SUMMARY:

• 7 years of experience in IT Industry as a system administrator specialized in the areas of VMware Virtualization, Virtual Desktop Infrastructure VDI ,Citrix Xendesktop, Windows Server 2008 / 2003 ,and Desktop Environment XP,Win7 Administration.
• VMware VCP5, VCP4 Certified Administrator with extensive experience in VMware Virtualization administration with a primary focus on installation, configuration, and administration of VMware VSphere Suite, ESX/ESXi 4.0/4.1 and 5.0,VMwareVCenter 4.0/4.1/5.0 and Windows Servers 2000/2003/2008 R2 , Linux ,XP and Win 7 Operating systems administration.
• Expertise in WINS, DNS, DHCP and Active Directory services in Windows 2003/2008 servers.
• Experience working on Change Management, Request Management and Incident Management in Service Center/Remedy.
• Experience in Citrix Xendesktop and Citrix Provisioning services.
• Experience in Implementing and Administration of Active Directory Services, replication, Trust Relationship and Enforcing Domain Group Policy.
• Experience in implementing and configuring hardware and software RAID under Windows NT/2000/2003/2008.
• Good experience in Blade server hardware, RAID, Microsoft Windows Clusters. Compaq / HP Blade Server hardware maintenance. HP Insight Manager
• Worked in large complex directory environments with experience supporting Windows 2003/2008 Active Directory AD .
• Experience with Microsoft Network Load Balancing and Microsoft Clustering technologies.
• Excellent skills in patching and hardening Win2000/Win2003/2008 servers using Windows Update and also by using the staged patches.
• Experience in resolving all levels of Severity Tickets, root cause investigations, system outages.
• Proficient Experience in installation and configuration of VMware ESX 3.0/3.5,vSphere 4.0, VMware ESXi 4.1/5.0/5.1, VMware Virtual Center 2.0/3.5/4.0/5.0.
• Experience in configuring VMware CPU and memory shares for virtual machines.
• Experience in building VMware virtual machines from templates and CD/ISO image.
• Administration of VMware Virtual Center and virtualization services VMware DRS, VMware HA, VMotion and SVMotion.
• Expert knowledge on configuring hardware iSCSI and NFS storage to VMware ESX i hosts from vSphere client.
• Experience in configuring VMware standard vSwitch dvSwitch.
• Experience in cloning VMs and deploy new virtual machines from clones.
• Converted many P2V physical servers to Virtual Machines using VMware vCenter Converter part of decommission legacy servers effort.
• Experience in migrating the virtual machines between the ESX i Hosts using cold migration and VMotion.
• Provided 24/7 On Call production support onsite and remotely on rotation basis.

TECHNICAL PROFICIENCIES

• VMWARE PLATFORM SKILLS: vSphere 5.1 / 5.0 / 4.1 / 4.0, ESXi 5.1 / 5.0, ESX 4.1 / 4.0, Virtual Center Server, VMware View, VMware vCenter Orchestrator, Virtual Desktop Infrastructure VDI , HA, DRS, Storage vMotion, Site Recovery Manager, Host Profiles, vApp, VMware vCenter Heartbeat, VMware vSphere Client, VMware Thinapp, P2V, V2V, VMware Consolidated Backup, VMware Management Assistant, Capacity Planning, Plate spin Power convert
• MICROSOFT PRODUCTS AND TOOLS: Active Directory Domain Services, AD lightweight Directory Services, AD Certificate Services, Active Directory Federation Services, Active Directory Rights Management Services, DNS, Exchange 2007, Exchange 2010, Hyper-V, WSUS server, SQL Server 2005, SQL server 2008, Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager, IIS 6, IIS 7, DHCP, TCP/IP
• SERVER OPERATING SYSTEMS: Microsoft Windows 2000, 2003, 2008 R2,
• DESKTOP OPERATING SYSTEMS: Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7
• MANAGEMENT TOOLS: HP Onboard Administrator, HP Virtual Connect Manager, Avocent DS View, Putty, MKS Integrity Change Management Software, Groundworks VI Monitoring Tool, Vkernel Monitoring Software, Microsoft Robocopy GUI, Solar winds IP Address Tracker, Veeam Backup, FastSCP

PROFESSIONAL SUMMANY:

Confidential

System administrator

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Install Configure and Administration of VMware Horizon View 5.1and VCloud Virtual Desktop Infrastructure VDI environment.
• Day to day activities include installing, configuring and management of VMware Horizon View Virtual desktops ,RDS Hosted Desktops and Citrix Xendesktops in USAA VDI Virtual Environment.
• These Include management of Floating and Dedicated pools in VMware View and Private, Existing Streamed and Shared Desktop Groups and Catalogs in Citrix Xendesktop Environment.
• Currently working as VDI Infrastructure Engineerfor Virtual Desktop infrastructure implementation, providing 24 7hr VDI production support.
• Implemented VMware Horizon View Virtual Desktop infrastructure with more than 12000 Virtual Desktops and Performed VMware View upgrade from View 5.0 to View 5.1.
• Configured and Implemented VMware Horizon View Linked clone technology using View Composer to migrate 12000 Virtual Desktops to Windows 7 OS from XP OS.
• As part of migrating from traditional application delivery to application virtualization to users we are using VMware ThinApp 5.0 to virtualize applications and deliver to users with isolation from OS and better User rich Experience and Better packaging capability.
• Excellent Administration and troubleshooting skills in issues related to View Connection servers, View Manager, View Security servers, View Composer, View Pools, View desktops ,VDI Virtual Center, Snapshot Creation and Templates for XP and Win 7 OS.
• Responsible for Capacity planning and Hardware procurements as per Client standards for Expanding Virtual Desktop Environment needs pertaining to Network and Storage areas.
• Responsible for the implementation of VMware View VDI upgrades, Change Management, Problem Management, and ITIL related process.
• Work in conjunction with VDI Project Teams in design, development and implementation of VDI-related operational procedures, standards and deliverables pertaining to new VDI projects.
• Monitoring and Reporting the health status of VMware Horizon View VDI Environment.
• Responsible for using Power CLIand Power shell scripts for better management of VSphere and VDI environments.
• Implemented PCoIP Network bandwidth optimization techniques over long distance WAN VDI.
• Strong Knowledge of P2V and V2V Conversions using VMware Converter and Citrix XenConverter.
• Experience in Deploying and Supporting Citrix Xen Desktop5.6 and Citrix Provisioning services 6.1 Farms.
• Install, Configure and Administration of Citrix Xendesktop 5.6, Citrix Web Interface, Citrix Desktop Delivery Controllers, Desktop Studio, Citrix Licensing. Citrix Receiver.
• Responsible for Creating Citrix Templates, Citrix Catalogs, Desktop Groups for Private, Shared and Streamed catalog types.
• Install, configure, Troubleshoot and Administration of VSphere 5.0, ESXi 5.0, Virtual Center 5.0.
• Experience in upgrading the ESXi, VCenter Servers from4.0/4.1/5.0 and 5.1 with clean and in-place upgrade methods involving the configuration of SQL Server 2005/2008.
• Good experience with VMware Update Manager and Host Update utility to install patches and updates on ESXi hosts and virtual machines.
• Experience on ESX/ESXi Troubleshooting, Virtual Center Administration Host Profiles, Distributed Switches, HA, DRS, VMotion, and SVMotion, FT, Resource pools, vCenter Permissions, Snapshots, Disk expansions and Building Templates for Desktop Images.
• Knowledge of working with Cisco switches and routers in setting up Firewall rules.
• Strong Experience in configuring vSwitches and DVswitches in VMware Environment.
• Strong Knowledge of setting and configuring of EMC SAN, NAS, iSCSI, Netapp storage from Virtual platform end.
• Windows DC / Server administration and deployment of Windows 2003/2008 servers, and implementation of DC, DNS, WINS, IIS, File, Print servers and DHCP servers.
• Knowledge of setting up of HP DL G5 and G7 servers and HP blade servers and adding memory and storage and network cards.

Confidential

VMWARE Admin

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Installed, Maintained windows server 2003/2008 on HP and IBM servers
• Worked on providing 3rd Level support for 2500 Windows 2003/2008 Servers.
• Build servers with Raid Configuration RAID 5 and Raid 1 0 on HP Proliant DL380, 360, 580, ML370 servers.
• Worked on Change Management, Request Management and Incident Tickets in Service Center.
• Configuring windows firewall settings using group policy.
• Responsible for the implementation of VDI upgrades, Change controls, Problem management and Capacity planning.
• Installed and Configured WIN, DNS, DHCP, IIS and Terminal Services.
• Extensively managed Active Directory like all the problems related to user accounts, domain accounts, managing permissions etc.
• Experience in Remote deployment of Microsoft Windows 2003/2008 servers using Altiris deployment solution or manual installation of a server using ILO for remote connection to a server.
• Maintaining servers with latest security updates, critical patches, anti-virus, and backup
• Maintaining Print servers, Application servers and File Servers.
• Decommissioning of windows servers, including the disk wipes and drilling the hard disks depending on client requirements for each server.
• Experience in configuring Microsoft Load balancer NLB for Web Servers and Applications servers to distribute load and High Availability.
• Experience in Remote deployment of Windows 2000/2003 servers using Altiris deployment solution or manual installation of a server using RSA/RILO for remote connection to a server.
• Build 200 VMware vSphere hosts and added to new/existing VMware Clusters.
• Experience on creating new VMware Clusters with HA and DRS enabled.
• Virtualized 50
• Building new VMware virtual machines to meet the specifications provided by the client.
• Experience in deploying new Virtual Machines from OVF/OVA templates.
• Creating Roles and permissions in VMware ESX Server 3.0/3.5/4.0
• Migrated VMware ESX 3.5 u2 to ESX 4.0 using VMware update Manager.
• Experience on hot and cold clone process.
• Installed/updated patches on VMware ESX i hosts using VMware Update Manager tool.
• Updated VMware tools on virtual machines using Update Manager tool.
• Provided 24/7 On Call support onsite and remotely on rotation basis.

Confidential

Confidential

VMWARE/WINDOWS ADMINISTRATOR

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Building new Windows Server 2003/2008 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.
• Implementation of Microsoft DHCP, DNS, and Domain trust relationship, file and print services, user and group management.
• Implemented RAID 5 for Fault Tolerance on Domain Controllers.
• Installed SQL server 2005 and deployed many SQL cluster deployments for clients for database requirements.
• Migrated IIS 6.0 to IIS 7.0 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
• Built and configured ESX 3.5/4.0 hosts and deployed XP/Vista/2003/2008 VMware Virtual Guests.
• Experience in configuring and enabling VMware EVC on VMware clusters.
• Experience with VMware system patching using update manager.
• Responsible to ensure servers are current with firmware, drivers, patches and security updates.
• Proficient in managing ESX Hosts using VMware vCenter.
• Linked Different vCenter servers using linked mode to have a single instance through vSphere client to manage the whole Virtual environment.
• Experience in configuring Hardware iSCSI to Rack servers and add storage to VMware ESX hosts.
• Experience in configuring VMware vCenter Alarms for data store and host memory and CPU usage.
• Experience in configuring and management of VMware Clusters, VMware DRS, High Availability

Confidential

• Worked on Migrating Virtual Machines with VMotion.
• Experience in creating Virtual Machines on Shared Data Store.
• Created and managed Virtual Machines and Templates, worked with clones and snapshots of Virtual Machines.
• Experience in setting up VMware standard vSwitch and ports groups Service Console, Virtual Machine and VMKernal.
• Providing 24/7 on call support for critical and production issues.

Confidential

VMWARE/WINDOWS 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 NTFS shares on Windows Servers and provide permissions to users.
• Setting up perfmon windows servers to analyze performance issues.
• Built and manage Virtual servers on VMware ESX Server 3.0/3.5.
• 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

Confidential

Windows Administrator

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Worked as systems engineer for support and maintenance of server hardware and applications.
• Helped in preparing documentation for server deployments and configurations for application installations.
• Performed Windows server installations for expansion of existing servers to handle server CPU and Memory load.
• Performed few infrastructure application installations in clustered environment as part of load balancing to handle application load and to reduce downtime.
• Worked as a hardware technician for hardware maintenance and replacement.
• Used monitoring tools for server monitoring and maintenance.
• Performed troubleshooting on windows event logs and errors for system and application event logs.
• Took active part in administrative tasks and maintenance of servers.