SUMMARY:

• 6+ years of extensive experience in Infrastructure Services support and Management as System Administrator
• Implemented the technical aspects of data center hardware & solutions to include design, deployment and operational support.
• Hands on experience in working on installation, configuration and administration of VMware VSphere, ESXi 4.0/4.1/5.0/5.1 /5.5, 6.0, VMware VCenter 4.0/4.1/5.0/5.1, 5.5 & 6.0 environments
• Working with the hardware team recognize the hardware issues of the servers.
• Network communication skills and protocols such as TCP/IP, Telnet, FTP, NDM, SSH, rlogin
• Experience in installing, configuring and managing DHCP, DNS.
• Configuring and troubleshooting Clusters in 2003, 2008 & 2012
• Experience in researching the problematic areas in the data center infrastructure to develop and present systemic fault remediation plans.
• Expertise with designing, installing and implementing VMware ESX/ESXI server, VMware virtual center, setting up DRS, High Availability, V - Motion and related VMware products such as VMware converter, VM Workstation, VM Backup products and other products for virtualization.
• Troubleshooting of server hardware issues by coordinating with the hardware vendors
• Configured VM’s HA, DRS, FT settings and also Configured permissions, Roles in VMware virtual center
• Monitoring virtual clients through centralized virtual server.
• Expert Networking skills related to LAN, WAN and troubleshooting.
• Hands on experience in building the ESXi Servers
• Administration of Citrix XenApp 6.0, Sound Knowledge on Access Management console and XenApp Advanced Configuration Tool
• Administering Citrix farms running XenApp 5/6. Carried out major projects involving application migration from PS 4.5 -> XenApp 5.0 -> XenApp 6.0
• Performed the server migration from windows server 2008 to windows server 2012.
• Hands on experience with VMware update manager to install patches and updates on ESX hosts and virtual machines
• Install and Management of VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM) and Patch management using VMware Update Manager for ESX server
• Hands on experience configuring High Availability (HA) and Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS).
• Physical to Virtual (P2V) / Virtual to Virtual (V2V) conversions using VMware Converter
• Creating new Virtual machines for various Operating Systems.
• Performed the server migration from windows server 2003 to windows server 2008.
• Sound knowledge of VMware Networking concepts like creation of NIC teaming, VSwitches, different types of port groups and VLAN Problem management on VMware ESX 5.X and Virtual Center and Vmotion
• Adding Hosts to vCenter, creating and managing virtual machines under the hosts
• Deploying and cloning of virtual machines.
• Deploying, Configuring and Managing of Windows 2003,2008, 2012 & 2016 Servers
• Creating cluster, configuring DRS, HA and adding/removing ESXi host from cluster
• Day to Day ESXI servers Maintenance and Patching.
• Monitoring Server Health Status of the CPU processors, Memory, Fans, Temperature and Voltage.
• Working on and Performing virtual machine configuration changes as per the customer requirement.
• Hands on experience in writing power shell scripts and automated administration tasks using VB scripting.
• Experience in monitoring systems using SSCM, SCOM, VRops 6 monitoring tools

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating Systems: Windows 2008-R2, Windows 2016, Windows 2012 R2, Windows 2003 Enterprise Server, Windows 2000 Advance Server, Windows NT 4.0, Windows XP and Linux.

System Administration: Active Directory Services, DHCP, DNS, RDP, Terminal Services, Systems Management Server (SMS), FTP.

VMware: Install, Configure, Upgrade, Managing ESX/ESXi ( 4.0,4.1,5.5,6.0), Install and Configure VCenter server (4.0/4.1,5.5,6.0), VMware Converters, Install and deploy VRops Manager 6.0.

Citrix: Presentation Server 4.5, XenApp 6, XenApp 6.5, Citrix Receiver 4.3/5/6/7, Web Interface.

Tools: Power Shell, VEEAM 8, HP ILO (Integrated Light’s Out), IBM RSA (Remote Supervisor Adapter), DELL DRAC, MS Office 2007/10, SQL Server 2008.

Hardware: HP Prolient DL390 G9, DL380 G6, DL385 G7, Gen8, DL385 G6, Gen8, HP Blades.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Vmware Administrator

Confidential, Alpharetta, GA

ROLES & RESPONSIBILITIES

• Hands on experience in working on installation, configuration and administration of VMware VSphere, ESXi 4.0/4.1/5.0/5.1 /5.5 /6.0,VMware VCenter 4.0/4.1/5.0/5.1, 5.5 and 6.0 environments.
• Installation, Configuration, Administration and Trouble shooting of Vmware ESXI 5.5 & ESXI 6.0 Virtual Center server.
• Expertise in Installation, Maintenance and troubleshooting of various Standard Build Windows operating systems like WinNT, Win2000, WinXP, Win2003/8/12 Server, RHEL servers.
• Upgrading ESXI 5.5 to ESXI 6.0 using VMware Update Manager.
• Good understanding and knowledge VBlock and components and experience with Cisco UCS administration.
• Administered 160 ESXI hosts, 40 Clusters running close to 4000 virtual machines. The virtual environments were designed and build upon IBM and HP blades.
• Physical to Virtual (P2V) / Virtual to Virtual (V2V) migration using VMware Converter
• Installing, configuring & deploying VRops 6.0
• Configuring VCenter Single Sign-on server (SSO)
• Knowledge in SQL server configuration
• Attend the timely calls with the managers & reporting them.
• Experience in Troubleshooting critical hardware and software issues and other day-to-day user trouble tickets.
• Install and Management of VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM) and Patch management using VMware Update Manager for ESX server
• Adding Hosts to vCenter, creating and managing virtual machines under the hosts.
• Creating cluster, configuring DRS, HA, FT & adding/removing ESXi host from cluster.
• ESXi Host upgrades using VMware Update Manager.
• Monitoring & backup using VEEAM tool.
• Configuring NSX for Network Virtualization and security
• Creating and managing Resource Pools and adding the VMs into Resource Pools.
• Configuring the ILO on HP DL360, DL380 G9 series.
• Configuring the ILO and deploying the operating system.
• Performing the BIOS level update as per the requirement.
• Performing the Root Cause Analysis for the issues.
• Migration the running VM from one host to another is using Vmotion technique and also Performing storage Vmotion when required.
• Creating and managing VSwitches and port groups for the ESXi servers.
• Performing snapshot related operation on VMs like taking snapshot, reverting snapshot.
• Performing virtual machine configuration changes.
• Hands on experience with IBM Rack/Tower models X series, HP Blade System C-class enclosures.
• Deploying and cloning of virtual machines.
• Strong knowledge of Storage technologies including SAN, NAS storage.
• Performance monitoring of ESXi servers, VM’s by using vCenter Server.
• Creating VM templates, Snapshots, Cloning, and patching on servers.
• Re configuring VMs as per the requirements: Hot add and Hot plug, extend hard disk.
• Creating virtual switches & port groups in virtual environment.

Environment: ESXi 5.5/6.0, VMware VCenter server 5.5/6.0, Vmware update manager, SRM, Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Express database , HP Prolient DL380 G6, DL390 G9, ILO, VEEAM, VRops, Vmware converter.

System/Vmware Administrator

Confidential, GA

ROLES & RESPONSIBILITIES

• Installing and configuring ESX/ESXI Servers.
• Deploying VM guest operating system through VCenter.
• Configured & Deployed ESX/ESXi server in corporate production environment.
• Implementation of VSphere, users and groups management.
• Worked on Vcenter Server to manage the ESX/ESXI severs in data Center.
• Worked with Update Manager to apply patches on virtual machines.
• Involved in P2V, V2V Migration as per client Requirement.
• Performing the changes through the change management.
• Installing and Maintaining Vcenter Servers.
• Taking regular backup of Vcenter Server machine.
• Creating Resource Pools and Setting limits on CPU and RAM.
• Developing shell scripts & executing them.
• Performing Vmotion and SVmotion.
• Installing Xenapp 6.0, Xenapp 6.5 and deploying the VMs.
• Licensing and Installing Citrix XenApp.
• Installing and Configuring Web Interface.
• Managing Applications through Web interface and Service Site.
• Managing and Maintaining XenApp Farms.
• Administration of Citrix XenApp 6.0, Sound Knowledge on Access Management console and XenApp Advanced Configuration Tool
• Maintaining Xenapp Environment.
• Installing licenses for Xenapp servers.
• Installation, Administration and Troubleshooting of LAN, WAN. Design & Implementation of Networks.
• Installing the ESX patches using Update Manager
• Creating Virtual Machine Templates, taking clone and Snap shots as per the client requirement.
• Monitoring Server Health Status of the CPU processors, Memory, Fans, Temperature and Voltage.
• Setting up and troubleshooting features like HA/FT/DRS with EVC for the Virtual Machines for business continuity.
• Worked on Remedy and Service Now ticketing system.
• Configuring Distributed Virtual Switches, Port groups.
• Setting up Alarms/alerts for the infrastructure changes.
• Creating daily report on resource usage and resource availability.
• Performing the VMware server health checks.
• Preparing and providing Project design documents.
• Troubleshooting various backup issues reported on windows servers.
• Troubleshooting various storage issues in OS perspective.

Environment: ESX/ESXi, VMware VCenter server, VSwitches, Remedy, Vmware update manager, SRM, Windows Server 2003, Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Express database, RHEL 6.0, MSI 4.5, Citrix, Xenapp 6.0/6.5, HP Prolient DL380 G6, Vmware converter.

Associate System Administrator

Confidential

ROLES & RESPONSIBILITIES

• Installing, configuring & Managing Active Directory in Windows 2003
• Active Directory Group policy management
• Deploying, Configuring and Managing of Windows 2003 and 2008 Servers
• Installation of Windows 2003/2008 servers as per the Server Delivery Requests.
• Converting physical machines to virtual machines
• DNS & DHCP Management
• Application upgrades and maintenance
• Working with the hardware team recognise the hardware issues of the servers.
• Implementation and management of Client end backup and Antivirus solutions
• Creating images of Windows XP and Windows 7 OS
• Automated Job scheduling for different systems in IT infrastructure
• Periodically upgrade/ Migrate with the version approved by IT security
• Patching the servers with the latest patches released by Microsoft
• Performing various changes in Windows environment
• Building VMs and maintaining them
• Performing Vmotion and SVmotion
• Performing various changes on VMware environment and servers

Environment: Windows 2003 servers, Windows 2008 servers, Dell PE R300, Dell PE T605, DNS, DHCP, Imaging, Active Directory, Windows XP, Windows 7, RHEL 5.x, LAN, Vmware Converter.