SUMMARY

• IT Professional with 7+ years of experience as VMware & Systems Administrator with hands - on expertise in implementation, configuration and administration of different Operating systems and VMware for Windows 2003/2008/2012 & 2016 Server.Networking, Storage and System Integration.
• Professional experience with VMware VSphere ESXi 6.0/5.5/5.1/5.0/4.0 /4.1, and VMware VCenter 4/VCenter 2.x, VMotion, Storage VMotion, HA, DRS, FL, Host Profiles, SRM,VSphere CLI, VApp, VMware VCenter Converter
• Expertise in WINS, DNS, DHCP and Active Directory services in Windows 2003/2008/2008 R2/2012/2012 R2/2016 servers.
• Experience working on Change Management, Request Management and Incident Management in Service Centre/Remedy.
• Expertise in WINS, DNS, DHCP and Active Directory services in Windows 2000/2003/2008/2008 R2/2012 servers.
• Experience in Implementing and Administration of Active Directory Services, replication, Trust Relationship and Enforcing Domain Group Policy.
• Experience in implementing and configuring hardware and software RAID under Windows NT/2000/2003/2008/2008 R2/2012/2012 R2.
• Good experience in Blade server hardware, RAID, Microsoft Windows Clusters. Compaq / HP Blade Server hardware maintenance. HP Insight Manager.
• Worked in large complex directory environments with experience supporting Windows 2003/2008 Active Directory (AD).
• Experience in implementing and administering VMware vSphere, HA settings, DRS settings, Cluster groups, Resource Pools, Host Profiles, Licensing, Templates, Data Stores.
• Implement virtualization solutions based on VMware vSphere ESXi 6.5/6.0/5.5/5.1/5.0/4.1, ESX 4.1/4.0/3.5/3.0 platform, vCenter 6.0/5.5/5.1/5.0/4.0/2.5.
• Managing all aspects of VMware vSphere environments including vSwitches, Distributed Virtual Switches, vMotion, Storage vMotion, VMware Fault Tolerance, VMFS Datastore, Host profiles,
• Storage profiles, Resource Management and Performance Monitoring.
• Strong experience in SAN and NAS solutions on EMC suite of products like VMAX, VNX, RPA, VPLEX, SRDF, Celera Series and CISCO, Brocade director class SAN switches.
• Experience with HP servers, CISCO UCS servers and Dell Power Edge Servers.
• Performed several P2V, V2V migrations using VMware Converter.
• Experience with Microsoft Network Load Balancing and Microsoft Clustering technologies.
• Excellent skills in patching and hardening Win2000/Win2003/2008 servers using Windows Update and by using the staged patches.
• Experience in resolving all levels of Severity Tickets, root cause investigations, system outages.
• Proficient Experience in installation and configuration of VMware vSphere 4.0, VMware ESXi 4.1/5.0/5.1,6.0,6.5 and VMware Virtual Centre 2.0/3.5/4.0/5.0/5.5.
• Experience in configuring VMware CPU and memory shares for virtual machines.
• Experience in building VMware virtual machines from templates and CD/ISO image.
• Administration of VMware Virtual Centre and virtualization services VMware DRS, VMware HA, VMotion and S VMotion.
• Racking, moutning, cabling, hardware support of various HP, Cisco UCS Blade servers and Chassis.
• Expert knowledge on configuring hardware iSCSI and NFS storage to VMware ESX (i) hosts from vSphere client.
• Experience in managing DNS, DHCP, Remote Desktop Session Host, DFS, and Microsoft Failover Clusters.
• Experience in configuring VMware standard vSwitches & dvSwitch.
• Experience in cloning VMs and deploy new virtual machines from clones.
• Converted many (P2V) physical servers to Virtual Machines using VMware vCenter Converter part of decommission legacy server’s effort.
• Experience in migrating the virtual machines between the ESX (i) Hosts using cold migration and VMotion.
• Good understanding on storage types including iSCSI, NAS and SAN, VM creation capable file systems including VMFS and NFS, NetApp SAN technologies such as LUN creation, LUN masking, zoning, LUN addressing and, storage management for SAN using SCSI devices and EMC Clariion storage servers.
• Provided 24/7 On Call production support onsite and remotely on rotation basis.
• 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

VMware Platform Skills: vSphere 6.0/5.5/ 5.1 / 5.0 / 4.1 / 4.0, ESXi 6.5/6.0/5.5/ 5.1 / 5.0, ESX 4.1 / 4.0, Virtual Centre Server, VMware View, VMware vCenter Orchestrator, HA, DRS, Storage vMotion, Site Recovery Manager, Host Profiles, vApp, VMware vCenter Heartbeat, VMware vSphere Client, Vmware ThinApp, P2V, V2V, VMware Consolidated Backup, VMware Management Assistant, Capacity Planning, Plate spin Power convert.

Microsoft Products and tools: Active Directory Domain Services, AD lightweight Directory Services, AD Certificate Services, Active Directory Federation Services, Active Directory Rights Management Services, DNS, Exchange 2007, Exchange 2010, Hyper-V, WSUS server, SQL Server 2005, SQL server 2008, Microsoft System Centre Configuration Manager, Microsoft System Centre Operations Manager, IIS 6, IIS 7, DHCP, TCP/IP.

Server Operating Systems: Microsoft Windows 2000, 2003, 2008 R2, 2012.

Desktop Operating Systems: Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7/8/10

Management Tools: HP Onboard Administrator, HP Virtual Connect Manager, HP Service Manager, Avocent DS View, Putty, MKS Integrity Change Management Software, Groundworks VI Monitoring Tool, Vkernel Monitoring Software, IBM Tivoli Storage Manager, Microsoft Robocopy GUI, Solar winds IP Address Tracker, Veeam Backup, Fast SCP.

Storage: IBM XIVs, EMC Centerra, Microsoft Azure Storage tools.

Scripting: PowerShell, PowerCLI, Bash, Python.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Phoenix, Arizona

Sr. System Admin

Responsibilities include:

• Installing, Configuring and Maintaining Windows 2012 and Windows 2016 Servers.
• Worked with all components of HP (Smart Start, Insight Manager, Diagnostics, and Network Configuration Utility etc) and Wintel Stack.
• Supported VMware, specifically ESXi 6.5,6.0 & 5.5 to monitor cluster performance, optimize the server environment, diagnose and resolve production issues amongst Data Centers.
• Develop, test, and maintain a disaster recovery plan for critical VMs and application data.
• Providing and maintaining user access in VMware virtual Center, configuring mail alert for any failure in HA, DRS, CPU and memory.
• Experience in the administration of Windows 2012/2016 server.
• Build and configure Virtual & Physical Windows/ESXi clusters for use in Dev/Test/Staging/Prod
• Created resource pools and added VM's into the pools.
• Worked on troubleshooting the triggered alarms generated from VMware vCenter Server.
• Used vCOPS (vcenter operations Manager) for monitoring and generating reports for VM environments like Test, Development and Production.
• Responsible for runningWintelon host operating systems (and applications) such as Microsoft Windows to run in a protected, virtual environment.
• Installed and configured VMware Site Recovery Manager 5.5 (SRM) on multiple sites and created disaster recovery plans.
• Installation and Configuration of SCCM 2007 / SCCM 2012 CAS, primary and secondary sites at different locations for Patch management, Software Distribution, Hardware/Software Inventory and Operating System Deployment and for other features.
• Worked on VMware upstream and downstream components.
• Pool creation and machine management with the help ofViewadministrator and Vsphere.
• VMwareViewAdministration. Configure Vcenter Server andviewComposer.
• Performed upgrades of vCenter server and ESXi hosts to vSphere 6.5 platform and migrated all virtual machines, deployed, managed, and troubleshot VMware vSphere Suite 6.5
• Manage various DFS file systems. ConfigureViewConnection Servers.
• Assisted with migration of Exchange to Office 365 by identifying mailboxes to be migrated and software to be updated. Installation and upgrading of SCCM servers. Adding and updating Distribution Points.
• Experience in maintaining vSphere Vcenter 6.0, Esxi 6.5, Vrealize Automation, Vrealize Operations Manager, V Realize Orchestrator in a VMware virtualized environment.
• Developed new strategies to migration methods from remote sites to central data center.
• Installed data migration scripts to migrate applications to new servers.
• Experience creating VMware Vrealize Orchestration (VRO) workflow.
• Advanced knowledge of VMware tools stacks - Vrealize Application Services, Vrealize Automation, Vrealize Cloud Management Platform, VSAN and vblock, EMC Virtual Storage Integrator.
• Scheduled jobs for updating the Firmware and ProLiant Support Pack (PSP) through scripting and Altiris Tool and involved in the Data Centre Transformation.
• Collaborate in the automation of AWS infrastructure via terraform, ansible, and Jenkins - software and services configuration via chef cookbooks.
• Automated the cloud deployments using chef, python (boto & fabric) and AWS Cloud Formation Templates.
• Teaming NIC’s using HP Teaming software for redundancy during failures.
• Update patches on Servers Working Experience with Active Directory Components (AD Users and Computers, DNS, DHCP and wins etc.). Resolved Problems related to Disk Space Usage.
• Resolved problems related to performance metrics such as Processor Usage, Memory etc.
• Perform day-to-day operation and troubleshooting of VMs.
• Keep Virtual hardware and VMware tools updated to keep a healthy environment.
• Creating templates and deploying Virtual Machines through templates, cloning Virtual Machines and managing Virtual Centre permissions. Maintaining Print servers, Application servers and File Servers.
• Hosting websites in IIS and configuring the app pools.
• Researched and created preliminary PowerShell/powerCLI code for moving Azure Classic workloads to Azure Resource Manager version. Hands on experience on Backup and restore Azure services.
• Involved in creating the Azure Services with Azure Virtual Machine.
• Involved in developing the Azure Solution and Services like IaaS and PaaS.
• Deployed Azure resource manager based resources.
• Wrote PowerShell/ PowerCLI scripts for automating time consuming specialty needs for external clients.
• Experience in installing and configuring Microsoft Windows 2008, 2012 & 2016 Servers from ILO management tool on Rack servers and blades.
• Worked with Racking, cabling of different servers, blade chassis, switches in the data center.
• Work with storage team to create Luns/NFS, Vblock, EMC and Map it to VMware vSphere ESX (i) hosts.
• Experience in installing and configuring vSphere Esx 6.0 on hp, Cisco UCS blade servers, chassis.
• Maintaining and Troubleshooting different Server Hardware that includes Cisco UCS B-Series & C-Series Servers, HP C7000 Enclosures, BL series blades and DL series Rack mount Servers
• Automate ESXi host configuration across large number of hosts and clusters.
• Support Microsoft Exchange 2000/2003/2007 environment of 65,000+ CBP/DHS users.
• Configured the MS Office Suite 2003/2007 to include MS Exchange 2007.
• Monitor and report and/or administer changes to Microsoft Exchange servers.
• Installed and Configured VMware Vrealize Orchestrator 6.0 in the environment and created the work flows.
• Experience in implementation of VMware Site Recovery Manger (SRM) and troubleshooting issues during the implementation.
• Managed all efforts and work with Windows DFS including the proper implementation of NTFS file rights in a mixed Windows and NETAPP Filer environment.
• Performed 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.
• Worked with Active Directory Services, Active Directory Group Policy Objects (GPO), Group Policy Management Console (GPMC), DNS Console. LDAP set up for users for 'single sign-on'.
• Responsible for Active Directory, Windows 2012 and 2016 OS, Window 7 OS.
• Administrating production servers/network infrastructure that includesWintel, Windows.
• Develop and maintain proper documentation for procedures, processes, and design builds in regards to the virtual infrastructure.
• Created and updated chef recipes and cookbooks, profiles and roles using Ruby and JSON scripting Migration of all nodes from Puppet Configuration system to Chef system.
• Used robocopy to securely copy the files from one server to other.
• Involved in day to day support related to Data Center, virtual environment and documentation.
• Maintained Windows Servers 2008 R2, 2012 R2 administration created User Accounts and Groups in Active Directory (AD) as required after gaining required approvals.
• Managing Active directory, DNS, WINS and DHCP Servers.
• Active Directory Services -- Managing Users & Other AD objects.
• Experience in the V2V and P2V migration of Physical servers to VMware ESXihosts.
• Converted several physical servers (both Linux and Windows) to virtual servers using PlateSpin.
• Administrator on SMS/SCCM 2007 System Management Server/ System Center Configuration Manager.
• Experience in Remote deployment of Microsoft Windows 2008/2012 servers, deployment solution or manual installation of a server using ILO for remote connection to a server.
• Extensive knowledge in advance features of VMware VMotion, SVMotion, HA and DRS including vSphere Update Manager, VMware Data Recovery, vCenter Lab Manager and vCenter Orchestrator.
• Experience in configuring VMware standard vSwitch & dvSwitch.
• Deploying, Administering and Maintaining SCCM infrastructure.
• Monitor Diagnose and remediate of SCCM client/server problems
• Experience in configuring VMware virtual machine port groups, console ports groups, VMkernal port groups and vLANs.
• Experience in installing and configuring VMware Virtual Centre servers and VMware vcenter Appliance. Managed VMware Esx (i) hosts using vSphere client and Web client.
• 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, v motioning.
• Experience on creating host profiles and deploy to hosts in a VMware clusters.
• Created and documented process for deploying Virtual machines on VMware.
• Create thin provisioned VMs to suite client application requirements and expanding hard disk sizes as requested by clients.
• Used Remedy Tool for ticketing (Change Management, Incident Management, and Request Management).

Confidential, Tampa, Florida

System Admin (Wintel, Windows, VMware)

Responsibilities include:

• Implementation and administration of Microsoft Windows 2008/R2 server systems, both virtual and physical.
• Worked on the EMC storage techniques like EMC VMAX, VNX, XtremIO.
• Used PowerShell to execute commands/scripts, installed remote server administration tools using PowerCLI.To ensure reliable backups to meet operational and data recovery requirements.
• To allocate and monitor storage to meet Backup and Recovery requirements.
• Created and managed Virtual Machines with different Operating Systems (OS), and converted to templates as required.Worked with upstream server using wsus and sccm.
• Experience working in VMware ESX (VSphere) 4.x, 5.x hypervisor for virtualization and installed different OS such as Linux, Windows.
• Experience with application/OS migration lifecycle - design, planning, assessment, remediation, testing & deployment. Setting up clients in kiosk mode and runningviewclients from the command line.
• Configuring Global policy's inviewadministrator using the active directory group policies and using theviewgroup policy administrative templates.
• Configuring the location based printing group policy settings.
• UpgradingVMwareviewserver components /viewdesktops andviewclients.
• Create Thin App environment to enable quick delivery of virtualized application.
• Determining customer requirements and designingVMware-based solutions architectures spanning VMware's product portfolio from the vCloud Suite to the Horizon Suite to meet the functional and business requirements of a range clients of various sizes and across verticals.
• Allocated servers using vRealize
• Implemented vRealize Operations Manager, which provided a single pain of glass for managing all vCenters
• Utilized robocopy for transfer of data from different servers.
• Configuring, optimizing and troubleshooting of Linux/Unix servers and the Networking setups.
• Installing, Configuring and Administration ofVMwareVSphere4, ESX 3.5 and ESXi Server,VMwareView.
• Making use of PowerShell and other tools to automate a range of tasks in an OS diverse environment.
• Experienced in Cloud Solutions using Microsoft Azure for PAAS/IAAS/Hybrid/IOT scenarios.
• Deploying and managing applications in Datacentre, Virtual environment and Azure platform as well.
• Converted .Net application to Microsoft Azure Cloud Service Project as part of cloud deployment.
• Designed and completed ESX 4.1 server up-gradation to ESXi 6.0 (90 hosts) and upgraded 1500+ VMs hardware version, deployed and supporting VMware vSphere 4.1 to 5.5 and SRM 5.5.
• Involved Data Centres design and Implemented. Designed and implemented VMware 5.5 /VCenter 5.5 and SRM 5.8, Zerto 4.0.8 / Windows 2012 R2 / Windows 2008 R2 on Cisco UCSM with 6 domains/34 Chassis/200+ Cisco UCS Blade Chassis B 200 M3 blades. Upgrade UCS hardware firmware.
• Performing vMotion, Cloning, Snapshot, FT, Update Manger, Host Profile, Manage OS Templates and Multi-pathing.
• Laptop / Desktop Imaging (Windows 7) migration from Windows XP to Windows 7.
• Involved Windows 8, IE11 and Office 2013 migration design, planning and deployment processes/procedures
• Managing AWS infrastructure and automation with CLI and API. Working on Inbound and Outbound services with automation Chef.
• Experience creating VPN connection, VPC peering between VPCs in AWS
• Worked with maintenance of data center activities, such as cabling, racking of different arrays on servers, storage.
• Built ESX hosts / clusters on Cisco UCS Chassis Hardware.
• Used VMware vCenter, created Datacenter Environment by creating VMware clusters, adding ESX hosts in the clusters, MSCS Clustering and implemented HA and DRS.
• Application Packaging and Virtualization using VMware View ThinApp 4.7 to deliver virtualized applications to end customers and VDI users.
• Handled all the vCenter operations like vMotion, Storage vMotion, VM templates.
• Configured Resource pools and Shares in VMware Environment for Production, test and development environments.
• Created and configured VMware Standard and Distributed vSwitches (Cisco Nexus 1000v switch), different port groups and migrated all the ESXi hosts and VMs from Standard switch on to dvSwitch.
• Administer, maintain, and troubleshoot Active Directory environment including replication, group policy, and security.
• Installed ESX VMware 5.0/5.5, configure, and maintain server and data store storage systems.
• Setup VDI environment in VMware environment (ESXi 5.5).
• Hands on wide experience in Upgrading vCenter 4.1 to including the vCenter Update Manager (VUM) and configuring the same Version of vCenters in the linked Mode.
• Built Windows 2003/2008 Wintel Servers on standalone and blade servers based on application design and deployed stack on these servers.
• Administered Exchange 2010 Enterprise Environment (100+ Exchange Servers).
• Supported 5000+ Microsoft Active Directory and Exchange users on Wintel server environment.
• Configuring Windows 2012 Failover Clustering and SQL Clustering in VM and Physical environment.
• Worked extensively on live migrations Using Double Take by taking minimum downtime for P2V and V2V Migrations.
• Implemented Azure AD using Azure AD connect, configured SSO and multifactor Authentication. Also configured SSO from Window 10 based computer which is joined to Azure AD. Implemented and managed AD synchronization
• Deployed Azure IaaS virtual machines (VMs) and Cloud services (PaaS role instances) into secure VNets and subnets.
• Moderate and contribute to the support forums (specific to Azure Networking, Azure Virtual Machines, Azure Active Directory, Azure Storage) for Microsoft Developers Network including Partners and MVPs
• Migrated the VM's using the SAN to SAN replication using Recovery point.
• Installed IIS using configured server wizard and verified that the requirements for installation have been met.
• Using Power CLI and Power Shell scripts to manage VMs/Hosts and providing detailed reports for ESXi hosts, VMs and Windows servers.
• Perform enterprise level support for Microsoft Server, Active Directory, Group Policy, User/ Computer objects, Site and Services, DNS/DHCP.
• Installing and configuring the VMware vSphere and creating clusters for High Availability (HA) and Dynamic Resource Scheduling (DRS).
• Developed Windows PowerShell script to automate setting of user credentials and activation of Windows.
• Using Power CLI and Power Shell scripts to manage VMs/Hosts and providing detailed reports for ESXi hosts, VMs and Windows servers.
• Implemented PowerShell scripts that automated creation of contacts from Active Directory users and updating of address books -increasing productivity and efficiency.
• Developed PowerShell scripts to automate various tasks in Exchange 2010
• Diagnose and troubleshoot system and application issues including server hardware, storage hardware, virtual servers, network connectivity, and system logs / alerts, as appropriate.
• Provided on-call support for server and network systems as necessary.

Confidential, Overland Park, Kansas

Windows and VMware System Admin

Responsibilities include:

• Installed, Maintained windows server 2003/2008 on HP and IBM servers.
• Worked on providing 3rd Level support for 2500+ Windows 2003/2008/2012 R2 Servers.
• Build servers with Raid Configuration RAID 5 and Raid 1+0on HP ProLiant DL380, 360, 580, ML370 servers.
• Installation and implementation of VCenter server to administrate the ESX servers which include licensing, HA/DRS clustering, managing the Fiber channel/ISCSI SAN storage configuration.
• Participated in 24/7 support roles for servers, to help maintain and troubleshoot both software and hardware. Managed ESXi servers and VCentre.
• Worked with set up and configuration of Cisco UCS, HP and Dell Hardware in the data center’s.
• Ensuring Data Protection and Disaster Recovery by using VMotion and VMware Consolidated Backup.
• Installed and configuring VMware Vsphere products.
• Managed Microsoft 2008 / 2008 R2 active directory server.
• Managed Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 and 2013 versions.
• Migrated production applications from physical servers to virtual instances within the downtime window. Created Clusters for High Availability and Dynamic Resource Scheduling.
• Utilized the Hot plug option for windows 2008 Servers and added processors, RAM, NIC, disks to the VM. Troubleshooting issues relating to vMotion such as compatibility issues with help of event log
• Installed and managed Antivirus on all the servers and desktop. Installed and Maintained antivirus Server.Worked on Change Management, Request Management and Incident Tickets in Service Centre. Configuring windows firewall settings using group policy.
• Installed and Configured WIN, DNS, DHCP, IIS and Terminal Services.
• Extensively managed active directory like all the problems related to user accounts, domain accounts, managing permissions etc. Monitor/Optimize/Troubleshoot SCCM Infrastructure.
• PowerShell master script to deploy Azure ARM template and artifacts
• Create SSRS Reports, ADR's, Full SCCM support and Remediation's.
• Maintaining servers with latest security updates, critical patches, anti-virus, and backups.
• Maintaining Print servers, Application servers and File Servers.
• Decommissioning of windows servers, including the disk wipes and drilling the hard disks depending on client requirements for each server.
• Experience in configuring Microsoft Load balancer (NLB) for Web Servers and Applications servers to distribute load and High Availability. Experience on creating new VMware Clusters with HA and DRS enabled.
• Experience in Remote deployment of Windows 2000/2003 servers using Altiris deployment solution or manual installation of a server using RSA/RILO for remote connection to a server.
• Build 200+ VMware vSphere hosts and added to new/existing VMware Clusters on Wintel Stack and involved in the Data Centre Transformation.
• Building new VMware virtual machines to meet the specifications provided by the client.
• Experience in deploying new Virtual Machines from OVF/OVA templates.
• Creating Roles and permissions in VMware ESX Server 3.0/3.5/4.0.
• Migrated VMware ESX using VMware update Manager. Experience on hot and cold clone process.
• Installed/updated patches on VMware ESX (i) hosts using VMware Update Manager tool.
• Updated VMware tools on virtual machines using Update Manager tool.
• Provided 24/7 On Call support onsite and remotely on rotation basis.

Confidential, California

Unix and Windows Administrator

Responsibilities include:

• Responsible to maintain the server inventory and document the server build/decommission, application installation/configuration, backup verifications, Operating System user accounts auditing, etc.
• Management of Active directory and windows server infrastructure.
• 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, Power Point and Outlook) issues.
• Managed the installation and configuration of Windows 2000 Server/Workstations.
• Created user and computer accounts on the Active directory users and computers.
• Configured servers for DHCP, WINS and DNS services.
• Installation, configuration and Administration of IIS web servers.
• Installed, Configured and Maintained Unix Servers including Redhat and Suse Linux.
• Monitored File system for SAP application in Unix
• Installation and configuration of Domain Controllers and implementation of trusts.
• Handled multiple tasks to meet project deadlines.
• Develop and update the required network/system administration documentation
• Worked on Migrating Virtual Machines with VMotion.
• Providing 24/7 on call support for critical and production issues.