PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• VMware Administrator with 6 years of experience in Virtualization and Systems Administration with VMware ESXI 6.0/ 5.5/5.1/ 5.0/ 4.1/ ESX 4.0 servers and vCenter 6.0/5.5/5.1/5.0/4.0, Red hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), Centos, Ubuntu and Windows environments.
• Expertise in building Microsoft Windows 2012R2,2012,2008 R2,2008,2003,2000 servers using HP Smart Start, Array configurations, diagnosing server, Updating Firmware and PSP, Application Software under multi - platform environments, deployment & monitoring physical Servers.
• Experience in install, configure and manage VMware ESXi, Virtual Center management, VMware Data Recovery, VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM).
• Involved in Windows upgrades for Servers from Windows 2008 R2 to Windows Server 2012 and closely worked with Developers to perform deployments and help in troubleshooting the issues
• Creation, Management and Configuration of Virtual Machines, Clone and Templates.
• Involved in Monthly Security Patching, Applying Patches Including Manual patching and Automation using SCCCM, WSUS Service to manage the distribution of updates and hotfixes.
• Experience with Cisco UCS, Virtual Infra on VMware, Installation, Upgrades and Patching.
• Technical knowledge of current network hardware, protocols, and Internet standards, including TCP/IP, and DNS, DHCP, IIS, FTP, Terminal Services/Remote Desktop
• Strong experience with the VMware HA (High Availability), FT (Fault Tolerance), DRS (Distributed Resource Scheduler, Troubleshooting ESX issues related to storage, network and performance issues.
• Experience in implementing end-to-end infrastructure Disaster Recovery, Disaster Recovery Manager using SRM and vSphere Replication,
• Experience in System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) and System Center Operations Manager. (SCOM).
• Expert in implementing Physical to Virtual (P2V) and Virtual to Virtual (V2V) conversions (Double-Take, VMware Converter and Plate Spin).
• Working knowledge of Power Shell, VB Script & batch files for automation work.
• Strong understanding of Windows Active Directory, Experience with Active Directory administration in a multi domain environment. Users and Groups creation and validation. Creating and managing user, Groups and security groups within a multi-domain environment.
• Knowledge of SAN / NAS environment (EMC Clariion cx4, NetApp)
• Support VMware networking implementation including creation of vSwitches, port groups, connection types, network traffic and, security policy setting, NIC Teaming, load balancing.
• Group Policy implementation, management and troubleshooting experience and experience with configuring Group Policy Objects to secure a Windows infrastructure.
• Sound knowledge on ESX Architecture, guest OS installation, setting up of VM priorities, Cloning and Snapshots.
• Experience using an Information Technology Service Management (ITSM) System, Monitoring ITIL environments such as change/ incident Management.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Virtualization: VMware vSphere 3.5/4.1/5.0/6.0, Workstation 6/7, ESX Server 3.5, Hyper-V VMware DRS, HA and FT, VMware Standalone Converter 3.0, VMware Update Manager 1, VMware Virtual Desktop Infrastructure VDI, VMware View.

Application Servers: Microsoft Active Directory 2003/2008, DHCP, DNS, Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) 6.0/7.0, SCCM

Platforms: Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows Server 2000/2003 SP1/ 2008, Windows XP/Vista/7, Linux

Backup Solutions: VMware VCB, VEEAM Backup

Clustering Solutions: VMware HA, DRS, DPM, SDRS and Host Profiles

Reporting tools: Microsoft Office Suite, Open Office, Visio and Outlook.

Desktop Application: Microsoft Office 2003/2007, Outlook 2003/2007, Star Office, VMware Workstation 5.0 and 6.0

Hardware: HP/COMPAQ ProLiant servers, HP/IBM Blade Centers, IBM X-series Servers, Dell Power Edge Server, Cisco UCS.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential - Reston, VA

SR VMware / Windows Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Upgrades VMware environment 5.1/5.5 to 6.0 and upgrades all operating systems from Windows
• Upgraded ESXi environment from 5.5 to 6.0 using VMware Update Manager (VUM).
• Architect, deployed and manage VMware vSphere environment for VMs including Windows 2003, 2008, 2012R2.
• Migrated Standalone servers using converters like Platespin and VMware converter. P2V and V2V migrations.
• Was responsible for the Active Directory environment (i.e. Creating User Accounts, Security group, adding and removing users to group, Managing the logon scripts, sharing, giving permission, mapping the drives)
• Managing Cisco servers using Cisco UCS manager. UCS firmware upgrade from 1.4 to 2.0 and from 2.0 to 2.1
• Updated Windows 2003, 2008, 2k12 servers using SCCM and upgraded all security patches. Upgrades VMware tools in all VM's.
• Created ESX host templates local & global for Cisco UCS environment.
• Installing & troubleshooting SCCM client & ensuring all servers are reporting in SCCM console.
• Generating reports from SCCM to ensure that all servers are having latest patches installed
• Cisco UCS - daily administration & break/fix of 6248, 6296 and 6324 series FI's.
• Upgrading the Server Builds. Upgrading the NIC from 4gig to 10gig, teaming and vLan tagging for redundancy and fault tolerance.
• Performed backup and restored Virtual Machine backup, snapshot, P2V-V2V conversation with VMware converter and with other third-party converters, Patch updating, monitoring/reporting, SSH and SNMP and notification of alerts.
• Added the ESXI Hosts to the Virtual Distributed switches (VDS) and upgraded the VDS drivers using VMware Update Manager (VUM)
• Creating and managed pools of full-Clone Virtual Machines and Linked-Clone Machines.
• Created and managed Templates, worked with clones and snapshots of Virtual Machines
• Implementing Group Policy, Managing and Monitoring Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) managing and monitoring Domain Name System (DNS)
• Configured HA, DRS clusters and capacity planning for new clusters, configuring FT for important VM's.
• Provided and maintained User access in VMware Virtual Center. Configured mail alert for any failure in HA, DRS, CPU and memory.
• Maintained Storage aspects of new Server Integrations, Storage allocation, and Change management; also performed Storage analysis, Capacity planning, and performance planning of storage components - EMC VNX Family, EMC Clarion, and EMC Celerra storage systems
• Expert in VM's network configuration. Configured Standard Switch/Distributed Switches in vCenter 5.x environment.
• Used BMC blade logic tool to install windows OS, patches on Virtual and physical servers
• Performed P2V Hot conversions using vCenter Converter Standalone 5 and the P2V cold conversion using VMware Converter Boot CD.
• Testing of different recovery plans in SRM to ensure recovery of failover VM's
• Worked on VMWare VMotion and Migrated VMX across different datastores
• Responsible for using Power CLI and Power shell scripts for better management of vSphere and VDI environments.
• Provide 3-d level support of daily activities of the SQL environment in conjunction with Operations and Services. Detect and correct issues with high availability and disaster recovery technologies. Install and configure SQL server in cluster and standalone environment, maintain and report on database user access levels, determine, establish, and maintain optimum SQL configuration settings, SQL Server patching and upgrades, resource capacity planning (CPU, memory, IO, storage), perform DB migration and recovery (backup, restore)
• Logged cases with EMC for VMAX Hardware failures and make the arrangements for CE to come and replace the drive.
• Managed Microsoft SCCM deployments in a large-scale global environment; oversaw deployments of large and complex applications targeted for mass audience.
• Backup & daily monitor Veeam backups for the VMware environment and perform minor troubleshooting on the VM backups.
• Responsible for helpdesk support using Spice works ticketing system, inventory and system reporting.
• Root cause analysis, Troubleshooting, 24/7 support and handling of severity tickets.
• Involving in team meetings and work on the enhancement projects based on the priority issues
• Generate the report to manager on by weekly basis on the issues which we faced.

Confidential - Phoenix, Arizona

Systems Admin / Linux

Responsibilities:

• Installed Linux (RHEL 5.5) on HP Blade and VMware ESX servers using RedHat tool Cobbler.
• Was responsible for the installation, configuration and administration of VMware, Solaris Zones, Containers and Ldoms.
• Designed, Installed, configured and monitored PowerHA, GPFS, RedHat cluster and VMware cluster
• Documented the standard procedure for installation and deployment of VMAX Migration and logical volume manager.
• Added servers to Active Directory and LDAP server
• Provisioning and maintaining VMWARE VDI and the entire VDI Environment in Horizon View for 2300+ Windows 7 Desktops.
• Used BMC blade logic tool to install windows OS, patches on Virtual and physical servers
• Created and Deployed Virtual Machines from Templates and creating Snapshots with in no time, Cloning of Virtual Machines for future Deployments.
• Configured Kickstart files, installed RPMs, and Packages
• Worked on large datacenter consolidations and completed them successfully using multiple P2V conversion using vCenter Converter.
• Installed and configure Avocent DS view IP KVM and unmanaged KVM switches.
• Responsible for Active directory, GPO, Domain users, Administrating users and groups and given appropriate permissions and privilege to access our LAN and Domain environment
• 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
• Monitored and managed the performance of ESX servers and Virtual Machines.
• Participated/coordinated Weekly Status meetings and reported on the project status, Incident Reports and Change Management for the Transition process.
• Built Physical as well as Virtual (VMware ESXi) Servers on a fly
• Upgraded the Firmwares on NetApp, Cisco Switches, UCS Servers, CheckPoint Firewalls
• Monitor the performance of the VMWare vCops
• Experience in vSphere Replication using Site Recovery Manager5.0 (SRM 5.0) for backup in case of disaster.
• Provide Remote Support and administration on network for internal and external clients using tools like Microsoft Remote Desktop Connection (RDP).
• Disaster recovery implementation and recovering systems during crash or hardware failure.
• Worked on BitLocker encryption related issues on Windows 7, 8 workstations.
• Setup Remote Access and Remote Desktop Services.
• Responsible for KVM (Kernel based virtualization) based on hardware.
• Performed live migration from one host to another host.
• Handled problems or requests as per the ticket (Request Tracker) created.
• Migrated Non-standard production servers to Enterprise Data Center (EDC) minimum standard.
• Handled ILO (HP) and Vantage for console access to the servers.
• Creating a backup job and took backup of data center on daily, weekly and monthly basis
• Performed daily health checks for servers like checking CPU memory utilization, Check the connectivity
• Documenting all policies, procedures and standards around the build and continuing operation of ESXI and Linux systems.
• Creating Change Controls, Resolving Incident Tickets and Problem Tickets using Service-Now ticketing tool, and ability to multitask in a fast-paced environment under strict SLA and resolve Production Incidents with minimum impact.

Confidential - Herndon, VA

Infrastructure Administrator / VMware

Responsibilities:

• Configured, Monitored and Maintained Virtual server farms consisting VMWARE and Hyper V
• Provision, build, install and configure and support of Windows 2008/2008R2/2012 Servers, upgrading Windows Server 2003 to Windows 2008 and 2012 on both physical and virtual machines to ensure server compliancy as part of the build process.
• Building ESX hosts / clusters on HP, Dell Chassis HW.
• Pro-actively monitor ticketing system (Remedy) and resolve tickets within specified SLA
• Installing and Configuring the Windows Server 2008 R2/WIN 8 and SQL Server based on the requirement.
• Install, Setup and Monitor the Servers, NetApp Storage, Windows, Linux, Switches and other network device on Windows System Center Operation Manager.
• Designed, Installed, configured VMware ESX, ESXi within vSphere 4 and 5 environments with Virtual Center management, VMware vCloud Director, VMware Data Recovery, VMware Site Recovery Manager, VMware View, Consolidated Backup, High Availability, DRS and deployed VMs and template
• Installation, configuration and support of Windows Exchange 2000/2003.
• Used vCOPS (vCenter operations Manager 5.6) for monitoring and generating reports for VM environments like TEST, DEV and PROD.
• Implementation of Failover Clustering, Windows Server migration Tools, Windows Server Backup Group Policy Management, SMTP Server, Configure servers for Remote Management.
• Use system center configuration manager (SCCM) for system configuration and application installation.
• Windows Server System Updates (WSUS) for patching.
• Increased RAM in SQL Server clustered environment to avoid performance issues
• Cloned Virtual Machines
• Analyzed existing infrastructure using VMware Capacity Planner
• Created Virtual Machines and Installed VMware Tools
• Monitor a SQL Server Cluster using PowerShell
• Worked on physical to virtual migration (P2V) and virtual to virtual (V2V) using VMware converter 5.0.
• Provided technical support for Microsoft Server 2000/2003/2008, Exchange 2003/2007/2010, Microsoft Windows 2000, XP, Vista, 7, Microsoft Office Suite, Active Directory, SAN, NAS, DAS, Cisco IOS, Cisco SDM, router, switches, RIP, BGP, EIGRP, OSPF, TCP/IP, VPN, VLAN, DNS, VMware, IIS, Load Balancing, Clustering, Hyper-V, etc.
• Worked on Cold migration and vMotion.
• Responsible for installing, configuring SQL server cluster and troubleshooting issues with SQL Cluster
• Migrating virtual machine configuration files and virtual disks from one Data store to another Data Store Customizing VM's (Memory, hard disk, NIC). Analyzing log files, Resources utilizing monitoring.
• Troubleshoot network issues between Distributed vSwitch, Layer 2 switches and resolved slow performance between SAN network and VM networks.
• Maintained virus free environment using MacAfee Antivirus.
• Experienced on Host Profiles, Distributed Switch, DRS, vMotion, SV-Motion, Resource pools, permissions, Patches, Snapshots, Tools Upgrade, disk expansions, Templates, and many more
• Responsible for deploying, managing, and maintaining HP ProLiant BL-series C-class blade servers and DL-series servers.
• Upgrading the ESXi /ESX Hosts, center, Virtual machines from vSphere 4.1 to 5.0 using update manager and planned for a future vSphere 5.1 upgrade.
• Managing SRM (Site Recovery Manager), installing Storage Replication Adapters, and connecting the sites, installing the SRM license key.
• Familiar with backup and restore of Virtual Machine backup, snapshot, P2V-V2V conversation with VMware converter and with other third-party converters, Patch updating, monitoring/reporting, SSH and SNMP and notification of alerts.
• Fully automated, migration and failover with vCenter site recovery manager 4.
• Documented installation, configuration and upgrading of VM's
• Worked on different operations of UCS manager like creating Service profiles and associating them with blades, 1000v and UIM components.
• Performed troubleshooting on windows event logs and errors for system and application event logs.
• Installed and configured Window 2008 Server clusters with MSCS.
• Installed and managed McAfee EPO software on servers and clients.
• Handled all the vCenter operations like HA, DRS, vMotion, Storage vMotion, VM templates and maintaining the resource pools
• Backup & daily monitor Veeam backups for the VMware environment and perform minor troubleshooting on the VM backups.
• Generating Reports and graphs on Performance of ESX Nodes
• Worked on troubleshooting the triggered alarms generated from VMware vCenter Server and solving the SNMP traps rise in vCenter.
• Handled multiple p2v and v2v projects and ensured that the activities are completed on schedule with complete end to end responsibility.
• Troubleshoot server, pc, and network issues like connectivity, slowness, no boot, virus, and malware.
• Implementing COB plan accordingly and Responsible for attending review meeting with management and follow ITIL process
• Root cause analysis, Troubleshooting, 24/7 support and handling of severity tickets.

Confidential

VMware Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Upgraded ESX 3, 3.5 servers to ESX/ESXi 4.1 using VMware Update Manager (VUM).
• Created new server deployment templates for Windows Server 2003x86/2008x86/2008r2 on Hyper-V and ESXi 4.1
• Building HP DL380/580G Servers for VMware deployments.
• Installation, configuration and support of SUS, WSUS, IIS, DHCP, DNS services.
• Designed and Implemented virtualization solutions based on VMware ESX 3, 3.5 & vCenter Server components and managed virtual center permissions.
• Installed Operating Systems Win98, Win XP, Win NT, win 2000, Win 2003 etc.
• Performed systems administration for Windows based servers on VMware ESX 2.5 infrastructure environment.
• Performed Hot Cloning, Cold Cloning, Classic vMotion and Storage vMotion. In depth Knowledge in vMotion.
• Knowledge of networking fundamentals including the OSI model, TCP/IP communications, switching and routing concepts and protocols.
• Migrated active directory services from Win NT to Win 2000 to Win 2003
• Maintained the file server, application and Print Server.
• Published and assigned the user permissions to access the Applications in Windows Management Console.
• Configured the Domain Naming Server (DNS)
• Configured the Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)
• Implement network monitoring tool for monitoring servers, routers other network resources
• Planned and coordinated hardware upgrades
• Created User Accounts, groups and running scripts on production servers.
• Assigned local security policies on member servers and standalone servers using RDP.
• Managed and monitored Active Directory services and group policies.
• Patched all Windows servers and workstations with Company standards
• Configured and administered Domain Naming Server (DNS), Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP), Distributed File System (DFS), Internet and Remote Access Service(RAS)