SUMMARY

• Over 7 years of experience in Designing, Configuring and Troubleshooting Windows Server Administration (AD, DNS, ADS, DHCP) and managing VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper - V environments
• Proficient Experience in installation, configuration and troubleshooting vSphere 5.x, 6.x and vCenter 5.1, 5.5, 6.0, 6.5 and 6.7.
• Extensive experience with VDI products from VMware, Microsoft and Citrix
• Configured and architected VMWare view 5.x Horizon View 6.x and 7.x solutions with industry standards and best practices
• Configured Microsoft RDSH and RDVH solutions along with Citrix Xen Desktop VDI PVS (Provisioning Services) and MCS (Machine Creation Services) solutions
• Managing Access Control through vCenter server, Optimizing Resource Utilization, Load Balancing (VMware DRS) and ensuring High Availability (VMware HA).
• Experience in deploying Virtual Machines (VM’s) through Templates, Converting Physical to Virtual (P2V) and Virtual-to-Virtual (V2V) Machines using PlateSpin, Double take and VMware convertor.
• Done Patch Management of hosts and VM’s using VMware vCenter Update Manager.
• Good understanding of windows and VMware server automation using scripting language Power shell, VB Script, Power CLI.
• Good understanding of hyper converged and converged infrastructure
• Worked with different SDS technologies like vSAN, Nutanix and ScaleIO hyperconverged infrastructure solutions
• Experience with installing and managing the Microsoft patch updates using Windows Server Update Services (WSUS), Windows Deployment Service (WDS) and Group Policies (GPO)
• Experience with installing, configuring and Managing FTP and IIS 6/7/8 Web servers.
• Administering, Planning and Maintaining a Microsoft Windows Server 2019, 2016, 2012R2, 2008 R2
• Active Directory Infrastructure Managing over 1200+ servers.
• Strong understanding of Networking Protocols like TCP/IP, UDP, SMTP, POP3, HTTP, DNS DHCP and Socket Programming
• Superior troubleshooting and technical support abilities with operating systems, networking and hardware including Windows servers and desktops Win 7/Win 8/ Win10 and Win 2008, SharePoint servers 2007
• Experience with installing SAN and NAS storage on the Windows servers related to NetApp and EMC storage technologies.
• Experience with installing and managing Citrix XenApp servers and VMware servers.
• Experience with deploying, configuring Apache, Tomcat, MySQL and Hadoop Apps on UNIX/Linux servers.
• Strong problem-solving skill and a strong knowledge of ITIL processes like, incident management, change management, patching cycle etc.
• Strong fundamental in Storage Area Network (SAN), NAS boxes, different RAID level 1,10, 5, and different drive types SCSI, SAS, SATA.
• Created PowerShell scripts to constantly monitor the health of the Exchange messaging infrastructure and notify my teammates or myself in the event of a problem.
• Implementing and administering Ivanti (formerly LANDESK) Service Desk suite, including setting up workflows, maintaining support queues, product/operational categories, configuring SLAs, developing/automatic service desk reports.
• Ensure that the latest version of McAfee security solution is running on servers and workstation
• Implemented Windows PowerShell scripts to monitor the event logs of critical windows servers in real-time and filter for specific errors, allowing me to view errors from the entire windows infrastructure as they occurred in the environment.
• Utilized PowerShell and the VI toolkit from VMware to monitor and administrate Virtual Machines running on the VMware Infrastructure platform.
• Authored several scripts leveraging VMware’s PowerCLI and Windows PowerShell to aid with capacity planning and monitoring of the virtualization infrastructure.
• Developed scripts with Windows PowerShell to automatically configure network settings and VMkernel ports for ESXi servers including multipathing policy, storage LUNs and MTU size for both the Vswitch and the VMkernel port, making the attachment of server profiles optional for non-clustered VMhost

TECHNICAL SKILLS

VMware Virtualization Skills: vSphere 5.5/6.5/6.7, ESXi 5.0/5.5/6.0/6.5/6.7

VMware Tools: VMware Standalone Convertor, vSphere CLI, VMware Power CLI, vShield Manager, VCenter, VCenter Update Manager, HA, DRS, Storage vMotion, Host Profiles, vBlock, Vxrail, vApp, VMware vCenter Heartbeat, VMware vSphere Client, VMware ThinApp, P2V, V2V, VMware Consolidated Backup, VMware Management Assistant, Capacity Planning, Plate spin Power convert, Citrix Xen Server.

Operating Systems: Windows 2008/2012; Wintel Systems; 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 9i, IBM DB2, SQL Server, MS Access

Other Management Tools: HP Onboard Administrator, HP Virtual Connect Manager, Avocent DS View, Putty, Solar winds IP Address Tracker, Veeam Backup, FastSCP

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Los Angeles, CA

VMware Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Coordinated & Attended meetings with the Project PM’s and Client for any clarification on the bundle requirement before initiating the execution work.
• Verified the server’s network connectivity and mounted the storage after servers provisioning.
• Installed the Patch updates for the Windows servers through Altiris tool.
• Provided access to the client application team by adding the AD group in the server’s local administrative account.
• Providing documentation for Rack design and layout.
• Reviewing the inventory check and performing labeling and serial number recording on the servers installed in the rack.
• Stacking/Mounting the physical hardware (Dell PowerEdge R740XD and other Dell 14Gen /Cisco UCS C series) servers in the rack.
• Untracking (De Rack) the servers for any replacement.
• Designing the Visio diagrams for the rack design and layout.
• Cabling the physical hardware based on the security standards.
• Providing documentation for the hardware configuration of the servers installed in the rack.
• Performed server upgrade on RAM and CPU as per the client requests.
• Coordinated with the storage team in getting the NAS/SAN storage allocated for Virtual and Physical servers as needed.
• Installed Windows server additional features like IIS, FTP, SNMP services as per the client requirement.
• Installed McAfee, Host Intrusion Prevention System (HIPS), Mega Raid, Active identity core application software in Windows servers after provisioning.
• Installing Symantec End point protection clients remotely using Symantec Management console.
• Created ESXi clusters and managed virtual servers remotely using vCenter
• Performed failover testing on the ESXi clusters.
• Performed vMotion and storage vMotion for the virtual servers hosted on ESXi hosts.
• Configured HA and DRS features for the VM’s on the ESXi hosts.
• Configuring vSAN and created datastores to be used for Horizon view infrastructure
• Created OS templates deployed large number of virtual servers on ESXi hosts.

Confidential, Chicago, IL

VMware/Windows Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Configured and deployed ESXi server in corporate production environment
• Installed VMware ESXi server 5.5 on all physical server to host multiple virtual machines
• Leveraged VMware infrastructure implementation and consolidation expertise to implement P2V migrations, blade server capacity planning, high availability and failover settings on newly installed blade servers and existing rack mount servers
• Installed VMware vCenter server instance to enable centralize management of multiple hosts
• Configured clusters and added hosts to cluster to accommodate resources for virtual machines and applications running on cluster
• Converted the physical servers to virtual servers using P2V assistant
• Enabled VMware HA, VMware DRS for higher efficiency of the infrastructure
• Played role as VMware/windows admin to provide Level 1 &2 support
• Designed, installed, configured of VMware site recovery manger
• Administered Microsoft DHCP, DNS Domain environments. Enabled trust relationship, fault tolerance, file and print services, for all AD user and groups
• Regular BAU activities such as increasing disk size, adding additional drives, cloning, Teaming Networking and virtual switches (Both Primary and extended)
• Managing BAU activities for VMware ESXi and Windows Environment
• Installing, troubleshooting and supporting of desktops, laptops, network devices and computer peripherals
• User support-Monitoring and troubleshooting system performance, server and use related problems. Support users to resolve their day-to-day issues related to OS, Email, and Account issues, Hardware etc.
• Responsible for backup/recovery strategy of all ESXi servers. Planning and implementing fault tolerance and strategies for backup and restoring files on the network
• Responsible in diagnosing and troubleshooting of VMware ESXi and vCenter environments.
• Working with Citrix technologies like XenApp 6.0 and XenDesktop 5.5
• Managing RFS and change activities, Attend the daily service review with customer
• Managing around 130 ESXi servers and 1100 Virtual Machines

Confidential, Florida

VMware Engineer

Responsibilities:

• 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.
• 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.
• Managing VM’s by vSphere Client and Web Client.
• Cloning, deploying new VM’s from Templates different type of guest OS like Windows 2K3/2K8, Red hat Linux. Creating virtual NIC cards for the respective VMs and assigning the network connections.
• Building new VMware virtual machines to meet the specifications provided by the client.
• Experience in deploying new Virtual Machines from OVF/OVA templates
• Experience on hot and cold clone process
• Implementing and managing Block based VNX/VMAX storage system in VMware virtualization environment.
• Installed/updated patches on VMware ESX (i) hosts using VMware Update Manager tool

Confidential

Windows/Unix/VMware Admin

Responsibilities:

• Install and maintain Windows 2003 and Windows 2008 servers on DELL and HP Servers.
• Install and configure VMware ESXi 4.x, 5.x on servers in datacenter and DR site.
• Installed and maintained SQL 2005 and SQL 2008 clusters in physical and virtual environment.
• Installed configured vCenter with database configured on the external database instance in the
• SQL cluster.
• Configure HA and DRS for the VMware clusters agreed by the customer.
• Created Virtual Machines and Installed VMware Tools
• Provided physical to virtual migrations for servers utilizing VMware Converter, Vizioncore.
• Configured DHCP. Managed &, Troubleshooted Virtual Network issues
• Worked on VMware clustering like HA and DRS clusters using VC.
• Patched all Windows servers and workstations with updates through WSUS server
• Configured customized alarms for Virtual environment as per the requirement from Client.
• Configured Distributed switches for each clusters and configured port groups for VMs based on their functionality.
• Completed Physical-to-Virtual (P2V), Virtual-t o-Virtual (V2V) and Virtual-to-Physical (V2P) migration of 2000, 2003, 2008, and 2012 as well as Linux servers using VMware converter and Platespin Migrate.
• Creation & Troubleshooting of Virtual Network. Working on VMware clustering like HA and DRS clusters using VC.
• Working on Migration concepts like vMotion and cold migration. Configuring Netbackup Client.
• Installed and configured MS-Office, Antivirus software likes McAfee, Norton Corporate Edition.
• Installed Windows Server 2003 with Domain and Configured Win9x as clients.
• Provided technical support for the users and resolving software/hardware issues.
• Performed hands-on administration and monitoring of Local Area Network (LAN).
• Experience with solar winds monitoring tools for servers and network devices.
• Resolved Microsoft desktop applications (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook) issues.
• Managed the installation and configuration of Windows 2003.20012.2012 R2 Server/Workstations.
• Created user and computer accounts on the Active Di rectory users and computers.
• Configured servers for DHCP, WINS and DNS services. Installation, Configuration, and
• Administration of IIS web servers.
• Provided Norton Antivirus support for virus security.
• Administration of print servers and troubleshooting print jobs. Take Backups on daily and weekly basis
• Looked after all OS related issues including Server health checkup, Server health optimization and performance tuning.
• Publish application defined by customer in the application server farm