PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

• 8 years of experience in Windows and Linux System and Network administration, VMware Configuration Administration, Project Management, System Design, Data center migration, Windows Linux server management, Implementation maintenance of highly scalable 24x7 availability solutions and support.
• Extensive knowledge and experience in VMware and Microsoft virtualization technologies.
• Experience in monitoring/managing VMware ESXi 5.0, ESXi 5.1 and Vsphere infrastructure.
• Expert in implementing and managing High Availability / Clustering environments.
• Experienced in migrating the current environment into virtual environment using the tools offered by VMware.
• Experience in Installation, Configuration and system Administration of Windows 2003/2008/2012 .
• Expert in performing hardware analysis and installation.
• Expert in managing operating systems and end-user software.
• Experienced in performing network and security audits.
• Experience in recommending, scheduling and performing software and hardware improvements, upgrades, patches, reconfigurations and purchases.
• Expert in managing the Active Directory forest and domain environments including users, groups, printers, login scripts.
• Strong technical knowledge of current network protocols and standards, including LAN, WAN, VPN, TCP/IP, DHCP, DNS, FC, ISCSI.
• Extensive knowledge of computer server architectures, including peripheral interfaces SCSI, RAID, Ethernet and multi-processor designs.
• Experienced in installing and managing NAS and SAN storage solutions.
• Experienced in managing the server cluster environment including configuration, shares and permissions.
• Developed backup and recovery procedures for recovery from loss and destruction of data.
• Experienced in installing and managing production, test and development environments.
• Experienced in migrating from development to production environment.
• Hands on expertise on Dell power edge and blade servers, HP Proliant and Blade Matrix servers.
• Experience on Multi-tier Enterprise EMC/NetApp Storage systems installation, migration, virtualization, management, monitoring, performance analysis reporting.
• Strong knowledge of ITIL process and tools.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills combined with high commitment to achieve corporate goals and ability to work collaboratively in a team.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Role: System Administrator/Virtual Infrastructure Engineer SME

Responsibilities:-

• Installed and managed VMware ESXi Server /4.0/5.0/5.1/5.5 and V-Sphere 4.0/5.0/5.1/5.5.
• Part of global build team, responsible to build the Windows VMware Infrastructure for various projects.
• Installation, configuration and support of servers utilizing HP Hardware and firmware BIOS upgrades.
• Performed installation, configuration, and administration of Windows 2008 R2 and environment including support for Virtual Center management, DRS, HA vMotion for a large scale of about 3000 servers.
• Successful completion of a major Migration of core business critical application which includes building the new infrastructure and active participation with the vendors and insisting for an application upgrade.
• Installed and configured the Windows Clustering services for various projects and for business critical database servers.
• Installed and configured Web servers IIS for various internal projects supporting the infrastructure.
• Understanding the security compliance and configuring the servers as per the need.
• Installed and configured the Hyper-v Servers for the windows virtualization.
• Installed and configured the Application virtualization using Windows RDS and the load balancers for the balancing the virtualized environment.
• Played a joint role as a VMware SME/SA to collaborate on business and functional requirements and guide the Infrastructure/ WSIT group on planning System design workflows and Migrations.
• Working across 8 vCenter Servers and maintaining an active role in supporting 500 ESXi hosts and 3500 servers.
• Building ESXi hosts and configuring Clusters/Datacenters as per the Engineering documents.
• Installing ESXi on HP blades SD card and rack servers and configuring the settings to cope up with the present environment.
• Creating standard, DV-Switches and configuring network configuration across the vCenter servers.
• Working and configuring Blade logic, MDT and templates in deploying Guests Windows 2003/2008/R2/2012 across different Locations and datacenters.
• Creating ESXi host Profiles and adding/removing profile settings to make it compatible with different environments across the vCenter servers.
• Installing configuring and architecting Tivoli, light speed backup policies for Virtual servers.
• Actively working with Event monitoring tools Like NetIQ.
• Actively worked with Storage Teams for allocation/troubleshooting and provisioning of storage, running EMC GRAB's for the ESXi hosts, Guests with SQL- RDM's within a 90 EMC Shop.
• Increasing VMFS Data store's size and working with App teams and Storage Team to resolve disk/space issues.
• Working with the Run Team in resolving ESXi issues like performance and storage issues and actively working the VMware to resolve issues with Tickets.
• Creating and deploying Windows servers both Physical and virtual machine using Blade Logic server automation and MDT
• Windows OS and customization using Blade Logic and MDT deployment tools.
• Install and configure the HP c7000 enclosures, HP standalone servers.
• Supporting Vendor for various application installations.
• Documented standard operating procedures SOP for troubleshooting, configuring, and setting up virtual servers.
• Scan and deploy patches and updates to the systems using Microsoft Windows Updates Services WSUS and keeping up-to-date patch-levels.
• Provide support for users, groups and security access to Active Directory objects including organizational units. Managed AD user accounts, access and group permissions in Win 2003 AD.
• Creating clusters in VMware vCenter.
• Configuring High Availability HA and Distributed Resource Scheduler DRS .
• Patch management using VMware update manager for ESX server.
• Scanning and configuring LUN for ESX server.
• Updating documentation of complete process.
• Disk Space increase using VMware converter.

Environment:-

Linux4/5, Windows2003/2008/2012server, windows Xp/7/8, VMware ESXi 4.0,/4.1/5.0/5.1, Vmotion, vcenter server, sphere client, center update manager, vcenter converter, San, NAS, Hp Blade servers.

Confidential

Role: VMware Engineer

Responsibilities:-

• Administration of all Onsite/Offsite backups of critical servers, VMware applications servers and storage arrays through Symantec Netbackup 6.5.
• Handling complete IT infrastructure includes Servers, Storage solutions and Administration, VMware configuration and Administration, Network devices, Security devices for datacenter.
• Creation of Virtual Switches, Ports and Port groups and setting up Layer 2 Security Policies for Virtual Networks
• Involved in creation of virtual switches and configuration of Nic for a clustered environment
• Use of HP ILO for the debugging and troubleshooting of servers in a datacenter remotely.
• Good understating and coding knowledge of Power shell/Cli for making automation of tasks and making the VMS to be created faster for cloning images.
• Involved in performing Vmotion and Vstorage administration for the successful data migration.
• Used third party Tools/Applications for performing hot migration and making them deployed from a central remote server.
• Performing physical to virtual servers p2v migration without downtime.
• Successfully configured ESXi servers for HA and DR capabilities.
• Installation and configuration of ESXi 4.0/4.1, ESXi 4.0 ESXi 4.1 hosts for the existing farm expansion and administration of VMware Vsphere 4 environment.
• Hands-on wide experience in Deployment, requirement gathering, Installation, administration, Maintenance and troubleshooting of various Servers, Storage and Backup systems.
• Understanding and experience with SAN and NAS concepts, snapshots, clustering and fail-over, file permission management and disaster recovery.
• Installation, configuration and driver upgrades of HBA's Emulex Qlogic on Windows servers
• Successfully deployed and tested Disaster recovery solutions for selected business applications using EMC SRDF/A for high performance.
• Used VMware Update Manager to install critical and locally tested updates to the ESXi Host.
• Installed EMC Snap View enabler successfully and created Snapshots Snap View sessions for backups.
• Provided full design, planning, configuration, documentation, deployment and top-level support ownership of storage and VMware infrastructure technologies.
• Grouped physical disks into logical volumes dynamically sized and resized volumes to fit in the application.
• Troubleshoot and resolve the Storage related issues like incidents, Service calls, and Work orders generated in the production, Development and testing environments Using Service-now portal.

Environment:

Linux 5,Windows 2003/2008 server, Red Hat Linux 5 Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, Exchange 2003/ 2007/2010,VMware ESX3.5/4/,ESXi 3.5/4/ VCenter Server, Vsphere client, NetApp filers, Symantec Netbackup 6.5/7,Citrix server, EMC Clarion, SQL 2005/2008,Service-now.

Confidential

Role: System Administrator/Virtual Infrastructure Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Experienced in migrating VMware ESX 3.5 to ESXi 4.0.
• Designing and implementing virtual infrastructure using VMware products ESXi 4.0 .
• Managing the virtual infrastructure via VMware Vsphere 4.
• Migrating physical servers to the virtual environment.
• Analysing system faults, troubleshooting and running diagnostic tests on operating systems and hardware to detect problems.
• Providing day-to-day onsite support for networked systems, hardware and related infrastructure.
• P2V migration project from Memphis datacentre to Chicago datacentre
• Installed and configured VMWARE ESX 3i server on HP DL 380 G5 model server.
• Storage allocation and configuration through VI client for all ESX servers installed.
• P2V migrations and Swing builds of virtual instances moving from two locations.
• Application and file share migration from Memphis to Chicago using various third party tools like EMC, Plate spin.
• Phase-by-Phase P2V migration of applications and servers from Memphis datacentre to Chicago Datacentre.
• Designed and implemented the VMWARE Vsphere 4.1 upgrade from VMWARE Vsphere 4.0 ESX hosts and Virtual center servers.
• Supported and Transitioned new clients in migrating the servers and applications both physical and virtual with minimum downtime.
• Taken a role of VMware architect for P2V migration to various commercial and leveraged clients.
• Designed and migrated Active directory/DNS from Physical to Virtual and enabled site-to-site replication between the datacentres.

Confidential

Dec 09 April 10

Role: Virtualization Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Configuring, implementing and managing Virtual environment using VMware ESX 2.5 and 3.0.
• Installing, configuring, administration of Windows 2003 servers, Active Directory Services, DNS DHCP, FTP, WSUS, IIS Web Server and SQL Database Server.
• Participation from scratch for new servers deployment and installing ESX in the servers and making it configured over Intranet.
• Successful implementation and configuration of the ESX servers to existing NAS devices.
• Core participation in Datacentre and involved as one of core engineer for the Datacentres.
• Also participated in some of migration procedures in a Datacentre.
• Resolved the user issues related to Active Directory Users and Groups.
• Monitored the servers and trouble shot the server issues.
• Built servers and installed applications as per the company standards and requirement. Used windows 2003 Standard Edition. Upgraded the Firmware of the servers. Participated in mounting, racking and cabling of the servers.
• Experienced with x86 / x64 Intel, HP, IBM Dell hardware like rack-mounted servers, tower servers, desktop, laptop and other peripherals.
• Creating and mirroring preconfigured Operating system like Windows/Linux and configuring Oracle/Sql, Web sphere services in the OS.
• Developing and implementing backup and disaster recovery protocols.
• Providing Load balancing capability for the virtual infrastructure.
• Analysing software and hardware constraints to plan for new user requirements capacity planning .
• Performing diagnostics on system operations to identify problems and treads and verify network performance.
• Developing standard operating procedures and documentations for the virtualization environment.
• Documenting and communicating Project Status, Issues, Risks and Actions to project leads/managers.
• Providing day-to-day onsite support for networked systems, hardware and related infrastructure.
• Creating a backup job and also took backup of data center on daily, weekly and monthly basis.

Environment:-

ESX 2.5/3.0, Windows 2000/2003, Windows XP, Red hat 3/4, NAS, SAN, ISCSI, web sphere 6.0/6.1, oracle 8/9i,NAS,SAN,ISCSI, VMware HA, VMware DRS Clusters.

Confidential

Role: - Windows Administrator

Responsibilities:-

• Setup company's servers, network and workstations in windows and Ubuntu.
• Maintained all computer equipment peripherals.
• Administered cross-platform Network Linux and Windows
• Installation and Configuration of new server hardware.
• Installed and configured windows server 2000.and windows 2003 server.
• Designing, configuring, implementing and managing DHCP, DNS servers.
• Defining and implementing user configurations and policies.
• Automated several administrative tasks.
• Adding/deleting/modifying user account information.
• Creating security policies.
• Supporting and maintaining antivirus products as well as host based firewalls.
• Designing, implementing and managing disaster recovery and backup process.
• Documenting all the network, server and resources configurations.
• Backup files and tweak the system network for optimal performance.
• Managed system and network disaster recovery plans.
• Conducted basic computer training to employees.
• Provided hardware and software updates.
• Provided system and network security.
• Provided technical support and repairs for Windows / workstations
• Assisted in computerized accounting and auditing.

Environment:-

Windows NT/200/2003, Red hat Linux, Ubuntu, Lan, Wan, Free BSD, Apache.