SUMMARY:

• 7+ years of experience inVMwarevirtualization and Linux/Windows administration.
• Expertise in Windows 2000/2003/2008 server administration and active directory administration.
• Expertise in deploying various Red Hat Enterprise Linux / SUSE builds both Physical and Virtual on HP/CISCO/Dell Hardware running ESXi.
• Experience installing, configuring and hardening \ Linux Servers, evaluated needs and installed appropriate recommended patches as needed.
• Created user accounts and group policies and also troubleshoot the existing GPOs.
• Experience installing, managing and administering Windows 2008 and 2003 based Domain controllers, Backup / Additional Domain Controllers.
• Expertise in Dell physical servers and HP Proliant blade, UCS C240 M3 Rack servers.
• Deploy Windows R2 Servers using Templates, Customized ISO’s and PowerCLI Scripts.
• Expertise in deploying various Windows Server 2008 R2/SUSE Enterprise Linux 10/11 builds both physical and Virtual on HP/IBM/DELL Hardware running ESXi
• Expertise in Administering and supporting Windows 2003/2008 R2 Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, WINS, SharePoint, Microsoft Exchange 2007.
• Expertise in upgrading large enterprise level Windows 2003 environment to Windows 2008.
• Experience configuring, maintaining and supporting Microsoft Cluster Server to maximize uptime.
• Experience evaluating, prioritizing and delegating end - user requests. And Active Directory and Exchange account administration.
• Experience with tier three supporting servers and directory service issues. Any unresolved issues were escalated directly to Microsoft support.
• Expertise in rack and stacks work required for building any new HP/UCS enclosures and EMC VNX/ VMAX SAN solutions.
• Experience in deploying and creating new VM guests with Windows System Administrator using Customized ISO/Gold Image as well as templates.
• Responsible for server builds, patch management, antivirus and updates.
• Responsible for WINTEL server builds and HP blades C7000 server builds Performed system administration activities, security policies and monitored system performance both at software and hardware levels.
• Worked in the area of Virtualization withVMwarevSphere, ESXi 5.1, 5.0, 4.1, ESX 4.0 servers, vCenter server 2.5, 4.0, 5.0, 5.1 and vCenter Converter 4.0, 5.0, vCloud director.
• Expertise in administering File servers and Print servers.
• Expertise in DHCP, WINS and DNS.
• Expertise in Microsoft Windows NT, Windows 2000 Professional, Windows Xp, Windows Vista, Windows 7.
• Strong knowledge of TCP/IP protocol suite, virtual networking, wireless networks & Cloud computing concepts.
• Experience and Familiar with Virtualization technologies like installing, configuring, administering VMwareESX/ESXi. Created and managed VMs (virtual server) and also involved in the maintenance of the virtual server.
• Experience with enterprise backup systems and disaster recovery operations; familiarity with SAN technologies; solid understanding of vSphere 4 implementation with shared storage fiber channel, ISCSI, NFS / VMFS strategies for performance and optimization.
• Expertise withVMwareLab Manager Products.
• Expertise with IP sub-netting, VLANs, Load Balancing, and High Availability (HA) architectures Strong experience with theVMwareHA (High Availability), Fault Tolerance, Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) andVMwareDistributed Power Management.
• Strong analytical, technical and troubleshooting skills.
• Experience in the V2V and P2V migration of Physical servers toVMwareESX hosts.
• Experience in Windows clustering Administration and troubleshooting.
• Knowledge of maintaining Business Continuity and performing Disaster Recovery (DR) usingVMwareSite Recovery Manager (SRM).
• Hands on experience in updating / upgrading ESX servers, Virtual Center servers and windows virtual machines usingVMwareUpdate manager and manual upgrades for Patching.
• Implemented VDI (Virtual desktop infrastructure) technology usingVMwareVIEW.
• Installation and Administration of IIS 6.0.
• Experience in the Server and Desktop Management (Windows Administration), Support, Analysis and Maintenance.
• Lead Role in implementing and administering server platforms with UCS RACK server and Dell.
• Good Understanding and Knowledge VBlock and components and experience with Cisco UCS administration and EMC SAN storage.
• Experience in ESX Architecture, guest O/S installation, setting up of VM priorities, Cloning, Creating Templates and Snapshots.
• Extensive experience in working with the vMotion and Storage vMotion technology Strong Experience in vNetwork concepts: vSwitch and dvSwitch.
• Cisco UCS Central Software extends Cisco UCS Manager Features across multiple Cisco UCS domains.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

VIRTUALIZATION TECHNOLOGIES: VI3,VMwarevSphere 4.0/4.1/5.0,VMwareESX 2.5/3.0/ 3.5,VMwareESXi 3.5/4.0/4.1/5.0 , VMwarevCenter, vSphere client,VMwareVDI,VMwareThinApp, V-Cloud automation center (VCAC), View 4.6/5.0, Microsoft Hyper-V,VMwareUpdate Manager, Plate spin migrator, VMware convertor, HA, VMotion, VCops.

OPERATING SYSTEMS: Windows Server NT 4.0/ 2000/2003/2008 R2, Windows XP/Vista/7, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.x/5.x/6.x, SUSE 10.3/11/1 and CentOS, VMWare ESX/ESXI server

APPLICATION SERVERS: DNS, DHCP, Windows Active Directory Services, FTP, SFTP, Microsoft Exchange 2003/2007/2010 , P2V/V2V Converters, MS Office 2003, 2007. Directory Services / Internet Designing, Deploying and Migration of Windows Based Active Directory. Installation and Administration of IIS 6.0, DHCP & DNS servers

INFRASTRUCTURE HARDWARE: UCS C240M3 RACK server, HP ProLiant BL460C (G6 and G7) Blade Server series, DL380, DL580 physical servers, Dell Power Edge Servers, Intel x86 processors

NETWORK ENVIRONMENT: Cisco Catalyst switches, L3 and L2 switches, Checkpoint, Net gear, HP Switches, TCP/IP, HTTP, DHCP, DNS, SMTP and SNMP

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, VERNON HILLS, IL

VMWARE/WINDOWS ADMINISTRATOR

Responsibilities:

• Design and Implementation of migration strategy for consolidating Data Centers from around the world to centralized locations in US which involves numerous servers of various LINUX versions.
• Identification, planning and migration of P2V candidates and new builds from each site without any downtime.
• Maintaining adding users and groups in Wintel Active Directory.
• Migrated and ManagedVMwareESXi - 5.0 and 5.1, worked onVMwarecapacity planner.
• Performed tons of V2V Migration, Created clones and templates of Virtual Machines.
• Deploying VMs through OVF Templates, Created & Troubleshot Virtual Networks and vSwitches.
• Worked on Migration concepts like vMotion and cold migration and Remediate.
• Configured NetBackup Client thorough planning was done for downtime, knowing each server usage & there placement in Datacenter.
• Creating Data centers in the Vsphere Web client and adding the Hosts to the Data center.
• Configuring the Host profiles and Remediate.
• Creating the New virtual machines under the Host and configuring each VM in the console.
• Disable and Enable the ports for the Distribution switches.
• Creating Duplicate Host profiles for the HOST.
• Hands Experience on UCS -Configuring VSwitch1 and editing configurations of VMX file -Type delay.
• Setting up the VLANS for each and individual VMs.
• Troubleshooting UCS hardware if the Hosts are disconnected in the vCenter.
• Design, Installation and configuring of new vSphere 5 ESXi servers for the P2V candidates on UCS Cisco C240 M3 Rack Server.
• Installed Management Server (vCenter Server) instances to enable centralized management of multiple ESXi hosts.
• Linked different vCenter servers using linked mode to have a single instance of vSphere client to manage the whole Virtual environment.
• Configuring High Availability (HA), Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) and vNetwork Distributed Switch (VDS).
• ConfiguredVMwareHA,VMwareDRS in acquiring higher efficiency forVMwareInfrastructure.
• Automate ESXi host configuration across large number of hosts and clusters.
• Creating and managing Virtual Machines and Templates, worked with clones and snapshots of Virtual Machines.
• Administering, troubleshooting and automating vSphere ESXi using Power CLI.

Confidential, FORT WORTH, TX

VMWARESYSTEMS ADMINISTRATOR

Responsibilities:

• Built and MaintainedVMwareinfrastructure with Windows Servers, Windows XP/7 Clients across Test and Demo Environments. ImplementedVMwareView 4.6 to distribute Client Desktops to user accounts.
• Worked on creating Virtual Templates.
• Conducted Characterization Test Iterations on test floors with Process Automation Software package to collect performance data and to size the software installed Virtual Environment.
• Worked on RHEL/SUSE Server provisioning, Upgrades, Patching, Configuration and Performance Tuning in Linux, and VMware environments.
• Designsbuild/configure documentation related to Red Hat Enterprise Linux via Kick start.
• Conducted Log Analysis and Troubleshoots on Performance of ESXi environment.
• Troubleshoot network issues between Distributed vSwitch, Layer 2 switches and resolved slow performance between SAN network and VM networks.
• Provided Consultation for Troubleshooting in Virtualization, SAN Configuration, Active Directory group policy design & Implementation and ESXi Distributed vSwitch Network Configuration.
• Applications support for ASP .Net & java based hosted internal & external websites.
• File Server Migration, Migrated file server from Windows Server 2003 to Windows Server 2008 Servers
• Provided Technical Recommendations for Installation and Implementation of Virtual Environments in Industrial Plants. Identified Administrative Standards, Issues and Process Improvements.
• Created scripts in VB, Perl, and PowerShell to Automate Tasks in the Guest VMs.
• Built and maintainedVMwareand Windows Server Infrastructure.
• Involved in Installation and Configuration of vCenter Heart Beat.
• Involved in SRM Setup and Performed Failover Testing.
• Provided technical assistance and best practices for customers to simulate in their own environment.
• Worked on developing technical papers on Virtualization for Process Automation Systems.
• Participating in 24x7 Production on-call Support of Linux and provided technical support to users at remote datacenters.
• Provided level high support for ESXi servers running on HP ProLiant BL460’s/620’s/680’s/CISCO UCS B200’s B250’s and Windows/Linux Virtual Servers.
• Deployed various Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Windows Server virtual builds using a combination of VMware Templates and PowerCLI. Also configuring ifcfg files in Linux and NIC’s in Windows servers.
• Installation of ESXi 5.0 Hosts, vCenter Server, vCenter update manager and administering VM’s across 3 Datacenters running 2200 VM’s.

Confidential, ALEXANDRIA, VA

VMWARE ADMINISTRATOR

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed existing Infrastructure for Implementation of Gradual Consolidation in Migrations phases after conducting extensive Feasibility study.
• Day to day Troubleshooting Active Directory and Wintel Servers.
• Implemented Migration by performing P2V, V2V and V2P conversions using vConverter and PlateSpin.
• Worked to streamline the process of gathering and interconnecting machines, installing and maintaining operating systems, adding and updating applications and resolving problems.
• Installing and configuring Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5/6 on ESXi 4.1.1/5.0 based environment residing on HP Blades as required for UAT/Production
• Maintained vCenter Server 4.1 and implemented View Desktop Infrastructure.
• AdministeredVMwareenvironment, evaluated and implemented new hardware and software solutions that benefited architecture and operations. ImplementedVMwareSRM and troubleshoot performance issues.
• Identified and fixed ESX performance bottlenecks by working with clients and other teams.
• Implemented, configured and deployed new patches, upgrades, bug fixes on both physical and virtual Red Hat Linux Servers using satellite Server and YUM Server.
• Deployed various Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Windows Server virtual builds using a combination of VMware Templates and PowerCLI. Also configuring ifcfg files in Linux and NIC’s in Windows Servers
• Customized layer 2 and layer 3 networking betweenVMware, networking components and storage for high availability and maximum performance.
• Supported and ManagedVMwareESX 3.5 and 4.0 infrastructure for production/non production environments including HA/DRS Clustering.
• Creating and managing security groups and reconciliation of the same regularly.
• Created documentation for Server Builds, Application Installations, Mapping the drives and Issues which occur during software upgrades.
• Deployed various Windows/Linux VM and implemented various VMware ESX 3.5/4.0 servers
• Participating in 24x7 Production on-calls Support of Windows/Linux/ESXi Servers and provided technical support to users at remote datacenters.

Confidential

WINTEL ADMIN - VMWARE

Responsibilities:

• Managing Internal VMware administration activities
• Designed and successfully implemented VMware SRM in datacenter environment.
• Deployment/Installation/Up gradation of VMware ESX server & VC server
• Configuration of VMware HA & DRS cluster along with VMware networking
• Using VM converter converting Physical machines in VMware VMs.
• Updating/patching Linux, Windows Virtual Machine in VMware clusters
• Creating VMware Lab setup as per Internal QA team’s requirement using VMware ESXi servers.
• Install and Configure Virtual Machines (VM), VM tools on ESX boxes from the GUI and console.
• Migrated Physical as well as virtual machines using Platespin Power conver, VMware convertor.
• Install multiple Operating Systems in different VM's and configure VM tools on them to accelerate hardware functionality and also maintain and configure unattended VM’s builds.
• Take VM backups with VM tools, snapshots, cloning, and VCB utilities and store them in VMLibrary
• Resolving customer issues related to VMware ESX server.
• Installing 64-Bit OSs on ESX server which enhances the performance of guest operating system. Helping IPv6 compliance on VMware products like ESX, eESX, VMOTION, DRS, HA, P2V & VDI.
• Supporting Virtual Desktop environment including VDI, VMware Ace.
• Managing HP EDS, Marathon, ML and DL series of Windows/Intel/AMD hardware running ESX tools on ESX boxes.
• DNS, DHCP, NFS, NIS configuration
• Installing Maintenance Levels and updates
• Deploying features as SharePoint Solutions.
• Worked with object oriented software development methodologies and practices across all phases of the Software Development Lifecycle
• Planning and technical design services for the Strategies, Business Portal and GOL application initiatives; responsible for the development of long and short term capacity plans as it relates to the UNIX engineering and support team environments.
• Administered and maintained WINTEL server and OS for production, Internet and intranet services
• Interacted with the global Wintel Engineering team regularly to understand and design solutions
• Plan, test and document WINTEL Disaster Recovery processes involved in the installation, monitoring and support of WINTEL based servers, firewalls, Cisco networks, perimeter security & Internet technologies and remote office WAN/ LAN connectivity

Confidential

SYSTEMS ENGINEER

Responsibilities:

• Evaluated and implemented new technologies. Deployed and maintained 150+ servers that include VMware, Microsoft and RedHat Linux platforms.
• Deployed VMware ESX server 2.5 (virtualization technology) for Intel platforms (Windows and Linux servers). Deployed around 40 ESX servers at different client locations. The virtual infrastructure was deployed on EMC SAN for better manageability.
• Migrated with team 100+ servers from NT 4 to Windows 2000 and Windows 2003 environment, including File and Application Servers; restored File permissions and Shares.
• Implemented Microsoft DHCP, DNS, WINS, Domain trust relationship, fault tolerance, file and print services, user and group management.
• Worked on Migration Projects Involving IIS 4.0, 5.0 and 6.0-based applications.
• Installed, and supported 100+ Desktops, Laptops, Network Devices, and Computer Peripherals with the IT team
• Was Responsible for Active directory, GPO, Domain users, Administrating users and groups and given appropriate permissions and privilege to access our LAN and Domain environment.
• Installed, configured, administered Windows 2003 servers, Active Directory Services, FTP, WSUS, IIS Web Server and SQL Database Server
• Was Responsible for Security Patch Management and Deployment to all clients using Microsoft WSUS.
• Weekly Backups on NAS storage
• User Support - Monitored and trouble shooted system performance, server & user related issues. Provided support to users to resolve their day-to-day issues related to OS, E-mail, Account issues, hardware etc.
• Was Responsible for Backup/recovery strategy of all windows based servers. Planned and implemented fault tolerance and strategies for backup and restoring files on the network using different media devices like tape drives, compact disk and additional hard disk etc.
• Implemented cross-functional IT skills so our team was well prepared and resilient when faced with challenging issues, which greatly improved IT incident response times & work quality.
• Asset Management - Helped infrastructure team to Manage Leased Assets.
• Vendor Management - Build strong relationship with new / existing vendors to get good support and pricing. Selected and recommended the right product and the source at the appropriate price range for the business user.
• Participated in network design, implementation, and troubleshooting with multi-level Cisco LANs/WANs which included: configuration of Cisco 2600 routers and Cisco Cat Switches.
• Support & - Provided necessary help / assistance to IT Helpdesk / Telecom Support Personal to resolve day-to-day issues
• Implemented and Managed Symantec Antivirus console
• Installed and configured 40 new servers at client location with win 2003 Operating System and their required Applications.
• Configured the Security Policies /group policies and changing the registry to meet the required security for the Organization.