PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Over 7 years of experience in architecture, deploying and upgrading systems, including hardware, software, networks, databases, servers, mobile devices, and peripheral equipment.
• Configured SAN , NAS and ISCSI storage on ESXi hosts installed ISCSI Software, Hardware Adapters on ESX and ESXi hosts.
• Worked with ESXi 5.0 and up until the latest 6.5. Worked with thevCenter server, vSphere,and vCenter appliance.
• Experienced preparing monthly VMware capacity report for all VMware clusters for CPU, RAM, Storage usage and given arecommendation to the customer if any action required.
• Upgraded the VMware tools, VM Hardware 8 on all the VM's as a part Upgrade process and upgraded Virtual Center to vSphere and created a linked mode environment for VC's.
• Experienced in Installation, Configuration,and Administration of VMware 5.0/vCenter Servers .
• Assessment, design,and Implementation of the vSphere Upgrade, 1000 ESXi hosts upgraded from VMware ESXi 4.0 to ESXi 5.0 .
• Upgraded the VMware tools, VM Hardware 8 on all the VM's as a part Upgrade process and Upgraded Virtual Center to vSphere and created a linked mode environment for VC's.
• Creating new VM's and Installing different guest OS like Windows server, Linux , Mac OS.
• Creating virtual NIC's for the respective VM's and assigning the network connections to a port group in the vSwitchs .
• Managing VM's and ESXi servers by using vSphere Client , Putty,and Web Access and installing the VMware Tools on the VM's.
• Administration of users and group accounts and providing appropriate rights to user accounts according to their requirements. Configured the licensed files on ESXi and VC server.
• Cloning, deploying VM's to Template, Templates to VM's, VMotion, Storage VMotion etc. Configured the NTP server in ESX server for the time synchronization between ESXi and VM's.
• Deploying HA & DRS Cluster , Managing resources.
• VMware NSX installation, Configuration and Maintenance
• Migrating virtual machine configuration files and virtual disks from one Datastore to another Datastore. Customizing VM's (Memory, hard disk, NIC). Analyzing log files, Resources utilizing monitoring.
• Problem analysis and Troubleshooting of ESX Server with service console. Resolving issues on servers, VLANs, routers, and switches in the data center.
• Developed organizational units in Active Directory (AD) and managed user security with group policies.
• Experience in configuring and maintaining User Profiles in Active Directory and enabling access to the standard adminusers.
• Experience with Commvault for backups and data restore.
• Knowledge on Microsoft Azure and create a Virtual network on Microsoft Azure to connect all the servers.
• Implemented several best performance settings and group policies on VDI infrastructure for better performance of VDI environment and better user experience.
• Knowledge in Office 365 activities.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Programming Languages & Scripts: C, C++, PL/SQL, DHTML, CSS, CGI (PERL) PHP, Python, PERL, Ruby, GIT, Bitbucket, Shell, Bash, Korn, Cshell.

Networking & Communication Protocols: TCP/IP, HTTP/HTTPS, RMI/IIOP, Putty, SOAP, FTP, SMTP, SFTP.

Database: Oracle 8.x/9.0,DB2, Casandra, MySQL, MS Access, MS SQL Server 2000/20 .

Web/Application Servers: WebSphere 5.x/6.0/6.1, Tomcat, TC Server, WebLogic, JBoss, WebSphere Portal Server4.0, 5.x, IBM Tivoli Directory Server, Glassfish.

Middleware: WebSphere MQ 5.3/6.0, IBM, Data Power XS40, XI50, CA Site Minder 5.5/6.0, JBoss, WebLogic, WSRR, Tomcat, WebSphere Portal Server 6.0, WebSphere, Process Server, AMQ, IIB, Active MQ, JBOSS fuse.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, SanJose, CA

Sr VMware/Windows Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Deployment,Install and Update of VMware product suites within Virtual Datacenters. vCenter v6, ESXi v6, VMwareNSX v6, vRealize Network Insight, vRealize Log Insight, Veeam 9.0/9.5 Backupand Recovery, Veeam MP, DRS, Distributed Switches, vRealize Suite, StorageDRS, HA, VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM).
• Design, install and configure VMware ESXi v6 within Virtual Datacenter. The configuration of Storage and Networking Consolidated Backup, DRS, HA, DPM, VMotion and VMware Data Recovery, VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM).
• Experience with VMware View Desktop Virtualization (VDI).
• Analyze and troubleshoot on an advanced level, performance of SAN - backed VMware ESXi infrastructure to determine the proper allocation of resources to a multi-Virtual Datacenter.
• Implemented vRealize Orchestrator(vRO) and developed numerous workflows to automate and streamline various deployment, configuration and monitoring functions throughout the enterprise.
• Implemented vRealize Automation(vRA) in development lab to provide various support and DevOps groups the ability to deploy and test on systems in an agile environment.
• Deployed and Configured VMware NSX Manager, Controller, Edge Gateway leveraging network data and intelligence for advanced security. Worked with IBM XIV, IBM DS4k series Storage servers. Configured zoning for our infrastructure and delivery needs.
• Managed Windows 2008 Active Directory, VMware Active Directory Exchange Domain
• Scheduled tasks for vMotion and Storage vMotion and managed snapshots priorto theplanned patch, install or upgrade.
• Created and implemented user account management policies and processes, including auditing and reporting, following a cleanup project ( Active Directory )
• Participated in the creation of new networks in software and embedded them in hypervisor layer using NSX.
• Worked with Windows 2003/2008 servers, DNS, DHCP, FTP, WSUS, IIS Web Server, SQL,vSphere, Wins, P2V converter,and patches.
• Configured IBM TSM server for backing up our infrastructure servers.
• Worked with syslogd for log rotation and worked with SNMP, SMPT configurations.
• Worked vSAN to pool the disk space from multiple ESXi hosts through vSphere 5.5.
• Manage server backups and restores through Commvault management software.
• Connected vCenter in vCAC and configured vSphere and vCloud director endpoints.
• Hands on experience with vCOPS, Configuring dashboards for clients.
• Deployed updates with WSUS and SCCM servers for all servers, laptops, and desktops.
• Configured and maintained SQL Server failover cluster.
• Troubleshoot, evaluate, track, and manage network problems and recommend the best solutions while escalating to higher tiers according to NOC procedures.
• Worked with F5 load balancer.
• Installed, configured and Setup Maximo Asset management server for our production environment. We use Maximo on a day to day basis for ticketing, Tools/Assets tracking, Problem reporting etc.
• Configure constrained delegation in ActiveDirectory for Kerberos enabled applications.
• Used Power CLI and power shell scripts for better management of vSphere and VDI environments.

Environment: Solaris 9, 10, RHEL release 3,4,5, Autosys, ESXi4.x/5.x/6.x, vSphere4.x/6.x, vCenter Server5.x, ITBM, vCOPS, vCAC, vSRM, Mac OS,VDI Horizon, vCloud director TSM6.1.3, Sun servers (V880, V490, V210, V440, V880), Puppet, NSX 6.0/6.4, VxRack, ServiceNow, IBM Power SystemsDS4800, DS4700,F5 Load balancer, XenApp, App-V 5.0,vRealize,ITIM,Nessus, CitrixWindows AD, vRA, vROPS, IIS 8.0, Cisco 2960 Switches, SSL, Windows 2012 R2, vSAN, Cisco UCS, Commvault, SolarWinds, Windows 7/8/XP, PowerCli, PowerShell.

Confidential, Tulsa, OK

Sr.SystemsEngineer

Responsibilities:

• Hands on experience with VMware ESX Server or VMware products.
• Configuring and managing Virtual networks, Storage, Memory and processors for the Virtual Machines.
• Experience in working with development organizations in a new product introduction Role.
• Strong Linux/UNIX administration skills, familiarity with the installation andconfiguration of Linux or UNIX operating systems.
• Upgraded VMware ESX 3.5 servers to ESX 4.0, 4.1 and ESX servers 4.1 to 5.0 and updated patches for vSphere 5.0.
• Installation, Configuration and management of vRealize Automation suite.
• Deployment of vRealize Automation and vRealize Orchestrator.
• Improved the security aspects of the Data Centers using NSX Micro-segmentation.
• Participated in the Successful deployment of NSX 6.0 for vSphere 6.0.
• Analyzed and Implemented OS patches and hot fixes as well as other OS configurations and updates using Blade Logic Patch Management tool and deploy patches using vCenter update manager.
• Create and manage maintenance process procedures for VMware version update patches on all ESXi Host. Ensuring seamless failover and testing during maintenance tasks.
• Administered the Group Policy, a collection of permissions, security,and rights which can be applied to site domains and OU’s. Also used group policy to automatically upgrade, repair software installation online.
• Configured the Domain Name System (DNS) Server service on a computer running Windows Server to support Active Directory.
• Monitoring and reporting the health status of VMware Horizon View VDI environments and vSphere environments using vCOPS/vROPS.
• Server backups, maintenance, and recovery using Commvault .
• Configured Commvault storage policies, schedules, disks and tape libraries. Installed Commvault data protection agents for Microsoft AD, SQL Server, Exchange, SharePoint, and file and application agents.
• Deployment of entire vCenter environment for Citrix support including VSAN and NVidia graphics cards.
• Managing windows Services - AD, Group Policy, DNS, DHCP, Terminal Services and WINS.
• Windows 2008and 2012 Servers deployment troubleshooting and configuration.
• Troubleshoot failed SCCM deployments and SCCM Health issues.
• Responsible for patching Servers using SCCM 2012.
• Configuration and Administration of Tomcat/Apache Web Server and SSL
• Good working experience with Profile Unity for Virtual Desktops.
• Setup and operation of TCP/IP networking on Linux or UNIX systems.
• Periodic ESXi/Windows log and alert analysis to ensure relevant alerts are beingmonitored and the system uptime were maintained at agreed SLAs.
• Setup Routers and Network Interface Cards(NIC).
• Monitor and verify TCP/IP/FTP file transfers
• Converted multiple standalone Microsoft servers to locate data on Dell-EMC Storage Area Network.
• Provided full documentation of new Citrix environment and administrative procedures.
• Configure HA and DRS for the VMware clusters agreed by the customer.

Environment: S Servers, Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, Grouping Policy, Backup and Recovery, ISS (HTTP & FTP), ISA, Terminal Services, vRA, vROPS, Commvault, Hyper-V, Ansible, IBM V7000/V3700, TCP/IP, SCCM, vSAN,vRealize, IIS, Tomcat, Puppet, SSL, Cisco UCS, RHEL,VxRack, SolarWinds, OpenStack, NSX 6.0, VMware View 5.0,RedHat Satellite, Appsense Manager, VMware ESXi,Unix, XenApp, XenDesktop, Bash, Python, MacOS, XenApp, Disk Management and File Sharing.

Confidential, Austin, TX

Sr. Windows Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installation and configuration of VMware ESX 4.1, ESXi 5.5 on HP ProLiant DL 380, DL 385, DL 580 Rackmount servers which include Windows server 2008/2012 and RHEL 4.0, 5.0. 5.5 connecting through ILO.
• Managing them using VMware vCenter server and VMware vSphere Client .
• Monitored the HP blade servers using the HP Insight Manager and provided the maintenance in case of power failuresand performed the device mapping.
• Designed the infrastructure and administered the environment running over 30 ESX/ESXi Hosts and 600 Virtual Machines. Also, designed the performance monitoring processes and improved Disaster Recovery processes to utilize virtualization benefits.
• Used NSX Controller to maintain the information of all the Hosts, VM’s, Logical Switches and VXLANs.
• Worked closely with storage and networking teams to ensure allocated SAN (DELL EMC CLARiiON CX 700, Netapp E2600), fibre and networking infrastructure reflected specifications laid out in initial VMware firm design to ensure asuccessful deployment.
• Configured ports in vSAN and partitioned the switch into multiple vSAN’s with shared hardware resources.
• Creation and management of virtual machines, installing VMware tools, creating Templates, Cloning, deploy Virtual Machines from Templates.
• Followed best practices and standards for the VMware and Cisco UCS components in the VBlock environments.
• Installation and configuration of SCCM and SCOM.
• Configured and maintained network infrastructure servers such as MS SQL, DFS, File and Print Services, RRAS, NPS, IIS, SFTP, DHCP, internal and external DNS.
• Developed Chef cookbooks to manage system configurations.
• Worked with setup, configuration,and management of an enterprise VMware VDI Horizon view.
• Planning, implementing and managing Microsoft Exchange Server 2008 .
• Managed VMware, Windows Server 2008, Active Directory and Microsoft's SMS 2008 .
• Participated development of the most secure, public facing VMware Horizon View Remote Desktop access for external users .
• Used Veeambackup 9.0 for Virtual machines.
• Production support of Apache, PHP, My SQL, Tomcat including installation, configuration, management and troubleshooting.
• Created Snapshot and test rollback, configured vMotion , Cluster,and Failover.
• Analysed existing infrastructure using VMware Capacity Planner.
• Configure VCB, which dumps the backup to Veritas Net backup Server and Seagate Backup- Backup Proxy Server.
• Day to day support and maintenance of Operating Systems.
• Participated in development and maintenance of Disaster Recovery & Backup.
• Resource Management - Configuring VMware HA, VMware DRS Clusters for vMotion- migrations between ESX Servers.
• Updated the Patches for ESX Servers using VMware Update Manager in the vCenter server .

Environment: Windows 2012/2008R2, Exchange Server 2008, SQL Server 2008 R2,vSAN, VMware vSphere 5.5, ESXi 5.5, VCenter 5.5/5.1, Veeam8.5/9.0, VxRack, Hyper-V, IIS, RHEL, Tomcat, Chef, DRS, RAID, XenApp, XenDesktop, Python,VCenter update manager.

Confidential, New Haven, CT

Mid-Level VMware Windows Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Oversee technical execution of global deployment, resolve customer technical issues through diligent research, reproduction, and troubleshooting
• Regularly reviewed Firmware levels on Host/ servers, involved in analyzing and implementing OS patches, hotfixes as well as updates and Performed EMC power path upgrades
• Supported data migration activities in VMs using VMotion and data migration activities for Standalone Servers. Migration of File Servers and Print Servers.
• Support troubleshoot and maintain hardware including hosts/servers, storage,and related peripherals.
• Monitored the Server Health Status of the CPU and memory, Tracked VM Resources (CPU, Memory, Disk), Managed Multiple Virtual Storage (MVS).
• Daily administration of large-scale VMWare and Hyper-V environments .
• Used PowerShell to execute commands/scripts, installed remote server administration tools using PowerShell, PowerCli, VBScript scripts .
• Management of large group of computers using SCCM and SCOM .
• Implemented the concept of Windows Clustering on the servers having critical applications running on it.
• Administration of HP Blade servers, C7000 Chassis/ VBlock .
• Performed routine maintenance on VMware environments such as vCenter upgrades , firmware upgrades, Patching, and HBA updates.
• HP Blade Hardware Configuration, Maintenance,and Troubleshooting.
• Coordinate with specialized technical teams to provide support to ensure environment health.
• Monitoring ITIL environments such as change/ Incident Management, Create and monitor RFC up to closure, Reviews all implemented changes to ensure that they have met their objectives; refers any that have been backed out.
• Designed SOP and maintained proper documentation, closely work with program managers to ensure timely delivery of expected deliverables.

Environment: ESXi 4.0, 4.1, 5.1, 5.5, Windows 7, Windows Server 2003, 2008/R2 and 2012, SQL 2008/2012,vSphere 5.0,vCenter 5.0, VMware Standalone Converter, Python, VxRack, Open filer iSCSI SAN/NAS, vSAN, iStore SAN, Dell PowerEdge Servers, NAS.

Confidential, Dresher, PA

VMware Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Installation and Configuration and Maintenance of Windows 2008/2003 on HP ProLiant Servers.
• Configured HA, DRS clusters and capacity planning for new clusters and configured FT for the important VM's and Maintained FTP Sites, Web Servers and created Virtual Directories in IIS7.0.
• Performed Virtual Machines backup, snapshots, cloning, P2V and V2V conversion usingVMwarestand-alone converter.
• Creating/Managing Virtual Machines, creating clones and templates/images for deploying VMs, audit them for perfection and manage utilities and applications installed on those VMs.
• Installation of vCenter server and configuring hosts within the cluster using vMotion and HA .
• Using Veeam backup 8.5/9.0 to thebackup physical server.
• Install multiple Operating Systems in different VM's and configure VMtools on them to accelerate hardware functionality and maintain and configure unattended VM's builds.
• Installed Server instances to enable centralized management of multiple hosts and Maintaining and troubleshooting VMware .
• Created User Accounts and Groups in Active Directory (AD) .
• Administered a Microsoft Cluster Server with SQL server 2008/2005 .
• Installation and configuration of TCP/IP in Windows Server .
• Implementation of Active Directory infrastructure and Network fundamentals, protocols such as TCP/IP, DHCP, DNS, Group Policy and Profile Management .

Environment: Active Directory DNS, DHCP, SQL 2008/2005, vSphere 4.0, 4.1, 5.0, ESX/4.0/5.0,Windows Server 2008/2008 R2, Virtualization (Hyper-V and VMware), P2V, IIS, V2V Migrations, TCP/IP, Veeam 8.5/9.0.

Confidential, Jersey City, NJ

SystemsEngineer

Responsibilities:

• Installed, Configured & Upgraded Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, Linux and Windows-NT /2000 operating systems.
• Installed Packages and patches.
• Worked with setting up DMZ for our network using fail2ban.
• LSM configuration and Advance FS creation on Tru64 Servers.
• Monitoring System using HP/ITO and kernel tuning to enhance the system Performance.
• Configured and Administrationof DNS, NIS, NIS+, NFS, send mail.
• Vast experience in setting up DNS, DHCP servers on Linux, Windows.
• Configured Hardware and SoftwareRAID, Disk replacementand File system recovery.
• Experience with NetApp storage.
• Installed and configured VERITASStorage Foundation Suite, VxVM, VxCS, and VxFS.
• File system tuning, growing and shrinking with VERITAS File system 3.5/4.x (Vxfs).
• Installed and configured the ORACLE, DB2/UDB Servers,and Web Logic servers.
• Planning and setup of Disaster Recovery Servers.
• Worked on Scripting using shell, Korn,and Perl.

Environment: Solaris, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, AIX, HP-UX and Windows NT, Sun Enterprise E 3 /420 R/250 Servers, Ultra Enterprise 2/1 Servers, SPARC server 1000, SPARC server 20 Enterprise Servers, SPARC server 1000/20, SPARCstation 10, Sun Sparc Ultra 1,5,10, Intel Based Dell Servers, ORACLE, DB2/UDB.

Confidential

Jr SystemsAdministrator

Responsibilities:

• Installed and configuration of VMware ESXi 4.0, vCenter Server 5.0, VM clusters with DRS, SDRS, HA, FT and new Virtual machines as per the requirement.
• Provided disaster recovery and backup services using VMware consolidated backups (VCB)
• Installed VMware tool from thecommand line with RPM installer and Worked on migration concepts like vMotion and cold migration .
• Created templates and deployed virtual machines through templates, cloning and managed virtual center permissions.
• Created resource pools and added VM's into the pools providing and maintaining user access in VMware virtual center.
• Configured mail alert for any failure in HA, DRS, CPU, and memory in VCenter .
• Installed and configured Windows 2008 AD DS .
• Configure DNS/DHCP services on various Windows servers.
• Installed and configured windows WSUS server role in Windows 2008 R2 .
• Created and managed resource and storage pool for Virtual machines and data stores.
• Supporting as anengineer to check the servers.
• Monitor the servers and the alerts on it.
• Managing Tasks, Events and Alarms.

Environment: Windows 2000/2003/2008 , Exchange Server 2003, Windows XP/Vista/Win 7, VMware ESXi 4.0, VMware vSphere 5.0, VMware vCenter 5.0, VMware Standalone Converter, Open filer iSCSI SAN/NAS, iStore SAN, Dell PowerEdge Servers, NAS.