SUMMARY

• Over 7 Years of professional software industry experience as a Windows Systems Administration and Virtualization Engineer using VMware vSphere.
• Strong knowledge on Server, Desktop and Application virtualization and worked on ESX and ESXi.
• Extensive Hands on Experience on vCenter server and vSphere for managing multiple ESX servers.
• Installing and troubleshooting experience with ESX servers and ESXi servers and worked extensively on Templates, clones and used Veeam Backup And Replication for restoring VM's.
• Strong knowledge on resource management framework using Resource pools.
• Experience with Microsoft Network Load Balancing and Microsoft Clustering technologies.
• Experience in EMC SAN LUN creation, LUN masking, Raw Disk Mapping and Storage pools.
• Implemented and managed HA and DRS clusters and Worked on VMware FT for critical VM's.
• Hands on experience on P2P,P2V, V2V Migration of Machines from one datacenter to another datacenter using migration tools like Plate spin, Double take and VMware Converter.
• Extensively worked on vMotion, Storage vMotion, VMware Mirage, SCCM and Patch management and upgrades using VMware update manager.
• Experience in configuring VMware standard vSwitch&dvSwitch.
• Excellent skills in patching and hardeningservers using Windows Update and also by using the staged patches.
• Expert knowledge on configuring hardware iSCSi SAN, FC SAN, NFS and NAS storage to VMware ESX (i) hosts from vSphere client.
• Configured the Windows Clustering and SQL Clustering in the VMware environment.
• Worked on windows server and on Microsoft active directory.
• Knowledge on Implementation and configuration of HP, Dell, and IBM server class hardware.
• Provided 24/7 On Call production support onsite and remotely on rotation basis.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

VMware Skills: vSphere 5.1 / 5.0 / 4.1 / 4.0 , ESXi 5.1 / 5.0, ESX 4.1 / 4.0, VMware, HA, DRS, Storage vMotion, VMware vSphere Client, VMware Thinapp, P2V, V2V, Veeam

Operating Systems: Microsoft Windows 2000, 2003, 2008, 2008 R2, 2012, 2012R2, Win Xp

Microsoft Products and tools: Active Directory Domain Services, AD lightweight Directory Services, DNS, DHCP, TCP/IP

Servers: IBM server, HP Blade Servers, HP Proliant ML & DL series, Compaq Proliant Series Servers

Language: C

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Sacramento, CA

Vmware/Windows Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Configured VMware HA, VMware DRS in acquiring higher efficiency for VMware Infrastructure.
• Managed Active Directory services using predefined company scripts (Creation of Accounts) and Provided server and client support for all issues such as logon failures, account lockout, network connectivity and authentication issues.
• Installed VMware vSphere 5.1/5.0/4.1 and created virtual machines on ESXi 5.0/4.1 Servers. Created standard images and deployed servers from the images.
• Teaming NIC's using HP Teaming software for redundancy during failures.
• Installed and configured vSphere ESX (i) 5.1 on HP blade servers HPC7000.
• Migrated VMware vSphere hosts from ESX 3.5 U2 to 4.0 and ESX (i) 5.1 to ESX (i) 5.5.
• Configured VMware standard vSwitch & dvSwitch.
• Configured VMware virtual machine port groups, console ports groups, VMkernal port groups and VLANs.
• Experience in installing and configuring VMware Virtual Center servers and VMware vCenter Appliance.
• Managed VMware ESX (i) hosts using vSphere client and Web client.
• Created Virtual Machines, Cloning virtual machines, converting P2V(used standard VMware converter tool), VM - Provisioning (Linked clones, thin disks, de-duplication ) taking Snapshots of virtual servers, HA, DRS, Vmotioning.
• Experience on creating host profiles and deploy to hosts in a VMware clusters.
• Designed and successfully implemented VMware ESXi 5.0/4.1 servers for server consolidation and Worked on vCenter Server to manage all the ESX hosts in the datacenter.
• Performed disk consolidations to multiple VM's that failed snapshots which released virtual disk space from data stores.
• Defining group permissions and creating local and global groups with account policies using Enterprise Administrator.
• Secured, built, and maintained multiple FTP/SFTP sites using WSFTP server, Globalscape Server, and IIS server.
• Creating and managing Virtual Machines and Templates, worked with clones and snapshots of Virtual Machines.
• Administering, troubleshooting and automating vSphere ESXi using Power CLI.
• Involved with designing and implementing VMware backup products and disaster recovery solutions.
• Installed & configured VMware virtual center for production & DR site and monitored and setup vCOps for Virtual environments.
• Perform server consolidation using VMware Converter to convert physical machines to virtual machines in a production environment.
• Set up and Configured DV switch for ESXi hosts and worked on VMware Update Manager for updating or patching for all the ESXi hosts and Virtual machines.
• Virtualized Windows server using VMware Converter and Performed P2V's and V2V's using VMware convertor.
• Integrated HP SAN volumes to the Virtual Infrastructure to store the Virtual Machine files.
• Configuring VMware on clustered environment, implemented Migration of Virtual Machines using vMotion, Storage vMotion.
• Hot and Cold Cloning of Virtual Machines using VMware Converter and restored VM's using Veeam Backup.

Confidential, Wayzata, MN

Vmware/Windows Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Designing an Active Directory and Network Infrastructure, Forest and Domain Infrastructure.
• Implementing Group Policy, Managing and Monitoring Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) managing and monitoring Domain Name System (DNS).
• Installation, configuration and administration of Windows 2008 R2/Windows 2012 (server core) domains in an enterprise network environment.
• Administering Information store Management, Public folder Management, Exchange system Manager Management, Groups and Address List Management, administrative Group Management
• Setting up permission, delegating permission, Routing Groups and Routing groups Connectors.
• Provide support to application teams on IIS configuration, Ensure availability and capacity of key services such as file, print, DHCP and DNS.
• Performed physical to virtual (P2V) migrations for approximately 500 physical servers utilizing VMware Converter
• Responsible for moving VM builds through the Server pipeline and into final production on the network
• Installing and Managing ESX and ESXi Servers on HP & Cisco hardware, installation of vCenter Server, Upgrading 40+ hosts from vSphere 4.1 to vSphere 5.0 upgrading VMware Tools for all VMs
• Create a procedure for the P2V migration and make a decision along with the client team to decide which servers to be virtualized
• Installed and Implemented VMware ESXi 5.0 host servers with vSphere Client. Configured HBAs and iSCSI SAN
• Manage testing, implementation and administration of vCenter Lab Manager Server
• Perform troubleshooting of operating system and software infrastructure issues on Domain Controllers, Member Servers, Server Clusters, and Virtual Machine Farms
• Interact and coordinate with different teams to meet the deadlines
• Documentation includes PCI compliance Requirements, Project Plan, Network Diagrams, P2V migration and Network design and upgrade recommendations
• Disaster recovery planning, implementation and recovering systems during crash or hardware failure.

Confidential, TX

Vmware Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Installing VMware vSphere ESXi 5.0/4.1 and ESXi server 5.0/4.1.
• Identification, planning and migration of P2V candidates and new builds from each site without any downtime.
• Performed tons of V2V Migration., Created clones and templates of Virtual Machines
• Created VM's on ESX servers and deployed VMs Through OVF Templates, Created & Troubleshot Virtual Networks and vSwitches
• Worked on Migration concepts like vMotion and cold migration and Remediate.
• Configured Netbackup Client thorough planning was done for downtime, knowing each server usage & there placement in Datacenter.
• Creating Data centers in the vSphere Web client and adding the Hosts to the Data center
• Hands on experience with VCOPS, configuring dashboards for clients.
• Installing and configuring Windows 2003 servers of DHCP, FTP, Web Server and SQL Database Server.
• Installation and administration of Windows Active Directory, DNS, DHCP servers. Administrating and responsible for Microsoft File and Print servers cluster on windows 2003. Managing printers' queues, spoolers, files and folders permission, maintenance/failover of cluster when required
• Managing Exchange 2003 servers and troubleshooting issues related to User and group accounts, mail delivery, configuring MX records to enable and disable domain.
• Responsible for Security Patch Management and Deployment to all clients using Microsoft WSUS 4.0/3.0.
• Administering DHCP Server creation of reservation and configuration of server options.
• Configured Terminal Server to access to the servers using Remote Desktop Protocol.
• Maintaining Local Area Network (LAN), using Cisco Switches.
• Responsible for Active directory, GPO, Domain users, Administrating users and groups and given appropriate permissions and privilege to access our LAN and Domain environment.
• Troubleshooting UCS hardware if the Hosts are disconnected in the Vcenter
• Design, Installation and configuring of new vSphere 5 ESXi servers for the P2V candidates on UCS Cisco C240 M3 Rack Server
• Installed Management Server (vCenter Server) instances to enable centralized management of multiple ESXi hosts.
• Linked different vCenter servers using linked mode to have a single instance of vSphere client to manage the whole Virtual environment
• Configuring High Availability (HA), Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) and vNetwork Distributed Switch (VDS).
• Creating a backup job and also took backup of data center on daily, weekly and monthly basis.
• Created standard Templates and deployed servers from the Templates.
• Built number of VMs through templates/clones, created templates/clones for future use and physical servers/hosts 4.0/4.1 from ISO Images.
• Designed and successfully implemented VMware ESX servers for server consolidation.
• Virtualized Windows servers using VMware Converter P2V and V2V.

Confidential

Windows Support Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Successfully handled installation, configuration & troubleshooting of OS such as Microsoft windows 2000/2003 and windows XP Professional.
• Troubleshooting Desktop/laptop hardware related issues, Printers, wireless access points.
• Shared level and user level security and occasionally visited on client locations to install software and troubleshoot the problem.
• Facilitated the setup of PC for the new user, provided setting permission to user and helped them with the Log on various problems.
• Extending solutions for end user problems including interface with clients whenever requested.
• Updating patches and security fixes available for workstation Operating System.
• Interfacing vendors for maintenance & support.
• Clearing ticketing tool for Problem/Incident requests.