SUMMARY

• 7+ years of experience in VMware virtualization and Windows administration
• Expertise in Windows 2003/2008/2012 server & Linux administration and active directory administration
• Created user accounts and group policies and also troubleshoot the existing GPOs
• Experience installing, configuring and managing Windows 2008 and 2003 based Domain controllers.
• Expertise in Dell physical servers and HP Proliant blade, UCS C240 M3 Rack servers.
• Responsible for server builds, patch management, antivirus and updates
• Responsible for WINTEL server builds and HP blades C7000 server builds
• Performed system administration activities, monitored system performance both at software and hardware levels
• Worked in the area of Virtualization with VMware vSphere, ESXi 5.1, 5.0, 4.1, ESX 4.0 servers, vCenter server 2.5, 4.0, 5.0, 5.1 and vCenter Converter 4.0, 5.0.
• Expertise in Microsoft Windows 2003 windows 2008, Windows Xp, Windows Vista, Windows 7
• Strong knowledge of TCP/IP protocol suite, virtual networking, wireless networks & Cloud computing concepts
• Experience and Familiar with Virtualisation technologies like installing, configuring, administering VMware ESX/ESXi. Created and managed VMs (virtual server) and also involved in the maintenance of the virtual server
• Experience with enterprise backup systems and disaster recovery operations; familiarity with SAN technologies; solid understanding of vSphere 4 implementation with shared storage fiber channel, ISCSI, NFS / VMFS strategies for performance and optimization
• Expertise with IP sub - netting, VLANs, Load Balancing, and High Availability (HA) architectures
• Strong experience with the VMware HA (High Availability), Fault Tolerance, Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) and VMware Distributed Power Management
• Strong analytical, technical and troubleshooting skills
• Experience in the V2V and P2V migration of Physical servers to VMware ESX hosts
• Experience in Windows clustering Administration and troubleshooting
• Knowledge of maintaining Business Continuity and performing Disaster Recovery (DR) using VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM)
• Hands on experience in updating / upgrading ESX servers, Virtual Center servers and windows virtual machines using VMware Update manager and manual upgrades for Patching
• Knowledge on installing and configuring VDI (Virtual desktop infrastructure) technology using VMware VIEW
• Experience in the Server and Desktop Management (Windows Administration), Support, Analysis and Maintenance
• Good Understanding and Knowledge VBlock and components and experience with Cisco UCS administration and EMC SAN storage.
• Experience in ESX Architecture, guest O/S installation, setting up of VM priorities, Cloning, Creating Templates and Snapshots
• Extensive experience in working with the vMotion and Storage vMotion technology Strong Experience in vNetwork concepts: vSwitch and dvSwitch
• Cisco UCS Central Software extends Cisco UCS Manager features across multiple Cisco UCS domains

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Virtualization Platforms: VMware vSphere, Citrix XenServer, Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV), Microsoft Hyper-V vSphere Technologies: vCenter Single Sign-On, vSphere High Availability, Host profiles, vSphere vMotion, vSphere Distributed Switches, Distributed Power Management, vSphere Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS), vCenter Alarms, VMware vSphere Web Client, vSphere Fault Tolerance, Enhanced vMotion Compatibility (EVC), Scripted Installation, vSphere Update Manager, Jumbo Frames, RDM, Private VLANs, vApps, Storage vMotion, vSphere Performance Charts

Operating Systems: Microsoft Windows2003/08/12,Red Hat Linux, CentOS Linux

Antivirus: Symantec Endpoint Protection 11.0

Hardware: Enterprise Rackmount & Blade Servers from HP, Dell, IBM, EMC VNXe 3300 Storage Array, EMC Clarion CX4, HP MSL 4048 Tape Library, Brocade SAN switches

Tools: & Utilities: Whatsup gold 14.3 & Solarwinds 9.1, Nagios.VMware Health Check, IBM Tivoli storage manager(TSM) for VMware, BMC Remedy

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Played a key role in a high-priority, security enhancement effort that involved tightening access controls in the environment, mainly focusing on restricting access to privileged accounts across all the Windows servers using CyberArk.
• Migrated sensitive, confidential PHI data from a server into a secure NetApp filer, for safeguarding the data. Used SecureCopy 7, RoboCopy 3.1 and Beyond Compare 3 for these data migrations.
• Migrated a total of 8 TB of data across all of the Windows servers in the environment into secure NetApp filers over the course of a calendar year.
• Communicated with business users and data owners of all file-shares throughout the process of the migration to address their concerns and accommodate their needs.
• Managed user-access on a granular level and provided security permissions to file-shares on an as-needed basis, using Varonis DatAdvantage.
• Performed server operational QA turnover as per BSC organizational standards on close to 150 servers.
• Performed troubleshooting on Cluster servers by upgrading firmware of NICs on cluster nodes, thereby stabilizing the cluster and preventing cluster failures.
• Ensured firewall rules were correctly in place on Windows servers as per the organizational standards, while also allowing proper functionality of applications on them.
• Actively involved in the monthly cycles of patching and installing updates to the Windows Servers in the environment.
• Responsible for classifying and accordingly remediating various OS-level vulnerabilities by applying some manual patches as required for all of the Windows servers in the environment.
• Resolved Incident tickets in a timely manner, during on-call rotation weekends.
• Responsible for migrating several Windows Servers across the environment, from one data center to another. Handled the modification of IP addresses, DNS settings in order to ensure the server is fully operational at the new location.
• Reserved IP addresses in Infoblox for various servers that were slated to be migrated. Also, managed the DNS changes using Men & Mice.
• Performed decommissioning of servers that were on legacy OS after the applications were migrated to servers in a newer environment.
• Worked on day to day tickets and troubleshooting server and user level issues.
• Building HP Blade servers & Cisco ucs using boot from san & installing, configuring the servers in the environment.
• Installing Firmware upgrades and updates on HP & Cisco UCS boxes.

Environment: Windows 7, Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2003, VMWare vSphere, ServiceNow Service Marketplace, Infoblox, Men & Mice, CyberArk, Racktables, CMDB, SecureCopy 7, RoboCopy 3.1, Beyond Compare 3, Varonis DatAdvantage, Microsoft Office 2013, Microsoft Office 2007, Lync.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Involved in managing 137 Confidential Customers
• This Project was based on VMware Data Center Virtualization and Microsoft Azure Cloud Computing.
• All Customer’s Physical or Virtual Servers were replicated by Continuous Data Protection (CDP) technology from Primary site to Disaster Recovery (DR) site
• Accountable for Installation, Configuration of Process Server (CX-PS), Configuration Server (CX-CS) and Master Target Server (CX-MT)
• Accountable for ensuring configuration of Virtual Center & ESXi Servers
• Planned & implemented ATOT & ATOD Test
• Responsible for configuring Protection Plan & initiating Protection Installed and upgraded VMware vSphere
• VMware ESX/ESXi Host Server Installation, Configuration & Maintenance. Design and Implementation of migration strategy for consolidating Data Centers from around the world to centralized locations in US which involves numerous servers of various LINUX versions.
• Identification, planning and migration of P2V candidates and new builds from each site without any downtime.
• Migrated and Managed VMware Esxi - 5.0 and 5.1, Worked on VMware capacity planner
• Performed tons of V2V Migration., Created clones and templates of Virtual Machines
• Deploying VMs Through OVF Templates, Created & Troubleshot Virtual Networks and vSwitches
• Worked on Migration concepts like vMotion and cold migration and Remediate
• Configured Netbackup Client thorough planning was done for downtime, knowing each server usage & there placement in Datacenter.
• Creating Data centers in the Vsphere Web client and adding the Hosts to the Data center
• Configuring the Host profiles and Remediate
• Hands Experience on UCS - Configuring VSwitch1 and editing configurations of VMX file - Type delay
• Setting up the VLANS for each and individual VMs
• Troubleshooting UCS hardware if the Hosts are disconnected in the Vcenter
• Design, Installation and configuring of new vSphere 5 ESXi servers for the P2V candidates on UCS Cisco C240 M3 Rack Server
• Installed Management Server (vCenter Server) instances to enable centralized management of multiple ESXi hosts
• Linked different vCenter servers using linked mode to have a single instance of vSphere client to manage the whole Virtual environment
• Configuring High Availability (HA), Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) and vNetwork Distributed Switch (VDS).
• Configured VMware HA, VMware DRS in acquiring higher efficiency for VMware Infrastructure.
• Automate ESXi host configuration across large number of hosts and clusters.
• Creating and managing Virtual Machines and Templates, worked with clones and snapshots of Virtual Machines.
• Administering, troubleshooting and automating vSphere ESXi using Power CLI.
• Installing, configuring and managing the windows and Linux servers
• Patching and upgrading Esx4.x to Esx5.x through VMware update manager
• Conversion of Servers from Physical to Virtual(P2V) and Virtual to Virtual(V2V) using vmware convertor tool.

Environment: vSphere 4, vSphere 5, HP ProLiant DL360 G5 & G6 Servers, EMC VNXe 3300 Storage Array, EMC Clarion CX4, Cisco Stacked switches, HP Integrated Lights-Out (iLO), Windows Server 2008/2012, Windows Server 2003, Centos Linux, Red Hat Linux, VMware Update Manager, WSUS, Convertor tool.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Managing & maintaining Multiple Domain Controllers.
• Managing tickets in on-line systems including; activating tickets upon review, escalating issues if necessary and closing tickets upon completion.
• Performing issues related to O/S, DNS, DHCP, DFS performance issues, hardware and software issues running on HP and IBM servers.
• Providing support on windows platforms on local network.
• Installing XP/2000/2003 and preventive maintenance of computers and its peripherals.
• Troubleshooting of all Server and user level issues.
• Administering Windows 2003/2008 Server. (Active Directory, DHCP, DNS)
• Creating user in the active directory and assigning permission as per request as well as providing offshore support to the remote users.
• Maintaining all Active Directories used for production that includes installation of New Additional Servers.
• Applying windows Security Updates & Critical updates & Patching.
• Preparing & sending weekly and monthly reports.
• Installation, configuration and maintenance of SQL 2005 server and other applications as per the user requirement.
• Installing & Configuring NAS
• Installing, configuring and managing windows and Linux servers
• Installation and Configuration of ESX server version 3.5 & VSphere 4. 0 vCenter 2.5 for ESX server hosts.
• Installation and configuration of virtual machines in physical ESX server, Virtual Center Server & License Server.
• Configuring dedicated vmkernel & multiple service Console for better performance.
• Migrate and manage virtual machines and ensure high availability of applications.
• Performance Monitoring and Service console monitoring.
• Configurations of Virtual switched and network connections.
• Installing VMware Tools for Virtual machine.
• Manage VM's using VM ware virtual center and web access.
• Setting up priorities on CPU, Memory (RAM) and other resources.
• Controlling ESX Server's in Virtual Center Configuring HA & DRS for ESX Server.
• Implementation, configuration and maintenance of HA, DRS and VMotion and Resource pool.
• Creating and configuring port groups.
• Performing Snapshots and Cloning.
• Migrating VMotion, Hot VMotion, cold VMotion and Storage VMotion.
• Configured HA, DRS & Resource Pool and Manage the Cluster Level.
• Configured VMotion, Alerts, SNMP and SMTP.
• Configured iSCSI and connected to ESX Server manage the VM's.
• Configured Windows Cluster in VMware.
• Installation and configuring all types of RAIDs
• Migrate to Physical Server to Virtual Server using VMware Convertor (P2V Convention).
• Creating & Managing Resource pools and adding VMs into Resource pools.
• Monitoring the Esx Server alerts through HPOM & HP SIM
• Upgrading the Esx&Esxi Servers using vmware Update Manager.
• Installation of Citrix XenApp and XenServer.

Environment: Windows 2008/2003, Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, CISCO, NTFS, Dell Power Edge, IBM xSeries, HP Proliant G3, G5 Blade Servers, IIS Servers, VMware ESX 3.5 & 4.1 Servers, Citrix Xenapp and xenserver

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Installed and upgraded ESX 3.5/4.0
• Installed and upgraded vCenter 3.5/4.0.
• Build and upgrade of VM.
• Configured vSwitch, DRS, HA, Datastore.
• V2V conversions using vCenter Convertors.
• Patching of ESX servers using VMware Update Manager (VUM)
• Creating Virtual machine and installing the required applications and providing it to end user.
• Co-ordinate with VMware for any unknown issue.
• Used third party tool like Voptimzer to integrate with VMware for C and D drive expansion and reclamation.
• Checking the Disk space reports and alarms and reporting.
• Installation, Configuration and troubleshooting of Windows 2K3/2K8
• Configured 2/3 node Cluster on Windows 2003/ 2008 for SQL Database.
• SCVMM and Hyper-V Basic Configuration and Troubleshooting.
• Patching Servers.
• Co-ordinate with Microsoft for any unknown issue
• Installed and configured SQL 2005 for some of the Application present in Data center.

Environment: Windows 2003/2008,Active Directory, DNS DHCP, Vmware Esx3.x & 4.x, Dell PowerEdge, HP Proliant Servers.