PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Over 7 +years of experience as VMware Administration and Windows Administration.
• Comprehensive Hands - On Experience in Designing, Implementing, VMware Virtualization Technologies, Storage Design, Microsoft Technologies and Network Infrastructure.
• Designed, Installed and Configured VMware ESX/ESXi within vSphere 3.5, 4,4.1,5 and VMware View 4.5, 4.6 environments, Consolidated Backup,load balancing, DRS, HA, FT, DPM, vMotion and VMware Data Recovery, VCloud directory & VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM) 4.0/4.5
• Experience in maintaining VMware ESX / ESXi environment, VCloud Suite, Microsoft Windows Server, EMC Storage Arrays, Citrix Xen app, Xen Desktop, Data Center management and day-to-day operations with Skill and Efficiency.
• Built, Configured and Deployed VMs and Templates. Migrated Physical-to-Virtual (P2V) and Virtual-to-Virtual (V2V) Migration of Windows XP, 7, 2000, 2003, & 2008 from VMware and Hyper-V
• Experience Working within a Cross Functional Team Environment to Achieve Position Objectives
• Proficient in Developing Procedural & Technical Artifacts for Support & Customer Implementation
• Installed Patches and Host Profiles on ESXi hosts and virtual machines using VMware Update Manager
• Designed and Implemented VMware environment backup procedures and disaster recovery solutions
• Worked with Fiber SAN/iSCSI SAN/NAS (EMC (CX30), NetApp, Dell MD3000i Dell MD 3200i, and troubleshooting SAN related issues and upgraded firmware of SANs in VMware and Windows
• Worked on VMware clustering like HA and DRS clusters using VC.
• Failover clustered Hyper-V environments and Create virtual machines within Hyper-V.
• Strong experience in System Administration, Installation, Upgrading, Patches, Migration, Configuration, Troubleshooting, Security, Backup, Disaster Recovery, Performance Monitoring and Fine-tuning on UNIX (SUN Solaris, Red Hat Linux, Linux SUSE verions)Systems.
• Administration of Windows 2003 and Windows 2008 / R2 Failover Clusters.
• Plan, Design and Implement Hyper-V Clustered environment, providing High Availability and Failover and Migration of Hyper-V cluster 2008 R2 to Server 2012 Hyper-V cluster
• Deployed and Maintained Microsoft Technologies including: Windows Servers 2000, 2003, 2008, 2008 R2; SQL servers 2005, 2008, DNS, DHCP, Active Directory, Group Policy Design and Implementation, IIS 6.0; Remote Desktop Services, Windows Deployment Services, Microsoft Deployment WorkBench
• Worked on Dell Powervault Manager, Active Directory Services, Wireshark, PRTG, Perfmon, ESXTOP, Xangati, Remote Desktop Connections, PCOIP, Tomcat Server, PowerShell, vSphere CLI, VMware Workstation, MS Office Suite 2007/2010 and Lotus Notes
• Designed and maintained infrastructure using Dell and HP ProLiant Servers, Wyse Thin and Zero Clients, Storage Hardware, Cisco Routers and Catalyst Switches, Symantec Backup and Antivirus.
• Concepts for latest Technologies, Documentation and verifying Test cases for Future implementations of VSphere 5.5, VMware VOPS (VMware Operations Manager) and VMware vShield.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Software: VI3,VMware vSphere 4.0/4.1/5.0, VMware ESX 2.5/3.0/3.5, VMware ESXi 3.5/4.0/4.1/5.1,5.5, VMware vCenter, vSphere Client,linux (RHEL), Linux (Red Hat, SUSE/OpenSUSE, CentOS),VMware VDI, VCO, VCD, Vshpere data protection,API,VMware ThinApp, View 4.6/5.0, Microsoft Hyper-V, VMAX, VMware Update Manager, Platespin migrator, Quest Vconvertor,vcloud Director, Vops, VBlock and vshieldEdge.

Network: Cisco Catalyst switches, L3 and L2 switches, Checkpoint, Netgear, HP Switches (Flex switches).

Storage: Dell PowerVault, EqualLogic PS Series, NetApp, EMC Clariion,LUNs, storage arrays, Hitachi storage HUS 150.

Databases: Oracle and MS SQL Server and MS Access,Clustering Solution with Microsoft Cluster Services 2-4 node clusters for file systems, SQL 2005 with Database clustering and application clusters

Servers: Dell PowerEdge, HP ProLiant DL Series, ML Series, ACP ThinClients

Directory Services: DHCP & DNS server services and Administration of IIS 6.0 /7.0

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential,Redmond, WA

VMware Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for maintaining around 65+ VMware ESXi 5.5 Hosts & 700+ guest virtual machines (VMs) in Data Center.
• Installed and configured vCenter Servers and also configured Clusters and resource pools for CaaS (Computing as a Service) Instance builds.
• Working on HP C7000 chassis and DL 380 P server where we were using vcenter
• Designed and implemented fully automated DRS and HA clusters with HP servers and Hitachi SAN storage HUS 150.
• Used Cisco 2911 terminal server for login access for consoles like iLO, Flex switches, HP c7000 blades, DL 380P Juniper routers MX960.
• Build, configure and deploy VMware Virtual Machines and templates.
• Creating and managing multiple snapshots.
• Installed vCenter Heartbeat as part of CAAS vCenter server design for failover and SQL replication.
• Configured Clusters for the ESXi hosts and created Anti-Affinity rules in the DRS to either keep the VMs together or separate them on ESXi hosts.
• Created Standard and Distributed Switches (dvSwitch) in the vCenter servers for making use of best network design and stability across the vCenter servers.
• Installed and configured vCenter update manager for installing ESXi patches and also to upgrade ESXi Kernel.
• Took active part in troubleshooting vCenter and ESXi issues and also in system hardware failures.
• Migrating infrastructure VMs from vshpere ESXi hosts.
• Configuration of VMotion, vSwitch, and VLAN in VMware Virtual center.
• Created resource pools and added VM's into the pools.
• Providing and maintaining user access in VMware virtual Center, configuring mail alert for any failure in HA, DRS, CPU and memory.
• Working on troubleshooting the triggered alarms generated from VMware vCenter Server and solving the SNMP traps rise in vcenter.
• Responsible for performing monthly patching on infrastructure servers.
• Using Hot Plug feature for increasing the performances of virtual machine.
• Troubleshooting Backup & Restore issues and provide Root Cause Analysis in ATT standard format.
• Responsible for generating monthly CaaS usage reports to management for billing purpose.
• Resolve AOTS tickets and create Root Cause Analysis in Wiki page.
• Research, troubleshoot, and resolve system performance issues and outages.
• Validating and supporting new cloud solutions. This involves UAT, ORT testing and driving operational requirements. Outputs include Test Plans, Test Cases, Test Execution and Production Verification.
• Provided 24/7 on call support for Offshore team.
• Worked on Vsphere Data Protection for virtual machine backups and disaster recovery.
• Managed separate VMware clusters like QA, Development and Production.
• Perform capacity analysis of existing physical production environment using VMware Capacity planner.
• VMware tools upgrading and Windows patch updates.
• Migrated datacenters and converted physical servers to virtual servers using VMware Convertor.
• Created and Managed resource pools for Virtual Machines
• Monitoring and managing performance of ESXi servers and Virtual Machines using Virtual center server for HA, DRS.
• Involved in live migration of Virtual Machines and Virtual machines files using the VMotion and Storage VMotion.
• Handled the VMware solutions to support multiple storage connectivity options such as FC-SAN, iSCSI, NFS (NAS) and internal storage.
• Creation & Troubleshooting of Virtual Network, ESX & Virtual Machines
• Creation of templates from VMs and deploying VMs from templates
• Management of Mobile applications software running on each each virtual Machine running different Operating system like RHEL, CentOS, SUSE linux enterprise.

Environment: HP C7000 Chassis, DL 380 P, Windows 2008 r2, SQL server,Active directory server, VMware ESXi 5.5 Server, VMware vSphere, VMware vCenter,Storage HUS150, Juniper routers MX 960,VMware Standalone Convertor, vshper data protection, vshpere update manager, virtual connect manager.

Confidential, WA

System Engineering

Responsibilities:

• Evaluated and implemented new technologies. Deployed and maintained 150+ servers, windows servers that include VMware, Microsoft and RedHat Linux platforms.
• Conducted Log Analysis and Troubleshoots on Performance of ESXi environment
• Troubleshooted network issues between Distributed vSwitch, Layer 2 switches and resolved slow performance between SAN network and VM networks.
• 2000+ Red Hat, Suse, Fedora, AIX and windows servers.
• Maintained and installed Open SUSE Linux servers.
• Worked closely with developers and traders to implement time- and mission-critical trading applications.
• Kept hundreds of servers’ configurations in sync using cfengine and locally-developed solutions.
• Prototype Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization deployment. Symcor was a beta tester working with RedHat to deploy this service in production.
• Provided Consultation for Troubleshooting in Virtualization, SAN Configuration, Active Directory group policy design & Implementation and ESXi Distributed vSwitch Network Configuration
• Provided Technical Recommendations for Installation and Implementation of Virtual Environments in Industrial Pl2ants. Identified Administrative Standards, Issues and Process Improvements
• Created scripts in VB, Perl, powershell to Automate Tasks in the Guest VMs
• Migration and P2V conversion Experience on many applications like SQL Server, Exchange running on Windows and some applications running on Linux Red hat and SUSE and VMkernel Linux appliances.
• Built and maintained VMware and Windows Server Infrastructure for ‘Rockwell Automation Fair 2011 & 2012’
• 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
• Good experience in working on Vshield manager as security virtual appliances built for VMware vCenter Server integration and configured through a web-based user interface, a vSphere Client plug-in, a command line interface (CLI), and REST API.
• Presenting LUNs, RDM and storage to various different hosts such as windows, VMware along with host side configurations of SAN storage.
• LUN path mapping and keeping track of VM’s along with their datastores.
• Worked with vcloud directory to data services as virtual data centers that provide virtualized compute, networking,storage amd security .
• Develop Proof of concepts for latest Technologies, Documentation and verifying Test cases for Future implementations of VSphere 5.5, VCloud Automation Center, and Windows Server 2012, VMware VCloud director, VMware VOPS (VMware Operations Manager) and VMware vShield.
• Testing, Documentation and verifying Test cases for Future implementations of Windows Server 2012, SQL Server 2012, VMware VCloud director, VMware VOPS (VMware Operations Manager) and VMware vShield.
• Troubleshooting VSphere ESX/ESXi, ESXi Clusters, Host Profiles, vDistributed Switches, HA, DRS, VMotion, Storage VMotion, Fault Tolerance, Resource pools, Vcenter Permissions, Snapshots, Disk expansions, Templates, snapshots, Disaster Recovery (DR) and High Availability (HA) using PowerCLI and Remote CLI
• Server Type Owner and responsible for around 110 servers with Microsoft Windows Server 2003 / 2008 / 2008 R2, Consisting of Microsoft Clusters, SQL clusters, Webserver, Terminal Servers, License servers and other applications.
• Failover clustered Hyper-V environments and Create virtual machines within Hyper-V.
• Implementation Of different Host Profiles for Multiple Clusters across Multiple Data centers
• Developing Workflows with VMware VCloud Automation Center (vCAC), VMware Orchestrator, VMware PowerCLI, Microsoft Service Manager 2012 and Microsoft Orchestrator Run books for Automating tasks for Virtual Machine, Virtual Desktop, Application Approval and Deployment processes.
• Deploy vApp workflow is to provide a single call workflow that is capable of instantiating a vApp Template from vCloud Director (vCD) and performing a number of operations on the resulting vApp before actually deploying and powering it on.
• Had deployed an automated provisioning workflow using VCO along with vCD and/or VCOVCO scripting to automate the provisioning steps so that end users can provision infrastructure just by pushing a button.

Environment: HP DL 580 G5\G7, HPUX, DL380 G5\G6\G7\G8, vSphere 4 and 5, SRM5, Clustering, Net App FAS Devices,IBM SVC, Cisco Switches, Windows 2012/2008/2003, Unix Sles, linux SUSE(9-10), linux Redhat and rhel .

Confidential

System / VMware Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Installation, Configuration, and Maintenance of Microsoft Windows 2008 R2/2003 Servers on Dell Servers (physical/virtual environment).
• Good Understanding and Knowledge VBlock and components and experience with Cisco UCS administration .
• Implementation, remediation, testing and training of VCE Vblock cloud infrastructure with focus on virtualization and compute technologies.
• Implementation of VCE Vblock infrastructure as a private, hybrid and multi-tenant cloud solution supporting up to 5000 virtual machines in dell servers.
• Installation, Configuration and Administration of VMware ESXi 5.0, Virtual Center 4.0 Servers and also patching, management and troubleshooting of VMware, and ESX Servers.
• Created Domain User Accounts, Distribution Groups with Active Directory/Exchange environment.
• Involved in day to day support related to Data Center, documentation of run books, training, support, and coordination with off-shore team for moving/relocating Widows/VMware/Applications/Backup Support to offshore team.
• Installation of desktops in VDI environment.
• Implemented and tested Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) with the terminal Services as in RDP Services, and Citrix Receiver.
• Configured automated VM migrations using automated scripts in powershell.
• Established and documented best practices for creating Red Hat software policies for deploying RPMs to over 6000 servers.
• Wrote Linux/Perl/XML monitoring script that launched failed processes and sent notification.
• Automation, Support and Implementation of Citrix XenDesktop (CITRIX VDI) infrastructure, Desktop Delivery Controller (DDC) and VDA (Virtual Desktop Agent) for VDI Effort.
• Configuration, Administration and Troubleshooting of Active Directory, SCCM 2007, SCCM 2012, Group Policy Management(GPO), IIS 7.0.
• Designed, developed, maintained group website.
• Re-designed and coded migration software for unit, integration, and production levels
• Creating and Deploying Windows Server custom and base Images, Server Builds, Server loads using SCCM 2007. Automation and deployment of Security patches and hotfixes throughout the Enterprise for Windows, VMware and Citrix servers.
• Windows Base load image management, package creation and task sequence advertisements, using SCCM 2007 manifests and Enterprise wide Software Distribution.
• Administering Novell SuSE Linux super computer cluster and storage.
• Responsible for fixing Red Hat patching within the HPSA application.
• Wrote Perl script to restore unique permissions to over 5,000 files.
• Automation and Implementation of Citrix XenDesktop, XenApp and Citrix Edgesight updates, and work with re-structuring Citrix Infrastructure environments
• Extensively worked with Active Directory Services, IIS Servers, DNS, and DHCP.
• Configured and maintained new VM’s and Installed Microsoft Windows 2008/2003 Servers, managing VM’s and ESX servers.
• Support on ESX and VM Storage issues and coordination with Storage Team on planning and administration.
• Installed and Configured WIN, TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, IIS and Terminal Services.
• Involved in Installing, Clustering and Administration of SQL Server 2005 on Windows Cluster.
• Responsible for monitoring Backups and Restoration using CommVault/Simpana on Dell PowerVault ml6000.
• Participated/coordinated Weekly Status meetings and reported on the project status, Incident Reports and Change Management for the transition process.
• VMware ESX server Hardware setup in all sites with HA/DRS Clustering/Vmotion.
• Expericance in setting a cluster environment for load balancing and HA
• Networking setup with the port group and VLAN trunking on the ESX server and Physical switches.
• Monitoring and troubleshooting vSphere performance: CPU, memory, disk/storage, and other issues.
• Involved in planning and design of Site Recovery Manager Environment for disaster recovery.
• Experience in troubleshooting issues during Site Recovery Manager Implementation.

Environment: VMware ESXi 5.0/4.0, VSphere 4.0, VCenter 4.0, Windows Server 2008 R2/2003, Windows 8/7/XP, Active Directory, DNS, TCP/IP, SQL Server 2005, Remedy, Cluster Services, Exchange 2007, SCCM 2007, SCCM 2012, LinuxSUSE, Perl,powershell, Citrix XenDesktop 5.0 / 5.6, Citrix XenApp .

Confidential, Syracuse NY

System/VMware Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Developed and enhanced an enterprise wide VMware and x86 hardware standard for multi site organization including ESX/ESXi, Windows 2000/2003/2008 operating systems and server built standards.
• Designed and Implemented virtualization solutions based on VMware ESX 3,3.5 and vCenter Server components and managed virtual center permissions.
• Configured automated VM migrations using automated scripts in powershell. Standardized network cable runs for VMware hosts across multiple data center.
• VM migration across cluster level using v2v, Mount file option and SCP.
• Implementation of Host Profile in development cluster.
• Perform troubleshooting of operating system and software infrastructure issues on Domain Controllers, Member Servers, Server Clusters, and Virtual Machine Farms
• ConfiguredVMwareon clustered environment, Implemented Migration of Virtual Machines using VMotion, Storage VMotion
• Configured the standard cluster settings on vCenter clusters.
• Configured windows clustering for vCenter server high availability.
• Implementation Of different Host Profiles for Multiple Clusters across Multiple Data centers
• Worked with system, network, security, and storage engineering teams to prepare and configure new servers for the VMware ESX environment.
• Performed backup and recovery of all systems, configurations, applications and data in the data center environment using NetBackup and other backup and recovery systems.
• Administered VMware environment, evaluated and implemented new hardware and software solutions that benefited architecture and operations.
• Identified and fixed ESX performance bottlenecks by working with clients and other teams.
• Configured NFS server to share resources across multiple servers.
• Resolved Production Server problems related to web applications, Cluster failover, File system, DNS and network connectivity.
• Implemented successful recovery byVMwareSRM 5.0 (Planned Migration, Disaster Recovery) and eliminated the complexity of managing and testing recovery plans

Environment: IBM X Series, Dell Power Edge 2850,2950,.ESX3,ESX3.5 EMC Clarrion, Hitachi Storage, juniper switches .2003,NT, SLES UNIX .

Confidential

Junior 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 Confidential 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 training 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 Confidential 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 & Training - 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 Confidential 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.

Environment: Windows 2000/2003 Servers, VMware, Active Directory, NAS, IIS 4/5/6, REDHAT linux, Cisco routers and switches.