PROFESSIONAL SNAPSHOT

• Having around 7 years of experience in the field of Information Technology working as VMware, Windows and Storage administrator/Engineer.
• Deploy, upgrade and manage systems, including virtual infrastructure, hardware, software, networks, databases, servers and peripheral equipment.
• Specialized in the area of Virtualization environments with VMware ESX / ESXI 4.0 4.1 and 5.0 Servers and Virtual Center server.
• Experienced in working with EMC storage Area Networks SAN and Network Attached storage NAS NetApp Filers.
• Extensive experience with Windows 2012/2008/2003. Servers on single or multi domain platforms.
• Excellent understanding on ESX/ESXI Architecture, guest OS installation, setting up of VM priorities, Cloning and Snapshots.
• Extensive experience in implementing and administering VMware vSphere, Permissions, HA settings, DRS settings, Cluster groups, Resource Pools, Host Profiles, Licensing, Templates, Thin App, Data Stores, and Networking
• Extensive knowledge in advance features of ESXI VMOTION, SVMOTION, HA and DRS including Lab Manager and Orchestrator.
• Experience in P2V, V2V MIGRATION using VMware Converter / Plate Spin 6.8.x. Creating host and client VM templates and cloning.
• Worked on vCenter Server 4.1 and 5.1 for managing multiple ESXi Servers across different clusters.
• Build and troubleshooting experience with ESX Servers and ESXi Servers, vSphere and vCenter manager.
• Strong understanding of VMware Networking concepts like creation of Vswitches, different types of port groups, Nic Teaming and VLAN.
• Experience in Managing VMware Servers, and clusters. Monitoring the datacenter using vFoglight.
• Administration of production Windows Servers infrastructure that includes Domain Controllers, IIS Web Servers, File and Print servers.
• Administrating, creating and modifying DNS records, DHCP scope and reservation, DFS link, Web servers including record/scope creation, troubleshooting and WINS and DNS and managing user and group accounts Administration.
• Worked on fiber SAN/iSCSI SAN/NAS EMC CX30 , NetApp, storage technology and work with SANs in VMware environments and troubleshooting SAN related issues and upgraded firmware of SANs in VMware and different environments.
• Strong expertise in NetApp Filers and Data On tap. Protocols like CIFS, NFS, ISCSI, FCP, Creation of Aggregate, Volumes, Q Trees, Volumes to the Host, Disk Shelf firmware Up-gradation and Ops Manager.

TECHNICAL SKILL

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Role: Sr VMware and Windows Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Worked on design documents of vSphere environment for business critical applications.
• Involved in developing virtualization design including physical and logical architecture.
• Involved in developing virtual application sizing, a virtual machine layout and a vSphere cluster layout.
• Involved in developing VCenter services system design, networking, storage layout and backup and recovery HA .
• Defined and documented a high level implementation plan.
• Installing and managing ESXI 5.0 servers on HP and DELL hardware, and installation of VCenter Server, VCenter components and upgrading VMware tools.
• Installed, configured and administering Microsoft Windows 2012/2008 Servers.
• Built ESXI servers and implemented complete integration with SAN for VMotion in VMware DRS and HA enabled.
• Analyzing and reporting Virtual environment usage through VFoglight report and presenting the same to Site Lead.
• Used tools such as VMware converter to work on ESXI environment for P2V conversions.
• Used VCenter server heartbeat to protect virtual Infrastructure from downtime related to application, configuration, and OS, Network or Hardware problems for HA.
• Extensive background in working with vRanger and HP SIM
• Implementation for Active Directory infrastructure and protocols such as TCP/IP, DHCP, DNS and Group Policy.
• Creating User accounts and groups in Active Directory.
• Performed technical expertise for windows systems environments on issues related to servers, local services, data centers and server configuration.
• Created and documented process for deploying Virtual Machines on VMware.
• Created VM Machines for test environments to test applications.
• Lifting, Racking, cabling servers.
• Provide on-site and remote desktop support to end users.

Confidential

Role: VMware and Windows Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installed, configured and administering MicrosoftWindows2003/2000 servers.
• Involved in the VMware implementation and expansion work.
• Add 50 hosts bringing total to 105 managed hosts and administered more than 1500 VMs.
• Created and managed separate VMware clusters like QA, Development and Production.
• Perform capacity analysis of production environment using VMware Capacity Planner.
• VMware tools upgrading and Windows patch updates.
• Migrated datacenters and converted physical servers to virtual servers using VMware and HP Blade servers.
• Created and managed resource pools for Virtual Machines.
• Monitoring and managing performance of ESX servers and Virtual Machines using Virtual Center Server for HA, DRS.
• Involved in live migration of Virtual Machines and Virtual machines files using the VMotion and Storage VMotion.
• Handled the VMware solutions to support multiple storage connectivity options such as FC-SAN, iSCSI, NFS NAS and internal storage.
• Administered and setup print servers in Windows 2003/2000 server.
• Creation Troubleshooting of Virtual Network, ESXi Virtual Machines.
• Creation of templates from VMs and deploying VMs from templates.
• Administer for windows server 2003-2008 and all related server services including FTP, AD, DNS, DHCP and VPN.
• Designing, maintaining, recovering and supporting Microsoft Exchange Server 2003/2007/2010.
• Created Virtual environment by using VMware ESX Server.
• Creating a test Environment in VM Machines for Production Team to test their applications.
• Experience with data center hosting web sites maintaining application servers.
• Perform regular maintenance of Server 2008 and2003, which consist of adding users, editing user loginscripts and granting permission to directories and shared files.
• Monitor Sonic wall CDP Continues data protection 6.0 services for offsite backup.
• Provide Active Directory, Group policy and user profile maintenance.
• Provided technical support to troubleshoot network connectivity, network printing and user access issue.
• Troubleshoot windows infrastructure by resolving trouble tickets assigned by the users.
• Maintained and track hardware and software inventory and documents.
• Maintaining documentation and process for supported systems and applications.

Confidential

Storage and VMware Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Administrated server consolidation program through use of VMware ESX server and VMware Virtual Center, using Virtual Center, ESX, creating VMs, using/building VM templates and customization files, and scheduling tasks.
• Performed Data Center Migration of Physical Servers to Virtual Servers P2V Using.
• Installed VMware ESX server 5.0/5.1 and created virtual machines on ESX Servers
• Created standard templates and deployed virtual machines from these templates
• Involved in operational support of Active Directory, WINS, DNS, and AD enabled applications.
• Experience in configuring and setting up HP ILO for physical HP servers.
• Upgraded 100 ESX hosts from ESX 4.0 to ESX 5.0 using VMware Update Manager tool.
• Hot and cold cloning of virtual machines using VMware converter
• Configured VMware HA, VMware DRS in acquiring higher efficiency of VMware infrastructure
• 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
• Experienced deploying VMs using VMware templates.
• Installation of VCenter server and Configuring ESXi - host's within the cluster using VMotion and HA.
• Creating and configuring Standard Switch vSwitch , VM Kernel Ports, VM ports, Service console ports and NIC teaming through vCenter Server.
• Creating LUN's, resizing Volumes and volume maintenance.
• Management of Aggregates, Volumes, Qtree, Quotas for regular disk provisioning.
• Performed Data Migrations using Volume Snap Mirror, Qtree Snap Mirror.
• Managed Snapshot Retentions and Snap mirror Intervals as a part of Backup Strategy.
• Answering customers queries over the Phone about NetApp NAS and SAN products.
• Planning Storage Firmware Code Level Upgrades of NetApp FAS storages.
• Setup CIFS and NFS configurations. Disk Shelf addition to NetApp FAS Storages.
• Adding space to the volume/qtrees according requirement if any issues comes need to troubleshoot.
• Troubleshooting SAN and NAS issues like path failure and LUN unavailability, Disk failures, Volume full, Share access issues etc. and Back jobs failures.
• Health Check of NetApp storage and SAN switches using NetApp Operations Manager.
• Checking syslog messages and Filer health checkup daily basics.

Confidential

Role: Systems and JR Storage Administrator

RESPONSBILITIES:

• Installing, configuring, administration of Windows 2003 servers, Active Directory Services, DNS DHCP, FTP, WSUS, IIS Web Server and SQL Database Server, System Management Servers SMS servers.
• Experienced with x86 / x64 Intel, HP, IBM Dell hardware like rack-mounted servers, tower servers, desktop, laptop and other peripherals.
• Managing Exchange 2003 servers and troubleshooting issues related to User and group accounts, mail delivery, configuring MX records to enable and disable domain.
• Administering DHCP Server-creation of reservation and under reservation options, configuring of router IP address.
• Responsible for Active directory, GPO, Domain users, Administrating users and groups and given appropriate permissions and privilege to access our LAN and Domain environment.
• Configure and Managed Microsoft Outlook 2003/2007 for the users.
• Configured Terminal Server to access to the servers using Remote Desktop Protocol RDP .
• Migrated Windows XP desktop environment to the Windows7.
• Responsible for Security Patch Management and Deployment to all clients using Microsoft WSUS.
• Creating LUN's, resizing Volumes and volume maintenance.
• Management of Aggregates, Volumes, Qtree, Quotas for regular disk provisioning.
• Performed Data Migrations using Volume Snap Mirror, Qtree Snap Mirror.
• Installing, configuring, administering, troubleshooting VMware server on ESXplatform and VMware client, workstation.
• Installation and Configuration of networks, router/switches configuration and wireless access point/router with security, TCP/IP, VPN, Content Filtering, Access Control Lists on router/switches, VLANs port mapping, naming etc. , and routing IP address in both LAN/WAN and wireless networks.
• Analyze, log, track and complex software and hardware matters of significance pertaining to networking connectivity issues, printer, server, and application to meet business needs