SUMMARY

• Extensive experience in IT Industry in Windows Administration, Virtualization using VMware and Virtual center management, Network Administration and Technical Support.
• Experience with Virtualization technologies like Installing, Configuring, and Administering VMware ESX/ESXi and Hyper - V. Created and managed VMs Virtual Server and also involved in the maintenance of Virtual Servers.
• Comprehensive background in the installation, upgrades, configuration, rollout and support of hardware, software, peripherals and network devices.
• Deployed key VMware ESX/ESXi technologies, expertise with HA/DRS, P2V.
• ESXI migrations from 5.0 to 5.5 to vSphere 5.5. Deployment of business-critical technologies -vSphere View and VMware SRM Site Recovery Manager.
• Experience working on Virtual Infrastructure, vSphere Client and setting up ESX in the virtual environment.
• Virtualizing desktop applications for use in aVDI environment through VMware ThinApp and App Volume.
• Extensive in VMware ESX/GSX/WORKSTATION/VMSERVER Server Farms.
• Designed Implemented and troubleshoot VMWARE ESXi 5.0/5.5 environments Virtual center management, VM Infra client support.
• Responsible for day to day management of VMware ESX farms, including provisioning, patch management and issue resolution.
• Performed successfully physical to virtual and virtual to virtual conversions of physical/virtual machines using VMware Converter.
• 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
• Installation and Configuration of VMware ESX/VSphere 5.x.
• Failover clustered Hyper-V environments and Create virtual machines within Hyper-V.
• Experience in Installing, Maintaining, Monitoring, Troubleshooting and Managing Blade Center server, Configuring and Zoning Storage Area Networks and SAN Switches and VMware ESX Server Administration.
• Build ESXi 4.X and 5.X on Cisco UCS and HP Blades as per the requirement.
• Managing Distribute switch using VSM Cisco Nexus 1000v.
• Commissioning and Decommissioning UCS Blades and Rack Mount Servers.
• Regularly Check Critical Alerts in UCSM and resolving them, if the issue is hardware or firmware or unknown then raising the Case with Cisco and following with them until fix the issue.
• Capacity Planning for Upcoming Build or Project.
• Periodically taking backup for UCS (Full state and all configurations).
• Upgraded firmware for UCS Severs, IO Modules and Fabric Interconnect
• UCS Server Deployment
• Strong experience in System Administration, Installation, Upgrading, Patches, Migration, Configuration, Troubleshooting, Security, Backup, Disaster Recovery, Performance Monitoring and Fine-tuning.
• Experience in Network LAN/WAN deployment, including IP Addressing and Troubleshooting.
• Experience with Active Directory Administration, Disaster Recovery Planning, Remote Access, Office Products, Routers, Switches and Backup devices.
• Strong knowledge in DNS, DHCP, network protocols, group policy, NetVault and Microsoft server OS.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

VMware Tools: ESX/ESXi Server 6.5/6.0/5.5/5.0 / 4.1/3.5/3.0/2.5 VSphere 6.5/6.0/5.5/5.0 /4.1 , VMware converter 4/3 and VMware VMotion, Hyper-v on server 2016/2012/2008 os.

Operating System: Windows 2008/2003/2000/ NT/7/Vista/XP, Unix/Linux installation.

Technologies: Citrix Secure access gateway, VMware ESX Server 3/3.5, VMware Player 1.0/2.0, VMware Converter 3.0, Virtual Center 2.5/3.0, Virtual Infrastructure 3.5, SAPR/3, 4.6b, 4.6c, ECC 5.0/ 6.0. Citrix MetaFrame Presentation Server 4.0/4.5 Xenapp, Cisco UCS Hardware, Cisco Routing and Switching, Office 365, Microsoft SCCM.

Core VMware Virtualization Skills: ESXi 6.5/6.0/5.5/5.0 , VSphere 6.5/6.0/5.5/5.0 /3 and 4, VI3, Virtual Center Server, P2V, V2V, Storage VMotion, Dell, HP, Cisco, ADDS, ADFS, SolarWinds SNMP, HA, DRS, SRM 4.0, Host Profiles, VApp, VMware Consolidated Backup, VMware Management Assistant, VMware VSphere Client.

Hardware: HP ProLiant DL360, DL380, DL580 Servers, BL465c Blade Servers and Dell Power

RDBMS: Oracle and MS SQL Server installation, and MS Access.

Networking Protocols: TCP/IP, HTTP, DHCP, DNS, POP3, SMTP, and SNMP.

Edge Servers. Routers: Cisco ASR 06 / 06 / 51 / 2600

Switches: Cisco Catalyst VSS 13 / 00 / 3945 E / 3750-X / Nexus 7K,5K,2K

Firewall: Cisco ASA 5520,5540,5585

Routing Protocols: OSPF, EIGRP, BGP, ISIS, VRF, PBR, Route Filtering, Redistribution, Summarization, Static Route

Backup Software: Symantec backup exec, Vizioncore VRanger Pro, and VMware.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Denver, CO

Sr VMware

Responsibilities:

• Work involves installing, configuring, and managing of virtual infrastructure using virtual center.
• Using VMware vCenter, created Datacenter Environment by creating VMware clusters, adding ESX hosts in the clusters and implementing HA and DRS.
• Installing, configuring and administration Virtual Infrastructure ESXi, VCenter, VSphere
• Virtual Center Server License Server Installation and Configuration
• Performing Snapshots, Cloning, Cold Migrations and Hot Migrations
• Creating templates from VM's, deploy VM's from templates and allocate resources
• Created clones and templates of Virtual Machines
• Deploying VMs Through Templates
• Troubleshooting issues relating to VMotion such as compatibility issues.
• Managing VCenter Server, Update manager.
• Configuring Alarms, Root Cause System Log Analysis and reporting
• Performance tuning of VMware Servers, Virtual Sessions and management of server resources.
• Troubleshooting problems with the help of Event Logs
• Manage VM's using VMware Virtual Center and Web Access
• Security hardening and monitoring VMs ESX server’s CPU, Memory, Disk, Network Utilization
• Configurations of Virtual Switches and Network Connections
• Migrate Physical Servers to Virtual Server using VMware Converter P2V Converter
• Creating and managing Resource Pools and adding the VMs into Resource Pools.
• Hold extensive practical knowledge in deployment, configuration, installation and troubleshooting of the VMware Infrastructure VSphere 5.5 (ESXi5.5), Cisco UCS /Dell Rack and Windows Servers.
• New Installation of Esxi host on Dell/Cisco UCS Blade (using boot lun) hardware using service profiles and template.
• Analyse and troubleshoot issues related to HP ProLiant and Blade Servers, mostly related to hardware problem analysis.
• Troubleshoot issues using most critical logs and report like ADU (Array Diagnostics Utility) Reports, Integrated Management Logs (IML), HPS Reports, HP insight Diagnostics Reports and HP System Management Homepage.
• Technically qualified to troubleshoot HP Proliant and Blade systems hardware issues.
• Trained on HP Blade systems, Proliant ML/DL Servers
• Having Good Experience in Configuring, Deploying and Troubleshooting Cisco UCS Fabric
• Build ESXi 4.X and 5.X on Cisco UCS and HP Blades as per the requirement.
• Managing Distribute switch using VSM Cisco Nexus 1000v.
• Commissioning and Decommissioning UCS Blades and Rack Mount Servers.
• Regularly Check Critical Alerts in UCSM and resolving them, if the issue is hardware or firmware or unknown then raising the Case with Cisco and following with them until fix the issue.
• Capacity Planning for Upcoming Build or Project.
• Periodically taking backup for UCS (Full state and all configurations).
• Upgraded firmware for UCS Severs, IO Modules and Fabric Interconnect
• UCS Server Deployment
• Regularly Check Critical Alerts in UCSM and resolving them, if the issue is hardware or firmware or unknown then raising the Case with Cisco and following with them until fix the issue.
• Capacity Planning for Upcoming Build or Project.
• Periodically taking backup for UCS (Full state and all configurations) and Automated the UCSM backup.
• Configuring network, storage using CIMC for Cisco standalone Blades.
• Knowledge in Data center and Server farm environment. Worked with CISCO UCS, IBM, Dell and HP hardware - Blades and Rack-mounted Server.
• Strong knowledge and hands on experience in Data Center Migrations.
• Implemented & Maintained a VBlock environment and worked with Cisco UCS administration and EMC SAN storage, VBlock300/700 infrastructure.
• Implementation and documentation of VMware vSphere 5.x, and 6.x.
• Worked with Backup and recovery configuration in Veaam backup 9.0
• Upgrade firmware on Cisco UCS manager and infrastructure elements
• Execute PowerShell script to automate regular infrastructure activities
• Create VLAN's in UCS manager and tag with vnics and create port groups in ESXi
• To be confirmed to delete raid and wipe out server before un-racking the server.
• Worked on Tuning-up vSphere Performance and Optimized Virtual Machine.
• Enhanced work flow during application deployment by using VMWare vCAC.
• Provided documentation based on solutions and guidelines. Manage Cisco servers using CISCO UCS MANAGER 2.x.
• P2V Migration Handled through VMware Convertor.
• Handled Many Builds & Migrations for Project Requirements
• Planning and Implementing Maintenance for UCS & HP Blades, VMware & Windows Environments f virtual environment
• Create a procedure for the P2V migration and decide along with the client team to decide which servers to be virtualized
• Using VMware Capacity Planner to analyse the server usage and recommend the configuration for new VM
• Creating a workflow for Pre-and Post-Migration
• Troubleshoot company websites related queries on each server, manage DFS Replication on all the servers
• Perform troubleshooting of operating system and software infrastructure issues on Domain Controllers, Member Servers, Server Clusters, and Virtual Machine Farms
• Manage and Troubleshoot queries regarding Active Batch for Enterprise Job Scheduling
• Manage VM's using VMware virtual center and Managing VM's through web access.
• Installing different flavours of windows servers.
• Configuring Administration of Windows 2003/2008/2012 , DHCP, DNS, Group Policies.
• Installing different applications like XenApp 6.0, IIS 5, 6 etc.
• Experience in administration of Active directory for users and computers.
• Good Exposure to backup tools like VERITAS Net backup and IBM Tivoli Manager
• Preparing daily checklists updating management.
• Monitoring, managing and reporting daily, weekly and monthly server status.

Environment: VMware VSphere 6.0/ 5.5/5.0/4/4.1/5.0 , ESX server 3.5/4/4.1, ESXi 6.0/5.5/5.0/4/4.1/5.0 , Windows 2012/2008/2003 , SQL 2005, vCenter 5.5/5.0/4.0/4.1/5.0 , IIS, HP Sitescope, DRS, P2V, V2V, vCenter update manager, SRM.

Confidential, Virginia

VMware Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Installation and configuration of VMware VSphere 5.0, ESXi 5.5 on a Dell R900, R710 Server, VMware Infrastructure Client, VMware Virtual Center and VCB Setup.
• Designed the Infrastructure and administered the environment running over 30 ESXi Hosts and 450 Virtual Machines. Also, designed the performance monitoring processes and improved disaster recovery processes to utilize virtualization benefits.
• Worked closely with Storage and Networking teams to ensure allocated SAN, Fiber and networking infrastructure reflected specifications laid out in initial VMware firm design to ensure successful deployment.
• Creation and management of Virtual Machines, Installing VMware tools, creating templates, cloning, deploy Virtual Machines from Templates.
• Managed VMware, Windows Server 2012, Active Directory.
• Designed and implemented Microsoft SMS 2003 server site hierarchy for Asset Management and managing security update.
• Create Snapshot and test Rollback, configure VMotion, Cluster and Failover.
• Analysed existing infrastructure using VMware Capacity Planner.
• Day to day support and maintenance of Operating Systems.
• Disk management, Data management, Security management (applying patches).
• Monitored Server Hardware and Operating Systems.
• 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 ESXi Servers.
• Updated the Patches for ESXi Servers using VMware Update Manager in Virtual Center.
• Technical support of Operating System (Windows NT/ 2000/2003/2008 )
• Implementation of Windows 2003 domain.
• Working closely with the network Administrators for issues related to Brocade & Cisco for the performance issues that occurred in the regular day to day operations with storage connectivity.
• Migrating User accounts from Windows NT to windows 2008 domain.
• Installation and maintenance of Windows NT and 2000/ 2003/2008/2012 DNS, DDNS, DHCP and WINS Servers for the DOMAIN.
• Implementation of TCP/IP and related Services-DHCP/DNS/WINS
• Performance tuning using performance monitor and event viewer to identify and resolve performance bottleneck.

Environment: Windows 2008/2003, ESXi 4.1, 5.0,5.1,5.5. Active Directory, DNS/DHCP/IIS servers, MS Office, MS Visio, ISDN Modems, Hubs, Switches, HP Compaq servers, Dell Servers, HP ProLiant servers.

Confidential

VMware network administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installation & configurationWindows server2003,Windows server 2008 R2 &Windows server 2012R2 Managing Active Directory Users Profiles.
• Managing Logins, users, roles and User permissions through Active Directory.
• Installation & configurationWindows remote web application onWindows server 2012R2.
• Migration ofWindows 2003R2 server toWindows server 2012R2 using FSMO.
• Configuring DHCP Clustering & Hyper-v Clustering onWindows server 2012R2.
• Configuration Trust Relation with Different domain.
• Configuration of Active Directory & Users Management.
• Users Added & configuring roaming profile of users & configure mandatory profile.
• Quota set on user's data folders. Installation initial setup & configuration of exchange server.
• Implementing Managing & Troubleshooting of exchange server, creating new users on exchange & assign permission on this users & managing Recipient.
• Resolving Mailbox Related Queries such as mailbox full, Mailbox closed, Storage limit, Mail Access right, providing forwarders access right, Sending & receiving message capacity.
• Install & configuring ADFSRM on storage server & configuring file Quota, screening and scheduling file report.
• Installing & configuring newWindows & connect in Domain controller.
• ImplementingWindows patch management through WSUS Server.
• Installing, up gradation maintaining Symantec Backup server. Checking Backup scheduled report on daily.
• Resolving Citrix Related issue such as Citrix plug-in launch issue, Connectivity issue, Local Folder sharing issue. Printing issue from citrix server to local printer.
• Taking care LAN Maintaining switch & computer assembling.
• Configuring Cisco VPN in Cisco firewall through Cisco ASDM Access.
• Installing & configure SVN Server for Development team code testing.
• Managing and update day to day inventory of software & hardware.
• Resolving issue of outside user, taking remote access.
• Tracking messages of users on exchange using mail tracking tools.
• Resolving issue of server hardware and desktop hardware.
• Working closely with the network Administrators for issues related to physical connectivity for the performance issues that occurred in the regular day to day operations with storage connectivity.
• Working closely with the Network Admins for issues Occurred in the Environment for the performance issues and Network Connectivity that occurred in the regular day to day operations
• Building Windows 2008 Servers and upgrading Windows 2003 on both physical and virtual machines.
• Working closely with the network Administrators for issues related to Brocade & Cisco for the performance issues that occurred in the regular day to day operations with storage connectivity.
• Configured the Microsoft Virtual Server and Virtual PC for testing and development.
• Installed WSUS and configured for patch deployment.
• Provided Hardware support, troubleshooting and diagnosis.
• Respond to and address any tickets/ work requests in the Remedy Queue.
• Access Servers using Terminal Servers or other approved method.
• Perform system health checks as required.
• Assigning the static ip's (IPV4) for static for the customers upon their request
• IP addressing and sub-netting, Routing concepts.
• Implementation of routing protocols - RIP V1/V2, OSPF, IGRP and EIGRP
• Switches: Basic Configuration and VLAN setup on Cisco 1900, 2950, 2960 Switches
• Router: Basic Configuration and monitoring of Cisco 2500, 2600, 1800
• Back-up and restore of all critical resources including router IOS, Outlook, System State data

Environment: Windows 2003/2008/2008 R2 Servers,Windows XP, MS SQL Server 2005/2000, Exchange Server 2003, Active Directory services, WSUS, DHCP, DNS, RDP, IIS, FTP, Terminal Services.