Summary

• Over 7 years of experience as VMware Administration and Windows Administration.
• Involvement in Microsoft Server OS, Vmware, Citrix Xenapp, Edgesight, and Citrix Provisioning Services.
• Highly experienced in establishment/setup and Providing Production Support for an extensive variety of Citrix Products, for example, Xenapp 6.5/6/5, Citrix Presentation Server 4.5/4, Edgesight, Citrix Web Interface, Storefront, and Citrix Access Gateway.
• Experienced in Citrix Farm Migrations, including all periods of relocation, of Farm Discovery/Planning, Infrastructure Build out, Application Delivery and Production Support.
• Experienced in Application virtualization advances, for example, App-V, Citrix Streaming Profiler.
• Configuration of Citrix server policies, Load Management and Printers in the Farm
• Extensive experience with Citrix XenApp, Edgesight, Microsoft Server OS, Microsoft AppV, and Citrix Provisioning Services.
• Configured Citrix Terminal Server and Microsoft Hyper V.
• Experience in Vmware Vsphere 5, Esxi 5.0/5.1, Esxi 4.1 and Vmware Vcenter 5/5.1, Vcenter 4.1, HA, DRS, Vmware Vcenter Converter, Host Profiles, Vmotion, Storage Vmotion, Virtual Appliance.
• Experience of Business Continuity and performed Disaster Recovery DR activity, utilizing Vmware Site Recovery Manager SRM .
• Experienced in DHCP, DNS, FTP, remote access, security administration, and framework troubleshooting abilities.
• Worked on Installation, Configuration and Administration of Citrix PVS.
• Knowledge of LVM, Performance checking, Error logging, Diagnostics, and Fine-tuning.
• Extensive information and involvement in Quality Assurance space and Virtualization.
• Supported huge scale Data Center undertakings including server establishment, equipment support, and break/fix exercises.
• Experienced in working on WinTel/Citrix Infrastructure Projects, Application Delivery, Production Support.
• Experience in administering Windows Terminal Server, Group Policy management and Active Directory environment.
• Experienced in administering and configuring Windows 2008 and 2003 based Domain controllers, Backup/Additional Domain Controller.
• Extensive experience in installation, administration and networking in various environments, Seasoned Systems Administrator familiar with MS Windows 2003/2008/2008R2/2012 Server.

Technical Skills

• VMware Tools: ESX/ESXi Server 4.1/3.5/3.0/2.5 VSphere 4.1, VMware converter 4/3 and VMware VMotion
• Database: Microsoft Active Directory, Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft SQL.
• Platforms: Microsoft Windows XP/Vista/7, Server 2003/08, VMWare, Citrix Xen Desktop, Xen Server, XenApp 5/6.5.
• OS Windows 2008 R2/2003 , Citrix XenApp 6.5/6.0/5.0, Citrix Presentation Server 4.5, Xen Desktop 5/6/6.5, MS Office 20XX, Windows 8.1/7/XP, Symantec Antivirus Corporate /Endpoint Protection, Visio Professional.
• Servers Dell Power Edge: 2900, 2950, 2650, R510, R710 IBM Blade Center: HS JS, e325, e326, X-Series 335, 336, 365, 440, 445,3250,3550,3620 HP Blade System: BL20p BL30p, DL360, DL370, DL380, DL385, DL560, DL310, DL510 and DL580
• Hardware HP/COMPAQ ProLiant servers, HP/IBM Blade Centers, IBM X-series Servers, Dell Power Edge Server, DLT/DAT Tape backup, DLT Tape Library, Tablet PCs, Cabling/Patch panels, UPS APC , PC/Laptop Hardware, HP/IBM Blade Center

Professional Experience

Confidential

Responsibilities

• Administer and upheld Windows 2008r2 Servers and Citrix Desktop 5.5/6/6.5 Edition
• Install, Configure and keep up Xen Desktop 5.5 with provisioning server, Web interface server.
• Support of Citrix XenApp 6.5 including Web Interfaces.
• Maintaining Citrix Server Farm and zone.
• Install and arrange load evaluators Load adjusting for XenApp servers.
• Creating VM Session for Test Environment for testing Application before sending to creation.
• Working background on XenApp 6.5 Environment.
• Install and arranged web interface server for site and administrations
• Installation and Configuration of Citrix servers and organization distributed application.
• Deploying ICA customer, printer driver mapping, checking sessions, overseeing server load and CPU usage
• create test environment in Citrix or VMware for generation Team to test their application
• Experience in Microsoft Terminal Services ideas and practices
• Maintaining Citrix Data store, License servers and Zone Collectors.
• Manage Desktops, Images and Templates in VDI-in-a-Box with pooled and customized desktops.
• Support Clients numerous applications introduced on Citrix XenApp 6.0.
• Experience of Citrix Components like EdgeSight and Gateway.

Environment: Windows7/XP/2003/2008, Citrix XenApp 5, Citrix XenApp 6.5/ 6.0, Citrix Provisioning Server 5, Citrix Web Interface 5.x, Citrix UPM 3, Citrix EdgeSight 5.x, VMware ESXI 4.0, MSSQL 2005 Cluster.

Confidential

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
• 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 VSphere 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.
• Resolve AOTS tickets and create Root Cause Analysis in Wiki page.
• Research, troubleshoot, and resolve system performance issues and outages.
• 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

Environment: Windows 2000/2003/2008, Exchange Server 2003, Windows XP/Vista/Win 7, VMware ESXi 4, VMware VSphere 4, ESX 4, VMware vCenter, VMware Standalone Convertor, Open filer iSCSI.

VMware/ Citrix Admin

Confidential

Responsibilities

• The project involved administering and maintaining XenApp 5.0 on 1150 servers.
• Administrated and Implemented Citrix Presentation Server 4.0/ 4.5, built and maintained Farms, Member Server, Citrix License Server, Data Collector, Data Store
• Setup, Configured and Published application in Citrix Fat and Thin Client via Citrix Presentation Server
• Configured and troubleshoot via a web portal which include Printer issues to Farm errors
• Installed and Configured Window 2003, Terminal Server, Terminal Licenses and IIS 5.0/6.0 Servers
• Extensively worked in Active directory, group Policies, and DHCP for optimal performance
• Upgraded Citrix XenApp 4.5 farm to XenApp 5.0 farm with the latest hotfix roll up packs.
• Built-out infrastructure/servers for XenApp 5.0 farm and decommission infrastructure servers in the old farms.
• Installed and configured Citrix XenApp 5.0 farm with multiple zones based on geographical locations.
• Migrated servers from multiple decentralized farms to a centralized global farm
• Installed and configured new Web Interface servers.
• Build application servers based on the business requirements and assisted various test teams in pre-production environments to validate the application functionality
• Installed and configured edge sight 5.3 for end to end monitoring. Generated alerts and reports on edge sight to monitor health of server farm.
• Ran CDF traces and SQL profilers and worked with Citrix to troubleshoot IMA issues caused by corrupt DLL's.
• Created, tested and applied new Citrix policies and custom load evaluators based on line of business requirements. Customized applications using windows policies.

Environment: Windows7/XP/2003/2008, Citrix XenApp 5, Citrix Provisioning Server 5, Citrix Web Interface 5.x, Citrix UPM 3, Citrix EdgeSight 5.x, VMware ESXI 4.0, MSSQL 2005 Cluster.

VMware Administrator

Confidential

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 files 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
• Configured VMware on 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 Netback up 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 by VMware SRM 5.0 Planned Migration, Disaster Recovery and eliminated the complexity of managing and testing recovery plans.

Environment: Windows 2000/2003, Exchange Server 2003, IIS 6.0, Exchange Server 2003, Windows XP/Vista, VMware ESX Server, VMware VSphere, VMware vCenter, VMware Standalone Convertor.