network.
• Evaluated existing LAN environment, technical support, reliability of existing equipment and add-on services.
• Upgraded hardware and updated OS on NTFileServers.
• Created User Accounts, Home Directories and Mailboxes depending on the requests from Helpdesk.
• Granted Access to users for Various Resources depending on their group access levels using DistributedFile System Admin Tool.
• Resolved Microsoft Outlook Issues Resolved Account Lockouts, Disabled Accounts.
• Scheduled Backups and restored files depending on the requests from Helpdesk.
• Develop backup, restore and disaster recovery plans for the windows server database.
• Used Crystal Reports to create customized reports and ad hoc reports for Investors and Managers.
• Created other parameterized, sub reports using Reporting Services for decision making.
• Deploy reports on the dashboard and reporting server.
• Provide 24/7 production support for the application.

ENVIRONMENT: Windows 2003 and 2000 Server-Active Directory, DNS/DHCP/TCP-IP/IIS, Windows 98/2000/XP, Clustering, RAID configuration for servers, Antivirus software support.