SUMMARY

• Around 8+ years experience with Installation, Configuring, Deploying, Trouble shooting, administration and maintenance of ESX3.5/ESXi4.0/ESXi4.1 and VMware VirtualCenter.
• 5+ Years of Experience in Windows 2000/2003/2008 R2 Server & Active directory administration.
• 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), Fault Tolerance, Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) and VMware Distributed Power Management.
• Created, managed, and maintained Virtual server infrastructure; utilizedVmware to build networking & server lab environment that streamlined server OS and application deployments, Increased system uptime and improved reliability.
• 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.
• Develop, test, and maintain a disaster recovery plan for critical VMs and application data.
• Planning and Designing VMware vSphere (ESX3.5/ESXi4.0/ESXi4.1 and VMware VirtualCenter).
• Installation, Configuration and Administration of VMware VSphere4, ESX 3.5 and ESXi Server, VMware View.
• Designing, configuring, and administering LAN and WAN connectivity on Cisco hardware
• Configured and managed Cisco network hardware servicing the corporate LAN and 40+ remote point-of-sale offices.
• Configured and deployed over 30 Cisco UCS computing clusters with VMware ESXi 5 and vCenter 5
• Configured and deployed Cisco 1000v virtual switch module appliance within vCenter vSphere 5 infrastructure
• 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.
• System Administration-Managing Users, Groups, Roles and Access Permissions.
• Setting up and monitoring performance monitoring and capacity planning, Managing Tasks, Events and Alarms.
• 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.
• Management & Troubleshooting of VM Environment for Desktops
• Experienced in setting up clustered environment for Load balancing and high availability of Web and Application servers.
• Installed and configured Multiple Websites and various web applications configuring IIS Environment.
• Experienced in using filemon, processmon, perfmon and debugging tools to troubleshoot runtime and performance issues with the platform and application.
• Experienced with using network tools like tracert, port query, telnet, Perfmon, Netmon to identify and troubleshoot network issues in a distributed application environment.
• Experience in virtualizing the platform/environment using Hyper-v virtualization on windows server 2008 host servers.
• Creation, Management and Configuration of Virtual Machines, Clone and Templates.
• Customizing guest operating system on Virtual Machines.
• Experienced in installation, configuration and managing active directory on win2k3 and win2k8 domain environment.
• 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.
• Experienced in all phases of the software development lifecycle from feasibility study, requirements analysis, architecture, design, development, implementation, test, maintenance and enhancements.
• 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.
• Adapts to new systems and environments quickly, takes ownership of all duties, meeting management skills, Good work ethics, Group and individual based problem solving and decision making abilities.

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, V-Cloud automation center (VCAC),View 4.6/5.0, Microsoft Hyper-V, VMware Update Manager, Platespin migrator, Quest Vconvertor.,HA,DMotion

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, NYC, New York

VMware Windows Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Experience with installing, configuring and maintaining ESX Servers (ESX3.5/ESXi4.0/ESXi4.1 and VMware ESX 5.1) and Server migrations from physical to Virtual using Hot and cold cloning technology in vmware.
• 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.
• Installation, Configuration and Administration of VMware VSphere4, ESX 3.5 and ESXi Server, VMware View.
• Designing, configuring, and administering LAN and WAN connectivity on Cisco hardware
• Configured and managed Cisco network hardware servicing the corporate LAN and 40+ remote point-of-sale offices.
• Configured and deployed over 30 Cisco UCS computing clusters with VMware ESXi 5 and vCenter 5
• Configured and deployed Cisco 1000v virtual switch module appliance within vCenter vSphere 5 infrastructure
• Deployed EMC VNXe SAN for vSphere 5 high availability management cluster configuration for customers
• Providing and maintaining user access in vcentre, configuring mail alert for any failure in HA, DRS, CPU or memory.
• Design, configure, and support Enterprise Desktop Virtualization Technologies.
• Management & Troubleshooting of VM Environment for Desktops
• Installed necessary security patches every month to our production and pre-production environments.
• Patch management usding vmware update manager for esx server.
• SAN space allocation for esx servers host .Scanning and configuring LUN for ESX server.
• Configured multiple static and dynamic IP addresses for forward and dynamic routing.
• Provided support for teams in activities such as Load testing, troubleshooting, and performance tuning.
• Involving in maintaining and updating Active directory, GPOs, Global Groups and Resultant set of Policy for authentication.
• Working on windows cluster services. .
• Managing Public key and private key Infrastructure (VeriSign MPKI).
• Involved in trouble shooting and fixing day-to-day problems of the application servers in production.

Environment: VM ware ESX 5.1, UCS C240 M3, Windows 2008/2003, TCP/IP, DHCP, DNS, NTFS, Bluecat BCN - XMB Adonis (DHCP,DNS), JUNOS Space, Cisco Nexus 5K, CISCO switches, HP P4000, Emulex NC553, NC551 HBA’s, JUNPER SRX 240, VMware Lab Manager, VMware converter, VMware VSphere client, Fault tolerance, High Availability and Distributed resource scheduling.

Confidential, Clifton, New Jersey

VMware Infrastructure Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Experience in installation, configuration, implementation, support and trouble shooting the maintenance of the VMware ESX 3.5 / Virtual Center 3.x servers.
• Creating, Installing, configuring and maintaining the Virtual Machines, installing Guest Operating Systems like Windows.
• Performed tons of V2V Migration., Created clones and templates of Virtual Machines
• Deploying VMs through OVF Templates, Created & Troubleshot Virtual Networks and vSwitches.
• Worked on Migration concepts like vMotion and cold migration and Remediate.
• Configured Net backup 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
• VMotion configuration & troubleshooting, includes Guest OS template creation and User Account Management.
• Installed and configured open source application like Apache, Tomcat.
• Installed SSL certificates in IIS web server for a secured communication to Application server.
• Good knowledge on SAN Integration with VMware ESX server.
• Good understanding on SAN concepts like topologies, switch zoning (soft & hard), LUN masking on SAN Storage devices, LUN creation and Storage Management.
• Configuring DRS, HA & Resource Pools in ESX 3.x
• Backup & Restore management of the Virtual Machines, Network Configuration on ESX servers which include Bonds & VLANs.
• Troubleshooted production issues for various IIS user authentication issues and browser issues
• Performance monitoring & tuning on ESX host’s in production environment.
• In corporate authorization, auditing and non-repudiation services across the enterprise
• Created users and user groups and security roles and policies
• Support on call schedule for Production support.
• Resolved/Worked on many IIS runtime issues in Production environment

Environment: HP DL 580 G5\G7, DL380 G5\G6\G7\G8, SRM5,vCenter Converter, vCenter Update Manager, Cisco Switches, Windows 2008/2003/2000 , DNS, DHCP, WINS, TCP /IP, NTFS, Unix Sles and rhel.

Confidential, Philadelphia, PA

Vmware Windows Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Installing, configuring and maintaining the VMware ESX 2.5x / Virtual Center 2.x servers.
• 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 Plate Spin.
• 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.

Environment: Windows Server 2000/2003, Windows xp/vista, Active Directory 2003, SQL Server 2000/2003, HP Proliant Servers, HA/DRS.

Confidential

Vmware Windows Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Implemented domain and local policies, GPOs using WMI & ADSI Scripting, software deployment.
• Configured mandatory roaming profiles, and managed users at a domain level.
• Monitored network performance in order to determine whether adjustments needed to be made, and to determine where changes will need to be made in the future.
• Responsible for performing database backup and restore, replication and performance tuning.
• Responsible for configuring and maintaining Exchange Mail Server and Internet Information server, FTP & SFTP Server and VPN server on Windows 2000/2003 Platform.
• Configured, hosted and maintained required internal and external websites through IIS 5.0/6.0 Configured and Managed VMware server technology for managing windows based network environment.
• Setup and prepared server to deploy a standalone server farm SharePoint 2003 solution on Windows 2003 Server.
• Used SharePoint Designer for site customizations to add the Hit count to the page .Edited the master page to display sites for the sub-sites
• Configured high Availability Techniques like database Mirroring and different Replication models like Merge, Snapshot and Transactional on test environment.
• Servers consisted of clustered Exchange 2003, Windows Enterprise Server, File, Application, and Database.
• Maintained test environment, and interfaced with other user support organization to assist in rollout of new product releases.
• Was responsible for setting up the remote offices (cabling, desktops, servers, user administration, file & printers, etc.) and subsequent remote support and troubleshooting.
• Configured Symantec Antivirus corporate edition for secure the entire network.
• Installed, configured, administered Windows 2003 Servers, SMS 2003 primary server sites and clients to 800+ systems across North America.
• Expert level troubleshooting of complex networks: Windows core networking, DNS, DHCP, TCP, Use and application of appropriate troubleshooting tools such as Windows 2003 Resource Kit utilities, diagnostic tools, custom scripts, etc.
• Research and evaluate new technologies, products, and services, and recommend acquisitions and modifications as per client application needs.
• Maintained test environment, and interfaced with other user support organization to assist in rollout of new product releases.
• Worked with contractors and subcontractors that provided cooling, electrical, fire protection, telecommunications, and security, cleaning, and cabling services for each of these Datacentre.

Confidential

Windows System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Designed, installed, and managed Microsoft Cluster Servers (2000, & 2003).
• Supported multi-node Windows server network, domain architecture Web hosting and clustering architecture.
• Configured and install new PC’s, servers and network equipment in support of customer and internal projects.
• Configured network servers and trained local administrators on standard network server procedures, including virus protection and other security measures.
• Upgraded entire enterprise from Windows Server 2000 running in mixed mode to Windows Server 2003 Native mode that included a step by step reversion plan and without effecting production.
• Supported Microsoft SQL 2000 running IIS 5.0/6.0 in a production environment including backup, maintenance, performance, stability and security of sites.
• Assigned user accounts and granted permissions to shared resources. Assured senior management of data protection by demonstrating permission settings.
• Installed, configured, and updated server-based applications, including accounting system and records database.
• Established a backup and fault tolerance strategy to insure the reliability of data and decrease downtime for end-users.
• Deployed .Net and Java based Applications on IIS 6.0 and provide support of hosted internal & external websites.
• Planned, implemented and maintained all IT equipment, including firewall, Web/E-mail servers and router / modem pools for a start-up ISP.
• Developed IIS scripts to automate various tasks such as backup of Metabase, query properties and configuration of all sites on IIS infrastructure.
• Responsible for desktop administration, including software and hardware upgrades, encryption, and VPN connectivity.