SUMMARY

• IT professional with a strong background in VMware Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Storage and Microsoft technologies - VMware vSphere implementation and support for commercial clients utilizing best practices for availability, reliability and performance of compute, network, and storage resources to achieve dense virtualization ratios while maintaining SLAs.
• Configuration of VMware suites of vSphere 6.x, 5.x and 4.x environments with Installation, configuration, management of VMware ESX/ESXi Hypervisor, vCenter Server, virtual machines and templates, vApps, VMware HA (High Availability) and DRS (Distributed Resource Scheduling) clustering, vMotion and storage vMotion (VMware Migrations), standard and distributed switches (DV switches) and so on.
• Experience with Microsoft Windows 2000/2003/2008/2012/2016 and served in the roles of Servers Administrator, Hyper-V Administrator, Cluster configuration.
• Expertise working with VMware vSphere, ESXi 5.x, 4.x, vCenter server 4.x,5.x and VMware vCenter Converter
• Extensive technical experience in engineering enterprise server systems, especially the Wintel server platform in a server farm / data center environment.
• VMware Process automation using vSphere power CLI and Windows PowerShell.
• Management of private cloud with Infrastructure as a service (IaaS) using cloud computing tools - VMware vCloud Director, VMware vRealize Automation, DELL VIS self-service creator, Platform ISF.
• Worked with test and maintain disaster recovery plans (DR) for critical VMs and application data using VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM).Experience with VMware NSX, ESX, ESXi.
• Experience in ESX Architecture, guest O/S installation, setting up of VM power ON priorities, Cloning, Creating Templates and Snapshots. Experience in VEEAM backup and replication tool for performing VM migrations and replication activities
• Experience in Physical to Virtual (P2V) and Virtual to Virtual conversions by using VMware Converter, Platespin Power convert.
• Extensive experience in working with vMotion and Storage vMotion features in vSphere
• Strong Experience in vNetwork concepts: vSwitch and dvSwitch
• Experience with Cisco UCS blades and HP C7000 chassis and its components.
• Managed virtualized Wintel environment, including Linux, Citrix and Vmware.
• Proficient at designing enterprise-wide and disaster recovery solutions that substantially improve operating stability, efficiency and profitability.
• Strong experience with the VMware HA (High Availability), Fault Tolerance, Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) and VMware Distributed Power Management
• Worked with VMwarevSphere Update manager on the vcenter server as well as on an individual server component for a linked mode vcenter configuration.
• Worked with multiple vcenterservers and several data centers in an organization
• Hands on Experience with Hardware Installation, Upgrade and maintenance.
• Physical to Virtual (P2V) migrations of Windows and Linux servers using VMware standalone convertor and Platespin.
• Data Center migrations using tools like DELL EMC Recover Point, VMware vSphere Replication.
• Hardware management and firmware upgrades using Cisco UCS Manager, Cisco CIMC, HP iLO.
• Storage management using DELL EMC UniSphere.
• Administering and responsible for Microsoft File and Print servers cluster on windows 2008/2012 Managed printers’ queues, spoolers, files and folders permission, maintenance/failover of cluster.
• Managing and Monitoring various Server Roles e.g. Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, File Server etc.
• Troubleshoot Network and System problems to improve the performance.
• Handling SQL Clusters, monitoring DB and handling Service accounts.
• Excellent understanding of IaaS, PaaS, SaaS.
• Experience in Configuring, maintaining and troubleshooting of desktop computers, printers, laptops, servers, routers, DSL connections and networks
• Experience with enterprise backup systems and disaster recovery operations; familiarity with SAN technologies; implementation with shared storage fiber channel, ISCSI, NFS / VMFS strategies for performance and optimization
• Understanding of concepts of Containers.
• Performance tuning and capacity planning using various monitoring tools - Dell Foglight, vRealize Operations manager (vROPs), VMware Log insight, Splunk, Turbonomics, Runecast analyzer.
• Windows administration - Active Directory, GPOs, DNS, DHCP, File & Print Server, IIS (Web Server), FTP, Terminal Server, WSUS, Microsoft Clustering.
• Excellent coordination with the Technical Support Teams and vendors to perform implementations and to resolve the issues.
• Excellent understanding of maintaining process documentation, Wiki Documentation.
• Excellent communication skills and a team player.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Core VMware Skills: ESXi 6.5/6.0/5.5/5.1/5.0 , ESX/ESXi 4.1/4.0, vCenter Server 6.5/6.0/5.5/5.1/5.0 /4.1/4.0, HA/DRS clustering, vMotion/storage vMotion, Site Recovery Manager SRM 6.0/5.8/5.5/5.0 , Physical to Virtual/Virtual to virtual migrations (P2V/V2V), VMware NSX, Host Profiles, Standard and distributed switch (DV Switch), Update Manager, Web client, vSphere Client, ThinApp, vSphere PowerCLI, vSphere Management Assistant (vMA), vCenter Orchestrator/vRealize Orchestrator (vCO), Standalone convertor, VMware workstation.

Cloud Computing: VMware vCloud Director, vRealize Automation (VRA), DELL VIS Self -service Creator, Platform ISF, IaaS, PaaS, SaaS.

Infrastructure Monitoring Tools: vRealize Operations manager (vOPS), Dell Foglight, Turbonomics/VMTurbo, vRealize Log insight, VMware syslog/dump collector, Runecast Analyzer, RVTools, Microsoft SCOM, What’s Up Gold, Splunk, Prognosis.

Hardware and Virtualization Management: Cisco UCS Manager, Cisco CIMC, Nutanix Prism, Citrix Xen desktops, Microsoft Hyper-V, DELL EMC Power path VE, DELL EMC UniSphere. Cisco UCS blades - B200/B230 series, Cisco Standalone servers C220/C260; DELL EMC storage - VNX, VMAX, Clarion, NS-120, NS480; HP storage - 3PAR; DELL Power Edge R910; HP ProLiant 580 G5/G7, Hitachi storage.

Application and Database Servers: Windows server, 2008, 2003, NT; RHEL8/RHEL7, SQL Server 2012 and 2008, Oracle 10.0

Working Knowledge: TCP/IP, Oracle, SQL, Enscribe, HP nonstop kernel, Sun Solaris,COBOL 85, C, C++, MS Access, Wire shark.

Service Management Tool: HP Service Manager, Altiris, JIRA.

Monitoring Tool: Nagios, Level Platform, Netcool

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Philadelphia, PA

System Engg/Admin(Windows/VMware)

Responsibilities:

• Configured and managed multiple VMware environments with 6.x and 5.x.
• Build Windows 2k8, 2k8R2 and 2k12, 2k12R2 os and deployment 2k8, 2k8R2 and 2k12, 2k12R2 servers.
• Performed VMware administration related tasks including but not limited to installation, configuration and management of vCenter server and its components, ESXi hosts, virtual machines, VM templates, standard and distributed switch management, environment clean up, data store decommissioning and space reclaim.
• Identified and performed automation of VMware administrative tasks using PowerShell and vSphere PowerCLI.
• Automated ESXi host deployments using scripted install (http protocol) for ESXi deployment
• Performed ESXi install and configuration using manual as well as scripted installs. Configuration of 200+ ESXi hosts in the environment.
• Installed Windows Server 2012/2012R2, 2008 R2 in 24/7 Datacenter Production environment (WinTel) Initiated and maintained VMWare VSphere 5.0 and utilized VCenter Server 5.5, 6.0, 6.5 to manage virtual servers
• Worked with all components of Server utilities and providing Level 2 and Level 3 support.
• Performed troubleshooting of issues and performance tuning of the environment.
• Commonly dealt with slow guest OS performances, stale snapshots with backups, ESXi host hardware issues, ESXi host failures, virtual machine failures, restoring servers from backup.
• Worked with product vendors whenever needed.
• Performed multiple version upgrades of different VMware environments.
• Extensive experience with Site Recovery manager (SRM) product. SRM configuration with DELL EMC and HP array managers.
• Created SRM Protection Groups and Recovery Plans. Performed numerous Disaster Recovery tests in preparation of DR scenario.
• Worked on VMWare SRM array manager migration from EMC to HP SRA.
• Experience with VMware NSX. Installation, configuration and management of NSX components like NSX manager, NSX Controllers, Distributed Logical routers, Edge gateway, distributed firewall.
• Experience with installation, configuration and management of vRealize Automation components, working with blue prints, reservations.
• Experience in migrating on premise to Windows Azure using Azure Site Recovery and Azure backups.
• Performed V2V and P2V Migrations of Physical Hosts to ESX/ESXi Hosts using VMware vCenter Converter Standalone Client and PlateSpin.
• Worked with Active Directory installation and deployment of enterprise-wide Group Policies using Active Directory components.
• Domain Controllers, IIS Web Servers (HTTP/S, FTP and SMTPNAS, File and print Servers, RADIUS and Terminal Servers on Windows 2008/2012.
• Installed and configured VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM) on multiple sites and created disaster recovery plans
• Day-to-day Remote Administration of Windows environment. This includes server monitoring, maintenance, patching, administration, documentation, inventorying, quality, auditing etc.
• Used to Handle Tickets from Service Now Application Tool used to work on Incident P1/P2/P3 & Change Requests and used to work on Problem tickets towards RCA finding and CA implementation.
• Worked with the TSM, IBM Tivoli Storage Manager, for taking backup of the servers.
• VMware vCloud Director 5.5 setup configuration with Provider/Organization vDC’s, catalogs, vApps.
• Experience with installation and configuration of VMware update manager, managing its baselines and Baseline Groups.
• Upgraded multiple ESXi hosts and virtual machine using VMware update manager to achieve 100% compliant level with the baselines.
• Installation and configuration of VMware vRealize Orchestrator.
• Consolidation of multiple datacenters in two co-location data centers using DELL EMC Recover point and P2V migrations. Migrated several servers during the process.
• Successfully performed P2V migrations using VMware standalone convertor.
• Experience with VMware vSphere Replication for replication management of VMs for Disaster Recovery scenario.
• Written thepuppetmanifest tobuildthe configuration on the agent nodes.
• Actively participated in DELL EMC VMAX to HPE 3PAR storage migration including ESXi host boot LUN migration and VM migrations using storage vMotion.
• Implementation ofVMwarecloud solution using tools like Identity Manager,VRAand VRO
• Configuring Compute, Storage & Networking all the three pillars of Converged infrastructure
• Installation, Configuration, and Administration of IIS web servers.
• Provided Norton Antivirus support for virus security.
• Administration of print servers and troubleshooting print jobs. Take Backups on daily and weekly basis
• Looked after all OS related issues including Server health checkup, Server health optimization and performance tuning.
• Publish application defined by customer in the application server farm.
• Troubleshoot any issues related to VMware Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS), Resource pools, VMware High Availability, Enhanced vMotion (EVC), ESX Host Profiles, vNetwork Distributed Switch (vDS), and VMware Fault Tolerance (FT).
• Monitoring and managing performance of ESXi servers and Virtual Machines using Virtual center server for HA, DRS.
• Configured Management and Resource Cluster, Add Host to a Cluster, Configure its licenses, Network Configuration, DNS and NTP.
• Upgrading the ESXi 5.x to 6.x using VMware Update manager (VUM).
• Performed Hardware and Software maintenance of Windows server Environment, including VMware ESX/ESXi Hosts, Clusters, Servers and Virtual machines.
• Security hardening and monitoring of VM’s & ESX servers for Security Compliance.
• Migrating physical servers to virtual server using VMware Converter (P2V and V2V). vMotion, Performing Snapshots, Cloning, Cold Migrations and Hot Migrations
• Creating templates from VM’s and deploy VM’s from templates and allocate resources
• Configuring/Mounting data store to ESX server using iSCSI or LUN and moving VM’s from one LUN to another LUN using Storage vMotion.
• Assessing the need and feasibility of planned improvements and upgrades to an VMware vSphere environment including the implementation of Virtual SAN, Site Recovery Manager and vRealize Operations Suite.
• Scheduled tasks for manual vMotion and Storage vMotion of VM’s and managed snapshots prior to planned patch install or upgrade.
• Analyzing the VM-support logs for ESX servers and Virtual Center logs to diagnose the root cause for the problem and troubleshooting them.
• Generate Performance reports of ESX servers and VMs Daily/Weekly/Monthly performance report generation.
• Installed, configured and providing technical support for Windows 2008, 2008 R2, 2012 and 2012 R2 servers.
• Configured Source Control for Azure Automation Account, Created PowerShell Runbooks which was checked in for source control, version history, management, and security.
• Configured Azure Multi-Factor Authentication as a part of Azure AD Premium to securely authenticate users.
• Assist clients with Office 365 DNS records settings and also Setting up Office 365 accounts and Troubleshooting related issues.
• Implementation and configuration of vcenter Operations manager(Vcops). Conservatively applied the plan recommendations to VMware environment.
• Performance tuning using other monitoring tools like VMware Log Insight, vRealize Operations Manager, Runecast.
• Configuration of VEEAM and VCOPS for backup and monitoring the entire ESXi environment.
• Configure and deploy new Microsoft windows using WSUS,SCCMand HP Opsware for patch management throughout the data center on the servers running windows operating system.
• Troubleshoot theSCCMclient and provided 3rd level support for issues related toSCCMclient functionality including Windows, WMI andSCCMclient issues.
• Managing DHCP server, DNS server & IIS server globally. Troubleshooting AD, DNS & WINS replications globally.
• Experience in implementation and administration Software Define Network technologies such as VMware NSX, VMware vCloud Networking and Security.
• Installing RedHat Linux using kickstart and applying security polices for hardening the server based on the company policies.
• Patched Servers with Shavlik Ivanti for Windows patching.
• Resolved server issues remotely using Integrated Lights Out (ILO).
• Experienced in working on critical issues for Windows server based services, applications.
• Experience with DELL EMC VNX storage management using UniSphere management tool.
• Cisco blades’ configuration and management using Cisco UCS manager and Cisco standalone servers using CIMC.
• Performed various firmware upgrades on Cisco blades and Cisco standalone servers.
• Coordinated with product vendors to troubleshoot and resolve the issues.
• Worked on process documentation using wiki.
• Coached and knowledge transfer about VMware infrastructure and administration other team members.
• Exceptional communication skills, business insights to comprehend and convey technical issues.
• Proven ability to collaborate, lead and work incessantly towards organizations growth.

Confidential, Fort Lauderdale, Florida

System Admin (VMware, Windows/Wintel)

Responsibilities:

• Installed, configured and providing technical support for Windows 2003, 2008, 2008 R2, 2012 and 2012 R2 servers on daily basis.
• Administration and support of Windows 2008, 2012 servers to include Active Directory, Group Policy, MS IIS, WSUS, Direct Access, LAN/WAN, DNS, DHCP, VPN, MDM, NAV, Hyper-V, Office 365 and Exchange 2010.
• Installation and configuration of VMware VSphere 5.0, ESX 5.5/6.0 on a HP ProLiant BL C 7000 Server (C-class), VMware Infrastructure Client, VMware Virtual Centre, License Server and VCB Setup.
• Migrated Windows 2003 OS on VM to Windows 2008 and 2012 for the legacy servers in the environment.
• Goodknowledgein Daily Operations involving large setups ofWintel/SAN/NAS/Virtualization/Consolidation/HA/DR and Cloud solutions, Network Data, Network voice and Security.
• Work with cross-functional teams and guide Wintel, UNIX, Storage, Backup, Desktop support, network, Security and other Technical teams.Teaming NIC's using HP Teaming software for redundancy during failures.
• Update patches on Servers Working Experience with Active Directory Components (AD Users and
• Computers, DNS, DHCP and WINS etc. Install the Operating System and to run scripts to update patches on Servers.
• Participate on scheduled weekend Release activity / patching activity. Resolved Problems related to Disk Space Usage.
• Resolved problems related to performance metrics such as Processor Usage, Memory etc.
• Strong knowledge in designing solutions in Wintel, Active Directory, Messaging and VMWare technologies.
• Experience working withPuppetEnterprise andPuppetOpen Source. Managed Amazon Web Services like EC2, S3 bucket, RDS,
• Installed OS, patches and security policies through SMS/SCCM2012 Admin Tools.
• Taken escalations related to Windows Server, Active Directory and Exchange issues.
• Worked with implementing and efficient management of Active directory infrastructure setup with DNS services on Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2008 R2 platform.Responsible for domain and workgroup management, user & computer accounts.
• Responsible for efficient group policy management.
• Strong knowledge in Desktop mass deployment management systems.
• Good Understanding of SCCM, SCOM, Backup, Storage, Network, and Security solutions
• Ensure monitoring of critical applications and devices hosted inside the datacenter
• Ensure component level redundancy for all critical services hosted inside the data center.
• Monthly Technical report of various towers like number of network/security Devices, Servers, mailboxes, and their current utilization.
• Manage and Configure PKI infrastructure, VPN and RRAS, TMG servers, IIS web servers, FTP serversSCCMServers and WSUS Servers.
• Deploy security patches, updates as part of the patching cycle using WSUS andSCCM.
• Knowledge of power shell scripting.
• Troubleshoot any issues related to VMware Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS), Resource pools, VMware High Availability, Enhanced vMotion (EVC), ESX Host Profiles, vNetwork Distributed Switch (vDS), and VMware Fault Tolerance (FT).
• Monitoring and managing performance of ESXi servers and Virtual Machines migration using Virtual Center server HA, DRS.
• Configured Management and Resource Cluster, Add Host to a Cluster, Configure its licenses, Network Configuration, DNS and NTP.
• Deploying the New VM from the Template and Cloning an existing VM as per the client request through workflow management process.
• Scheduled tasks for manual vMotion and Storage vMotion of VM’s and managed snapshots prior to planned patch install or upgrade.
• Security hardening and monitoring of VM’s & ESX servers for Security Compliance. vMotion, Performing Snapshots, Cloning, Cold Migrations and Hot Migrations
• Configuring/Mounting data store to ESX server using iSCSI or LUN and moving VM’s from one LUN to another LUN using Storage vMotion
• Performed Hardware and Software maintenance of Windows server Environment, including VMware ESX/ESXi Hosts, Clusters, Servers and Virtual machines. Building servers and creating templates/images for deploying virtual machines.
• Built the Base Images in VMWare time to time and testing the solutions using clone the machine.
• Migrating physical servers to virtual server using VMware Converter (P2V)
• Keep Virtual hardware and VMware tools updated to keep a healthy environment
• Created and documented process for deploying Virtual machines on VMware.
• Used Remedy Tool for ticketing (Change Management, Incident Management, and Request Management).
• Using Solar Wind Monitoring for the Production Environment.
• Scheduling Change by preparing the Change Plan Document and following Approval process to perform any H/W or S/W changes or upgradation.
• Patching Deployment Windows Servers using SCCM and Shavlik
• Monitoring daily backup status, restoration of missing files/directories and other backup related activities with backup team.
• Troubleshooting equipment malfunctions, failures, and develop resolutions in a timely fashion.
• Setup and configured RAID 1 and RAID 5, troubleshoot and replace the failed drive for rebuild.
• Hardware monitoring of Dell and HP systems through tools like HP system management and iDRAC.
• Built the Base Images in VMWare time to time and testing the solutions using clone the machine.
• Configured the additional NICs using NIC teaming software on few production servers for load balancing to avoid the network / app outage.
• Manage task, events and configuring alarms for CPU, Memory, Disk, Network Utilization and troubleshooting virtual machine / windows server issues.
• Root Cause, System Log Analysis reporting and troubleshooting problems with the help of Event Logs
• Hardware monitoring of Dell and HP systems through tools like HP system management and iDRAC
• Troubleshooting BSOD and PSOD issues, server and network driver related issues using remote connectivity tools.
• Written multiple cookbooks inchef, implemented environments, roles, data bags incheffor better environment management.
• Configured Express Route connections between on-premise data centers and Azure cloud.
• Deployed applications on multiple web servers, maintained Load balancing, high availability by using Azure platform.
• Build & automate infrastructure deployments inAzurecloud using PowerShell
• Manage escalations and track it to closure through a technology SME.
• Extensive knowledge of high availability and DR Replication Solutions.
• Experience in DC Infrastructure Migration and Transformation.
• Work as a point of contact for all Wintel services hosted in the datacenter for Operational issues, Projects, Mergers and Acquisitions.
• Validation of Wintel, VM and messaging infrastructure of acquired organization and perform a hassle-free integration with the parent organization.
• Perform critical changes, performance tuning on all Windows Servers.
• Try to always maintain the infrastructure with all recommended configurations set by the vendors like Microsoft, HP, and VMware etc.
• Write scripts to Automate things for repetitive tasks Developed scripts and solutions to increase automation and efficiency
• Good knowledge in Troubleshooting & Administration of issues in the area of Exchange Server, File and Print,DNS,DHCP etc.
• Created scripts to automate the process of manor activities like executing of mailbox migrations from .
• Managing Symantec cloud for ant spam and email routing for the internet emails.
• Responsible for executing and deploying new patches, hotfix service pack to keep the messaging infrastructure healthy and error free.
• Knowledge of EMC Avamar integration for Exchange backup and successfully tested the exchange backup and restoration.
• Responsible for RISK and Impact analysis for the new deployment of services and change executed for the messaging services.
• Responsible in performing Root cause analysis for all the critical incidents triggered in messaging/wintel infrastructure.
• Managing VMware environment.
• Wrote PowerShell scripts to Automate things for repetitive tasks Developed scripts and solutions to increase automation and efficiency.
• Good knowledge on email filtering and gateway solutions like Symantec cloud, barracuda, iron port etc.
• In depth Knowledge of x86 Server architectures including rack and blade servers (IBM, HP, Cisco UCS, Dell.
• Migrated services like Exchange, MDM, DNS, Active directory DHCP, DNS, File and Print, VMWARE etc. from legacy to the new versions.
• Installing, configuring & Managing Active Directory in Windows 2003, 2008
• Active Directory Group policy management. Support and maintain VMware vSphere Server Virtualization Environment
• Performed Data store migration using VMware storage vMotion on NetApp's NFS, dell ISCSI SAN Storage.
• Root Cause & System Log Analysis and reporting, organize tasks, events and Configuring alarms
• Worked on iSCSI SAN, NAS, NFS storage and RAID (0, 1, 3, 10, 01, and 5) concepts.
• Install, configure VMware ESX, ESXi, vSphere 5.5 and vSphere 6.0 environments with Virtual Center management DRS, HA, vMotion, VMware Data Recovery, VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM), vCenter Operations Manager, VRealize Operation manager.
• Build, configure and deploy VMs and templates. Completed Physical-to-Virtual (P2V), migration of Windows 2003, 2008, and 2012 as well as Linux servers from VMware.
• Good experience in Capacity assessment, server consolidation, and physical to virtual migration (P2V).
• Good Knowledge in cloud computing (Public, Private, and Hybrid), cloud services (IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS) and public cloud providers (Windows Azure, vCloud Air, AWS).
• Planned and executed the Migration of multiple File, Print, DNS, DHCP and application servers from legacy version like Windows2000, 2003 to the latest operating systems like windows 2008R2.
• Planned and executed Firmware upgrade of HP Blade enclosure and blades systems.
• Knowledge of office 365 and Azure cloud like tenant creation, DirSync, hybrid messaging etc.
• Windows 2012/2008/2003 Server Installation, Administration, configuration and trouble-shooting.
• Experienced on DR plans and Disaster Recovery including documentation

Confidential, Issaquah, Washington

Windows, VMware System Admin

Responsibilities:

• Maintained and troubleshooted windows server’s windows 2003, 2008R2 and 2012 versions Creating disk spaces for windows servers.
• Worked with systems management using SPLUNK, OPENVIEW, SCOM and deployment packages/patches SMS, SCCM and WSUS for workstations/production servers.
• Analyzing system logs and identifying potential issues with Servers and performing routine audits of systems and software.
• Adding, removing, or updating user account information, resetting passwords, and responsible for Server security.
• Troubleshooting issues with windows server during the patch updates and hardware maintenance.
• Manage task, events and configuring alarms for CPU, Memory, Disk, Network Utilization and troubleshooting virtual machine issues.
• Worked on Incident Management, Knowledge, Capacity and Problem Management
• Managing the Major Incidents (MIM) using HP System Manager.
• Responsible for research, procurement, and installation of all domain infrastructure hardware/software/Data/Voice and services.
• Create, maintain and transfer all packages to organized distribution points, as well as deploy all enterprise level monthly and bi-weekly security packages throughSCCM.
• Worked on Central Management Server (vCenter Server) to manage all the ESXI hosts in the datacenter.
• Creating and managing Virtual Machines and Templates. Working with snapshots of Virtual Machines.
• ConfiguredVMwareon clustered environment, Implemented Migration of Virtual Machines using VMotion, Storage VMotion.
• Deployed new vSphere 5 infrastructure for VDI implementation.
• Performed VM Storage migrations to new EMC and Netapp storage arrays.
• Hot and Cold Cloning of Virtual Machines usingVMwareConverter.
• Racked and installed ESXi servers and added to vCenter clusters.
• Responsible for building and deploying servers running Windows 2008 R2, and Linux (CentOS, Ubuntu, and Red Hat).
• ConfiguredVMwareHA,VMwareDRS and Fault Tolerance in acquiring higher efficiency forVMware Virtual Infrastructure.
• Worked onVMwareUpdate Manager for updating or patching for all the ESX hosts and Virtual machines.
• Performed datastore migration usingVMwarestorage vMotion.
• Experience on Host Profiles, Distributed Switch, DRS, VMotion, SV-Motion, Resource pools, permissions, Patches, Snapshots, Tools Upgrade, disk expansions, Templates.
• Creating Gold Templates and cloning.
• Experience in installing and configuring Microsoft Windows 2008 Servers from ILO management tool on Rackservers and Cisco blades.
• Responsible for day-to-day administration and monitoring of Windows 2008, Windows 2003, Terminal servers
• Work with storage team to create LUNs/NFS and Map it to VMware vSphere ESX (i) hosts.
• Experience in configuring VMware virtual machine port groups, console ports groups, VMKernal port groups and VLANs.
• Experience in installing and configuring VMware Virtual Center servers and VMware vCenter Appliance.
• Experience in Active Directory, Group Policy, DNS, DHCP.
• Configuration of Pre-failure mechanisms alerts for all the servers.
• Define acceptable performance threshold for CPU/HDD/RAM utilization for assigned servers and monitor them regularly.
• Installing and configuring quota management in windows 2008.
• Provided infrastructure and design guidance for setting up and maintainingSCCM, LANDesk environments.
• Responsible an affective disaster recovery and business continuity in a Storage-Area-Network (SANs HP LeftHand iSCI physical or virtual appliances and Hitachi storage fiber Channel) and performance monitoring using SPLUNK and Dell Foglight.
• Manage the implementation, configuration, deployment and ongoing support of the VMware vSphere server infrastructure consisted of ESXi 4.x and 5.x.
• Planning and Implementation of upgrade plan of existing infrastructure from ESX/ESXi 4.x to ESXi 5.1.
• High understanding on resource management framework like creation resource pools, adding the Virtual Machines into resource pools, P2V and V2V conversions by using VMware Converter.
• Sound knowledge on Hyper-V, ESX and ESXI Architecture, guest OS installation, setting up of VM priorities, Cloning and Snapshots.
• Expertise in Horizon View Enterprise - View Manager, ThinApp, App Volumes, User Environment Manager (AppSense).
• VDI integration troubleshooting (Active Directory, DNS, DFSR and Group Policy Management).
• Administration, Monitoring and analyzing Virtual infrastructure using VCOPs.
• Responsible for Terminal server builds and Citrix XenApp server deployments in both Physical and virtual environments.
• Provided 24/7 Production support for Citrix environment.
• Responsible for performing systems capacity planning to monitor trends to ensure that the systems can handle near and long-term growth, kept current systems and policies document.
• Administered and maintained all license agreements, warranties and contracts for the hardware, software, services in the company and vendor relationships.
• Excellent customer handling skills.
• Follow Incident/Change and problem management in day to day operations.

Confidential, Plano, Texas

System Admin

Responsibilities:

• Created and migrated new templates to make them available for provisioning to all vCenter environments.
• Setup and maintain user accounts in FTP servers.
• Installation, configuration, and maintenance of McAfee Virus Scan Enterprise.
• Installation and administration of ESXi Servers.
• Performed ESX Hosts and Virtual Machine migrations between Development, Integration, and Production environments and across Datacenters.
• Configured ESX host clustering, VMotion, HA & DRS for high availability.
• Trouble shooting issues related to ESX host, VC, VCB, HA, DRS, Vpxa, VMware tools VMware update manager.
• Assisted in managing Windows AD 2000/Exchange 2000/Citrix/Websense server environment, all data related Data\voice issues and backups.
• Coordinating with the App owners for install all the missing Patches in Server.
• Firmware hardware drivers install Upgraded HP and IBM servers with the latest firmware.
• Maintained and supported physical servers, virtual servers.
• Building Windows 2003 and 2008 R2 Servers on Dell R610, R710, R810 hardware.
• Built Windows 2008 R2 domain controller and join to the existing domain.
• Administering domain trustsand changing the domain mode using Active Directory Domains and Trusts.
• Administering and Maintaining Active Directory group policies for the environment through Group policy editor.
• Supported the UAT i.e. User Access Test to evaluate and build new products and requests.
• Provisioned the Windows as well as Linux servers using the cloud computing tool according to the requirements.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, and the ability to quickly adapt to the modern technology and environment
• Installed and configured IIS 5.0/6.0 web server on Microsoft Windows 2000/2003 server accordingly.
• Deployment of windows updates using Windows Server Update Services (WSUS).
• Maintained scripts to ensure a secure IIS administration.
• Assist in the management of SAN and NAS storage utilization and availability.
• Involved in operational support of Active Directory, WINS, DNS, and AD enabled applications.
• Building MS Cluster Environment for HA Applications, File Servers, Database Servers.
• Working on Change Management and Request Management Tickets Service Center Tool.
• Installation of new printers both locally and to the network.Managing the Print Server, File Server, Profile Servers.
• Creating templates as per various business requirements.Managing and troubleshooting AD users’ login problems.
• Analysis current infrastructure and propose hardware upgrade to client.
• Experience on working On Call 24x7.Activation, Installation, Troubleshooting of Clients.
• Managing Fiber Link. Installation, maintenance and repair of computers and related equipment’s.
• Good oral, written communication and presentation skills.