SUMMARY

• Over 5 years of experience in IT infrastructure industry focused on VMware & System administration, Storage supporting high availability and business continuity environments.
• Excellent experience in the area of Virtualization with VMware ESX 4.X, and 5.0, 5.1, 5.5, 6.0 and 6.5 servers and Virtual Center server.
• Installation, Configuration and Administration of Windows and Linux Operating systems like Red hat and CentOS including virtual and cloud environments.
• Extensive experience in setting up of VM priorities, creating VM clones and Snapshots.
• Experience with designing and implementing VMware backup products and disaster recovery solutions.
• Strong understanding of VMware Networking concepts like creation of vSwitches, different types of port groups, NIC Teaming and VLAN Problem management on VMware ESXi 5.X and Virtual Center and vMotion.
• Good working knowledge on VMware products such as VMware Workstation, VMware Infrastructure and VMware converter (P2V conversions).
• Experiences in performing P2V, V2V and P2P migrations using the PLATE SPIN TOOL.
• Excellent experience with VMware Update Manager to install patches and updates on ESX hosts and virtual machines.
• Proficient in installing and implementing ESX servers, VMware Virtual Center and setting up vMotion, HA, DRS.
• Experience in provisioning storage on NetApp and Dell EMC Storage.
• Excellent working knowledge in the areas of storage management, Data Replication and Backup technologies, RAID configuration at system and storage level.
• Hands on Experience in provisioning storage on NetApp, Dell Compellent and EqualLogic.
• Experience and knowledge on Managing Dell EqualLogic PS6000 series arrays and NetApp FAS 3200.
• Experience in SCCM Administration, Software Application Packaging, Requirements Gathering, Testing of Packaged Applications and Applications Distribution.
• In - depth understanding of SCCM and it's core/role based functionalities
• Sound understanding on of SCCM site server roles (DP, MP, SHVP, CAS, etc.)
• Experienced on performing the operations like configuring/maintaining Windows DNS, Microsoft Exchange 2013, 2016, Microsoft Hyper-V, ESXi, VCenter, VMWare Horizon and KVM.
• Working Knowledge on Brocade and CISCO SAN Switches.
• Proficient knowledge of HP enclosures (C7000/3000), Blades and ProLiant rack & stack servers.
• Supported Cisco Unified Computing Platform deployment in converged infrastructure environments (Cisco UCS 5108 Chassis, Cisco UCS B230 M2,B250 M3)
• Windows 2003/2008/2012 and 2016 Server Active Directory Administration.
• Experience working with Microsoft Servers, build and support for versions 2003, 2008 R2 and 2012 R2.
• Knowledge in HIPAA compliance.
• Experience working with Chef.
• Zoning, administration and troubleshooting experience with Brocade, Cisco MDS switches, Fiber channel HBAs in SAN environments.
• Excellent troubleshooting skills both with hardware and software in windows environment.
• Administration of Windows Servers, Domains, Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, SMTP, SharePoint, System Center, Lync, Dynamics CRM 2013, Lyris, Talisma and Exchange
• Expert knowledge of DNS, DHCP, WINS, DFS, in a Windows 2008 R2.
• Well versed in Incident Management, Problem Management and Change Management Process.
• Always emerged to be an excellent team player with outstanding communication and interpersonal capabilities.
• Available to work on 24/7 basis and on call.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Windows & VMware Administrator

Confidential, Las Vegas, NV

Responsibilities:

• Configured and installed ESXi 6.5, 6.0, 5.1, 5.5 on HP DL and BL servers and performed upgrades from 5.x to 6.x.
• Installing and configuring virtual appliances for monitoring of VMs, Datastore etc.
• Installation, configuration and management of VM Backup and Replication for virtual machine backup.
• Involved in performing the SRM setup and upgrades as part of the DR plan.
• Used VMware Update Manager and Host Update utility to install patches and updates on ESX hosts and virtual machines.
• Data center administration hosting hardware like HP ProLiant& Blade servers, DELL servers, HP Tape library, HP & DELL Storage, Solarwinds, SNMP and Nutanix.
• Knowledge on provision storage on EMC-VNX using Unisphere, Splunk, QRadar.
• Deployed and managed virtual and physical servers using PowerShell and PowerCli scripts.
• Configuration of storage & host profiles, customizing the image and embedding these profiles within ESXi Image.
• Creating and deploying of Virtual Machines from Templates and creating Snapshots, Clones of Virtual Machines for future Deployments.
• Setup HA and DRS cluster in vSphere 5.x environment.
• Creating VM templates and security baseline of OS for quality assurance
• Capacity planning of servers for virtualization and Data Center migration.
• Worked with Storage Team for planning and provisioning storage from Dell Compellent and EqualLogic and NetApp storage arrays.
• Migrating servers between DCs using Plate Spin and VMware converter tools
• Coordinating and executing the tasks for DC migration cut over projects
• Build, configure and manage windows 2012 R2/2008 Servers in physical and virtual environment.
• Performed Setup and maintain Windows Domain Controller/Forest.
• Responsible for the operations like configuring/maintaining Windows DNS, Microsoft Exchange 2013, 2016, Microsoft Hyper-V, ESXi, VCenter, VMWare Horizon and KVM.
• Installing and delivering Windows Server OS in virtual and physical servers.
• Configuring blade servers and their server blade profiles.
• Configuring and maintaining HP SIM and VCEM for new data center servers.
• Firmware and driver pack upgrade for HP ProLiant servers.
• Creating NFS shares in Data Domain for VMware and setting up the DD site-site replication
• Cleaning up Active Directory for decommissioning unused Domain Controllers and Domains.
• Responsible for design, Implementation and administration of virtual environment.
• Planned and executed necessary upgrades and migrations.
• Excellent knowledge on provisioning storage on NetApp cDOT and C7000 using management console.
• Configuration and administration of Microsoft cluster services involving SQL databases.
• Responsible for creating migration plan, high level design and SOP documents.
• Configuring different type of Port Groups Policies, Applying Security policies, Traffic Shaping, load balancing, Failover detection, Hard and Soft zoning and VLAN Tagging.
• Was involved in maintaining and managing servers on backup and restore systems as a part of the company's disaster recovery plan.

VMware Technical Specialist

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Configured and Installed ESXi hosts and performed upgrades from 4.x to 5.x.
• Configured Cisco UCS environment for hosting ESXI hosts and other physical servers
• Deployed virtual machines and have performed P2V migrations.
• Used VMware update manager for installing critical patches, VMware updates on ESX hosts.
• Data Center consolidation and server hardware refresh to retire old systems.
• Supported DR activity tests
• Designed and installed ESX cluster farms with multiple clusters for production, development and DR landscapes with HA, DRS and VM backups.
• Did the capacity planning and the physical to virtual server consolidation to achieve 78% virtualization.
• Design & Implementation of LAN & WAN connectivity.
• Storage consolidation by doing data classification and migrating the static data to Tier 3 storage
• Backup environment re-architecture fine tuning to save tape cost
• Upgrade of Windows 2003 systems to 2008 R2 OS.
• Established POCs in test labs across migration scenarios such as P2P, V2V and P2Vs.
• Involve in design and implementation of P2V V2V and p2P server migrations using Plate spin.
• Delivering Windows servers both in physical and virtual machines
• RCA on issues related to Windows & VMware within the stipulated SLA time.
• Excellent knowledge on SAN storage and Ability to provision storage on HP-P9500 using web console.
• Monitoring and managing Brocade SAN switches
• Configuring and managing data replication tools like In Mage and MS DPM
• Data center administration hosting hardware like HP ProLiant& Blade servers, DELL servers, HP Tape library, HP & DELL Storage, Solarwinds and Nutanix.
• Configured Microsoft clustering environment and trouble shoot issues related to it.
• Extensive Knowledge on Acronis backup and recovery software, Symantec GHOST explorer and GHOST utility for creating and deploying Images.
• Hands on experience on Symantec NetBackup software and have configured automated scheduled backups across the environment.
• Creation of templates from VMs and Creation of VMs from templates.
• Responsible for fixing issues related to production critical tools inside the manufacturing unit (class A clean room) with very short downtime.
• Responsible for maintaining hardware Inventory for the entire site.
• Designing and Documentation for Racks move from one cage to other big cage in datacenter.
• Developed and administered policies for information security.

System Administrator

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Involved in consolidating the physical servers by deploying VMware environment, which includes installing and managing VMware ESX server, VMware Virtual Center, VMware Workstation, Virtual Infrastructure Client.
• Installed and configured VMware tools in Virtual Machines (Linux and Windows) for better performance and management of the Virtual Machines.
• Worked with VMware Update Manager to update and install patches on the ESX server and Virtual Machine Operating systems.
• Kept track on the storage usage and documented the storage plans and strategies which would help in deployment of storage infrastructure and executing the test plans.
• Developing and modifying shell scripts for efficient operations.
• Virtualized 250+ servers using VMconverter.
• Performs Local and Remote AD and systems migration and maintenance for servers with OS 2003, 2008 R2, 2012.
• Server Clustering for failover and Performance Tuning, Updating, Troubleshooting and Patching within the Enterprise Environment.
• Supports Microsoft desktop tools such as Office 365 and its productivity components
• Design, testing, and implementing upgrades and enhancements to the existing environment.
• Installing/configuring Windows Server 2003/2008/2012 R2 OS on Dell/HP blade servers and SQL databases
• Handling different aspects of the project such as Capacity planning, Performance /Capacity Monitoring, Storage optimization, Provisioning process, Virtual infrastructure management & automation
• Configuring & administering Domain Naming Server (DNS), Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP), and Distributed File System. (DFS), Internet Information Service. (IIS), MS Clustering and Remote Access Service (RAS) in windows 2003 environment.
• Build, configure and deploy VMs and Templates.