Professional Summary:

• Over 7 years of experience in VMware 5.0 Installation, Administration, and Configuration.
• VM Servers build rebuild Deploying the New VM from the Template and Cloning an Existing VM as per the client request through change management process.
• Creating, managing VM Ware cluster. Enabling HA and DRS features in a cluster P2V migration.
• Creating templates from VM's and deploy VM's from templates and allocate resources and creating duplicate VM's using cloning technology.
• Having experience in Cisco UCS 2.0 L1 to L2 level - Installing New blade server in UCS chassis, Creating server profile, configuring the server profile, Installing VMware ESX on blade severs, mounting storage. Configuring alarms, Root Cause System Log Analysis and reporting and troubleshooting problems with the help of Event Logs.
• Build, configure and deploy VMs and templates. Completed Physical-to-Virtual P2V, Virtual-to-Virtual V2V migration of Windows 2003, 2008 servers from VMware.
• Installing and configuring the windows servers with specific requirements on the VMware.
• VMware activities like disk expansion, CPU and memory addition.
• Taking snapshots of virtual machines and deploying and exporting VMs from OVF.
• Virtual machines migration from one data store to another data store.
• Working as Windows 2008 server admin. Installing, configuring and troubleshooting on the Windows server R2, 2012 over 7 years.
• Responsible for third-level support for all server related issues. Implemented security policy and virus Protection.
• Participated in complete system builds, upgrades, migrations, code deployments and patch management.
• Responsible to maintain all windows servers operating systems like Windows 2003/2003 R2, 2008 and 2012 .
• Server hardware troubleshooting by using through RIB/ILO and HP SIM .
• Deployed VMware View Manager 4.6 and 5.3
• Performance optimization, regular health checks on servers and Systematic Troubleshooting of problems.
• Having good knowledge on CITRIX, HYPER-V
• Installing and Managing Active directory and FSMO Roles Transfer in Active Directory forest. Troubleshooting replication issues in active directory.
• Managing Microsoft failover clusters. Update server with Service packs, and Hot fixes.
• Implementing Fault Tolerance RAID levels in Windows and 2003/2008.
• Hands on experience of EMC CLARIION, VNX Storage arrays.
• Having good knowledge on Cisco MDS switches, Fiber channel HBAs in SAN environments.
• Knowledge experience in iSCSI, SAN, NAS, NFS storage and RAID concepts. Strong understanding of Networking Protocols like TCP/IP, UDP, SMTP, POP3, HTTP, DNS DHCP.
• Design and implementation of global monitoring solution using SCOM, HP SIM and Dell Open Manage.
• Experience in installing, maintaining and managing various rack mounted and Blade servers from Dell, HP, and IBM
• Extensive experience with Active Directory, GPO's, DHCP, DNS, IP, Sub Nets, VPNs, vLAN, Network routing, firewalls, LAN/WAN switching and Backup Recovery, File Print Server, IIS Web Server, FTP, Terminal Server
• Documentation knowledge with Microsoft Office Vision.

Technical Skills:

VMware

VSphere, VMware ESX and ESXi 3, 3.5, 4.0, ESXi 4.1 and 5.0, Virtual center server 2.5, 4.0, 4.1 and 5.0,Vmware View .4.0.4.5, 4.6 and 5.3,VMware converter enterprise, VMware Update Manager, VCloud Director, HA, DRS, VCB, SRM, DPM, Vmotion and SVmotion, VMware GSX server, SRM, Thinapp, Lab Manager, VMware Workstation, VMware capacity planner, VMware Player, Power CLI, vMA, vCLI.

Operating System

Linux, Unix, windows XP, vista, windows 7 Windows Server OS - 2000, NT, 2003, 2008.2008 R2

Hardware

HP Blade servers 685c G5/G7, HP Proliant servers DL 380 G5, DL385 G5, C7000, c3000, DELL Power Edge servers 2850, 2950, 6950, Dell Laptops and Desktops, and Other HP hardware, Cisco HP Switches, EMC SAN, VMAX, DMXEMC Clarian, NetApp SAN and Dell Equallogic

Backup Software's

Symantec Netbackup and Veeam Backup Replication

Applications

MS Office 2003, 2007 and MS Visio, SharePoint, project

Third party VMware Applications

Platespin power convert, VizioncoreVcharterPro,Vizioncore Replicator, RV tools, VizioncoreVRanger, VizioncoreVFoglight, Ecoshell, Platespin Power Recon Solarwinds, VERITAS Netbackup

Professional Experience:

Confidential

Sr. VMware Administrator

Roles Responsibilities:

• Installing, configuring, Troubleshooting and management of ESX 4, ESXi 5 and vCenter Server 5.
• 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.
• Managed 300 ESX servers located at various data centers by one virtual center. Each Data center has multiple clusters with biggest of 15 clusters used for HA and DRS for disaster recovery, Load balancing and troubleshooting.
• 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.
• Configuring different type of Port Groups Policies, Applying Security policies, Traffic Shaping, Load balancing, Failover detection, Hard and Soft zoning and VLAN Tagging.
• 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.
• Created and maintained SQL server cluster for HA, DRS, VC, ESX servers and VM's.
• 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.
• Responsible for supporting system design and implementations as well as provide first level of support for any issues.
• Supports integration between virtual platforms and desktop tools to deliver optimal environment for Customer support reps
• Planning migration strategies, DR plans with SAN and NAS data.

Environment: vSphere 4.0 and 5.0, Hyper-V, Windows 2008/2003 Server, Cisco UCS 5108, HP Blade C7000 and C3000, HP VCEM- Virtual Connect Enterprise Manager, VMware View Dell Power Edge Servers, Citrix and SQL.

Confidential

VMware Consultant

Roles Responsibilities:

• Directly responsible for deployment and support of VMware vSphereESXi4.1/ESX 4.0
• Performed upgradation of ESX 3.5 to vSphere 4.0, vCenter 2.5 to 4.0
• Experience in Deployment and Implementation of VDI View 4.5.
• Manage snapshots, clones, templates during patch releases and new server deployments
• Experience with installing, configuring and troubleshooting VMware Lab Manager
• Hands on experience in updating / upgrading ESX servers, Virtual Center servers and windows virtual machines using VMware Update manager and manual upgrades
• Installation and configuration of Microsoft Windows Vista, XP, 2000 server, Professional, Windows 2003 and 2008 Servers.
• Updated ESX host's using VMware Update manager
• Supported a large scale Data Center projects including server installation, hardware maintenance, and break/fix activities
• Assisted in P2V conversions of Windows servers using VMware vConverter.HP Blade Center administration on HP blade models C7000/C3000.
• Connecting to ESX server by using VIC, putty and Web access.Provide research into VMware Thinappinitiative for increasing server virtualization
• Involved in Assessment of current environment for desktop virtualization.
• Involved in definition of success criteria for use cases.
• Created use cases for desktop design and implementation.
• Design and implementation of ThinApp environment.
• Application virtualization using VMware ThinApp 4.5 version.
• ThinApp Packages Applications Upgrades and deployment testing and Production Implementation.
• Experience in writing and debugging multi-threaded applications and packaging.
• Assist staff with the installation, configuration, and ongoing usability of desktop computers, peripheral equipment and software within established standards and guidelines.
• Worked on resource management framework like creation resource pools, adding the VMs into Resource pools

Environment: vSphere 4.0 and 5.0, ESXI 5.0, Windows 2008/2003 Server, Cisco UCS 5108, VCE V block, UCS manager, VNX, EMC Unisphere, HP Blade C7000 and C3000, putty, Power shell and SQL.

Confidential

VMware Administrator

Roles Responsibilities:

• Designing and Documentation for Racks move from one cage to other big cage in datacenter.
• Worked on large datacenter consolidations and completed them successfully using multiple P2V conversion using Vcenter Converter.
• Job includes installation and configuration of VMware ESX 4.x, installation and configuration of VMware Virtual Center Server and creating Virtual Machines.
• Assist in P2V conversion of Windows 2000, Windows 2003, and Linux based server editions using enterprise VMware converter and also installed the VMware tools on that machines.
• Provided disaster recovery and backup services using the VMware consolidated Backup VCB .
• Job also includes creating templates and deploying Virtual Machines through templates, cloning Virtual Machines and managing Virtual Center permissions.
• Creating and Managing VMware cluster with HA and DRS. Creating and Managing resource pools for Virtual Machines. Monitoring and managing performance of ESX servers and Virtual Machines.
• Using Virtual center server for HA, DRS and VMotion. Working on Migration concepts likeVMotion and cold migration.
• Creation Troubleshooting of Virtual Network. Troubleshooting ESX Virtual Machines.
• Creation of templates from VMs and Creation of VMs from templates.
• Performance monitoring and tuning for ESX Servers, Virtual Center Server and VMs.
• Installation, configuration and management of Veeam Backup and Replication for virtual machine backup. Management of HP SIM for hardware monitoring.
• Installation, configuration and management of Windows Server 2003.
• Management for Active Directory and patch management.

Environment: Virtual Infrastructure 3, vSphere 4.0, Hyper-V, Windows 2008/2003 Server, HP EVA 8400, HP Blade C7000, HP Blade C3000, HP VC Flex 10

Confidential

VMware Administrator

Roles Responsibilities:

• Setup and maintain ESXi, and standalone servers
• ESXi version updates to 5.5 via VUM .ESXi resource planning
• ESXi guest shell creation based on client needs .Configure ESXi guest storage affinity as needed for SDRS compliance .Configured HA, vMotion in host clusters
• ESXi log creation for problem analysis .Work with VMware vendor support for incident resolution and RCA .Monitor Host or Guest statistics through vCenter Run ESXi P2V, V2V and server migrations
• Assisting in the upgrade and patching of 200ESXi servers in 2200 stores. Follow up with RCA on ESXi issues and Document department procedures, system analysis of ESXi hosts prior to upgrades
• Checking for storage synchronization through vCenter plugin, Run pre-written scripts for ESXi host automation, break/Fix ESXi or Windows issues during oncall rotation

Environment: HP Proliant BL C 7000, VMware VSphere 4.0, ESX 3.5, VM Converter, Virtual Center, Virtual Infrastructure Client, VMotion, VReplicator, clustering, SAN/NAS, VCB, Vcenter Capacity Planner, Disaster Recovery Backup, VMware HA DRS, Windows Server 2000/2003/2008, VeritasNetbackup, Seagate Backup.

Confidential

Systems Administrator

Roles Responsibilities:

• Configuration of Domain Naming Server DNS
• Configuration of Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol.
• Configuration and Managing Remote Installation Service RIS, FTP server
• User, group, OU creation, implementing group policies.
• Configuration of Printer, Modem, Scanner.
• Semantic antivirus console management, updating antivirus definitions through centralize Symantec antivirus server.
• Installation of Operating Systems Win98, Win XP, Win NT, Win 2000, Win 2003,Linux.
• Trouble shooting the networking related problems
• Installation of various software's.Active involvement in monitoring server performance, network traffic to reduce performance bottleneck.Managingcron jobs, batch processing and job scheduling.
• Maintaining network inventory, data backup and documentation for all hardware software
• Responsible for Installation, Configuration, Support and troubleshooting existing systems in Redhat Linux 3 and 4.
• Created users and groups and assigned privileges to them, as a part of Network Security.
• Used the logical volume manager LVM to create a volume group, which was then partitioned into logical volumes.

Environment:Windows 2000 Server, Windows 2003 Server, Windows NT Server, Windows XP/98