SUMMARY:

• Over 7+ years of experience in Information Technology with expertise in Installation, Configuration, Administration, Management, Development, Verification, Technical Support, Trouble shooting and User of the consolidated Virtual Systems Environment
• Expertise in Installation, Configuration & Troubleshooting VMware ESX, VSphere, Virtual Center Servers
• Administered VMware Infrastructure - vSphere/vCenter/VDI environments from Development and Support to day today maintenance; running over 350 ESX Hosts and 3000 Virtual Machines
• Excellent knowledge in creating and managing users, permission settings, roles and responsibility assignments and VM resource allocations on ESXi hosts
• Good expertise in Patch Management of ESX Hosts using VMware Update Manager
• Experience in implementing ESXi servers with efficient virtualization strategies by creating clones, templates, task scheduling, prioritizing VMs, creating and managing snap shots vCenter management, DRS, HA, DPM, vMotion
• Creation of different port groups like Service Console, VMkernel and VM port groups
• Working on VMware clustering like HA and DRS clusters using Virtual Center
• Adding and configuring R1 and R2 LUNS to consistency groups in SRM
• Configuring alarms for physical failures in HP-Insight manager (HP-SIM) tool for newly built ESXi hosts
• Monitor iSCSI storage performance
• Migration of virtual machines using vMotion
• P2V and V2V convertions by using VMware Converter
• Installed and worked on VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM 5.0) for the disaster recovery and managed recovery plans
• Good Knowledge of Network configuration on ESX servers which include NIC teaming, Bonding for Failover and Load Balancing purposes
• Hands on experience with HP Proliant Servers, IBM Blade HS20P Servers / and Dell Power Edge rack mount servers
• Experience with HP Blade System C-class enclosure (7000) and IBM chassis using Onboard Administrator and virtual Connect
• Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Server technologies, such as Microsoft server 2003/2008, Exchange 2003/2007, AD, WSUS, WDS
• Creation of NIC teaming, VLANs and Switch and port group policies
• Installation, Configuration and administration of Windows 2003/2008 Servers
• Experience with DNS/DFS/DHCP/WINS Standardizations and Implementations
• Expertise in configuring RAID technologies

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating System: Windows Server 2012/2012R2/2008/2008R2, Windows 7/8, RHEL

Virtualization Products: VMware ESXi3.x/4.x/5.x, vCenter Server, VMWare Stand-alone Converter, VMware Lab Manager, Virtual Desktop Infrastructure

Server: Dell Servers, IBM servers, HP Rack servers, HP Blades

Protocols: TCP/IP, SNMP, IMAP, FTP, RDP, HTTPS

Hardware: Dell PowerEdgeR610/710 Servers, Dell PowerVault NX3000/NX3100 Servers, HP ProLiantDL320/380 G5/G6 Servers, IBM v3700, EMC VNX-5300, EMC VNXe3100, Dell and HP KVM device/switch

Languages: C, C++

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Chicago

VMware Windows Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Datacenter/Server Consolidation and Virtualization using VMware technologies: VMware vSphere 4.x/5.x, VMware ESX 2.5/3x/4.x,ESXi 3.5/4.x/5.x,vCenter Server 4.x/5.x,VMware View 4.x/5.0, VCAC, ThinApp, Update Manager, P2V, V2P, Templates, Snapshots, Cloning, DRS, HA, vMotion & SVMotion
• Experience with CISCO UCS servers (B-series, C-series), EMC Storage, EMC ViPR, and replication (VMAX, VNX, XtremIO, RecoverPoint, AppSync, VBlock)
• Backup Enterprise Systems and Disaster Recovery operations; familiarity with SAN technologies; Solid understanding of VI 3.x, vSphere 4.x implementation with Shared Storage, Maping (RDM), iSCSI, NFS/VMFS strategies for Performance and Optimization along with RAID concepts
• Expert knowledge on vCenter plugins like Update manager, guided consolidation and vCenter Converter
• Experience in P2V and V2V conversions using VMware vConverter
• Strong experience in configuring HA and DRS clusters, using EVC on as needed basis
• Good understanding about SAN, iSCSI, NAS Configuration and Implementation including attached storages, SAN Switches, HBA, VM creation capable file systems including VMFS and NFS
• Extensive experience in working with the vMotion technology and Storage vMotion technology
• Basic knowledge of Cisco UCS manager and Cisco blade servers
• Installing vcenter management tools like vSphere client and web client

Confidential, Milwaukee, WI

VMware Windows Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Experience in Vmware ESXi 4.1, 5.0 & 5.1 Server, Virtual Center, VI Client
• Good understanding about SAN, iSCSI, NAS Configuration and Implementation including attached storages, SAN Switches, HBA, VM creation capable file systems including VMFS and NFS
• Expertise in Installation, Configuration & Troubleshooting VMware ESX, VSphere, Virtual Center Servers
• Installing and maintaining vCenter Servers
• Managed and maintained Mail/POP/IMAP servers as well as Web, DNS and FTP servers
• Configured and maintaining Storage DRS cluster
• Experience in migrating ESXi 4.1 to 5.0 and ESXi 4.1 to 5.1 and migrating existing setup to new setup
• Working on Migration concepts like Vmotion, Storage Vmotion and cold migration
• Creation of different port groups like Service Console, VMkernel and VM port groups
• Configure and manage F5 Load balancer
• Configured VMotion, Alerts, Alarms and NTP
• Configuring Nagios & Icinga for the virtual environment
• SAN environments to ensure high availability and acceptable performance characteristics for VMware, vSphere and SAN-backed applications

Confidential, Manhattan, NY

VMware Windows Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Strong experience in configuring HA and DRS clusters, using EVC on as needed basis
• Completely own, manage and maintain the VMware infrastructure 3.5 & VMware Vsphere 5.0 environment for the development and integration environments
• Managing Virtualization Environment using VM Ware ESXi 5.X, Virtual Center, VI Client and P2V. Vmotion on cold and hot migration for Load balancing
• Creation of templates from VMs and Creation of Vms from templates
• Design, install, configure VMware ESXi within vSphere 5.x environments
• Installing ESXi/ESXi server in physical server and virtual machine. Adding ESXi/ESX to vcenter server
• Adding the Virtual Machine to Domain
• Creation & Configuration of Virtual Switches, Ports, Port Groups and setting up layer 2 Security Policies for Virtual Networks
• Creating & managing port groups in Standard switch & DVS Switch
• Extensive experience in working with the vMotion technology and Storage vMotion technology
• Good understanding about SAN, iSCSI, NAS Configuration and Implementation including attached storages, SAN Switches, HBA, VM creation capable file systems including VMFS and NFS
• Created/Supported Host Profiles, Distributed Switch, DRS, vMotion, SVMotion, Resource pools, permissions, Patches, Snapshots, Tools Upgrade, Disk Expansions and Templates

Confidential

System Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Performing Server Hardening activities - Windows Registry level Modifications
• Windows Active Directory administration
• Experience with DNS/DFS/DHCP/WINS Standardizations and Implementations
• Experience in Network LAN/WAN deployment
• Experience in Active Directory, GPOs, File & Print Server, FTP, Terminal Server, NAT, and Exchange Mail Server
• Performed cost analysis supporting consolidation of physical servers into VMware
• Experience in updating Servers with latest Service Packs, Security Patches, Antivirus definitions and software distribution using Microsoft SMS, SCCM and WSUS
• Identifying the basic hardware issues and Escalating to the respective Vendor for all hardware Failures, SPS Failures and Backend Issues of server
• Expertise in IIS Server for using web based Applications
• Managed Multiple Server suites(Windows, UNIX and Red Hat Linux) on VMware ESX server
• Managing Routing and Remote Access Server, Configuring Terminal Servers and Clients
• Configuration and Troubleshooting Network cabling, adding and configuring new or existing
• Designing Disaster and Recovery policies
• Creating Group Policies and implementation as per standard procedures