SUMMARY:

• 8+years of comprehensive and in - depth experience in Implementing, Maintaining Virtual Infrastructure Environment using VMware.
• Specializing in Microsoft Windows 2008/2012/2016 Server Engineering Administration design planning and execution
• Experience in installing, configuring and managing infrastructure using VMware technologies viz. ESX/ESXi 4.0/4.1 5.0/5.1/5.5/6.0/6.5, vSphere 5.0/6.0, vCenter, VMware View VMware vCenter Converter etc.
• Experience in configuring DRS, HA, vMotion, storage vMotion, virtual networking, cloning, deploying VM's from templates and automating VMware environment.
• Created user accounts and group policies and also troubleshoot the existing GPOs.
• Experience on install, configure and troubleshooting Microsoft Physical and virtual clusters.
• Strong knowledge and experience on VMware ESXi 5.X, 4.X, and VMware vSphere 5 features including Virtual SMP, Storage DRS, profile driven storage, auto deploy and vSwitch design.
• Creating and managing the users, groups, GPO in the Active directory.
• Proficiency in using Sphere, vCloud Suite /vRealize suite - vRealize Operations Manager (vRops), Log Insight, vRealize Orchestration(vRO), and vRealize Automation (vRA/ vCAC), VMware Virtual SAN (vSAN)Experience with Microsoft Network Load Balancing and Microsoft Clustering technologies.
• Experience in Designing, Installing, Configuring, Administrating and Troubleshooting VMware Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) Environment.
• Experience with VMware Horizon View, VMware ThinApp, Citrix Xendesktop and Citrix Provisioning services
• Excellent skills in patching and hardening servers using Windows Update and by using the staged patches.
• Experience in EMC SAN LUN creation, LUN masking, Raw Disk Mapping and Storage pools.
• Experience in resolving all levels of Severity Tickets, root cause investigations, system outages.
• Experience in deploying Linux operating system and SQL.
• HP C7000 chassis and its components.
• Managed virtualized Wintel environment, including Linux, Citrix and Vmware.
• Strong experience with the VMware HA (High Availability), Fault Tolerance, Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) and VMware Distributed Power Management.
• Worked with VMware vSphere Update manager on the vcenter server as well as on an individual server component for a linked mode vcenter configuration.
• Worked with multiple vCenter servers and several data centers in an organization.
• Hands on Experience with Hardware Installation, Upgrade and Maintenance.
• Implement and manage vRealize Operations Manager solutions and management packs.
• Managed Groups and Applications within vRealize Operations Manager.
• Experience in Windows clustering Administration and troubleshooting.
• Knowledge of maintaining Business Continuity and performing Disaster Recovery (DR) using VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM).
• Hands on experience in updating / upgrading ESX servers, Virtual Center servers and windows virtual machines using VMware Update manager and manual upgrades for Patching.
• Experience in installing and configuring VDI (Virtual desktop infrastructure) technology using VMware VIEW
• Experience in the Server and Desktop Management (Windows Administration), Support, Analysis and Maintenance
• Good Understanding and Knowledge VBlock and components and experience with Cisco UCS administration and EMC SAN storage.
• Well-developed interpersonal and communication skills, self-motivated and quick learner with a commitment to working collaboratively in a team-based organization delivering high client satisfaction.
• Working knowledge on various Unix Flavors - AIX, Red Hat Linux, Solaris.
• 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 S VMotion.
• Experience on Group policies, SCOM, SCCM and configuring file/print services.
• Expert knowledge on configuring hardware iSCSI and NFS storage to VMware ESX (i) hosts from vSphere client.
• Experience in scripting PowerShell.
• Experience in managing DNS, DHCP, Remote Desktop Session Host, DFS, and Microsoft Failover Clusters.
• Experience in configuring VMware standard vSwitch & dvSwitch.
• Ability to maintain a reliable and methodical approach to support and Documentation. Quick learner, highly motivated team player with excellent organizational and analytical skills.
• Experience and proficiency in handling 24x7 production support and on-call customer service for applications dealing with critical Production Support Issues, diagnose, fix bugs identified and provide quick resolutions attaining SLA’s.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

VMware: VMware VSphere 6.5, 6.0, 5.5, 5.x, 4.1, ESX/ESXi Server 5.x, 4.x and 3x, VMware Virtual Center Server 4x and 5.x, VMware DRS, SDRS, HA and FT, VMware Capacity Planner, VMware Converter 4.1, 5.x, VMware Update Manager.

Operating Systems: Windows 2003, 2008, 2008 R2, 2012, 2016 server OS, Windows 8, 7, 10, Vista, XP Client OS, Linux.

Hardware: Dell Servers, HP Blade servers and Rack servers, HP Thin Client 5445, SAS and SSD Hard drives, Enterprise Switches and Routers, RAM, Cisco UCS.

Server Exposure: HP 360p, HP 420p, HP 680p, Cisco UCS, DELL460, DELL980, Super Micro, and IBM AIX.

Storage: EMC Symmetric, Hitachi Arrays, Sun Storage D1000, A5000/5200, SAN, NAS.

Networking: TCP/IP, NIM, NFS, NIS, DHCP, DNS, HTTP, FTP, AWS.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Cincinnati, Ohio

Sr. System Admin/Engg (VMware/Windows/Wintel)

• Installing and Maintaining Windows 2008, 2012 and Windows 2016 Servers.
• Installed Windows Server 2012/2012R2, 2008 in 24/7 Datacenter Production environment (WinTel) Initiated and maintained VMWare VSphere and utilized VCenter Server to manage virtual servers.
• Administered 5000+ user multi-site Active Directory and Exchange environment: Sites, Group policy, mailboxes, databases, distribution lists, public folders, object cleanup, network, software application, and operating systems.
• Server Management including Domain Controllers, Active Directory, Antivirus, File servers, Print services etc.
• Provided systems administration support for Windows Systems including server and workstation upgrades.
• Microsoft Azure experience in both Redhat and Ubuntu servers. Experience in resolving issues after installation and testing Azure components after installation. Executing temp test cases.
• Excellent understanding modern cloud (compute, storage, networking) application architectures on Azure to ensure easy monitoring and high availability. created and managed new Users, roles and projects through Keystone.
• Used Powershell and GUI apps and tools to build and support the Microsoft Cloud globally.
• Expertise in deploying Azure AD Connect, configuring ADFS authentication flow, ADFS installation using Azure AD Connect.
• Using Citrix policy and Microsoft Group Policy management to map VDI setting.
• Migrated windows 2008 R2 to Windows 2012 and 2016.
• Developed and maintain OS deployment system, using Microsoft MDT/WDS through SCCM. Creation and maintenance of the gold images. Excellent in patch management, application management and OS deployment using SCCM 2012.
• Responsible for creating Monitors and Rules in SCOM based on the monitoring requirements
• Configured Windows Server updates (wsus) on Windows Server 2012 and Windows Server 2016.
• Management hardware/software/OS administration for Windows 2008/2012 and 2016 Servers.
• Installing, configuring and administered ESXi 5.5/ 6.0/6.5.
• Installing and updating the windows patches. Creating NTFS shares on Windows Servers and provide permissions to users.
• Setting up perform windows servers to analyze performance issues.
• Cloning virtual machines and using templates in VMware vSphere 6.0 and 6.5.
• Worked with Virtual machine snapshots preserve the state and data of a virtual machine and create snapshots, restore any snapshot in the snapshot hierarchy, delete snapshots etc. Managed VMware ESXi hosts using vSphere client.
• Troubleshoot various cisco UCS blades and chassis faults and errors and working with VCE and Cisco to resolve these issues.
• Experience in working with NLB clustering of IIS web servers for high availability.
• Installed and configured Multiple Websites in IIS using different techniques.
• Assisted administrator to successfully migrate on premise Exchange mailboxes to Office 365 Cloud Exchange Online Server.
• Local Exchange Management and Office 365 Management and Deployment, Activation, and Configuring of Office 365
• Experience in supporting and maintain Cisco UCS Director workflows for VM and bare metal OS provisions of MS Windows and RHEL.
• Desktop, Laptop and Handheld HW and SW device installation, configuration, support and troubleshooting. Microsoft Windows 7/10 environment. Worked with all components of Server utilities and providing Level3 support.
• Work closely with teams like SQL DBA, Oracle DBA, Wintel, Linux and Exchange.
• Raising call with Vendor for Hardware replacement / OS related issue and following the change process to get the maintenance done on server. Built ESX servers and implemented complete integration with SAN for vMotion in a VMware DRS and HA enabled environment.
• Experience with Users and Permissions, Administration, Windows server 2008, ADDS, DNS, DHCP, Users and Groups, Group Policies and File Share Permissions.
• Involved in the installation, monitoring and support of firewalls, Cisco networks, perimeter security technologies, Internet technologies and remote office WAN/ LAN connectivity.
• Responsible production support of Active directory (AD), GPO, Domain users, Users and groups and given appropriate permissions, shares and privilege to access LAN and Domain environment.
• SCCM 2012/2007 experience focused on deploying, Packaging, administering, and troubleshooting an enterprise wide SCCM environment on large scale environment
• Configured VMware on clustered environment, Implemented vMotion.
• Created and managed Virtual Machines, installed VMware tools, Templates, Cloning, deploy Virtua
• Machines, including deploying linked Clones using View Composer. Assigned dedicated/floating Pools as per requirement.
• Resolved any data center issues, security and access control issues to ensure 24/7 system access. Managed domain users and groups in AD and create group policies in order to keep the network secured.
• Updating the Firmware and Drivers on servers, Monitoring Server health using SCOM.
• Teaming NIC's using Teaming software for redundancy during failures.
• Install the Operating System and to run scripts to update patches on Servers.
• Participate on scheduled weekend Release activity / patching activity.
• Working Experience with Active Directory Components (AD Users and Computers, DNS, DHCP and WINS etc.)
• Responsible for server deployments, Cluster Management, Patch Management via SCCM 2012, Symantec AV management using SEPM console and Decommissioning of windows servers.
• Assessing the need and feasibility of planned improvements and upgrades to an VMware vSphere environment including the implementation of Virtual SAN, Site Recovery Manager and vRealize Operations Suite.
• Fulfilled the customer needs and requirements for physical and virtual infrastructure with respect to windows platform.
• Serving as primary contact for handling problem and incident tickets related to SCOM operations and involved in handling issues related to SCSM and Orchestrator environments
• Scan and deploy patches and updates to the systems using Microsoft Windows Updates Services (WSUS) and keeping up-to-date patch-levels. Create, update and maintain Powershell/PowerCli scripts and also Utilize Powershell for various day to day admin tasks.
• Installation, configuration and Troubleshooting issues related to VSphere 5.5, 6.0 and 6.5.
• Managing VM's using VMware vCenter: Creating/Deploying templates from VMs, creating duplicate VM's using cloning technology, Perform VMotion& Storage VMotion based on the requirements.
• Management of Data store (i.e. expanding, addition and configuring of Data store).
• Played a vital role in Creating Virtual Machines, cloning virtual machines, converting P2V (used standard VMware converter tool), VM-Provisioning (Linked clones, thin disks, de-duplication) taking Snapshots of virtual servers, HA, DRS, VMotion.
• Keep Virtual hardware and VMware tools updated to keep a healthy environment.
• Created and documented process for deploying Virtual machines on VMware.
• Used Remedy Tool for ticketing (Change Management, Incident Management, and Request Management).
• Using Solar Wind Monitoring for the Production Environment.
• Scheduling Change by preparing the Change Plan Document and following Approval process to perform any H/W or S/W changes or upgradation. Provided on Call support 24x7 during Critical Issues for Production Environment.

Confidential, Mountain View, California

System Admin - Windows/Wintel and VMware

• Administering and Managing Multiple Virtual Datacenters.
• Remediating the Virtual environment as well as Windows AD.
• Created virtual machine template with windows server 2012 R2 for the new environment and testing it currently for its performance and documentation. Working with vSphere 5.5, upgrading hosts from ESXi 5.1 to 5.5, upgrading the firmware on the servers.
• Installation, Configuration & Upgrade of Windows, Linux, VMWARE operating systems.
• Using Jumpstart/Flash/live upgrades for Solaris Installations, Kick start for Red Hat for automated installations and VMWARE.
• Involved in decommissioning servers project as per the company procedures and update the hardware inventory database.
• Active Directory administration of forest, OU structure, GPOs and Sites and services.
• Lead the Active Directory migration project to consolidate two domains into a single Domain & Forest
• Installation, Upgradation and Management of packages through RPM and also take care of dependencies.
• Execute workflows via UCS Director to add VLANS to UCS Domains.
• Disassociate and associate service profile to UCS blades.
• Managed F5, DNS and Enterprise file shares.
• Responsible for overseeing the technology road maps of all produces under the Windows and VMware teams' umbrella.
• Deployed mircoservices, including provisioning Microsoft Azure environments using Ansible Playbooks.
• Created Powershell scripts to automate the restart of Health Services on the SCOM Management Servers in case of an outage, used Powershell Modules to automate/create custom tasks in SCCM 2012 and Active Directory
• Automation scripting using Powershell issues.
• Handled patching and deployed Update Rollups for SCOM in the Test as well as Production Environments
• Install, maintain and monitor Multiple Citrix XenApp 4.5 and XenApp 6 farm Server, making sure they are up-to-date with latest rollup, hot fix. Install, Configure and update Citrix NetScaler.
• Deploy Microsoft Azure environments through automated tools Ansible/custom pipeline.
• Created playbooks for Azure deployments and bug fixes with Ansible.
• Responsible for identifying process improvements and areas for automation within the Windows and VMware teams.
• Provided infrastructure support and troubleshooting of SCCM client. Troubleshooting site server and site to site communication issues. SCCM client health and WMI client-side troubleshooting, including SCCM 2007 server install, SCCM client installation and software deployments. Worked with Windows 2008R2 and Windows 2012 baseline standard controlled by Active Directory Policies
• Installed Proxy-plug-ins in IIS to proxy the requests to application server.
• Implemented configuration management with Puppet Installed software’s and patches using HPSA.
• Using VMware vCenter, created DataCenter Environment by creating VMware clusters, adding ESX hosts in the clusters, and implemented HA and DRS. Installed and configured ESX 5.1, 5.5 Servers on Blade Servers.
• Performed physical to virtual (P2V) migrations for approximately 500 physical servers utilizing VMware Converter. Installing, configuring and troubleshooting VMware View.
• Performed tons of V2V Migration. Created clones and templates of Virtual Machines And Virtual Storage (Access Control and VMFS Datastores). Installing, configuring, Troubleshooting and management of ESX 4, ESXi 5 and vCenter Server 5.
• Installations of VM Ware 5.0,5.5 and 6 versions along with the Active directories, DNS and DHCP services, File servers etc.
• PowerShell, VB Scripting and related tools for automated installations and functions.
• Expertise in maintaining the data centers and doing the data center Virtualization.
• Experienced in Configuring and tuning VSphere6 and migrating from VSphere 5.5 to latest 6.0.
• Experienced in working with the OVM, KVM and Hyper-V Hypervisors.
• Experienced in implementation, configuration, maintenance and support for NetApp filers using Data OnTap CLI and Filerview.
• Responsible for all components of Office 365 including One Drive for Business, Skype for Business, Share Point Online, Delve, Yammer and Exchange Online. Administering Windows 2008/2012 Server. (Active Directory, DHCP, DNS).
• Creating user in the active directory and assigning permission as per request as well as providing offshore support to the remote users.
• Maintaining all Active Directories used for production that includes installation of New Additional Servers.
• Applying windows Security Updates & Critical updates & Patching. Preparing & sending weekly and monthly reports.
• Helped clients configure and manage Office 365 Online Share Point site
• Good communication skills and working experience with customers, end users and colleagues. Demonstrated ability to work in both individual and team environments.
• Proficient in setting-up, configuring and troubleshooting storage devices like tape libraries (HP: ESL, MSL, Autoloader; StorageTek: L180, L700), RAID arrays, HP XP & EVA disk arrays, Hitachi Data Storage (HDS), Brocade switches.
• Work with ticket queue to track support issues. Accountable for routine and critical escalated problem solving.
• Implemented and managed IP Addressing; configured TCP/IP addressing on a server.
• Planned and implemented Group Policy, delegation strategies and OU structure Created and managed Active Directory (AD) Organizational Units (OU), Group Policy Objects (GPO) users and groups.
• Configuring and managing Cisco UCS Service Profiles, vNIC/vHBA interfaces, MAC/WWPN/WWNN identity pools, various Servers, Network and Storage related policies.
• Cisco UCS Fabric Interconnect upstream connectivity with Cisco Nexus 5548 for LAN and MDS9148 for SAN.
• Created a design document on what roles and permissions need to be created for users in the new vSphere 6.0 environment.
• Trouble shooting of day to day system and user problems.

Confidential, Atlanta, Georgia

VMware and Windows Administrator

• Installed & configured 100+ virtual & physical servers Windows 2008 for the core projects.
• Administered and Supported servers running SQL Server2005/2008.
• Was responsible for system center installation, troubleshooting & support of antivirus software.
• Setup Active Directory test environment using VMware virtual servers for testing Active Directory group policy prior to deployment in a production environment. Installation of ESX server and creation of VMs and install different guest OS.
• Monitoring and managing performance of ESX servers and Virtual Machines.
• Creation of templates from VMs and Creation of VMs from templates.
• Participated in the migration planning, developing, testing and moving the migration process onto full-fledged production network.
• Administering Windows 2008 Active Directory, building new windows physical/virtual servers as per the requirement of the project.
• Installation and configuration of Windows Active Directory Services. Setting up Domains and configuring DHCP, DNS servers, IIS Servers. Optimization and performance tuning as needed. Worked with Group Policy Administration, Active Directory Management.
• Creating & managing user accounts, e-mail accounts, managing user rights and permissions. Configure mail clients. Managing User & Group accounts and their access control.
• 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.
• Created and managed Virtual Machines and Templates, worked with clones and snapshots of Virtual Machines.
• Experience in creating Virtual Machines on Shared Data Store.
• 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 (HA) and VMotion.
• Experience in setting up VMware standard vSwitch and ports groups (Service Console, Virtual Machine and VMKernal)
• In place upgrade of Windows 2003 servers to Windows 2008 of physical and virtual machines.
• Create Active Directory users and groups, including delegating authority and applying permissions to various member servers' nomenclature. Building VM's and new templates for and allocating them to appropriate resource pools.
• Installation of VMware tools, perform P2V, V2V migrations using VM Convertor.
• Participated in installation and configuration of vCenter server, and vSphere licensing.
• Updating and upgrading ESXi servers using vCenter update manager.
• Remote Access using Terminal services. VPN access to enterprise resources. Set up connectivity between head office and remote location for users. Setting up connectivity between head office and remote location for users.
• Administration of RDBMS MS SQL 2008 Server, responsible for database backup and restore, creating access logins.
• Implemented SUDO, SSH and other security tools and implemented security compliance.
• Created User, Groups. File Systems per database requirement. Worked on NIS, NIS+ to LDAP transition.
• Creation and scheduling, scripts used for Backup, System Monitoring and removal of unnecessary files.
• Planned and implemented future IT developments and undertaking project work.
• Proactively address network, storage, or system performance issues with assistance from the Enterprise Engineering team.
• Handled the VMware solutions to support multiple storage connectivity options such as FC-SAN, iSCSI, NFS (NAS) and internal storage.
• Assisted the development and execution of enterprise workstation remote imaging deployment methodology.

Confidential, Houston, Texas

System Admin (Windows/VMware System)

• Involved in installation, configuration, and integration and fine-tuning of Windows, 2003 and 2008 Operating Systems.
• Problem Management of Microsoft Exchange and Active Directory issues.
• Was troubleshooting Group Policies, Trust and Replication related issues.
• Design, implementation and integration of LAN and WAN systems.
• Implementation of RAID techniques and creation of Disk groups and volumes using Veritas Volume Manager.
• Maintained and recycled backup Tapes upon request from company.
• Setting up test Labs with AD servers, Microsoft Exchange Servers and IIS Servers
• Incident and Problem SLA management. Troubleshooting DHCP issues and resolving DNS Issues.
• Installation and configuration of Windows Active Directory Services. Setting up Domains and configuring DHCP, DNS servers, IIS Servers. SQL 2005 Server, Exchange Server. Optimization and performance tuning.
• Installed and configuring vSphere ESXi on HP dl380 g5 blade/Rack servers.
• User Accounts and Groups generated in Active Directory (AD).
• Administered and setup user profiles in Win 2003/2008 servers and ADS maintenance.
• Administered and setup Print servers in Win 2003/2008 server.
• Expertise in troubleshooting for Windows Systems on issues correlated to Servers, Local Services, Data Centers, and Server Configuration. Handled VMware solutions to support multiple Storage connectivity options such as Fibber Channel-SAN, ISCSI, NFS, NAS.
• Keep Virtual hardware and VMware Tools updated to keep a healthy environment.
• Worked with all components of HP (Smart Start, Insight Manager, Diagnostics, Network Configuration Utility etc.
• Setting up connectivity between head office and remote locations for clients.
• Manage change requests for all environments using Change Management process.
• Was troubleshooting Network setup issues.
• Collaborating with different teams in case of P1 and P2 issues. Windows Server 2008 troubleshooting.
• Completed multiple AD, Exchange and Enterprise Server migration projects.