SUMMARY

• 7+ Years of experience as Systems Engineer in area of VMware, Windows, Linux; Hyper converged infrastructure platforms with Implementation and Administration.
• Installation & Administration of VMware ESXi 4.x/5.x/6.x and VMware vCenter 4.x/5.x /6. x.
• Implemented virtualization solutions on VMware vSphere 5.x and 6.x Environment.
• Expertise in advanced features of ESXi 4/5/6, Migrations, HA, DRS, SDRS and VUM.
• Extensive experience in working with vMotion and storage vMotion technologies.
• Experience in P2V, V2V migration using VMware vCenter converter/ Plate spin and creating host and client VM templates and cloning.
• Extensive Experience working on vCenter server and vSphere client.
• Experience working with Installation, configuration and management of ESXi hosts.
• Experience working with VMTemplates, clones and VM Backups.
• Strong knowledge on resource management framework using Resource pools.
• Experience working with all VMware technologies like vMotion, Storage vMotion, High Availability (HA), Fault Tolerance (FT), DRS and Storage DRS etc.
• Patch management and upgrades using VMware update manager.
• Hands on experience working with configuration and management of VMware vSphere StandardSwitch & distributed Switch.
• Experience in VMware networking concepts like creation of vSwitches, vDS, different types of port groups, NIC teaming and VLAN.
• Installed, Configured and Maintained the VMware ESXi 6.0and worked on projects to upgrade ESXi from 5.1, 5.5 to 6.0.
• Extensive experience in Installation, Configuration, management and maintenance of Windows server operating systems ranging from Windows Server .
• Designing and Implementing Active Directory Domains and Forests.
• Expertise in active directory design and support (GPO's, AD Schema, OU's, LDAP, Sites, etc.).
• Implemented Active Directory services for creation and maintaining users and group profiles based on company policies.
• Worked on a project to upgrade the Domain Controllers from and increase the domain function level from .
• Deployed servers such as IIS, Apache web server, DHCP, DNS, File Server, FTP server, Samba server.
• Implemented web clustering in Centos 5.5 Linux Server for load balancing.
• Experience in designing, developing and Implementing Client - Server applications using Microsoft technologies with expertise in cloud computing using Microsoft Azure.
• Expertise in architecture design for Azure AD deployment.
• Hands on experience with AWS cloud technologies.
• Build servers using AWS, importing volumes, launching EC2, RDS, creating security groups, auto-scaling, loadbalancers (ELBs) in the defined virtual private connection.
• Experience in Writing/Maintaining and troubleshooting PowerShell scripts for build and operations environment to develop, test, and implement automation.
• Knowledge of VMware server automation and configuring Active Directory Domain using scripting languages like PowerShell Scripts, VBScript, and Power CLI.
• Attended Daily meetings and conference calls to report system health and assist different departments with SCCM issues.
• Hands - on experience working on Microsoft SCCM, SCOM and SCVMM.
• Experience in vSphere, vCloud suite/vRealize suite- vRealize operations manager (VROPS), log insight, vRealize orchestration(vRo), and vRealize Automation (vRA/vCAC), VMware Virtual SAN(vSAN).

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: Windows Server 2000/2003/2012 & R2/2016, VM Ware ESX/ESXI server, Linux, Windows XP/Vista/7, IBM AS400.

Virtualization: VMware vSphere 4.0/4.1/5.0, 5.5 vCenter Server 4.0/4.1/5.0,5.5 ESXi 4.0/4.1/5.0,5.5 VMware Update Manager, HA, DRS, FT, vMotion, Storage vMotion, VMware Capacity Planner, VMware Workstation, Horizon View & NSX.

Windows Administration: Configuration of DHCP and DNS, installation and configuration of VPN client, Windows Server 2003/2008 - installation and configuration, configuration and management of Active Directory. Patch management using SCCM.

Networking: OSI Reference Model, IPv4 and IPv6 addressing and subnetting, Ethernet LAN, TCP/IP, UDP, switches, routing concepts, virtual network concepts including vSwitches, VLANs, dvSwitch, TCP/IP stack for virtualization, configuration of printers and, scanners.

Hardware: HP ProLiant DL380, BL460c and BL465c blade servers, C7000 and C3000 HP Chassis, Cisco UCS B460 and B260, EMC VMX, VNX and ISLON.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Sr.VMware /Windows Administrator

Confidential - New jersey

Responsibilities:

• Maintaining and Administering Windowsservers2008/2012.
• Maintain the integrity of the client ActiveDirectory using PowerShell.
• Perform ActiveDirectory administration including grouppolicy and (moves/adds/changes) of user accounts, security groups, and distribution lists.
• Responsible for the migration of Windows 2003 servers to Windows 2008.
• Configuration of DHCP, DNS on Windows 2003and 2008 platforms.
• SCCM Distribution Point, Boundary Group maintenance.
• Troubleshoot and resolve SCCM client issues.
• Experience Using SCCM 2012 to deploy the Packages both the Windows Installer Package and Virtual Package.
• Experience in Installation and Configuration of DNS, DHCP, IIS, WSUS Server.
• Knowledge of AD Design and Management for an Enterprise client with >3,000 Seats.
• VMware ESX/ESXi Host Server and Virtual Machines Installation, Configuration & Maintenance.
• Configured HA, DRS on clusters and did capacity planning for new clusters.
• Configured FT for business critical VM's.
• Designing dashboards and pull reports using vCops.
• Worked on ESXi and VM storage issues and coordinated with the storage teams.
• Migrated about 1800 servers from Physical-to-Virtual (P2V), Virtual-to-Virtual (V2V) in both VMware and Hyper - V environments using Platespin and VMware convertor.
• Upgraded the ESX/ESXi servers using vSphere update manager.
• Management of VMware Infrastructure through vCenter and vSphere client.
• Responsible for root cause analysis on performance issue and Virtual machine failures.
• Troubleshooting SAN related issues and firmware upgradations of SANs in VMware.
• Test and recommend Replication/Backup solutions for VMware, SAN and DisasterRecovery
• Configuration and Management of Datastores and storage clusters on vCenter server.
• Installation, Configuration and Management of hardware using HP One View and Virtual Connect Manager.

Environment: HP ProLiant DL380, BL460c and BL465c blade servers, C7000 and C3000 HP Chassis, Cisco UCS B460 and B260, EMC VMX, VNX and ISLON, VMware vSphere 4.0/4.1/5.0, 5.5 vCenter Server 4.0/4.1/5.0,5.5 ESXi 4.0/4.1/5.0,5.5 VMware Update Manager, HA, DRS, FT, vMotion, Storage vMotion, VMware Capacity Planner, VMware Workstation, Horizon View & NSX.

VMware/Windows Administrator

Confidential - Orlando, Florida

Responsibilities:

• Experience in installation and administration of Windows 2003/2008/2012 Server.
• Involved in maintaining the Active Directory and GPO management.
• Use Active Directory to reset passwords, manage group policies, add or delete accounts.
• Troubleshooting OS related issues on VMs using Hyper-V manager console on windows2008.
• Involved in Installing and Administration of SCCM for applying latest windows and security patches to all the servers.
• Troubleshooting Client Connectivity, package and OS deployment issues by analyzing SCCM logs.
• Created the App-V Sequences for Win7 Environment and Deployed via SCCM.
• Troubleshooting windows update and performance issues.
• Troubleshooting server down and un-expected reboot of production servers.
• Installing, configuring and troubleshooting Network Load Balancing (NLB) issues on windows 2008 server.
• Installation and configuration of VPN server on windows 2008 platform to provide secure connection between branch networks.
• Boot images and DP configurations for OSD, Capture and Deploy OS using SCCM 2012.
• Assessing and distributing Microsoft Monthly Patches using WSUS and SCCM 2012.
• Implemented PowerShell scripts that automated creation of contacts from Active Directory.
• Installing, configuring and maintaining the Virtual Machines, installing guest Operating Systems.
• Designed, Implemented and Managed a VMware environment of 4 vCenter and 130 ESXi hosts with more than 2000VM's.
• Configured VMware HA, VMware DRS in acquiring higher efficiency for VMware Infrastructure.
• Deploy virtual machines from templates and allocate resources.
• Manage VM's using VMware virtual center and web access, Configurations of Virtual switched and networkconnections.
• Experience on creating host profiles and deploy to hosts in a VMwareclusters.
• Handled the VMware solutions to support multiple storage connectivity options such as FC-SAN, iSCSI, NFS (NAS).
• Experience in installing and configuring VMware Virtual Center servers and VMware VCA.
• Monitoring and maintenance of vCenter sever heartbeat.
• Providing and maintaining user access in vCenter, configuring mail alert for any failure in HA, DRS.
• Integrate SSO and two-factor authentication with Active Directory.
• Installing and Configuring VMware vCenter Orchestrator.
• Patch management using VMware update manager for ESXi server.
• Configuration and Management of Datastores and storage clusters on vCenter server.
• Provided technical assistance in daily system checks and performance including backups and event logs.

Environment: UCS C240 M3, Cisco Nexus 5K, CISCO switches, HP P4000, VMware ESXi 5.0/5.5/6.0 and Windows Server 2012R2/2008, Active Directory 2012, HP ProLiant Servers.

VMware/Windows Administrator

Confidential, Spring field - Massachusetts

Responsibilities:

• Implementation, Administration and Maintenance of Windows 2008/2012 Networks in a distributed, Multi-user environment.
• Troubleshooting windows update and performance issues.
• Configuring and Monitoring of group policies on sites, domains and OUs.
• Design and implement Active Directory service and systems policies.
• Trouble shooting systems, LAN, WAN and Firewall problems.
• Installation & Configuration of IIS with SSL, DNS, DHCP, FTP and Terminal servers.
• Extensive Use of PowerShell to execute commands/scripts.
• Backup & disaster recovery by Scheduling and Managing data backups on Windows Servers.
• Installing and troubleshooting experience with ESXi hosts and worked on creation of Templates, clones and used VMBackup and Replication for restoring VM's.
• Created HA and DRS clusters and Worked on configured FT for critical VM's.
• Configured vSphere HA, DRS in acquiring higher efficiency for VMware Infrastructure.
• Configured VMware standard vSwitch&distributed vSwitch.
• Configured VMware virtual machine port groups, console ports groups, VM kernel port groups and VLANs.
• Installation, configuration and management of ESXi Servers on HP&Cisco hardware.
• Installation of vCenter Server, upgrading 40+ hosts from vSphere 5.0 to vSphere 5.5 and upgrading VMware Tools.
• Responsible for managing vCenter server and vSphere client for managing multiple ESXi hosts.
• Creating and managing resource pools and adding the Virtual Machines into resource pools.
• Monitoring event logs, alarms and trouble shooting them.
• Coordinating with storage and network team based on the requirements.
• Security hardening and Monitoring of Virtual Machines &ESXi hosts (CPU, Memory, Disk, Network Utilization) for Security compliance.
• Monitoring and maintenance of vCenter sever heartbeat.
• LUN creation and storage mapping administration and configuring Multipathing.
• Preparing Reports on Root Cause Analysis&System Log Analysis.

Environment: Windows Server 2008R2/2012/2003, Windows 7/XP, Active Directory, ADDS, ADFS, Forest Migration, VMware ESXi 4.0 Server, VMware View, Insight Manager, IBM Director, Cisco Enterprise, Citrix Presentation server 4.0/ XenApp 4.5/5.0 & Citrix Client Tools.

VMware/windows Administrator

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Administration of Windows Based Directory Services on Windows 2008 Domain.
• Creation of groups, group policies, task scheduling and various necessary tasks for the maintenance of the whole domain setup.
• Managing and Maintaining DNS, DHCP on Windows 2008 Server.
• Configured DHCP server with different scopes toassign IP addresses to systems.
• Administrating Windows 2008 Server, managing user’s account, rights and permissions and allowing Users Registration on the Domain.
• Includes Installation & troubleshooting of local & network printers, Notebooks and Scanners.
• Additional Domain Controller (ADC), Installation and configuration of DNS server, Security Policy, DynamicDisk, Software Router.
• Remote Installation service and Remote Desktop Connection.
• Build, configure and deploy VMs and templates.
• Creating and managing multiple snapshots.
• Lead offshore and onsite team to build Windows 2008/2003 Servers on standalone and blade servers based on application design in Virtual environment.
• Configured VMware on clustered environment, Implemented vMotion, DRS, HA.
• Experience on Physical-to-Virtual (P2V), Virtual-to-Virtual (V2V) migration of Windows NT, 2000, 2003, &2008using VMware Converter.
• Upgraded VMware ESX 3.5 servers to ESXi 4.0, 4.1 and ESXi servers 4.1 to 5.0
• Administered CiscoUnified Computing System (UCS) hosting ESX 5.0
• Assigning LUN's from storage array to ESXi hosts.
• Configuring vNetwork Distributed switches and migrating the networks from vNetwork standard switches to vNetwork Distributed switches.
• Used Remedy Tool for ticketing process on updating Incident Reports and Change Requests.
• Assist production support team on incidents and alerts related to Cisco UCSM and VMware infrastructure.
• Manages resources and assigns projects as per customer requirements.

Environment: Windows Server 2008R2/2012/2003, Windows 7/XP, Active Directory, VMware ESXi 4.0 Server, VMware View, HP DL & ML server series, IBM Xseries and System x servers, HP Insight Manager, IBM Director, Cisco Enterprise Network.

System Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Implementation, Administration and Maintenance of Windows 2008/ 2012 Networks.
• Troubleshooting windows update and performance issues.
• Configuration of DHCP, DNS on Windows 2008/ 2012 platforms.
• Dealing with clients to solve networking problems.
• Windows 2000, 2003, 2008 administration and configuration in a distributed, Multi-user environment.
• Upgrade Windows 2003 to windows 2008.
• Configuring and Monitoring of group policies on sites, domains and OUs.
• Design and implement Active Directory service and systems policies.
• Administration and management of Network Printers and File Sharing.
• Trouble shooting systems, LAN, WAN and Firewall problems.
• Installation & Configuration of IIS with SSL, DNS, DHCP, FTP and Terminal servers.
• Backup &disaster recovery by Scheduling and Managing data backups on Windows Servers.
• Installing & managing ISA 2004, 2006 for internet sharing & restricted internet usage.

Environment: Windows Server 2008R2/2012/2003, Windows 7/XP, Active Directory, ADDS, ADFS, Forest Migration, VMware ESXi 4.0 Server, VMware View, HP Insight Manager, IBM Director.