SUMMARY

• Hands - on expertise in networking, storage and system integration.
• Experience as a VMware Administrator in Data Center Environment using ESX server 3.5, 4.0,4.1ESXi 4.1,5.0,5.1 and VSphere VCenter Server 2.0,2.5, 4.0,4.1,5.0,5.1 running other VMware Products like VCenter Update Manager4.0,4.1,5.0 VCenter Lab manager 4.0, VMware View 4.5 and 4.0 and Site Recovery Manager 4.1 4.0.
• Experience as a System Administrator on windows and Linux/Unix/AIX servers.
• Experience as a Citrix environment with versions of 4.0 and 4.5.
• Working experience on End to End process including ordering for hardware, installation, configuration and decommission of the servers.
• Administration of Hyper-V environments for servers 2008, 2008 R2 and 2012.
• Involving maintenance of AS/400 based applications and has worked on S/36, which is an advantage for maintaining legacy applications ported to AS/400.
• Administration of Vmware-vCloud Director- installation, design, and configuration experience.
• Network and system administration and maintenance (such as Linux, Windows, and Hyper-V).
• Working experience as desktop support for different clients by phone or in person as needed to minimize downtime.
• Experience in working with ESX and ESXi servers - configuration, Installation, management and maintenance.
• Support as Service Desk technician, necessary on a 24-7 basis to limit system down time during internal or external outages and peak enrollment periods.
• Working experience of install, design and configuration of VMware’s vCloud Automation center.
• Worked with VMware features like High Availability, DRS, Vmotion, Storage Vmotion and Fault Tolerance.
• Experience in Installation and Configuration of Single Sign on Server (SSO), vCenter Inventory Services and vCenter5.1.
• Experience on VMware operations Manager and vFoglight.
• Experience in SRM implementation and vCenter Heart Beat Implementation.
• Worked on migrations of physical servers with different OS Windows and Linux to virtual Platform using VMware converter and Plate spin.
• Implemented Rapid VM deployment preparing templates, cloning and exporting VM to OVF format.
• Worked closely with customers to design, plan, and implement Opsware Server Automation System to automate
• management of complex, large-scale, heterogeneous, enterprise data centers
• Experience with scripting languages PowerCLI, Shell and Perl.
• Hands on experience with Cisco Unified Communications Manager (CUCM), Cisco Unity Connection, Cisco Unified Presence, Cisco Hosted Collaboration Solution (HCS) on Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS) servers.
• Experience of using VMware Consolidated backup and Data Recovery appliances in backing up and restoring VM’s.
• Configured scheduled tasks, alarms, alerts, CPU, Memory and Network Disk monitoring in VCenter.
• Done Patch Management of ESXi hosts and VM’s using VMware VCenter Update Manager.
• Experience in installing and configuring storage technology such as SAN, NoFS, FC, NAS, ISCSI, and RAID.
• Experience in Linux/Unix - Red hat Enterprise (6.0, 5.5, 5.4) and VMKernel, Fedora.
• (Activities related to VMware Infrastructure- OS and application Installations, New user Creations, File Permissions, maintenance of day-day activities and Performance Monitoring).
• Experience in installing, maintaining and managing various rack mounted and Blade servers from Dell, HP, IBM and UC on Cisco UCS.
• Administering Microsoft Windows 2008, Windows 2003, Windows 2000 and NT Server Environments, Active Directory, DNS, DHCP.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Tools/Methods: VMware vSphere 5.0,5.1, VMware Infrastructure 3.0/3.5, Center 4.0/4.1,5.0,5.1 ESX/ ESXi 3.5/4.0/ 4.1/5.0/5.1 vCenter Update Manager 5.0, vSphere Client, VMware VMotion, Storage VMotion, VMware Distributed Resource Scheduler(DRS), vCloud Director, VMware High Availability(HA), VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM), VMware Fault Tolerance (FT), VMware Consolidated Backup, Expert Level in Physical to Virtual migration of datacenter, Virtual to Virtual Migration (VMware 4.x to VMware 5.0), Physical to Physical Hardware refresh. Linux, Unix, Windows 2008/2003/2000 Server, Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000 Professional, Windows XP,Vista & 7.0, Red hat Linux, Solaris 7.0,Windows 95/98, (Mac) Panther 10.3, Windows Server NT/2000/2003/2008 - Active Directory Domain Services (ADDS), Tivoli and Big Fix Microsoft Server 2008 file and print server, DNS, DHCP, DFS, File Service, Print Services, Web-Server (IIS 6), Application Server, TCP/IP Networking, FTP, HP PROLIANT Range of Servers(DL385,DL 585,DL 580), Dell Power Edge & IBM X series Range of Servers like Dell(Dell Servers: Power Edge 2950, Dell Power Edge R900, R710, R700), IBM iSeries AS/400 RISC V5R1-Model 840, IBM iSeries AS/400 RISC V4R5-Model 820 & 270, IBM AS/400 CISC V3R1-Model 300, ISCSI SAN, FC SAN, NAS, EMC (Clarion, DMX, Data Domain, CX4, VPlex, Atmos, VMAX, Avamar), C,C++, Java,Oracle9i /10g, SQLSERVER 2000/2005/2008, MYSQL, Perl, Shell, PowerCLI .

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Senior VMware Administrator

Confidential, Fort Worth, TX

Responsibilities:

• Implementation of VMware vSphere 5.0 with Enterprise Plus Features of vDistributed Switch and Host Profiles Upgrade Experience from VMware Infrastructure 4.0, 3.5 to vSphere 4.0 and Update 1 including vCenter4.0, ESX Hosts, Update manager, vSphere client, and Virtual machines tools and H/W upgrade to vSphere 5.0 (Ver 8) .
• VM Servers build & rebuild (Deploying the New VM from the Template and Cloning an Existing VM) as per the client request through change management process.
• Security hardening and Monitoring of VM’s & ESX servers (CPU, Memory, Disk, Network Utilization) for Security Compliance.
• Performing Snapshots, Cloning, cold migrations and hot migrations.
• Moving VM’s from one LUN to another LUN using Storage VMotion.
• Design and deploy failover clustered Hyper-V environments.
• Implemetation of Server 2012 Hyper-V high-availability, shared-nothing live migrations and software defined networking.
• Installation of ESX 5 Nodes, vCenter 5, Update manager, and Administering VM’s across 2 Datacenters running around 10000 VM’s while migrating servers from different locations on the globe.
• Rebuilt Hyper-V environment and transitioned into a cluster, providing High Availability and Failover.
• Consult with customers to determine their technical requirements, business continuity, virtualization strategy, and define their business transformation strategic plans
• Specializing in Private Cloud solutions on vCloud Director running on VCE vBlocks
• Along with VMWare, The client used HYPER-V for some Window servers.
• Support the business intelligence and reporting demands of the company using tools such as AS400 Query, SQL, and RPG.
• Migration of production Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V cluster to Server 2012 Hyper-V cluster.
• Experience delivering business systems using RPG (ILE).
• Support the business intelligence and reporting demands of the company using tools such as AS400 Query, SQL, and RPG.
• Installing IBM operating system upgrades, creating devices and printers.
• Plan and lead training sessions for new and existing departments as part of the "Lion Team" initiative; facilitate at least 3 sessions per month.
• Management of Hyper V production platform, development platform and DMZ platform.
• Installation of vCenter5.1 Single Sign on Server (sso), Inventory Services and vCenter5.1
• Implementation of SRM 5.0 at both the locations of AIG in NJ and TX to recover thousand’s of virtual machines including production, new VM’S, P2V, V2V and clones.
• Implementation of install, design and configuration of VMware’s vCloud Automation center for both NJ and TX data center locations.
• Successfully upgraded nearly every Opsware customer in the Livingston/Fort worth locations Used precision and careful, thorough planning to turn nightmare, disaster-prone on-site product upgrades into successes.
• Support the business intelligence and reporting demands of the company using tools such as AS400 Query, SQL, and RPG.
• As a service desk technician, Identify, isolate and repair computer equipment .showing wear and tear as well as during preventative maintenance routines.
• Implementation Of different Host Profiles for Multiple Clusters across Multiple Data centers
• Experience of Storage Migration on 5000 VM’s (Fiber channel Upgrade from EMC DMX-3 to DMX-4).
• Managing EMC Data Domain for transform backup, archiving, disaster recovery with high-speed, efficiently replicate backup and archive data.
• Experience with EMC VPlex used for data mobility, continuous Availability, migrations, stretched clusters and scale out cluster architecture.
• Hands on experience with EMC Atmos for Object-based cloud storage platform to store, archive and access unstructured content at scale.
• EMC Atmos provides the essential building blocks for enterprises and service providers to transform to private, hybrid, and public cloud storage.
• Designed and implemented a best-in-class Solaris Patching feature based on my own professional services work while consulting at Opsware customers.
• EMC Avamar used for optimized bandwidth, one step recovery, high reliability, flexible deployment, faster backup and recovery,
• Implementation of SRM 5.0 on vSphere across multiple sites to provide Disaster recovery solution for VMware Vsphere Environment, vSphere Linked Mode and replicated storage, Configuring Sites Roles and Privileges, Alarms for monitoring the Site Status. Failback Testing from Protected Site to Recovery Site in SRM and Shared Recovery Site across multiple Protected Sites.
• Install, maintain & monitor Citrix 4.5 Server.
• Maintenance and troubleshooting of Citrix Server farm running 800 + Windows 2003 and 2008 servers.
• Installation and Configuration vCenter HeartBeat for vCenter failover and FailBack Purpose.
• Deployed virtualized CUCM on the Cisco UCS C260 M2, Cisco UCS C200M2 and Cisco UCS C210 M2 rack-mount servers and ran load on the CUCM instance.
• Implemented new policy using Active Directory for USB Lockdown for Mass Storage.
• Responsible for maintaining all Dell Servers, Citrix Servers, VMWare and Microsoft Virtual server 2005 R2.
• Responsible for migration of 1200 users 20 application from Citrix XP Farm to 4.0 to 4.5.
• Huge P2V Experience using VMware converter running different applications with Different Hardware.
• Performed load testing of the Cisco UCS B440 blade server (Intel Westmere-E7 4870, 2.4 GHz), for CUCM.
• Install, maintain & monitor Citrix 4.5 Server making sure they are up-to-date with latest rollup hot fix and service packs as well server 2003 and 2008 update.
• Migration and P2V conversion Experience on many applications like SQL Server, Exchange running on Windows and some applications running on Linux Redhat and SUSE and VMkernel Linux appliances.
• Experience on Host Profiles, Distributed Switch, DRS, VMotion, SV-Motion, Resource pools, permissions, Patches, Snapshots, Tools Upgrade, disk expansions, Templates, and many more.
• Building Windows 2008 Servers and upgrading Windows 2003 on both physical and virtual machines.
• Database Upgrade for vCenter and update manager from SQL 2005 to SQL 2008 on 2 VCenter Servers
• Building VM’s and new Templates for new Projects and allocating them to appropriate Resource pools.
• Administering Windows 2003/2008 Active Directory, DNS, DHCP and building new windows physical/virtual servers as per the requirement of the project
• Generating Reports and graphs on Performance of ESX Nodes
• Remote installation of ESX Hosts, Windows 2008 Servers using Raritan and Communicating with Network/Storage teams for Server Support.
• Upgrading the Firmware to the latest version/date on the BIOS/ controllers/ hard drives.
• Installed the ProLiant Support Packs (PSP) to deploy software updates remotely and thereby reducing server maintenance costs.
• Installed the VMware Capacity Planner in planning, designing and implementing the virtual infrastructure environment and monitoring of virtual environments.

Environment: HP ProLiant BL Series, Smart Start 8.4, VMware VSphere 5.0, ESX 3.5, Virtual Center, Virtual Infrastructure Client, VCenter Lab manager, VCenter Capacity Planner, Clustering, Windows Server 2003/2008, Exchange 2003, Symantec Endpoint, TSM Backup.

VMware Administrator

Confidential, Jersey City, NJ

Responsibilities:

• Installation and configuration of VMware VSphere 4.0, ESX 3.5 on a Dell 2950 Power Edge M1000, VMware Infrastructure Client, VMware Virtual Center, License Server and VCB Setup.
• Monitored the Dell 2950 Power Edge M1000 Servers using the Dell Insight manager and provided the maintenance in case of power failures, and performed the device mapping.
• Designed the Infrastructure and administered the environment running over 20 ESX Hosts and 500 Virtual Machines. Also, designed the performance monitoring processes and improved disaster recovery processes to utilize virtualization benefits.
• Citrix farm migration from XP to Citrix 4.0 Presentation servers. Setup new farm and build 15 new Citrix servers with Citrix 4.0. Use Raid 0 for 25 web servers, Raid 5 for Sql Database that houses the SQL 4.0 farm.
• Managing the network for 30 plus employees managing the server platforms for Windows 2008 Server and Windows 2003 Server Maintaining Hyper-V, Active Directory Accounts Management.
• Worked closely with Storage and Networking teams to ensure allocated SAN (Xiotech Magnitude 3D 4000S), Fiber and networking infrastructure reflected specifications laid out in initial VMware firm design to ensure successful deployment.
• Monitoring and administration of VMware’s vCloud Automation center for North America location servers.
• Determining customer requirements and designing VMware-based solutions architectures spanning VMware’s product portfolio from the vCloud Suite to the Horizon Suite to meet the functional and business requirements of a range clients of various sizes and across verticals.
• Management of Hyper V production platform (9 nodes), development platform (5 nodes) and DMZ platform (3 nodes)
• Creation and management of Virtual Machines, Installing VMware tools, creating templates, cloning, deploy Virtual Machines from Templates.
• Install, maintain & monitor Citrix 4.0 Server.
• Planning, implementing and managing Microsoft Exchange Server 2003.
• Expertise in VERITAS Cluster Server 4.0/3.5/2, Redhat Cluster Server, HP MC/Service Guard A11.01/10.11, Zone administration and configuration.
• Implementation of EMC products Data Domain, Clarion, DMX, Data Domain, CX4, VPlex, Atmos, VMAX and Avamar.
• Managed VMware, Windows Server 2003, Active Directory and Microsoft’s SMS 2003.
• Responsible for creating, cloning Linux Virtual machines using VMware virtual client 3.5.
• Installed, configured and managed Redhat Cluster Suite in Linux servers.
• Designed and implemented Microsoft SMS 2003 server site hierarchy for Asset Management and managing security update.
• Worked on live upgrades in Solaris and HP-UX servers. Configured and managed Zettabyte File System (ZFS) in Solaris, HP-UX and Linux Servers.
• Create Snapshot and test Rollback, configure VMotion, Cluster and Failover.
• Analyzed existing infrastructure using VMware Capacity Planner.
• Configure VCB, which dumps the backup to Veritas Netbackup Server and Seagate Backup- Backup Proxy Server.
• Day to day support and maintenance of Operating Systems.
• Disk management, Data management, Security management (applying patches).
• Monitored Server Hardware and Operating Systems.
• Worked on Symantec Antivirus and Symantec Endpoint protection for administering updates and cleanup of a community of more than 400 workstations.
• Provided remote support and Administration on network for Internal and External clients using tools like Microsoft Remote Desktop connection, Putty and Team Viewer.
• Participated in development and maintenance of Disaster Recovery & Backup.
• Resource Management- Configuring VMware HA, VMware DRS Clusters for VMotion- migrations between ESX Servers.
• Updated the Patches for ESX Servers using VMware Update Manager in Virtual Center.

Environment: Dell 2950 PowerEdge M1000, VMware VSphere 4.0, ESX 3.5, VM Converter, Virtual Center, Virtual Infrastructure Client, VMotion, VReplicator, clustering, SAN/NAS, VCB, Vcenter Capacity Planner, Disaster Recovery & Backup, VMWare HA & DRS, Windows Server 2000/2003/2008, Veritas Netbackup, Seagate Backup..

VMware/Systems Administrator

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Responsibilities:

• Administrating production servers/network infrastructure that includes Windows Administration of Domain Controllers, IIS Web Servers (HTTP/S, FTP and SMTP), Exchange 2003 Mail Servers, NAS, File and print Servers, RADIUS, Blackberry 5.0 and Terminal Servers on Windows 2003/2008.
• Responsible production support of Active directory (AD), GPO, Domain users, Users and groups and given appropriate permissions, shares and privilege to access LAN and Domain environment.
• Administrating/Responsible production Exchange 2003 Email Server, creating/disabling users, Mailboxes management, public folders administration, monitoring server health, LDAP, smtp traffic/queues, Resolving Outlook issues.
• Installed, Configured and Implemented Terminal Server (TS) RemoteApp on IIS 7.0 Windows 2008 R2 published applications using TS Web Access, RemoteApp programme and TS Gateway.
• Implemented Microsoft Clustering for IIS Web Servers.
• Familiar with web based .Net application, xml integration in IIS web server, IIS Clustering, Load Balancing, Logging and Reporting.
• Familiar with windows, software and Hardware based Firewalls. Allow/Block ports, inbound/outbound tcp/udp traffic, PAT/NAT, Remote Access VPN and site to site vpn, content filtering, log alayzing, reporting, configurations of Syslog, snmp, access control.
• Installed and Implemented VMware ESXi 4.0 host servers with vSphere Client, vSphere CLI. Configured HBAs and iSCSI SAN storage.
• Familiar with backup and restore of Vmware host server configuration, Virtual Machine backup, snapshot, P2V-V2V conversation with VMware converter and with other third party converters, Patch updation, monitoring/reporting, SSH and SNMP and notification of alerts.
• Installed and implement NFS server using windows UNIX service and configured with VMware Host servers for storage.
• Installed, Configured Citrix Xen Server and Windows 2008 Hyper-V R2 on Dell Hardware with ISCSI networks.
• Administrating Symantec Endpoint Antivirus console, managing 300+ antivirus client’s computers like definition updates, Exception policies, scanning, reporting etc…
• Installation and maintenance of EMC products Data Domain, DMX, Data Domain, VPlex, Atmos, VMAX and Avamar.
• Installed and implemented open source OpenFiler 2.3 iSCSI SAN with RAID 10 for Vmware and other servers with iSCSI initiators. Also managing iStor SAN and Symantec Backup Exec 12.
• Connected Thin Client (WYSE, DevonIT), desktop Windows Xp2 clients to RDS 6.1.
• Installed and implemented Manage Engine monitoring application and configured SNMP and WMI on Servers and other network devices for reporting and alerts notifications.
• Responsible for helpdesk support using Spiceworks ticketing system, inventory and system reporting.
• Participated in the migration planning, developing, testing and moving the migration process onto full-fledged production network.

Environment: Windows 2000/2003/2008, Exchange Server 2003, Windows XP/Vista/Win 7, VMware ESXi 4.0 Server,Open filer iSCSI SAN/NAS, iStore SAN, Dell PowerEdge Servers, Dell PowerVault NAS, Zywall and SonicWall Firewall, Remote desktop services .

Systems Administrator

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Installed the Windows 2000 and 2003 Servers in the organization with over 50 clients.
• Created the user accounts and profiles, assigned permissions using Active Directory, a directory service which contains information of all user accounts and which optimizes the network traffic. It provides the user logon and authentication services using Kerberos.
• Administered the Group Policy, a collection of permissions, security and rights which can be applied on sites domains and OU’s. Also used group policy to automatically upgrade, repair software installation online.
• Installation and support of desktops with Windows 2000 and Windows XP Operating system.
• Provide Remote support and administration on network for internal and external clients using tools like Microsoft remote desktop connection.
• Provide day to day support (troubleshooting & installing) for more than 50 users for hardware, network& software’s including Microsoft Office applications, Mail clients and other network related issues.
• Installation and configuration of network Printers.
• Managed the member server, a server which hosts services like IIS, DNS, and DHCP.
• Protected the organization’s network from unwanted traffic coming from the internet using ISA Server which is a proxy server and a web caching server.
• Provided the backup and recovery of the files and data, worked on Windows Firewall, Terminal server, trouble shooting the computer related problems.
• Attending regular calls of the users related to computers & network problems.

Environment: Windows 2000 and 2003 Servers, Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, Group Policy, Backup and Recovery, IIS (HTTP & FTP), Managing the Domain and the Domain Controller, ISA, Terminal Services, Disk Management, File Sharing.