Experience Summary

• A qualified System Administrator/engineer with cross - platform experience in systems engineering and administration, including analyzing, designing, installing, migrating, maintaining, and repairing hardware, software, application packaging, virtualization, and networks
• A dedicated and responsible professional, results-oriented, ambitious, visionary, good planner, team player working closely with customers, troubleshooting and technical support abilities with migrations, network connectivity, and security
• Self-starter with analytical, technical, capable of communicating creative ideas through clear and concise documentation

Profile Summary

• 8 years of experience in VMware virtualization and infrastructure management
• Expertise in Windows 2000/2003/2008 server administration and active directory administration
• Experience in implementation of VMWARE ESXi 5.0, ESXi 4.1, ESX4.0,vSphere, VM virtual center, VMware Workstation
• Expertise in administering File servers and Print servers
• Experience in implementing and administering VMware vSphere, Permissions, HA settings, DRS settings, Cluster groups, Resource Pools, Host Profiles, Licensing, Templates, ThinApp, Data Stores, and Networking
• Extensive knowledge in advance features of ESX VMOTION, SVMOTION, HA and DRS including Lab Manager and Orchestrator.
• Experience with vBlock Overvie and SAN storage administration
• Experience in P2V, V2V MIGRATION using VMware Converter 4.0/5.0 / PlateSpin 6.8.x. Creating host and client VM templates and cloning.
• Experience with Data Center migration in virtualization infrastructure.
• Experience in installing, configuring, administering, and performance tuning Microsoft SQL Server 2000/2005 familiar with Database Creation, Database Security, Database Replication/ Migration, Database Performance Monitoring, User Management, Database Backup/Restoration, Import/Export of SQL Database, Transact SQL, SQL Query analyser and profiler.
• Knowledge of Site Recovery Manager on disaster recovery and VCenter Operations Manager
• Knowledge and experience on scripting tools such as PowerShell, vCLI.
• Good Understanding and Knowledge VBlock and components and experience with Cisco UCS administration
• Experience in iSCSI SAN, NAS, NFS storage and RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 5 concepts.
• Extensive understanding of networking concepts, IE. Configuration of networks, router configuration and wireless security, TCP/IP, VPN, Content Filtering, VLANs, and routing in LAN/WAN, Ethernet Port, Patch Panel and wireless networks.
• Excellent understanding of networking fundamentals and network security. Installation, Configuration and managing Firewalls like Fortinet, ZyWall, SonicWall, ISA with content filtering, Anti-Spam, Web filtering, NAT, Application Publishing to public IP, Port Forwarding, log analyzing with Syslog Server. Experienced in installation, configuration, design and ongoing maintenance of Cisco router and switches.
• Designed and implemented of enterprise wide Virtualization Projects with VMware and Vblock POC
• Experience in Microsoft Office Suite, Open Office, Visio, Outlook, Printing and Windows networking.
• Experience with x86 / x64 Intel, HP, IBM Dell hardware like rack-mounted servers, tower servers, desktop, laptop and other peripherals.
• Experience with HP Proliant Blades BL460C / BL620C Series, HP Blade C3000 Servers, Dell M1000 Blade Server, HP Blade enclosures, Dell Storage MD 3000i, 3600i series, HP ML/DL Series.
• Familiar with Data Center/Server Farm environment like Servers deployment, Cabling labeling maintaining AC cooling, Environmental Sensing Devices, power and UPS monitoring.
• Involved in day-to-day activities of remote maintenance / troubleshooting of Windows Server VMWARE ESX servers' in production / lab environment.
• The ability to install computer and electronic equipment in a safe and careful manner.
• Strong communication and people skills, both written and verbal. Able to assess and resolve client issues quickly. A proven record of reliability, the ability to perform under time constraints, and good judgment under pressure.
• Ability to maintain a reliable and methodical approach to support and Documentation. Quick learner, highly motivated team player with excellent organizational and analytical skills.
• Server build for physical server on HP hardware DL380 DL580 for Windows 2000/2003

Skills

VMware

VMware VSphere 4.1/5.0, Workstation 6 and 7, ESX Server 3x and 4x, VMware Virtual Center Server 2x and 3x, VMware DRS, HA and FT, VMware Capacity Planner, VMware Converter 3.0, VMware Update Manager 1, VMware Virtual Desktop Infrastructure VDM 2.0, VMware View, VMware Vie Composer, Thinstall Application Virtualization, VEEAM, VMSight, Platespin, Citrix Xenserver, Hyper-V, and Virtual-pc.

Operating System

Windows XP, Vista, 7, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows 2003, Windows Server 2000, Windows Server 2008.

• Application Servers
• SQL Server 2000 and 2005, Microsoft Active Directory 2003, Microsoft Exchange 5.5, Microsoft Exchange 2000, DHCP, DNS and WINS Services, Microsoft Internet Information Services 6.0, WDS services, MS Cluster Server
• Backup Solutions
• VMware VCB, Symantec NetBackup 6.0/6.5, Vizioncore VrangerPro, HPDP
• Desktop Application
• Microsoft Office 2003, GroupWise 6.5 and 7.0 SP1, Outlook 2003 and Evolution, Open Office, VMware Workstation 5.0 and 6.0
• Hardware
• Dell Servers 1950, 2950, 6950, Dell Power Edge Servers, HP ProLiant BL685 and BL465 Blade Servers series Class C, IBM Blade Servers, HP Thin Client 5445, WYSE VL10 and VL9, Network Interface Card, Multi Serial Port Adapter, Printers, CDR and CDROM, Hard drive, Hubs, Switches and DSL Modems, RAM, Audio and Video card
• VMware
• VMware VSphere 4.1/5.0, Workstation 6 and 7, ESX Server 3x and 4x, VMware Virtual Center Server 2x and 3x, VMware DRS, HA and FT, VMware Capacity Planner, VMware Converter 3.0, VMware Update Manager 1, VMware Virtual Desktop Infrastructure VDM 2.0, VMware View, VMware Vie Composer, Thinstall Application Virtualization, VEEAM, VMSight, Platespin, Citrix Xenserver, Hyper-V, and Virtual-pc.

Professional experience confidential

VMware Consultant:

• Involved in Large scale Data Center build and migration across the two regions that include service transition.
• Involved in Ne builds and configuration of 2003/2008/2008 R2 servers, ESXi Host clusters and further setting up the datacenter.
• Performed and handled extensive P2V, V2V migrations for approximately 700 physical Windows 2000/2003 and 2008/2008R2 servers utilizing VMware Converter and SAN Replication method.
• Performed RoboCopy as part of migration method when other methods were not applicable.
• Administration of Domain Controllers, IIS Web Servers, Exchange Mail Servers, WSUS Patching servers, print Servers, System Management Servers SMS, Terminal Servers, RAS and File servers on Windows 2003 and windows 2000 in the data centre/server farm.
• Day to Day Operations on VBlock Environment, Virtualization, UCSM and Storage.
• Deployed HP virtual connect, physical servers, ESXi 5.0 and HP C7000 blade infrastructure on BL465G7 and BL685G7 blades and Hitachi SAN and brocade DCX 8510.
• Deployed, maintained and created virtual environment with VSphere 5.0 and ESXi 5.0 with 1000 virtual servers and 500 physical servers.
• Managed and created server profiles for ESXi Host and physical servers using VCEM.
• Configured Virtual Distributed Switch and VLAN configuration for production environment.
• Performed SAN replication in case of complex server migration using swing kit to virtualized SAN.
• Configured VMOTION and SVMOTION as per VMWARE's best practices in large scale enterprise environment.
• Administration, configuration of VBlock
• Built and migrated physical MS Cluster 2003/2008, VERITAS cluster in to virtual environment.
• Installed and implement NFS server using windows UNIX service and configured with VMware Host servers for storage.
• Performed backup and restored Virtual Machine with snapshot, and also involved in ESXi Host Patching from version 62 .
• Installed and configured VMware Update Manager for patching purpose.
• Configured HA and DRS, SDRS as per VMware best practices and applied on ESXi Cluster and Storage Cluster
• Managed Windows 2000/2003/2008 and provided Active Directory support.
• Deployed and configured VMWARE vie 5.0 desktop infrastructure.
• Administrated and troubleshoot technical hurdles in day to day virtual as well physical infrastructure.
• Created and handled technical documentation including Root Cause Analysis RCA Documents, CookBooks, RunBooks.
• Performed day to day activities such as ticket handling, troubleshooting and monitoring the VMware Infrastructure.

Environment: Windows 2000/ 2003/2008/2008 R2, Exchange Server 2003/2010, Windows XP/Vista/Win 7, VMware ESXi 5.0 Server, FC, Open filer iSCSI SAN/NAS, Hitachi SAN, NetApp, HP 685 and HP 465 Blade Servers, HP DL385, HPDP Backup, Firewall, Remote desktop services confidential

VMware Administrator:

• Installed and configured ESXi 4.1 Servers on Blade Servers.
• Using VMware vCenter created DataCenter Environment by creating VMware clusters, adding ESX hosts in the clusters, and implemented HA and DRS.
• Migrated servers/clusters from one Data Center to another performing backup.
• Performed physical to virtual P2V migrations for approximately 500 physical servers utilizing VMware Converter.
• Daily provisioning and optimization of storage environment with NetApp FAS3050, FAS3160, FAS270
• Wrote the strategy document to upgrade the existing VBlock 2.4 matrix to 2.4.1 and then on to 2.5.2 Matrix
• Build the Vblock based private cloud datacenter
• Administrating multiple labs in VMware Lab Manager
• Shared knowledge on Linux scripting working among team members in VMware.
• Involved in installing/configuring and troubleshooting VMware Lab Manager and administrating multiple labs in Lab Manager and dealing with Lab Manager issues
• Administrating DNS, DHCP, and Exchange ISA servers. Created and managed user and group accounts in User Manager and in MS Exchange Administration.
• Experienced with x86 / x64 Intel, HP, IBM Dell hardware like rack-mounted servers, tower servers, desktop, laptop and other peripherals.
• Migration planning for customers to move to Vblock with Microsoft Windows 2008 and SQL Server database
• Managing Exchange 2003 server's and troubleshooting issues related to mail delivery, configuring MX records to enable and disable domain.
• Reduced CPU load on NetApp filers from 90 to 55 by optimizing volume configuration.
• Installing, configuring and troubleshooting VMware View
• Installed and Implemented VMware ESXi 4.1 host servers with vSphere Client, vSphere CLI. Configured HBAs and iSCSI SAN storage.
• Performed backup and restore of VMware host server configuration, Virtual Machine backup, snapshot, P2V-V2V conversation with VMware converter and with other third party converters, Patch Update, monitoring/reporting, SSH and SNMP and notification of alerts.
• Installed and implement NFS server using windows UNIX service and configured with VMware Host servers for storage.
• Installed and implemented open source OpenFiler 2.3 iSCSI SAN with RAID 10 for VMware and other servers with iSCSI initiators.
• Participated in the DataCenter, VM's migration planning, developing, testing and moving the migration process onto full-fledged production network.
• Worked with ESXi 5.0 and VSphere 5.0 with fe servers in Staging Environment.

Environment: Windows 2000/ 2003/2008/2008 R2, Exchange Server 2003/2010, Windows XP/Vista/Win 7, VMware ESXi 4.1 Server, Open filer iSCSI SAN/NAS, iStore SAN, Dell PowerEdge Servers, Dell PowerVault NAS, Zywall and SonicWall Firewall, Remote desktop services confidential

Windows/Vmware Administrator

• Responsible for Windows server environment support
• Involved in Active Directory planning, design and support
• Migration of Virtual machines from ESX 3.5 to ESX 4.0
• Managed installation of ESX 4.0 on fe Dell PowerEdge Servers and deployed 500 VMs in Development Phase
• Configured clusters on HA and DRS enabled
• Installed and Configured Exchange Server 2003
• Managed Active Directory updates and server configuration
• Tested and implemented Group Policies
• Responsible for DNS, DHCP Troubleshooting
• Involved in Windows Server 2008 OS installation and troubleshooting
• Performed Third party software evaluation, installation and troubleshooting
• Created custom installation scripts to automate corporate and third party software, updates, and patches on workstations and servers using Wise, Windows Installer and other scripting languages to be deployed via Microsoft SMS
• Created Microsoft SMS advertisements, collections, packages
• Used VMware virtual systems for development and testing scripts
• Created custom utilities for ease of administration
• Created custom scripts to update systems settings

Environment: Windows 2000/2003/2008, SMS, SQL Server 2000, Exchange Server 2003, Microsoft WSUS, Windows XP, VMware ESX 4.0 Server and Workstation, Open filer, IBM TSM, EMC SAN, Dell NAS, SonicWall Firewall. confidential

Windows System Engineer:

• Installing, configuring, administration of Windows 2003 servers, Active Directory Services, DNS DHCP, FTP, WSUS, IIS Web Server and SQL Database Server, System Management Servers SMS servers.
• Experienced with x86 / x64 Intel, HP, IBM Dell hardware like rack-mounted servers, tower servers, desktop, laptop and other peripherals.
• Managing Exchange 2003 servers and troubleshooting issues related to User and group accounts, mail delivery, configuring MX records to enable and disable domain.
• Administering DHCP Server-creation of reservation and under reservation options, configuring of router IP address.
• Responsible for Active directory, GPO, Domain users, Administrating users and groups and given appropriate permissions and privilege to access our LAN and Domain environment.
• Configure and Managed Microsoft Outlook 2003/2007 for the users.
• Configured Terminal Server to access to the servers using Remote Desktop Protocol RDP .
• Excellent understanding of SAN, NAS storage architecture.
• Responsible for Security Patch Management and Deployment to all clients using Microsoft WSUS.
• Installing, configuring, administering, and performance tuning Microsoft SQL Server 2000 familiar with Database Creation, Database Security, Database Replication/ Migration, Database Performance Monitoring, User Management, Database Backup/Restoration, Import/Export of SQL Database, Microsoft SQL Clustering, SQL Query analyser and profiler.
• Installing, configuring, administering, troubleshooting VMware server on ESX platform and VMware client, workstation.
• Installation and Configuration of networks, router/switches configuration and wireless access point/router with security, TCP/IP, VPN, Content Filtering, Access Control Lists on router/switches, VLANs port mapping, naming etc., and routing IP address in both LAN/WAN and wireless networks.
• LAN Cabling, RJ-45 crimping, Labelling, Patch Panel, PC Junction boxes, Phone Switches and Rack set-up.
• Analyze, log, track and complex software and hardware matters of significance pertaining to networking connectivity issues, printer, server, and application to meet business needs.
• Creating a backup job and also took backup of data center on daily, weekly and monthly basis.
• Environment: Windows 2000/2003, SMS, IIS 6.0, Exchange Server 2003, Microsoft WWSUS, Windows XP, VMware ESX Server, VMware Workstation.

confidential

System Administrator:

• Served in computer maintenance, performed all types of hardware, software maintenance and engineering in addition to systems selection, backup and technical support.
• 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.
• Implemented, Managed ISA server 2004 Firewall with web filtering and Remote Access VPN.
• Implemented and managed McAfee Antivirus EPO Server and clients for LAN security
• Monitoring of Internet usage, Antivirus statistics and reporting to Project Manager.
• Responsible managing Online Trading applications, Servers Connectivity with stock exchanges, providing remote support to end clients and branch users.
• Installation and Configuration of networks, router configuration and wireless access point/router with security, TCP/IP, VPN, Content Filtering, Access Control Lists on Cisco router/switches, VLANs port mapping, naming etc., and routing IP address in both LAN/WAN and wireless networks.
• Investigated user problems, determined possible solutions, oversa software, installation and upgrades.
• Creating a backup job and also took backup of data center on daily, weekly and monthly basis.
• Planned and coordinated with major vendors like ISP and V-SATs service providers for installation/Down Calls of branches.
• Assigned duties and supervised a team of junior network engineers.
• Environment: Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration ISA Server 2004, Windows 2000 Server, Windows 2003 Server, Windows NT Server, Windows XP.