PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• 8 Years of IT professional experience as VMware Engineer, and Microsoft Windows System Admin for Implementation and Support of Windows 2008 R2, 2008, 2003, 2000 and NT Servers on HP, Dell, IBM, Compaq Blade Servers and rack servers.
• Hands on Experience in Installing, Configuring & Troubleshooting VMware ESXI 5.5/4.1/4.0, VSphere 5.5/5.0/4.0, VCenter servers. Configuring VM’s on ESXI server and installing hosts and Migrating Virtual Machines across various VMware hosts.
• Extensive experience in migration of servers P2V and V2V by using VMware Converter and Platespin.
• Responsible in maintaining up - to-date documentation of IT activities.
• Virtualized teh Linux environment using teh VMware converter & VSphere5.1.
• Installed, Configured and Supported Intel or AMD based HP Proliant DL360, DL380, DL580 Servers, BL460c, BL20p Blade Servers, and Dell Power Edge Servers.
• Extensively worked on VMotion, Storage VMotion and Microsoft Active Directory.
• Experience wif VMware VCenter server for installing and maintaining teh operating systems, deploying and managing teh applications.
• Installation, monitoring, testing, configuration, migration, maintenance and troubleshooting of RedHat Linux Servers.
• Involved in upgrading teh existing Servers wif latest Service Packs, Security Patches.
• Experience in analyzing and troubleshooting Microsoft Windows Server hardware, Software applications and clustered environment issues.
• Extensive experience in managing Data Center environment wif Administering, Installing, and Troubleshooting Microsoft Servers and Workstations.
• Hands on Experience in providing Production support on 24/7 for Windows Servers.
• Provided weekly and monthly reports on teh existing Windows Servers and suggested up gradations of server licenses.
• Knowledge on VMware ESXI Server security tasks creating and applying Roles and Permission wifin Active Directory Users and Groups, Configuring VMotion, Resource Pools, and DRS, HA Cluster, cloning and migrating VM machines.
• Efficiently coordinated wif teh Technical Support Team and Vendor to resolve teh problem.
• Expertise in System administration of Microsoft products like Windows server 2000/2003/2008 on x86bit and x64bit hardware.
• Working Knowledge VCOPS and storage.
• Experience in teh design, development and test of disaster recovery.
• Proficient in Active Directory, Group policy, DNS, DHCP and FTP environment.
• Strong problem solving skills and a strong knowledge of ITIL Processes.
• Have good communication (verbal and written), analytical & problem solving skills, a committed team player as well as an independent worker, able to work wif minimum supervision and to manage multiple tasks simultaneously.
• Working Knowledge of MS Word, Excel & Outlook.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

VMware: VMware VSphere 5.5/5.0/4.0, ESXI Server 5.5/5.0/4.0

Virtual Center Server 5.5/5.0/4.0:

Operating System: Windows 7, 8 /Vista/XP, Windows 2008 R2/2003/2000 Servers

Servers: HP Blade Servers, HP Proliant ML, DL 580, 380, 360, Compaq Proliant 3000/5500 Series Servers.

Documentation Apps: MS Visio, MS Office 2010, 2007, and 2003.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, FL

Senior VMWare Admin

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Installation, Configuration, and Maintaining of Microsoft Windows 2008 Servers on HP and IBM servers.
• Worked on configuring teh servers wif Raid Configuration on HP Proliant DL585, DL380 Servers.
• Installation, Configuration and Administration of VMware ESXI 5.5/5.0, Virtual Center 5.5/5.0 Servers and also patching, management and troubleshooting of VMware, and ESXI Servers.
• Created User Accounts, Domain Accounts, and Distribution Groups wif Active Directory.
• Used Remedy Tool for Incident Reports/Tickets, Change Management, and Request Management in Remedy by meeting teh SLA requirements.
• Participated in Installation and configuration VCenter Server and VSphere licensing.
• Administered user accounts, domain accounts, administrative rights, security, and distribution groups wif Active Directory.
• Working knowledge on VCOPS and storage.
• Creating Resource pools for VM’s and taking snapshot.
• Configured HA, DRS clusters and capacity planning for new clusters and configured FT for teh important VM’s.
• Performed P2V and V2V conversions using VMware Converter and Platespin.
• Working knowledge on networking monitoring tools.
• Ensure operations and performance of UNIX/Linux server and virtualization management environments.
• Performed basic user administration (adding, changing, deleting, disk space management, backups and file restores).
• Virtualized teh Linux environment using teh VMware converter.
• Configured and maintained new VM’s and Installed Microsoft Windows 2008/2003 Servers, managing VM’s and ESXI servers by using VIC, Putty and Web Access and installing teh VMware Tools on teh VM.
• Participated in Weekly Status meetings and created weekly status reports wif teh current status, Incident Reports and Change Management for managing teh applications.
• Resolve UNIX and Linux based server support problems in a global enterprise environment through resourceful troubleshooting to prevent recurrence.
• Actively involved in planning teh disaster recovery and responsible in understanding teh BCP requirements and coordinating BCP (Business Continuity Planning) activities.
• Participated in creating teh security policies in Active Directory.
• Responsible in maintaining up-to-date documentation of ITactivities.

Environment: VMware ESXI 5.5/5.0, VSphere 5.5/5.0, VCenter 5.5/5.0, Windows Server 2008 R2/2003, Windows 7/XP, Active Directory, HP Proliant DL and Blade Servers, Linux.

Confidential, RI

VMware Admin

Responsibilities:

• Using VMware VCenter server to monitor, manage, troubleshoot and administer virtual machines and Esxi hosts.
• Monitored ESXI, VCenter Server and Virtual machines and managed VCenter server alarms.
• Provide daily support/administration to multiple hosted clients and virtual machines.
• Linked different VCenter server using linked mode to have a single instance a VSphere client to manage teh whole virtual environment.
• Defined teh patch management process for teh VMware environment to upgrade teh hosts and VM's and successful completion of update manager installation in all environments.
• Used Veeam backup to perform regular backup and restore of teh virtual machines disks and data.
• Converted teh physical servers to virtual servers using VM converter.
• Experience in Installing & Upgrading VMware tools on Windows Machines.
• Created Vswitches and different ports groups for different purposes.
• Used VCenter Server Heartbeat to protect virtual infrastructure from downtime related to application, configuration, operating system, network or hardware problems for high availability.
• Creating User Accounts and Groups in Active Directory.
• Built, configured and deployed VMs and templates.
• Installation, monitoring, testing, configuration, migration, maintenance and troubleshooting of RedHat Linux Servers.
• Critical thinking skills to evaluate alternatives and present solutions dat are consistent wif business objectives and strategy.
• Creating Resource pools for VM’s and taking snapshot.
• Created and documented process for deploying Virtual machines on VMWare.
• Experience in setting up VMKernel Network and Enable VMotion.
• Experience in teh Installation of desktops using VDI environment.
• Experience in Job scheduling, and monitoring of various jobs running.

Environment: VMware ESXI 5.0/4.0, VSphere 5.0/4.0, Vcenter 5.0/4.0 Windows Server 2008 R2/2003, Windows 7/XP, Active Directory, HP Proliant DL and Blade Servers, Linux.

Confidential, St.Augustine FL

VMware Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Installation and Configuration and Maintenance of Windows 2008/2003/2000 on HP Proliant Servers.
• Created User Accounts and Groups in Active Directory (AD).
• Involved in troubleshooting teh issues related to Servers, Local Services, Data Centers, and Server Configuration for Microsoft Windows Systems.
• Cloning, deploying VM’s to Template, Templates to VM’s, VMotion, Storage VMotion etc. Configured teh NTP server in ESXI Server for teh time synchronization between ESXI and VM’s.
• Generated report summary and performance for ESXI Servers and VM’s. Created snapshot’s for teh VM’s and also created new folders, data centers, clusters and resource pools in teh VC.
• Involved in Scheduling Tasks, Monitoring Tasks, Created alarms and Deploying load balancing, implementing Network security.
• Migrating virtual machine configuration files and virtual disks from one Data store to another Data store. Migration of servers P2V and V2V by using VMware Converter and PlateSpin.
• Involved in Customizing VM’s (Memory, hard disk, NIC) and Analyzing log files, Resources utilizing monitoring.
• Problem analysis and Troubleshooting of ESXI Server wif service console. Resolving issues on servers, VLANs, routers, and switches in teh data center.
• Upgrade of Active directory 2003 to 2008 and troubleshooting Active directory problems.
• Responsible in using BMC Remedy System for incident, change and problem management.
• Created new VMware virtual machines to meet teh specifications provided by teh Client.
• Configured VMotion for Hardware Resource Management.
• Troubleshooting teh Hung VM Sessions on ESXI Host and sending teh files to VMware support for resolutions.
• Supported and Managed VMware ESXI 4.1 infrastructure for production/non production environments.
• Involved in On Call rotation for supporting production strictly maintaining SLA’s.
• Created documentation for Server Builds, Application Installations, Mapping teh drives and Issues which occur during software upgrades.

Environment: VMware ESXI 4.0, VSphere 4.0, VCenter 4.0, Windows Server 2008/2003, Active Directory 2003, HP Proliant Servers.

Confidential, San Diego, CA

VMware Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Configured and maintained new VM’s and installed teh VMware Tools on teh VM.
• Installation and configuration of ESXI 4.0 Host.
• Upgrading VCenter Servers and ESXI hosts.
• Monitoring and managing performances of ESXI servers and virtual machines.
• Responsible for well-organized and maintain Virtual Environment.
• Monitored chassis through HP onboard administrator.
• Participated in numerous disaster recovery and destructive testing.
• Remote installation of ESX Hosts, Windows 2008 Servers and Communicating wif Network/Storage teams for Server Support.
• Database Upgrade for Vcenter and update manager from SQL 2005 to SQL 2008 on 2 Vcenter Servers.
• Created User Accounts and Groups in Active Directory (AD).
• Installing patches and software upgrades recommended by security scan.
• Installation of Virtual Center server and Installing Virtual center components.
• Providing network support and ensuring teh business is run wifout failure.
• Responsible in maintaining up-to-date documentation of ITactivities.
• Responsible for managing clients Microsoft Active Directory Accounts.
• Excellent inter-personal skills and quick learner.

Environment: Windows 2000/2003, ESXI 4.0 and Vsphere 4.0, Vcenter 4.0, Microsoft Windows XP, Windows Workstation.

Confidential

Windows/VMware Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Installation, Configuration and Administering Microsoft Windows 2003/2000 Enterprise Servers.
• Involved in Planning and Disaster Recovery restoration of Microsoft Windows 2003/2000 Active Directory Domain controllers.
• Managing Domain Controllers and File servers.
• Involved in analyzing and implementing OS patches and hot fixes as well as other OS configurations and updates using Blade Logic Patch Management tool.
• Configuration of Domain Naming Server (DNS) and Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP).
• Creating User Accounts, Configuring User Profiles, Creating local and Global Groups and implementing Group Policies.
• Sharing Folders, Planning and Assigning NTFS Permissions and System Policies.
• Installation of Operating Systems Win 98, Win XP, Win NT, Win 2000, Win 2003.
• Configuration and Managing Remote Installation Service (RIS).
• Implementing user administration like adding, deleting and modifying user accounts.
• Configured and maintained new VM’s and Installed Microsoft Windows 2008/2003 Servers, managing VM’s and ESXI servers by using VIC, Putty and Web Access and installing teh VMware Tools on teh VM..
• Performance monitoring using Vizoncore Vfoglight.
• Providing network support and ensuring teh business is run wifout failure.
• Responsible in maintaining up-to-date documentation of ITactivities.

Environment: Windows 2000/2003, SMS, IIS 6.0, ESX 3.5/4.0 Vsphere 4.0, Vcenter 4.0 Microsoft WSUS, Windows XP, Windows Workstation.