Summary:

• Over 8 years of Experience in IT industries, hands-on experience with VMware vSphere, VDI View , SRM , P2V , Windows , Unix , Linux and EMC/Netapps Storage Area Networks SAN Networked Attached Storage NAS .
• Design and Implement virtualization solutions based on VMware vSphere ESXi 5.0/4.1, ESX 4.1/4.0/3.5/3.0 platform, Vcenter 4.0/2.5.
• Expertise in systems administration, including analyzing, designing, installing, maintaining, and repairing hardware, software, peripherals, and networks.
• Develop exceptional relationships with co-workers, management and end users.
• Excellent communication and problem solving skills.
• Experience with Microsoft Azure and/or Amazon AWS
• Experience in VMware vSphere 5/4, VDI View 5, SRM ,P2V migrations and Infrastructure Build /Design and administration
• Deep knowledge of Windows Server and related technologies
• Extensive hands on experience with design and implementation of enterprise wide Virtualization Projects with VMware and VBlock POC with Cisco UCS
• Hands on experience in updating / upgrading ESXi servers, Virtual Center servers and windows virtual machines using VMware Update manager and manual upgrades for Patching
• Deploy, Secure, Analyze, Administer and Troubleshoot VMware VI4 platforms
• Installing VMware ESX and ESXi Servers on Cisco UCS and HP blade servers with Flex 10 Networking
• Experience in VDI View 5 and application packaging using VMware ThinApp 4.5, 4.7
• Experience in upgrade in VDI view to version 5 in large environments
• Experience with OpenStack or VMware vCloud Automation Center
• Very good Experience with Cisco UCS / HP C7000 Blade Server environment
• Installation, Migration and Implementation of NetApp FAS Series.
• Extensive Experience on Storage provisioning LUN creation, Mapping and Masking in SAN environment.
• Experience in using on command systems manager.
• Experience in Firmware Upgrade and Zoning on Switches and Storage Technologies like iSCSI, FC, RAID and Storage Virtualization.
• Extensive Hands on experience with SCOM and good exposure to other Systems Center technologies.
• Experience with Linux monitoring solutions
• Knowledge in the management of Sun Solaris, Windows, and IBM AIX servers.
• Experience on administration on Cisco UCS and HP blades hardware.
• Design, Implement and troubleshoot any issues related to VMware Distributed Resource Scheduling, Resource pools, VMware High Availability, Enhanced vMotion EVC , ESX Host Profiles, vNetwork Distributed Switch vDS , vCloud directory , vShield and VMware Fault Tolerance FT .
• Experience in handling hardware manufactured by Cisco, IBM, Dell, HP, EMC, NetApp, and Brocade
• Experience installing, managing and administering Windows 2008 and 2003 based Domain controllers, Backup / Additional Domain Controllers.
• Analyze, log, track and complex software and hardware matters of significance pertaining to networking connectivity issues, printer, server, and application on daily basis.
• Worked on SCCM
• Provide troubleshooting for assigned level, operating system upgrades, capacity planning and provisioning on a daily basis.
• Demonstrated ability to work well with a wide variety of people at various levels, foster cooperation and collaboration among individuals in the work unit, help team resolve conflicts constructively and ability and willingness to communicate when help is needed.
• Good Understanding of VCE, vBlock, vCloud and Cloud Computing environment.
• A Self-starter with a positive attitude, willingness to learn new concepts and acceptance of challenges. Strong listening, interpersonal and analytical skills.
• Extensive Experience Windows Administration and clustering support.
• Working knowledge of network device management, i.e. switches, routers, firewalls, load balancers
• Experience in the Server and Desktop Management, Support, Analysis and maintenance.
• Carry out daily backup activity and participate in restoration activity.
• Carry out daily tasks using the SCCM tool to automate the processes.
• Expertise with Windows deployment technologies WAIK/ADK

Technical Skill:

Professional Experience:

Role: VMware /Storage Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installing and configuring ESXi , and vSphere Suite.
• Installing Configured Virtual Center Server .
• Creating and Configuration virtual machines, installing VM Tools into VM's and allocating for end user.
• Creating and Deployed Templates and Snapshots for Virtual Machines.
• Creating and configuring vNetwork Standard Switch vSwitch and Distributed Virtual Switch dvSwitch .
• Configuration different type of Port Groups Policies, applying security policy and Traffic Shaping.
• Configuration ISCSI LUN in virtual storage.
• Performed Hot Cloning, Cold Cloning, Classic vMotion and Storage vMotion.
• Security hardening and Monitoring of VM's ESX servers CPU, Memory, Disk, Network Utilization for Security Compliance.
• Configuration, Administration and Monitoring HA, Fault Tolerance and DRS Clusters in Virtual Center Server .
• Designing and Deploying Active Directory Domain.
• Installing and Configuring DNS Servers and DHCP Server.
• Expertise with Windows deployment technologies WAIK/ADK
• Implementing Active Directory Sites and Services for optimizing the Replication and logon traffic.
• Installation and configuring Red Hat Enterprise 4.x/5.x.
• User and Group administration on RHEL Systems.
• Manage VMware Distributed Resource Scheduler DRS , vMotion and High Availability HA Clusters.
• Experience with System center Orchestration.
• Effective interpersonal skills, work well as a team member with people at all levels of an organization and of various cultures. Equally capable working independently.
• Ensure compliance of all Standard Operating Procedures and other network related procedures for the SAN environment.
• Extensive management and documentation of hosts on each site through discovery, agent deployment by installation, upgrade and patching from ECC 6.0 to ECC 6.1 UB5 and then to ECC 6.1 UB9 and troubleshooting host related issues.
• Experience with application packaging and deployment
• Worked on SQL Server
• Experience with system center Application performance monitoring.
• Daily duties Involve Storage allocations/ de-allocations from VMAX and also Brocade Switched Zonings and also planning for migrating production from CLARiiON, DMX to , VNX

Confidential

Role: Windows/Storage Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installed of latest versions of Operating Systems on demand, per requirements of the clients.
• Sorted complex issues pertaining to hardware and network failure Monitored both Hardware and Software systems for errors and updated them regularly to maintain proper functioning and flow of information.
• Performed security monitoring tests to identify intrusions.
• Provided Tier 2 and Tier 3 technical support.
• Knowledge of common IT processes, including ITIL and SDLC
• Deployed performance enhancing/monitoring tools.
• Troubleshooting issues in 2008
• worked on SCCM tasks like clearing undiscovered clients
• Deleting aged status messages, Monitor keys, Deleting aged computer Association data ,summarizing data in SCCM
• Deleting aged data threat in SCCM
• Recommended new updates and changes required by the clients.
• Migration of active directory services from Windows 2003 to Windows 2008
• Produced new system and network designs for clients.
• Documented the new Windows server settings that have been applied to the network.
• Implement VMware vSphere, a new Equal logic SAN, virtualize existing hardware.
• Configured Management and Resource Cluster, Add Host to a Cluster, Configure its licenses, Network Configuration, DNS and NTP.
• Worked on Windows SCVMM system center virtual machine manager
• Monitor replication status using SCVMM
• Designed lab infrastructure, created testing plans and test cases.
• Implemented HA by configuring HA clusters with DPM enabled DRS clusters for automated power management and load balancing. Scheduled tasks for manual vMotion and Storage vMotion of VM's and managed snapshots prior to planned patch install or upgrade.
• Handle the VMware solutions to support multiple storage connectivity options such as FC-SAN, iSCSI, NFS NAS and internal storage.
• Worked on VMware View 4.5 and 4.0 with installation and configuration.
• Implementation of Symmetrix V-max Thin Provisioning, FAST VP, Virtualization and Auto provisioning, Used thin devices tdevs , virtualization and Auto provisioning features on the VMAX by creating initiators, storage groups and masking views.
• Planned and updated RPA'S to the latest version 3.3.SP2 and comprehensively troubleshooted issues pertaining to VNX 5500, VNX 5300 and Recover Point
• Working knowledge of network device management, i.e. switches, routers, firewalls, load balancers

Confidential

Role: Windows/Storage Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installation of Windows 2000 Server, Windows Server 2003, Proxy Server, Configuration, implementation and maintenance.
• Installation, Configuration and Managing Domain Controllers.
• Symantec antivirus console management, updating antivirus definitions through centralize Symantec antivirus server.
• System Troubleshooting in case of a failure and maintain server uptime above 99.99 .
• Migration of active directory services from Windows 2000 to Windows 2003.
• Providing Capacity Planning review for all the servers.
• Patching all Windows servers and workstations with Company standards.
• Customize the Windows 2000/2003 Servers in terms of Registry, Audit/Account/Security policy, patching, to sustain Company Standard Operating Environment
• Configuring and administering Domain Naming Server DNS ,Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol DHCP , Distributed File System. DFS ,Internet Information Service. IIS and Remote Access Service RAS
• Experience managing Hyper-V or VMWare ESX and related management infrastructure
• Assist staff with the installation, configuration, and ongoing usability of desktop computers, peripheral equipment and software within established standards and guidelines.
• Work with vendor support contacts to resolve technical problems with desktop computing equipment and software.
• Assist in maintaining LAN/WAN records.
• Worked on Symantec Antivirus and Symantec Endpoint protection for administering updates and cleanup of a community of workstations.
• Participated in the 24x7 On-call support rotation.
• Extensive understanding of networking concepts, IE. Configuration of networks, router configuration and wireless security, TCP/IP, VPN, Content Filtering, VLANs, and routing in LAN/WAN, Ethernet Port, Patch Panel and wireless networks.
• Responsible for the setup of SAN Fabric comprising of MDS 9506 and 9509 switches and ISL'd Cisco switches for the migration of fabric with minimum downtime to the host applications.
• Experience managing configuration management automation tools i.e. PowerShell DSC, Chef, Puppet
• Provisioned and Decommissioned storage from DMX 3, DMX 3000/1000 and CLARiiON CX 3-80/CX-700 for Windows/Solaris/IBM AIX hosts using ECC/SYMCLI Navisphere/NaviCLI.
• Involved in the management of Sun Solaris, Windows, and IBM AIX servers. Duties include installation of packages, patches, creating file systems, mounting the file systems persistently, utilization of space and directed data storage for the above mentioned servers.
• Provisioned and Decommissioned storage from DMX 3, DMX 3000/1000 and CLARiiON CX 3-80/CX-700 for Windows/Solaris/IBM AIX hosts using ECC/SYMCLI Navisphere/NaviCLI.
• Involved in the management of Sun Solaris, Windows, and IBM AIX servers. Duties include installation of packages, patches, creating file systems, mounting the file systems persistently, utilization of space and directed data storage for the above mentioned servers.

Confidential

Role: VMware/Windows Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installing, configuring and administering Windows 2003 Enterprise Server.
• Installing, configuring and managing Active Directory.
• Configuration of Domain Naming Server DNS
• Symantec antivirus console management, updating antivirus definitions through centralize Symantec antivirus server.
• Configuration of Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol.
• Configuration and managing Internet Information Service. IIS 6.0
• Configuration of Remote Access Service RAS
• Excellent communication and written skills
• Migrating database from 2005 to 2008
• worked on failover cluster replication.
• Implemented and maintained database mirroring as a disaster recovery solution.
• performed tuning of stored procedures
• Configuration of Virtual Private Network.
• Creating 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 Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows 2003 etc.
• Configuration and Managing Remote Installation Service RIS
• Trouble shooting the networking related problems
• Extensive knowledge of VMware Thin app.
• Worked extensively on Templates and clones.
• Strong knowledge on resource management framework using Resource pools.
• Implemented and managed HA and DRS clusters in vSphere4.0 and 4.1 Environment.
• Knowledge experience on Recover Point based migration cutovers, RP Consistency Group setup, etc
• Implemented Virtual Provisioning from VMAX array to hosts by creating Data devices, thin devices, Thin Pool, binding Thin devices to Pool and masking the Thin devices to the host, using SMC 7.0.
• Worked on Microsoft Active directory.
• Strong experience with DNS and DHCP.
• Worked on Red hat linux, Ubuntu, Suse linux and cent OS

Confidential

Role: Storage/Windows Administrator .

Responsibilities:

• Provisioning Storage for Windows/Solaris Host from Clariion CX 700, CX 600 using Navisphere Manager.
• Installed Power Path for both automatic load balancing and path failover modes , system updates for the new hosts to make them as part of the infrastructure sharing the SAN environment.
• Depending upon the hosts request, created Meta Luns or allocated additional Luns for additional space and also reclaimed the unused storage to improve the resource availability.
• Non-Disruptively performed host based migration from one raid group to another to overcome performance issues.
• Created and Configured the Logical Drives on Windows 2003/2000/NT4.0 servers using Windows Disk Manager
• Assigning Switch ports to NAS filers and zoning them to Tape drives so that Tapes can back up the Filers.
• Experience creating detailed technical architecture blueprints
• In depth knowledge on VM Ware ESXi Server and Desktop Virtualization products.
• Maintain, test and support of VMware ESX server running both Linux and Windows 2003 servers.
• Building servers and creating templates/images for deploying virtual machines.
• Built the Base Images in VM Ware time to time and testing the solutions using the linked clones and full clones.
• Troubleshooting equipment malfunctions, failures, and develop resolutions in a timely fashion.
• Worked with Network Concepts such as OSI reference model, IP protocols such as TCP/IP, IP addressing, subnets, routing protocols like OSPF, RIP, EIGRP, BGP, and STP.
• Setup and configured various RAID 1 and RAID 5. Applied patches and upgrades to the servers.
• Work with Systems team to build and deploy standardized desktops.
• Database setup and design Installed and configured Oracle RDBMS on UNIX and Windows

Confidential

Role: System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Support activities surrounding the VMware Virtual Infrastructure, which includes 60 VMware ESX, which are SAN/NAS connected, in Production and Non-Production environments that host over 120 servers running Windows Linux variations and over 1100 workstations running Windows XP. Lead all development, engineering, and support for the Virtual Center software.
• Created Virtual Machines, Installed OS Linked clones and manual clones from templates , installed Applications and patches.
• P2V conversions of Windows 2000 and Windows 2003 servers using VMware Converter.
• Involved in VMware updates manager to install troubleshoot patches and updates on ESX hosts and virtual machines.
• Involved with designing and implementing VMware backup products and disaster recovery solutions.
• Provide research into VMWare vCloud initiative to help make the case for increasing server virtualization.
• Provide guidance, documentation, training and support services
• Extensive use of Novell Plate spin for server consolidation
• Installed, configured and maintained Windows 2000, and 2003 Operating Systems.