SUMMARY:

• Over 12+ years of experience as a Systems engineering & Systems Administrator with extensive knowledge in VMware Virtualization
• Extensive experience in Installing and Configuring vCenter, VMware Vsphere, ESX/ESXi Server, Virtual Machines and vSphere Client, VSAN, Vmware Cloud, AWS. installation and configuration, administration of VMware ESX 3.0/3.54.0/4.5/5.0/5.1/5.5 , vSphere 4.0/4.1/4.5/5.0/5.1/5.5/6.0 , VMware ESXi 4.1/5.0/5.5/6.0/6.5 VMware Virtual Center 2.0/2.5/3.5/4.0/5.0/5.5/6.0 U2, U3/6.5.
• Design, Implementation and Troubleshooting VMware ESXI 6.5/6.0/5.5 Hosts, VMware vSphere, Vcenter, VRealize Suite, Vrealize Operations.
• Experienced in administration of cisco UCS chassis, HP Blade server creating profiles, templates, and organization, installing ESXI.
• Experience with storage products EMC VMAX, VNX, XtremeIO, Hitachi STORAGE ARRAY
• Experience developing and delivering training, including NSX, vSphere/vCloud, and Database.
• Experience with SAN, NAS, CIFS, NFS Protocols, fiber channel switches Brocade, cisco
• Expertise in administration of VMware Workstation, ESX/ESXi servers, VMware vSphere and Windows Servers 2008/ 2008R R2.
• Using AppSense / Citrix UPM for Profile management.
• Citrix NetScaler VPX install, upgrade and Troubleshoot.
• Integration of VMware NSX with VMware's suite of products (ie. vRealize Automation, vRealize Operations).
• Installation, configuration, Administration Virtual Center Server, VMware View, Disaster Recovery, Plate Spin, vMotion, P2V, P2P, V2V, VMware Update Manager.
• Administration of Active Directory in Windows 2008R2 / 2012 R2 environment. Managing Active Directory issues such as: Logon Failures, Account Lockouts, Group Polices, Network Connectivity, DNS and WINS Name Resolution, Authentication Problems, File and Printer Permissions.
• Work on several consolidation, virtualization and cloud projects Confidential involving VMware products, including NSX, vCloud Director, vCAC, vCloud Orchestrator, vSphere, vCenter, vCOPS, vCNS, AppSpeed, SRM, and vCenter Configuration Manager.
• Managed SSL Certificates for all lower and production environment and worked on renewing and setting up certificates with application in IIS.
• Setup bindings, SSL certificates, configurations on IIS Servers and configured featured as per application requirements. nstalled and configured Multiple Websites and various web applications (.net framework version 3.0, 3.5 and 4.0) and web services, WCF services in IIS 6.0/7.0/8.0
• Troubleshooting all types of server and web site related issues in the IIS platform.
• Backup and Restore of IIS configurations and editing the IIS Configuration files.
• SSL certificate installation, managing service accounts and configuration and management for the hosted websites in IIS
• Experience designing, deploying and VMWARE Orchestration(Vro)in production environments
• Expertise on windows OS serverconfiguring, administrating, managing windows 2008,2010,2012 R2
• Experienced in administration of cisco UCS chassis, HP Blade server, Dell Chassis, CISCO Fabric interconnect, CISCO Netowrking
• Expertise in installing CISCO UCS, HP Blade, Dell Servers, CISCO Catalyst, CISCO Fabric Switches, VCE products.
• Extensive experience in managing Windows server, managing, configuring, deploying server like OS installation, file system, setup, AD,
• Extensive knowledge and experience in the area of Virtualization with VMware vSphere, ESXi 6.0,5.5,5.0, servers, vCenter server 5.5,5.0,4.1, vCenter Converter, VMware Orchestrator (vCO), VCenter Operations Manager and vSphere Replicator.
• Migrating Virtual Machines between the data centers.
• Manage access control within vRealize Operations Manager
• Experience in managing the operational dashboards, widgets, views and reports in vRO.
• Hands on design and development experience with vRealize Automation (vRA) and vRealize Orchestration (vRO Managing Access Control through vCenter server, Optimizing Resource Utilization, Load Balancing (VMware DRS) and ensuring High Availability (VMware HA).
• Ansible /Git for Softlayer datacenter deployments.
• Provide updates to the DCIM web tool. Track and communicate progress of assignments using web - based tools.Experience in Configuring Networking on Standard vSwitch, Distributed vSwitch.
• Experience in Configuring VMware DRS Rules and VMware HA on Clusters in Virtual Center.
• Capable of administering / configuring iSCSI, NAS and NFS storages. Familiar with RAID concept.
• Expert in maintaining Business Continuity and performing Disaster Recovery (DR) using VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM)
• Created Raid Groups, Storage Groups, LUNs and assigned LUNs to Windows and VMware hosts.
• Experience with VDI (Virtual Desktop Infrastructure) VMware View in an enterprise environment.
• Comprehensive Administration of VDI environments using View Management Server, vCenter, Cisco UCSM, EMC Unisphere, Cisco Nexus CLI and Fabric Manager
• Implementation of leading edge technologies around the Software Defined Data Center and Automation such as VMware NSX, VMware VSAN, and the vRealize Suite.
• Hands on experience with Creating and managing VM Cluster. Enabling HA and DRS features in Cluster
• Worked on Windows Server Backup Tool, OS migration for DB, Migrated OS 2008 to Windows Server 2012.
• Patched/upgraded VMware vSphere hosts, VMs and Hyper-V Virtual Machines.
• VMware tools upgrading and Windows patch updates. Migrated datacenters and converted physical servers to virtual servers using VMware and HP Blade servers resulting in a reduction of racks and power usage, decrease downtime during maintenance and upgrades and improved monitoring.
• Worked on automation platforms like Ansible, Chef , Worked on jinja2 templates which recreated Cisco config files.
• Deploying Virtual Machines (VM’s) through Templates, Converting Physical to Virtual (P2V) and Virtual to Virtual (V2V) Machines.
• Using Chef wrote, cookbooks like TOMCAT for an application to automate and make virtual machine servers with the single click we made possible to make server spin off in less time.
• Used Chef to automate Configuration management & Applications.
• Used Chef to manage Web Applications, Config Files, Data Base, Commands, Users Mount Points, and Packages.
• Automated the cloud deployments using Chef and AWS cloud formation templates
• Experience in setting up the Chef Workstation , Chef Repo as well as Chef nodes.
• Implemented the Chef Software setup and configuration on VM's from the scratch and deployed the run-list into Chef -server and bootstrap the Chef clients remotely.
• Maintaining the Print Drivers on Citrix Servers in the Farm.
• Installing Native and UPD drivers, creating printing policies and resolving printing issues in Citrix environment.
• Used existing cookbooks from Chef Marketplace and customizing the recipes with respect to each VM.
• 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 SVMotion.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Hypervisor: -VSphere 6.5/6.0/5.5/ 5.1 / 5.0 / 4.1 / 4.0 , ESXi 5.5/5.1 / 5.0, ESX 4.1 / 4.0

VMware Tools: -VMware Standalone Convertor, Vsphere CLI, VMware Power CLI, VShield Manager, VCenter, VCenter Update Manager, HA, DRS, Storage vMotion, Host Profiles, vApp, VMware vCenter Heartbeat, VMware vSphere Client, VMware Thinapp, P2V, V2V, VMware Consolidated Backup, Cisco routers and switches, ASA firewalls, Juniper SSG, HP & DELL servers, VMware Management Assistant, Capacity Planning, Plate spin Power convert

Operating Systems: -Windows 2003/2008/2012 ; Windows XP/7 /8; Red Hat Linux.

Protocols/Services: -TCP/IP, SMTP, PPP, HTTP, Telnet, SSH, DNS, DHCP, FTP and IIS

Applications: -IIS, Tomcat, MSOffice 2010, MS Visio

Database: -Oracle 8i, IBM DB2, Sql Server, MS Access

Other Management Tools: -HP Onboard Administrator, HP Virtual Connect Manager, Avocent DS View, Putty, MKS Integrity Change Management Software, Groundworks VI Monitoring Tool, Vkernel Monitoring Software, Microsoft Robocopy GUI, Solar winds IP Address Tracker, Veeam Backup, FastSCP, Ansible.

Storage products: EMC, HITACHI storage provisioning, brocade, cisco switches zoning

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, SunnyVale,CA

Sr VMware Engineer/Windows Administrator/ Confidential Could Platform

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Design, Implementation and Troubleshooting VMware ESXI 6.5/6.0/5.5 Hosts, VMware vSphere, Vcenter, VRealize Suite, Vrealize Operations (VRops), VMWARE VSAN, Virtual volumes, Confidential Cloud
• Experience in Confidential Cloud Deployment Manager, write flexible template and configuration files and use them to create deployments that have a variety of Cloud Platform services, such as Confidential Cloud Storage, GoogleComputeEngine, and Confidential Cloud SQL, configured to work together.
• Expertise on windows OS server configuring, administrating, managing windows 2008,2010,2012 R2
• Expertise on windows files system cifs/smb shares, ntfs, creating, setting permission, security setup.
• Experienced in administration of cisco UCS chassis, HP Blade server creating profiles, templates, and organization, installing ESXI.
• Installation and configuration of Microsoft Windows 2008 R2 and 2012 Servers on Virtual Machines,
• Experience designing, deploying and configuring VMWareVRO in production environments
• Bulilding a configuration files using YAML syntax.Setting Access Control in a Configuration using Identity and Access Management (IAM).
• Creating a templates like template properties, environment variables, modules, and other template functionality to create dynamic configuration and template files.
• Experience with Altiris Deployment Server and PlateSpin migration tools (P2P, P2V, V2V, and V2P).
• Experience with static desktop and dynamic desktop supporting technologies such as Thin Cloning, Provisioning, Application Virtualization (App-V).
• Extensive knowledge and experience in the area of Virtualization with VMware vSphere, ESXi 6.0,5.5,5.0, servers, vCenter server 5.5,5.0,4.1, vCenter Converter, VMware Orchestrator (vCO), VCenter Operations Manager and vSphere Replicator.
• Migrating Virtual Machines between the data centers.
• Manage access control within vRealize Operations Manager
• Experience in managing the operational dashboards, widgets, views and reports in vRO.
• Hands on design and development experience with vRealize Automation (vRA) and vRealize Orchestration (vRO
• Worked on Confidential Cloud Deployment Manager(GCP) and could shell.
• Implementation of leading edge technologies around the Software Defined Data Center and Automation such as VMware NSX, VMware VSAN, and the vRealize Suite.
• Troubleshooting all types of server and web site related issues in the IIS platform.
• Backup and Restore of IIS configurations and editing the IIS Configuration files.
• SSL certificate installation, managing service accounts and configuration and management for the hosted websites in IIS
• Provided server and client support for all issues such as logon failures, account lockout, network connectivity and authentication issues.
• Creating user accounts and make sure that they have appropriate groups assigned to the accounts.
• Provide IT Operational Support for problem management and bring in expert knowledge if required.
• Building solutions on Cloud, Datacenter Virtualization, and VDI (Desktop Virtualization) Platform.
• Experience in managing cloud infrastructure ( Confidential Cloud Platform). Involved in designing and deploying multiple applications using.
• Provide support for reported core SQL Server and SQL Server performance issues that are within the Azure Cloud. information requests, and support requests to enhance Azure products and services and ensure that these customers
• Created and implemented ARM templates from a deployment, deployed the template using the portal, PowerShell, and using Azure quick start templates.
• Configured the control access- using service principals, locking Azure resources, setting policies.
• Designed the Role Based Access Control(RBAC) to securing Azure subscriptions, to configure Azure active directory roles and assigning RBAC, and Designed custom RBAC roles..
• Good understanding of Cisco UCS Director, UCS Manager.
• Environment: UCS Director: Virtualization and Storage Concepts, Python
• Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS) Manager provides unified, embedded management of all software and hardware components in the Cisco UCS.
• This feature integrates the hardware tests to the UCS Manager, allowing customers, manufacturing team and field engineers to debug and isolate hardware issues
• Developing the UCS Manager framework to configure and trigger hardware tests.
• Build and Release Management, Change Management, Application Packaging and Deployment Engineering & Continuous build integration (CI/CD).
• Integration of VMware NSX with VMware's suite of products (ie. vRealize Automation, vRealize Operations).
• Working on migrating online stores to Confidential cloud platform.
• Setup internal applications in Confidential cloud platform.
• SME in troubleshooting infrastructure and application issues on various platforms

ENVIRONMENT: VMware Infrastructure 5.0,5.5, 6.0 and 6.5 vCenter Server, VCenter operation Manager, Hardware installation, VMware standalone converter, Windows 2016/ 2012/2008/2003 Server, Confidential Cloud Platform, Apache Server, GitHub, Java, Python, JIRA, MS Build and PowerShell

Confidential, Redwood City CA

Sr VMware Engineer/Infrastructure Engineer

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Manage the complete environment & handled Data center virtualization project
• Design, Implementation and Troubleshooting VMware ESXI 6.5/6.0/5.5 Hosts, VMware vSphere, Vcenter, VRealize Suite, Vrealize Operations (VRops).VMWARE VSAN, Virtual volumes, AWS Cloud
• Install & managed VMWARE SRM & RP FOR VM for Disaster Recovery & replicating data to DR site.
• Expertise on windows OS serverconfiguring, administrating, managing Windows 2008,2010,2012 R2
• Expertise in installing &administration of Cisco UCS chassis, HP Blade servers, creating profiles, templates, and organization, installing ESXI.
• Expertise on windows files system CIFS/SMB shares, NTFS, creating, setting permission, security setup.
• Experience developing and delivering training, including NSX, vSphere/vCloud, and Database.
• Implementation and operational support of all aspects of client's Virtualization Infrastructure (VRO/VRA). This Infrastructure supports servers, desktops, terminal servers, networks, application virtualization and storage.
• Expertise in monitoring health performance the Vmware with ESXI, VM performance VCOPS, SYSLOGS,( VMkernal, host logs) Solar winds tool
• Solid experience of VMware virtualization products and be able to troubleshoot and resolve software, hardware, configuration and operational problems across the VMware and Wintel platforms .
• Expertise on multiple vendor technologies and platforms including VMware, Microsoft Windows, HP, IBM and Cisco .
• Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS) Manager provides unified, embedded management of all software and hardware components in the Cisco UCS .
• This feature integrates the hardware tests to the UCS Manager , allowing customers, manufacturing team and field engineers to debug and isolate hardware issues
• Developing the UCS Manager framework to configure and trigger hardware tests.
• Maintaining the Print Drivers on Citrix Servers in the Farm.
• Provide support for reported core SQL Server and SQL Server performance issues that are within the Azure Cloud. information requests, and support requests to enhance Azure products and services and ensure that these customers
• Managed SSL Certificates for all lower and production environment and worked on renewing and setting up certificates with application in IIS.
• Setup bindings, SSL certificates, configurations on IIS Servers and configured featured as per application requirements.
• Created and implemented ARM templates from a deployment, deployed the template using the portal, PowerShell, and using Azure quick start templates.
• Configured the control access- using service principals, locking Azure resources, setting policies.
• Designed the Role Based Access Control(RBAC) to securing Azure subscriptions, to configure Azure active directory roles and assigning RBAC, and Designed custom RBAC roles.
• Configured to integrate an Azure AD with existing directories, added company branding and a custom domain to Azure AD, Configured the Azure AD connect and Azure AD connect health.
• Configured the Application Access Panel - Configured the users and groups, SaaS applications, non-gallery apps, conditional access and revoke access, configured Azure application proxy and discovery to integrate applications.
• Implemented Azure AD B2C and AD B2B - Created an Azure AD B2C directory, register an application, created a Microsoft identity, created policies, implemented B2B collaboration.
• Installing Native and UPD drivers, creating printing policies and resolving printing issues in Citrix environment.
• Build, install, configure and maintain VMware products including ESXi servers, HA clusters and Virtual Center
• Advanced technical expertise VMware virtualization technologies ( vCenter,vSphere, ESXi, DRS, vMotion, HA, FT, DRS, SRM
• Advanced technical expertise of VDI technologies, VMware View, Citrix XenApp and Xendesktop
• Advanced experience with Microsoft Operating Systems: Windows Server 2003 & 2008, Windows XP and Windows 7
• Experience with Altiris Deployment Server and PlateSpin migration tools (P2P, P2V, V2V, and V2P).
• Experience with static desktop and dynamic desktop supporting technologies such as Thin Cloning, Provisioning, Application Virtualization (App-V).
• Work on several consolidation, virtualization and cloud projects Confidential involving VMware products, including NSX, vCloud Director, vCAC, vCloud Orchestrator, vSphere, vCenter, vCOPS, vCNS, AppSpeed, SRM, and vCenter Configuration Manager.
• Used Chef to manage Web Applications, Config Files, Data Base, Commands, Users Mount Points, and Packages.
• Automated the cloud deployments using Chef and AWS cloud formation templates
• Experience in setting up the Chef Workstation, Chef Repo as well as Chef nodes.
• Implemented the Chef Software setup and configuration on VM's from the scratch and deployed the run-list into Chef -server and bootstrap the Chef clients remotely. Ansible /Git for Softlayer datacenter deployments.
• Experience with Storage Network Technologies and boot from SAN
• Technical knowledge of HP and IBM hardware, particularly blade technology, IBM Director, HP SIM
• Knowledge of Windows scripting / programming skills
• Provide advanced troubleshooting and problem resolution of the entire Virtualization Infrastructure.
• Research root cause of problems and escalate to engineering and vendor support as necessary.
• Develop, automate and implement operations best practices.
• Perform Capacity Management functions.
• Manage problem and service tickets ensuring timely resolution to meet Service Level Agreements
• Follow established Enterprise change management procedures
• Participate in Business Continuation / Disaster Recovery infrastructure planning, building, and testing.

ENVIRONMENT: VMware Infrastructure 5.0,5.5, 6.0 and 6.5 vCenter Server, VCenter operation Manager, Hardware installation, VMware standalone converter, Windows 2012/2008/2003 Server, HPC7000, DL380P GN8, Cisco Nexus 5000K 7600 series, Dell PowerEdge Servers, EMC VNX 5200, 5500, VMAX, EMC Recovery, P2V, V2V, VMotion.

Confidential, Las Vegas, Nevada

VMware /Windows Administrator/Data Center Operations

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Design, Implementation and Troubleshooting VMware ESXI 6.0/5.5 Hosts, VMware vSphere Virtual center.
• Expertise on windows OS server configuring, administrating, managing windows 2008,2010,2012 R2
• Experienced in administration of cisco UCS chassis, HP Blade server creating profiles, templates, and organization, installing ESXI.
• Installation and configuration of Microsoft Windows 2008 R2 and 2012 Servers on Virtual Machines,
• Experience designing, deploying and configuring VMWareVRO in production environments
• Knowledge on vRealize suite products (ie. vRealize Automation)
• Expertise in installation, administration, patches, upgradation, configuration, performance tuning and
• Hands on experience Hyper-V in windows server 2008 and 2008 R2
• Physical-to-Virtual (P2V), Virtual-to-Virtual (V2V) and Virtual-to-Physical (V2P) conversions of physical/virtual machines using VMware Converter, Performing Snapshots, Cloning, cold migrations and hot migrations, Moving VM's from one LUN to another LUN using Storage VMotion Experience
• Expert in Command line management for ESX & VCOPS -Vcenter operation management
• Complete setup environment on HA & DRS enabled.
• Implementing, configuring, Migrating and supporting Windows, Creating and managing User Accounts & Groups in Active Directory.
• Performed evaluation and analysis of the environment for NSX deployment, including NSX manager, Distributed Firewall, Distributed Logical Router, Edge Services Gateway, and Cisco switches and routers.
• Responsible for the implementation, configuring, and maintenance of virtual servers using VMware and Citrix XenServer 5.6 when required.
• Implemented Citrix XenDesktop 5.0 for VDI solutions.
• Configured Policies in Citrix on Farm level and Server Level.
• Hands on experience on P2P, P2V, V2V Migration of Machines from one datacenter to another datacenter using migration tools like Plate spin, Double take and VMware Converter.
• Build, Install and Configure Enterprise Virtualization using VMware Products and Solutions.
• Rack, Stack and Configuring Cisco UCS B and C Series, HP Enclosures, HP Proliant BL/DL Hardware.
• Configured automated VM migrations using automated scripts in PowerShell. Standardized network cable runs for VMware hosts across multiple data center
• Extensively worked on vMotion, Storage vMotion, VMware Mirage and Patch management and upgradesusing VMware update manager. Experience in configuring VMware standard vSwitch & dvSwitch.
• Experience in Deploying Windows 2008/2012 Servers in both physical & Virtual Environments.
• Overall design, implementation and management of virtual infrastructure. To include capacity, performance, availability, automated provisioning, and event management.
• Experience in Microsoft Windows Active Directory Administration, OU/User Management, Group policy Management and DNS/DHCP management.
• Experience in creating Golden Image/templates, Cloning, Snapshots and provisioning new Virtual Machines.
• Administration and management of Virtual infrastructure environment - monitor, analyze, identify and troubleshoot issues, upgrade of Virtual infrastructure products - VMware vSphere suite including VMware vCenter Server, VMware ESX/ESXi (clusters, Virtual machines and templates; VMware Site Recovery manager for Disaster recovery of environment; physical to virtual migration (P2Vs); Microsoft hyper-v, Citrix virtual desktop support.
• Administrating production server's/network infrastructure that includes Windows Administration of Domain Controllers, File and print Servers, ADS, DNS, DHCP, and other Application Servers on Windows 2012
• Installed and Implemented VMware ESXi host servers with vSphere Client, vSphere CLI. Configured HBAs and iSCSI SAN storage.
• Integration of VMware NSX with VMware's suite of products.
• Manage VMware Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS), vMotion and High Availability (HA) Clusters.
• Creating and Deploying of Virtual Machines from Templates and creating Snapshots and Cloning of Virtual Machines for future Deployments.
• Creating and configuring vNetwork Standard Switch (vSwitch), VM Kernel Ports, VM ports, Service console and NIC teaming
• Responsible for vRealize Operation Manager dashboards and reports for both vSphere and Horizon view
• Building solutions on Cloud, Datacenter Virtualization, and VDI (Desktop Virtualization) Platform.
• Implement essential solutions on windows and RedHat Linux, MS Active Directory, LDAP, File Shares, DNS, DHCP, etc.
• On call 24X7 rotational bases to support Data Center Facility Issues
• Knowledgeable on Tivoli backup, Tivoli identity management.

ENVIRONMENT: VMware Infrastructure 5.0,5.5 and 6.0, vCenter Server, VCenter operation Manager, Hardware installation, VMware standalone converter, Windows 2012/2008/2003 Server, HPC7000, DL380P GN8, Cisco Nexus 5000K 7600 series, Dell PowerEdge Servers, EMC VNX 5200, 5500, VMAX, EMC Recovery, P2V, V2V, VMotion.

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Sr Vmware/Windows Administrator

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Design, Implementation and Troubleshooting VMware ESX 6.0/5.5/5.0/4.1 Hosts, VMware vSphere virtual center.
• P2V and V2V conversions by using VMware Converter, Double Take, Recovery Point Approach.
• Administration of VMware ESX and ESXi Servers on HP Chassis 7000, DL380P GN8.
• Hands on experience in updating / upgrading ESX servers, Virtual Center servers and windows virtual machines using VMware Update manager and manual upgrades.
• Managed VMware ESX (i) hosts using vSphere client and Web client.
• Managed Cisco routers, switches, Juniper SSG and wireless infrastructure.
• Performing VMotion and storage VMotion.
• Supported Mainframe Servers, ODBC drivers, Citrix/Juniper VPN
• Creating Clusters for High Availability and Dynamic Resource Scheduling.
• 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
• Experience on creating host profiles and deploy to hosts in a VMware clusters.
• Experience in installing and configuring Microsoft Windows 2008 Servers from ILO management tool on Rack servers and blades.
• Experience with vSphere Host Profiles, Standard and Distributed Switches setup.
• LAN/WAN network diagnose and troubleshoot on layer 1, 2, 3 problems and informed NOC team for corrective action (Worked with CISCO IOS & JUNIPER JUNOS.
• LUN creation and storage mapping administration and configuring Multipathing.
• Monitored, troubleshot, configured and secured Core Cisco 6500 catalysts, router/switches.
• Handled the VMware solutions to support multiple storage connectivity options such as FC-SAN, iSCSI, NFS (NAS).
• Troubleshoot networking issues from cabling, ISA proxy destination/user sets, DHCP reservations (Windows Server 2K/03), and migration to Cisco switches.
• Working with Cisco routers and L3/L2 switches.
• Provided day-to-day system administration and technical support for Windows 2003, 2008 and 2012 Servers.
• Installing and configuring consoles for any new Servers, Storage Device, Routers and Switches.
• Tested 'Migration and Upgrade' MOP's for Juniper MX-960's in our customers core.
• Audit data center spares, cabinets, rows, hardware, and fiber and patch cables and cross connect specifics for periodic reports.
• Attending new project call and provide solution, suggestion for the environment setup based on business requirement as per the standard.
• Provide on-call support, troubleshooting, incident notification and resolution, problem management and root cause identification.

ENVIRONMENT: VMware Infrastructure 4.0, 5.0 and 5.5, vCenter Server, VCenter operation Manager, VMware standalone converter, Windows 2012/2008/2003 Server, Cisco Nexus 5000K 7600 series, Dell PowerEdge Servers, EMC VNX 5200, 5500, VMAX, EMC Recovery, P2V, V2V, VMotion.

Confidential, Austin, TX

VMWARE ADMIN

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Design, Implementation and Troubleshooting VMware ESX 5.1 Hosts, VMware vSphere virtual center.
• P2V and V2V conversions by using VMware Converter, Plate Spin.
• Administration of VMware ESX and ESXi Servers on HP Blade Servers C7000 and C3000.
• Hands on experience in updating / upgrading ESX servers, Virtual Center servers and windows virtual machines using VMware Update manager and manual upgrades.
• Experience with vSphere Host Profiles, Standard and Distributed Switches setup.
• Handled the VMware solutions to support multiple storage connectivity options such as FC-SAN, iSCSI, NFS (NAS).
• Periodic update of patches, drivers and firmware’s for all our Global ESX hosts.
• Installation and configuration of Microsoft Windows 2000, 2003 and 2008 Servers on Virtual Machines.
• Provided day-to-day system administration and technical support for Windows 2003 and 2008 Servers.
• Configuring ntfs file systems on windows servers.
• Configuring and Managing Active Directory, DNS, and DHCP.
• Provide server and client support for all issues such as: logon failures, account lockout, network connectivity, DNS and name resolution, authentication problems.
• 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 4.1/5.1
• Migrated VMware ESX 4.1 to ESXi 5.1usingVMware update Manager.
• Experience on hot and cold clone process.
• Installed/updated patches on VMware ESX (i) hosts using VMware Update Manager tool.
• Updated VMware tools on virtual machines using Update Manager tool.
• Provided 24/7 On Call support onsite and remotely on rotation basis.

ENVIRONMENT: VMware Infrastructure 4.1/5.1, vCenter Server, Windows 2000/2003/2008 Server, Plate Spin, VMware VCenter Converter, Active Directory Migration, TCP/IP, DNS, Windows Clustering, FTP, File and Printer Server, P2V, V2V, VMotion.

Confidential, FL

SYSTEM ADMINISTRATOR

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Installation and implementation of VCenter server to administrate the ESX servers, which include licensing, HA/DRS clustering, managing the Fiber channel/ISCSI SAN storage configuration.
• Participated in 24/7 support roles for servers, to help maintain and troubleshoot both software and hardware.
• Managed ESXi servers and VCenter.
• Ensuring Data Protection and Disaster Recovery by using VMotion and VMware Consolidated Backup.
• Installed and configuring VMware Vsphere products.
• Managed Microsoft 2003/2008 active directory server.
• Managed Microsoft Exchange 2003/2007 Server.
• Migrated production applications from physical servers to virtual instances within the downtime window.
• Migrated the physical servers to virtual instances using VMWARE P2V converter and PLATESPIN tools.
• Converted P2V and V2V using VMware Standalone Converter.
• Created Clusters for High Availability and Dynamic Resource Scheduling.
• Utilized the Hot plug option for windows 2008 Servers and added processors, RAM, NIC, disks to the VM
• Troubleshooting issues relating to v motion such as compatibility issues with help of event log.
• Monitored all UNIX Servers for CPU utilization, Network traffic, and hard drive space and Memory.
• Using the Linux system with yum and downloading the rpm package files with Yum downloader.
• Using Red hat package Manager and runs yum automatically.
• Installing and managing Antivirus on all the servers and desktop.
• Admin knowledge of Microsoft SQL and Oracle Database.
• Maintaining antivirus Server.

ENVIRONMENT: Vsphere 4.0, ESX 3.5/4.0, Virtual Sphere, VMotion, VMware HA, VMware DRS Clusters, Red Hat servers, VERITAS Net backup, windows 2003/2008 server