SUMMARY

• 7 + years of total experience in IT industry.
• 5+ years in the area of Virtualization with VMware GSX, ESXi, ESX 3.x, ESX4.x ESXi 5.0 servers and vCenter server 2.5 and vCenter 4.0, 4.1 and 5.0, vConverter, VMware VDI and Update - Manager.
• 4 + years Hands on Experience in Microsoft Server 2003, 2008 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.x, 5.x and 6.x.
• 3+ years Hands on Experience in Linux Administration
• Build and troubleshooting experience on VMware ESX 3.x 4.0, 4.1 and ESXi 5.0, vCenter servers 2.5, 4.0, 4.1 and 5.0 and complete VMware vSphere Suite.
• Worked on different VMware products like VMware GSX server, VMware workstation and VMware player, VMware VDI, vConverter, SRM concepts.
• Good knowledge on VMware virtual architecture and experience in upgrading ESX 4.1 to ESXi 5.0
• Good experience on virtual machines provisioning, setting up VM priorities, Cloning, Creating Templates and Snapshots.
• Experience in resource management framework like creation of resource pools, adding the VMs into resource pools.
• Experience in Physical to Virtual (P2V) and Virtual to Virtual (V2V) conversions by using VMware Converter and vCenter Guided Consolidation.
• Extensive experience in working with the vMotion and Storage vMotion technology.
• Strong Experience in vNetwork concepts on vSwitches and dvSwitch.
• Strong experience with the VMware (High Available) HA, Fault Tolerance, Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) and VMware Distributed Power Management (DPM).
• Patching of ESX severs and VMs with VMware Update Manager.
• Experience in building physical servers trough ILO, IDRAC, RAS & UCS Manager.
• Experience working on HP Proliant DL 380, 580 series, HP Blade 460 series, IBM X series, Dell Power Edge R710, R900, R910 and Cisco UCS C250M blade series server.
• Good knowledge on Microsoft Hyper V.
• Experience in implementing, testing and supporting VMware VDI 4.5.
• Experience in installing and upgrading VMware tools on both Windows and Linux virtual machines
• Experience is Linux/Windows physical and virtual build.
• Experience in installing and configuring different packages like NFS, FTP, SAMBA, ISCSI, and APACHI web server.
• Microsoft Windows NT 4.0/2000/2003/2008 Design, Implementation, Administration and Support.
• Installing, Configuration, Troubleshooting and Managing Active Directory.
• Configuration of Domain Naming Server (DNS), Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol DHCP, managing Internet Information Service (IIS 6.0), Remote Access Service (RAS), Printer, Modem, Scanner.
• Familiar with networking concepts like TCP/IP and NetBEUI.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

VMware Technologies: ESX2.X, 3.X, 4.X and 4.1, ESXi 5.0, vCenter 2.X, vCenter 4.X, 4.1 and 5.0. VMware VDI, vCenter Guided Consolidation, VMware GSX server, VMware Workstation, VMware Player, Capacity IQ 1.5, VMware VDI 4.5, HA,DRS,SDRS,DPM and FT, vMotion and svMotion, VMware converter 4 and 5.

Operating Systems: Windows NT, Windows Server 2000, 2003, 2008, RHEL4.x, 5.x, 6.x, centOS, Ubuntu, Solaris 9, 10 and elementary knowledge on Windows server 2012

Third-party Tools: Symantec backup exec, vRanger Pro and vFoglight, BMC remedy, TRS, RV Tools.

Database and Storage: Microsoft SQL 2005, EMC DMX and Clariion series, Brocade 4100 and 300 SAN Fiber Switches, basics on EMC VNXe.

Hardware: IBM X Series, DELL Power Edge 1900, 1950, 2950, R710, R900, R910 HP Proliant DL 380,580, 585 G2, G5, G7 and Cisco UCS C250M Blade series servers.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Raleigh, NC

Virtualization Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installing ESX and ESXi host’s
• Upgrading from ESX 4.x to ESXi 5.0
• Configuring vCenter server’s and plugins
• Installing operating systems like Windows 2008, Red Hat Linux 5.5 and ESXi 4.1 and 5.0 on to physical servers across data centres.
• Deal with hardware venders for fixing hardware issues.
• Attending Red flag meeting and updating RCA on Incidents.
• Installing, configuring, migrating new virtual machine build as per EURC ticket.
• Adding Storage and converting storage LUN to VMFS data store.
• Creating a cluster with HA and DRS and passing rules on to HA and DRS.
• Adding ESX Hosts on to cluster.
• Validating and testing Cluster before moving into production.
• Looking after high priority incident tickets both on virtual machine and ESX host level.
• Server decommissions and IP decommissions as per company process.
• Monitoring virtual infrastructure and troubleshooting when required.
• Reconfiguring virtual machines (Increases and decreases virtual hardware) as per EURC ticket.
• Performance monitoring of the VM’s

Environment: ESX/ESXi 3.5, 4.0, 4.1, 5.0 installation, configuration and troubleshooting, windows 2008R2, EMC, VMware Update Manager, vConverter, UCS Servers, VMware View, vCenter, FC-SAN, iSCSI.

Confidential, Montvale, NJ

Virtualization consultant

Responsibilities:

• Attending new projects meeting, analysing project requirements and suggesting client with best practices.
• Implementing and supporting VMware VDI (Windows LAN Virtualization)
• Monitoring virtual infrastructure using VMware vCenter Capacity IQ 1.5, and RV tools.
• Upgrading VC Server and ESX Hosts
• Involved in storage migration from EMC DMX3 to DMX4 from VMware prospective.
• Performed V2V on over 200 virtual machines to shrink instance and reclaim disk space.
• Converting new LUN’s to data stores and adding them to ESX hosts.
• Disabling, enabling and editing HA and DRS settings when required.
• Upgrading virtual hardware from version 4 to version 7
• Troubleshooting ESX host from ILO and DRAC console.
• Commission, decommission and rebuild of virtual machines.
• Reconfiguring virtual machine resources like CPU, Memory and Disk space.
• Preparing SMTD documents and uploading to SharePoint server.
• Performing storage migration and host migrations.
• Creating roles and assign permissions to individuals and groups on different levels.
• Understanding SLA and Ensuring that the change management process is followed for any changes to the environment.
• Troubleshooting Windows 2003 & 2008.
• Worked on HP SAN
• Troubleshooting ESX3.5, 4.0, 4.1 and ESXi
• Physical to Virtual conversions of Windows and Linux servers.

Environment: ESX/ESXi 3.5, 4.0, 4.1 Configuration and troubleshooting, VMware View, VMware Thinapp, Converting LUNs, HP servers, windows 2003 and 2008, NAS backup, VMware ACE, Volumes, HA, DRS. vCenter Server, vConverter.

Confidential, Raleigh, NC

System’s administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installing and configuring ESX 3.X.
• Installing & Configured Virtual Center Server 2.5
• Creating and Configuration virtual machines, installing VM Tools into VM’s and allocating for end user.
• Creating and Deployed Templates and Snapshots for Virtual Machines.
• Creating and configuring VNetwork Standard Switch (vSwitch)
• Configuration different type of Port Groups Policies, Applying Security policy and Traffic Shaping.
• Configuration ISCSI LUN in virtual storage Have Knowledge in Fiber channel and ISCSI in SAN architecture.
• Migrated Physical Machines to Virtual Machines (P2V) and Virtual Machines to Virtual Machines (V2V) using VMware converter and vCenter Guided Consolidation.
• Migrated Linux based machines and Power off Machines to virtual machines using VMware converter boot CD.
• Performed Hot Cloning, Cold Cloning, Classic VMotion and Storage VMotion. In depth Knowledge in vMotion.
• Security hardening and Monitoring of VM’s & ESX servers (CPU, Memory, Disk, Network Utilization) for Security Compliance.
• Configuration, Administration and Monitoring HA, and DRS Clusters in Virtual center Server 2.5
• Training users in best practices for efficient utility of resources.
• Designing and Deploying Active Directory Domain.
• Installing and Configuring DNS Servers, DHCP Server and DFS Server.
• Configuration Microsoft Cluster Services (MSCS)
• Administrating and diagnose the WCF activities.
• Implementing Active Directory Sites and Services for optimizing the Replication and logon traffic.
• Managing Servers Remotely through Integrated Lights out.
• Ensuring that the change management process is followed for any changes to the environment.
• Installation RHEL 5.X Linux O/S and Sun Solaris 9, 10 Unix O/S

Environment: vCenter server 2.5, installing, configuring and troubleshooting ESX 3.x, VMware tools, iSCSI, FC-SANvConverter, DNS, AD, DHCP, RHEL 5.X

Confidential

Trainee /Junior System’s administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installation of Windows NT, Server2003, Workstation, Proxy Server, Configuration, implementation and maintenance.
• Managing Domain Controllers and Additional domain controllers.
• Symantec antivirus console management, updating antivirus definitions through centralize Symantec antivirus server.
• System Troubleshooting in case of a failure and maintain server uptime above 99.99%.
• Migration of active directory services from Win NT to Win 2k to Win 2003.
• Providing Capacity Planning review for all the servers.
• Patching all Windows servers and workstations with Company standards
• Customize the 2000/2003 servers in terms of Registry, Audit/Account/Security policy, patching, to sustain Company Standard Operating Environment configuring & administering Domain Naming Server (DNS),Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP), Distributed File System.(DFS),Internet Information Service.(IIS) and Remote Access Service(RAS)
• Assist staff with the installation, configuration, and on-going usability of desktop computers, peripheral equipment and software within established standards and guidelines.
• Work with vendor support contacts to resolve technical problems with desktop computing equipment and software.
• Train and orients staff on use of hardware and software
• Assist in maintaining LAN/WAN records and, as appropriate, telephone systems cable.

Environment: DNS, DHCP, windows 2003 servers, workstation, Symantec.