PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

• VCP certified with over 7 years of experience with expertise in VMware administration and Windows Administration, Windows Systems and VMware Administrator, in Implementation, Installing, Monitoring and Troubleshooting of network and communication equipment.
• Solid experience in Network set-up Management, System Administration including Server Implementation Administration, Disaster Recovery Management, Virtualization, Technology Support and Technical troubleshooting.
• Design and Implement virtualization solutions based on VMware vSphere ESXi 5.5/5.1/5.0/4.1, ESX 4.1/4.0/3.5/3.0 platform, vCenter 5.5/5.1/5.0/4.0.
• Administrated the VBlock 100/200/300/700 Series environment and also monitored the entire VBlock hardware infrastructure.
• Technical knowledge proficiency in Windows Servers, VMware and Network Administration, Window Servers.
• Experience with Virtualization technologies like Installing, Configuring, and Administering VMwareESX/ESXi.
• Managing VMware vSphere environments including vSwitches, Distributed Virtual Switches.
• Experience on High Availability, Distributed Resource Scheduler.
• Solid experience on vMotion, Storage vMotion, VMware Fault Tolerance.
• Setting up Access and Authentication control, ESXi advanced configurations, Network/Storage IO Control.
• Worked on VMFS Datastore, Host profiles, Storage profiles, Resource Management and Performance Monitoring.
• Experienced in performing Cloning, Cold Migrations and Hot Migrations and taking Snapshots.
• Performed successfully physical to virtual and virtual to virtual conversions of physical/virtual machines using VMware Converter.
• Exposure on vMotion migration, High Availability feature, DRS feature and Setting VM priorities on CPU and Memory resources.
• Strong knowledge and hands on experience in Data Center Migration.
• Building /Configuring /Supporting of New Datacenters, Clusters with HA DRS, Resource Pools.
• Involved in Installation, Configuration, and Maintaining of Microsoft Windows 2003/2008/2012 Servers.
• Worked on configuring the servers with Raid Configuration on HP Proliant DL585, DL380 Servers.
• Installation, Configuration and Administration of VMware ESXi 5.5, vCenter 4.0 Servers and also patching, management and troubleshooting of VMware, and ESX Servers.
• Administered user accounts, domain accounts, administrative rights, security, and distribution groups with Active Directory.
• Experience with EMC PowerPath for Storage Path optimization
• Experience on EMC storage like VNX/VMAX storage systems.
• Successfully completed Virtual Machines migration and ESXi boot LUNs from old VMAX to new VMAX storage.
• Performing initial Cisco UCS cluster setup and provide management IP addresses for blade servers
• Experience in Network LAN/WAN deployment, including IP Addressing and Troubleshooting.
• Experience with Cisco UCS and HP Blades for ESXi hosts
• .Experience in configuring and deploying Cisco Nexus 1000v switch.
• Experience in installing and configuring storage technology such as SAN, NFS, FC, NAS, ISCSI, and RAID.
• Good understanding of networking concepts, configuration of networks, Router Configuration and wireless security, TCP/IP, VPN, Content Filtering, VLANs, and routing in LAN/WAN, Ethernet Port and Wireless Networks.
• Extensively worked with Windows server architecture and administered them successfully.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

VMware Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Experienced in Installation, Configuration and Administration of VMware vSphere 5.5, vCenter Servers and Deploying HA DRS Cluster, Managing cluster resources
• Implemented VBlock 320, VBlock 700 infrastructure, identified migration candidates and established the new Virtual infrastructure utilizing VMware vSphere suite 5.5 bundled with ESX hosts, vCenter Servers
• Worked on Implementing VBlock VB720 in Prep Prod, Prod and VDI environment
• Monitoring of Vblock resources using UCS Central and UCS Manager.
• Configured and deployed Cisco UCS computing clusters with VMware ESXi 5.5 and vCenter 5.5.
• Monitoring vBlock Hardware health/Availability status and event alarms for Incident Management
• Experienced in applying monthly updates to windows servers 2003, 2008R2 and 2012 versions
• Maintained and troubleshooted windows servers windows 2003, 2008R2 and 2012 versions Creating disk spaces for windows servers.
• Resolving tickets in ServiceNow and TechExcel and coordinating with offshore team.
• Cloning, Building and deploying new VM's and Installing different guest OS like Windows server 2003/2008/2012 and Linux. Creating virtual NIC's for the respective VM's and assigning the network connections to a particular port group in the Vswitch's
• Maintaining disk spaces, RAM and connections to SAN of virtual servers
• Performed V2V and P2V migration of Physical servers to VMware ESXi hosts
• Deployed EMC VNXe SAN for vSphere5.5 high availability management cluster configuration.
• Maintaining Backups of the VM's, taking snapshots
• Managing VM's by vSphere Clinet and Web Client.
• Upgraded 100 ESX hosts from ESX 5.0 to ESX 5.5 using VMware Update Manager tool.
• Upgraded the VMware tools, VM Hardware 9 on all the VM's as a part Upgrade process and also Upgraded VirtualCenter to VSphere and created a linked mode environment for VC's
• Administration of user and group accounts and providing appropriate rights to user accounts according to their requirements
• VMAX and VNX storage system Implementation and administration in VMware environment.
• Installation and configuration of EMC Power Path in ESXi for SAN Storage Path optimization.
• Configuring and managing Multi-pathing with EMC Powerpath.
• Deploying and configuring Nexus 1000v switch on a virtual machine on vCenter.
• Created new VLAN's and port-profiles on Nexus 1000v as per the requirements. VNX Storage Array monitoring and advanced performance analysis using Unisphere Analyzer
• Troubleshooted network issues between Distributed vSwitch, Layer 2 switches and resolved slow performance between SAN network and VM networks..
• Migrating virtual machine configuration files and virtual disks from one Datastore to another Datastore Customizing VM's Memory, hard disk, Nic . Analyzing log files, Resources utilizing monitoring.

Confidential

VMware/Windows Server Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Installed VMware ESX server 5.0/5.1 and created virtual machines on ESX Servers
• Performed Data Center Migration of Physical Servers to Virtual Servers P2V Using
• Administrated server consolidation program through use of VMware ESX server and VMware Virtual Center, using Virtual Center, ESX, creating VMs, using/building VM templates and customization files, and scheduling tasks
• Configuring HA/DRS related advanced configuration settings per VMware Best practices
• Configuring VMFS based storage in virtual center
• Configuring virtual networking related security, traffic shaping and load balancing policies
• Worked Cisco Nexus 1000V in vsphere environment.
• Created standard templates and deployed virtual machines from these templates
• Involved in operational support of Active Directory, WINS, DNS, and AD enabled applications.
• Experience in configuring and setting up HP ILO for physical HP servers.
• Upgraded 100 ESX hosts from ESX 4.0 to ESX 5.0 using VMware Update Manager tool.
• VMAX and VNX storage system Implementation and administration in VMware environment.
• Installing vSphere 5.0/5.1 on half blade and full blade servers on Cisco UCS
• VNX Block Storage Provisioning and Management and integration with vSphere
• Cisco UCS integrations with Cisco Nexus 5548 for LAN and Cisco MDS for SAN
• Experienced deploying VMs using VMware templates.
• Installation of Vcenter server and Configuring ESXi - host's within the cluster using VMotion and HA.
• Providing and maintaining user access in VMware virtual Center, configuring mail alert for any failure in HA, DRS, CPU and memory
• Creating and configuring Standard Switch vSwitch , VM Kernel Ports, VM ports, Service console ports and NIC teaming through vCenter Server.
• VNX Block Storage Provisioning and Management and integration with vSphere
• Manage security groups and user and computer account permissions for 2000 users
• Backup administration using Symantec BackupExec and Symantec NetBackup.
• Performed data center Migration Maintained data center Environment
• Monitoring vBlock Hardware health/Availability status and event alarms for Incident Management
• Conduct Windows server implementation, migration and patching as needed to ensure minimal service impact.
• Administered user accounts, domain accounts, administrative rights, security, and distribution groups with Active Directory.

Confidential

VMware/Windows Server Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Experienced in creating Virtual Machine Templates and deploy virtual machines from templates and allocate resources.
• Experience in Network LAN/WAN deployment, including IP Addressing and Troubleshooting
• Backup administration using Symantec Backup Exec and Symantec Netback up.
• Installation, Configuration and Administration of ESXi 3.5 and 4.0 Servers.
• Performed the day to day administration of Windows Server Windows NT/2003/2008/2008R2.
• Understanding of networking concepts, configuration of networks, Router Configuration and wireless security, TCP/IP, VPN, Content Filtering, VLANs, and routing in LAN/WAN, Ethernet Port and Wireless Networks.
• Installation of Citrix Presentation server 4.0/ XenApp 4.5 Citrix Client Tools
• Administration of Citrix XenApp Farms
• Configuration of Citrix server policies, Load Management and Printers in the Farm.
• Manage security groups and user and computer account permissions for 1200 users
• Establishing backup procedures using various backup solutions.
• Migrate Physical Servers to Virtual Server using VMware Converter P2V Converter .
• Investigated new technologies, software, patches, and security packages, which will improve system performance and systems administration procedures.
• Experience in administration of Active directory for users and computers.
• NIC teaming for ESX/ESXi Servers.
• Taking Snapshots and reverting back as per the requirements.
• Migration of Data, Shares, Users, Rights, and Configure printers and printer software.
• Regular backup and maintenance of critical data and user specific data from Servers.
• Managing User Accounts, Computer Accounts, Files and Folders.

Confidential

VMware Administrator

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.
• 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.
• 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.

Confidential

Systems Administrator

Responsibilities

• Installed the Windows 2000 and 2003 Servers in the organization with over 50 clients.
• Created the user accounts and profiles, assigned permissions using Active Directory, a directory service which contains information of all user accounts and which optimizes the network traffic. It provides the user logon and authentication services using Kerberos.
• Administered the Group Policy, a collection of permissions, security and rights which can be applied on sites domains and OU's. Also used group policy to automatically upgrade, repair software installation online.
• Provide Remote support and administration on network for internal and external clients using tools like Microsoft remote desktop connection.
• Provide day to day support troubleshooting installing for more than 50 users for hardware, network software's including Microsoft Office applications, Mail clients and other network related issues.
• Installation and configuration of network Printers.
• Managed the member server, a server which hosts services like IIS, DNS, and DHCP.
• Protected the organization's network from unwanted traffic coming from the internet using ISA Server which is a proxy server and a web caching server.
• Provided the backup and recovery of the files and data, worked on Windows Firewall, Terminal server, troubleshooting the computer related problems.
• Attending regular calls of the users related to computers network problems.
• Environment: Windows 2000 and 2003 Servers, Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, Group Policy, Backup and Recovery, IIS HTTP FTP , Managing the Domain and the Domain Controller, ISA, Terminal Services, Disk Management, File Sharing.
• Configure printers and install drivers, Install approved software, Configure virtual machines, and configure DHCP and static IP addresses on workstations.
• Responded to and resolved system generated alerts related to operating system performance, services, network connectivity, accessibility, and client requested monitoring requests from SCOM, HP Openview., HP Operations Manager. Responsible for installations, configurations, upgrades on their desktops from WIN XP to Windows Vista.
• Responsible for providing technical support over the phone to users on different locations, some of the most Common issues included MS Office, Printing, Login, Ftp, e-mail, and resetting user's passwords issues.