PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Having around 7 years of professional experience in System/VMware Administration and IT experience in multiplatform VMware ESX/ESXi , Linux &Windows with hands - on expertise in system integration.
• Excellent experience in installing and configuring various versions of ESX and ESXi (including 6.0).
• Experience in installation and configuration of vCenter 5.0, 5.1, 5.5 and 6.0 along with implementation of advanced options like linked mode and Enhanced Linked Mode (vSphere 6).
• Experience in performing several storage administration tasks like creating new volumes or LUNs on EMC storage arrays, increasing size of existing volumes, troubleshooting storage connectivity to ESXi hosts and other servers like Windows servers.
• Expertise in installation, configuration and administration of Windows and VMWARE servers on different platforms.
• Expertise in configuration and managing Linux Virtual Machines under VMware.
• Extensive knowledge in advance features like vMotion, StoragevMotion and Network/Storage I/O Control.
• Experience in working on Host Profiles, Resource Pools, Storage Profiles, VMFS data store and templates for client VMs.
• Excellent experience in working on vSwitches such as StandardvSwitches (vSs), Distributed vSwitches (vDs).
• Experience in P2V, V2V MIGRATION using VMwareConverter and PlateSpin tools.
• Good Experience in creating port groups, VLAN networking and NIC teaming on VMware ESX 6.x/5.x/4.x and vCenter environment.
• Monitoring of VM’s & ESXi server components (CPU, Memory, Disk, Network Utilization) and security hardening for Security Compliance.
• Responsible for OS maintenance activities like upgrading the OS, updating the services and third party software’s.Installation of Vcenter server and Configuring ESXi - host’s within the cluster using VMotion and HA. Running patches/updates through update manager for the ESXi hosts.
• Hands on experience in performing day to day operations on all ESXi and vCenter related components.
• Excellent experience in maintaining and troubleshooting the entire infrastructure stack i.e. ESXi, vCenter, VM's, Storage, and Networking etc.
• Excellent experience in working on all VMware advanced settings and technologies like Motion, Storage vMotion, High Availability (HA), Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS), Storage Distributed Resource Scheduler (SDRS), Resource Pools, Storage Clusters, etc.
• Good knowledge of storage concepts related to NetApp, SAN and NAS.
• Expertise in Decommission Process and decommissioned over 400+ servers in US, EMEA and APAC regions.
• Experience in Active Directory, DNS, File & Print Server, Microsoft Clustering, Microsoft Exchange Servers, LDAP.
• Hands on experience in building ESXi &Windows servers on HP ProLiant DL/BL series and Dell Power Edge Servers with RAID 0, 1, 5, 10 configurations to prevent from disk failures.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Scripting Language: Shell ScriptingHardware Management: HP ProLiant DL380/580 Gen8/9, DELL.

Cloud Technologies: Verizon Enterprise, Microsoft Azure and Knowledge on AWS

Programming Knowledge: Java, JQuery, bootstrap, HTML, CSS, PLSQLOther Tools: ServiceNow, BMC Remedy, Sccm

Operating System/Server: Oracle Linux, Centos, Redhat, Windows 2003/2007/2008/2012

Virtual Machines: VMware, Virtual Box

Networking: DHCP, DNS, TCP/IP

Microsoft Skills: MS Word, Power Point, Excel

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Charlotte, NC

Windows/VMware Admin

Responsibilities:

• Disaster Recovery is the main task in this job Role, where almost 15000 servers were influenced by Ransomware Virus.
• Installation and configuration of Microsoft Windows 2008, 2008 R2, 2012 and 2012 R2 Servers on Virtual Machines.
• Configuring and Managing Active Directory, DNS, and DHCP.
• Provided system administration and technical support for Windows 2008, 2008 R2, 2012 and 2012 R2 Servers on a daily basis.
• Solving Day to Day tickets such as physical hardware failure SRs for replacement. Hands on experience of replacing memory DIMMs, HDs, Power Supplies, CPUs, NIC cards, FC cards within the servers, equipment and switches of various types such as HP, Cisco, Dell, Riverbed and more.
• Restoring the VM’s using the COMMVAULT.
• Installation of new HP C7000 Enclosures configuration of OA, VC, EBIPA also creating blade profiles and other Config for BL460 & BL620c.
• Full access to the Data Center & responsibility of racking, cabling, all physical servers, appliances & all equipment in the datacenter.
• ILO, IDRAC & Bios Config for HP and Dell servers along with decommission of older Gen legacy servers, equipment for the part of new project/change.
• Daily tickets solving using Service Now (GSN) tool such as OS installation, Firmware upgrade, user permission in AD.
• Working on Change Management and Request Management Tickets in Remedy Tool.
• Used Remedy Tool for ticketing (Change Management, Incident Management, and Request Management).
• Manage BMC Remedy for reporting of daily activities of quality Information Technology services.
• Testing all new servers before turning into production environment.
• Racking, cabling, configuring all the equipment listed below and more. Cisco switches ASA firewalls,
• Patching & upgrading multiple ESXi Servers using VUM within the vCenter server.
• Managing multiple vCenter across countries as US, Singapore, Brussels, etc.
• Creating, deleting, modifying & password resets of Accounts in AD and administration of AD OU, Accounts, Servers, etc.
• Created documents for the company for the builds, configure, etc. to help company in case of any need to build such servers or things depending on situations.
• Configure and deploy new Microsoft windows using WSUS and SCCM (admin) for patch management throughout the data center on the servers running Windows operating system.
• Using PowerShell Scripting generate the IQOQ Reports.
• Install SCCM in 2003, 2000, 2008 and 2012R2 servers.
• Monitoring and Reporting the health status of VMware Horizon View VDI Environment and VSphere Environments using vCOPS/vROPS.
• Experience on creating new VMware Clusters with HA and DRS enabled.
• 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 hosts using VMware Update Manager tool.
• Updated VMware tools on virtual machines using Update Manager tool.

Environment: VMware vSphere 4.1/5.0/5.1/5.5/6.0, vSphere SRM 6.1, Windows Server 2003, 2008/R2, 2012/ R2, SQL 2008 /2012, EMC VNX 5300, Remedy 6.5, Symantec Endpoint protection 14.1, vCLI scripting, PowerShell ScriptingConfidential, St. Louis, OH

VMWARE/WINDOWS ADMINISTRATOR

Responsibilities:

• Administration of Windows 2008R2 Active Directory, which consists of Windows 2008/2008 R2/2012 Servers.
• Installing, configuring and maintaining VMware vSphere ESXi Servers on HP Blades, Proliant Servers and also configured vCluster with HA & DRS.
• Configuring and maintaining VMware View VDI environment.
• Configuring and maintaining DNS, DHCP, File & Print Servers.
• Creating security groups, user accounts and maintaining them.
• Build ESX hosts / clusters on cisco UCS Chasis.
• Created ESX host templates local and global for Cisco UCS environment.
• Participate in the design and review of new technologies for Windows/VMware systems and Windows application deployments as part of the system procurement and long term strategic goals.
• Providing server administrations support for operating system upgrade and well as system patch management and maintenance.
• Providing Server Monitoring with the system tools that are in place proactively monitoring the performance of the Windows Server environment. This includes monitoring server performance for both the physical and Virtual server environment.
• Project management support & execution of enterprise level and support of departmental projects.
• Execute modifications to Windows systems in order to improve efficiency, reliability, performance & System Security.
• Designing and implementing enterprise wide Group Policies.
• Installing and Administration of SCCM for applying latest windows and security patches to all the servers.
• Creating and Closing Service Requests Tickets such as Change/Incident/Task.
• Managing and Troubleshooting cisco UCS.
• Installing, configuring and supporting SQL 2008/2008 R2 Databases.
• Implemented Microsoft 2008 R2 Clustering services for application and data base servers (SQL Server).

Environment: Windows 2000/2003, Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, Symantec NetBackup, Net Vault, SonicWALL firewall, Dell servers.

Confidential, VA

Windows/VMware Admin

Responsibilities:

• Installing, configuring, Troubleshooting and management of ESXi, 5.5, 6.0 and vCenterServer 5.5 and 6.0.
• Well Experienced with designing, installing and implementing VMware ESXi servers and vCenter server and setting up of VMware Features like V-Motion, HA, DRS.
• Managed 300+ ESXi servers located at various data centers by one virtual center. Each Data center has multiple clusters with biggest of 15 clusters used for HA and DRS for disaster recovery, Load balancing and troubleshooting.
• 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.
• Configuring vNetwork Distributed switches and migrating the networks from VNetwork standard switches to vNetwork Distributed switches.
• 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) using VMware converter.
• 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.
• Created and maintained SQL server cluster for VC, ESXi servers and VM's.
• Good experience with VMware Update Manager and Host Update utility to install patches and updates on ESX hosts and virtual machines.
• Experience in administering Windows Terminal Server, Group Policy management and Active Directory environment.
• Created 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.
• Experience in Remote deployment of Microsoft Windows 2008/2012 servers using 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.
• Installed and configured and maintained Windows 2008/2012 servers.
• Responsible for supporting system design and implementations as well as provide support for any issues.

Environment: Windows 2000/2003, SMS, IIS 6.0, Exchange Server 2003, Microsoft WWSUS, Windows XP, VMware ESX Server, VMware Workstation

Confidential, FL

VMware Admin

Responsibilities:

• Implemented service improvement plans (SIP) for good customer experience.
• Planned and upgraded the VMware environment from vSphere 5.1 to 5.5
• Good experience in planning and implementation of migration activities using VMware converter (P2V \ V2V), VMotion, svMotion from one datacenter to another.
• Performed Life cycle management for ESXi hosts. Worked on Capacity Planning and forecasting the data to the stake holders.
• Monitored the Server Health Status of the CPU and memory, Tracked VM Resources (CPU, Memory, Disk), Managed Multiple Virtual Storage (MVS)
• Troubleshooting ESXi issues related to storage, network and performance issues
• Support for the ERP application: Infor Syteline, promoting objects, killing long running jobs.
• Regularly patching the ESXi hosts using update manager.