SUMMARY

• Over 5 years of professional experience on VMware Virtualization and Windows 2016/2012R2/2008 Operating Systems. Good communication skills and an effective team player. Experience includes project management, enterprise - level virtualization, data center relocation, disaster recovery, desktop virtualization, server performance management and deployment planning.
• VMware & Microsoft Certified Professional with experience in effective management of IT Infrastructure Project for new facilities, Data Center Upgradation of Hardware & Software, Microsoft Technologies, VMware Virtualization, Storage Design, IT Asset Management and Network Security.
• Demonstrated excellence in leading enterprise-wide virtualization effort with accountability of overseeing vendor / hardware qualification, architecture / design, installation, configuration, migration & documentation.
• Expertise in Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Planning delivered maximum business value for Infrastructure, Data Centre Technologies, Large Scale Systems and Networks.
• Administration of VMware ESX and ESXi Servers on HP Blade Servers GEN8,9 and 10 included BL460, DL380 and Dell ESXi servers PowerEdge R740xd and R640.
• Worked on Active Directory Services; Active Directory Group Policy Objects (GPO) Group Policy Management Console (GPMC) DHCP WINS and DNS.
• Creating and managing the dashboards in the vROPS environment and generating the reports of daily alert report.
• Adept at maintaining complete IT infrastructure including Server Hardware, VMware Environment, Data Storage, and all Microsoft Technologies.
• Experience in Updating ESXi servers, appliances and Virtual Center server using VMware Update manager and manual upgrades. Upgraded 1110 ESXi host from version 6.0 to version 6.5, 6.5 2(B)
• Responsible for performing various P2V and V2V migrations on Windows and Linux servers
• Administration, support and maintenance of windows and Red hat Linux (RHEL) servers.
• Worked on VM provisioning using different tools like SWAPS, VRA and Shell scripts
• Managed VM's including migrations with VMware VSphere VMotion, SVM and worked on managing snapshots like create, delete and revert.
• Performed day to day migrations via VMotion, monitored cluster environment and performed recovery in HA and DRS.
• Deployed ESXI patches by update manager.
• Administering Windows 2008/2012 R2/2016 servers, Active Directory, DNS, DHCP and building new windows physical/virtual servers as per the requirement of the project.
• Deployed Login sight appliance and configured all the host on the alerts which help track any issues related with logs.
• Implemented end to end DMZ environment starting with installation of PSC, vCenter, DRS, HA.
• Worked with networking teams to open firewall rules and setting up environment with external PSC link where we can see both vCenter and PSC working
• Worked on Power path installation on the appliance and upgrading version 1.0.0 to 1.3.0
• Involved in weekly TAM meeting which included yearly Plan and VMware cases.
• Worked with all application team to test any one which was failing and had any error.
• Worked with storage team to perform procedure activities, which contains unmount, detach and delete procedure.
• Worked with the backup teams to restore the VMs which were in hung state.
• Was involved in building, configuring and hardware upgrades of Windows servers
• Worked on Performance Analysis and Tuning/Optimization Operations, Virtual machine creation, cloning configurations
• Strong understanding of VMware Networking concepts like creation of vSwitches, different types of port groups, NIC Teaming and VLAN and load balancing, beacon traffic, notification to switches for connectivity problem.
• Strong Customer Centric Approach with excellent analytical, coordination, presentation and leadership skills skilled in grasping the big picture and conceptualizing solutions.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• VMware vSphere 5.1, 5.0, 4.x VI 3.5
• VMware ESX 5.1, ESXi 5, ESX 4.1, ESX 3.0
• VMware vCenter Server 5.x
• VMware Horizon view 5.3, 5.2
• VMware vCenter Operations manager
• VMware vCenter update Manager
• Managing and Maintaining the Servers, PC’s, Routers and Switches.
• Configuring, Managing and Maintaining Networking Equipment’s.
• Network processing, centralized and distributive network connection.
• Installing, configuring and administering network technologies
• Installed and configured workstations for IP/IPX based LA
• Windows server 2008/2012 R2/2016, RedHat Linux 6.0, 5.2, Solaris 8. 9, AIX 5.3, Cisco IOS, NX-OS
• IPv4/IPv6 TCP/IP, UDP, ARP, L2 VLAN, VXLAN, FCoECIFS, NFS & NAS, SAN, RIP, EIGRP, OSPF & BGP, PIM & IGMP

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Infrastructure Engineer

Confidential, VA

Responsibilities:

• I am a part of the Infrastructure team, where I design and implement new servers, build virtual desktops, and maintain the private cloud infrastructure of the two data centers. We support Over 4000 users and 600+ Physical and Virtual servers in Production, Dev, and Test Environments
• Managing the Active Directory Environment like audit user accounts and password policy
• Successfully migrated:
• The Windows 2012R2 Domain Controllers to Windows 2016 Standard server
• The virtual production servers to a new datacenter using RADWARE boxes for minimal downtime
• The Windows 2012 File share to Windows 2016 File share server
• The FSMO roles between Domain Controllers
• The physical Exchange server’s storage to virtual storage as a part of migrating the servers to virtual Windows 2016 servers
• Implemented Windows 2016 Domain Architecture across the project
• Worked on installation and configuration of primary and secondary sites for Patch management, Software Distribution, Hardware/Software Inventory and Software Metering at multiple locations
• Developed project plan, served as primary task resource, implemented and migrated Active Directory domain from Windows 2012R2 to Windows 2016
• Developed organizational units in Active Directory (AD) and managed user security with Group Policies
• Experience in upgrading the ESXi host with vCenter update manager and pushing the patches for hosts and guests
• Experience in building a Windows 2016 Data Center and Windows 2016 Standard templates and deploying virtual machines out of them
• Experience in creating Microsoft Exchange 2016 servers and migrating mailboxes from Exchange 2010
• Implemented VMware High availability and resource load balancing by configuring HA and DRS clusters
• Configured VM Ware servers using V-Center
• Worked on Failover Cluster and Hyper-V Manager, as well as handled of Microsoft Virtual Machine Manager Console
• Used Radware for monitoring and configuring the VADCs
• Experience in building VMware ESXi host servers for the vCenter vSphere client to manage the virtual machines
• Configured vSwitches in the VMware for the host servers to communicate within the infrastructure and maintain the traffic
• Installation and configuration of Red Hat Linux 6.0 on HP ProLiant Gen 8/ Gen9, VMware ESXi
• Configured iSCSI storage adapters on vSphere Client to add storage systems to the host
• Configuring and maintaining the NFS storage in vSphere Client to attach it to the virtual machine backup system called Unitrends
• Worked on Left Hand Storage, connecting them to Windows servers, which acted as Gate Way servers
• Experience in installing and configuring Microsoft Windows 2016 Data Center operating system for Microsoft VDI on HP ProLiant BL460 C Gen 9 for Chassis
• Experience in maintaining the RD Gateway, RD Web Access, RD Broker servers for Microsoft VDI
• Upgraded the existing DPM’s tape systems to the new cloud backup systems called Unitrends
• Installation and configuration of UNITRENDS virtual appliance backup system and configured physical appliance as well
• Maintenance and communication of existing, new, and evolving mobility practices, knowledgebase articles and documentation
• Provides technical services to internal clients by identifying, prioritizing, and confirming
• Operated and configured the network-monitoring tool called PRTG for various project activities
• Worked on HEAT ticket management system
• Installation and configuration of new ticket management system called CHERWELL to replace HEAT
• Perform installation, evaluation, maintenance, and problem resolution for the SCCM server as well as release management deployment
• Worked on building and maintenance of the DMZ servers
• Prepared the documentation using Visio for the client project as well as the complete network infrastructure unit
• Managed the smooth operations of the datacenters by monitoring, and reporting hardware failures timely to the vendors for replacement and by closely following up with vendors for the parts
• Ensured effective working of the city network circuits feeding the government offices through monitoring, reporting of the network circuits provided by COX and Confidential

Systems Administrator

Confidential, Basking ridge, NJ

Responsibilities:

• Installed and Configured VMware vSphere5.5, ESXi 5.x, Cisco UCS servers and upgraded to vSphere ESXi 5.5.
• Work with VMware Infrastructure Client in supporting our Windows 2003 & 2008, Linux Enterprise 5 Server environment.
• Implemented ESXi networking creating vSwitch virtual port groups for vMotion, VMkernel and Virtual machine traffic.
• HP EVA Storage Arrays.
• Created and documented process for deploying Virtual machines on VMWare.
• Created VM Machines for Test Environments to Test Applications.
• Administer the data center servers in production environment.
• Install, configure, maintain, and troubleshoot Microsoft Windows Server 2016 servers.
• Installed, configured, and managed vSphere 6.5 in Prod environment.
• Verified the features and testing the vSphere 6.5 in the test environment.
• Worked on vSAN clustering with implementing VDS switches.
• Upgraded the Drivers/ firmware on the blades if required on HP Blade servers, Dell Rackmounts.
• Updated VMware tools on VM platform for user friendly access.
• Refreshed and recomposed the view desktops in the maintenance window.
• Used Thin\Thick application such as Login sight to determine log entries and have the logs updated to VMware to analyze on any working cases.
• Configured VDS and migrated VM’s to VSS from VDS.
• Created VM Templates that are used as proto templates to create more virtual machines by automation using Power scripts to deploy new VM’s from the existing templates.
• Responsible for Active directory, DNS, GPO, Domain users, administrating users and groups and given appropriate permissions and privilege to access our environment.
• VMWare vSphere 6.5 Administration.
• Responsible for Linux Administration and Windows Server 2008/2012/2016 Administration.
• Documented the settings and reproducing the same while data center infrastructure movement.
• Coordinating Data Center movement and attending TAM meetings to balance the environment.
• Worked with the Rack and Stack team and checking the server after movement.
• Took VM Snapshot backups and restored the snapshots when the VM requires a rollback to the previous condition.
• Responsible for updating the status on the datacenter migration tasks to the management.
• Installed Hyper-V converter and to perform V2V and deployed an environment of 200 VMs.
• Strong experience with the VMware HA (High Availability), Fault Tolerance, Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) and VMware Distributed Power Management (DPM).
• Experience with VMware update manager to install patches and updates on 6.5 SPP U2b on PSCs, vCenter and on all the ESX/ESXi hosts in the environment.
• Involved in design and implementation of vCenter, PSC and VMware product appliances such as VRA, Login sight and VROPs.
• Participated in the migration planning, developing, testing, and moving the migration process onto full-fledged production network.
• Defined group permissions and created local and global groups with account policies using Enterprise Administrator.
• Created user rights and defined local and roaming profiles.
• Administration of VMware ESX and ESXi Servers on HP Blade Servers GEN8,9 and 10 included BL460, DL380 and Dell ESXi servers PowerEdge R740xd and R640.
• Added new organizations to the existing Enterprise Domain.

VMware/windows Administrator

Confidential, Hartford, CT

Responsibilities:

• Implemented VMware ESXi server to provide multiple virtual hardware platforms while keeping hardware costs and energy consumption down.
• Built Windows Server 2003 and 2008 VMs and physical servers via HP iLO virtual media and deploying virtual machines from templates.
• Highly proficient in VMware usage, including efficient and scalable design.
• Working on various VMware related operational work on daily basis, be it addressing service problems, incidents, or any requests from the customers.
• Installing and configuring storage and backup devices along with their associated SAN switches and network.
• Planning, configuration, maintenance and administration of VMware ESXi server, VMware virtual center, V-Motion, Storage VMotion, HA and DRS, P2V, V2V and Troubleshooting
• Configure and manage User, Group, Permission, Role, Resource pool on VMware VCenter
• Planning, configuration, maintenance, and administration of Windows Server Systems
• Worked on Windows 2008r2/2012 Active Directory in Mixed mode environment.
• Experience with Cisco UCS and HP c7000 blade administration
• Management of virtual machines, their resource pools and capacity planning, security hardening and Monitoring of VMs & ESXi servers (CPU, Memory, Disk, Network Utilization) for Security Compliance.
• Responsible for supporting development work in an agile project and providing technical support and expertise to resolve issues identified by the project team and/or customer.
• Provide fellow system administrators and support representatives with technical support and guidance.
• Installing, configuring, and maintaining services such as Apache, MySQL, and Exim across identified servers on virtual environment.
• Administration, support and maintenance of Windows and Red hat Linux (RHEL) servers
• Assist users, software vendors, and other administrators (i.e.: database, application, network, other OS systems, backup, and storage administrators) with problems, projects, and implementations.
• Configure and implement backup client software, and maintain backup status, backup schedules, and backup logs.
• Responsible for performing various P2V and V2V migrations on Windows and Linux servers.
• HP Blade c7000 enclosures SAN and NAS attached. Including Virtual Connect and Flex10