Professional Summary:

• Systems Administrator with 7 years of extensive industry experience, specializing in implementation, configuration and administration of different Operating systems and VMware for Windows 2008/2003 Server.
• Extensive knowledge and experience in the Virtualization and Systems Administration domain.
• Professional experience with VMware VSphere ESXi 5.0/4.1/4.0/3.5 and VMware VCenter 4/VCenter 2.x, VMotion, Storage VMotion, HA, DRS, FL, Host Profiles, SRM ,VSphere CLI, VApp, VMware VCenter Converter
• Extensive experience in Windows 2008/2003 Servers at single or multi domain platforms.
• Experience in Active Directory, GPOs, DNS, DHCP, File Print Server, IIS Web Server 7.5/7.0/6.0, FTP, Terminal Server, RIS, RRAS, NAT, WSUS, Microsoft Clustering, Exchange Mail Server and ISA Server
• Experience with enterprise backup systems and disaster recovery operations familiarity with SAN technologies solid understanding of VI 3.x,4.x, vSphere 5.0 implementation with shared storage fiber channel, ISCSI, NFS / VMFS strategies for performance and optimization
• High understanding on resource management framework like creation resource pools, adding the VMs into resource pools, P2V and V2V conversions by using VMware Converter.
• Design and implementation of global monitoring solution using SCOM, HP, SIM and Dell Openmanage.
• Experience with Cisco UCS and HP Blades C7000 blades administration.
• Cisco UCS Architecture, procurement, build, and administration of 6120, 6140, and 6248 series Cisco Unified Computing System's UCS on Code levels 1.4 x to 2.0 2q
• Hands on experience in updating / upgrading ESX servers, Virtual Center servers and windows virtual machines using VMware Update manager and manual upgrades
• HP Proliant Blades BL460C / BL620C Series, HP Blade C3000 Servers, Dell M1000
• Blade Server, Dell Poweredge R310 Rack Server Series, HP Blade enclosures, Dell
• Rack mounts, HP ML/DL Series
• Expertise with VMware vCenter Lab Manager products
• Expertise with IP sub-netting, VLANs, Load Balancing, and High Availability HA architectures
• Ability to maintain a reliable and methodical approach to support and Documentation. Quick learner, highly motivated team player with excellent organizational and analytical skills.

Technical Skills:

Professional Experience:

Confidential

VMware Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installed and upgraded VMware vSphere ESXi 5.0/4.1 and 4.0 in a total of 200 ESX servers, 2000 Servers.
• Build, configure and deploy VMs and templates and Creating, managing multiple snapshots.
• Build Windows 2008/2003 Servers on standalone and blade servers based on application design.
• Configured VMware on clustered environment, Implemented vMotion, DRS, HA.
• Performed P2V Hot conversions using converter enterprise 4, 5 and also the P2V cold conversion using VMware Converter Boot CD.
• Completed Physical-to-Virtual P2V , Virtual-to-Virtual V2V and Virtual-to-Physical V2P migration of Windows NT, 2000, 2003, 2008 as well as Linux servers from VMware.
• Upgraded VMware ESX 3.5 servers to ESX 4.0, 4.1 and ESX servers 4.1 to 5.0 and updated patches for VSphere 5.0.
• Administered Cisco Unified Computing System UCS 5108 running ESX cluster.
• Deployed virtualized CUCM on the Cisco UCS C260 M2, Cisco UCS C200M2 and Cisco UCS C210 M2 rack-mount servers and ran load on the CUCM instance.
• Pooled some virtual infrastructure resources in existing datacenter and delivered them to users as a catalog based service using VMware vCloud Director
• Clone the data from production to development environment using FLEXCLONE technology.
• Analyzed and Implemented OS patches and hot fixes as well as other OS configurations and updates using Blade Logic Patch Management tool and also deploy patches using vCenter update manager.
• Assigning LUN's from storage array to ESX Server
• Configuring vNetwork Distributed switches and migrating the networks from VNetwork standard switches to vNetwork Distributed switches.
• Deployed all the best practices in the View 5.0 environment.
• Created and administered Organization Units.
• Used Remedy Tool for ticketing process on fixing Incident Reports and Change Requests.
• Used Tivoli monitoring agent for monitoring alerts and BigFix tool for patching and installing applications
• Engage hardware and software vendors to assist in improvement of current VMware environment and research and evaluation of the latest technologies.
• Administrating production servers/network infrastructure that includes Windows administration of Domain Controllers, DNS, DHCP, Exchange 2010/2003 Mail Servers, NAS, File and print Servers, and Terminal Servers on Windows 2010/2008/2003.

Environment: VMware vSphere 5.0/4.1/4.0, VMware View 5.0/4.5, Windows 2008/2003, Exchange Server 2003, Windows XP/Vista/Win 7, VMware vCenter, VMware Standalone Convertor

Confidential

VMware/Windows Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Implementation of VMware vSphere 4.1/4.0 with Enterprise Plus Features of vDistributed Switch and Host Profiles Upgrade Experience from VMware Infrastructure 3.5 to vSphere 4.1/4.0 and Update including vCenter4.0, ESX Hosts, Update manager, vSphere client, and Virtual machines tools and H/W upgrade to vSphere 4.0.
• Provides planning and technical support for company installations.
• Supported ongoing server consolidation to migrate physical servers to virtual environment
• Provide assistance and support Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager and Windows 2008 R2 Hyper-V server.
• Created virtual machine templates configured sysprep files for customizing operating system deployment.
• Administered for various State Agencies on the VMware Infrastructure 4.1/4.0 ESX, ESXi, HP Servers Cisco network devices for the various Data Centers.
• Configured and managed security permissions in virtual center management for access to virtual machines.
• Performed physical to virtual P2V and virtual to virtual V2V migrations using VMware converter.
• VMware tools upgrading and Windows patch updates.
• Creating and Managing resource pools for Virtual Machine.
• Participated in the 24x7 On-call support rotation.
• Configuring a segregated iSCSI network solely communication between the virtual hosts and SAN units.
• Writing documentation for standard operating procedures for troubleshooting, configuring, and setting up virtual servers.

Environment: VMware vSphere 4. .0 Windows 2008/2003, Active Directory, DNS, WINS, DHCP, TCP/IP, CISCO, NTFS, Dell Power Edge, IBM xSeries, HP ProLiant G3, G5 Blade Servers, IIS Servers

Confidential

Windows VMware Systems Administrator

Job Responsibilities:

• Involved in creating and managing separate VMware clusters for Development, QA and Production.
• VMware ESX 3.5 4.0 Host Servers, vSphere Suite, Virtual Machines Installation, Configuration and Maintenance.
• Monitoring the operating system, database, and network using MOM Monitoring via VNC, VPN.
• Created User Accounts, groups and running scripts on Production Servers.
• Monitored and managed performance of ESX servers and Virtual Machines using Virtual Center Server for HA, DRS.
• Develop, test, and maintain a disaster recovery plan for critical VMs and application data.
• Completed Physical-to-Virtual P2V , Virtual-to-Virtual V2V and Virtual-to-Physical V2P migration of Windows NT, 2008 2003 as well as Linux servers from VMware.
• Monitored and managed the performance and the load balancing of the Servers.
• Participated in Team meetings with Managers and submitted weekly Status reports with the current status, issues and reasons for delay in solving the Hardware and Software related issues.
• System Administration, Level 3 support for all Windows 2008, Windows 2003 Servers Microsoft Virtual Server 2005, Windows 2008 Hyper-v worldwide through ILO, and IDRAC.
• Created User Accounts, Configured User Profiles, local and Global Groups and implemented Group Policies.
• Performed system monitoring and performance tuning for 2008/2003 Servers.
• Active Directory Infrastructure and Operating System account management, Group security policies.
• Monitored and managed the performance and the load balance of the Servers.
• Installed and updated the Windows Patches and Hot Fixes.
• Maintained the File Servers, Application Servers and Print Servers.
• VERITAS Netback up for clients, Microsoft cluster and Remote Server maintenance for hardware failure.
• Expertise in remote control, patch management, software distribution, operating system deployment, network access protection, and hardware and software inventory using System Center Configuration Manager SCCM .
• Configuration of Server operating systems, service pack up gradation and Security Patches.
• Used RDP to assign the local security policies on member servers and standalone server.
• Worked on Ticket process in fixing the Incident tickets in Remedy Tool in 24x7 environments.

Environment: VMware vSphere 4.0/3.5, Windows 2008/2003, Active Directory, DNS, WINS, DHCP, TCP/IP, NTFS, Dell Power Edge, IBM xSeries, HP ProLiant G3, G5 Blade Servers, IIS Servers

Confidential

Junior Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Installed and Configured Networks, and Wireless Access Point/Router with security, TCP/IP, VPN, Content Filtering, Access Control Lists on router/switches in both LAN/WAN and wireless networks. LAN Cabling, RJ-45 crimping, Labeling, Patch Panel, PC Junction boxes, Phone Switches and Rack set-up.
• Worked with Network Concepts such as OSI reference model, IP protocols such as TCP/IP, IP addressing, subnets, routing protocols like OSPF, RIP, EIGRP, BGP, STP. Setup and configured various RAID 1 and RAID 5. Applied patches and upgrades to the servers.
• Configured backups and recovery plans for windows based servers using windows server backup utility.
• Responsible for troubleshooting network, database, applications, and web performance issues.

Environments: Networking, HP ProLiant BL Series, TCP/IP, DNS server, Windows Server 2003/2008.