SUMMARY

• 8 years of IT experience, specializing in planning, designing, installing, configuring and administering converged infrastructure.
• Experience in VMware based Datacenter virtualization solutions, Private Cloud Implementations/Operations, Virtualization Management, Converged Infrastructure Platform, Business Continuity and Enterprise level EMC Storage Solutions.
• Deploying and Supporting Enterprise scale VMware vSphere based Virtual Infrastructures.
• Experience with Cisco UCS and HP C7000 Blade server environment with VMware vSphere5.5.
• Implementing vCenter Operations Manager for performance and capacity management of the private cloud.
• Excellent backup and recovery skills focusing primarily on performing disaster recovery and data migration related activities.
• Experienced in ESX & ESXi Architecture, guest OS installation, setting up of VM priorities, Cloning and Snapshots.
• Experienced in vSphere 5 and vCenter.
• Experienced in resource management framework, creating resource pools, adding the VMs into resource pools.
• P2V and V2V conversions by using VMware Converter.
• Experienced with the VMware HA, FT and VMware DRS.
• Extensive knowledge in advance features of VMotion, Storage vMotion, and VMware Orchestrator.
• Experienced in VM Snapshots and Templates.
• Experience in installation and administration of SCOM 2007 r2 & SCOM 2012.
• Configuring, maintaining and troubleshooting SCOM Infrastructure.
• Ability to implement VMware’s Virtual Switch technology, port aggregation, NIC teaming and port groups.
• Successful deployments of Cisco UCS Compute Cluster with ESXi 4 and ESXi 5.
• Knowledge of Cisco network hardware and software.
• Experience in installing, configuring and managing Cisco Switches, Routers, Servers, Desktop Computers and Printers
• Ability to install, configure and troubleshoot Cisco network routers, switches, load balancers, and security devices.
• In - depth knowledge on vblock Storage like EMC VNX and VMAX.
• Experience in Implementing tiered SAN Solutions using FAST/VP per EMC best practices
• Extensive experience in Encapsulating the Production LUNs in VPLEX to Virtualize the Storage environment
• Experience in administration of IIS Server for Website and FTP maintenance.
• Installation, Configuration and Administration of Networker, Net backup and Avamar in large enterprise environments
• Disaster recovery, planning and management.
• Create and maintain server's data backup on AppAssure 5.
• Configuring various Tape libraries such as MSL 6000 Series and Dell Power Vault 132T & 136T Tape Libraries.
• VM backups using EMC Networker, EMC Avamar and Net Backup.
• In-depth knowledge in Microsoft Windows 2000, 2003 & 2008 Active Directory
• In-Depth Knowledge on Installation, Patching and Troubleshooting Windows XP, 2000, 2003, 2008R2 and 2012R2.
• Experience in administering and supportingCitrix serverenvironment on Windows Server 2003/2008.
• Designed and implemented Active directory in windows 2000 and 2003 server environment
• Installation and configuration of Windows Server asDomain controllers and application servers
• Implementation & Configuration ofADS and Group Policies
• Configuring backup policies, schedules, media pools, multiplexing and parallelism.
• Network Infrastructure involving DNS, DHCP and AD servers, TCP/IP Protocol Stack.
• Experience in disaster recovery in physical and virtual environments with vCenter Site Recovery Manager.
• Installing Qlogic and Emulex HBA cards and driver updates.
• Install and configure multipathing with EMC power path.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Hardware: Cisco UCS 5108, HP C7000 Enclosures, Dell PowerEdge and Rack mount servers, NetApp FAS2040A and VNX5500/5700.

Operating System: Red hat Enterprise Linux 4 & 5, Windows Server 2000, 2003, 2008R2, 2012R2 & Windows /XP/7/8.1.

Applications: MS Office 2003, 2007 and MS Visio.

Backup: EMC Legato, EMC Avamar, Symantec Net backup and EMC Data Domain.

VMware: VMware ESX/ESXi 4.1, 5.0, 5.5 and Virtual Center Server. VMware Converter, VMware View, VMware Thinapp, VMware Update Manager, HA, DRS, DPM, FT, VMotion, Storage vMotion, VMware Guided Consolidation, and VMware Workstation.

Database: MSSQL 2000/2005/2008 R2.

Third party VMware Applications: Plate Spin power convert and Solar winds.

Antivirus: Symantec antivirus, MacAfee and Microsoft forefront.

Tools: BMC Remedy, and Jira

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Richmond, VA

VMware/Windows Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installing, configuring, Troubleshooting and management of ESX 4, ESXi 5 and VCenter Server 5
• Administering Windows 2012/2008 R2/2008 Active Directory, DNS, DHCP and building new windows physical/virtual servers as per the requirement of the project
• Maintained Active Directory sites and services.
• Managed Windows 2000/2003 Active Directory objects and attributes
• Planning, Implementation, Administration and troubleshooting are involved with multiple platforms of Windows XP, 2003, 2008, Windows 7.
• Manage Active Directory accounts, creation, deletion, modification
• Responsible for keeping servers updated with all the Microsoft security and Application updates
• Created a domain with AD Integrated DNS
• Responsible for applying the Windows 2012/2008 Patches and Fixes
• Configuring, maintaining and troubleshooting Windows Server 2008 R2, SCCM and SCOM Infrastructure
• Created automated deployments using Power Shell scripting
• Good experience in VMware 6 infrastructure
• Well Experienced with designing, installing and implementing Vmware ESX servers and vCenter server 4.0 and setting up of VMware Features like V-Motion, HA, DRS
• Creating and Deploying of Virtual Machines from Templates and creating Snapshots with in no time, Cloning of Virtual Machines for future Deployments
• Creating and configuring VNetwork Standard Switch (VSwitch), VM Kernel Ports, VM ports, Service console and NIC teaming
• Configuring VNetwork Distributed switches and migrating the networks from VNetwork standard switches to VNetwork Distributed switches
• Migrated Physical Machines to Virtual Machines (P2V) and Virtual Machines to Virtual Machines (V2V) using VMware converter and VCenter Guided Consolidation
• Daily responsibilities included maintenance of Virtual machines for performance issues also implemented V-Motioning, Hot and Cold Migration of virtual servers and performed Storage VMotion where the storage is migrated
• Good experience with VMware Update Manager and Host Update utility to install patches and updates on ESX hosts and virtual machines
• Experience in administering Windows Terminal Server, Group Policy management and Active Directory environment
• Created Domain User Accounts, Distribution Groups with Active Directory/Exchange.
• Design, implementing and managing Active Directory (AD), Internet Information Server (IIS), Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) /System Center Operations Manager (SCOM), Systems Management Server (SMS) /System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM)
• Install and maintain SCOM in the environment and maintain the monitoring configurations
• Installed and configured Windows servers. Maintain and monitoring 100+ servers for firm via SCOM alert system
• Planning migration strategies, DR plans with SAN and NAS data
• Utilize SCOM system management tool to monitor infrastructure health
• Maintaining Print servers, Application servers and File Servers.
• Extensively worked with Active Directory Services, IIS Servers, DNS, and DHCP
• Configured and maintained new VM's and Installed Microsoft Windows servers, managing VM's and ESX servers
• Involved in day to day support related to Data Center, documentation of run books, training, support, and coordination with off-shore team for moving/relocating Widows/VMware/Applications/Backup
• Supports integration between virtual platforms and desktop tools to deliver optimal environment for Customer support reps

Environment: VSphere 4.0 and 5.0, Hyper-V, Windows Server, Cisco UCS 5108, HP Blade C7000 and C3000, HP VCEM- Virtual Connect Enterprise Manager, VMware View Dell Power Edge Servers, Citrix and SQL, Windows 2012/2008 R2/2008 Servers.

Confidential - Irving, TX

VMware Windows Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installation, configuration and Administration of VMware, Windows, and Red hat Linux servers.
• Successfully Migrated Win XP users to Windows 7
• Performed technical expertise for windows systems environments on issues related to servers, local services, data centers and server configuration.
• Implementing & configuring Active directory services on Windows 2000 and 2003 server.
• Implementing, configuring and troubleshooting DNS service, forward & reverse lookup zone.
• Configuring & troubleshooting DHCP server and DHCP relay agent and WINS services.
• Troubleshooting DNS, DHCP and VPN related issued.
• Implementing Active Directory Services, maintaining Replication, Trust Relationship and enforcing Domain wide Group Policies.
• Building, testing and managing of VMware vSphere 5.x.
• Configuring RAID 1, 1+0, 5 and 6 as per client needs.
• Create and Configure Virtual Machines, cloning and created Master Templates to create new virtual Machines.
• Physical to Virtual Migration using vCenter converter standalone.
• Creating Host profiles to automate ESXi configuration.
• Configuring and troubleshooting of HA, DRS, distributed switch, Clustering, vMotion and Storage vMotion.
• Responsible for setting up, configuration and organization of Cisco IT infrastructure including switches, routers, VOIP systems, QoS, security structures, firewalls and network protocols.
• Regular Back-up and restore of all critical resources including router & switches IOS, Outlook, DHCP, DNS
• Managing and Maintaining the Servers, PC’s, Routers and Switches.
• Managed Cisco Switches and Routers for network operations, utilizing network monitoring tools to optimize network efficiency
• EMC VNX Block Storage Provisioning and Management for ESXi, Linux (RHEL) &Windows hosts.
• EMC Power Path installation and configuration for Storage Path load balancing.
• Planning & implementation of scheduled changes per change management policies.
• Configuring Hyper-V hosts virtual networking, storage, cluster and Hyper-V VM’s high availability.
• Applying patches using update Manager on ESX/ESXi hosts.
• Zoning, LUN Masking and Mapping.
• Performed Virtual Machine creation, VM Configuration changes and Cloning.
• Performed storage and virtual machine migration using hot and cold migration type.
• Troubleshooting issues related to ESXi host, vCenter, HA, DRS and VMware update manager.
• Involved planning and implementation of migration process.
• Pre-migration, Post-Migration and validation check list.
• Worked on Storage related daily Change Request activities.

Environment: VMware vSphere5.0, EMC VNX 5700, Cisco UCS, Nexus N1000v, UCSM.

Confidential - Houston, TX

VMware Windows Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Installed and configured VMware ESX/ESXi 4.1/5.0 Hosts.
• Upgraded vCenter Servers /ESXi hosts from vSphere 4.0, 4.1 to 5.0
• Upgraded VMs hardware components according to the vSphere requirement.
• Upgrading VM tools, VM versions and Data store upgrade to VMFS 5.
• Deployed VM appliances from OVF templates.
• Performed storage and virtual machine migration using hot and cold migration.
• SAN space allocation for ESX hosts.
• Scanning and configuring LUN for ESX server.
• Troubleshooting issues related to ESX host, vCenter, HA, DRS and VMware update manager.
• Disk Space increase using VMware converter and importing of virtual server using VMware converter.
• Performed LUN management, MetaLUN’s, RAID groups, storage groups.
• Planned and implemented High availability &Disaster Recovery on Datacenters using Site Recovery Manager (SRM).
• Performed health check for the existing environment.
• Worked with VMware update manager to install patches and updates on ESXi hosts and virtual machines.
• Installing, Configuring and Managing HP (C7000) platform for VMware Deployments.
• Involved planning and implementation of migration process Pre-migration, Migration, Post-Migration and validation check list.
• Worked closely with Storage and Networking teams to ensure allocated SAN, Fiber and networking infrastructure reflects specifications laid out in the initial VMware farm design to ensure successful deployment.
• Assigned LUNs to the Hosts (Windows and Linux).
• Tested different recovery plans in SRM to ensure recovery of failover VM’s.
• Installing, configuring and maintaining Win2K3, Win2K8 servers.
• User Account administration, File and Printer permissions on windows OS. Patch administration and deployment using WSUS.
• Expert knowledge on Windows Server 2008 R2.
• Providing L3 support to Windows Server issues in Datacenter Supporting Servers Including VM host.
• Installation of SMS Server 2003 and Deployment of Office 2007 through SMS Server 2003.
• Troubleshooting Active Directory issues, resolving file and system replication conflicts, adding servers into the environment, utilizes support tools to solve various issues.
• Ability to use tools and packages required to maintain system application and maintenance, such as Remedy, FTP
• Ability to work independently in a technical environment.
• Troubleshooting all backup failures on daily bases to ensure successful backups.
• Performed critical restores as required by the business.
• Configured VM backups using Networker.
• Prepared Technical Documentation
• Escalation Management - PIR preparation, handling Escalation Calls.
• Root Cause Analysis.

Environment: VMware vSphere 4.1/5.0, SRM 5.0 Array replication, EMC Networker, HPVC, Recover Point, Microsoft Hyper-V, HP (C7000), VNX 5700.

Confidential

System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Assisting in planning and implementation of virtual environment.
• Created Virtual Machines and Installed VMware Tools.
• Provided physical to virtual migrations for servers utilizing VMware Converter.
• Deployed Through Templates.
• Cloned Virtual Machines.
• Managed and Troubleshoot Virtual Network issues.
• Worked on VMware clustering like HA and DRS clusters using VC.
• Worked on Cold migration and vMotion
• Worked on resource management framework like creation resource pools, adding the VMs into Resource pools.
• Customized 2003/2008 servers in terms of Registry, Audit/Account/Security policy, patching.
• Maintaining, implementing and optimizing operating systems/software utilizing VMware virtualization technologies for vSphere 4.0/4.1 including configuration of VMware HA and DRS.
• Assist staff with the installation, configuration and ongoing usability of desktop computers, peripheral equipment and software within established standards and guidelines.
• Responsible for taking Backup of multiple projects like daily, weekly, monthly backups and restoration as on required.
• Scheduling backups and restoring backups as on required.
• Installed and configured SQL Server Reporting Services.
• Installed necessary Service Packs for SQL server 2005.
• Installed SQL server2008and2012on a test environment to be the future production environment.
• Taking the daily reports of backup.
• Cloning and storing of Monthly data for longer durations.
• Work with vendor support contacts to resolve technical problems with desktop computing equipment and software.
• Assist in maintaining LAN records.
• Trouble shooting the networking related problems

Environment: VMware vSphere 4.0, EMC Networker, Dell Power Edge, P2V Conversion, vCenter up gradation and EMC Networker.