Professional Summary

• 15 years of experience in installation, administration, configuration, troubleshooting, and support, Windows 2003 Server family, Windows 2000 servers, Windows NT, XP Professional .
• Experienced Windows/Vmware, Active Directory Administrator
• Proficient in Windows 2000/2003/2008 server upgrade and active directory administration
• Extensive experience with the Active Directory tools
• Extensive experience in working with the Wintel servers
• Extensive experience in the area of Virtualization with VMware vSphere, ESXi 4.1, ESXi 5.0 servers, vCenter server 2.5, 4.0 and 5.0 and vCenter Converter
• Implemented VDI Virtual desktop infrastructure technology using VMware VIEW 4.5/4.6
• Extensive experience in working with the vMotion and Storage vMotion technology
• Strong Experience in vNetwork concepts: vSwitch and dvSwitch
• Strong experience with the VMware HA High Availability , Fault Tolerance, Distributed Resource Scheduler DRS and VMware Distributed Power Management
• Hands on experience in updating / upgrading ESXi servers, Virtual Center servers and windows virtual machines using VMware Update manager and manual upgrades for Patching
• Experience in Physical to Virtual P2V and Virtual to Virtual conversions by using VMware Converter, Platespin Power convert and vCenter Guided Consolidation
• Expertise in Thin provisioning, VMFS expansion, RAID technologies
• Expertise in Physical Server build, Virtual Server build and P2V
• Experience in Microsoft Cluster Administration and NLB Cluster
• Experience in Microsoft SQL Server management
• Knowledge on Storage Area Network SAN and attended training SAN
• Experienced in installing, maintaining and troubleshooting DELL, IBM, and HP Server hardware with Data Center
• Hands on experience with the HP blade c7000 enclosures and the ML, DL, BL series servers
• Installation, Configuration and Administration of VMware VSphere 4.0, 5.0 ESXi Host 4.0, 5.0 and Guest OS.
• Expertise in Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, RAID
• Strong knowledge of TCP/IP protocol suite, virtual networking, wireless networks Cloud computing concepts
• Administrating, creating and modifying DNS records, DHCP scope and reservation, DFS link, Web servers including record/scope creation, troubleshooting and managing user and group accounts Administration
• Good knowledge on Networking concepts switching, routing, WAN and attended training on CCNA
• Expertise in Server migration
• Excellent Troubleshooting Problem solving skills

Skill

Professional Experience

Systems Administrator

Confidential

Environment

OS: Windows 2000, 2003 and 2008

Hardware: HP Blade server, HP ProLiant Server and VMware Infrastructure

Tools: VMware ESX 5.0, ServiceNow, Remedy,

• Administration management of VMware ESXi 5.1 and Vsphere Vcenter 5.0
• Management of ESXi hosts using ILO
• Building new ESX Hosts and applying Host Profile.
• Hands on experience with the HP blade c7000 enclosures
• Updating/upgrading the HP Onboard Administrator, Virtual connections
• Experience preparing Technical documentation using Microsoft Visio and Word
• Prepared System Maintenance Technical Document SMTD that covers complete technical details for Maintenance and Troubleshooting VMware Windows Infrastructure
• Building Physical, Virtual Servers and Cloned Servers
• Installed Windows 2003/2008R2 in the created virtual machines and also installed the required software and tools.
• Worked on Migration concepts like vMotion and Storage vMotion
• Upgrading Virtual hardware installing VMware tools
• Installed VMware tools and upgraded the virtual hardware
• Installation, Managing and Troubleshooting Windows 2003/2008 Servers
• Responsible for production support of Active directory AD , GPO, Domain users, Users and groups and given appropriate permissions, shares and privilege to access LAN and Domain environment.
• Managing Troubleshooting Microsoft Cluster
• Coordinating and Managing Storage Area Network and configuring the DataStore.
• Patching Microsoft Cluster Servers, Failover and Failback nodes as required
• Experience in Microsoft SQL Server management and SQL Query
• Deployed OVF Templates
• Experience in updating/upgrading ESX/ESXi servers, Virtual Center servers and windows virtual machines using VMware Update manager and manual upgrades
• Performed Storage Vmotion to fix the Storage issues
• Performed Physical to Virtual P2V Conversion
• Participating in Rapid Response call for High Priority tickets
• Configured Virtual Network Storage configuration
• Configured and added new DataStore as required
• Recommending and Implementing Service Improvement Plans SIP
• Sharing Folders, Planning and Assigning NTFS Permissions and System Policies
• Performance monitoring and upgrading Virtual hardware
• Monitoring of ESX Hosts, Alarms, Guest OS and Health check
• Strong troubleshooting skills on Active Directory Services
• Coordinated with Storage team
• Coordinating with Storage, Networking, AD team for fixing high Severity Incidents
• Troubleshooting fixing Vmware ESXi Vcenter issues

Subject Matter Expert

Confidential

Environment

OS: Windows 2000, 2003 and 2008

Hardware: HP Blade server, HP ProLiant Server and VMware Infrastructure

Tools: Vmwareview Admin, HP Sitescope, BSM, HP Service Manager Operations Manager, Agile VersionOne

• Administration management of VMware ESXi 4.1 and Vsphere Vcenter 4.0
• Installation, Configuration and Administration of Vmwareview VDI Infrastructure
• Managing Troubleshooting ESX Hosts, Vcenter Servers
• Troubleshooting fixing VDI Issues related to View Connection Servers Security Servers
• Troubleshooting ESXi issues, Vcenter issues
• Monitoring of ESXi Hosts, Alarms, Guest OS and Health check
• Strong troubleshooting skills on Active Directory Services
• Handling VDI Escalation
• Working on High Severity Incidents Bridge participation
• Coordinating with Storage, Networking, AD team for fixing high Severity Incidents
• Performed P2V migrations of Production, QA and Development Servers
• Involved in the cut-over and decommissioning of the physical server after the P2V server
• Management of Snapshots, clones, templates
• Broad experience with designing, implementing and troubleshooting VMware ESXi server, VMware virtual center, setting up V-Motion, HA, DRS, and related VMware products such as VM Workstation, P2V converters, VM Backup products and other products for virtualization
• Generated reports with Health analyzer giving recommendations and resolving performance and tuning issues in the HA, DRS clusters and virtual Datacenters
• VMware ESXi 4.1 installation and configuration
• Performed datastore migration using VMware storage vMotion on NetApps NFS , dell ISCSI SAN Storage
• Created and updated CMDB Configuration management Data Base document with all the CI relationships using Microsoft Visio
• Experience in Microsoft SQL Server configuration Management
• Configured ODBC Administrator for Microsoft SQL Server for the installation of Vcenter and Vmware View Servers
• Implementing monitoring for all the VDI VMware Infrastructure Servers
• Implementing the new Service Improvement Plans SIP
• Change management Root Cause Analysis
• Updating Tracking Efforts through Version One Agile methodology and participating in standup calls
• Preparing monthly System Quality Report and Incident Analysis

Windows Systems Administrator

Confidential

Environment

OS: Windows 2000, 2003 and 2008

Hardware: HP Blade server, HP ProLiant Server and VMware Infrastructure.

Tools: Blackberry, ILO, DNS and DHCP and Clustering

Responsibilities

• Racking Stacking the Servers, Building the new Servers, Configuring the RAID
• Installation, configuration administration of Windows 2000/2003/2008 Servers
• Installation, Configuration and Administration of VMware ESX 3.5 and 4.0.
• Building Physical , Virtual Servers and P2V Conversion
• Responsible for keeping all VMware ESX servers up to date with patches and updates with minimal downtime using vMotion for SAN attached VMs and Storage vMotion for Local storage VMs
• Installed configured, upgrade and maintained Windows 2000, 2003 and 2008, MS Office 2003/2007, Exchange Server 2003/2007/2010 Operating Systems.
• Monitoring of ESX Hosts, Alarms, Guest OS and Health check
• Strong technical knowledge on Domain, Partition,Replication, DC, FSMO, LDAP, KCC, Group Policies, DNS
• Management of DHCP, DNS and Cluster Servers
• Strong troubleshooting skills on Active Directory Services
• Remote management of Servers using KVM and ILO, RSA, DRAC
• Strong skills on service pack and patch deployment
• Assist with monitoring and maintaining AD service availability and performance
• Monitor Incident queues and resolve tickets
• Installed, upgraded and maintenance of server hardware components as per requirement.
• Performing Disaster Recovery test
• Working based on ITIL process

Confidential

Environment

OS: Windows 2000, 2003 and 2008

Hardware: IBM X series and VMware Infrastructure.

Tools: Kaspersky,DNS,DHCP, Arcserve and RSA

Responsibilities

• Migrated Servers from Basingstoke to Amsterdam Data Centre
• Transferred FSMO Roles from Basingstoke Domain Controller to Amsterdam Domain Controller
• Removed the Lingering objects and Fixed Active Directory Replication issues
• Installation, Configuration and Administration of VMware ESX Host 3.5
• Creation of New VMs and installation of Guest Os.
• Patch Management for VMware ESX Host and Guest Os
• Monitoring VM and ESX Alarms, Guest Os User administration
• Installation, Configuration and Administration of, Windows 2000 2003 Servers
• Updating servers with latest service packs and hot fixes 7. Creating standard process for group policy deployment
• Monitoring Management of Domain Controllers, DHCP and DNS Servers
• Deployed Kaspersky Antivirus on all the Servers and management from Central Kaspersky Console
• Remote management of Servers using KVM, IBM RSA and Dell DRAC tools
• Configuring Arcserve Backup and Server monitoring
• Attended training Storage SAN and Microsoft Clustering
• Performing Disaster Recovery test
• Working based on ITIL process