SUMMARY

• Around 7+ year’s experience with Installation, Configuring, Deploying, Trouble shooting, administration and maintenance of ESX 3.5/ESXi 4.0/ESXi 4.1, VMware Virtual Center and possess experience in Windows 2000/2003/2008 R2 Server, SQL & Active directory administration.
• Good Understanding and Knowledge VBlock and components and experience with Cisco UCS administration and EMC SAN storage.
• Experience in implementing VMware/VM view VDM Manager - VDI (VDI - Virtual Desktop Infrastructure / Virtualization) solution for larger scale customers.
• Strong experience with the VMware HA (High Availability), SRM, Fault Tolerance, Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) and VMware Distributed Power Management.
• Determining customer requirements and designing VMware-based solutions architectures spanning VMware's product portfolio from the vCloud Suite to the Horizon Suite to meet the functional and business requirements of a range clients of various sizes and across verticals.
• Good experience in configuring, optimizing and troubleshooting of Linux/Unix servers and the Networking setups.
• Worked on SRM 5.0 deployment and configuration of DR site using array replication on VNX 5300.
• Develop, test, and maintain a disaster recovery plan for critical VMs and application data.
• Planning, Designing and Implementation of VMware vSphere (ESXi 4.0/ESXi 4.1/ 5/ 5.1 & 5.5 and VMware Virtual Center).
• Deployed EMC VNXe SAN for vSphere 5 high availability management cluster configuration for customers
• Experience on High availability, Clustering, VMotion, Storage Vmotion, Snapshot manager and restoring a snapshot.
• Experience with VDI 4.5, 5.0 and SRM disaster recovery and datacenter relocation projects.
• Responsible for installing & configuring UCS B250M2, UCS B200M1 and UCS Rack-mount servers in UCS 5100 chassis and configuring the Cisco UCS 6100 Fabric interconnects.
• Experience in using UCS Manager for server configuration, network and storage connectivity with FCoE
• Worked closely with storage and networking teams to ensure SAN and networking infrastructure met virtual infrastructure specification's
• Automated OS install procedures and prioritized custom maintenance configurations, significantly improving performance of both legacy and newly deployed solutions.
• Design, configure, and support Enterprise Desktop Virtualization Technologies.
• Experienced in configuring domain forests and managing trusts between multiple domains.
• Experienced in managing group policies, user accounts and configuring sites in a multi-site domain structure.
• Experience in managing a team and the resources during Server Infrastructure migrations and platform upgrades.
• Experience in installing monthly security patches and fix packs on windows platform including with providing documentation.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills and a good team player, Extensive experience in working at 24x7 Support.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Virtualization Technologies: VI3,VMware vSphere 4.0/4.1/5.0, VMware ESX 2.5/3.0/3.5, VMware ESXi 3.5/4.0/4.1/5.0 , VMware vCenter, vSphere Client, VMware VDI, VMware ThinApp, View 4.6/5.0, Microsoft Hyper-V, VMware Update Manager, VMware Converter, HA, vMotion.

Operating Systems: Windows Server NT 4.0/ 2000/2003/2008 R2, Windows XP/Vista/7, Linux and Centos, Apple Mac OS, VM Ware ESX/ESXI server.

Application Servers: DNS, DHCP, Windows Active Directory Services, FTP, SFTP, Microsoft Exchange 2003/2007/2010 , Vmware Zimbra 7.2.2,P2V/V2V Converters, MS Office 2003, 2007

Directory Services / Internet: Designing, Deploying and Migration of Windows Based Active Directory. Installation and Administration of IIS 6.0, DHCP & DNS servers

Infrastructure Hardware: UCS C240M3 RACK server, HP Proliant BL460C (G6 and G7) Blade Server series, DL380, DL580 physical servers, Dell Power Edge Servers, Intel x86 processors.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Lakeforest, IL

VMware Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in design and implementation of P2V migrations of servers ranging from Windows 2003, Windows 2008, SQL Server, and Linux Servers using VMware Converter and Platespin Power Convert.
• Experience in Installing and managing ESX servers, vCenter server, and VMware update manager using remote access in HP ILO (Integrated Lights Out) and Dell's DRAC.
• Configured several ESXi servers as per the standards.
• Patched ESX hosts using VMWare Update Manager
• Experience in installing, configuring and upgrading of UCS manager, activating licence for fabric interconnects using UCS manager.
• Configured and Installed server ports and FC uplinks for UCS 6100 Fabric Interconnects.
• Implementation boot from SAN and configured boot policies with UCS manager
• Configured High Availability (HA), Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS), Distributed Power Management (DPM) and vNetwork Distributed Switch (VDS).
• Upgraded Windows 2003 and deployed Windows 2008 Servers on both Physical and Virtual machines.
• Experience with the Remedy and change management process
• Experience working with vMotion for VM migration and Storage vMotion for moving VM's from one LUN to another LUN as per the requirement
• Deployed, configured and managed Windows and Linux servers on the VM's
• Configuration of TCP/IP with DHCP, WINS and DNS.
• Installed and Configured VMware vSphere4, ESX 4.1 and ESXi 5.x
• Implementation of VMware High availability and resource load balancing by configuring HA and DRS clusters.
• Installed and configured software updates using Update manager using patches and created the baselines for the updates
• Involved in the ESX Hardware Upgrade and OS Upgrade process.
• Experience in managing VMware data store, configuring and administering Clusters in Vmware environment
• Configured and allocated storage from storage arrays such as VNX.
• Configured CIFS servers and allocated CIFS shares to different windows platforms using VNX
• Gathering Host environment issues using EMC Reports and EMCGrab to resolve host related issues on the San network.
• Involved in file server migration and robocopy.
• Experience in reviewing and generating the performance reports weekly/monthly using capacity planner
• Experience working with vlans, port groups and assigning IP's.
• Created host profiles and templates in vmware environment.
• Handled Antivirus remediation as part of Stabilization process.
• Experience in using power shell script for deploying various agents and applications.
• Involved in documenting the technical process and procedures.

Confidential, Danville, PA

Technical Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Worked as a migration technical team lead in Multiple Datacenters 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, Waukegan, IL

VMWARE/ WINDOWS ADMIN

Responsibilities:

• Installing, configuring and maintaining the VMware ESX 3.5x Environments
• Creating, Installing, configuring and maintaining the Virtual Machines, installing Guest Operating Systems like Windows, Linux.
• Implemented Migration by performing P2V, V2V and V2P conversions using vConverter and PlateSpin.
• Created documentation for Server Builds, Application Installations, Mapping the drives and Issues which occur during software upgrades.
• Troubleshoot network issues between Distributed vSwitch, Layer 2 switches and resolved slow performance between SAN network and VM networks.
• Monitoring and managing virtual servers
• Taking care of pre requisites for servers before going for production
• Updating service account passwords
• Installed, configured and managing network file servers, print servers and maintaining various logs.
• Created virtual machines using Hyper-V and deployed prepared pre-production environment.
• Maintaining active directory system data and file server volume backups. Monitoring active directory integrity and replication.
• Logs file analysis using the Event Viewer and troubleshooting to resolve issues
• Provided support for teams in activities such as Load testing, troubleshooting, and performance tuning
• Involved in trouble shooting and fixing day-to-day problems of the applications in production
• Supported 24*7 on call schedule for Production support.

Confidential

Windows Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Installing, configuring and 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.
• 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 2950 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.
• Configure and Managed Microsoft Outlook 2003/2007 for the users.
• Perform troubleshooting of personal computers, peripheral equipment and applications, identifying problems and providing solutions.
• Custom build PC's, install and configure peripheral devices and anti-virus software.
• Troubleshoot customer problems over the phone.
• Provide onsite technical assistance including: cabling, computer repair and preventative maintenance.
• Analyze, log, track and complex software and hardware matters of significance pertaining to networking connectivity issues, printer, server, and application to meet business needs.
• Creating a backup job and also took backup of data centre on daily, weekly and monthly basis.

Confidential

Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Create Virtual Machines, install operating systems, allocate resources and perform vMotion's
• Utilize VMware vSphere and Dell Remote Access Controller (DRAC) for server maintenance
• Configure Cisco switches for port speed, VLAN, IP address, gateway and trunk ports
• Perform server backups and restorations using EMC Avamar administrator application
• Remove viruses using Trend Micro and setup scan exclusions for vendor devices
• Blackberry Enterprise Administrator
• Perform Active Directory tasks: create DHCP scopes, DNS records, adjust Group Policies and account creation
• Provide Tier 3 support to technical staff and end users
• Use LANDesk software for computer inventory management, remote desktop and software deployment
• Initiate ITIL conference bridges and facilitate change management requests

Confidential - Houston, TX

VMware /Windows Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Consolidation of the Datacenters using Vcenter4.0 and installation, configuration and managing the ESXi 4.0 Update to Servers and Vcenter.
• Creating and managing the VMware clusters in the Vcenter4.0.
• Enabling the HA and DRS features in a VMware Clusters.
• Creating the Virtual Machines and installing the Guest OS like Win 2008, Linux (CentOS), and UNIX (Solaris)
• Monitoring the VM'S & ESXi 4.0 Update 2 Servers using the Vcenter.
• Creating the Virtual Clusters, Resource pools, Templates & Clones in the ESXi4.0.
• Creating the Virtual Switches & Port groups in the Virtual Environment.
• Added SAN storage on a regular basis to clusters based on capacity requirements
• Security hardening and Monitoring of VM's & ESXi servers (CPU, Memory, Disk, Network Utilization) for the Security Compliance.
• Patch Management done in the ESXi4.0 Servers through the UPDATE MANAGER.
• Upgrading the ESXi 3.5 to ESXi4.0 using HOST UPDATE UTILITY.
• Converting the P2V and V2V using the Virtual converter.
• Upgrading the Firmware to the HP Proliant DL490cG6 Servers.
• Configuring the View composer, View agent and View client.
• Configuring the View connection server and managing the View Administrator 4.0.
• Migrating Physical Server to Virtual Server and Virtual to Virtual Server using VMware Converter (P2V, V2V Convention)
• Configuring and Managing the VIEW 4.0 (VDI) & ThinApp 4.0 clients and supporting the Virtual infrastructure services.
• Installing the View 4.0 and ThinApp 4.0 related Software.
• Monitoring the Server Health Status of the CPU processors, Memory, Fans, Temperature and Voltage.