Skills

Employment History:

Confidential

Systems administrator

Responsibilities:

• Managing Virtual Environment of more than 10000 virtual servers
• Provisioning of virtual servers with template, both win server 2008 R2 and windows server 2012.
• Worked with change management software Remedy to create and apply change tickets in the Production environment
• Worked with Microsoft SCCM 2007 to push software and windows updates to virtual and physical servers
• Provisioned physical servers HP with windows server 2008 R2 OS

Confidential

Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Remediate Production Environment.
• Worked with Active Directory services like DNS, DHCP, User Accounts, and Administrative Center in Windows Server 2008 R2.
• Experience in interacting with multiple groups Developers, QA, and Management to resolve issues in Web Servers and Virtual Servers hosting Applications.
• Experience in working with Hitachi SAN and Nimble Storage Arrays.
• Experience in working with Microsoft IIS 7.5 Server.
• Designing, implementing and configuring a Vsphere environment and also had knowledge in diagnosing and resolving vSphere performance issues.
• Worked on managing vSphere Environment of Multiple Sites and Datacenters of the Organization.
• Worked on planning a BCP plan to backup Infrastructure data to a long distance DR site.
• Implemented Balance NG Load balancer configuration on CentOS Linux Virtual Machines.
• Worked with IronMountain Livevault Cloud Backup Solution.
• Worked with VMware vCenter Protect Essentials Plus software to push windows updates and other software.
• Experience with the design, architecture and implementation of VMware Virtual Infrastructure environments using VI, Virtual Center.
• Design, configuration and operation of Dell Hardware Compellent storage arrays
• Design and implement EMC CLARiiON CX, CX3, and CX4 SAN environments to ensure high availability and acceptable performance characteristics for VMware vSphere and SAN-backed applications.
• Designed and implemented VMware View multi-tenant architecture.
• Developed business use case and decision tree diagrams for VDI virtual desktop infrastructure implementation and support.
• Worked with Symantec End Point Protection Corporate Edition to install and update the Antivirus agents on Physical Desktops as well as Virtual Servers.
• Worked with SAN Replication on different volumes in the nimble storage.
• Worked with Web and Application Server Migration from an External Network to HD Vest Internal Network.
• Worked with various virtual infrastructure monitoring tools.
• Created Documentation of various procedures of cloning, Templates, Deployment of Virtual machines, remediating already present Datastores to reflect new policies being implemented, web servers information, SQL databases infrastructure etc.,
• Worked on a DR scenario for the Organization.
• Worked with various performance and security monitoring tools like Zabbix, OSSEC and Snare, used to monitor the web sites, Applications, Logs and Activity on the Servers.
• Worked with failover of HD Vest datacenter to an recovery site using VMware SRM 5.0

Confidential

Solutions Engineer II

Responsibilities:

• Design and implementation of fully Functional Solutions Stacks with VMware Virtual Infrastructure and Citrix VDI Infrastructure.
• Experience with implementing and troubleshooting ESXi 5.0 on more than 100 hosts.
• Assessment of Citrix VDI-in-a-Box VIAB Solution deployed by Dell.
• Extensive experience with Dell Rack servers and Blades M1000i, M1000e, M610, M710, M620 and M720 latest 12G servers
• Experience in implementing and testing VMware View 5.0 Environment
• Deployed more than 5000 desktops using Citrix VDI and VMware VDI solutions.
• Developed Citrix VDI solution on VMware Infrastructure.
• Experience in tools like Login VSI, Liquidware Stratusphere UX, Liquidware Stratusphere FIT, Citrix UPM 4.0 Profile Manager .
• Designing, implementing and configuring a Vsphere environment and also had knowledge in diagnosing and resolving vSphere performance issues.
• Experience in VDI Security tools like Mcafee MOVE 2.0 with agent and Trend Micro systems antivirus for VDI.
• Extensive experience in working with Citrix XenDesktop 5.0,5.5, Provisioning Services 5.6,6.0, Citrix Licensing Server, Citrix VDI-in-a-Box 4.1.5 5.0.1 latest version
• Extensive experience in Various Storages like Equallogic PS6010, PS4100, PS6500, FS7500 and Compellent storage.
• Experience in Networking of Force 10 Enterprise Switches with Vlans and configuration of the stacked switches for a solution.
• Design, configuration and operation of Dell Hardware Compellent storage arrays
• Design and implement EMC CLARiiON CX, CX3, and CX4 SAN environments to ensure high availability and acceptable performance characteristics for VMware vSphere and SAN-backed applications.
• Experience in Development and Assessment of various solution stacks for Dell.
• Involved in design of a new and efficient Network Infrastructure for our Datacenter
• Experience in troubleshooting Network Related issues and operations in our Datacenter
• Experience in working with Windows Server 2008 R2, AD services, RRAS service and other administration tasks.
• Performed Virtual Machine Assessment using Liquidware Stratusphere UX Industry standard tool .
• Administered and supported SQL server 2008 R2 environments and SQL server 2008 R2 Cluster Environments.
• Involved in design and implementation of various documentation templates for various VDI solutions.
• Worked with various virtual infrastructure monitoring tools.
• Involved in Implementation and Assessment of various projects with Infrastructure, storage, Network and VDI solution.
• Experience with XenServer 5.6, 5.6 SP2 and 6.0.
• Experience working with Netscaler VPX and Citrix Web Interface server WI
• Experience in collecting the results from a XenServer using tool called Dstat and Liquidware Stratusphere.
• Worked with Citrix XenApp 6 on a POC in our lab.
• Worked with Cisco Nexus 5000 switch in a POC environment in our lab.
• Worked with Cisco Nexus 1000v switch.
• Worked with various types of Hardware Fabrics on Dell Blades.
• Worked with Microsoft Hyper-V in a POC environment, installing and validating various virtual machines with different OS on them and validating the Network Requirements on Hyper-V Windows Server 2012 BETA
• Worked with installing and configuring Linux on Virtual Machines, worked with Ubuntu, RHEL, Mint, and Open SUSE.

Confidential

Sr. VMware Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Designed implemented VMware Virtual Infrastructure for the test, development, production disaster recovery site in the multi data center environment.
• Broad experience with designing, implementing and troubleshooting VMware ESX 4.1/4.0/3.5/3.0 Hosts, VMware vSphere virtual center, setting up V-Motion, HA, DRS, and related VMware products such as VM Workstation, P2V converters, VM Backup products and other products for virtualization
• Experience with HP blades C7000/C3000 and knowledge on Cisco UCS U200 server hardware
• Involved with designing and implementing VMware backup products and disaster recovery solutions
• Performed backup and restore of VMware host server configuration, Virtual Machine backup, snapshot,1000 P2V-V2V conversation with VMware converter/Platespin Migrator and with other third party converters, Patch Update, monitoring/reporting, SSH and SNMP and notification of alerts.
• Installed and implement NFS server using windows UNIX service and configured with VMware Host servers for storage.
• Installed and implemented open source OpenFiler 2.3 iSCSI SAN with RAID 10 for VMware and other servers with iSCSI initiators.
• Design, configuration and operation of Dell Hardware Compellent storage arrays
• Designing, implementing and configuring a Vsphere environment and also had knowledge in diagnosing and resolving vSphere performance issues.
• Design and implement EMC CLARiiON CX, CX3, and CX4 SAN environments to ensure high availability and acceptable performance characteristics for VMware vSphere and SAN-backed applications.
• Was responsible for system center installation, troubleshooting support of antivirus software
• Setup Active Directory test environment using VMware virtual servers for testing Active Directory group policy prior to deployment in a production environment.
• Designed and implemented VMware View multi-tenant architecture.
• Developed business use case and decision tree diagrams for VDI virtual desktop infrastructure implementation and support.
• Worked with various virtual infrastructure monitoring tools.
• Installed configured 100 virtual physical servers Windows 2003 for the core projects.
• Administered and Supported servers running SQL Server2005/2008.
• Installation of ESX server and creation of VMs and install different guest OS.
• Monitoring and managing performance of ESX servers and Virtual Machines
• Creation of templates from VMs and Creation of VMs from templates
• Participated in the migration planning, developing, testing and moving the migration process onto full-fledged production network.
• Worked with Linux Physical to Virtual migrations.
• Worked with more than 100 Linux Physical to Virtual Migrations along with Windows Migrations.
• Worked with Linux Virtual Machines containing Ubuntu and Fedora 11.

Confidential

VMware Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Designed and implemented virtualization solutions based on VMware ESX 4.0/3.5 and vCenter server.
• Experience win deploying the VMware View 3.0 for Desktop virtualization
• Worked with Fiber SANs in VMware environments and troubleshooting and upgrading firmware in HP C3000 blades for VMware ESX hosts and other environments such as Windows
• Designed and implemented VMware View multi-tenant architecture.
• Developed business use case and decision tree diagrams for VDI virtual desktop infrastructure implementation and support.
• Configured VMware high availability HA clusters, distributed resource scheduling DRS , NTP, syslog, sudoers, Navisphere Active Directory integrated authentication on the VMware ESX servers virtual center.
• Applying security patches for the VMware ESX 4.0/3.5 hosts Windows 2003 servers.
• Configured ILO, upgraded Firmware and racking of HP-Proliant DL360G2, DL360G5 DL 585G2 Servers.
• Configured vMotion for automated VM Migrations for DRS clusters and maintained resource pools for Tier 3 servers that consist of 300 hosts and 2000 VMs.
• Deployed VDI 2.0 /View 3.0 with a functioning 250 Virtual Desktops in various platforms like Windows using thin clients from Wyse.
• Created and maintained environmental specific installation and configuration guides for P2V conversions, ESX Server, vCenter Server, vSphere Clients, VMware Tools, Patch upgrades.
• Involved in migration of Virtual environment of ESX 3.5 to ESX 4.0.

Confidential

System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for providing level 1 technical support to customers from various countries.
• Fixed problems in HP AIO All-in-one printers and maintained the customer chat queues in our team.
• Worked for Hewlett-Packard in AIO All-in-One printers division.
• Administrating production servers/network infrastructure that includes Windows Administration of Domain Controllers, IIS Web Servers HTTP/S, FTP and SMTP , Exchange 2003/2010 Mail Servers, NAS, File and print Servers, RADIUS, Blackberry 5.0 and Terminal Servers on Windows 2003/2008/2010.
• Responsible production support of Active directory AD , GPO, Domain users, Users and groups and given appropriate permissions, shares and privilege to access LAN and Domain environment.
• Administrating/Responsible production Exchange 2003 Email Server, creating/disabling users, Mailboxes management, public folders administration, monitoring server health, LDAP, SMTP traffic/queues, Resolving Outlook issues.
• Installed, Configured and Implemented Terminal Server TS RemoteApp on IIS 6.0 Windows 2003 R2 published applications using TS Web Access, RemoteApp program and TS Gateway.
• Implemented Microsoft Clustering for IIS Web Servers.