SUMMARY:

• IT System admin with 6+ years of experience in VMware virtualization and Windows administration.
• Experience in upgrading ESX/ESXi host, vCenter Servers from 5.0 to 5.5 to 6.0.
• Experience with VMware view 6.5/6.0/5.5/5.1 and Virtual desktops deployments.
• Extensive experience in working with the vMotion technology and Storage vMotion technology.
• Strong experience in configuring HA and DRS clusters, using EVC on as needed basis.
• Configured, Monitored and Maintained Virtual server farms consisting VMWARE, and Hyper V
• Experience in P2V and V2V conversions using VMware vConverter.
• Good expertise in Patch Management of ESX Hosts using VMware Update Manager.
• Experience with DNS/DFS/DHCP/WINS Standardizations and Implementations.
• Expertise in Windows 2003/2008/2012/2016 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, 2016 Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, 10.
• 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.
• Excellent knowledge in creating and managing users, permission settings, roles and responsibility assignments and VM resource allocations on ESXi hosts.
• Experience in Active Directory, GPOs, File & Print Server, FTP, Terminal Server, NAT, and Exchange Mail 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 Wintel 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. Good experience in AWS and Azure cloud services.
• Has good end-user support and customer service experience. Experience in installing and configuring VDI (Virtual desktop infrastructure) technology using VMware VIEW.
• Expertise in WINS, DNS, DHCP and Active Directory services in Windows 2003/2008//2008 R2 & 2012/2012R2 servers.
• Experience in the Server and Desktop Management (Wintel 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 SKILLS:

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: Windows Server 2012/2012 R2/2008/2008 R2/2003, Windows 8/7/XP, Unix & 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: Zabbix, Solarwinds 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.

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Houston

Windows- System Admin

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for building & maintaining Windows 2000,2003,2008,2012, 2012R2 and VMware vCenter 5.5,6.0&6.5 and vROPS 6.4, 6.5, 6.6
• Worked on Decommission of ESXi Host, Windows, AIX and Linux servers as per request.
• Experience in configuration SSH, DNS, DHCP, NIS, NFS, & ftp.
• Experience in building Windows servers 2012, 2008, Installing and configuring windows servers, maintaining server security, debugging server related issues, managing servers end to end, and performing server administration tasks.
• Worked on including vMotion, DRS, storage DRS, VLANs, RDM disks and vmdk files.
• Troubleshooted Cisco UCS critical and major faults like memory DIMM module errors and network card errors.
• 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. 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.
• Hands-on experience with configuring Claims, Power Shell scripting, windows Active Directory, Single Sign-On, SharePoint Designer (2010).
• Used PowerShell to deploy custom WSPs, import\export data, automate scripts.
• 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.
• Installed and Configured WIN, TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, IIS and Terminal Services.
• Installation and configuration of Virtual machines in physical ESX server.
• Troubleshooting VMware ESXi Hosts, VMware vSphere virtual center, setting up V-Motion, HA, DRS, and related VMware products such as VM Workstation, P2V converters, VM Backup products and other products for virtualization
• Experience with HP blade chassis C7000/C3000 and knowledge on Cisco UCS B200 server hardware and configured TCP/IP settings, DNS, WINS on windows 2008,2008R2 and 2012 servers
• Performed backup and restore of VMware host server configuration, Virtual Machine backup, snapshot,1000 + P2V-V2V conversation with VMware converter/Platespin Migrator and with other third-party converters, Patch Update, monitoring/reporting, SSH and SNMP and notification of alerts.
• Significant experience on AWS Cloud Platform and its features which include EC2, VPC, AMI, RDS, SES, S3, Route 53, IAM, LDAP, Cloud Formation, Cloud Front, and Cloud Watch. Scan and deploy patches and updates to the systems using Microsoft Windows Updates Services (WSUS) and keeping up-to-date patch-levels.
• Installation, configuration and Troubleshooting issues related to VSphere 5.5.
• Managing VM's using VMware vCenter: Creating/Deploying templates from VMs, creating duplicate VM's using cloning technology, Perform VMotion& Storage VMotion based on the requirements.
• Management of Data store (i.e. expanding, addition and configuring of Data store).
• Played a vital role in Creating Virtual Machines, cloning virtual machines, converting P2V(used standard VMware converter tool), VM-Provisioning (Linked clones, thin disks, de-duplication) taking Snapshots of virtual servers, HA, DRS, VMotion.
• Experience with VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM), vCenter Operations Manager, Horizon Workspace, Horizon Mirage, ThinApp and VMware View desktop virtualization infrastructure (VDI).
• Used VMware 5.5 & 6.0 vCenter to manage, maintain and setup Wintel Windows server 2016 virtual machines on a HP Blade System and NetApp Data Storage.
• Deployment, installation, and configuration of Veritas Data Insight as well as Symantec DLP, Enforce, Network Monitor, Network Discover, Web Prevent, Email Prevent, and Endpoint Agent
• Testing, Documentation and verifying Test cases for Future implementations of Windows Server 2012 and VMware vCloud director
• 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
• Installation, administration, troubleshooting and Management pack development in MOM 2005, SCOM 2007 and SCOM2012.
• Hands on experience working on SCCM 2012 and SCCM 2016 for patch and application deployments.
• Deployed VMware App Volumes and User Environment Management for faster application delivery, unified applications and user management to Horizon View Virtual desktops. Worked with google OS and windows OS in the testing environment
• 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 with Cisco UCS environment by creating service templates and service profiles for new blades introduced.
• Created virtual machine template with windows server 2012 R2 for the new environment and testing it currently for its performance and documentation
• 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. Used PowerShell and T-SQL combining data from multiple sources
• 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.
• Chromebook deployment to over 200 remote homes as well as managing Chromebook policies from the cloud.
• Assist in Chromebook/Laptop deployment, management and 1-1 initiatives.
• Resolving the issues on Exchange server, AD, File Server and etc.., on the priority basis of SLA agreed.
• Experience Using SCCM 2012 to deploy the Packages both the Windows Installer Package and Virtual Package.
• FTP access list editing and installing on clients in Linux and wintel 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 Server 2016 through update Manager.
• Troubleshooting and repairing Hardware, software and network related problems.
• Performing Daily server checklist of servers from all over the locations.
• Creation of VMs for SUSE, Solaris x86 and Redhat Linux on ESX 3.5 and administering them with VI Client.
• 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.
• Involved in Installation, Configuration and Maintenance of Windows 2012/2008/2003/2000 on HP Proliant Servers.
• 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.

Confidential, Syracuse, NY

Windows & VMware System Admin

Responsibilities:

• Installation of ESX server and creation of VMs and install different guest OS.
• Monitoring and managing performance of ESX servers and Virtual Machines. Creation of templates from VMs and Creation of VMs from templates
• Hands on experience working on SCCM 2012 and SCCM 2016 for patch and application deployments.
• Configuring Backup solutions on SAN/NAS storage and provided system support for RedHat Enterprise Linux 5.x/6.x, CentOS including routine maintenance, patching,
• Hands on experience with SCCM 2012 consoles to deploy patches, create collection & distribute the package.
• 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 2012/2016 R2.
• Sizing hardware according to needs and requesting quotes from different vendors.
• Maintain DNS, DHCP and Trust Relationship between domains.
• Managed packages using RPM/ YUM on Red Hat Linux and maintaining patching on Solaris servers.
• Configured and administered Samba to provide file services, resolved various inter-operability issues between Wintel Windows NT and Solaris platforms.
• 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.
• Experience using cloud providers and API's for Amazon (AWS) with Microsoft Azure.
• Worked with AWS Code Pipeline and Creating Cloud formation JSON templates which is converted to Terraform for infrastructure as code.
• 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.
• Worked 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.
• Providing Technical help to customers on various issues of Symantec Endpoint Protection.
• Implementation of Symantec Endpoint Protection
• 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.
• Assisted team with converting from Windows-based to Chromebook-based learning environments. Including inventory overhauls, and ensuring technician readiness.
• 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).
• Implementation, Administration and Maintenance of Windows 2008/ 2012 Networks.
• Troubleshooting windows update and performance issues.
• Configuration of DHCP, DNS on Windows 2008/ 2012 platforms.
• 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, Troy, MI

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.
• Hands on experience on Automation and deployment of all virtual machines using powerCLI.
• Handled the VMware solutions to support multiple storage connectivity options such as FC-SAN, iSCSI, NFS (NAS) and internal storage.
• 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.
• Managed configuration and enhancement of a new Point of Sale (POS) system from lab, pilot and roll-out stages.
• Provided day to day and on-call second level support to the POS Helpdesk of hardware, software, e-mail, LAN and WAN
• 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 wintel 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.