| Confidential VMware Administrator - Successfully designed and implemented VMware ESX servers for server consolidation.
- Built Windows 2008/2003 Servers on standalone and blade servers based on the application requirement and connected servers within load balancers to balance load and built redundancy.
- Installed VMware ESX server 2.5/3.0/3.5 in a total of 160 ESX's, 2000 servers four VC's. Created virtual machines on ESX Servers. Created standard images and deployed servers from the images.
- Configured VMware on clustered environment, Implemented VMotion, Virtualized Windows physical servers using VMware standalone converter P2V and setup required configuration on the VM.
- Worked on building Virtual environment on CITRIX platform. Added 20 hosts and 400 Virtual machines into the clustered virtual infrastructure
- Configured and Documented windows clustering for VCenter server, vCloud Director, VMware vFabric Web Server, and SQL Servers.
- Worked on Installing RHEL 4/5 on application and database servers and configured Networking and multipathing.
- Hands on wide experience with VMware vCloud Director.
- Extensive experience in working with the Wintel servers 2008, 2012.
- Administrating DNS, DHCP, and Exchange ISA servers. Created and managed user and group accounts in User Manager and in MS Exchange Administration.
- Implemented vCloud Automation Center.
- Deployment and configuration of vShield Manager for network related services.
- Integration of vCloud Director with vCenter and vShield manager.
- Experienced with x86 / x64 Intel, HP, IBM Dell hardware like rack-mounted servers, tower servers, desktop, laptop and other peripherals.
- Managing Exchange 2003 servers and troubleshooting issues related to mail delivery, configuring MX records to enable and disable domain.
- 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 Windows 2008 with Active Directory service.
- Installation and Configuration of networks, router/switches configuration and wireless access point/router with security, TCP/IP, VPN, Content Filtering, Access Control Lists on router/switches, VLANs port mapping, naming etc. , and routing IP address in both LAN/WAN and wireless networks.
- LAN Cabling, RJ-45 crimping, Labeling, Patch Panel, PC Junction boxes, Phone Switches and Rack set-up.
- Deployment of Citrix XenMobile and NetScalers in an enterprise environment.
- Installed and configure Hyper-V manager on Windows 2008 Hyper-V Host.
- Responsible for Desktop, Laptop, Network and Outlook support troubleshooting client's issues.
- Created, tracked, and closed trouble tickets via Remedy Ticket Tracking Tool.
- Disaster recovery planning, implementation and recovering systems during crash or hardware failure.
- Worked on Microsoft Active directory migration tool ADMT .
- Windows 2003-2008 Server support and problem resolution and printer maintenance, mobile devices, tablets, and hardware break fix.
- Creating PowerShell and PowerCLI script for automating VM build process, worked with clones and snapshots of Virtual Machines
- Experience in IT decision-making, policy direction, planning, and team management. Participated in the migration planning, developing, testing and moving the migration process onto full-fledged production network.
- Coordinate hardware and software installations and upgrades to ensure work is performed in accordance with company policy. Recommends resolutions to complex matters of significance and coordinate the implementation of the approved course of action.
Confidential VMware Windows Engineer - Migrated physical SQL database servers to the virtual environment using double take and VMware vsphere 5.5.
- Designed the expansion for a two cluster 350 desktop VMware Horizon View 5.3 environment. Manage a 150 desktop VMware Horizon View 5.3 environment on Dell/Wyse P2X thin-clients, Manage a two cluster, six host, 8 server VMware vSphere ESXi 5.5 environment.
- Implementation of Active Directory infrastructure and Network fundamentals, protocols such as TCP/IP, DHCP, DNS , Group Policy and Profile Management.
- Provided remote phone support and onsite support for the datacenter migration from physical environment to virtual environment.
- Responsible for installing configuring and troubleshooting on Windows NT/Windows 2000/2003 and 2008 servers and linux servers using enterprise standards.
- Installation, Configuration and Deployment of Linux Servers, Windows/SQL Clusters, MS Exchange 2007/2010.
- Troubleshoot Linux, Windows, SAN solutions, TCP/UDP, iSCSI/FC, HA, Replication, Mirroring, Snapshots VMWare ESX/ESXi, Backup Solutions, Disaster Recovery Solutions such Site Failover, P2V, V2P, P2P.
- Conducted tests to determine the best strategy and methodology for the migration process to occur on windows 2003/2008 servers.
- Maintained an updated version of issues log for the test results and test process.
- Virtualized physical windows servers using VMware converter and double-take.
- Added additional hard disks using vsphere 5.5 and reconfigured the network settings of the target virtual machines.
- Scripted the vmdk disk creation using Power shell scripting and implemented it in Power CLI.
- Coordinated server downtimes and application downtimes with the customers and other teams during migrations.
- Responsible for 24 7 production / development server farm monitoring of 280 servers utilizing Microsoft System Center Operations Manager SCOM .
- Used SCOM SQL Reporting Services to create custom reports for planning, management updates, historical tracking etc.
- Performing day to day SCOM operations about resolving alerts and tuning resolution states etc.
- Documented the migration process in detail and initiated the migration tasks.
- Worked on SCCM and WSUS for Windows OS deployment and Patch management.
- Monitored the migration activity during nights and provided onsite and remote phone support to the migration team. Updated management about the progress of migration.
- Installed VMware tools on the virtual machines after the P2V migration.
- Added the virtual network adapters VNICs , updated the MAC address using vshpere 5.5.
- Configured the IPV4 properties, IP settings, DNS configuration and WINS configuration.
- Configured VMDKs and added them to the virtual machines after the migration.
- Created new hard disks for the vms using vsphere 5.5 and brought them online using the windows disk management and veritas storage manager.
- Administered user, group, share and NTFS security utilizing ADUC and administered remotely using terminal server and remote desktop managed group policy.
- Uninstalled the hardware specific drivers from the virtual machines after the P2V migration.
- Reconfigured the vCPU and the Memory setting of the virtual machines after the P2V migration.
- Ran powershell scripts to reconfigure the SQL databases for the TempDB, MaxDOP and memory configurations.
Confidential VMware Windows Administrator - Configured Deployed ESX/ESXi server in corporate production environment.
- Used automation scripts to minimize error level in day to day VMware operations.
- Leveraged VMware Infrastructure Implementation and Consolidation expertise to implement Physical-to-Virtual P2V migrations, blade server capacity planning, high availability and failover settings where applicable on newly installed blade servers and existing rack-mount servers, training of the existing IT staff on its purpose and proper use and documentation.
- Averted catastrophic downtime and extravagant recovery costs on multiple occasions by preemptively creating virtualized copies of all critical servers in conjunction with custom developed rapid-deployment templates for XP and Server 2003 VM's.
- Played role as a VMware/Unix Admin to provide L3 support in a complex Environment.
- Design, Installation, configuration of VMware Site Recovery Manager. Had run failover-Failback tests over the bidirectional SRM.
- Deployed VMware ESX server 3.0 virtualization technology for Intel platforms Windows and Linux servers . Total of 40 ESX servers with over 600 VMs with Virtual center.
- Implementation of Microsoft DHCP, DNS, WINS, Domain trust relationship, fault tolerance, file and print services, user and group management.
- Involved in design and implement Server migration from Physical to Virtual using VMware P2V Assistant 2.1.2
- Involved in migrating physical servers to VMware virtual servers using P2V Assistant.
- Worked on Migration Projects Involving IIS 5.0 and 6.0 based applications.
- Installed VMware ESX Server 2.5 on all the physical servers to host multiple virtual machines.
- Installed Management Server VMware VCenter Server instance to enable centralized management of multiple hosts.
- Installed VM Clusters ESX 2.5 , Hosts and virtual machines.
- Converting the physical servers to virtual servers using P2V Assistant.
- Enabled VMware HA, VMware DRS for higher efficiency for the Infrastructure.
- Installing, troubleshooting and supporting of Desktops, Laptops, Network Devices, and Computer Peripherals.
- User Support - Monitoring and troubleshooting system performance, server user related problems. Support users to resolve their day to day issues related to OS, E-mail, Account issues, hardware etc.
- Responsible for Backup/recovery strategy of all ESX servers. Planning and implementing fault tolerance and strategies for backup and restoring files on the network.
- Responsible in diagnosing troubleshooting of VMware ESX and Virtual Center Environments.
- Support Training - Provide necessary help / training to IT Helpdesk / Telecom Support Personal to resolve day to day issues.
Confidential VMware Support Engineer - Managed Virtualization Environment using VM Ware ESX 4.x, VM Ware V Sphere 5.x, Virtual Center, and VI Client.
- Installation, Configuration, Administration and Trouble shooting of ESX 4.x,Vsphere 5.0, Virtual Center, VI Client.
- Creating and Managing Virtual Machines and Templates.
- Creating Clusters for High Availability HA and Distributive Resource Scheduling DRS .
- Configured Resource Pool, V Motion, Alerts, Alarms, NTP.
- Migrate Physical Servers to Virtual Server using VMware Converter P2V Converter .
- Migrating of Virtual Machines using V Motion
- Performing Snapshots, Cloning, Cold Migrations and Hot Migrations.
- Creating Templates from VM's, deploy VM's from templates and allocate resource.
- Monitoring of Virtual Machine's ESX servers CPU, Memory, Disk and Network Utilization for Security.
- Converting P2V and V2V using VMware Standalone Converter.
- Creating duplicate Virtual Machine's using cloning technology hot cold .
- Migration of Virtual Machines using V-Motion.
- Creating Clusters for High Availability and Dynamic Resource Scheduling.
- Creation of Virtual Switches, Ports and Port groups and setting up Layer 2 Security Policies for Virtual Networks.
- Troubleshooting issues relating to Vmotion such as compatibility issues with help of event log.
- Setting up Users and Groups for access to the Virtual Center.
- Moving VM's from one LUN to another LUN using Storage V-Motion.
- Performance tuning of VMware servers, Virtual sessions and management of server resources between Virtual Machines.
- Root Cause System Log Analysis and reporting.
- Organize tasks, events and Configuring alarms.
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