PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• 8 years of experience in the Information Technology working as VMware, Windows and Network administrator/Engineer.
• Experience with installing and managing the Microsoft patch updates using Windows Server Update Services(WSUS),Windows Deployment Service (WDS) and Group Policies(GPO)
• Comprehensive background in the installation, upgrades, configuration, rollout and support of hardware, software, peripherals and network devices
• Experience with installing, configuring and Managing FTP and IIS 6/7/8 Web servers
• Experience in installation, configuration, upgrading and troubleshooting of VMware ESXI and V Center server
• Experience in configuring and troubleshooting v sphere Networking (VSS and VDS policies)
• Experience in configuring and troubleshooting v sphere storage (VMFS and NFS data stores)
• Experience in creating, deploying and administrating virtual machines and v Apps, Managing VM clones and templates
• Created and configured VMware Clusters, implemented VMware Fault Tolerance, created and administered Resource pools
• Using VMware V Center server to monitor, manage, troubleshoot and administer virtual machines and EXSI hosts
• Performed basic troubleshooting for HA/DRS Clusters and v Motion/Storage v Motion
• Monitored Esxi, v Center Server and Virtual machines and managed v Center server alarms
• Experience with Installing and Configuring Windows server 2003/08/12, Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, IIS, DFS, WDS, File and print services, Routing and remote access and other windows services.
• Hands on experience with Network Monitoring System (NMS)
• Experience in configuring and troubleshooting Switches and Routers
• Well Versed in Operation of IP data Networks (Functions of Routers, Switches, OSI and TCP/IP models)
• Experienced in Configuring LAN Switching Technologies, IP Routing technologies, IP services, IP addressing and WAN technologies
• Working knowledge in storage technologies like: DAS, FC SAN, ISCSI SAN and NAS
• Experience in installation, configuring and troubleshooting DELL, HP/Compaq and IBM servers..
• Excellent diagnostic skills; consistently solved problems and rarely escalated issues
• Have good communication (verbal and written), analytical & problem solving skills, a committed team player as well as an independent worker, able to work with minimum supervision and to manage multiple tasks simultaneously.
• Proficient in Windows 2000/2003/2008 server upgrade, Wintel server and active directory administration
• Created the user accounts and provided access to the desired servers
• Experience in Writing/ Maintaining & troubleshooting scripts written both in MS Power Shell and/or VB script for build & operations environment to develop/test/implement automation tools.
• Establish user accounts and group policies and also troubleshoot the existing GPOs
• Implemented VDI (Virtual desktop infrastructure) technology using VMware VIEW 4.5/4.6
• Expertise with Disaster Recovery tools SRM 5.0 & Double Take, deployment of business critical technologies - VMware SRM 4.0 and VMware View
• Expertise with IP sub-netting, VLANs, Load Balancing, & High Availability (HA) architectures
• Performance monitoring, Error logging, Diagnostics, Fine-tuning & Backup management.
• Experience in the V2V &P2V migration of Physical servers.
• Extensive knowledge about VMware server automation using scripting language Power shell, VB Script, Power CLI.
• Experience in ESX Architecture, guest O/S installation, and setting up of VM priorities, Cloning, Creating Templates & Snapshots.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

VMware products: VMware vSphere 4.0, VMware Infrastructure 3.0/3.5, v Center 4.0/4.1,5,5.1, ESX/ ESXi 3.5/4.0/4.1/5/5.1 v Center Update Manager 4.0,5.0, v Sphere Client, VMware V Motion and Svmotion, VMware Distributed Resource Scheduler, VMware High Availability, VMware Fault Tolerance, Power Cli, vCli

Plate Spin and VMware Convertor: Expert Level in Physical to Virtual migration of datacenter, Virtual to Virtual Migration (VMware 3.x to VMware 4.x), Physical to Physical Hardware refresh

Monitoring and configuration Tools: H.P, VMware vcops, Nagios. Satellite server. Cobbler server. Kick start profiles. Puppet.

Microsoft Technologies: Windows Server NT/ 2000/ 2003/2008/2012 - Active Directory Domain Services (ADDS), Tivoli and Big Fix Microsoft Server 2008 file and print server, DNS, DHCP, DFS, File Service, Print Services, Web-Server (IIS 6), Application Server, TCP/IP Networking, FTP.

Operating Systems: Linux, Unix, Windows 2012/2008/2003/2000 Server, Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000 Professional, Windows XP, Vista& 7.0, Red hat Linux, AIX, Windows 95/98

Hardware: HPC7000Chassis, HPracksystems (DL980G7.DL785.DL385.DL585, DL580.DL560Gen8.DL385.DL380.DL360). HPBades (685c, 680c, 465c, 460c, 660c) DellPowerEdge, PE 6850,R805, R900, R910, 2950 & IBM X series Blade HS22V, HS23, HX5& Rack systems x3690 X5, x3850, x3950, x3850 x5. Cisco UCS Chassis 5108.

Storage: ISCSI SAN, FC SAN, NAS, NETAPP, EMC (Clarion, VMAX SYMMETRICS). Sun storage 7200(zfs)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Virtualization Engineer/ System Admin

Responsibilities:

• Manage Virtual Machines, Installing VMware Tools, Creating Templates, Cloning, and Deploy Virtual Machines using Templates,
• Planning, managing and Installation VMware ESXi 5.5 /6.0 server, Installation and configuration of virtual center database and installation of VMware infrastructure virtual machine.
• Performed periodical updates of VMware hosts and guest patch updates, as well as perform parallel upgrade from Esxi 5.5 to Esxi 6.0
• Worked closely with Storage and Networking teams to manage the allocated SAN, Fiber and Networking Infrastructure.
• Update the Patches for ESX Servers using VMware Update Manager in Virtual Center.
• Involved in Managing, Installing, and Supporting Windows 2008 R2 and 2012 Servers.
• Used automation scripts to minimize error level in day to day VMware operations
• Manage VMware Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS), vMotion and High Availability (HA) Clusters
• Management integrated ESX server, create a new storage space, creation of VMFS data store, Configuration networking for the virtual machines.
• Troubleshooting problems pertaining to Windows 2000/2003/2008.
• Managing VM infrastructure (DRS, HA, Virtual Center Server, VM Converter).
• Installation/configuration of virtual machines in an Enterprise SAN environment.

Environment: VMware Infrastructure 5.0, 5.5 and 6.0, v Center Server, V Center, Windows 2012/2008/2003 Server.

Confidential

Windows Server Admin

Responsibilities:

• Windows Server 2003, 2008 R2 installation, deployments, troubleshooting and automation.
• Researched requirements, deployed in a test environment and production, created documentation.
• Utilize Windows Server Update Services to manage and deploy software patches.
• Manage new hire account creation, user terminations, privileges and all other user account modifications.
• Utilized IPC ticketing systems (Manage NOW, Service NOW).
• Develop and execute project plans for deployments, upgrades, migrations, and replacement of existing IT technologies
• Deployed anti-virus software (McAfee, Symantec-Norton) to client systems using remote consoles and directly at the workstations.
• Utilized MS Word to document IT procedures for software installation programs.
• Setup file shares on file servers and assigned permissions; Managed user security and distribution groups in Active Directory
• Using JIRA for bug tracking, issue tracking, project management function and project issue for software team.
• Create and maintain workflow
• Installed/configured VMware to improve server availability, reduce workload for IT staff, and automate server deployment for various business units
• Document all system components so that all team members may learn from work performed.

Environment: VMware Infrastructure 4.0, 5.0 and 5.5, v Center Server, V Center operation Manager, VMware standalone converter, Windows 2012/2008/2003 Server, HPC7000, DL380P GN8, Cisco Nexus 5000K, Dell Power Edge Servers, EMC VNX 5200, 5500, VMAX, EMC Recovery, P2V, V2V, V Motion.

Confidential

VMWare Admin

Responsibilities:

• Designed and successfully implemented VMwareEsxi server for server consolidation
• Performed periodical VMware hosts and guest patch updates, as well as perform parallel upgrade from Esxi 4.1 to Esxi 5.1
• Installing and managed VDI terminal servers, Provided isolated desktop environment via VDI.
• Virtualizing desktop applications for use in a VDI environment and application delivery through VMware ThinApp and App Volumes 2.12
• Installed VMware Esxi server and created Virtual machines on Esxi servers. Created standard templates and deployed virtual machines from these templates
• Installed, configured and administered Esxi 5.1 on HP C7000/Dell power Edge T110
• Installed management server (v Center server) instances to enable centralized management of multiple hosts
• Linked different v Center server using linked mode to have a single instance a vsphere client to manage the whole virtual environment
• Creating and managing virtual machines and templates, worked with clones and snapshots of virtual machines
• Configured VMware on clustered environment, implemented migration of virtual machines using vMotion, virtualized windows servers using VMware converter and plate spin power convert
• Configured VMware HA, VMware DRS in acquiring higher efficiency of VMware infrastructure
• Developed user-driven automated self-system for VDI desktop upgrade requests that allows a user to perform upgrades to their VDI desktops for memory
• 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
• Used Avocet DS view module for the remote server access to dell rack servers
• Performed hardware replacement and troubleshooting for HP blade servers and dell rack servers.
• Used solar winds IP address tracking tool to track the subnets and to maintain Network topology.
• Used groundwork &vkernal monitoring tools to have 24/7 monitoring on all the servers and virtual machines

Environment: VMware Infrastructure 4.0, 5.0 and 5.5, v Center Server, V Center operation Manager, VMware standalone converter, Windows 2012/2008/2003 Server, HPC7000, DL380P GN8, Cisco Nexus 5000K, Dell Power Edge Servers, EMC VNX 5200, 5500, VMAX, EMC Recovery, P2V, V2V, VMotion.

Confidential

Windows/VM Ware Admin

Responsibilities:

• Installed and maintained file, print, mail, application, and database servers in Windows environment.
• Provided system administration and OS support for both Windows & UNIX server systems of over 450 Virtual/Physical servers
• Configured and deployed Esxi server in corporate production environment
• Virtualized applications using App-V 5.1/5.0 sp3 and VMware ThinApp 5.0 for Citrix servers & VDI machines.
• Used automation scripts to minimize error level in day to day VMware operations
• 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
• Leveraged VMware infrastructure implementation and consolidation expertise to implement P2V migrations, blade server capacity planning, high availability and failover settings on newly installed blade servers and existing rack mount servers
• Played role as VMware/windows admin to provide Level 1 &2 supports in complex environment.
• Excellent experience and understanding with VDI -VMware View 4.x & VMware View 5.
• Designed, installed, configured of VMware site recovery manger
• Deployed VMware Esxi 4.1 server for Intel platforms (windows and Linux servers). Total of 4.0 Esxi servers with over 600 VMs with virtual center
• Regular BAU activities such as increasing disk size, adding additional drives, cloning, Teaming Networking and virtual switches (Both Primary and extended)
• Installed VMware Esxi server 4.1 on all Physical server to host multiple virtual machines
• Installed VMware V Center server instance to enable centralize management of multiple hosts
• Installed VM clusters, hosts and virtual machines
• Converted the physical servers to virtual servers using P2V assistant
• Enabled VMware HA, VMware DRS for higher efficiency of the infrastructure
• Installing, troubleshooting and supporting of desktops, laptops, network devices and computer peripherals
• User support-Monitoring and troubleshooting system performance, server and use related problems. Support users to resolve their day-to-day issues related to OS, Email, and Account issues, Hardware etc.
• Responsible for backup/recovery strategy of all Esxi servers. Planning and implementing fault tolerance and strategies for backup and restoring files on the network
• Responsible in diagnosing and troubleshooting of VMware Esxi and V Center environments.

Environment: Vsphere 4.1, ESX 4.1, Virtual Sphere, V Motion, VMware HA, VMware DRS Clusters, Windows 2003/2008 server troubleshooting.