SUMMARY

• IT Professional with 5+ years of experience in Systems and VMware Administration with primary focus on installation, configuration, and administration of VMware vSphere, ESX 3.5 /4.0,4.1 and 5.5 VMware VCenter 4.0/4.1 and Windows server 2012 R2
• Sound knowledge on ESXi and ESX Architecture, guest OS installation, setting up of VM priorities, Cloning and Snapshots.
• Sound knowledge on Virtual Center server 4.0/4.1 and 5.0/5.1 for managing multiple ESX servers and linked vCenter servers.
• Installation and Deploying Windows Servers 2003/2008/2008 R2/2012/2012R2 in Physical and Virtual Environment.
• Experience in P2V, V2V MIGRATION using VMware Converter / Plate Spin 6.8.x. Creating host and client VM templates and cloning.
• Experience in Active Directory Services, GPOs, DNS, AD Trusts & Routing, DHCP, File & Print Server, IIS (Web Server), FTP, Terminal Server, RIS, RRAS, NAT, WSUS, Microsoft Clustering, Exchange Mail Server, ISA Server and FSMO roles.
• Strong knowledge and hands on experience in data center Migration.
• Cisco Unified Computing Platform deployment in VBlock Environments.
• Strong Knowledge and hands on experience in Virtual Desktop Migration (VDI).
• Experience with deployment to VDI environment such as Updates/patches/Applications
• VMware experience to include VDI and server virtualization and Horizon View experience including technical knowledge in creating, maintaining, and troubleshooting virtual environments and experience in Remote Desktop Servers.
• Experience in monitoring systems using HP SIM (Systems Insight Manager) and SCOM.
• Strong analysis skills that include insight on successfully applying technological solutions and best practices to resolve business issues, while improving overall efficiency
• Excellent troubleshooting skills both with hardware and software in windows environment.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Hardware: Cisco UCS 5108, HP C3000 and C7000 Enclosures, Dell PowerEdge and Rack mount servers

OS: Windows Server 2003 & Windows 9x/XP/Vista, Windows 2008 and windows 2012

Applications: MS Office 2003, 2007 and MS Visio Backup BESR, SRM, IBM TSM

VMWare: VMware ESX 3.5, 4.0, 4.1, 5.0 Virtual Center, VSphere, VMware DRS & HA, VMware P2V Converter, vCenter Server 2.5, Virtual Infrastructure 3.0, vSphere 4.0, vSphere 5.0. ESX/ESXi 3.5, 4.0 and 5.0, VMware Converter, VMware View, VMware ThinApp, VMware Update Manager, HA, VMware vCloud Director, VCAC, VPC, DRS, DPM, FT, vMotion, Storage vMotion, VMware Guided Consolidation, Lab Manager and VMware Workstation, VMware VDI 5.0.2, 6.1 and Horizon View

Third party VMware Applications: Plate Spin power convert, Vision core, VCharter Pro, Plate Spin Power Recon, Solar wind.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, San Antonio, TX

VMware Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installed, Configured and monitored of server hardware in VMware environment.
• Managing ESXi 5.5 clustering hosts (8 cluster group, 100+ hosts and 2500+ VMs) in multiple data centers.
• Manage all aspects of VMware vSphere environment including Virtual machines and templates, VMFS Data stores, vSwitches, Distributed Virtual Switches, HA/DRS, vMotion, SVmotion, Fault tolerance, Access and Authentication control, ESXi advanced configurations, Storage DRS, Storage IO Control, Resource Management and Monitoring.
• Infrastructure testing on the new ESX builds to identify potential flaws/failures from implementations before its release in production.
• Involved in 100+ P2V Migrations .Provided L3 Support and Root Cause Analysis.
• Involved In vSphere Migration from ESX3.5, 4.1 to ESXI5.1.
• Troubleshoot applications hosted on IIS servers, keeping track on expiring certificates and installing it on the servers.
• Performed Windows 2003 upgrade to a Windows 2008 and Windows 2008 to Windows 2012 Active Directory environment and implementing group policy.
• Identify Underlying Resource Problem for Cluster, Host and VMs Level and Customize the Badge Threshold for Infrastructure Objects and VM Objects Using vCops.
• Configured VSphere HA, DRS, and Fault Tolerance for VMware environments.
• Handled Server cloning as part of the separation process.
• Configuration of DNS alias and server access.
• Experience with VMware Horizon view in administrating VDIs.
• Using Power CLI and Power Shell scripts to manage VMs/Hosts and providing detailed reports for ESXi hosts, VMs and Windows servers.
• Perform enterprise level support for Microsoft Server, Active Directory, Group Policy, and user/Computer objects, Site and Services, DNS/DHCP.
• Support two Domains and Several domain controllers in multiple sites and Manage domain controller roles Support 10000+ users and computer objects in AD
• Troubleshoot Active Directory, Replication, DNS/DCHP issues (dcdiag, repmon/repadmin, ntdsutil, netdom ADSIEdit, netdiag, etc.) and perform AD, DNS, and DHCP backup.
• Created linked clones and full clones for VDI's and connected to the parent template across both the datacenter's.
• Configuring Windows 2012 Failover Clustering and SQL Clustering in VM and Physical environment
• Design and build new Windows Servers ( 2008, 2012) on physical and Virtual environment
• Configuring and Managing Windows Failover Clustering on 2012 Server for SQL environment (GUI mode and PowerShell).
• Rack and Stack Dell Servers, Cisco UCS blade B200 M3 including power and network cabling, managing multiple hardware configurations & ensuring power, network redundancy of all servers
• Working on Cisco UCS Manager 2.1 (3a/3d) / 3.0(1c) to Manage Cisco Chassis and Blades
• Upgraded the version 5.2 to 6.1 and recomposed the pool for the linked clone virtual desktops.
• Responsible for ESX server deployments, system updates/upgrades, system health and status monitoring.
• Created PowerShell Scripts for automating IIS log deletion.
• Implementation of stateless Cisco UCS service profiles with boot from SAN policy for ESX hosts.
• Establishing ESX Deployment strategy, policies and procedures and deploying ESX cluster builds based on predefined policies.
• Auditing the ESX cluster builds to make sure all set configurations adhere to the Implementation guidelines.

Confidential, San Diego, CA

VMware Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Creating Virtual Machines, installing and updating VMware tools, Configuring and managing Virtual network, Virtual disk and memory expansion to the VMs, VMotion, high availability.
• Creating Templates, deploying a virtual machine from template.
• Designed, deployed and supported VMware ESXi Servers 5.1 /5.5 and vSphere 5.1 /5.5
• Handled ESXi server up gradation from 4.1 to 5.1 / 5.5
• SSO Configuration in vCenter level
• Creating and Managed Data Stores (Fiber Channel),SDRS/vSwitch/vDS,PortGroups,NIC - Teaming in ESXi Host
• Managed HA clustering hosts (15 Clusters, 250+ hosts and 5000+ VMs in each VC) and standard alone hosts in multiple data centers.
• Handling VM issues requests like Guest operating system Disk expansion, adding CPU, increasing VM Memory.
• Handling Incident tickets through service now.
• Handling VCenter Servers administration.
• Performed P2V and V2V VM conversion requests.
• Responsible for provisioning physical windows servers and virtual machines.
• Responsible for Virtual Machine access control, controlling administrative rights, monitoring environment, taking the performance graph of VMS and ESX host if required.
• Install, Configure and maintain Windows 2003 and 2008 Servers.
• Fine tuning VM's configurations to achieve best performance/resource consumption depending on Application characteristics and requirements.
• Installing Site Recovery Manager (SRM) Server on the Source and the DR site and Integrating with respective vCenter.
• Managing Active directory and Group policies.
• Used Power CLI and Power Shell to manage VMs and providing detailed reports for ESXi hosts and VMs to management.
• Write admin scripts to collect server configuration information as and when needed for Windows / VMware environment.
• Performed Enterprise level support for Microsoft Server, Active Directory, Group Policy, and User/Computer objects, Site and Services, DNS/DHCP.
• Installed and Configured Applications (such as IIS, Security Server) on Windows Environment.
• Problem management and issue resolution for servers & clusters.
• Perform backup and restore of Virtual Machine backup, snapshot, P2V-V2V conversation with VMware converter and with other third party converters, Patch updating, monitoring/reporting, SSH and SNMP and notification of alerts.
• Managing SRM based protection in a highly dynamic environment ensuring newly deployed Tier1 VM's are protected and on replicated data stores.

Confidential, Indianapolis, IN

VMware/windows engineer

Responsibilities:

• Managed large-scale Virtualized Data Centers -VMware View, VMware ESX/ESXi and vSphere features including vMotion, HA, Virtual SMP, Dynamic Resource Scheduler (DRS).
• Installing and Managing ESX and ESXi servers on HP servers.
• Installation of vCenter Server, vCenter Components and upgrading VMware Tools.
• Creating resource pools and adding the VM's into the pools.
• Updated HP Firmware and ProLiant Support Pack for Windows 2000/2003 servers.
• Supported a large scale Data Center projects including server installation, hardware maintenance and break/fix activities.
• Worked on Performance Analysis and Tuning/Optimization Operations, Virtual machine creation, cloning, configurations.
• Installed and configures software updates using Update manager using patches and created the baselines for the updates
• Creating Backup and restore of data by using windows backup and recovery utilities.
• Design, Implementation of Active Directory infrastructure and Network fundamentals, protocols (such as TCP/IP, DHCP, DNS), Group Policy (GPO) and Profile Management.
• Implemented Microsoft Clustering for IIS Web Servers.
• Expertise in remote control, patch management, software distribution, operating system deployment, network access protection, and hardware and software inventory using System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM).
• Involved in live migration of Virtual Machines and Virtual machines files using the VMotion and Storage VMotion.
• Monitoring and managing performances of ESX/ESXi servers and virtual machines.
• Performance testing for determining VM performance benchmarks and optimal consolidation ratios.

Confidential

Virtualization/Windows engineer

Responsibilities:

• Primary responsibility was to maintain availability of the corporate LAN consisting of servers, client workstations, laptops, printers.
• Maintained a Windows 2000 and NT LAN of 5 servers, 100+ clients and 100+ users
• Implemented and maintained corporate Intranet sites.
• Implemented, administered and monitored NAT server/firewall providing Internet access to client computers through the corporate LAN.
• Administered and maintained Microsoft Exchange Server and mailboxes.
• Provided end user application software and operating system software support.
• Day to day Backup of file server with windows backup tool.
• Provided Hardware support, troubleshooting and diagnosis.
• Created the user accounts and profiles, assign permissions using Active Directory.
• Administered the Group Policy, to upgrade and repair software installations.
• Respond to and address any tickets/ work requests in the Remedy Queue.
• Provided Support for DNS/DHCP/WINS services.
• Configured the Microsoft Virtual Server and Virtual PC for testing and development.
• Auditing the ESX cluster builds to make sure all set configurations adhere to the Implementation guidelines.
• Infrastructure testing on the new builds to identify potential flaws/failures from implementations before its release in production.