Professional Summary:

• IT Professional with 7 years experience in Systems and VMware Administration with primary focus on installation, configuration, and administration of VMware vSphere, ESX 3.5 /4.0,4.1 and ESX i 4.0/4.1/5.0/5.1 ,5.5 VMware Vcenter 4.0/4.1 and 5.0/5.1,5.5 and Windows server 2000/2003/2008 2008 R2 and software's
• Sound knowledge on ESX i and ESX Architecture, guest OS installation, setting up of VM priorities, Cloning and Snapshots
• Sound knowledge on Virtual Center server 4.0/4.1 and 5.0/5.1 for managing multiple ESX servers and linked vCenter servers.
• Excellent experience and knowledge with designing, installing and implementing VMware ESX/ESX i server, VMware virtual center, setting up V-Motion, HA, DRS, and related VMware products such as VM Workstation, VMware converter VM Backup products and other products for virtualization
• Worked on different VMware products like VMware ESX server, VMware vCenter, VMware view, VMware Lab manager, VMware SRM, VMware vShield.
• P2V and V2V conversions by using VMware Converter and platespin
• Experience in building automated workflows for different tasks within vCenter server using vCenter Orchestrator.
• Strong understanding of VMware Networking concepts like creation of Vswitches, different types of port groups, NIC Teaming and VLAN Problem management on VMware ESX 3.X,4.X,5.X and Virtual Center and Vmotion.
• Experience in Building virtual testing servers using Hyper-V
• Excellent experience with VMware update manager to install patches and updates on ESX i hosts and virtual machines
• Experience in monitoring systems using HP SIM Systems Insight Manager and SCOM.
• Experience installing configuring and troubleshooting on Windows 2000/2003/2008 and 2008 R2 servers using enterprise standards.
• Excellent experience in installing, configuring and managing DHCP, DNS, WINS
• Windows 2000/2003/ 2008 and 2008 R2 Server Active Directory Administration
• Experience in Active Directory, GPOs, DNS, DHCP, File Print Server, IIS Web Server , IIS 6.0/7, FTP, Terminal Services, WSUS, Microsoft Clustering
• Provide Active Directory, Group policy and user profile maintenance.
• Strong analysis skills that include insight on successfully applying technological solutions and best practices to resolve business issues, while improving overall efficiency
• Excellent troubleshooting skills both with hardware and software in windows environment.
• Excellent Documentation skills using Microsoft Office Visio.

Technical Skills:

Confidential

VMware Administrator

• Job includes installation and configuration of VMware ESX i 5.0,5.1 5.5 installation and configuration of VMware Virtual Center Server and creating Virtual Machines
• Assist in P2V and V2V conversion of Windows 2000 and Windows 2003/2008/2008 R2 server editions fusing enterprise VMware converter and also installed the VMware tools on that machines.
• Experience with Cisco UCS 5108 chassis and Blades B200 M2 administration
• Worked on Cisco UCS Chassis with B200 and B200 M2 blades
• Created vCenter Orchestrator plug-ins to extend the functionality to include manipulating Cisco's Unified Computing System UCS
• Job also includes creating templates and deploying Virtual Machines through templates, cloning Virtual Machines and managing Virtual Center permissions
• Creating and Managing VMware cluster with HA and DRS
• Creating and Managing resource pools for Virtual Machines
• Monitoring and managing performance of ESX servers and Virtual Machines
• Using Virtual centre server for HA, DRS and vMotion.
• Working on Migration concepts like vmotion and Cold migration
• Creation Troubleshooting of Virtual Network
• Troubleshooting ESX i Virtual Machines
• Build templates from VMs and Creation of VMs from templates
• Performance monitoring and tuning for ESX Servers, Virtual Center Server and VMs
• Migrate / Upgrade ESX 4.1to ESX i 5.0
• Design and implement systems, network configurations, and network architecture, including hardware and software technology, site locations, and integration of technologies.
• Test, maintain, and monitor computer programs and systems, including coordinating the installation of computer programs and systems.
• Installed configured administered Windows 2000/2003 Servers and Windows7, Vista/XP/2000 Pro work stations
• Imaging of workstations, laptops, TCP/IP connectivity issues, remote support using VMware, Hyper V, RDP, LogMein, Team viewer etc.
• Coordinated with external vendors to provide timely service and issue remediation
• Provide On- site support, On call support
• Supporting their mailing applications like Outlook, supported Active Directory, Group policies, Client Server application interaction, basic web systems, Exchange 2003 2007, VMware, Terminal Services, Enterprise back-up of hardware software whenever required, Installation Administration of Anti-Virus Software applications.
• Maintain the peripherals, such as printers, that are connected to the network also document the asset IT inventories.
• Provide technical assistance in Hardware, Internet and Network issues.
• Provide technical assistance for HP Pavilion desktops, Compaq Presario desktops
• and Media Centers and IBM, HP desktops and servers
• Installation and configuration of Windows 2000 / 2003 / 2008 servers
• Management of Active Directory / DNS/DHCP and WINS
• Studying the requirements of the organization, installation, configuration and deployment by using the System Management Server.
• Attending to clients for solving their technical problems and prompt solutions to their Problems for ensuring high satisfaction levels.
• Interacting with various vendors for sourcing products and solutions and for closure calls of certain services and their products, which are supported by them.
• Tracking asset movements and ensuring software and hardware assets are within control using the License Compliance and Asset Management.
• System Troubleshooting in case of a failure and maintain server uptime above 99.99 .

Confidential

VMware Administrator

• Designed and implemented ESX/ESX i server infrastructure environment
• Administrated server consolidation program through use of VMware ESX/ESX i server and VMware Virtual Center, creating VMs, using/building VM templates and customization files, and scheduling tasks
• Migrated few of VMware hosts to Hyper-V for server consolidation
• Involved in Data center migration more Than 200 ESX servers and large number of the windows physical servers
• Migrating Linux based machines and Power off Machines to virtual machines using VMware converter
• Security hardening and Monitoring of VM's ESX servers CPU, Memory, Disk, Network Utilization for Security Compliance.
• Managing several ESX HA/DRS server farms from Virtual Center Server and performed several host upgrades using vCenter Update Manager VUM .
• Perform capacity analysis of existing physical production environment using VMware Capacity planner.
• Involved in live migration of Virtual Machines and Virtual Machine files using the VMotion and storage VMotion.
• Migrated datacenters and converted physical servers to virtual servers using VMware Convertor.
• Configured and managed several High Availability HA and Distributed Resource Scheduling DRS clusters.
• Handled the VMware solutions to support multiple storage connectivity options including FC-SAN, iSCSI and NFS NAS .
• Involved in troubleshooting and fixing connectivity issues and other storage related issues.
• Performed manual VMotions, monitored performance of ESX servers and Virtual Machines.
• Created templates and deployed virtual machines through templates.
• Performed hot and cold cloning of VMs.
• Created User Accounts, Configuring User Profiles, Creating local and Global Groups and implementing Group Policies.
• Sharing Folders, Planning and Assigning NTFS Permissions and System Policies.
• Installation of operating Systems Win XP, Win 2003, Win 7/ 8 etc.
• Focused on client values and satisfaction while balancing corporate objectives, feasibility and scalability of solutions.
• Assisted with technical and stakeholder requirements and overall project plan including cost, scope, portability, compatibility and usability.
• Prepared documentation and provided training for offshore resource in VMware.

Confidential

VMware Administrator

• Installation and configuration of ESX servers and VM virtual servers using VM-templates to facilitate server consolidation , migration and testing
• Analyze performance of physical servers to determine and customize virtual server specification
• Deployment of VM templates to deploy virtual servers
• Migrate to new data center on HP blade chassis C7000, BL460
• VMtools up gradation at host level and VM level
• Clear-up of orphaned vmdk files periodically to clean up memory
• LUN path mapping and keeping track of VM's along with their datastores.
• Capacity planning of virtualization world using VKernel tools
• Maintaining and administrating VCenter through command line interface CLI
• Creating standard images and templates for VMware ESX.
• Was responsible for thin provisioning, VMFS expansion and RAID technologies
• Lead design, deployment, and maintenance of a broad range of Microsoft technologies including Windows Server , 2003, 2008, Windows Server Update Services WSUS DNS WINS DHCP Active Directory Group Policy Design and Implementation IIS and Terminal Services Gateway, Remote Desktop Services.
• Used tools for data backup, mirroring and recovery such as Commvault, VRanger and Microsoft System Center Operation Manager SCOM
• Resolving day-to-day trouble tickets for operating systems, applications, printers, and network problems.
• Installing Hardware and Troubleshooting PCs hardware such as installing modem, soundcard, network card, hard drive, and troubleshooting on laptops
• Created and maintained resource management framework like creation resource pools, adding the VMs into resource pools
• Good experience in Cloning and Snapshot, and vMotion, Storage vMotion

Confidential

Systems Administrator

• Wrote the strategy document, designed and administrated the environment consisting of over 90 ESX hosts and 1200 Virtual machines environments at different Geographical locations
• Designed and successfully implemented VMware ESX servers for server consolidation
• Installed VMware ESX server 4.1/4.0 and created virtual machines on ESX Servers. Created standard templates and deployed virtual machines from these templates
• Installed, Configured and administered ESX 4.0 on HP Blade servers using HP onboard administrator for the HP Blade chasis enclosures and Cisco UCS blades.
• 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
• Creating and managing Virtual Machines and Templates, worked with clones and snapshots of Virtual Machines
• Configured VMware on clustered environment, implemented migration of virtual vachines using VMotion, Virtualized Windows servers using VMware Converter and Platespin PowerConvert.
• Hot and cold cloning of Virtual Machines using VMware Converter.
• Configured VMware HA, VMware DRS in acquiring higher efficiency for VMware Infrastructure
• Analyzing the VM-support logs for ESX servers and Virtual Center logs to diagnose the root cause for the problem
• 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.
• Performed hardware replacement and troubleshooting for the Dell Rack servers and HP Blade servers
• Used Solarwinds IP address tracking tool to track the subnets and IP addresses in order to maintain the whole network Topology
• Conducted VMware Virtualization Assessments to recommend consolidation scenarios and project cost savings associated with virtualization for clients.

Confidential

Systems Administrator

• Assembled, configured, installed, tested and repaired computer hardware and software.
• Management of Active directory and windows server infrastructure.
• Provided technical support for the users and resolving software/hardware issues.
• Performed hands-on administration and monitoring of Local Area network LAN .
• Experience with solar winds monitoring tools for servers and network devices.
• Resolved Microsoft desktop applications Word, Excel, Power Point and Outlook issues.
• Managed the installation and configuration of Windows 2003 Server/Workstations.
• Created user and computer accounts on the Active directory users and computers.
• Configured servers for DHCP, WINS and DNS services.
• Installation, configuration and Administration of IIS web servers.
• Administration of print servers and troubleshooting print jobs.
• Installation and configuration of Domain Controllers and implementation of trusts.
• Troubleshot and resolve computer problems built and upgrade systems install software and perform general troubleshooting.
• Handled multiple tasks to meet project deadlines.
• Develop and update the required network/system administration documentation
• Provided Norton Antivirus support for virus security.