Systems Administrator/vmware Sme Resume
St, LouiS
SUMMARY
- Over 7 years of extensive and verifiable experience in Infrastructure Services support and Management as System Engineer/Admin.
- Worked both Onsite for various customers of HP and IBM Technologies.
- Hands on experience in working on installation, configuration and administration of VMware VSphere, ESXi 4.0/4.1/5.0/5.1/5.5 , VMware Vcenter 4.0/4.1/5.0/5.1 and 5.5 environment.
- Expertise with designing, installing and implementing VMware ESX server, VMware virtual center, setting up DRS,High Availability,V - Motion and related VMware products such as, VMware converter, VM Workstation, VM Backup products and other products for virtualization.
- Experience in monitoring and controlling various cloud-computing components such as security virtual machine (VM) provisioning using vCloud Director (vCD).
- Hands on experience in building the ESXi Servers.
- Creating new Virtual machines for various Operating Systems.
- Hands on in performing P2V and V2V Migrations using VMware converter
- Creating templates and cloning the VMs using template.
- Expertise in performing P2V Migrations of Domain Controllers and in configuring DRS configurations.
- Creating and managing VMware cluster.
- Sound knowledge of VMware Networking concepts like creation of NIC teaming, Vswitches, different types ofport groups and VLAN Problem management on VMware ESX 5.X and Virtual Center and Vmotion.
- Creating and managing resource pools for Virtual machines.
- Monitoring virtual clients through centralized virtual server.
- Day to Day ESX Maintenance and Patching
- Hands on experience with VMware update manager to install patches and updates on ESX hosts and virtual machines
- Experience in monitoring systems using SCOM,SCCM and HP SIM (Systems Insight Manager).
- Knowledge on Virtual Center server 4.0/4.1 and 5.0/5.5 for managing multiple ESX servers and linked vCenter servers.
- Knowledge on Cisco UCS Chassis and UCS Manager(UCSM)
- Hands on experience with IBM Rack/Tower models X series,HP Blade System C-class enclosures and Dell hardware.
- Excellent experience in installing, configuring and managing DHCP, DNS, WINS
- Troubleshooting of server hardware issues by coordinating with the hardware vendors
- Configuring and troubleshooting Clusters in 2003 and 2008
- Analyzing the memory dumps, Kernel Dumps and User dumps and providing the root cause for the issues
- Hands on experience in installing, configuring and troubleshooting on Windows 2000/2003 and 2008 servers using enterprise standards
- Hands on experience in writing power shell scripts and automated administration tasks using VB scripting.
- Exposure and practitioner of ITIL processes such as Incident Management, Change Management and Problem Management.
- Build, Install and Configure Microsoft Windows Server infrastructure systems and Applications running on Windows Server 2012 R2, 2008 R2, 2003 versions on physical and virtual environments.
TECHNICAL SKILLS
Operating Systems: Windows 2012/ 2008 R2/ 2003 / Windows 2000 / Windows XP / Windows NT
VMware: ESX Server 2.5, 3.0, 3.5, and 4.1. Virtual Center 2.5/4.0/ 4.1 and 5.0, vSphere 4 and 4.1, VMware converter 3, 4 and 5.0/5.5. VMware Update Manager, VMware capacity planner
Hardware: Compaq, HP, IBM, Dell Servers, Routers, Switches.
Terminal Application Servers: Citrix Metaframe XP/3.0/4.0.
Web and Transaction Servers: IIS 5.0.
Languages: HTML, JavaScript.
Directory Services: MS Active Directory.
Networking Protocols: TCP/IP, Token Ring, Ethernet, RAS, RIP, OSPF, POP3, SMTP, DNS and DHCP.
Backup: Symantec Net backup and vRanger Pro,, TSM Backup
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Confidential, St.Louis
Systems Administrator/VMware SME
Responsibilities:
- Administered 250+ ESX hosts, 110 Clusters running close to 2500 virtual machines. The virtual environments were designed and build upon IBM and HP blades, EMC DMX & Netapp Storage systems.
- Migrations of existing ESX servers from ESXi4.1 to ESXi5.5.
- Implemented private cloud computing environment (CHP) in the environment on VMware vSphere 4.x hosting Virtual machines running on Windows Server 2012,2008, Windows Server 2003, RHEL 5.x versions.
- Installed and maintained the Cloud setup using vCloud Director(VCD).
- Build, Install and Configure Microsoft Windows Server infrastructure systems running on Windows server 2008 R2 and 2003 platform.
- Engineered and implemented private cloud computing environment (CHP) in the environment on VMware vSphere 4.x hosting Virtual machines running on Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2003, RHEL 5.x versions.
- Re-engineer current environment: Changing cluster settings, designed security in Virtual Center, analysis on VC database size, change Guest Provisioning process and VM Resource allocation standards
- Designed/implement VDI solutions for remote desktop to be used by end users. Automation using various scripting tools like VB Scripts& powershell.
- Configure/Build ESXi stateless ESX hosts using Netapp NFS based storage systems.
- Work with developers across different line of business to ensure their applications are running flawless on cloud computing platform and VMware vSphere virtual farm.
- Provisioning new hosts and clusters: setting up VMFS volumes for EMC and Netapp storage systems, network configuration, HA, DRS and VMotion settings.
- Design architecture to host DMZ machines on classified Virtual center working with AD team to have it incorporated in virtual farm on SAN and Netapp Storage.
- Implemented P2V process for legacy physical servers and providing templates, build automations of Virtual machines build out of internal as well as external DMZ environment servers.
- Develop plans for infrastructure consolidation, capacity planning, and app virtualization to be computable in our private external cloud. Analyze business and user data to define virtualization deliverables for that business.
- Provisioning and P2V servers in virtual environment, tier-3 engineering/support team providing timely diagnosis, trouble-shooting, and resolution to complex, high visibility problem incidents related to Windows Servers and VMware.
- Design/Engineer & deploy band solutions on VDI, thinapp for application virtualization for users.Review log outputs for all mission critical servers to anticipate issues and perform necessary maintenance.
- Regularly evaluating cluster capacity to make sure environment is not overloaded with virtual machines and making changes in the virtual environment accordingly for future capacity allocation and trending patterns.
- Working with various vendors (like VMware and Microsoft) to come up with product baseline and there rollout roadmap including upgrade project plans.
- Troubleshooting ESX hosts and virtual machines, VCC database running on MS SQL 2008 R2 and 2005.
- Performance monitoring of virtual farm and servers to ensure reliability and 99.9% availability.
- Work with Storage team to implement storage efficiency by implementing thin provisioning, data deduplication.
- Update ESX host using VMTS and ESXupdate, VMware Update Manager. Blade logic etc..
- Perform daily System Administration tasks: respond to server down alerts, troubleshoot on both software and hardware level, install patches, software updates and application updates.
Confidential, MO
System Administrator
Responsibilities:
- Manage Wellstar virtual infrastructure, VMWare ESXi, Vcenter and VCloud Director 5.1.
- Setup, Provisioning and deployment of 1200 Virtual Desktops on Horizon view 5.2
- Enable Operations Manager to deploy and configure new virtual machines
- Upgraded and Migrated 4.5 Vmware View environment to 5.2 Horizon View
- Reduced and compiled redundant desktop pools
- Account and group management using AD GPO and ZEN Works
- Capacity planning, memory and cpu usage, storage IOPS
- Providing weekly resource utilization reports and infrastructure forecasting, chargeback reports
- Monitoring tools: vFoglight, Xangati
- Capacity tools: vMTurbo, SolarWinds and Veeam
- PowerShell 3.0 pool creation, startup/shutdown scripts
- Create, optimize build processes and deployment tools
- Daily run and maintain of systems including monitoring for system health, performance, and security
- System performance monitoring and capacity planning
- Develop desktop virtualization solutions, set definition, and implement virtual desktop assets using App-V and Citrix related technologies.
- In-depth understanding of industry leading virtualization technologies from both a design and engineering perspective
- Implemented NetApp Storage solution for storage cost reduction, reduplication, low overhead storage and fast provisioning of cloned desktops.
- Able to demonstrate technical capabilities and solution offerings for virtualization in the Data Center, on the Desktop, and in the Cloud.
Confidential, Fortworth, TX
System Administrator/VMware Engineer
Responsibilities:
- Responsible for participating in providing transition support and services for the Delphi Automotive Widows servers to gather and define the processes needed for the HP global delivery teams.
- Publishing and assigning the user permissions to access the Applications in Windows Management Console.
- Installation of Windows 2003/2008 servers as per the Server Delivery Requests
- Monitoring and debugging day to day Windows NT/ 2000/2003/2008 server related issues.
- Analyzing the memory dumps and providing the appropriate solutions for the issues.
- Creating the load evaluators for load balance purpose while users accessing the Applications.
- Maintaining the file server, application and Print Server.
- Created User Accounts, groups and running scripts on production servers.
- Assigned local security policies on member servers and standalone servers using RDP.
- Manage and monitor Active Directory services and group policies.
- Worked elaborately on different windows environment which include Windows NT version 4.0, Work Station, Terminal, 2000 and 2003.
- Running VB Scripts to validate logins on 1000 + servers and check the server access on weekly basis.
- Strong Knowledge in creating various objects like User Accounts, Computer Accounts, and Auto logon accounts.
- Assigning folder permissions to the users by gathering approval from the group owners.
- Efficiently created and managed various Groups (Domain Local and Global Security).
- Worked on HP Open View Service Desk (OVSD) tickets.
- Raised tickets for any issues discovered during validation.
- Using Net Use command to check whether we can connect to member servers or not.
- Scheduling scripts twice a week and worked extensively on bad server list.
- Categorization of server in terms of complexity and effort required to complete the primary system access tasks.
- Experience with VMware, creating VM Sessions for installing multiple OS and applications.
- Working on Ticket process in receiving Incident tickets in Remedy Tool in 24x7 environments.
- Created standard operating procedures and process documents for training off shore resources.
Confidential, Milwaukee,IL
Windows Administrator
Responsibilities:
- Responsible for monitoring and maintaining systems which includes +150 servers; + 2500 user base and more than 100 various applications. Up till current date built several VMware servers with more than 30 applications.
- Build, Install and Configure Microsoft Windows Server infrastructure systems and Applications running on Windows Server 2008 R2, 2003 versions on physical and virtual environments.
- Engineer/Implement VMware ESXi 5.1, 5.0, 4.1,Virtual servers &VMware View VDI solution on various hardware platform, Storage (POD, NAS (Netapp)& SAN), Networking (Flex 10). Integrated with Windows 2008/2003 AD.
- Assist in development of an India-to-India support model for these technologies.
- Migrated more than 300 users from Metaframe Presentation Server 1.8 to 4.0.
- Monitoring and managing the performance and the load balance of the Servers.
- Working on deadline, multitasking, simultaneously working on multiple projects and coordinating with various vendors. Applying Securities Policies.
- Configured and implemented various VDI solutions running on VMware View, Citrix Xendesktop 5.6 & PVS.
- Creating a test Environment in VMware for Production Team to test their applications.
- Working on Remedy tickets and prioritizing the work as per the SLAs. Giving global Support to entire network which span over 5 IDC (International Data Centers) and +110 remote locations (around the globe).
- Working with various production system and Network administration on Windows2003 advance server with Active Directory Domain including 14 Domain controllers, + 5000 users.
- Publishing the Desktops and Individual Applications according to the Department requirements in the organization.
- Coordination with the Marimba Team for Creating packages for server build to install the application in the Test server.
- Providing users with access rights and permission for accessing the applications.
- Installing and updating the windows patches.
- Coordination/implementation of hardware and software installations and upgrades.
- Performance and capacity monitoring and management.
- Weekly server maintenance planning and coordination.
- Monitor and act on problem tickets.
- Created Process Documents and Standard Operating Procedures as per the ITIL standard and was reviewed by Managers.
- Introduced the procedure of template the details and requirements captured from the Users for reference of all the Team and Managers.
- Updated the Managers with a weekly Status reports with the current status, issues and reasons for delays of the applications.