SUMMARY

• Over 7+ years of experience in Windows and VMware Installation, Administration, and Configuration.
• Experience in managing Windows 2003/2008/2012 servers and windows patch management and window active directory.
• Working as Windows 2008 server admin. Installing, configuring and troubleshooting on the Windows server 2008 & 2008R2, 2012.
• Expert in Configuring and administering Active Directory, Exchange Server 2007/2010, SQL server 2008 R2, IIS 6.0/7.0.
• Extensive working on windows active directory and windows servers and sharepoint.
• Experience in Windows 2008 cluster design, implementation and addministration and patch management.
• Migrations from P2V, P2P, V2V using Double - take, V-converter and Plate spin.
• Create Snapshot and test Rollback, configure vMotion, Cluster and Failover.
• Participated in development and maintenance of Disaster Recovery & Backup.
• Resource Management Configuring VMware HA, VMware DRS Clusters for VMotion migrations between ESX servers.
• Having good experience on power Cli for managing vmware Vsphere management.
• Updated the Patches for ESX Servers using VMware Update Manager in Virtual Center.
• Having good knowledge on Ecommerce for trading services using computer networks.
• Expertise in deploy, implement and support Citrix Access Gateway/ NetScaler appliance to securely deliver any application with policy-based Smart Access control.
• Good experience in Windows 2012 cluster design, implementation and addministration.
• Excellent experience with configuring and implementing VMware backup products and disaster recovery solutions using Site recovery Manager (SRM) for Maintaining Business Continuity.
• Upgrading the Server Builds,Upgrading the NIC from 4gig to 10gig, teaming and Vlan tagging for redundancy and fault tolerance.
• Expertise in installing configuring, Citrix managing & troubleshooting of VMware ESXi5.0/ESX3.5, vCenter Servers.
• Built ESX servers and implemented complete integration with SAN for VMotion in a VMware DRS and HA enabled environment.
• Performing shutdown,restart.suspend and start VM guest using PowerCli.
• Experience in Windows cluster migration and Cluster Migration.
• Performed backup and restore operations of VMware host server's configuration, Virtual Machines backup, snapshots, P2V-V2V conversion using VMware stand-alone convertor, applying Patch updates,reporting, SSH
• Participated in complete system builds, upgrades, migrations, code deployments and patch management.
• Experience in Managing, monitoring and troubleshooting Physical server H/W issues.
• Server hardware troubleshooting by using through ILO and HP SIM.
• Experience in Windows server administration like Active Directory, GPOs and Trust relationships.
• Experience in Backup and restoration on Active Directory, DNS, DHCP.
• Configure, maintain and optimize the Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager infrastructure.
• Having good experience in managing data center for windows servers consisting of several physical and virtual machines.
• Migrated user's data among different windows servers for data center migration project. Mapped shared drives for user’s data after data migration. Data migration was done using tools like Robocopy/Richcopy and scripts as well.
• Experienced in configuring Windows Domain Controller and ADC 2003/2008 Server.
• Group Policy Design & Implementation in Active Directory, Service Manager.
• Good experience on performing regular and out-of-band Windows Server patching.
• Expertise in migrations from windows r2 versions and all san migrations.
• Experience in installation, configuration, managing and troubleshooting issues using IIS6.0/7.0 and 8
• Extensive experience with Active Directory, GPO’s, DHCP, DNS, IP, Sub Nets, VPNs, vLAN, Network routing, firewalls, LAN/WAN switching and Backup & Recovery, File & Print Server, IIS, FTP, Terminal Server.
• Created Backup policies and scheduling backup Jobs using Symantec Net Backup and Net Backup Exec, VERITAS Backup, NT Backup
• Expert in Configuring and administering Active Directory, Exchange Server 2007/2010, SQL server 2008 R2, IIS 6.0/7.0.
• Extensive experience in installation, configuration, maintenance, design, Administration, implementation, and support on Linux, and HP-UX Environment.
• Experience on vCenter and ESX Installation, Administration, and Configuration in ESXi3.x/4.x/5.x and 6.
• New VM from the Template and Cloning an Existing VM) as per the client request through change management process.
• Having good knowledge on Microsoft SharePoint 2010/2013.
• Having good knowledge and experience in wintel operations in an onsite-offershore model.
• Datacenter/Data domain Consolidation and Virtualization using VMware technologies: VMware vSphere 4.x/5.x, VMware ESX 2.5/3x/4.x,ESXi 3.5/4.x/5.x,vCenter Server 4.x/5.x,VMware View 4.x/5.0 VMware vCloud Director 1.5, Vrealize automation (VRA), Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI), VCAC, ThinApp, Update Manager, P2V, V2P, Templates, Snapshots, Cloning, DRS, HA, vMotion & SVMotion.
• Managed Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) provisioning and implementing, VMware View 4.x/5.x by configuring VMware View Composer, View connection server, View Agent and View Client.
• Creating, managing VM Ware cluster. Enabling HA and DRS features in a cluster P2V migration.
• Creating templates from VM's and deploy VM's from templates and allocate resources and creating duplicate VM's using cloning technology.
• Having experience in Cisco UCS 2.0 L1 to L2 level-Installing New blade server in UCS chassis, Creating server profile, configuring the server profile, Deploy VMware ESX on blade severs, mounting storage. Configuring alarms, Root Cause & System Log Analysis and reporting and troubleshooting problems with the help of Event Logs.
• Having good knowledge on Risk Management Framework
• Build, configure and deploy VMs and templates. Completed Physical-to-Virtual (P2V), Virtual-to-Virtual (V2V) migration of Windows 2003, & 2008 servers from VMware.
• Having good experience in wintel administration.
• Installing and configuring the windows servers with specific requirements on the VMware.
• VMware activities like disk expansion, CPU and memory addition.IIS
• Taking snapshots of virtual machines and deploying and exporting VMs from OVF.
• Virtual machines migration from one data store to another data store.
• Deployed VMware View Manager 4.6 and 5.3.
• Installing, configuring and Windows 2003 servers of DHCP, FTP, WSUS, Web Server and SQL Database Server.
• Creating and managing the users, groups, GPO in the Active Directory.
• Provisioning new servers, imaging; handling other daily routines; leading new deployments from systems perspective by coordinating internal resources; performing systems backups and restore procedures
• Performance optimization, regular health checks on servers and Systematic Troubleshooting of problems.
• Conducting proactive checks with regards to Windows and Antivirus
• Installing and Managing Active directory and FSMO Roles Transfer in Active Directory forest. Troubleshooting replication issues in active directory.
• Handling the complete installation, configuration & maintenance of Microsoft Windows Servers; designing the Backup Strategy for sites and ensuring scheduled/unscheduled Backups as per backup plan and restoration; managing Server, Domain, AD, User Rights, etc
• Having good knowledge on NIST, FISMA and other applicable guidance.
• Experience in Installing and configure the vmware Nsx appliances for a setup including vmware vsphere,vmwareNsx and openstack.
• Managing Microsoft failover clusters. Update server with Service packs, and Hot fixes.
• Implementing Fault Tolerance RAID levels in Windows and 2003/2008.
• Having good knowledge on Cisco MDS switches, Fiber channel HBAs in SAN environments.
• Knowledge experience in iSCSI, SAN, NAS, NFS storage and RAID concepts. Strong understanding of Networking Protocols like TCP/IP, UDP, SMTP, POP3, HTTP, DNS DHCP.
• Design and implementation of global monitoring solution using SCOM, HP SIM and Dell Open Manage.
• Experience in installing, maintaining and managing various rack mounted and Blade servers from CISCO, Dell, HP, and IBM
• Documentation knowledge with Microsoft Office Vision.
• Windows Server 2000/2003,Windows Server 2008 R2, Microsoft Exchange 2003/2007/2010 , DNS, TCP/IP, DHCP; managing Microsoft SQL Server 2005/2008 and Expertise on Office 365.
• Involved in Disaster recovery solution for VMware vSphere operation management Environment, vSphere Linked Mode and Replicated Storage, Failback Testing from Protected Site to Recovery Site in SRM and Shared Recovery Site across multiple Protected Sites
• Designed, installed and administered the NetBackup suite version 6.5 for medium-sized businesses, increased performance by 4% with new version. - Discussed variations in the different versions of NetBackup.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

VIRTUALIZATION: VMware vSphere 4.x / 5.x, VMware ESX 2.5, ESX 3.0, ESX 3.5, ESX 4.0, ESXi 3.5, ESXi 4.0, ESXi 4.1, ESXi 5.0, ESXi 5.1, vCenter Server 4.x/5.x, VMware View 4.x/5.0 (VDI),CITRIX, VMware vCloud Director 1.5 with MS SQL, VMware vCloud Connector Server and Node v1.5.0, VMware Horizon View 4.6/5.0/5.1/5.2 ,, VMware vCenter Operation, VMware vCenter server Appliance, VMware Health Analyzer and Capacity IQ, VMware vCenter Converter,power cli, VMware Vrealize orchestrator,VMware Update Manager, VMware vShield Manager, VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM), VMware Converter, VMware DRS, HA, vMotion, SVMotion.

SERVER OPERATING SYSTEMS: Windows Server 2003/2008/2012 - Active Directory Domain Services (ADDS), DNS, DHCP, Web-Server (IIS7, IIS6), TCP/IP Networking, FTP, LINUX.

DESKTOP OPERATING SYSTEMS: Windows98/XP/Vista/7/8 and Mac.

PROGRAMMING SKILLS: C,C++,java(basics), Shell, VB Script and Bash

MONITORING TOOLS: Nagios XI, VCentre Operations Manager 5.0., Advent net Opmanager ver 8,9, VEEAM, VKernel Capacity View

STORAGE: VMAX, VNX, NAS (NFS), SAN and ISCSI,NETAPP.

DATABASE: MS SQL 2008/2005, Oracle 11g/10g/9i, SQL 2008 and SQL 2012

BACKUPS: EMC Networker, VERITAS Netback up and Windows NT Backup, Vranger Pro, Veeam tools and VMware.

ANTIVIRUS: Symantec Endpoint 11.0, Norton Antivirus 6.0 and McAfee 7.0.

NETWORKING: Cisco 25xx, 35xx Routers and 35xx Switches.

NETWORK PROTOCOLS: TCP/IP, DHCP, HTTP, HTTPS, VPN, DNS, NTP, WINS, FTP, SSH, WinSCP and Telnet.

TERMINAL SERVICES: Remote Desktop Services, VNC, Putty and Terminal Services.

REMOTEMANAGEMENT TOOLS: IDRAC (Integrated Dell Remote Access Controller), RILO (Remote Insight Lights-Out), Terminal Services.

BACK UP TOOLS: Symantec Net Backup, Symantec Backup Exec version 8,9,10,11,12, Symantec System Recovery version 8,9,2010, VEEM Backup

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, TROY, MI

WINDOWS VMWARE ADMIN

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Responsible for windows Installation,Configuring and troubleshooting windows servers 2003/2008/2012.
• Hands-on experience in Deployment, requirement gathering, Installation, administration.
• Responsible for Upgrading/Migrating Windows NT domain to Windows Server 2003/2008 Active Directory and Windows 2008 Active Directory.
• Experienced in applying monthly updates to windows servers 2003/2008R2/2012 versions
• Responsible for configuring Windows Domain Controller and ADC 2003/2008 Server.
• Creating Group Policy Design & Implementation in Active Directory, Service Manager.
• Successfully configured ESX servers for HA and DR capabilities.
• Configured and deployed Cisco computing clusters with VMware ESXi 5.5 and vCenter 5.5.
• Installing, configuring, Troubleshooting and management of Windows 2003/2008 and 2012 servers.
• Responsible for Windows server provisioning and upgradation from 2003/2008 and 2012.
• Successfully executed P2V Project involving virtual environment of over 50 physical machines; it solved space and power capacity constraint at Data Centre
• Created User Accounts, groups and running scripts on production servers.
• Assigned local security policies on member servers and standalone servers using RDP.
• Manage and monitor Active Directory services and group policies.
• Provided L3 support for VMware virtual infrastructures.
• Responsible for Windows 2012 cluster design, implementation and addministration.
• Maintained and Troubleshooting windows servers windows 2003, 2008R2 and 2012 versions Creating disk spaces for windows servers.
• Performing physical to virtual servers (P2V) migration without downtime.
• Managed and troubleshoot Windows 2003/2008 file servers, Active Directory, WINS, DHCP, DNS, FTP, IIS & storage servers, SQL server 2005/2008 and Exchange Servers, Service Manager, group policy.
• Responsible for Windows 2008 cluster design, implementation and addministration
• Responsible for managing and troubleshooting windows server and active directory backup issues.
• Experience in administering Windows Terminal Server, Group Policy management and Active Directory environment.
• Responsible for automated management and configuration of vmware vSphere by using power cli.
• Managing Domain User Accounts, Distribution Groups with Active Directory/Exchange.
• Extensively managed Active Directory like all the problems related to user accounts, domain accounts, managing permissions etc.
• Skilled at Vrealize automation ( VRA) software 6.1 and 6.2 building and providing consolidated service approvals, reclamation and chargeback .
• Maintaining servers with latest security updates, critical patches, anti-virus, and backup.
• Maintaining Print servers, Application servers and File Servers, Active Directory Services, IIS Servers, DNS, and DHCP.
• Responsible for Installation, configuration and managing IIS6/II7 for veeam and Platespin applications.
• Responsible for managing SQL server Database for vmware, veeam and Platespin applications.
• Configured and maintained new VM's and Installed Microsoft Windows 2003/2008/2012 Servers, managing VM's and ESX servers.
• Performing vm's start,shutdown,suspend and restart using power cli and power back on.
• Leading team to manage wintel operations in an offshore-onsite model.
• Responsible for work with Technical teams to identify System, Application and Database related issues.
• Installing, configuring, Troubleshooting and management of ESXi 4.x/5.x and vCenter 4.x, 5.x
• Well Experienced with designing, installing and implementing Vmware Infrastructure and setting up ofVMwareFeatures like V-Motion, HA, DRS.
• Responsible and managing Windows cluster migration and Cluster Migration Wizard
• Responsible for using Systems Security Managers in generating ATO package and continuous monitoring artifacts.
• Responsible for managing several physical and virtual machines in wintel server adminisration
• Managed ESX and Windows servers located at various data centers. Each Data center has multiple clusters clusters used for HA and DRS for disaster recovery, Load balancing and troubleshooting.
• Responsible for connecting servers and managing in mobile server side applications.
• Creating and Deploying of Virtual Machines from Templates and creating Snapshots with in no time, Cloning of Virtual Machines for future Deployments.
• Creating and configuring VNetwork Standard Switch (VSwitch), VM Kernel Ports, VM ports, Service console and NIC teaming.
• Windows DC / Server administration and deployment of Windows 2000/2003 serversManaging domain controllers and their FSMO roles - Transferring and Seizing the roles, configuring global catalogs.
• Installation and configuration of Active Directory services upgrade and maintain Microsoft Exchange to latest release.
• Administration of Microsoft Windows 2000,2003 servers and implementation of DC, DNS, WINS, IIS, File Print servers and DHCP servers.
• Configuring vNetwork Distributed switches and migrating the networks from VNetwork standard switches to vNetwork Distributed switches.
• Experience with Vrealize operations manager (VROPS) in converging performance, capacity planning and configuration management.
• Responsible for migrations from windows r2 versions and all san migrations by using cluster wizard.
• Configuring different type of Port Groups Policies, Applying Security policies, Traffic Shaping, Load balancing, Failover detection, Hard and Soft zoning and VLAN Tagging.
• Migrated Physical Machines to Virtual Machines (P2V) and Virtual Machines to Virtual Machines (V2V) usingVMwareconverter and vCenter Guided Consolidation.
• Responsible for Installing,managing,configuring and troubleshooting mobile application servers in an infrastructure.
• Daily responsibilities included maintenance of Virtual machines for performance issues also implemented V-Motioning, Hot and Cold Migration of virtual servers and performed Storage VMotion where the storage is migrated.
• Upgraded 100+ ESX hosts from ESX 5.0 to ESX 5.5 using VMware Update Manager tool.
• Administration of user and group accounts and providing appropriate rights to user accounts according to their requirements.
• Installation and configuration of EMC Power Path in ESXi for SAN Storage Path optimization.
• Use of HP ILO for the debugging and troubleshooting of servers in a datacenter remotely.
• Created and maintained SQL server cluster for HA, DRS, VC, ESX servers and VM's.
• Good experience withVMwareUpdate Manager and Host Update utility to install patches and updates on ESX hosts and virtual machines.
• Responsible for using Nsx for replacing vmware vswtich and vsphere distributed switch to provide true networking.
• Managing vmware vSphere management using automation tool power cli and command line for vm's.
• Utilize SCOM system management tool to monitor infrastructure health.
• Involved in day to day support related to Data Center, documentation of run books, training, support, and coordination with off-shore team for moving/relocating Widows/VMware/Applications/Backup
• Responsible for supporting system design and implementations as well as provide first level of support for any issues.
• Creating,troubleshooting and configuring wintel server in an infrastructure.
• Supports integration between virtual platforms and desktop tools to deliver optimal environment for Customer support reps
• Planning migration strategies, DR plans with SAN and NAS data.

ENVIRONMENT: Windows servers,vSphere 4.0 and 5.0, Hyper-V, Windows 2008/2003 Server, Cisco UCS 5108, HP Blade C7000 and C3000, HP VCEM- Virtual Connect Enterprise Manager, VMware View Dell Power Edge Servers, Citrix and SQL.

Confidential, SAN JOSE, CA

WINDOWS VMWARE ADMIN

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Developed and enhanced an enterprise wide standard for multi-site organization including ESX/ESXi, Windows 2000/2003/2008 OS and server built standards.
• Responsible for Configuration / Maintenance of all roles on Windows and Linux servers like (DHCP, DNS, LDAP, Active Directory, File Server, Mail server (Exchange), Printer Service, IIS etc,.)
• Resolving the issues on Exchange server, AD, File Server and etc.., on the priority basis of SLA agreed.
• Directly responsible for deployment and support of VMware vSphere ESXi4.1/ESX 4.0
• Worked in the new datacenter to setup, configure and bring on line the Infrastructure Server's, assigning new vlans, ips and the like to the moved hosts.
• Worked on issues with Active Directory which was due to time needed to reconfigure the vms/physical boxes on the VLAN, Subnet, DNS settings.
• Performed up gradation of ESX 3.5 to vSphere 4.0, vCenter 2.5 to 4.0
• Developed and enhanced an enterprise wide VMware and x86 hardware standard for multi-site organization including ESX/ESXi, Windows 2000/2003/2008 OS and server built standards.
• Experience in Deployment and Implementation of VDI View 4.5.
• Understanding and experience SAN concepts, Citrix, snapshots, clustering and fail-over, file Permission management and disaster recovery.
• Led complete Physical-to-Virtual (P2V), Virtual-to-Virtual (V2V) and Virtual-to-Physical (V2P) migration of Windows NT, 2000 & 2003 Servers.
• Resolved all issues related with performance of SAN backed VMware ESX Infrastructure to determine proper allocation of resources to a multi-department user population with widely varying needs
• Responsible for vmware vSphere management using power cli and command line scripts to excute.
• Manage snapshots, clones, templates during patch releases and new server deployments
• Experience with installing, configuring and troubleshooting VMware Lab Manager.
• Expertise in Dell physical servers and HP Proliant blade servers in Data centers.
• Hands on experience in updating / upgrading ESX servers, Virtual Center servers and windows virtual machines using VMware Update manager and manual upgrades
• Installation and configuration of Microsoft Windows Vista, XP, 2000 server, Professional, Windows 2003 and 2008 Servers.
• Responsible for performing regular and out-of-band Windows Server patching.
• Customized 2000/2003 servers in terms of Registry, Audit/Account/Security policy, patching, to sustain.
• Interacted with different teams to meet the deadlines and participated in weekly meetings Developed network management processes within the ITIL v3 Framework with the team.
• Expert in Configuring and administering windows server, IIS 6.0/7.0, WSUS 3.0 SP2, Office 365, and Hyper-V 2012 servers in a clustering environment.
• Investigated new technologies, software, patches, and security packages, which will improve system performance and systems administration procedures.
• Managed and supported Windows NT/2000/2003 Active Directory domain network in multi-locations
• Planning and implementing wintel server setup,configuration and administration for wintel 2008,2003 and 2000 server.
• Using power cli managing and automating vSphere management like network,storage,vm and guest os.
• Experienced in setting up clustered environment for Load balancing and high availability of Web and Application servers using software balancer “Microsoft Network Load balancing tool”
• Extensive working experience in setting up cluster environment for Load balancing (NLB) high availability of Windows servers.
• Manage and monitor Active Directory services and group policies.
• Updated ESX host’s using VMware Update manager
• Supported a large scale Data Center projects including server installation, hardware maintenance, and break/fix activities
• Installed and configured Red Hat Enterprise Linux in a VMware ESX Virtual Environment.
• Installing and configuring Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 on ESX 4 based environment residing on HP Blades as required for UAT/Production
• Assisted in P2V conversions of Windows servers using VMware vConverter.HP Blade Center administration on HP blade models C7000/C3000.
• Connecting to ESX server by using VIC, putty and Web access.Provide research into VMware Thinapp initiative for increasing server virtualization.
• Perform emergency patching of Windows Servers to ensure compliance aligned with Microsoft out-of-band critical security releases
• Managing data center operations in particular administration intel based hp servers called wintel servers for hardware stability.
• Involved in Assessment of current environment for desktop virtualization.
• Involved in definition of success criteria for use cases.
• Created use cases for desktop design and implementation.
• Design and implementation of ThinApp environment.
• Add 50+ hosts bringing total to 105 managed hosts and administered more than 1500+ VMs.
• Created and managed separate VMware clusters like QA,Development and Production.
• Perform capacity analysis of existing physical production environment using VMware Capacity Planner.
• VMware tools upgrading and Windows patch updates.
• Migrated datacenters and converted physical servers to virtual servers using VMware convertor and HP Blade servers resulting in a reduction of racks and power usage, decrease downtime during maintenance and upgrades and improved monitoring.
• Created and managed resource pools for Virtual Machines.
• Monitoring and managing performance of ESX servers and Virtual Machines using Virtual Center Server for HA, DRS.
• Involved in live migration of Virtual Machines and Virtual machines files using the vMotion and Storage vMotion.
• Responsible for design and implementation of wintel servers version in an infrastructure.
• Application virtualization using VMware ThinApp 4.5 version.
• Building new Windows Server 2003/2008/R2 on Intel Server Platforms, IBM/HP/Dell PowerEdge servers as per the company’s Windows build standards.
• Administered and setup user profiles in Win2003/2008 servers and ADS maintenance
• Administered and setup Print servers in Win2003/2008 server.
• Installing and configuring the vmware Nsx appliances for a setup including vmware vsphere,vmwareNsx and openstack.
• Responsible for mobile application operations.
• Upgrading ESX versions on wintel hardware following normal standards and also using vmware update manager.
• Configuration survey and review, implementation, remediation, testing and training of VCE Vblock cloud infrastructure with focus on virtualization and compute technologies.
• Implementation of Microsoft DHCP, DNS, and Domain trust relationship, file and print services, user and group management.
• Expertise in System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) and System Center Operations Manager (SCOM)
• Topology, Line, and Component diagrams for multi-tenant and virtual desktop infrastructure(vdi) greenfield technology implementation
• Detailed Design documentation for multi-tenant and virtual desktop infrastructure greenfield technology implementation
• Rolled out VMware Lab Manager to Developers with a Self-service Portal to Deploy, Manage, and Maintain Virtual Datacenters; also deployed VDI desktop solution globally
• Responsible for Active directory, GPO, Domain users, Administrating users and groups and given appropriate permissions and privilege to access our LAN and Domain environment.
• Specialized in bringing a turnkey VDI VMware View Solution for over 3000 User; involved in Technology Infrastructure Planning, Execution, and Policy development.
• Responsible migration of wintel servers in an datacenter and patch management.
• Implemented RAID5 for Fault Tolerance on Domain Controllers.
• Installed SQL server 2005 and deployed many SQL cluster deployments for clients for database requirements.
• Migrated IIS6.0 to IIS7.0 using windows deployment tool 2.0.
• Patching the Production Servers during the green zone window with security patches.
• Maintain the Software deployment and management solution and ensure proper patching on client systems. Maintain the Domain environment, including setting policies as per the security settings.
• Defining group permissions and creating local and global groups with account policies using Enterprise Administrator. Creating user rights and defining local and roaming profiles.
• Responsible to maintain the server inventory and document the server build/decommission, application installation/configuration, backup verifications, Operating System user accounts auditing, etc.
• Working on Change Management and Request Management Tickets in Remedy Tool
• Perform regular planned patching of Windows Servers to ensure security compliance aligned with Microsoft monthly patch releases
• ThinApp Packages Applications Upgrades and deployment testing and Production Implementation.
• Experience in writing and debugging multi-threaded applications and packaging.
• Assist staff with the installation, configuration, and ongoing usability of desktop computers, peripheral equipment and software within established standards and guidelines.
• Worked on resource management framework like creation resource pools, adding the VMs into Resource pools

ENVIRONMENT: vSphere 4.0 and 5.0, ESXI 5.0, Windows 2008/2003 Server, Cisco UCS 5108, VCE V block, UCS manager, VNX, EMC Unisphere, HP Blade C7000 and C3000, putty, Power shell and SQL.

Confidential, PHILADELPHIA, PA

SYSTEM ADMIN

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Designing and Documentation for Racks move from one cage to other big cage in datacenter.
• Worked on large datacenter consolidations and completed them successfully using multiple P2V conversion using Vcenter Converter.
• Job includes installation and configuration ofVMwareESXi 4.x, installation and configuration ofVMwareVirtual Center Server and creating Virtual Machines.
• Responsible for creating management server for both internal and external cloud.
• Designed, Acquired and Deployed a corporate VMware ESX Server infrastructure with capacity for 200 servers across 3 separate environments
• Rolled out VMware View as our strategic Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) solution to support globalization
• Analyzed, Administration and Support of Desktops, Thin Clients using Virtual Desktop Interface (VDI) Technology. Identify, evaluate and recommend Zero and Thin Client Endpoint Devices.
• Installing,configuring and trouble shooting wintel servers in an infrastructure.
• Assist in P2V conversion of Windows 2000, Windows 2003, and Linux based server editions using enterpriseVMwareconverter and also installed theVMwaretools on that machines.
• Provided disaster recovery and backup services using theVMwareconsolidated Backup (VCB).
• Job also includes creating templates and deploying Virtual Machines through templates, cloning Virtual Machines and managing Virtual Center permissions.
• Creating and ManagingVMwarecluster with HA and DRS.Creating and Managing resource pools for Virtual Machines. Monitoring and managing performance of ESX servers and Virtual Machines.
• Using Virtual center server for HA, DRS and VMotion.Working on Migration concepts likeVMotion and cold migration.
• Responsible for converting physical to virtual machines in wintel administration.
• Creation & Troubleshooting of Virtual Network.Troubleshooting ESX & Virtual Machines.
• Creation of templates from VMs and Creation of VMs from templates.
• Performance monitoring and tuning for ESX Servers, Virtual Center Server and VMs.
• Installation, configuration and management of Veeam Backup and Replication for virtual machine backup.Management of HP SIM for hardware monitoring.
• Installation, configuration and management of Windows Server 2003.
• Management for Active Directory and patch management.

ENVIRONMENT: Virtual Infrastructure 3, vSphere 4.0, Hyper-V, Windows 2008/2003 Server, HP EVA 8400, HP Blade C7000, HP Blade C3000, HP VC Flex 10

Confidential

SYSTEM ADMINISTRATOR

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Main role is to provision virtual machines and physical as per client requirements.
• Extensively managed Active Directory like all the problems related to user accounts, domain accounts, managing permissions etc.
• Involved in operational support of Active Directory, WINS, DNS, and AD enabled applications.
• Installing and updating the windows patches.
• Creating NTFSshares on Windows Servers and provide permissions to users.
• Setting up perfmon windows servers to analyze performance issues.
• Built and manage Virtual servers on VMwareESXServer3.0/3.5.
• Experience in creating Clusters in Virtual Center and adding ESX Hosts to Virtual Center Cluster.
• Experience in setting up VMKernel Network and Enable VMotion.
• Worked on Migrating Virtual Machines with VMotion.
• Experience in configuring VMware DRS Rules and VMware HA on Clusters in Virtual Center.
• Experience in creating and monitoring Resource Pool for Virtual Machines Resource Reservation and Limits.
• Troubleshoot computer/network, Internet and email problems for users.
• Creating and managing user accounts and the groups in Active Directory users and computers.
• Involved in daily Performance monitoring and Active Directory troubleshooting with the ability to analyze server performance and make recommendations for improvement.
• Helped in auditing Datacenter Inventory in the process of Data center migration.

ENVIRONMENT: HP Proliant BL C 7000, VMware VSphere 4.0, ESX 3.5, VM Converter, Virtual Center, Virtual Infrastructure Client, VMotion, VReplicator, clustering, SAN/NAS, VCB, Vcenter Capacity Planner, Disaster Recovery & Backup, VMware HA & DRS, Windows Server 2000/2003/2008 , Veritas Netbackup, Seagate Backup.

Confidential

SYSTEMS ADMINISTRATOR

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Configuration of Domain Naming Server (DNS)
• Configuration of Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol.
• Configuration and Managing Remote Installation Service (RIS), FTP server
• User, group, OU creation, implementing group policies.
• Configuration of Printer, Modem, Scanner.
• Semantic antivirus console management, updating antivirus definitions through centralize Symantec antivirus server.
• Installation of Operating Systems Win98, Win XP, Win NT, Win 2000, Win 2003,Linux .
• Trouble shooting the networking related problems
• Installation of various software’s.Active involvement in monitoring server performance, network traffic to reduce performance bottleneck.Managing cron jobs, batch processing and job scheduling.
• Maintaining network inventory, data backup and documentation for all hardware & software
• Responsible for Installation, Configuration, Support and troubleshooting existing systems in Redhat Linux 3 and 4.
• Created users and groups and assigned privileges to them, as a part of Network Security.
• Used the logical volume manager (LVM) to create a volume group, which was then partitioned into logical volumes.

ENVIRONMENT: Windows 2000 Server, Windows 2003 Server, Windows NT Server, Windows XP/98