SUMMARY:

• IT Professional with about 8 years of Professional Experience as Windows Systems Administrator, Engineer and VMware Administrator for Implementation and Support Wintel Servers with Windows 2012, 2008 R2, 2008, 2003, 2000 and NT on HP, Cisco UCS, Dell Bare metal Servers.
• Experience in Installing, Configuring & Troubleshooting VMware ESX/ESXi 6.5,6.0,5.5, 5.1/5.0/4.1/4.0, vSphere 6.0/5.5,5.1/5.0/4.0, vCenter or Virtual Center 6.0/5.5/ 5.1/5.0/4.1/4.0 Servers. Configuring VM’s on ESX server and installing hosts and Migrating Virtual Machines across various VMware ESX Server, Workstation and VMware servers.
• Expertise in advanced features of ESX/ESXi 4/5/6,6.5 vMotion, Storage vMotion, HA, DRS, and Update Manager.
• Expertise with maintaining and updating g the Domain Controllers and RODC in Windows Server 2003/2008.
• Excellence in upgrading of ESXi 4.1 to ESXi 5.0, 5.5, 6.0 & 6.5 hosts, vCenter 4 to 5, as well as upgrading 2500+ VM’s from Virtual machine hardware 7 to 8 and 9 as part of a major enterprise upgrade.
• Administration of VMware Virtual Center and virtualization services VMware DRS, VMware HA, VMotion and SVMotion.
• Expert knowledge on configuring hardware iSCSI and NFS storage to VMware ESX (i) hosts from vSphere client.
• Experience in configuring VMware standard vSwitch & dvSwitch(distributed swtich).
• Experience in Planning, Installing, Configuring, and Upgrading vCenter Server and VMware ESXi products
• Expertise in creating AD (Active Directory) 2003, 2008 R2, 2012 accounts, file permissions, DNS records administration.
• Expertise in assisting with the administration and upgrading from Windows R2/ 2012active directory and domains.
• Flawless Experience in RHEL/Windows Server provisioning, Upgrades, Patching, Configuration and Performance Tuning in Linux, and VMware environments, HPC Environment.
• Proficient in Server Builds, Installs, Upgrades, Patches, Configuration and Performance Tuning in Red Hat Linux/Windows Server 2003/2008 R2/2012 on VMware virtualized environments.
• Worked with server deployments of windows, linux machines in AWS.
• Expertise in creation of RHEL and Windows 03/08 servers utilizing templates, custom ISO’s and Power CLI scripts.
• Experience in creating protection groups, recovery plans, test DR plans, and SRA’s in SRM.
• Experience in developing documentation and runbooks for disaster recovery plans via SRM by coordinating with multiple datacenters across various locations.
• Performed daily system monitoring, verifying the integrity and availability of all hardware, server resources, systems and key processes, reviewing system and VM logfile, and verifying completion of scheduled jobs such as backups, checking alerts and alarms, managing private cloud.
• Implementation and after configuration maintenance of HA, DRS, FT and Resource pool.
• Installation, Configuration and Administration of Virtual Infrastructure using ESX/ESXi, VMWare V sphere 4.x, Virtual center 4.X and 5.x, 6.x Servers.
• Experienced in Active Directory Services creating User accounts, groups, computer accounts, group policies in Windows based server environments.
• 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.
• Installing & Upgrading of VCenter, Vsphere Client, ESX & ESXi Hypervisors, VMWare workstation.
• Provide 24x7 on call support as part of scheduled rotations.
• Maintaining File Server and Print Server and cloning the desktops on network in Windows Environment.
• Excellent skills in Virus updates, Security updates and Service Pack updates.
• Knowledge of ITIL process and enforcer of best practices.
• Excellent skills in supporting users over phone as well as using Remote Support Tools such as Windows Remote Desktop, WebEx to connect to the servers. Keeping the software up - to-date applying patches when needed and recommended by Microsoft.
• Considerable hands-on experience with Server/PC hardware integration, Network Monitoring, Troubleshooting and Firewalls.
• Worked on Change Management, request management and Incident tickets using Remedy ticketing tools.
• Configuring and troubleshooting emails on Outlook/Exchange servers.
• Involved in managing backup and restoration of Exchange and Active Directory server databases with VERITAS and TSM Backups. Experience deploying ESXi based servers using HP ILO and OA/VC for datacenter production and lab servers.
• Expertise in building, configuring and upgrading Cisco UCS, Dell, HP-7000 Enclosures.
• Experience configuring Shared Uplink Sets, SAN Fabrics, Server Profiles, Boot from SAN on both Flex-10 and Flex Fabric.
• Expertise in creating VM Templates, Cloning and managing Snapshots.
• Expertise in building out HP C-7000 Enclosures via configuring shared uplink sets, SAN Fabrics, Server profiles.
• Proactive working on VMware Converter 4.3/5.0 to do virtual to virtual migration as well as Physical to virtual server migration

TECHNICALSKILLS:

Virtualization: ESX/ESXi server 6.5, 6.0/5.5/5.1/5.0/4.0 / 4.1, VSphere Client, VCenter, VMotion, Storage VMotion, Vmware. Update Manager, VMware Tools, VMware Converter, VMware Workstation, Microsoft Hyper-V,Vrealize, DRS, HA and FT.

Hardware: Compaq Proliant 5000/ML370/DL580Server, Compaq Proliant DL 760/DL 380/5000/6000/ ML370/DL580/DL585G2, ML570/530 Server, IBM(P5, P6, P7), IBM Blades 360 M3, LS 20, HP Blades BL685, 680, 460, Dell Power Edge Servers & Desktops GX Series, HP DC 7900/8000 Desktops

Server Operating: MS Windows 7/8/10, Server/Exchange Server (2000/2003/2008/2008 R2/2012, 2016), Red Hat Linux (Enterprise Linux 4/5/6), OEL, AIX, UBUNTU, SUSE 8/9/10.

Scripting: VB Script, Perl and Power CLI.

Languages: C, C++, FORTRAN and Pascal

Storage: DAS, NAS (NFS), SAN and ISCSI.

Database: MS-SQL Server 2000/2005/2008 and Oracle 8/9i/10g/11i, IBM DB2.

Backups: VERITAS Netback up, NDMP, TSM, Avamar and Windows NT Backup.

Antivirus: Symantec Endpoint, Norton Antivirus and McAfee.

Networking: Cisco 25xx, 35xx Routers and 35xx Switches, Brocade and Cisco DS fabric switches.

Network Protocols: TCP/IP, UDP, DHCP, HTTP, HTTPS, VPN, DNS, NTP, WINS, FTP, SSH, WinSCP and Telnet.

Terminal Services: Remote Desktop Services, VNC, Putty, Tera Term, Team Viewer, cytrix, Logmein and Terminal Services.

Internet/Intranet: IIS 8.0/7.0/6.0/5.0, Internet Explorer 8.0/7.0/6.0, LDAP

Other: Microsoft Office 2000/2003/2007/2010/2012, Microsoft Visio, Rational Rose.

PROFESSIONALEXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Cranberry, PA

VMware and Windows Systems Admin

Responsibilities:

• Installing and configuring the windows server 2012 R2 in production and development environment.
• Installing and upgrading the ESX/ESXi hosts and vCenters Upgrade the servers from R2 and to 2016.
• Creating change records for Server builds for new servers to track the process.
• Migrating Virtual Machines between the data centers. Worked with sql, oracle databases.
• Administration and troubleshooting DNS relative problems on Windows/ wintel environment.
• Participated in UPS devices replacement in data centers.
• Architecture, design, install, configure VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM), vRealize Operations Manager, vRealize Log Insight, vR Network Insight. Creating the Backup’s and restoring the data for servers on scheduled basis.
• Experience in decommissioned and rebuild the servers in Data Centers. Experience with Data Centers on small and large scale.
• Communicate with Subject Matter Experts/Users to resolve and clarify any issues that are raised during the development cycle. Supporting Disaster Recovery Planning and Activation. IIS Management.
• Scripting and automating tasks using VBScript and PowerShell.
• Deep knowledge of VMware enterprise features (DRS, HA, vMotion, VSAN, Update Manager) and P2V tools such as VMware Converter. Experience in working with Software Configuration Management tools - Ansible and Chef.
• Responsible for the successful migration of the Microsoft Exchange 2010 environment to an Exchange 2013 scenario, provided support and administration and complete documentation. Manage access control within vRealize Operations Manager
• Worked on Storage API automation for the project VMware vSphere 6.0 VSAN.
• Created clones and templates of Virtual Machines. Deploying VMs through Templates.
• Configured and Managed Windows Failover Clustering on 2012 Server for SQL environment (GUI mode and PowerShell)
• In depth knowledge of solutions such as server virtualization, high-availability clustering.
• Good knowledge of SCCM client installation, software distribution, remote control, and other SCCM issues.
• Used PowerShell (CLI) Commands to automate the tasks for SCCM 2007 R3, SCCM 2007 for site builds, Deployment and Other Management Tasks. Experience in Creating ARM templates for Azure Platform.
• 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.
• Creating Templates, Taking Snapshots, Cloning, Cold Migrations and Hot Migrations.
• Create Virtual switches and port groups, configure Virtual networking settings for redundancy by teaming up VNICs, and configure network traffic, security and load balancing policies.
• Worked on ESX 5.5, 6.0, 6.5 Production Cluster to remove a host from the cluster and move few vm's of the cluster to Independent host in the datacenter to storage VMotion the vms to the independent host Local Disk.
• Move hardware Assets like consolidates VM's, for moving the physical servers/Hosts to a New Datacenter.
• Troubleshoot network issues between Distributed vSwitch, Layer 2 switches and resolved slow performance between SAN network and VM networks.
• Worked with Creation of workflows, deployments, patching and upgrade along with maintenance of Azure Infrastucture.
• Deployment of various Components on the Azure Platform.
• Experience in configuration and deployment of network security devices, including Firewalls, Intrusion Detection Systems, Network
• Security hardening and Monitoring of VM's & ESX servers (CPU, Memory, Disk, Network Utilization) for Security Compliance.
• Provide support to Active Directory Replication Services, Active Directory Sites and Services, Active Directory integrated DNS, Sysvol Replication, DFRS. Provisioning and de-provisioning of Domain Controllers.
• Experience on Active Directory Health Check and diagnostic tools like ADRAP, ADST, dcdiag, repadmin, replmon, netdiag.
• Troubleshooting issues related to Active Directory, DNS and DHCP server for VDI environments.
• Performed regularly scheduled maintenance activities. Configuring Active Directory User and FSMO roles.
• Implemented Microsoft Azure synchronization (from on-premises AD into Azure AD) using AADConnect.
• Managing and monitoring the ESXi hosts and clusters in vCenter.
• Creating estimated reports, pro-active capacity requirements, tuning and alerts in VCOPS.
• Design and deploy ESXi and VCenter Servers.
• Performing vMotion, Cloning, Snapshot, FT, Update Manger, Host Profile, Manage OS Templates and Multipathing
• Manage NSX network components such as controller, edgegateway and distributed routers.
• Create and Manage VXLAN and Manage ESXi cluster in NSX. Plan and applying ESXi patches, upgrades using VUM.
• Periodic Firmware/BIOS/device driver updates on Cisco UCS, HP blade servers.
• Working with Network/Security team to resolve Network/Security related issues and Coordinate with vendor to resolve hardware issues for servers and application issues.
• Responsible for attending change management meetings and submitting reports to management and follow ITIL Process
• Troubleshooting ESXi host and VMs performance issues.
• Helping Clients patch up their Netbackup edition to the latest patch level to resolve the discrepancies with the previous Netbackup edition/patch level.
• Involved VMware / Windows wintel servers / Application upgrade projects and create design /process (Run Book) documents.
• Applying VMware best practices to ESXi/vCenter environment and MS best practices to Windows environment and Capacity planning for VMware / Windows Servers.
• Using Power CLI and Power Shell scripts to manage VMs/Hosts and providing detailed reports for ESXi hosts,VMs and Windows servers. Design and deploy HA Clusters and handle the ESX Hosts.
• Managing and Monitoring backup environments for 40+ clients (NetBackup, BackupExec, ArcServe, TSM, CommVault)
• Install, configure the IBM. HP and Cisco UCS Blades, Chassis.
• Work with Storage team and design the storage requirements for VSAN VMWare environment.
• Install and publish applications in Citrix, provide permissions. Managing Citrix Xenapp 6.5 and 7.5
• Installation and configuration of Windows 2008, 2012 and 2016 virtual machines in ESX clusters.
• Create VMs on ESX hosts for installing, configuring and managing guest operating systems such as Windows server 2003, Windows 2008, Windows 2012. Handling migration of Windows 2003 Servers to Windows 2008 R2 and Windows 2012
• VMware tools upgrading and Windows patch updates. Using Virtual center server for HA, DRS,Vmotion and VSAN Storage Vmotion. Creating and Managing VMware cluster with HA and DRS.
• Plan, Test and Deploy VMware view Linked clones in floating desktop pools. Managing DFS shares and user permissions.
• Manage deploy software using SCOM/SCCM 2012 R2. Manage LAB environment for new products and software’s.
• Remedy for managing the IR/PM tickets. Provided 24/7 support.

Confidential, Conway, Arkansas

VMware and Windows Systems Admin

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for building out the new non-production Environments using Wintel and VMware.
• Built ESXi servers using VMware VSphere 4.1/5.0/5.1/5.5/6.0 servers, several ESX servers and two virtual centers with zero downtime. Automation of Regular tasks using Batch / Power shell scripts.
• Setting up new environments for new applications, existing applications
• Managed software and configuration changes on Test and Production environments.
• Troubleshooting emails on Outlook/Exchange servers
• Performing tests on servers before go-live to verify they are consistent with existing server standard.
• Created Domain Groups in Active Directory and assigned authorized users. Added those groups to the Folders and assigned read, write and modify permissions. Actively worked in a 24/7 On Call Support Using BMC Remedy Ticketing System.
• Involved in Production support and Maintenance of Microsoft Windows 7/8/10, 2012/2008 R2/2003 Servers on Dell and HP Servers (physical/virtual environment). Experience in deploying and upgrading/maintaining Windows Servers in AWS
• Installing, Configuring & Trouble shooting of the new ESXi 6.5, 6.0, 5.5, Cisco UCS, HP Hardware.
• Installed, upgraded, patched and configured Linux servers using Jumpstart and Redhat Enterprise Linux 5/6 using Kickstart. I/O, kernel internals, TCP/IP communications. Added Nutanix Clusters and Esxi hosts according to Business requirement.
• Deploying and configuration of Windows servers 2008, 2008 R2,2012R2 Virtual Machine Templates in the ESXi host via Nutanix clusters. Managed the cloud-based infrastructure through Nutanix clustering.
• Virtual Machine (VM) Build Base OS Setup/Patching/Security Scans
• Extensively worked with Active Directory Services, ADFS, SSO, IIS Servers, IP Control, DNS, and DHCP.
• Co-ordinated with the network team to plan the structure of network to be used for the new ESXi hosts like number of NICs, vLANs, subnets etc.Track application issues, and support application releases and changes.
• Handled application support deployment from SCCM 2012 to win 7 machines and server.
• Responsible for documentation of the Microsoft O365/Exchange and Messaging-computing environment.
• Implemented Microsoft DHCP, SQL, DNS, and Domain trust relationship, file and print services, user and group management.
• Responsible for all Pre-sales activity evaluating client needs and developing a comprehensive solution from VMware’s SDDC stack.
• Responsible for using NSX for replacing VMware vSwitches and VSphere distributed switch to provide true networking.
• Integrate vRealize Automation with vRealize Operations 6.1 including EndPoint Operations (Hyperic) and vRealize Insight (Log Insight). Experience with vRealize automation and understanding of workflows to deploy virtual machine through it
• Migration of servers to team foundations servers(TFS). Worked with Azure Cloud.
• Monitoring and implementing security on Azure IAAS VMs and virtual networks
• Worked with Windows Powershell script to automate setting of user credentials and activation of Windows.
• Implemented improvement procedures on Microsoft SCOM based systems.
• Used Powershell, VB scripts and Authoring tools to tune SCOM management systems.
• 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 SVMotion.
• Setting up storage using the emc and netapp storage products, creating volumes for various operating systems.
• Utilized PowerShell to execute commands/scripts, installed remote server administration tools using Powershell, Used PowerShell, PowerCLI, SQL, VBScript scripts.
• Expert knowledge on configuring hardware iSCSI and NFS storage to VMware ESX (i) hosts from vSphere client.
• Experience in configuring VMware standard vSwitch & dvSwitch.
• Experience in Planning, Installing, Configuring, and Upgrading vCenter Server and VMware ESXi products
• Experience in migrating the virtual machines between the ESX (i) Hosts using cold migration and VMotion.
• Worked on CISCO UCS Hardware, Including Service profile setups, Configuration.
• Installation and configuration of Windows 7/8/10 servers 2003, 2008 R2, 2012 Virtual Machines in the ESXi host clusters.
• Installation of VCenter server and Configuring ESXi - host’s within the cluster using VMotion and HA.
• Running patches and updates through update manager for the Esxi hosts.
• Worked on both standard Switch and Distributed Switches. Used, adjusted, and created PowerShell scripts in SolarWinds.
• Upgraded, troubleshooted, and maintained SolarWinds website and applications.
• Co-ordinated with storage team for the datastore consolidation and resize project after the VSphere migration from 4.1 to 5.5.
• Deployed Vmware Vcenter operations manager and Infrastructure navigator in the production environment to monitor performance of Virtual servers and datastores. Reviewing and updating documentation related to Horizon view migration.
• Worked on physical to virtual migration(P2V) and virtual to virtual(V2V) using Vmware converter 5.0

Confidential, Long Beach, California

Windows & VMware System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Creating Virtual switch and configuring Virtual switch settings and policies.
• Deployed Windows 2003, 2008 R2, servers for UAT, DEV and Production environments.
• Changed Process Accounts username and password on Windows Production Servers
• Worked with team members in incident investigation and resolution for incidents/critical alerts.
• Created weekly status reports based on Windows Server Event Log’s, Storage capacities and Backup’s
• Involved in P2V, V2P Migration using Stand Alone VMware Converter Server and Plate Spin.
• Managing and implementing various projects with all phases of life cycle for virtualization., AWS.
• Configured ESXi 4.0/5.1 with SAN Attached storage (LUN Assignments, Data stores). Utilized VMware Converter for Physical to Virtual/Virtual to Virtual conversion/Physical to Physical conversion.
• Maintaining backups and restores of the Production and Development data & Network Attached Storage Implementations.
• Windows Server and Desktop administration. Upgraded RHEL 5.x to 6.x along with the middleware applications support and Apache Webservers. Perform vRealize Operations Manager 6.0 implementation and installation across 2 datacenters.
• Responsible for troubleshooting HA and DRS issues in VMware environment
• Worked with VMware and Microsoft premier support to determine issue root cause.
• Installation and configuration of vCenter Server, and vSphere licensing.
• Administered user accounts, domain accounts, administrative rights, security, and distribution groups with Active Directory, firewalls, McAfee.
• Providing Support and Implementation in respect to Azure Provisioning and Application Deployment Automation for IaaS and PaaS.
• Migrated esxi 6.0 to 6.5 version Involved in creating the Azure Services with Azure Virtual Machine.
• Experience in the Installation of desktops using VDI environment. Install and configure tsm and SCCM
• Monitored Office 365 availability and usage
• Performed cleanup of user accounts, management accounts, and managed nodes on enterprise Solarwinds Orion Platform
• Configuring data storage in NetApp FAS series filers that run Data ONTAP.
• Administration of enterprise SAN that included several NetApp Filers and EMC’s connected to several Windows & UNIX servers in the Data center. View / Horizon View connection broker / security server experience R2 server.
• Involved in the maintenance and up gradation of DNS and DHCP Servers.
• Working on Remedy tickets and prioritizing the work as per the SLAs.
• Installed and Configured WIN, TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, SQL, IIS and Terminal Services.
• Involved in the Backup and Recovery of the Database using Symantec & NDMP 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.
• Maintain DNS, DHCP and Trust Relationship between domains. Added SAN Storage on a regular basis to clusters based on capacity requirements.
• Installing and Troubleshooting Servers through ILO. Maintaining Software Assets including licenses and third-Party Vendor Interaction. Installed and configured IIS, IAS 7 and SQL server 2008 on the newly built servers.
• Implementation of Microsoft Active directory, TCP/IP DHCP, DNS, WINS, Domain trust relationship, fault tolerance, file and print services, user and group management.
• Migrated physical server to virtual servers using VMware convertor and was part was data center move which was consolidated to one location.
• Providing management reports on resource utilization e.g. utilization of servers, storage. DELL Drac Configurations, Licensing, NIC Teaming, etc.

Confidential, Canton, Massachusetts

Wintel and VMware Sys Admin

Responsibilities:

• Installation, Configuration and upgrade of Redhat Linux (3,4,5), VMware 4.x, HP-UX & Windows 2003/2008 R2 Operating System.
• Experience writing both Power Shell and PowerCLI scripts to automate Virtual Machine builds and DNS entry configurations.
• Experienced in installing, configuring Windows and ESXi on HP rack Servers DL 580s, 380s, HP C-7000 enclosures running BL460c, BL620c blades, Dell R-710 rack servers and Cisco UCS B200’s B250’s.
• Experience in developing documentation and runbooks for P2V migrations utilizing VMware converter by coordinating with multiple datacenters across the US.
• Experience with tier three supporting servers and directory service issues. Any unresolved issues were escalated directly to Vmware support.
• Experience in managing and configuring multipath based solution and well experienced in configuring NetApp SAN based LUNs.
• Expertise in VMware, HPC environment architecture, maintenance and performance tuning the Virtual environment.
• Expertise in configuring HP DL 580’s, 380’s G5’s/6’s/7’s rack servers and upgrading servers using HP Smart update manager.
• Expertise with patch Management of hosts and VM’s using VMware vCenter Update Manager to create baselines, baseline groups to stage and remediate. Extensive experience in installing and configuring storage technology such as SAN, NAS, iSCSI, and RAID.
• Ensured optimal network performance and documented administration practices for peers.
• Responsible for monitoring and maintaining systems which includes several servers, user base and more than 100 various applications, built several VMware servers running several applications.
• Working on deadline, multitasking, simultaneously working on multiple projects and coordinating with various vendors.
• Applying Securities Policies. Creating a test Environment in VMware for Production Team to test their applications.
• Migrated P2P, P2V and V2V Servers using VMware Converter and Platespin.
• Configured VMware on clustered environment, Implemented VMotion, DRS, HA. Virtualized Windows servers using VMware Converter P2V and V2V.Migrated Virtual Machine configuration files and virtual disks from one Data store to another Data store.
• Performed Migration of servers P2V and V2V by using VMware Converter and PlateSpin.
• Involved in Customizing VM’s (Memory, hard disk, NIC) and Analyzing log files, Resources utilizing monitoring.
• Problem analysis and Troubleshooting of ESX Server with service console.
• Installation and configuration of ESX/ESXi hosts for the existing farm expansion and administration of VMware Vsphere 4 environment. Used third party Tools/Applications for performing hot migration and making them deployed from a central remote server. Automated administrative tasks using PowerShell and VB script.
• Involved in performing Vmotion and Vstorage administration for the successful data migration.
• Installing and configure Management Packs for Active Directory Monitoring; Windows Server Operating System; SQL Server; Windows Server Cluster; SharePoint Server; Cirtix, Virtual Machine Manager, Citrix servers, Use of HP ILO for the debugging and troubleshooting of servers in a datacenter remotely.
• Troubleshooting Backup and Restore Problems Creation of LVMs using Linux utilities.
• Working with various production system and Network administration on Windows2003 advance server with Active Directory Domain including 14 Domain controllers, + 5000 users. Installing and updating the windows patches.
• Performance and capacity monitoring & management and act on problem tickets.
• Engage hardware and software vendors to assist in improvement of current VMware environment and research and evaluation of the latest technologies.

Confidential, Irving, Texas

System Admin(Internship): Linux/Wintel/VMware

Responsibilities:

• Installation and configuration of Linux, AIX, OEL, Sun Solaris, Windows in all the servers Installed and configured windows server 2000.Creating users and groups and allocated different security policies. Involved in network mapping.
• Configured and maintained several DNS/DHCP/WINS services.
• Configured volume groups and logical volumes, extended logical volumes for file system growth needs using Logical Volume Manager (LVM) commands.
• Participated in 24/7 support roles for windows Servers, to help maintain and troubleshoot both software and hardware.
• Experience with VMware, creating VM Sessions for installing multiple OS and applications.
• Installed Windows 2003/2000 Server operating systems.
• Troubleshoot Active Directory, DNS, DHCP and LAN Network Issues. Administered Active Directory environment including DNS, DHCP and Group policies.Installed and Configured Windows 2003/2000 Servers.
• Created User Accounts and Groups in Active Directory. Remote Desktop Monitoring using Microsoft Terminal Services/Client.
• Analyzed logs and tracked complex software and hardware matters of significance pertaining to networking connectivity issues, printer, server, and application to meet business needs.
• Configure and maintain/patch/backup Windows 2K/2003 File servers, Application/Web application Servers-Exchange 2013, SQL server in Microsoft Cluster environment, IIS, IAS, Maintain/configure Active Directory with DNS integrated with DHCP installation.
• Hands-on experience in Deployment, requirement gathering, Installation, administration, Maintenance and troubleshooting of various Servers, Storage and Backup systems.
• Involved in creation of virtual switches and configuration of Nic for a clustered environment. Creation of Virtual Switches, Ports and Port groups and setting up Layer 2 Security Policies for Virtual Networks, worked with antivirus, McAfee.
• Installation, configuration and driver upgrades of HBA's (Emulex & Qlogic) on UNIX and Windows servers
• Successfully deployed and tested Disaster recovery solutions for selected business applications using EMC SRDF/A for high performance.
• Used VMware Update Manager to install critical and locally tested updates to the ESX Host