SUMMARY

• 8+ years of IT industry experience as a System Administrator managing VMware vSphere 4/5/6 environment, RedHat Linux (RHEL) 4/5/6/7, Windows 2008/2008 R 2/2012/2016/2019
• Proficiency in VMware/ Linux and Windows Server troubleshooting and monitoring in physical and Virtual environments.
• Hands on experience with Citrix Xen Server, Desktop and XenApp 6.5/7.5
• Hands on experience with VMWare Horizon View 6.x and 7.x environments
• Knowledge in Maintaining desktop image repository. Developed and maintain Standard Operating Procedures for VDI Environment
• Hands on experience with VMWare vSAN. Configured vSAN datastores on cluster using best practices
• Experience with configuring and managing Nutanix storage cluster
• Experience managing VxRail SDS hyper converged cluster
• Extensive experience in Architecting and Configuring Hyper - V environment
• Experience in managing Hyper-V hosts through SCVMM
• Configured and Administered SCCM and SCOM to manage software repository for Windows 10 and Windows 7 workstations
• Experience configuring and installing SQL server 2017 / 2016 / 2012
• Experience in developing PowerShell scripts to automate day to day activity
• Creating and Managing user accounts, system security, performance tuning on change management
• Experience in administering Windows Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, WDS, RRAS and IIS services
• Extensively worked With VMware ESXi 5.1/5.5/6.0 and 6.7, Configured Cluster HA, DRS, vMotion
• Installation, Configuration and Administration of vCenter 4.0,5.1,6.0,6.5, 6.7 Servers.
• Extensive experience with patching, management and troubleshooting of VMware and Windows Environments
• Done Patch Management of hosts and VM's using VMware vCenter Update Manager.
• Configured datastores on Dell EqualLogic and Compellent arrays and mounted it to vSphere cluster
• Experience in installing, maintaining and managing various rack mounted and Blade servers from Dell, HP and Cisco
• Worked extensively on Templates/Clones/Snapshots & Resource pools P2V and V2V migrations using tools like VMware converter /Plate spin/Double Take.
• Experience in Backup Tools like NetBackup, Veeam Backup and Replication Suite.
• Extensive Experience with Racking and Stacking servers in the datacenters
• Experience changing the server components like CPU, Memory, RAID controller/HBA controllers and other PCIe interfaces like Network and BOSS cards in an event of failure
• Experience working with Dell PowerConnect/ Force10 and Cisco network switches. Knowledge on configuring vLAN and administrating the switches to do basic tasks
• Good Knowledge on VMware s Software Defined Storage (SDS) and Hyper-Converged Infrastructure (HCI) vision, vSAN Product, VxRail Appliances, and Cloud Foundation solutions
• Good Knowledge on networking to manage VxRail clusters enable automation and orchestration services for cluster management and end-to-end lifecycle management
• Good knowledge in automating 100s of tasks using VxRail.
• Good hands on command line of ESXi, Good hands on Experience in diagnostics & troubleshooting of ESXi server environment.
• Knowledge in analysis, administration and support of Wyse thin clients, virtual and physical desktops.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• VMware ESXi 5.0/5.1 /5.5/ 6.0/6.5/6.7 , vSphere 6.7/6.5/6.2/6.0/5.1/5.0/4.1/4.0
• Vcenter, P2V, V2V, VRA, VROPs, VDI, Hyper-V, Nutanix, vSAN, VxRail, VRO, VMware ThinApp
• HPProLiantDL360, DL380, DL580Servers, BL465cBlade Servers and Dell Power Edge Servers 12G/13G/14G, MX7000 chassis
• Service Now, Kace, Remedy
• AD, DNS, DHCP, IIS, WDS, RRAS, WINS, ADFS, SCCM, SCVMM, SCOM, WSUS
• VERITAS NetBackup, Vranger backup
• Shavlik, Blade logic 7.1

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

VMware Administrator

Confidential - Seattle, WA

Responsibilities:

• Was primarily responsible for managing vSphere environment and VDI infrastructure which was hosted on vSphere 6.5 clusters and vSAN datastore, Was Involved in planning the resources required in terms of storage, compute and networks based on the previous ISCSI architecture our VDI cluster used to have.
• Worked with the technology architect and other SME's from network and storage team to complete the planning and lead the effort to coordinate with all the teams to understand the applications and prepared the Gold/Master images required for the environment
• Perform daily system monitoring, verifying the integrity and availability of all hardware, server resources, systems and key processes, reviewing system and application logs, and verifying completion of scheduled jobs such as backups.
• Patch and Package administration for installation of patches as per company policy and installation of packaged application.
• Experience with Service Now and Kace tools to service client requests
• Creating, managing and troubleshooting Group Policies. Installing, configuring and troubleshooting Active Directory. Installing and configuring DHCP and DNS servers
• Had built PowerShell script to remove batch of users from AD and optimize windows 10 master image
• Configured and administered VMWare Horizon View 7.10.1 environment
• Decommissioned Windows 7 environment and deployed windows 10 environment. Created windows 10 Master images with VMware and other best practices.
• Worked on Creating VMs /building VM templates and customization files, and scheduling tasks.
• Installed VMware ESXi server 6.5/6.7 and added them to vSphere cluster
• Configured vRealize Operations (vRO) for Horizon Environment to monitor health and performance
• Configured and managed Distributed Switches on vCenter
• Configuring HA/DRS related advanced configuration settings as per VMware Best practices
• Installation and Configuration vCenter Heartbeat for vCenter failover and Failback Purpose.
• Migration and P2V conversion Experience on many applications like SQL Server, Exchange running on Windows and some applications running on Linux Redhat and SUSE and VMkernel Linux appliances. migrated the vSphere environment from 6.5 to 6.7. which includes migrating vCenter from 6.5 to 6.7, ESXi host update using update manager, Upgrading vSAN and Distributed Switches as part of migration
• Upgraded 150+ ESX hosts from ESX 6.0 to ESXi 6.5 and 6.7 using VMware Update Manager tool.
• Building Windows 2019 Servers and upgrading Windows 2016 on both physical and virtual machines.
• Experience in configuring and setting up Dell iDRAC for Dell 14G(R740XD/R640) servers for outbound access
• Installing vSphere 6.0/6.5 on half blade and full blade servers on Cisco UCS.
• Create Snapshot and test Rollback, configure vMotion, Cluster and Failover.
• Participated in development and maintenance of Disaster Recovery & Backup.
• Used Veeam backup software to backup the servers on daily and weekly bases
• Maintain server equipment operation and connectivity, backup and restoration, and physical and virtual machine support services
• Prepare technical performance and utilization reports as required
• Documented the upgrade process and prepared Horizon View runbook for future reference

VMware Administrator

Confidential - Indianapolis, IN

Responsibilities:

• Installation, Configuration, Administration of vSphere, Windows and Active Directory environment
• Managed more than 2000+ virtual machines across multiple datacenters
• Worked on ITSM tools like Service Now to raise tickets and resolve the which were assigned to me
• Worked with architects to upgraded VMware vSphere environment from 5.5 to 6.5. Recommended using Embedded PSC with 6.5 while migrating
• Worked with Windows 2012R2 RDSH and Terminal servers to publish remote apps
• Managed Windows 2016 Hyper - V cluster
• Used PowerShell to automate and change network card s name across all windows servers
• Configured and installed windows WDS (PXE) environment to host windows and VMware images which helped the organization to install OS's on the fly while migrating the infrastructure
• Involved in operational support of Active Directory, WINS, DNS, and AD enabled applications.
• Worked on Nutanix cluster. Used Nutanix foundations to deploy CVM s (Controller VM s), Worked with Nutanix support to accomplish that task on all the ESXi hosts which were part of vCenter 6.5
• Used Nutanix management console PRISM to curve datastores and deployed VM s from the console
• Utilized the existing WSUS with SCCM software to create a base line and pushed update packages to patch the windows servers 2016/2012 R2 and client OS's (Windows 10)
• Installed SCOM agent on VM s to monitor the VM s performance
• Added and maintained service group/packages. Added/removed node to/from existing cluster set.
• Worked with security patches on production servers.
• Used configuration management tool puppet to automate server configuration.
• Configuring HA/DRS related advanced configuration settings per VMware Best practices
• Configuring VMFS based storage in virtual center.
• Installation and Configuration of vCenter Heartbeat for vCenter failover and Failback Purpose.
• Created Distributed Switches on private vLAN to use with test applications
• Updated drivers and firmware on HPE ProLiant DL series servers
• Updated the Patches for ESXi Servers using VMware Update Manager in Virtual Center.

VMware Administrator

Confidential - Minneapolis, MN

Responsibilities:

• Was responsible for administering VMware/ESXi Servers and vSphere 5.5 environment
• Configured Linux Bonding. Worked on Storage multipathing.
• Provide technical assistance to the application development area and co - workers about system analysis, design and programming.
• Planning to upgrade the vSphere 5.5 environment to 6.0 with two external PSC's in the new environment
• Created a design document on what roles and permissions need to be created for users in the new vSphere 6.0 environment
• Raised tickets for any issues discovered during validation.
• Installing and Managing ESX and ESXi Servers on Dell PowerEdge 13G servers
• Timely update of patches, drivers and firmware's on all ESXi hosts.
• Worked on updating / upgrading ESX servers, vCenter servers and windows virtual machines using VMware Update manager and manual upgrades.
• Performing vMotion and storage vMotions, Creating Clusters for High Availability and Dynamic Resource Scheduling, HA, DRS.
• 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.
• Experience on creating host profiles and deploy to hosts in a VMware clusters.
• Experience with vSphere Host Profiles, Standard and Distributed Switches setup.
• LUN creation and storage mapping administration and configuring Multipathing.
• Build, configure and deploy Microsoft Windows 2008 R2, and 2012 R2 Virtual and Physical servers using Blade logic and MDT.
• Developed technical documents like handbooks, document installation configurations, and proposed resolutions for support processes.

System Administrator

Confidential - Portsmouth, NH

Responsibilities:

• Configuring dedicated VMkernel & multiple service Console for better performance. Migrate and manage virtual machines to ensure high availability of applications. Creating and configuring port groups.
• Configured ISCSI and connected to ESXi Server manage the VM's, Good knowledge in Troubleshooting level.
• Experience in migrating physical to virtual environment like File servers, Database servers using VMware Converter 4.1/5.0
• Experience on 1500 Physical & virtual servers patch management through Shavlik blade logic tools.
• Installing different flavors of Windows. Monitoring, managing and reporting server status in daily, weekly and monthly basis
• Analyzing events through event viewer and resolving the issues. Installing service patches, server patches and antivirus. Configuring different types of RAID as per the requirement.
• Reserving and excluding IP address as on required. Scheduling backups and restoring backups as on required. Troubleshooting Network related problems. Remote Server Administratio Managing Virtual Infrastructure vSphere 4 and 5. Updating ESX/ESXi environment from 3.5 to ESX 4.1&4.1 to ESXi 5 update.
• Managed Citrix XenDesktop 6.5 farms. Deployed VDI VM s to farms using both Machine Creation Services and Provisioning services PVS
• Creating and Managing Virtual Machines and Templates. Installing VMware Tools for Virtual machines.
• Assigning LUNs to ESXi hosts and creating Data stores. Upgrading virtual hardware.
• Installing VMware Tools for Virtual machines. Migrating Virtual machines with vMotion, cold migration and Storage vMotion.
• Troubleshooting hardware related issues in ESX servers.
• Good experience on converting physical to virtual (P2V) and configuring and bringing the VM servers into production.
• Performing Snapshots and Cloning. Extending disk space in VM's according to the requests.
• Updating Virtual infrastructure Using Update Manager. Creating templates and deploying templates to the VM's.
• Creating Clusters for High Availability (HA), Fault tolerance (FT) and Distributive Resource Scheduling (DRS).
• Configurations of Virtual switches and network connections n through Remote Desktop Connection.
• Troubleshooting ESX issues and VM issues.

System Administrator

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Installing, configuring and managing Virtual Infrastructure ESXi 4.0, vCenter, vSphere.
• Responsible for VMware ESXi server build.
• Installation and configuration of vCenter 4.0.
• Apply patches to all the ESXi hosts in the environment whenever required.
• Applied patches to Virtual machines and Upgraded VMware tools over them.
• Configuring DRS & HA for ESXi clusters.
• Configuring Resource pool for group of Virtual Machines.
• Created Fault Tolerance (FT) for critical VMs to provide High availability.
• Designed the Infrastructure and administered the environment running over 30 ESXi Hosts and 450 Virtual Machines. Upgrading the firmware to the latest version/date on the BIOS/ controllers/ hard drives.
• Installation and configuration of networks, router configurations, TCP/IP, content filtering, access control lists on router/switches, vLANs (port mapping, naming.).
• Served in computer maintenance; performed all types of hardware, software maintenance, and backup.
• Manual patching on windows servers and creating new users to the domain and assign the restricted access to the domain users.
• Configuring DHCP Scopes and configuring the password policies for users in AD.
• Worked on SCCM for patching the windows servers and deployed virtual machines in the SCCM tool.
• Enabled EVC feature for ESXi clusters.
• Provisioned and Configured Virtual Machines.
• Deployed VMs through Templates.
• Creating & Troubleshooting Virtual Networks and vSwitches, distributed switch and iscsi storage.
• Upgraded Memory Resources of powered ON Virtual Machines using Hot Add and Hot Plug.
• Used Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) to automatic downloads of updates, hotfixes, service packs, device drivers for the organization.
• Installation, Configuration and Maintenance of Windows Server 2003 & 2008, 2012 R2. Installing Active directory, DHCP and DNS giving access permissions and troubleshooting the AD
• DHCP and DNS problem
• Maintained documents and reports for the environment.
• Troubleshooting the disk space problems.