SUMMARY:

• IT professional with hands on experience of 7+ years in Virtualization and Systems Administration with VMware Sphere products, ESXI 6.0/ 5.5/5.1/ 5.0/ 4.1/ ESX 4.0 servers & Vcenter servers 3.5/4.0/ 5.0/5.1 and 5.5/6.0 web Client updated versions, Red hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), Centos, Ubuntu and Windows environments.
• Expertise in building Microsoft Windows 2012R2,20012,2008 R2,2008,2003,2000 servers using HP Smart Start, Array configurations, diagnosing server, Updating Firmware and PSP, Application Software under multi - platform environments, deployment & monitoring physical Servers.
• Installs and configures Red hat Enterprise Linux using Kick start Servers and Interactive Installation.
• Designing an Active Directory and Network Infrastructure, Forest and Domain Infrastructure.
• Implementing Group Policy, Managing and Monitoring Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) managing and monitoring Domain Name System (DNS)
• Good understanding of windows and VMware server automation using scripting language PowerShell, and Power CLI.
• Knowledge about how to implement VMware vRealize Orchestration (VRO), VMware vRealize Automation (VRA) and creating workflows in VRO.
• Strong experience with the VMware HA (High Availability), Fault Tolerance, & Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS).
• Perform troubleshooting of operating system and software infrastructure issues on Domain Controllers, Member Servers, Server Clusters, and Virtual Machine Farms.
• Sound knowledge on ESX Architecture, guest OS installation, setting up of VM priorities, Cloning and Snapshots
• Installation and configuration of applications like Tomcat, Apache, and JBoss both manually and by using CHEF automation tool.
• Experience in handling hardware manufactured by Cisco, IBM, Dell, HP, EMC and NetApp
• Experience in deploying and maintaining vCenter/ vRealize Operations Manager (VCOPS/VROPS).
• Hands on experience with building and Troubleshooting with ESX /ESXI servers and VCenter Site Recovery Manager, patching ESX Servers and VMs with VMware Update Manager.
• Experience in System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) and System Center Operations Manager. (SCOM).
• Have experience in powershell scripting for AD administration, scheduled jobs, scheduled backups and automation of VMs deployment.
• Strong knowledge of Networking concepts, Configuration of Networks, Router Configuration and Wireless Security, TCP/IP, VPN, Content Filtering, VLANs, and Routing in LAN/WAN, Ethernet Port and Wireless Networks.
• 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"
• Experience on OS migrations, Hard Ware, BIOS Firmware Upgrades, kernel updates, systems configuration, performance tuning on windows/Linux systems
• Expert in implementing Physical to Virtual (P2V) and Virtual to Virtual (V2V) conversions (Double-Take, VMware Converter and Plate Spin).
• Flawless Experience in RHEL/Windows Server provisioning, Upgrades, Patching, Configuration and Performance Tuning in Linux, and VMware environments.
• Knowledge of maintaining Business Continuity and performing Disaster Recovery (DR) using VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM)
• Knowledge on Symantec backup exec and vRanger Pro Backup tools
• Experienced in working with Microsoft SQL Server with respect to installation, configuration, deployments and Troubleshooting runtime issues.
• Implemented VDI (Virtual desktop infrastructure) technology using VMware VIEW
• Experience with enterprise backup systems & disaster recovery operations; familiarity with SAN technologies; solid understanding of Sphere for implementation with shared storage fiber channel, ISCSI,NFS / VMFS strategies for performance and optimization.
• Experienced with Microsoft Office Suite, Open Office, Visio and Outlook.
• Documentation includes PCI compliance Requirements, Project Plan, Network Diagrams, P2V migration and Network design and upgrade recommendations

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Virtualization: VMware VSphere 3.5/4.1/5.0/6.0, Workstation 6/7, ESX Server 3.5, VMware DRS, HA and FT, VMware Standalone Converter 3.0, VMware Update Manager 1, VMware Virtual Desktop Infrastructure VDI, VMware View.

Application Servers: Microsoft Active Directory 2003/2008, DHCP, DNS, Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) 6.0/7.0, SCCM

Platforms: Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows Server 2000/2003 SP1/ 2008, Windows XP/Vista/7, Linux

Backup Solutions: VMware VCB

Clustering Solutions: VMware HA, DRS, DPM, SDRS and Host Profiles

Reporting tools: Microsoft Office Suite, Open Office, Visio and Outlook.

Desktop Application: Microsoft Office 2003/2007, Outlook 2003/2007, Star Office, VMware Workstation 5.0 and 6.0

Hardware: HP/COMPAQ ProLiant servers, HP/IBM Blade Centers, IBM X-series Servers, Dell Power Edge Server, Cisco UCS.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Herndon, Virginia

VMware/Windows Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Built and Managed VMware vSphere 6.0 and vCenter Server 6.0.
• Performed Migration of ESX 3.5 to ESX 4.1 and ESXi 5.5 to ESXi 6.0
• Architect, deployed and manage VMware VSphere environment for VMs including Windows 2003, 2008, 2012R2.
• Active Directory environment (i.e. Creating User Accounts, Security group, adding and removing users to group, Managing the logon scripts, sharing, giving permission, mapping the drives)
• Installed and configured Powerpath 6.0 on physical server to add and manage SAN storage disks on server
• Worked on OSD using SCCM to deploy Desktops and Servers. And also performed patch management.
• Monitoring and Reporting the health status of VMware Horizon View VDI Environment and vSphere Environments using vCOPS / vROPS.
• Perform backup and restore of Virtual Machine backup, snapshot, P2V-V2V conversation with VMware converter and with other third party converters, Patch updating, monitoring/reporting, SSH and SNMP and notification of alerts.
• Implemented new version of SharePoint Portal Server 2010 and SharePoint Services.
• Hands on experience of working on vRealize suits especially vRA & vRO.
• Creating & managing the iSCSI Shared Storage by HBA & Initiate the iSCSI software for accessing the Raw Disks by Virtual Machines.
• Added the ESXI Hosts to the Virtual Distributed switches (VDS) and upgraded the VDS drivers using VMware Update Manager (VUM)
• Created and managed Templates, worked with clones and snapshots of Virtual Machines
• Implementing Group Policy, Managing and Monitoring Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) managing and monitoring Domain Name System (DNS)
• Configured HA, DRS clusters and capacity planning for new clusters, configuring FT for important VM's.
• Worked on adding New Data stores to the ESXI hosts in Virtual Center.
• Providing and maintaining User access in VMware Virtual Center, Configuring mail alert for any failure in HA, DRS, CPU and memory.
• Configuring different type of Port Groups Policies, Applying Security policies, Traffic Shaping, Load balancing, Failover detection, Hard and Soft zoning and VLAN Tagging.
• Coordinated server downtimes and application downtimes with the customers and other teams during migrations.
• Installed, Configured Citrix Xen Server and Windows 2008 Hyper-V R2 on Dell Hardware with ISCSI networks.
• Added the virtual network adapters (VNICs), updated the MAC address using VShpere 5.5.
• Created new hard disks for the VM using Vsphere 5.5 and brought them online using the Windows disk management and VERITAS storage manager.
• Deployed VMware VCO workflows and created new building blocks for workflows and deployed VCloud director.
• Administrating Symantec Endpoint Antivirus console, managing 300+ antivirus client's computers like definition updates, Exception policies, scanning, reporting etc
• Updated SSL certificate on NetScaler for store front and web interface.
• Involved in the maintenance and up gradation of DNS and DHCP servers
• Performed P2V Hot conversions using vCenter Converter Standalone 5 and also the P2V cold conversion using VMware Converter Boot CD.
• Builds hosts boot from SAN attached storage, created new disk volumes for database teams by coordinating with the SAN team.
• Creating Resource Pools and Setting limits on CPU and RAM.
• Performed Microsoft File and Print services management tasks.
• Responsible for NSX configurations and creating workflows.
• Installed and configured multiple ESX/ESXI hosts using Auto Deploy
• Troubleshooting ESX/ESXI hosts using ILO interfaces.
• Added servers to Active Directory and LDAP server.
• Troubleshooting ESXI server and VCenter using command line.
• Coordinating with Offshore and responsible for Maintaining, configuring and Supporting VMware Virtual Infrastructure, which has above 80 ESXI 5.0 Hosts which are in Production and Non-Production environments connected to San storage with 1000 VM'S running Windows & Linux and over 1000+ workstations running Windows XP.
• Worked with the IT Change Management and Asset Management processes.
• Managed Microsoft SCCM deployments in a large-scale global environment; oversaw deployments of large and complex applications targeted for mass audience.
• Responsible for helpdesk support using Spice works ticketing system, inventory and system reporting.

Environment: VSphere 6.0, VCenter server and VMware Converter, VCenter Operations Manager5.0, VMware View (VDI), Power CLI, Double take, IIS server, DNS, DHCP, VMware ESX 4.0/4.1 & 5.0, NetApp filers, Citrix server, Windows (2008, 12), vSphere, ESXi, vCenter, HA, DRS, Plate Spin Converter, VMware Clusters, SAN, Horizon View, vCOPS/vROPS, EMC, vBlock, SRM, SCCM, HP ProLiant servers.

VMware/LINUX Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installed Linux (RHEL 5.5) on HP Blade and VMware ESX servers using RedHat tool Cobbler.
• Installation, configuration and administration of VMware, Solaris Zones, Containers and Ldoms.
• Design Install and configure and administrating PowerHA, GPFS, RedHat cluster and VMware cluster
• SAN and iSCSI disk Configuration in Linux.
• Documented the standard procedure for installation and deployment of VMAX Migration and logical volume manager.
• Added servers to Active Directory and LDAP server
• Creating and Deploying of Virtual Machines from Templates and creating Snapshots with in no time, Cloning of Virtual Machines for future Deployments.
• Configuration and clustering of Web Logic Application Servers and on web servers running on Tomcat 6.0
• Monitored Hardware console for any hardware issues. Troubleshoot any operating system issues.
• Created Root Cause Analysis (RCA) for any server outages and server problems.
• Configured Kickstart files, installed RPMs, and Packages
• Performed upgrade of RHEL 4.3 and RHEL5.3 to RHEL5.5.
• Patched RHEL5.3 servers during outage for PCI compliance purpose as well as VCS patching for Solaris servers during weekend outage.
• Created and managed Logical Volumes and File Systems using VERITAS Volume Manager 5.0 on Solaris as well as Redhat and LVM on Redhat Linux.
• Worked on large datacenter consolidations and completed them successfully using multiple P2V conversion using VCenter Converter.
• Installed and configure Avocent DS view IP KVM and unmanaged KVM switches.
• Responsible for Active directory, GPO, Domain users, Administrating users and groups and given appropriate permissions and privilege to access our LAN and Domain environment
• Worked with monitoring tools such as Nagios, Puppet and HP Openview.
• Wrote Bash and Perl scripts to perform backup and monitor/automate jobs.
• Experience in Remote deployment of Microsoft Windows 2003/2008/R2/2012 servers using Altiris deployment solution or manual installation of a server using ILO for remote connection to a server.
• Working knowledge of RedHat Satellite Server
• Creating and Managing VMware cluster with HA and DRS. Creating and Managing resource pools for Virtual Machines. Monitoring and managing performance of ESX servers and Virtual Machines
• Monitoring and managing the performance of ESX servers and Virtual Machines.
• Participated/coordinated Weekly Status meetings and reported on the project status, Incident Reports and Change Management for the Transition process.
• Built Physical as well as Virtual (VMware ESXi) Servers on a fly
• KVM (Kernel based virtualization) based on hardware.
• Perform live migration from one host to another host.
• Handled problems or requests as per the ticket (Request Tracker) created.
• Migrated Non-standard production servers to Enterprise Data Center (EDC) minimum standard.
• Handled ILO (HP) and Vantage for console access to the servers.
• Analyze, log, track and complex software and hardware matters of significance pertaining to networking connectivity issues, printer, server, and application to meet business needs.
• Managing Exchange 2003 servers and troubleshooting issues related to User and group accounts, mail delivery, configuring MX records to enable and disable domain.
• Creating a backup job and also took backup of data centre on daily, weekly and monthly basis
• Perform daily health checks for servers like checking CPU memory utilization, Check the connectivity
• Documenting all policies, procedures and standards around the build and continuing operation of ESXI and Linux systems.
• Creating Change Controls, Resolving Incident Tickets and Problem Tickets using Service-Now ticketing tool, and ability to multitask in a fast paced environment under strict SLA and resolve Production Incidents with minimum impact.

Environment: Cisco UCS B-series blade servers, Red Hat Linux Enterprise 4/5/6, Solaris 9,10, SAN(Netapp), BladeLogic, Veritas Cluster Server 5.0, VMware Virtual Client 4.1, Chef, Ansible, VMware Infrastructure 5.0, vSphere 5.5, HP DL's, Service-Now,, Disk suite, HPUX, ESX, LDAP, DNS, NIS, NIS +, SNMP, Shell scripting, Apache, Puppet, WebSphere, Sun and Veritas Clusters

Windows System /VMware Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installing, configuring, administering, troubleshooting VMware server on ESX platform and VMware client, workstation.
• Implementation of different Host Profiles for Multiple Clusters across Multiple Data centers
• Installation of ESX 4 Nodes, vCenter 4, Update manager, and Administering VM's across 4 Datacenters Running 2000 VM's
• Administering Windows 2003/2008 Active Directory, DNS, DHCP and building new windows physical/virtual servers as per the requirement of the project
• Cloned Virtual Machines
• Created Virtual Machines and Installed VMware Tools
• Deploying and Administration of Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) View Infrastructure (Connection Server, Security Server etc.) and Application virtualization using VMware ThinApp
• Deployed Through Templates
• Responsible for Active directory, GPO, Domain users, Administrating users and groups and given appropriate permissions and privilege to access our LAN and Domain environment.
• Technical support for Microsoft Server 2000/2003/2008, Exchange 2003/2007/2010, Microsoft Windows 2000, XP, Vista, 7, Microsoft Office Suite, Active Directory, SAN, NAS, DAS, Cisco IOS, Cisco SDM, router, switches, RIP, BGP, EIGRP, OSPF, TCP/IP, VPN, VLAN, DNS, VMware, IIS, Load Balancing, Clustering, Hyper-V, etc.
• Worked on Cold migration and Vmotion.
• Experience on Host Profiles, Distributed Switch, DRS, VMotion, SV-Motion, Resource pools, permissions, Patches, Snapshots, Tools Upgrade, disk expansions, Templates, and many more
• Responsible for deploying, managing, and maintaining HP ProLiant BL-series C-class blade servers and DL-series servers.
• Upgrading the ESXi /ESX Hosts, center, Virtual machines from VSphere 4.1 to 5.0 using update manager and also planned for a future VSphere 5.1 upgrade.
• Fully automated, migration and failover with VCenter site recovery manager 4.
• Documented installation, configuration and upgrading of VM's
• Worked on different operations of UCS manager like creating Service profiles and associating them with blades, 1000v and UIM components.
• Installed and configured Window 2008 Server clusters with MSCS.
• Creating a test Environment in Citrix for Production Team to test their applications.
• Installed and managed McAfee EPO software on servers and clients.
• Upgraded 100+ ESX hosts from ESX 3.5 to ESX 4.0 using VMware Update Manager tool
• Protected the organization's network from unwanted traffic coming from the internet using ISA Server which is a proxy server and a web caching server.
• Installation and configuration of network Printers.
• Involved in Active Directory / DNS
• Monitoring and Reporting the health status of VMware Horizon View VDI Environment.
• Maintain Share Point documentation and organization.
• Handled all the VCenter operations like HA, DRS, VMotion, Storage VMotion, VM templates and maintaining the resource pools
• Blocked adware/spyware implemented security features for global network infrastructure with the help of ASA based firewall.
• Monitored and maintained backups in Symantec/ VERITAS Backup Exec
• Generating Reports and graphs on Performance of ESX Nodes

Environment: vSphere, vCenter, ESXi, vMotion, HA, Active Directory, Cisco UCS, HP Servers, SCCM, SAN, NAS, Windows (2008), VDI, Citrix, ThinApp, Hyper-V, Power Shell, DNS, IIS, DHCP, TCP/IP, Exchange Server (2003).

VMware Engineer/Windows Admin

Responsibilities:

• Installing, configuring and maintaining ESX Servers (ESX3.5/ESXi 4.0/ESXi 4.1) and server migrations from physical to virtual using Hot and cold cloning technology in VMware.
• Extensively managed Active Directory like all the problems related to user accounts, domain accounts, managing permissions etc.
• Creating Virtual machines, Templates, Cloning and Deploying Virtual Machines.
• Creating new VMware Clusters with HA and DRS enabled.
• Installed, Configured Windows 2008 Hyper-V R2 on Dell Hardware with ISCSI networks and Integrated Dell Remote Access Controller (iDRAC).
• Setting up VM Kernel Network and Enable vMotion and also performed storage vMotion.
• SAN space allocation for ESX servers scanning and configuring LUN for VMware vSphere ESXi hosts.
• Administering Windows 2003 and 2008 servers
• Implementation of various server related tasks
• Print server migrations & Print driver testing
• Administering VMware servers
• Co-ordination with offshore team members
• Installing and configuring VM print servers in VMWARE ESX servers in the enterprise virtualized environment
• Involved in storage migrations and replications on EMC storage arrays.
• Performed Troubleshooting on Hosts, VMs, Windows servers and virtual Switches in the Datacenter.
• Responsible for Security Patch Management & Deployment to all clients using Microsoft WSUS
• Configuring, administering, maintaining & troubleshooting of windows 2000 & Windows 2003 Servers such as DC, DNS, IIS, DHCP, Database, File and Printer servers
• Planning and implementation of NAS backup for the servers.
• Involved in deploying the Virtual machines, maintaining and troubleshooting the issues arising
• Installation and configuration of Remote Desktop server including RD Gateway and Web access
• Responsible for Security Patch Management and anti-virus protection of Servers and Workstations for Client.
• Worked with Network engineering teams to ensure tickets and escalations are resolved for workstation and server issues.

Environment: Windows (2003, 08), Active Directory, vSphere, ESXi, vCenter, VMware Cluster, HA, DRS, Migration (Cold & Hot), DNS, DHCP, Dell PowerEdge Servers, SAN, WSUS, FT, vMotion.

VMware/ System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Upgrading ESX 3, 3.5 servers to ESX/ESXi 4.1 using VMware Update Manager (VUM).
• Designed & Implemented virtualization solutions based on VMware ESX 3, 3.5 & vCenter Server components & managed virtual center permissions.
• Installation of Operating Systems Win98, Win XP, Win NT, Win 2000, Win 2003 etc
• Performed systems administration for Windows based servers on VMware ESX 2.5 infrastructure environment.
• Migration of active directory services from Win NT to Win 2000 to Win 2003
• Maintaining the file server, application and Print Server.
• Publishing and assigning the user permissions to access the Applications in Windows Management Console.
• Configuration of Domain Naming Server (DNS)
• Configuration of Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)
• System Troubleshooting in case of a failure and maintain server uptime above 99.99%
• Monitor Routers and Internet Connectivity
• Implement network monitoring tool for monitoring servers, routers other network resources
• Planned and coordinated hardware upgrades
• 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.
• Patching all Windows servers and workstations with Company standards
• Configuring & administering Domain Naming Server (DNS), Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP), Distributed File System.(DFS),Internet and Remote Access Service(RAS)
• Assist staff with the installation, configuration, and ongoing usability of desktop computers, peripheral equipment and software within established standards and guidelines
• Work with vendor support contacts to resolve technical problems with desktop computing equipment and software
• Train and orient staff on use of hardware and software

Environment: Windows (2000, 03), ESX/ESXi (3, 3.5, 4.1), vCenter, VMware Converter, vSwitch, VMware Cluster, Plate Spin, VUM, HA, DRS.