SUMMARY:

• 8+ years of experience in VMware virtualization and Windows administration.
• Expertise in Windows 2003/2008/2012 server & Linux administration and active directory administration.
• Created user accounts and group policies and troubleshoot the existing GPOs.
• Experience on install, configure and troubleshooting Microsoft Physical and virtual clusters.
• Expertise in Dell physical servers and HP Proliant blade, UCS C240 M3 Rack servers.
• Responsible for server builds, patch management, antivirus and updates.
• Extensive experience in windows administration and clustering support.
• Performed system administration activities, monitored system performance both at software and hardware levels.
• Expertise in Microsoft Windows 2003, 2008, 2012 Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7.
• Strong knowledge of TCP/IP protocol suite, virtual networking, wireless networks & Cloud computing concepts.
• Experience and Familiar with Virtualisation technologies like installing, configuring, administering VMware ESX/ESXi. Created and managed VMs (virtual server) and involved in the maintenance of the virtual server.
• Experience with enterprise backup systems and disaster recovery operations; familiarity with SAN technologies; solid understanding of vSphere 4/5/6 implementation with shared storage fiber channel, ISCSI, NFS / VMFS strategies for performance and optimization.
• Expertise with IP sub - netting, VLANs, Load Balancing, and High Availability (HA) architectures.
• Strong experience with the VMware HA (High Availability), Fault Tolerance, Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) and VMware Distributed Power Management. Co-ordinated with the network team to plan the structure of network to be used for the new Virtual hosts like number of NICs, vLANs, subnets etc.
• Experience in Active Directory Services, GPOs, DNS, AD Trusts & Routing, ADDS, ADFS, DHCP, File & Print Server, IIS (Web Server), VoIP, FTP, Terminal Server, NFS, SSH, Microsoft Lync, NAT, WSUS, Microsoft Clustering, Microsoft SharePoint, Acquisition integration, SAN, VSAN, Exchange Server, ISA Server and FSMO roles
• Experience in Active Directory Administration, Group Policy Management.
• Hands-on experience on Citrix Provisioning Services, XenApp, App-V, Appsense, XenDesktop, App Volumes, RDSH and VMware ESX/ESXi.
• Experience in change management, HP Hardware support includes BIOS up gradation, PSP installation and MSA firmware up gradation.
• Administrated and implemented server consolidation program through use of VMware ESX Server and VMware Virtual Center Servers.
• Good knowledge on Active Directory forest architecture, WDS, Data Protector, Windows PKI and experience in wintel operations in an onsite-offershore model.
• Executed deployments, server migrations, Single Sign-On (SSO) solutions and upgrades as part of the IT team.
• Experience in vSphere Replication using Site Recovery Manager (SRM) for backup in case of disaster.
• Experience in Installation, Configuration Maintenance and Troubleshooting of Citrix Presentation Server on Windows Server and expert in Citrix Load Balancing.
• Patch management using WSUS, SCCM; Worked with TCP/IP network protocols.
• Experience with Microsoft desktop version like Windows 7, 8, 10. And On-Call Support, Production support, .Net framework, Tape Backups and saas environments experience
• Strong analytical, technical and troubleshooting skills.
• Experience in the V2V and P2V migration of Physical servers to VMware ESX hosts.
• 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.
• Working knowledge on Microsoft Azure.
• Has good end-user support and customer service experience.
• 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.
• Involved in upgrading the existing Servers with latest Service Packs, Security Patches.
• Experience in analyzing and troubleshooting Microsoft Windows Server hardware, Software applications and clustered environment issues.
• Knowledge on Windows PowerShell command line and scripting environment.
• Extensive experience in managing Data Center environment with Administering, Installing, and Troubleshooting Microsoft Servers and Workstations.
• Hands on Experience in providing Production support on 24x7 for Windows Servers.
• Provided daily, weekly and monthly reports on the existing Windows Servers and suggested up gradations of server licenses.
• Created Backup policies and scheduling backup Jobs using Symantec Net Backup and Net Backup Exec, VEEAM VM backups and IBM & HP robotic tape drives.
• Experience in ESX Architecture, guest O/S installation, setting up of VM priorities, Cloning, Creating Templates and Snapshots.
• Extensive experience in working with the vMotion and Storage vMotion technology Strong Experience in vNetwork concepts: vSwitch and dvSwitch.
• Cisco UCS Central Software extends Cisco UCS Manager features across multiple Cisco UCS domains.

TECHNICAL PROFICIENCY:

VMware : VMware vSphere 4.1/5.0/5.1/5.5/6.0/6.5 , ESXi Server 4.1/5.0/5.1/5.5/6.0/6.5 , vCloud Director, VMware SRM, VMware vRealize Orchestrator (vRO), vRealize Operations Manager (vROPS), VMware vRealize Automation (vRA), VMware Horizon, VMware Standalone Converter, vShield, VMware Update Manager, VMware Virtual Desktop Infrastructure VDI, VMware Workstation, VMware VCB, VMware View, Pivotal Spring, Spring Enterprise and Spring Server.

Operating Systems: Microsoft Windows2003/08/12, Red Hat Linux, CentOS Linux.

Antivirus: Symantec Endpoint Protection 11.0.

Hardware: Enterprise Rackmount & Blade Servers from HP, Dell, IBM, EMC VNXe 3300 Storage Array, EMC Clarion CX4, HP MSL 4048 Tape Library, Brocade SAN switches.

Tools/services: Whatsup gold 14.3 & Solarwinds 9.1, Nagios. VMware Health Check, IBM Tivoli storage manager(TSM) for VMware, BMC Remedy, Microsoft clustering services, file and print services.

Windows Servers : Windows Server 2016, Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2003, Windows 2000, Windows NT, Active Directory, ADFS, LDAP, ADRMS, DNS, DHCP, Microsoft Hyper-V, Microsoft Exchange server 2007, Windows 10,8,7, Vista, XP, Share point.

Backup Solutions : Symantec, CommVault, Veritas NetBackup, HP Data protector, vRanger, Veeam.

Networking Equipment : Cisco Nexus series, Cisco Routers, Cisco Switches, Cisco Firewalls, Juniper Routers, Juniper Switches, Palo Alto firewall.

Ticketing Tools: Remedy, Service now, Maximo, CA, HP Service Manager.

Scripting: PowerShell, VB, SQL Scripting, Bash, Python.

Others : SPLUNK, Microsoft NLB and Fail over Cluster, Veritas Cluster, SQL servers, F5 Load balancer, Solar Wind Monitoring, Nagios Monitoring, Site scope, Site Maestro, Dell OME, HP SIM, NAS, NFS, iSCSI. SCCM, InfoBlox IPAM, Chef, Puppet.

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Overland Park, Kansas

Sr. System Admin (Windows/Wintel & VMware)

Responsibilities:

• Migrated VMware vCenter and ESXi server infrastructure environments to 6.0 and 6.5.
• Installing and configuration VMware tools and orchestration of guess OS that include Windows and Linux.
• ESX Server Maintenance, ESX Server Deployment, ESX Server Upgrades, Virtual Center Maintenance, Operational Troubleshooting, Virtual Server Maintenance, Storage Migrations and Patching.
• Implement and Manage VMware vRealize Orchestrator (vRO), VMware vRealize Automation (vRA), vRealize Operations Manager (vROPS).
• Hybrid cloud management of the enterprise using VMware vRealize Orchestrator (vRO), VMware vRealize Automation (vRA).
• Upgraded Active Directory environment from existing 2008R2 to 2012R2.
• Migrated Users, Computers, OUs, Groups from Europe and Asia Pacific domains to Americas domain as a part of domain consolidation project.
• Automate ESXi host configuration across substantial number of hosts and clusters.
• Performed troubleshooting on Cluster servers by upgrading firmware of NICs on cluster nodes, thereby stabilizing the cluster and preventing cluster failures.
• Worked VMware Data Center Virtualization and Microsoft Azure Cloud Computing.
• Implemented and Administered the Hyper-V
• Running the scripts through PowerShell like creating users, patch updates etc.
• Creating new VM’s or deploying VM from Template & adding/removing virtual hardware to VM’s.
• Managing file server based on NAS for user home folder space and shared folder space.
• Coordination with SAN team for SAN components setup on Intel boxes e.g. HBA card, EMC, San Surfer, HDLM, VERITAS Storage Foundation.
• Installed and Configured WIN, TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, IIS and Terminal Services.
• Installation and configuration of Virtual machines in physical ESX server
• Experience with VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM), vCenter Operations Manager, Horizon Workspace, Horizon Mirage, ThinApp and VMware View desktop virtualization infrastructure (VDI).
• Creating and managing Resource Pools and adding the VM's into Resource pools, Installing VM Tools into VM's and allocating for end user and Setting up priorities on CPU, Memory (RAM) and other resources.
• Managed Virtual Desktop preferably using VMware Horizon View
• Managed and troubleshoot Windows file servers, Active Directory, WINS, DHCP, DNS, FTP, IIS & storage servers, SQL server 2005/2008 and Exchange Servers, Service Manager, group policy.
• Constantly monitored that all 3 exchange-Servers that we used were up and running by sending mail from one server to another.
• Implemented Hybrid Exchange On-Premise to Office 365 migrations as a pilot project
• Deployed VMware App Volumes and User Environment Management for faster application delivery, unified applications and user management to Horizon View Virtual desktops.
• Manage VMware View Horizon, Create VDI system, Recompose, troubleshoot performance Upgraded storage space for VM server and view client.
• Maintained and supported VMware View virtual desktop infrastructure of 400 virtual desktops and 9 host servers.
• Worked and troubleshooting skills in issues related to View Connection servers, View Manager, View Security servers, View Composer, View Pools, View desktops, Snapshot, Win7 OS Templates creation.
• Configuring dedicated vmkernel & multiple service Console for better performance.
• Migrate and manage Virtual machines and ensure high availability of applications.
• Deploy Virtual machines from templates and allocate resources, Manage VM's using VM ware Virtual center and web access, Configurations of Virtual switched and network connections.
• Creating, Installing, configuring and maintaining the Virtual Machines, installing Guest Operating Systems like Windows, Linux.
• Implemented Migration by performing P2V, V2V and V2P conversions using vConverter and PlateSpin.
• Created documentation for Server Builds, Application Installations, Mapping the drives and Issues which occur during software upgrades.
• Troubleshoot network issues between Distributed vSwitch, Layer 2 switches and resolved slow performance between SAN network and VM networks.
• Resolving the issues on Exchange server, AD, File Server and etc.., on the priority basis of SLA agreed.
• Migration work, p2v, v2v and also day to day VMWare troubleshooting, performance and fault management. Identify and tag(label) Fibre connections on Cisco Fibre Channel Switch
• Configured Windows Server Update Service (WSUS) for the distribution of updates & hot fixes in the domain
• FTP access list editing and installing on clients in Linux and Windows.
• Administrating and Troubleshooting Domain controller. Monitoring and Maintaining Daily, Weekly Backups through Backup Tool.
• Controlling ESX Server's in Virtual Center Configuring HA & DRS for ESX Server.
• Adding additional hardware resources and expanding the OS partition of VM's.
• Implementation and after configuration maintenance of HA, DRS and V Motion, VDI, Vpex and Resource pool.
• Configured HA, DRS and Resource Pool and Manage the Cluster Level.
• Involved in the Backup and Recovery of the Database using Symantec Backup exec.
• Configured and maintained new VM’s and Installed Microsoft Windows 2008/2003 Servers, managing VM’s and ESX servers by using VIC, Putty and Web Access and installing the VMware Tools on the VM.
• Network Teaming & Bridge mode configured in ESX Servers and Virtual Servers.
• Patch Management in ESX Servers & Windows Servers through update Manager.
• Troubleshooting and repairing Hardware, software and network related problems.
• Performing Daily server checklist of servers from all over the locations.
• Managing backups using NTbackup and VERITAS Volume Manager. NAS for file server quota, SAN for HBA card management based on Microsoft operating systems. HP PSP, Dell and HP-Compaq server hardware management.
• Remote tools - ILO, UCS, RDP. Setup the backup solution through the FTP server in scheduled time periods.
• Configuration of LAN, WAN, Dialup connections at the remote locations. Setup of Wireless access points, Switches and routers.
• Administered the WSUS and WDS (Windows Deployment services)
• Troubleshooting Severity incidents, administrating and managing the Group Policy Management (GPO).
• Taking Remote logging by Using Citrix console, troubleshooting issues like RDP, server freeze, hang etc.,
• Work on alerts for Blade servers to ensure the server is in healthy state.
• Deal with Hardware vendors like HP & Dell and Cisco UCS.
• Implemented, and administration a Microsoft Systems Center Operations Manager (SCOM) solution to monitor and manage.
• Configured the SCCM 2012 and monitored the production servers.
• In-depth knowledge of Active Directory and SCCM integration with Active Director.
• Used SCCM 2012 R2 extensively for package deployment. Worked on creating collections, Advertisement, Configuration Manager Console, Package definition, Distribution points and Reporting.
• Installed OS, patches and security policies through SCCM 2012 R2 Admin Tools.
• Ensured firewall rules were correctly in place on Windows servers as per the organizational standards, while also allowing proper functionality of applications on them.
• Have set up QMM for migrating users, computers, OUs and groups.
• Installing and configuring Active directory certificate service (ADCS).
• Windows sever 2016 testing and planning the role out project.

Confidential, San Francisco, California

Windows & VMware System Admin

Responsibilities:

• Installed and configured several vCenters and ESXi servers as required.
• Responsible for managing several hundred (approx. 800) ESXi servers and associated components.
• Performed several RCM upgrades successfully with no downtime to the environment.
• Build the entire VDI Environment in VMware horizon view by deploying Connection server; Security servers; Dedicated VCenter server and Transfer server and authenticating them in Horizon View Administration console.
• Worked majorly on Datacenter rationalization project to get the VM’s moved out of non-strategic DC to strategic DC locations.
• Operations - Building/Process Improvement, Monitors, troubleshoots, and improves area-of-control operational processes to ensure optimum performance and practice consistency.
• Worked with office 365 (O365) and windows PowerShell.
• Configuring vNetwork Distributed switches and migrating the networks from vNetwork standard switches to vNetwork Distributed switches.
• Involved in P2V, V2P Migration using Stand Alone VMware Converter Server and Plate Spin.
• Installed and configured Active Directory Domain Controller 2008/2012 R2.
• Sizing hardware according to needs and requesting quotes from different vendors.
• Maintain DNS, DHCP and Trust Relationship between domains.
• Added SAN Storage on a regular basis to clusters based on capacity requirements.
• Installed, maintaining and Troubleshooting Servers through vSphere and ILO.
• Exchange 2010 Administration using Exchange Management Console and Exchange Management Shell
• Archiving mail for Exchange 2010 leveraging EMC SourceOne.
• Maintained SCOM, Software Assets including licenses and 3rd Party Vendor Interaction
• Deployment of VMware ThinApp for application virtualization for efficient Application installation and maintenance in VDI environment.
• Wokred on troubleshooting efforts on a day to day basis and resolved the issues, experience in writing Root Cause Analysis documents. (Involves log analysis to identify cause of failure, co-ordinate with VMware support etc.)
• Performing Virtualization tasks, NFS migration, disk alignment, etc.
• Monitoring and reporting the health status of VMware Horizon View VDI environments and VSphere environments using vCOPS/vROPS.
• Create distinct types of desktop pools like manual pools, automated pools, linked clones’ pools, full clone pools and RDP pools in as per users’ requirements.Configured the DNS and DHCP servers.
• Experience in VMware View 4.x/5.0, Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI), Update Manager, DRS, HA, VMware vCenter Orchestrator (vCO), vCenter Operations Manager (vCOps), vSphere Replicator, vSOM.
• Experience with MS clustering and maintain the quorum disk.
• Implemented, and administration a Microsoft Systems Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) solution to apply the patches and deploying the applications.Created standard template and deployed Virtual machines through templates, involved in Cloning Virtual Machine.
• Used OSD task sequence scheduler in SCCM to package applications for deployment.
• Converted physical machines to Virtual machines (P2V migration) using VMWare enterprise converter and PlateSpin.
• Configured VMotion, and performed Storage VMotion and Monitored performance of ESX servers and Virtual Machines
• Configured fault tolerance (FT) for mission critical Virtual Machines Configured and Managed VMWare cluster with HA and DRS
• Configured and Managed resource pools and VAPPS for Virtual Machines
• Used Virtual centre server for HA, DRS and VMotion and cold migration
• Build, install, configure and maintain VMware products including ESXi servers and clusters.
• Provide advanced troubleshooting and problem resolution of the entire virtualized environment.
• Proactively did large cluster administration with VMware enterprise infrastructure.
• Updating service account passwords.
• Installed, configured and managing network file servers, print servers and maintaining various logs.
• Created Virtual machines using Hyper-V and deployed prepared pre-production environment.
• Maintaining Active Directory system data and file server volume backups. Monitoring Active Directory integrity and replication.
• Logs file analysis using the Event Viewer and troubleshooting to resolve issues
• Provided support for teams in activities such as Load testing, troubleshooting, and performance tuning
• Involved in trouble shooting and fixing day-to-day problems of the applications in production
• Supported 24*7 on call schedule for Production support.
• Execute Installation of Single Sign On (SSO) server for ESXi 5.5 upgrade with existing MySQL database, upgrade Inventory services for ESXi 5.5.
• Used Powershell script for Automation like creating user accounts, Admin permissions.
• Created affinity and anti-affinity DRS rules to efficiently manage the environment and provide high availability.
• Created new VLAN’s and port-profiles in Nexus 1000v.
• Analyze performance issues and provide recommendations to improve the performance of a Virtual Infrastructure.
• Worked with the team in configuring the environment with HA, DRS, FT, vMotion and Storage vMotion, VMware Data Recovery, VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM), vCenter Operations Manager and VMware View desktop virtualization infrastructure (VDI).
• Advanced Monitoring and Performance Analysis of vSphere Environment using native tools as well as vRealize Operations Manager.
• Experience in deployment of vCAC and creating Reports using vRealize Operations Manager.
• Created service profile templates and deployed service profiles as required.
• Created WWPN, MAC, UUID pools in the UCS Manager as required.
• Experience in creating new VLAN’s on UCS and Nexus devices.
• Upgraded ESXi servers, Nexus devices and Cisco UCS as part of RCM upgrades.
• Created LUN’s and Volumes on EMC storage arrays and added them as data stores to the ESXi hosts.
• Created and mounted RDM’s for the data base servers when requested.
• Handled multiple p2v and v2v projects and ensured that the activities are completed on schedule with complete end to end responsibility.
• Excellent experience in working on multipathing techniques like PowerPath and native multipathing.
• Created several SOP’s for L1 & L2 resources on many days to day activities and common issues in the environment.
• Served as internal change control mentor within the team and ensured all RFC’s are processed properly.

Confidential, Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin

System Administrator (VMware/Windows)

Responsibilities:

• Worked with Physical or Virtual Servers were replicated by Continuous Data Protection (CDP) technology from Primary site to Disaster Recovery (DR) site.
• Accountable for ensuring configuration of Virtual Center & ESXi Servers.
• Data Center Management, Capacity planning and management.
• Responsible for configuring Protection Plan & initiating Protection Installed and upgraded VMware vSphere.
• VMware ESX/ESXi Host Server Installation, Configuration & Maintenance. Design and Implementation of migration strategy for consolidating Data Centers from around the world to centralized locations in US which involves numerous servers of various LINUX versions.
• Responsible to maintain cluster servers and ensure the load balancing among the nodes.
• Migrated and Managed VMware Esxi - 5.0 and 5.1, Worked on VMware capacity planner.
• Performed tons of V2V Migration., Created clones and templates of Virtual Machines.
• Deploying VMs Through OVF Templates, Created & Troubleshot Virtual Networks and vSwitches.
• Worked on Migration concepts like vMotion and cold migration and Remediate.
• Configured Netbackup Client thorough planning was done for downtime, knowing each server usage & their placement in Datacenter.
• Creating Data centers in the Vsphere Web client and adding the Hosts to the Data center.
• Configuring the Host profiles and Remediate.
• Hands Experience on UCS - Configuring VSwitch1 and editing configurations of VMX file - Type delay.
• Setting up the VLANS for each and individual VMs.
• Strong Knowledge in creating various objects like User Accounts, Computer Accounts, Clean-up and Auto logon accounts.
• Assigning folder permissions to the users by gathering approval from the group owners.
• Efficiently created and managed various Groups (Domain Local and Global Security).
• Raised tickets for any issues discovered during validation.
• Use command line to check whether we can connect to member servers or not.
• Troubleshooting UCS hardware if the Hosts are disconnected in the Vcenter.
• Design, Installation and configuring of new vSphere 5 ESXi servers for the P2V candidates on UCS Cisco C240 M3 Rack Server.
• Installed Management Server (vCenter Server) instances to enable centralized management of multiple ESXi hosts.
• Configuring High Availability (HA), Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) and vNetwork Distributed Switch (VDS).
• Configured VMware HA, VMware DRS in acquiring higher efficiency for VMware Infrastructure.
• Creating and managing Virtual Machines and Templates, worked with clones and snapshots of Virtual Machines.
• Administering, troubleshooting and automating vSphere ESXi using Power CLI.
• Installing, configuring and managing the windows and Linux servers.
• Patching and upgrading Esx4.x to Esx5.x through VMware update manager.
• Conversion of Servers from Physical to Virtual (P2V) and Virtual to Virtual (V2V) using VMware convertor tool.

Confidential, Austin, Texas

Windows/Unix/VMware Admin

Responsibilities:

• Worked in a server team providing support for 1800+ physical & virtual servers.
• Performed installation, configuration and maintenance of 32-bit and 64-bit Windows 2003 servers and 64-bit Windows 2008 servers.
• Provided technical support, administration and troubleshooting of Microsoft Windows 2003 & Windows 2008 cluster servers.
• Installation, administration and troubleshooting Active Directory DC's, DNS, DHCP, WINS and DFS issues.
• Performed installation, configuration, administration and troubleshooting on VMware ESX 3.5 & 4.1 environments including support for Virtual Center management, DRS, HA & vMotion.
• Effective provisioning, installation/configuration, operation, and maintenance of Windows Serves, VMware servers, systems hardware and software and related infrastructure. Manages AD, DNS, DHCP, IIS and file servers.
• Implementation and up gradation of VMware infrastructure.
• Utilized VMware to build networking & server lab environment that streamlined server OS / application deployments, increased system uptime, and improved reliability. Server building and decommissioning Via ILO/RILO and Disk and File systems administration
• Troubleshooting hardware & software issues; Resource Utilization Analysis & Management.
• Making sure storage and networking infrastructure met virtual infrastructure specifications.
• Responsible for support for all server related issues.
• System builds, upgrades, migrations, code deployments and patch management.
• Administered change management related to server upgrades and software installation.
• Prepared and maintained documentation of technologies, standards and procedures.
• End to End patching of MS servers.
• Responsible for deploying, managing, and maintaining HP ProLiant BL-series C-class blade servers and DL-series servers.
• Configuring HP Blade and track mount servers.
• Configuring and maintaining of Cisco Routers, Switches, Firewall, storage mediums, PCs and other components.
• Installing various software utilities on servers and workstations.
• Database administration of SQL servers.
• First level trouble shooting of the IT infrastructure Hardware devices.
• Upgraded VMware ESX 3.5 infrastructure to vSphere 4.1 and vcenter 4.1.
• Created virtual machine templates & configured sysprep files for customizing operating system deployment.
• Configured and managed security permissions in virtual center management for access to virtual machines.
• Performed physical to virtual (P2V) and virtual to virtual (V2V) migrations using VMware converter.
• Installation of patches and driver updates on Microsoft windows servers and VMware ESX hosts.
• Installed and configured Netbackup and Networker BAC software on servers.
• Wrote knowledgebase documents for incident and support cases.
• Troubleshooting performance issues on physical and virtual machines.