SUMMARY:

• More than 8+ years of proficient experience in IT Industry in VMware Virtualization products, Windows Administration.
• Prominent understanding of various methods in the vCenter server features like vMotion, Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS), Fault Tolerance (FT), Distributed Power Management (DPM) Storage vMotion, High Availability (HA), and other products of VMware.
• Extensive experience in working with VMware vSphere Suite, vCloud Suite and vRealize Suite.
• Well experienced in provisioning virtual machines in a fly from Templates, Clones, creating Snapshots and managing user Roles and Permissions.
• Extensive experience in Windows 2012/2012R2/2008R 2/2008/2003/2000/ NT4.0 Servers at single or multi domain platforms.
• Motivated, enthusiastic, and pro - active System/Network Administrator with an excellent 'can-do' attitude. Expert in Windows Server System Administration skills.
• Experience in Active Directory, GPOs, DNS, DHCP, File & Print Server, IIS (Web Server), FTP, Terminal Server, NAT, Microsoft Clustering. Experience in iSCSI SAN, NAS, NFSstorage and RAID concept.
• Experience in with Virtualization technologies like installing, configuring, VMware vSphere. Creation, management, administration and maintenance of virtual servers and clients. Experience in Networking configuration & Security Configuration on ESX Host.
• Extensive knowledge in advance features of ESX VMOTION, SVMOTION, HA and DRS.
• Experience in P2V, V2V MIGRATION using VMware Converter. Creating host and client VM templates and cloning.
• Extensive understanding of networking concepts, (IE. Configuration of networks, router configuration and wireless security, TCP/IP, VPN, Content Filtering, VLANs, and routing in LAN/WAN, Ethernet Port, Patch Panel and wireless networks
• Experience in Microsoft Office Suite, Open Office, Visio, Outlook, Printing, and Windows networking.
• Experience with x86 / x64Intel, HP, Cisco UCS, Confidential & Dell hardware like rack-mounted servers, tower servers, desktop, laptop and other peripherals.
• Installed and Configured VMware vSphere 6.0, ESXi 5.1, ESXi 5.0, vSphere4, ESXi 4.x, ESX 4.0, ESX 3.5, Site Recovery Manager (SRM) 5.0,4.1, VMware View 5.2, 5.1, 5.0, 4.5 and 4.0, VMware vCenter 4.1 on Cisco UCS servers and upgraded to the latest vSphere ESXi 5.5 patch.
• Experience in EMC/VCE products includes VBlock 300 & 700 series, BLOCK& FILE LEVEL (UNIFIED) EMC storage arrays.
• Knowledge of Office 365 deployment models and best practices.
• Good Experience in creating port groups, VLAN networking and NIC teaming on VMware ESX 5.x/4.x and vCenter environment.
• Maintained Forward and Reverse Look up Zones, Conditional Forwarders through DNS.
• Installation and Configuration of networks, router/switches configuration and wireless access point/router with security, TCP/IP, VPN, Content Filtering.
• Experienced in Configuring FC, SAN, VMFS, iSCSI SAN and NAS Storage with Different Vendors like EMC, NetApp.
• Good Understanding EMC NAS Celera, Netapp FAS.
• Hands on experience in physical to virtual machine (P2V) conversions and virtual to virtual machine (V2V) conversions as well as conversions between different virtual machine formats using VMware Converter and vCenter Guided Consolidation.
• Strong experience in networking concepts such as vSwitches, VMkernel ports, VM ports and Service console, traffic shaping, NIC teaming, load balancing & failover detection.
• Good knowledge of storage concepts related to VBlock, iSCSI SAN, FC SAN, NAS, EMC CLARiiON, and Netapp.
• Experience in patch management and upgrading ESX hosts using VMware vSphere Update Manager and VMware Host Update Utility.
• Good understanding of various methods to back-up virtual machines as well as DR strategies utilizing Site Recovery Manager 5.0 (SRM).
• Hands on experience in System administration and troubleshooting in Windows NT/ 2000/2003/ 2008/2008 R2/2012 servers, RedHat, SUSE Ubuntu centos, Active Directory services, LDAP services, WINS, IIS, RAS, DNS, DHCP, FTP, RDP, Windows failover clustering, Microsoft Exchange Server and Microsoft Clustering Services.
• Experience in the Server and Desktop Management (Windows Administration), Support, Analysis and Maintenance.
• Demonstrated ability to work well with a wide variety of people at various levels, foster cooperation and collaboration among individuals in the work unit, help team resolve conflicts constructively and ability and willingness to communicate when help is needed.
• Motivated, enthusiastic, and pro-active System/Network Administrator with an excellent 'can-do' attitude. Expert in Windows Server System Administration skills.
• Ability to maintain a reliable and methodical approach to support and Documentation. Quick learner, highly motivated team player with excellent organizational and analytical skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating Systems: Windows 2003, 2008, 2008 R2, 2012,2016 Servers, Redhat Enterprise Linux 5.8, 6.3, Suse 10,11

VMware: ESXi 5.0, 5.5, 6.0, 6.5, Virtual Center 4, 5, 6, VSphere 5.0, 5.5, 6.0, VSA, VSAN, VSA Manager, VMware update Manager, VMotion, DRS, HA, VMware workstation, VMware Horizon, VMware tools

Hardware: Lenovo system X3550 M5, Confidential Blade centers HS22 7870, HS21-8853, X3630, M4, X3650, Dell Systems PowerEdge 2900, 2800, HP Proliant, DL180 Gen6, Gen9, DL380p Gen8, ML350 G6

Scripting Languages: PowerShell, PowerCLI, Shell, Bash and Perl scripting.

Tools: BMC Remedy, Service Now, Lotus Notes, Jabber, Microsoft Outlook, SCCM ILM, ILO, IMM, DRAC, VNC, Putty, Reflection, VMMap, RAM Map, Wireshark, Fiddler, VNC, Trouble Call, IPMI, ASU

Networking: VLAN, LAN, TCP/IP, TCP Dump, Gigabit and 10 Gigabit Ethernet, DHCP, DNS, FTP, SFTP, SSH, Telnet

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential - Houston, TX

Sr. System Admin

Responsibilities:

• Hands-on experience in Deployment, requirement gathering, Installation, administration.
• Successfully configured ESX servers for HA and DRS capabilities.
• Configured and deployed Cisco computing clusters with VMware ESXi 5.5, 6.0, 6.5 and vCenter.
• Experienced in applying monthly updates to windows servers 2008R2/2012/2016 versions.
• Good Knowledge on VMware products such as vRealize storage and networking.
• Maintained and Troubleshooted windows server’s windows 2008R2 and 2012 versions Creating disk spaces for windows servers.
• Install, configure and optimize reference implementations of partner solutions on NSX.
• Performing physical to virtual servers (P2V) migration without downtime.
• Involved in performing VMotion and Vstorage administration for successful data migration.
• Maintaining Backups of the VM's, taking snapshots. Managing VM's by vSphere Client and Web Client.
• Upgraded ESX hosts from ESX 5.5 to ESX 6.0, 6.5 using VMware Update Manager tool.
• Administration of user and group accounts and providing appropriate rights to user accounts according to their requirements.
• Installation and configuration of EMC Power Path in ESXi for SAN Storage Path optimization.
• Involved in creation of virtual switches and configuration of NIC for a clustered environment.
• Troubleshoot and resolve the Storage related issues generated in the production, Development and testing environments using vCOPS.
• Configured VMware on clustered environment, Implemented VMotion, Virtualized Windows servers using VMware Converter P2V and setup Lab Manager. Administration, VMware configuration and Administration, Network devices, Security devices for datacenter.
• Use of PowerCLI/Esxcli for the migration process and for troubleshooting.
• Troubleshoot VMware problems and some PowerCLI.
• Understanding and experience SAN concepts, snapshots, clustering and fail-over, file Permission management and disaster recovery.
• Successfully deployed and tested Disaster recovery solutions for selected business applications using EMC.
• Used VMware Update Manager to install critical and locally tested updates to the ESX Host.
• Grouped physical disks into logical volumes dynamically sized and resized volumes to fit in the application.
• Troubleshooted network issues between distributed V switch, Layer 2 switches and resolved slow performance between SAN network and VM networks.
• PowerCLI Scripts were developed to be dynamic so when VMs are added to host they are included in the scripts automatically. Goal was to have least amount of human intervention and save time.
• Upgrade current technologies with patches and firmware, as well as new versions.
• Utilize Zerto, vRealize Operations Manager, and PowerCLI to assist with daily tasks.
• Implement VMware vSphere technologies and utilize virtualization tools such as PowerCLI, Auto Deploy, and vCenter Operations Manager. Running patches and updates through update manager for the ESXi hosts.
• 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.
• Created various types of desktop pools like Manual pools; Automated pools; Linked clone’s pools; full clone pools and RDP pools in Horizon View as per user’s requirements.
• Vulnerability Management: Responsible for WSUS/Ivanti update management to ensure all software is up to date. PsExec scripting to push new software to computers.
• Co-ordinated with storage team for the data store consolidation and resize project after the VSphere migration from 5.5 and 6.0, 6.5.
• Successfully worked on design and deployment of mid to large scale SCCM infrastructures.
• Experience in setting up and configuring SCCM Operating System Deployment (OSD) for Windows XP and Windows 7 and MDT within SCCM. Hyper-V host servers will be upgraded and migrated to build a Failover Cluster environment
• Expertise in SCCM Administration, deployment, packaging, network inventory, installer and network designing.
• Creating and Managing Virtual Machines in Windows Azure.
• Manage access control, create operations policies, groups and applications in vROPS.
• Used Windows Azure portal to manage Virtual Network and Traffic Manager
• Created, managed, monitored VM using Windows Azure portal admin.
• Worked with deployment of VM servers using PowerShell scripts.
• Maintenance, Troubleshooting and creation of workflows in vRealize Orchestrator
• Worked on VRealize Creating single tenant or multi- tenant and modifying the default tenant according to client requirement in VRAC.
• The configuration of Backup and Restore of NSX Manager and Data.
• Worked on VRealize Administration like Managing users and Managing Multi- Machine services.
• Monitoring the operating system, database & network by using the monitoring tools.
• Set up V-Motion, High Availability (HA), Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS), and related VMware products.
• Worked with SRM solution at the client environments. Installation and configuration of ESX server.
• Involved in migrating Windows 2008 server to Windows 2012 server & Windows 2016
• Automating the installs using Jumpstart and Kick start and building post install scripts using Shell scripting in SUN Solaris and RHEL Servers.
• Deployed VMware Vcenter operations manager and Infrastructure navigator in the production environment to monitor performance of Virtual servers and data stores.
• Worked on physical to virtual migration(P2V) and virtual to virtual(V2V) using VMware converter 6.5
• Experience in installing, configuring and maintaining VMware ESX 5.x, 6.x and server migrations from physical to virtual using hot and cold cloning technology in VMware.
• Experience in migrating the Physical environment into virtual environment (P2V), (V2V) using the tools like VMware / Double-Take/ Plate Spin. Managed resources within active directory as it pertains to Hyper V clustering
• Server migration physical to Virtual using Hot and cold cloning technology in VMware. Creating cluster in VMware.
• Performed P2V Hot conversions using converter enterprise and the P2V cold conversion using VMware Converter Boot CD.
• Responsible for day-to-day operational maintenance, support, and upgrades for Windows servers and VMware.
• Performed software installations and upgrades to operating systems and layered software packages.

Confidential - Bentonville, AR

System Admin

Responsibilities:

• Administration of vSphere infrastructure in our environment managing 4000 VMs and 450 ESX/ESXi host spread across multiple sites.
• Built ESXi hosts, Virtual Machines, Windows Virtual clusters, worked on ESXi clusters. Configured HA and DRS rules for new Clusters.
• Created HA affinity and Anti-Affinity rules, provided support for implementation, troubleshooting and maintenance of Information Technology (IT) systems and coordinating with the system, Network and Database administrators to troubleshoot various issues during implementation.
• Extensive experience with maintenance of Active Directory, DHCP, DNS, Global Group Policy, Windows IIS, SQL Server and Microsoft SQL Clustering.
• Excellent work experience on Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) on creating and defining the object classes and attributes that relates to users, computers, printers and services in addition to the extension of the object interface by managing permissions, group policies and delegations. Plan and implement Active Directory migration from 2008R2 to 2012.
• Build and configure DNS and DHCP servers for a vast infrastructure.
• Regular disk management like adding/replacing hard drives on existing servers/workstations, partitioning according to requirements, creating new file systems or growing existing one over the hard drives and managing file systems.
• Creating users, assigning groups and home directories, setting quota and permissions; administering file systems and recognizing file access problems.
• Maintaining appropriate file and system security, monitoring and controlling system access, changing permission, ownership of files and directories, maintaining passwords, assigning special privileges to selected users and controlling file access, monitoring status of process in order to increase the system efficiency, scheduling system related and Cron jobs.
• Resolve various issues such as Windows Policies, Application licensing through RDP.
• Coordinating with Vendors regarding production issues & solving problems.
• Responsible for Administration of Active Directory and delegating control / permissions.
• Installing, Configuring and Administrating ESXi hosts and vCenter Servers.
• Troubleshooting Critical and High priority VMware issues and driving to resolution.
• Windows & Linux server P2V consolidation and V2V using VMware Converter.
• Patching ESXi severs and VMs using VMware Update manager. Used Python scripts for automation of production tasks.
• Deploying VM from VRealize tool like windows 2008 and 2012r2 servers.
• Easy handling and troubleshooting ESXi servers through command line. Performing RCAs by analysis ESXi and vCenter logs.
• Conducting pre-sales sizing estimates of a customer’s data center environment, consolidation estimates provide guidance on what can be achieved via virtualization and consolidation assessments. Creating, Managing HA and DRS clusters, EVC, DRS Rules.
• Analyzing performance bottlenecks and fine tuning VMs for optimal performance.
• Extensive experience in managing vBlock using native element managers including vCenter, UCS, UIM, Unisphere, Cisco Nexus CLI and fabric manage.
• Responsible to verify Web services API request, response data validations in REST, SOAP protocols. Performed API Testing with Postman and Swagger. Perform VMware Horizon View upgrades for companies already using VMware Horizon View.
• Coordinated the conversion of a legacy server to Confidential JS20/JS21 / HP C7000 Blade Servers.
• Structured Virtual Local Area Networks (VLANs) on blades chassis servers and configured switches.
• Integrate vRealize Automation with vRealize Operations 6.1 including Endpoint Operations (Hyperic) and vRealize Insight (Log Insight)
• Maintenance, Troubleshooting and creation of workflows in vRealize Orchestrator
• Involved in setting up new vBlock 340 and Cisco UCS Blade Servers with EMC VNX2 storage.
• Experience in managing Azure Storage Accounts.
• Used Python based GUI components for the front-end functionality such as selection criteria.
• Developed Merge jobs in Python to extract and load data into MySQL database.
• Experience in migrating on premise to Windows Azure using Azure Site Recovery and Azure backups.
• Installed OS, patches and security policies through SMS2003/SCCM2007/ SCCM 2012 Admin Tools.
• Created Automatic Deployment Rules for Software update management using SCCM 2012 R2.
• Experience supporting Citrix XenApp 4.5/6.5/7.8. Administration of the CITRIX farms, publish applications, create new CITRIX servers. Maintain Desktops using tools such as XenApp Desktop Studio.
• Experience supporting Citrix XenApp 6.5/4.5. Administration of the Citrix farms; publish applications, create new Citrix servers. Maintain over 82 Citrix servers between 2008 and 2012 servers for legacy Applications.
• Hands-on experience with Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT), Windows Deployment Services (WDS), System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) for OS deployment, patch management, software distribution and to maintain application inventory.
• Building, provisioning and commissioning of Virtual Machines in a standardized format.
• Performing - vMotion, VMotion, Cloning, Snapshot, FT, Alarms, Roles and Host Profiles.
• Managing and maintaining Site Recovery Manager.
• Wrote PowerShell & PowerCLI scripts for the teams use with customers that have been heavily utilized thus saving much time with each case.
• Good understanding of various methods to back-up virtual machines as well as DR strategies utilizing Site Recovery Manager 5.0 (SRM).
• On-boarding of Privilege Accounts to Cyber-Ark, Configured CyberArk to MySQL, Oracle databases.
• Configured VMware Site Recovery Manager for datacenter redundancy.
• Supported AWS Cloud environment with 200+ AWS instances and configured Elastic IP & Elastic Storage and also experience working on implemented security groups. Ability to create scripts using Azure PowerShell during for automation and build process.
• Good working experience in Azure Logic apps, Service Bus, Document DB and SQL Database.
• Physical host Hardware Firmware/Drivers upgrade. Deep Understanding of SAN, NAS, iSCSI storage.
• VB SCRIPTS, PowerShell, Win Batch, PS tools and Windows command-line Scripting to automate the manual tasks on Servers and Client computers. Configured and used out of band management tools like Cisco UCS, Dell iDRAC and HP iLO.
• Patched ESXi Hosts using VMware Update Manager and host update utility. Deployed New ESXi 6.0 host to increase the capacity.
• Build and configure multiple ESXi 5.5, 6.0 hosts on Cisco UCS B200 blades according to the design documents.
• Created templates for rapid deployment of Virtual Machines.
• Configuring and managing User, Group, Permission, Role, and Resource pool, Alerts, Alarms on VMware virtual center. Resolved corporate server infrastructure problems and changes in support of the company split.
• Used PowerShell scripts to automate the task.
• Experience is racking hardware and Cutting network cables to specified lengths and label their lengths and configure switches and servers as part of data center activities. Comprehensive vBlock Management using vCenter, UCSM, Unisphere.
• Solved high severity tickets Sev1 and Sev2 in a timely fashion. Participated in a 24x7 on-call duty rotation.
• Worked closely with Storage and Networking teams to ensure allocated SAN, Fiber and networking infrastructure reflects specifications laid out in the initial VMware design to ensure successful deployment.
• Analyzed the existing decommissioning process for physical servers and virtual machines and created a custom workflow to make sure proper and consistent decommissioning of assets.
• Provides support to all IT systems, including day-to-day operations, monitoring and problem resolution for all client/server/storage/network devices. Performed (P2V, V2V) migration using VMware converter.
• Strictly adhered to Change and Incident Management process to keep up high ITIL standards.
• Deployed VMware Site Recovery Manager and assisted in creating policies and procedures for disaster recovery plans
• Monitored SCCM platform health and mitigated issues as needed. Documenting step-by-step process used for Repackaging and testing which includes Custom Action Scripts using VB Script, Wise Script, Auto IT, PowerShell.
• Build and manage VM’s on Amazon AWS for Test environment. Configured RAID levels 0, 1 and 5.

Confidential - Atlanta, GA

Windows/UNIX System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Administered servers in heterogeneous environments, which include Linux, Solaris and Windows operating environments.
• Responsible for image installation/configuration procedure for Red Hat Linux, and Jumpstart for Solaris on x86 architecture.
• Managed and implemented changes, upgrades, security procedures and policies to the Linux.
• Involved in the yearly maintenance patching for both SAN and NAS connected Linux servers.
• Coordinated work with developers and database administrators to deploy and monitor HA environment applications utilizing VERITAS Cluster Services and Linux Cluster.
• Performed deployment activities, environment support including installation, configuration diagnostics, planning and upgrades for Jboss Application server.
• Planned/installed/maintained clustered environments for distributed applications using VERITAS Cluster, Sun Cluster and Linux Cluster.
• Used RPMs to install, update, verify, query and erase packages from Linux Servers.
• Formatting raw disks and partitioned them using the format utility, installing Solaris operating system, creating file system, devices and special files using newfs.
• Used fsck and fsdb on file systems successfully when critical data got corrupted. Made use of alternate superblocks to replace corrupted superblock.
• Configure and maintain Windows 2003 Server that runs DNS, DHCP and active directory services.
• Configure Winbind on all Linux workstations which enables all the Linux users to be authenticated on Microsoft Windows 2000 Active Directory Server
• Used commands for creating new users, groups, user passwords, changing passwords, managing user accounts and locking users, Monitored System processes & system status, identifying system bottlenecks.
• Joined multiple disks to overcome disk size limitations, mirrored data for fault tolerance. Spread data over multiple disks for performance enhancement.
• Responsible for Day to Day Backup and Recovery using tar
• Managed Systems and Network related issues like Installation, Configuration and Troubleshooting on Linux and windows platform.

Confidential

Windows/VMware support Technician

Responsibilities:

• Installed and upgraded VMware vSphere ESXi 5.5/5.0 and ESX server 4.1/4/3.5 in a total of 520 ESXi servers.
• Designed and implemented Virtual Desktop infrastructure with more than 10,000 VDI machines.
• Implemented VMware design, performing P2P, P2V, and V2P. Migrated Physical Machines to Virtual Machines (P2V) and Virtual Machines to Virtual Machines (V2V) using VMware converter.
• Implementation of Desktop Virtualization (VDI) View 5.2, Horizon Workspace for Application virtualization.
• Implemented the Business Continuity and performing Disaster Recovery (DR) using Metro HA clusters.
• Upgraded the Storage from VMFS3 to VMFS5
• Worked with EMC Xtreme IO, VMAX storage involved in data migration using open migrator and open replicator
• Design and implementation of global monitoring solution using SCOM, HP SIM
• Monitored the servers using ESM monitoring tool and resolved the issues.
• Implemented Microsoft Clustering for IIS Web Servers.
• Worked extensively with Active Directory services, Citrix Delivery Service Console, Group Policy Management & Computer Management
• Distributing VMotion load on two different VMotion port groups by configuring Multi-NIC VMotion.
• Deploy patches using VCenter update manager as requested or scheduled by Engineering & Release Mgmt.
• Configured VCOPS in on all the vCenter's in different Zones.
• Implemented scripted installations using Power CLI Scripts
• Technical support, administration and troubleshooting of Microsoft Windows 2003 & Windows 2008 cluster servers.
• Migrating Windows 2003 cluster to 2008 cluster.
• Maintaining Wal-Mart windows servers 2003, 2008, VMWare ESXi 5.5 servers and Windows 7 Clients.
• Documenting the remediation procedures for Windows 2003, 2008 servers and windows 7 clients.
• Troubleshooting OS related issues for Windows 2003, 2008, 2008 R2 editions.
• Managing the Active Directory for Virtual Desktops with User Permissions.
• Coordinate/Facilitate all planned and unplanned power outages for all environments.
• Troubleshooting applications and end-to-end functionality testing. Analyzed IIS and application logs, debugged problems at all stages in migration phase.
• Engage hardware and software vendors to assist in improvement of current VMware environment and research and evaluation of the latest technologies. Provided on call support after hours and on weekends on rotation basis.