SUMMARY:

• 7 years of comprehensive and in - depth experience in Designing, Implementing, Maintaining Virtual Infrastructure Environment using VMware.
• Expertise working wif VMware vSphere, ESXi 5.x,4.xvCenter server 4.x, 5.x and VMware Converter.
• Designing, Implementing, Maintaining Virtual Infrastructure Environment using VMware.
• Proficient at designing enterprise-wide and disaster recovery solutions dat substantially improve operating stability, efficiency and profitability.
• Experience in Configuring, maintaining and troubleshooting of desktop computers, printers, laptops, servers, routers, DSL connections and networks
• Exceptional skills in configuring Domain Controllers, DNS, DHCP roles in Confidential server environments
• Maintain Microsoft Confidential Servers (2003 and 2008), DNS DHCP and Active Directory.
• Networking Protocols TCP/IP, DHCP, DNS, WINS, Active Directory, Terminal Services, FTP
• Build and troubleshooting experience in vRASuite 6.1
• Experience in Deployment of vRA Application services.
• Installed and configured vRO 6.1
• Installed vCenter/SQL/vRA Plugins for integration.
• Worked on all components of the vRA Suite.
• Designed change management workflows for VDI system.
• Developed VDI implementation roadmap.
• Created VDI administrator roles\responsibility model.
• Experience in ESX Architecture, guest O/S installation, setting up of VM priorities, Cloning, Creating Templates and Snapshots
• Experience in Physical to Virtual (P2V) and Virtual to Virtual conversions by using VMware Converter, Platespin Power convert.
• Powershell scripting and automation development, Microsoft Orchestrator.
• Strong understanding of Powershell 4.0.
• Extensive experience in working wif the vMotion and Storage vMotion technology
• Strong Experience in vNetwork concepts: vSwitch and dvSwitch
• Experience wif Cisco UCS blades and HP C7000 chassis and its components.
• Experience wif Cisco Nexus 1000v switch and Virtual distributed switch.
• Strong experience wif the VMware HA (High Availability), Fault Tolerance, Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) and VMware Distributed Power Management
• Have noledge in troubleshooting the issues and working wif incident management.
• Worked wif VMware vSphere Update manager on the vcenter server as well as on an individual server component for a linked mode vcenter configuration.
• Worked wif multiple vcenter servers and several data centers in an organization
• Worked on a POC wif VMware vCloud Director 1.5
• Hands on Experience wif Hardware Installation, Upgrade and maintenance.
• Expertise in Troubleshooting, research, Development and supported 24/7 on call.
• Strong communication skills, systematic approach and quick adaptability to newer technologies.
• Work well both independently and as part of a team. Work well under tight schedules and high priorities.
• Devoted to meeting client needs and deadlines wif excellent end products.
• Strong interpersonal skills, wif demonstrable verbal and written communication skills to maintain TEMPeffective work relationships at all levels.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Virtualization: ESXi 5.5/5.1/5.0VMware vSphere5.5/5.1/5.0, Virtual Center Server 5.5/5.1/5.0/4.1/4.0., VMware HA, DRS and FT, vMotion, Storage vMotion, VMware Converter 5/4/3, VMware Converter boot CD.

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

Servers: IBM x3850/x3950 Servers, HP Blade Servers, HP Proliant ML & DL series 580, 380, 360, Compaq Proliant 3000/5500 Series Servers, Wintel Servers.

Storage: IBM XIVs, EMC Centerra.

BackupSoftware: Symantec NetBackup and Backup exec, Vranger Pro, Veeam tools and VMware.

SystemsMgmt: Microsoft SCCM 2012 and 2007, HP iLO, Raritan Dominion KVM Switches, IBM XIV Management studio and EMC Management.

Databases: Microsoft SQL Server 2008/2005.

DocumentationApps: MS Visio, MS Project, MS Office 2010/ 2007/2003.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

VMware Engineer

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Responsibilities:

• Hands-on experience in Deployment, requirement gathering, Installation, administration.
• Successfully configured ESX servers for HA and DR capabilities.
• Configured and deployed Cisco computing clusters wif VMware ESXi 5.5 and vCenter 5.5.
• Experienced in applying monthly updates to Confidential servers 2003/2008R2/2012 versions.
• Maintained and troubleshot Confidential servers Confidential 2003, 2008R2 and 2012 versions Creating disk spaces for Confidential servers.
• Performing physical to virtual servers (P2V) migration wifout downtime.
• Involved in performing Vmotion and Vstorage administration for successful data migration.
• Working on PowerShell scripting to automate manual processes.
• Leveraged VRA6.1 suite for Private Cloud Solution.
• Created tenants on VRA.
• Added Endpoints (vcenter and VRO) to VRA.
• Design, document and support a VDI infrastructure using Microsoft 2008 R2 Hyper-V for server virtualization
• Design and test back-end storage for optimal performance for VDI infrastructure
• Supervising the distribution of existing VDI machines\ pools & creation of new VDI machines\pools
• Introducing VDI standards - VDI naming convention, AD group entitlements, ESX alerts, VDI power-on rules, snapshot retentions, & VDI evaluation\approval\charge backs.
• Created Single Machine and Multi-Machine Blueprints on VRA and published the blueprints as services to service Catalog.
• Designed and Tested of Multi Tier deployment in VRA Application services.
• Parsed Active Directory wif Powershell.
• Developing PowerShell scripts to deploy solutions
• Managing VM's by vSphere Client and Web Client.
• Upgraded 100+ ESX hosts from ESX 5.0 to ESX 5.5 using VMware Update Manager tool.
• Administration of user and group accounts and providing appropriate rights to user accounts according to their requirements.
• Installation and configuration of EMC Power Path in ESXi for SAN Storage Path optimization.
• Use of HP ILO for the debugging and troubleshooting of servers in a datacenter remotely.
• Involved in creation of virtual switches and configuration of NIC for a clustered environment
• Administration,VMwareconfiguration and Administration, Network devices, Security devices for datacenter.
• Understanding and experience SAN concepts, snapshots, clustering and fail-over, file permission management and disaster recovery.
• Successfully deployed and tested Disaster recovery solutions for selected business applications using EMC
• UsedVMwareUpdate Manager to install critical and locally tested updates to the ESX Host.
• Grouped physical disks into logical volumes dynamically sized and resized volumes to fit in the application.
• Troubleshot network issues between Distributed vSwitch, Layer 2 switches and resolved slow performance between SAN network and VM networks
• Responsible for day-to-day operational maintenance, support, and upgrades forWindows servers and VMWare. Performs software installations and upgrades to operating systems and layered software packages.

Environment: VMware ESX 3.5/4.0/4.1, ESXi 5.5/5.1/5.0, vSphere 5.5/5.1/5.0, vCenter 5.5/5.1/5.0, MS Confidential Server 2012 R2/2008 R2/2003, Clusters, SAN, NIC, EMC, Virtual Switches.

VMware Administrator

Confidential, Celebration, FL

Responsibilities:

• Administrated server consolidation program through use of VMware ESX server and VMware Virtual Center, using Virtual Center, ESX, creating VMs, building VM templates and customization files, and scheduling tasks,Configured DNS, DHCP
• Performed Data Center Migration of Physical Servers to Virtual Servers (P2V).
• Configuring HA/DRS related advanced configuration settings per VMware Best practices
• Configuring VMFS based storage in virtual center
• Configuring virtual networking related security, traffic shaping and load balancing policies
• Created standard templates and deployed virtual machines from these templates
• Involved in operational support of Active Directory, WINS, DNS, and AD enabled applications.
• Deploying HA & DRS Cluster, Managing cluster resources.
• Monitoring vBlock Hardware health/Availability status and event alarms for Incident Management
• Understanding and experience wif DAS, SAN and NAS concepts, snapshots, clustering and fail-over, file
• Management of LAN/WAN infrastructure as a member of Network Monitoring Team
• Upgraded 100+ ESX hosts from ESX 4.0 to ESX 5.0 using VMware Update Manager tool.
• Creating and configuring Standard Switch (vSwitch), VM Kernel Ports, VM ports, Service console ports and NIC teaming through vCenter Server.
• VNX Block Storage Provisioning and Management and integration wif vSphere
• Backup administration using Symantec BackupExec and Symantec NetBackup.
• Performed data center Migration & Maintained data center Environment
• Monitoring vBlock Hardware health/Availability status and event alarms for Incident Management
• Conduct Confidential server implementation, migration and patching as to ensure minimal impact.
• VMAX and VNX storage system Implementation and administration in VMware environment.
• Experienced in Installing and configuring CiscoUCS Blades B200M2 B230M1 C200, HP C7000, Compaq, and Dell Servers
• Experienced deploying VMs using VMware templates.
• Installation Vcenter server and Configuring ESXi - host's wifin the cluster using VMotion and HA.
• Providing and maintaining user access in VMware virtual Center, configuring mail alert for any failure in HA, DRS, CPU and memory
• Administered user accounts, domain accounts, administrative rights, security, and distribution groups wif Active Directory.
• Created many PowerShell scripts to improve processes and efficiencies.
• Scripting in Powershell 2.0 - 4.0 to achieve automation of routine Confidential tasks.
• Participated/coordinated Weekly Status meetings and reported on the project status, Incident Reports and Change Management for the transition process.

Environment: VMware ESX 4.0/4.1, ESXi 5.5/5.1/5.0,vSphere 5.1/4.x, vCenter 5.1/4.x, Wintel Servers, MS Confidential Server 2012/2008 R2/2003, Confidential 8/7/XP, Active Directory, DNS, TCP/IP, SQL Server 2005, Remedy, Exchange 2007, SAN, NAS, VMAX and VNX.

VMware Administrator

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Developed and enhanced an enterprise wide VMware and x86 hardware standard for multi-site organization including ESX/ESXi, Confidential 2000/2003/2008 OS and server built standards.
• Designed and Implemented virtualization solutions based on VMware ESXi andvCenter Server components and managed virtual center permissions.
• VM migration across cluster level using V2V, Mount files option and SCP.
• Configured VMware on clustered environment, Implemented Migration of Virtual Machines using VMotion, Storage VMotion
• Configured Confidential clustering for vCenter server high availability.
• Implementation of different Host Profiles for Multiple Clusters across Multiple Data centers.
• Worked wif 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 Netback up and other backup and recovery systems.
• Administered VMware environment, evaluated and implemented new hardware and software solutions dat benefited architecture and operations.
• Identified and fixed ESX performance bottlenecks by working wif 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 by VMware SRM 5.0 (Planned Migration, Disaster Recovery) and eliminated the complexity of managing and testing recovery plans.
• Installed and configured vCenter update manager for installing ESXi patches and also to upgrade ESXiKernel.
• Took active part in troubleshooting vCenter and ESXi issues and also in system hardware failures.
• Migrating infrastructure VMs from VSphereESXi hosts.
• Configuration of VMotion, vSwitch, and VLAN in VMware Virtual center.
• Created resource pools and added VM's into the pools

Environment: VMware, ESXi 5.5/5.1/5.0,vSphere 5.0/4.x, vCenter 5.0/4.x,Wintel Servers,MS Confidential Server 2008 R2/2003, Confidential 7/XP, Active Directory, HP Proliant DL and Blade Servers.

VMware Administrator

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Created Virtual Machines and Installed VMware Tools
• Provided physical to virtual migrations for servers utilizing VMware Converter, Vizioncore.
• Configured DNS, DHCP.
• Managed &Troubleshooted Virtual Network issues
• Worked on VMware clustering like HA and DRS clusters using VC.
• Patched all Confidential servers and workstations wif updates through WSUS server wif Company standards
• Customized 2000/2003 servers in terms of Registry, Audit/Account/Security policy, patching, to sustain.
• Interacted wif different teams to meet the deadlines and participated in weekly meetings Developed network management processes wifin the ITIL v3 Framework wif the team. Roles and Responsibilities:-
• Documented Disaster Recovery & Data Center Security Plan for Marc Jacobs IT Infrastructure
• Management of LAN/WAN infrastructure as a member of Network Monitoring Team.
• 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 Confidential 2000 Active Directory and Confidential NT legacy domain.
• Investigated new technologies, software, patches, and security packages, which will improve system performance and systems administration procedures.
• Managed and supported Confidential NT/2000/2003 Active Directory domain network in multi-locations.
• Documentation of end-user workstation for troubleshooting tips and maintenance procedures for help desk.

Environment: VMwareESX 4.1, ESXi 5.5/5.1/5.0,vSphere 4.x, Confidential Server 2008/2003, Active Directory 2003, SQL Server 2008/2005, HP ProLiant Servers.