SUMMARY:

• Over 7+ years of experience in Windows and Virtual infrastructure resources, VMware Configuration & Administration, System Design, Data Center management.
• Experience in installing, configuring and managing infrastructure usingVMware technologies viz. ESX/ESXi 4.0/4.1 5.0/5.5, vSphere 5.0, vCenter,VMware View 5.0/5.5,VMware vCenter Converter etc.
• Expertise in WINS, DNS, DHCP, Group Policies and Active Directory services.
• Expertise in building MicrosoftWindows2012,2008 R2, 2008, 2003, 2000 servers using HP Smart Start, Array configurations, diagnosing server, Updating Firmware and PSP, Application Software under multi - platform environments, deployment & monitoring physical Servers.
• Experience with F5 LoadBalancing and Microsoft Clustering technologies.
• Strong understanding ofVMware Networking concepts like creation of vSwitches, different types of port groups, NIC Teaming and VLAN Problem management onVMware ESX 4.X and Virtual Center, VMotion and SVMotion.
• Creating and maintaining users, profiles, security, rights, disk space and process monitoring
• Deploying Virtual Machines using Templates, Converting Physical to Virtual (P2V) and Virtual to Virtual (V2V) Machines.
• Experience working with Storage Area Network (SAN), Good understanding about SAN, iSCSI, NAS configuration and implementing attached storage.
• Manage Licensing, SAN Policy, Page Files sizes and location, Dump file settings, registry settings for SNMP.
• Creating and troubleshooting FTP sites and managing large FTP web farm.
• Configuration of SCSI disks for RAID 5 and RAID 0 for HP Servers
• Knowledge on iSCSI SAN, NAS, NFS storage and RAID concepts.
• Managing Web Services, third party SSL certificates, and general server configurations, including patch installation and Web server security
• Maintaining Backups of the VM's, taking snapshots.
• Extensive working experience in setting up cluster environment for Load balancing and High availability of Linux servers.
• Configuring, maintaining and troubleshooting Windows Server 2008 R2, SCCM 2007 / 2012 and SCOM Infrastructure.
• Scanning and configuring LUN for ESX server.
• Experienced of Puppet 3.x, Chef, CFEngine and TPM for datacenter automation; installation and configuration of management tool.
• Experienced in chef cookbook development, powershell scripting and puppet manifest and module.
• Worked on Creating manifest and modules for software deployment and Delivery.
• Experience with TCP, IP and IP routing, LAN, WAN, CAN designs, bridges and switches, OSI model and fiber optic technology.
• Administered the Group Policy, a collection of permissions, security and rights which can be applied on sites domains and OU's.
• Strong knowledge and hands on experience in Data Center Migration.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Microsoft: Windows 2012/2008/R2/2003 Server/Enterprise Server, Windows XP. Knowledge of Windows 7 OS and supporting tools and technologies, Windows WSUS, IIS Administration, Hyper-V Active Directory Domain Services, AD lightweight Directory Services, AD Certificate Services, Active Directory Federation Services, Active Directory Rights Management Services, Group Policy,DNS,, DHCP, TCP/IP

Desktop Applications: MS Office 2003, 2007 2010, MS Project

VMware: VMware Vsphere 3.5/4.1/5.0/5.1,VMware vCenter Orchestrator Workstation 6/7, ESXi 5.1/5.0 ESX 4.1/4.0,VMware thinapp,P2V,V2V, VMware management assistant, Capacity Planning VMware DRS, HA and FT, Host Profile, VMware Standalone Converter 3.0, F5 Load Balancing, VMware Update Manager 1, VMware Virtual Desktop Infrastructure VDI, VMware View.

Storage: iSCSI SAN, NetApp, SAN and IBM XIVs, EMC Centerra

Databases: Microsoft SQL Server 2008, 2008 R2 and 2012.

Protocols/Services: TCP/IP, SMTP, HTTP, Telnet, SSH, DNS, DHCP, FTP and IIS

Hardware: IBM x3850/x3950 Servers, HP Blade Servers C7000 and C3000 HP Proliant ML & DL series 580, 380, 360. Dell power edge Blade servers, Wintel Servers. Network Interface card, Multi Serial Port, Adapter, Hubs, Switches.

Backup: Veeam, Symantec Backup, Avamar, Vizioncore VrangerPro.

Operating System: Windows 2012/2008R2/2008/2003 Servers, Windows 7/Vista/XP, Ubuntu Linux, RedHat Linux.

Configuration/Management and Cloud Tools: Cobbler, CFengine/Puppet/Chef, IPAM, Microsoft Active Directory, syslog,IBM Bigfix/ Endpoint Management, Azure and AWS S3,EBS,EC2,Cloud watch

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Denver, CO

VMware/Linux Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installation and configured SLES 9, 10 &11, Red hat 4.x, 5 on Dell Power Edge Blade servers using Kickstart with PXE for LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL and Perl/PHP) installations.
• Installation and Administration of HPUX 10.x & 11.x on Enterprise Servers for test lab, production and disaster recovery setup.
• Worked on HPUX migration using native LVM and EMC products like EMC Power path.
• Migration of applications from Solaris 9 to 10 TO Linux (Red hat & SUSE) and resolving any dependency issues after live upgrade.
• Worked on different types of Migration using Double Take Software and EMC tools like Open Migrator and Open replicator.
• Worked on User administration setup, maintaining account, Monitor system performance.
• Setup DR environment for tier one and tier two servers at DR site. This setup includes creating and configuring virtual clients LPAR, installing AIX images from existing servers and performing DR test.
• Activities include user administration; startup and shutdown scripts; crontabs, file system maintenance, backup scripting and automation using Perl, shell scripting for Red Hat Linux and AIX systems.
• Implementation of VMware Infrastructure for Windows, SLES 11 & Linux Red hat 5.0 with VMware ESX 3.5, Virtual Center 2.5 and administered the VMs with VI client.
• Performed volume management which included the encapsulation, initialization, root disk mirroring, and export/import of disk groups etc. using VERITAS Storage Foundation 4.1, 5.
• Extensive experience in installing, integrating, tuning and troubleshooting Apache, Tomcat and Web Sphere application server and Web sphere IHS including troubleshooting.
• Mirroring of root disks using Sun Volume Manager (SVM) and configuration of RAID 5 soft partitions.
• Used Logical Volume Manager (LVM) for the management of Volumes including creation of physical and logical volumes on Linux
• Implemented VERITAS Cluster 5.0 for Web Sphere and Sun JES Web Server agents.
• Performed application installation and management on Solaris and Linux servers for applications like Web Sphere Application Server (WAS) 7, JBoss 4.2.x, 5.x, Sun JES Web Server 6.1, Oracle 10g, Sybase 12.5 etc.
• Maintained version control setup of configuration files, automount maps, software repos etc. using subversion (SVN)/Git repositories.
• Extensively worked on automated installations of SLE/RHEL 5/6 through PXE boot using provisioning tools like Cobbler.
• Setup chef-client on several nodes, configured workstations to allow users to author, test, and maintain cookbooks.
• Worked on Amazon Web Services - AWS (Cloud Computing), EC2, VPC.
• Knowledge on SaaS, PaaS and IaaS concepts of cloud computing architecture. Implementation of AWS (IaaS).
• Installed and administered Jenkins CI server for continuous build of java projects
• Adding patches to keep the servers updated against bugs present in the operating system as well as other applications like VERITAS Storage Foundation, Web Sphere and Oracle.
• Configuration of multi-pathing using tools like mpxio and EMC Powerpath, Vmax and performed migrations from HPUX servers.
• Configuring, administering and trouble shooting of NFS, AutoFS (Direct and Indirect Maps), NIS (master, slave and client) and DNS in multi-platform networks.
• Worked on the configuration of mail server using Sendmail 8.10.x, 9.x.
• Worked on Sendmail to Postfix Migration.
• Worked on f5 Load Balancing.

Environment: Red hat EL 7.x, 6.x, Solaris 9, 10, Windows Server 2003, Web Sphere Application Server 10, JBoss 4.2.x, 5.x, Sun JES Web Server 6.1, Oracle 10g, Sybase 12.5, Stellent 7.5.1, Samba 3.3.x, Veritas Netbackup 5.0, 6.5, Veritas Cluster Server 5, Veritas Storage Foundation 5.0, EMC Symmetrix DMX-3, Git, WebSphere, Jenkins, nginx, F5 Load Balancing, AWS.

Confidential, Dallas, TX

VMware/Linux Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Creating/Managing Virtual Machines, creating clones and templates/images for deploying VMs, audit them for perfection and manage utilities and applications installed on those VMs.
• Performed Virtual Machines backup, snapshots, cloning, P2V and V2V conversion using VMware stand-alone convertor.
• Maintain, implement and optimize operating systems/software utilizing VMware virtualization technologies for vSphere 4.0/4.1/5.0 including configuration of VMware HA and DRS.
• Assisted in initial setup and connectivity issues between ESX/ESXi hosts and storage arrays.
• Installed multiple Operating Systems in different VM's and configure vmtools on them to accelerate hardware functionality and also maintain and configure unattended VM’s builds
• Installed vCenter Server instances to enable centralized management of multiple hosts. Maintaining and troubleshooting VMware vCenter
• Administered user accounts, domain accounts, administrative rights, security, and distribution groups with Active Directory
• Involved in troubleshooting the issues related to Servers and Server Configuration for Microsoft Windows Systems
• Provided backup and recovery support using Veeam.
• Installing and troubleshooting Printer services, File Services, FTP, IIS etc.
• Experience with vSphere vStorage, vSAN, vNetwork (using Distributed Switches), datacenter architecture using vSphere, high availability, and deployment of business critical applications on vSphere (i.e. Oracle, MS Exchange, Sharepoint, SAP, and SQL Server).
• Used tools like AVAMAR and VEEAM tools for backups.

Environment: VMware vSphere 4.0, 4.1, 5.0, ESX/ESXi 4.0, 5.0, VMware vCenter, VMware Standalone Convertor, Veeam Backup and replication tool, Windows Server 2008/2008 R2, HP Proliant BL & DL server series, Red hat EL 7.x, 6.x, Virtualization (Hyper-V and VMware). P2V, V2V Migrations.

Confidential, Pittsburg, PA

VMware/Linux Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for configuring, administering and providing support for UNIX such as Red Hat 4/5 and Sun SOLARIS 8/9.
• Worked on migrating Solaris / AIX machines to redhat 6
• Installed and configured Kickstart on RHEL 4.x, 5.x and Jumpstart for Solaris8/9.
• Configured and used ALOM / ILOM / XSCF onSunand ILO's HP hardwares. Also used several concentrators like lantronix, black box to gain console accesses.
• Got involved in multiple DR (Disaster Recovery) test scenarios, by facilitating SAN SRDF functionality in Solaris and RHEL environments.
• Administered Red hat Linux servers for several functions including managing Apache/Tomcat server, Mail server, MySQL database and firewalls in both development and production.
• Used putty and SSH certificate tools to login and use secure access points.
• Worked with database administrator for adding on packages and patches after checking compatibility and integrity of packages for Oracle RAC.
• Experience in Developing PERL, Shell Scripts and Python to automate cron jobs and system maintenance. Scheduled cron jobs for job automation through Autosys.
• Worked on configuring, administering and troubleshooting of NFS, NIS and DNS in multi-platform networks that included Solaris, Linux.
• On-call Duties to Troubleshoot; Resolve the Hung up Servers, resource groups, File System Issues, Third party Tools Errors.
• Configured file system using RAID 0, 1 and 5 levels.
• Installation and configuration of management tool Puppet across RHEL environment.
• Developed the scripts to push patches, files and maintain configuration drift through the Puppet tool.
• Managed existing documentation for systems and created new procedures to support new products. Created documentation for disaster recovery project.
• Responsible for backup of all servers, and recovery of servers.
• Demonstrated skill in supporting end users and proven ability to plan, organize and work as a member of a technical project team, both in small groups as well as large corporate areas

Environment:VMware ESX 3.0, ESXi 4.1/5.0, vSphere 4.x, Solaris 8/9, Red Hat Linux 6.x/5.x, puppet, NetBackUp, MQSeries 5.0, WebLogic 6.1, NES/iPlanet4/6, SUN Solaris, E250, E10K, E4500, SunfireV880/440, Windows, shell and perl scripting, EMC Connetrix, SAN Switches, Tape Libraries, EMC Powerpath 4.0, RAID.

Confidential, Wilmington, DE

VMware/Linux Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installation of ESXi server and creation of virtual machines and install guest OS.
• Monitoring and managing performance of ESX server and Virtual Machines.
• Created Virtual Machines and Installed VMware Tools.
• Configured DNS, DHCP servers.
• Worked on VMware clustering like HA and DRS clusters using VC.
• Documented Disaster Recovery & Data Center Security Plan.
• Responsible for support, Implementation and troubleshooting the LAN/WAN and security infrastructure.
• Implemented Layered security using a dedicated VLAN ID for all trunk ports and setting the user ports in non-trunking mode.
• Good experience at Network Architecture, IP Sub netting and Routing Policies.
• Managed systems configuration and maintenance, problem troubleshooting, system and program security, applications and program management, planning and directing upgrades, and testing operations to ensure optimum system functionality.
• Provided design, implementation, administration and support of Windows 2000 Active Directory and Windows NT legacy domain.
• Investigated new technologies, software, patches, and security packages, which will improve system performance and systems administration procedures.
• Managed and supported Windows 2000/2003 Active Directory domain network in multi-locations.

Environment: VMware ESX 3.0, ESXi 4.1/5.0, vSphere 4.x, Red Hat Linux 5.x, DHCP, DNS, Group Policy, RDP, IIS, FTP, Active Directory 2003, SQL Server 2008/2005, HP ProLiant Servers.

Confidential

VMware/Windows Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Administrating DNS, DHCP servers.
• Created and managed user and group accounts in User Manager.
• Manage windows network (users, computers, printers, etc.) with Active Directory.
• Created User Accounts and Groups in Active Directory.
• Performing daily, weekly, monthly maintenance backups/restorative exercises(Backup Exec),reviewing server logs for potential issues, as well as by ensuring that anti-virus software and security patches are routinely updated and functioning (Ensuring overall server configuration integrity).
• Created and Maintained User Profiles for all new users via Windows NT/2000 Server User Manager for Domains.
• Handling queries and problem related to LAN connectivity.
• Administered change management related to server upgrades and software installation
• Installing SQL Server with minimum access privileges service account to improve security.
• Added and removed server roles and features and configured AD Domain Services roles
• Configured network infrastructure roles, file and print services. Configured IIS7 on Server Core.
• Designed and implemented comprehensive Backup plan and disaster recovery strategies Implemented.
• Installation and configuration of TCP/IP in Windows Server.

Environment: Windows 2003/2000/NT Servers, Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, TCP/IP, Network Printers, Websphere, IIS 6.0, Microsoft WWSUS