SUMMARY:

• Overall 8+ years’ experience with Installation, Configuring, Deploying, Trouble shooting, administration and maintenance of ESX3.5/ESXi 4.0/ESXi 4.1/ 5/ 5.1 and VMware Virtual Center.
• Experience in installation and configuration of vSphere 5.0/5.1, and vSphere 5.5 products.
• Experience in Windows 2000, 2003, 2008, and 2012 Servers at single/multi domain environment & Active directory administration.
• Experience in implementing ESXi servers with efficient virtualization strategies by creating clones, templates, task scheduling, prioritizing VMs, creating and managing snap shots.
• Installed and configured Active Directory Domain Controller 2008/2012R2.
• Responsible for WINTEL server builds and HP blades C7000 server builds.
• Strong experience with the VMware HA (High Availability), Fault Tolerance, Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) and VMware Distributed Power Management.
• Determining customer requirements and designing VMware - based solutions architectures spanning VMware's product portfolio from the vCloud Suite to the Horizon Suite to meet the functional and business requirements of a range clients of various sizes and across verticals.
• Good experience in configuring, optimizing and troubleshooting of Linux/Unix servers and the Networking setups.
• Develop, test, and maintain a disaster recovery (DR) plan for critical VMs and application data.
• Planning, Designing and Implementation of VMware vSphere (ESX3.5/ESXi 4.0/ESXi 4.1/ 5/ 5.1 and VMware Virtual Center).
• Deployed EMC VNXe SAN for vSphere 5 high availability management cluster configuration for customers
• Experience on High availability, Clustering, VMotion, Storage Vmotion, Snapshot manager and restoring a snapshot.
• Worked closely with storage and networking teams to ensure SAN and networking infrastructure met virtual infrastructure specifications.
• Automated OS install procedures and prioritized custom maintenance configurations, significantly improving performance of both legacy and newly deployed solutions.
• Experienced in managing group policies, user accounts and configuring sites in a multi-site domain structure.
• Experience in consolidation, management, administration and maintenance of virtual servers and clients.
• Moderate testing experience in Microsoft HyperV and Citrix XenServer and exposer to steel fusion.
• Experience in Networking and Security Configurations on ESX/ESXi Host.
• Extensive knowledge in advance features of VMware VMotion, SVMotion, HA and DRS including vSphere Update Manager.
• PKI implementation, administration and troubleshooting on Windows 2008 R2, Windows 2012 administration and troubleshooting, DNS, ISSE Guard install and product support
• Experience in P2V, V2V MIGRATION using VMware vCenter Converter / Plate Spin Power Convert and Creating host and client VM templates and cloning.
• Experience in iSCSI SAN, NAS, NFS storage and RAID (0, 1, 10, 01, and 5) concepts.
• Extensive understanding of networking concepts, (IE. Configuration of networks, router configuration and wireless security, TCP/IP, VPN, Content Filtering, VLANs, and routing in LAN/WAN, Ethernet Port, Patch Panel and wireless networks.
• Excellent understanding of networking fundamentals and network security and VMware NSX.
• Experience with 32 bits/64 bits X86 server products of HP, IBM, and Dell.
• HP ProLiant DL and BL series servers.
• Providing L2 level support for the servers
• Citrix Xen App installation and configuration build knowledge of new Windows servers with 2002, 2008, and 2012.
• Installation of Citrix Presentation server /Xen app 5.0 & Citrix Client Tools.
• Used Power Shell to automate the tasks and schedule backup, maintenance jobs, patch management.
• Experience in System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) and System Center Operations Manager (SCOM).
• Experience in implementing VMware/VM view VDM Manager -VDI (VDI - Virtual Desktop Infrastructure / Virtualization) solution for larger scale customers.
• Experience in Active Directory, GPOs, DNS, DHCP, File & Print Server, IIS (Web Server), FTP, Terminal Server, RIS/WDS, RRAS, NAT, WSUS, Microsoft Clustering, Exchange Mail Server and ISA Server.
• Experience in patching tool Blade Logic, WSUS, Windows update services.
• Cloud Technologies AWS, Vcloud, vRealize.
• VMWareand Network Administration.
• System Security, Backup and Recovery.
• Server Administration and Repair.
• Mixed-Platform Environments.
• Technical Infrastructure (LAN/WAN/VPN/NOC).
• LAMP and LAMR Deployments
• Programming and Scripting
• Workstation Installation/Configuration
• Open-Source Tools.
• Linux Cloud Engineering.
• User and Support.
• Dev ops Chef, Vagrant, Docker, Puppet, Jenkins.
• Scripting Shell, Perl, Python.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating Systems: Microsoft Windows Server 20**, Red Hat Linux, Windows XP/Vista/Win 7, and VMWare ESX/E SXi server.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Irving, TX

SR. VMWare Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Performed installation, configuration, administration and design of Windows 2003, 2008 domains in an enterprise network environment including installation and configuration of WINS, DNS, DHCP, as well as allocated IP addressing scheme.
• Assessment, Design and Implementation of Horizon Suite View 6.2.2/5.1.2/5.3 deployment for 1800 Virtual desktops.
• Design and Implementation of VMware VSphere, ESX 6.0/5.5/5.1/4.1/4.0/3.5 and the upgrades of the ESX hosts with Patching of Versions.
• Integrated ThinApp 5.2.1/5.0.1/4.7 with Horizon Suite View 6.2.2/5.3/5.1.2 for Application packaging and deployment.
• Supported Production, Development and Testenvironments(Prod\DEV\QA\UAT) by supporting day to day maintenance activities of virtualenvironment.
• Worked extensively on Application packaging ThinApp and AppVolume and AppStack in different versions to deploy thousands of virtual applications to VDI Desktops.
• Worked on the Networking using DELL POWERCONNECT and Cisco Switches along with VMware NSX.
• Administered Active Directory, SharePoint and Microsoft Exchange Servers. Worked extensively on Group Policies and Printer paths in Active Directory. Good knowledge on DNS/TCP/IP and LAN/WAN.
• Designed and successfully implemented VMware ESX servers for server consolidation and datacenter relocation projects for large datacenter environment.
• Windows Server Administration on Windows Server 2008/2012, maintaining SQL Databases for real time administrative data.
• DeployedVMwarevSphere 4 and 5virtualizationinfrastructures.
• Performance Tuning: Ensured that assigned systems were engineered, configured and optimized for maximum functionality and availability. Implemented solutions that reducedSingle points of failure and improved system uptime to 99.9% availability.
• Kernel OS patching, installation and troubleshooting third party tools like NetBackup client, EMC power path, Scom tool,NetIQ software.
• Working with PKI as related to Active Directory and SharePoint.
• Expertise in Asset Management of all the Licenses at Data Center Level and Application Level.
• Managed and configured the application and System Environment variables using Curam Software Products.
• Successfully upgraded the View Environment from 5.1.2 to 5.3 and 5.3 to 6.2.2 and upgrades of vCenter and vSphere ESX to 5.1, 5.5 and 6.0 versions.
• Installed VMware ESX server 6.0/5.5/ 5.1/4.1 and created virtual machines on ESX Servers. Created standard templates and deployed virtual machines from these templates
• Installed, Configured and administered ESX 6.0/5.0/4.0 on DELL servers using DELL onboard administrator for the DELL chassis & enclosures, and with IBM Flex Systems and Cisco UCS Blades.
• Worked on vRealize Suite, vRealize Orchestrator for Server Provisioning.
• Worked on Active Directory, SharePoint Server and Microsoft Exchange Administration.
• Worked on the Nagios, Zabbix Monitoring Tool and Veeam Monitoring Tool for Monitoring the Infrastructure.
• Worked on the networking using the DELL Power Connect Switches and Cisco Switches.
• Used Avocent DS View Module for the remote server access to the Dell rack servers
• Installed Management Server (vCenter Server) instances to enable centralized management of multiple hosts
• Linked Different vCenter servers using linked mode to have a single instance of vSphere client to manage the whole Virtual environment .
• Experienced Higher Availability, DRS, VMotion, Storage VMotion and Fault Tolerance.
• Creating and managing Virtual Machines and Templates, worked with clones and snapshots of Virtual Machines
• Hot and Cold cloning of Virtual Machines using VMware Converter.
• Linux Cloud Engineering (VMware /citrix/kvm and OpenStack).
• Configured VMware HA, VMware DRS in acquiring higher efficiency for VMware Infrastructure
• Installed and worked on VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM 4.0) for the disaster recovery and managed recovery plans.
• Analyzing the VM-support logs for ESX servers and Virtual Center logs to diagnose the root cause for the problem.
• Used Monitoring Tools like Veeam to monitor the health and performance status on the servers and virtual machines.
• Defined the Patch Management process for the VMware Environment to upgrade the Hosts and VM's and Successful completion of Update Manager Installation in all the Environments.
• Worked with L1/L2/L3 VMware engineers and vendors to analyze and resolve technical issues.
• Performed hardware replacement and troubleshooting for the IBM Flex servers and IBM Flex Storage Units.
• Configured and monitored Microsoft SQL server 2005/2008 Databases and perform routine tasks such as performance tuning, indexing, purging and database replication for vCenter server and Database dependent virtual machines.
• Used different Administration and support tools (Veeam Backup-FastSCP) to perform regular backup and restore of the virtual machines disks and data.
• Used MKS Integrity Change Management Software tool to maintain the CMDB and Virtual Infrastructure Information.
• Used Groundwork & vKernal Monitoring Tools to have 24/7 monitoring on all the servers and virtual machines
• Performed in place upgrades of Windows 2003 server to Windows Server 2008/R2 and Windows Server 2012 on Dell Physical Servers -Power Edge 1950, R610 & R710.

ENVIRONMENT: ESXi 5.0/5.1, vCenter Server, Cloning, Snapshots, HA in Clusters, DRS, HP ProLiant DL 380 G6, G7 and Gen8, ILO Manager, Windows 2002, 2008, 2012 Active Directory, Windows 7, Active Directory, DNS, WINS, DHCP, NetIQ,TCP/IP, NTFS, Dell Power Edge, IBM xSeries, HP/Compaq ProLiant G3, G5, G7, G8 Blade Servers, IIS Servers.

Confidential, Charlotte, NC

SR. VMWare\ Virtualization Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Assisted with all relatedVMwareissues including the regional ESXi servers refresh.
• Responsible for updating and patching all ESXi servers.
• Responsible for maintaining Virtual Center for the Test and Development environments.
• Administered and maintained the vSphere V5.0 infrastructure.
• DeployedVMwareESX 3.5Virtualizationsolution for development and production virtual servers.
• Developed theVMwareV5.0 Standard Operating Procedures document, which included the security hoarding process.
• Assisting theVirtualizationteam with preparing their private cloud infrastructure for building TSAM cloud with ESXi 5.1 as Hypervisor.
• Lab deployment of vCloud Suits of Products.
• SQL ServersVirtualizationplan.
• Modified the Standard Operating Procedures document for the installation and configuration of ESXi server V.5.0
• Maintained, implemented and optimized operating systems/software utilizingVMwarevirtualization technologies for vSphere 4.0 including configuration ofVMwareHA and DRS.
• Administered a corporateVMwareESXi Server infrastructure with capacity for 100 servers across 3 separate environments.
• Integrating the User profiles/App-V/PVS/MCS/ Monitoring tools with the application & desktop virtualization environments.
• Configured, Monitored and Maintained Virtual server farms consistingVMWAREand Hyper V.
• Defined and documented Backup & Recovery plans, as well as robust disaster recovery strategies
• Assisted withVMwareplanning, consolidation and upgrades
• Performed cost analysis supporting consolidation of physical servers intoVMware.
• Responsible for the planning, testing and implementation of server software patches and upgrades as scheduled.
• Monitored and maintained all global systems operating in the Data Center, encompassing Microsoft Windows Server 2003/2008,VMware, Active Directory. Installed windows operating system remotely over the network using WDS.
• Administering DHCP Server creation of reservation and under reservation options, configuring of router IP address.
• Monitoring and basic troubleshooting of storage devices
• Created, developed, and tested preventative procedures and software to improve efficiency of overall Data Center operations.
• Collaborated with multiple support teams to resolve critical time-sensitive issues, and responded to system emergencies
• Worked closely with Storage and Networking teams to ensure allocated SAN, Fiber and networking infrastructure reflects specifications laid out in the initialVMwarefarm design to ensure successful deployment.
• Performed troubleshooting of operating system and software infrastructure issues on Domain Controllers, Member Servers, Server Clusters, and Virtual Machine Farms.
• Performed server incident root cause, service, and crash dump analysis.

Environment: VMWareESX Server 3.5/4.0, vCenter 2.5/4.0, vSphere 4.0, VI 3.5, Active Directory, Windows 2003/2008, SAN, Fiber, Hyper.

Confidential, Minneapolis, MN

Windows /VMWareAdmin

Responsibilities:

• Build, configure and install and Kick start Red hat Linux operating system. Install, configure and troubleshoot Apache, Tomcat, DNS, DHCP, SAMBA servers.
• Extensive use of Logical Volume Management (LVM) to create volume groups, logical volumes (LVs), extended volumes to support file system growth.
• Configured TCP/IP, NFS, NTP, Auto mount and send mail etc. as per the requirement.
• Installation, Configuration & upgradation of Solaris, Linux HP-UX, AIX operating systems using Jumpstart/Flash/live upgrades for Solaris, Kickstart for Red Hat and Ignite for HP-UX for automated installations.
• Configuring and Administering NIS, NFS, DNS, DHCP, Samba in heterogeneous environment.
• Installation, Maintenance, Administration and troubleshooting of Sun Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, Linux.
• Performed automated installations of Operating System using Jumpstart for Solaris and kick start for Linux.
• Installation and configured Solaris 10 with Zone configuration.
• Installation and configuration of Veritas Volume Manager, Solaris Volume Manager and Veritas File System.
• Installation and configuration of Solaris Custom Jumpstart servers, and creating zones for different applications.
• Installation, configuration and maintenance DNS servers, Mail servers, FTP servers, NFS, NIS, LDAP and Samba Web servers on Sun Solaris, and Redhat Linux platforms.
• Expertise in setting up HPSA for automated installation, software distribution, configuration changes and operating system updates to a network of Linux Machines.
• Efficiently managed disk and File system through Veritas Volume Manager, Solstice Disk Suite/ Solaris Volume Manager and Logical Volume Manager.
• Extensive experience with working on Solaris Volume Manager (SVM), creating metadevices, soft partitions, mirroring the devices.
• Implementation of RAID techniques and the creation of Disk groups and volumes, plex using Veritas Volume Manager.
• Installation ofVMwarevCenter 5.1 and vSphere client 5.1.
• Operations supporting implementation of Cisco B series, C series servers.
• Installation of ESXi 4.0 and guest OS ranging from Windows to Linux.
• Created resource pools and added the VM's into the pools.
• UpgradedESXi from 3.4 to 4.0 using Host update utility.
• Created LUN's for VMFS and Raw disk mappings (RDM's) on HP Eva 4000 disk arrays.
• Expertise on EMC Celerra -960/480/240 unified storage arrays and configured the NAS using iSCSI adapter and Celerra Multi Path File System.
• Test and replication/backup forVMware and disaster recovery.
• Creation of VM's from templates and templates from VM's.
• Expertise in performing tuning of Guest OS and VM's.
• Conducted load-balance test for different VM's, network bandwidth for ESX, number of VM's on ESXi for optimal performance, identify bottlenecks to set VM benchmarks.
• Planning and execution of VM's required for Dev/QA teams comprising of around 800 members.
• Configuring and monitoring of Unisphere element manager.
• Creating linked clones and full clones for VDI's and connected to the parent template.
• Experience on Unisphere element manager tabs like Dashboard, Hosts, data protection and monitor VNX information, storage capacity summary, raid group summary, hosts and connectivity issues.
• VNX arrays storage performance analysis for VDI user desktops.
• Configuring zones and zonesets for HBA connectivity on VNX front end ports on MDS switch.
• Monitored VMWarevSphere Logs for security, using syslog for login repository.
• Created and maintained ZFS filesystems.
• Involved in configuration of NIS, NIS+ and LDAP.
• Manage ACTT ticket queue resolving Operating Systems issues related to process failures, software and hardware system alarms which generate Trouble Tickets for Sun servers.
• Involved in Disaster Recovery testing every quarter.
• Trouble shooting of day to day system and user problems.
• Used VMWare for testing various applications on different operating systems.
• Interacting with various teams such Oracle database team, and Net Backup team.
• Troubleshooting various problems, logging call with vendors.
• Participated in on-call rotation to provide 24x7 technical supports.

Environment: Red Hat Linux 5/4/3, Solaris 10/9, HP-UX AIX 4.3, 5.3L/5.1L, Sun Fire 280R Server, Sun Fire V480 Server, Sun Enterprise Servers, HPSA, Samba, Sun T-Series, M-Series, NIS LDAP, HP 9000 K, L, N class server, IBM RS/6000, pSeries servers.

Confidential

System Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Working on the converged infrastructure VBlock and handling VMware, Compute, Network and storage components of it.
• Involved in the storage operations on all the models of VNX 5300, 5500, 5700, VNX-e 3100 and closely worked with EMC team on VMax storage as well.
• Installing ESXI on Cisco UCS blades and C200 racks, using scripted installations, configuring and hardening ESXi servers.
• Administration of various network infrastructure components including Nexus 1000v, UCS Fabric Interconnect 6120/6140, Nexus 5548.
• Cisco UCS integrations with Cisco Nexus 5548 for LAN and Cisco MDS for SAN.
• Installing and implementing the VMware ESXi 5.1 host servers with vSphere Client, vSphere CLI.
• Configured HBAs and iSCSI SAN storage.
• Configuration of vMotion, vSwitch, and VLAN in VMware vCenter.
• Trouble shooting issues related to VMware ESX host, VMware virtual center, HA, DRS, VMware update manager.
• Part of the Data Center migration team, handling server backups and maintaining the server inventory list, getting server up and running after the Data Center migration.
• Created the Images for Windows and using those Images for bringing back the physical servers, which went down after migration. Performed the back up of virtual machines by taking snapshot.
• Establishing Single Sign on access between two applications using Active Directory Federation Service Software (AD FS 2.0).
• Administrating the Domain and Services, Active Directory, GPO, IIS (performing code loads on the production environment), Generating request and Installing VeriSign on the website.
• Configuring and administrating DNS, DHCP, web servers and other Active Directory Services.
• Worked with the IBM Tivoli Storage Manager, for taking the Incremental backup of the server.
• Rack-mounted servers like IBM & Dell hardware, tower servers, desktop, laptop and other peripherals.

Environment: Windows 2000/2003/2008 R2, SMS, SQL Server 2000, IIS 6.0/7.0, VMware ESXi 5.1 Server, Dell Power Edge Servers, CISCO UCS blade servers, HP Servers, IBM Blade Servers, Remote desktop services, IBM TSM, IBM NAS, Cisco Nexus 5K.