PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

• Technocrat with over 7+ years of experience in VMware Admin, Windows/Linux and Oracle admin, and IT Support.
• Designing, deployment and configuration specific to vSphere environments for compute platform high availability, redundancy and elasticity.
• Extensive experience in working with ESXi/Vcenter - Installation, configuration, management and maintenance.
• Excellent understanding on ESX/ESXI Architecture, guest OS installation, setting up of VM priorities, Cloning and Snapshots.
• Patch Management of ESX Hosts using VMware Update Manager. Extensive experience in working with the VMotion technology, working with the Storage VMotion technology. Strong knowledge of VMware HA and VMware DRS.
• Experience in implementing ESX servers with efficient virtualization strategies by creating clones, templates, task scheduling, prioritizing VMs, creating and managing snap shots.
• Excellent knowledge in creating and managing users, permission settings, roles and responsibility assignments and VM resource allocations on ESX hosts.
• Hands on experience with HP Servers and Dell servers.
• Extensive knowledge in advance features of VMware VMotion, SVMotion, HA and DRS including vSphere Update Manager, VMware Data Recovery, vCenter Lab Manager and vCenter Orchestrator.
• Experience in P2V and V2V conversions using VMware Converter and PlateSpin Power Convert
• Experience with VMware or third party hypervisor technologies--(VMware vCloud Director (vCD),VMware View, VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM), VMware Orchestrator
• Strong understanding of VMware Networking concepts like creation of VSwitches, different types of port groups, Nic Teaming and VLAN. Increasing resources like HDD, Memory and CPU. Conducted 500 plus P2V migrations using vCenter converter.
• Good understanding on storage types including iSCSI, NAS and SAN, VM creation capable file systems including VMFS and NFS and RAID concepts
• Excellent understanding of RDM, Thin and Thick Provisioning, Zoning, LUN masking concepts.
• Administering Microsoft Windows 2008 R2 Server, Windows 2003, Windows 2000 Server Environments, Active Directory, DNS, DHCP.
• Experience in Linux versions.
• Strong experience in configuring HA and DRS clusters, using EVC on as needed basis.
• Experience with Cisco UCS and HP Blades for ESXi hosts
• Created new Service Profile templates and various pools (SAN & LAN) on Cisco UCS using Cisco UCS Manager (UCSM)
• Deployed new service profiles from the template and also independently on Cisco UCS using Cisco UCS Manager (UCSM)
• Manage ESX Host Capacity andSAN Storage Usage. Re-purposing storage where most effective.
• Monitoring and managing performance of ESX servers and Virtual Machines using Virtual center server for HA, DRS.
• Experienced in implementation, configuration, maintenance and support for NetApp filers using Data OnTap CLI and Filerview.
• Highly Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite: MS Project, PowerPoint, Excel, MS Word and Microsoft Productivity applications.
• Adapts to new systems and environments quickly, takes ownership of all duties, meeting management skills, Good work ethics, Group and individual based problem solving and decision making abilities.
• Excellent leadership qualities, good communication skills and interpersonal skills.
• Worked on automation scripts to reduce man hours and Proficiency with vSpherePowercli.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating Systems: Windows 98, 2000, XP, Vista, Windows 7, RHEL 4/5/6 Linux, VMware ESX/ESXi,MS Win Server NT

Hardware platforms: Sun Fire Server, HP Proliant BL460C (G6 and G7) Blade Server series, DL380, DL580 physical servers, Dell Power Edge Servers, Intel x86 processors, EMC SAN storage VNX

Databases: My SQL, MS Access, MS SQL, Oracle8i,Orale 10g,11g

Virtualization: VMware VSphere 4.1/5.0, Workstation 6 and 7, ESX Server 3x and 4x, VMware Virtual Center Server 2x and 3x, VMware DRS, HA and FT, VMware Capacity Planner, VMware Converter 3.0, VMware Update Manager 1, VMware Virtual Desktop Infrastructure VDM 2.0, VMware View, VMware View Composer, Thinstall Application Virtualization, VEEAM, VMSight, Platespin, Citrix Xenserver, Hyper-V, and Virtual-pc.

Web/Application Server: Apache Tomcat, JBoss Application Server,Weblogicserveer, IIS 3.0/4.0,WebSphere Application Server 5.0

Networking: DNS, NFS, NIS,Cisco Routers / Switches and LAN.

Protocols: DHCP, TCP/IP, FTP, IPV4, LDAP.

Desktop Application: Microsoft Office, Outlook, VMware Workstation 7.0 and 8.0

Security: McAfee, Symantec, Kaspersky Internet Security.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, PA

Sr. VMware Admin

Responsibilities:

• Installing and Administering the various virtualization components like vCenter, vSphere etc.
• Performed ESXi Hosts and Virtual Machine migrations between Development, Integration, and Production environments and across Datacenters
• Supported VMware, specifically ESXi 5.5 to monitor cluster performance, optimize the server environment, diagnose and resolve production issues amongst Data Centers and over servers
• Configuration of vMotion, vSwitch, and VLAN in VMware vCenter.
• Develop, test, and maintain a disaster recovery plan for critical VMs and application data
• Worked with VMWare or third party hypervisor technologies--(VMware vCloud Director (vCD),VMware View, VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM), VMware Orchestrator)
• Responsible for ESX/ESXi server deployments, system updates/upgrades, system health and status monitoring.
• Establishing ESX Deployment strategy, policies and procedures and deploying ESX/ESXi cluster builds based on predefined policies.
• Involved in the migration of Virtual Machines and Virtual machine files using the vMotion and Storage vMotion
• Providing and maintaining user access in VMware virtual Center, configuring mail alert for any failure in HA, DRS, CPU and memory
• Trouble shooting issues related to VMware ESX host, VMware virtual center, HA, DRS, VMware update manager.
• Execution of periodic audit checks across the infrastructure for determining VM’s on local storage, VM’s with high cpu/memory/IO usage, datastores space, orphaned vmdk’s, orphaned VM’s, VLAN inconsistencies across the datacenter, inconsistent VM configurations.
• Maintain and monitor all VMware ESX hosts, clusters and virtual datacenters with Virtual center.
• Configured and Troubleshoot Virtual Center features such as Vmotion, DRS and HA.
• Creating and managing VMware cluster. Enabling HA and DRS features in a cluster.
• Experience in the V2V and P2V migration of Physical servers to VMware ESXi hosts
• Implemented and Tested desktop virtualization and introduced VMware View to the client
• Used vCloud director for deploying VM's by far decreasing the overhead capacity in vCenter.
• Provided user support for machines using VMwarevCloud Director.
• Reviewed tasks, issues and recommend changes to reduce problem reoccurrences
• Configured Network and Server Software, Hardware and peripheral devices to resolve network issues
• Provided performance metrics, work load status update, and project status updates at biweekly workload tracking meetings
• Analyze performance of physical servers to determine and customize virtual server specification Deployment of VM Templates to deploy virtual servers.
• Desktop Pools planning and implementations based on User workload profile and application requirements.
• Integration of View Connection server with vCenter server, View Composer and Active Directory.
• Experience utilizing vCenter, including vSphere Command-Line Interface commands
• Application Packaging and Deployment with VMware ThinApp.
• Performed data center Migration & Maintained data center Environment
• Monitoring Vblock Hardware health/Availability status and event alarms for Incident Management
• Performing initial Cisco UCS cluster setup and provide management IP addresses for blade servers
• Provisioning VLANs and fabric interconnect uplinks for server connectivity to the Layer 3 data center cloud
• Implementing Change requests for different configuration changes within the virtual infrastructure.
• VNX Block Storage Provisioning and Management including Raid Groups and Traditional LUNs, Pools and Thin LUNs, LUN Migration, FAST VP, FAST Cache, Storage groups, Host Initiator registration
• Performed daily system monitoring, verifying the integrity and availability of all hardware, server resources, systems and key processes, reviewing system and application logs, and verifying completion of scheduled jobs such as backups

Environment: VMware VSphere, VMware infrastructure, ESX, vCenter Server, vCenter Update Manager, VMware View, Symantec backup, VRangerPro, Citrix, Active Directory, Windows server 2003/2008, SQL 2003/2005/2008, EMC SAN, Netapp Storage, Tivoli storage manager, Cisco switches and Routers, HP Blade center servers

Confidential, Lake Oswego, OR

VMware Admin

Responsibilities

• Provided 24/7 On Call support onsite and remotely on rotation basis.
• Design, Implementation and TroubleshootingVMwareESX 5.1 Hosts,VMwarevSphere virtual center.
• Performed physical to virtual (P2V) migrations for approximately 500 physical servers utilizing VMware Converter.
• Involved installation and troubleshooting Windows Server 2000 & 2003&2008 OS on VM
• Performed Third party software evaluation, installation and troubleshooting
• Administration ofVMwareESX and ESXi Servers on HP Blade Servers C7000 and C3000.
• Hands on experience in updating / upgrading ESX servers, Virtual Center servers and windows virtual machines usingVMwareUpdate manager and manual upgrades.
• Experience with vSphere Host Profiles, Standard and Distributed Switches setup.
• Performed 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 Update, 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 and implemented open source OpenFiler 2.3 iSCSI SAN with RAID 10 for VMware and other servers with iSCSI initiators.
• Participated in the DataCenter, VM’s migration planning, developing, testing and moving the migration process onto full-fledged production network.
• Provided day-to-day system administration and technical support for Windows 2003 and 2008 Servers.
• Configuring and Managing Active Directory, DNS, and DHCP.
• Provide server and client support for all issues such as: logon failures, account lockout, network connectivity, DNS and name resolution, authentication problems.
• Building newVMwarevirtual machines to meet the specifications provided by the client.
• Experience in deploying new Virtual Machines from OVF/OVA templates.
• Creating Roles and permissions inVMwareESX Server 4.1/5.1
• MigratedVMwareESX 4.1 to ESXi 5.1usingVMware update Manager.
• Experience on hot and cold clone process.
• Installed/updated patches onVMwareESX (i) hosts usingVMwareUpdate Manager tool.
• UpdatedVMwaretools on virtual machines using Update Manager tool.
• Installed and configured VMware Update Manager for patching purpose.
• Configured HA and DRS, SDRS as per VMware best practices and applied on ESXi Cluster and Storage Cluster

Confidential, Philadelphia, PA.

VMware-Windows Admin

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Large scale Data Center build and migration across the two regions that include service transition.
• Involved in New builds and configuration of 2003/2008/2008R2 servers, ESXi Host clusters and further setting up the datacenter.
• Performed and handled extensive P2V, V2V migrations for approximately 700 physical Windows 2000/2003 and 2008/2008R2 servers utilizing VMware Converter and SAN Replication method.
• Deployed, maintained and created virtual environment with VSphere 5.0 and ESXi 5.0 with 1000 virtual servers and 500 physical servers.
• Managed and created server profiles for ESXi Host and physical servers using VCEM.
• Configured Virtual Distributed Switch and VLAN configuration for production environment.
• Performed SAN replication in case of complex server migration using swing kit to virtualized SAN.
• Configured VMOTION and SVMOTION as per VMWARE’s best practices in large scale enterprise environment.
• Built and migrated physical MS Cluster 2003/2008, VERITAS cluster in to virtual environment.
• Installed and implement NFS server using windows UNIX service and configured with VMware Host servers for storage.
• Performed backup and restored Virtual Machine with snapshot, and also involved in ESXi Host Patching from version 623860 to 821926.
• Installed and configured VMware Update Manager for patching purpose.
• Configured HA and DRS, SDRS as per VMware best practices and applied on ESXi Cluster and Storage Cluster
• Managed Windows 2000/2003/2008 and provided Active Directory support.
• Deployed and configured VMWARE view 5.0 desktop infrastructure.
• Administrated and troubleshoot technical hurdles in day to day virtual as well physical infrastructure.
• Created and handled technical documentation including Root Cause Analysis (RCA) Documents, CookBooks, RunBooks.
• Performed day to day activities such as ticket handling, troubleshooting and monitoring the VMware Infrastructure.

Environment: Windows 2000/2003/2008/2008 R2, Exchange Server 2003/2010, Windows XP/Vista/Win 7, VMware ESXi 5.0 Server, FC, Open filer iSCSI SAN/NAS, Hitachi SAN, NetApp, HP 685 and HP 465 Blade Servers, HP DL385, HPDP Backup, Firewall, Remote desktop services

Confidential

Windows Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Served in computer maintenance, performed all types of hardware, software maintenance and engineering in addition to systems selection, backup and technical support.
• Installing, configuring and Windows 2003 servers of DHCP, FTP, WSUS, Web Server and SQL Database Server.
• Creating and managing the users, groups, GPO in the Active Directory.
• Implemented, Managed ISA server 2004 Firewall with web filtering and Remote Access VPN.
• Implemented and managed McAfee Antivirus EPO Server and clients for LAN security
• Monitoring of Internet usage, Antivirus statistics and reporting to Project Manager.
• Responsible & managing Online Trading applications, Servers & Connectivity with stock exchanges, providing remote support to end clients and branch users.
• Installation and Configuration of networks, router configuration and wireless access point/router with security, TCP/IP, VPN, Content Filtering, Access Control Lists on Cisco router/switches, VLANs (port mapping, naming etc.), and routing IP address in both LAN/WAN and wireless networks.)
• Investigated user problems, determined possible solutions, oversaw software, installation and upgrades.
• Creating a backup job and also took backup of data center on daily, weekly and monthly basis.
• Planned and coordinated with major vendors like ISP and V-SATs service providers for installation/Down Calls of branches.
• Assigned duties and supervised a team of junior network engineers.

Environment: Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration (ISA) Server 2004, Windows 2000 Server, Windows 2003 Server, Windows NT Server, Windows XP.