Skills

Please use this table to list the skills noted in the Required/Desired section of the requirement. In addition, please respond with the years of experience for each skill and the last time each skill was used. Add or delete rows as necessary.

Employment History

Confidential

VMware Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Design hardware configurations and conduct hardware capacity planning for VMware environment based on VMware vSphere 4.x.
• Installation and configuration of VMware ESX/ESXi 4.x, 5.x based on the architecture and configuration maximums.
• Perform host upgrading to VMWare vSphere 5.x from VMWare vSphere 4.x using VMware vSphere Update Manager and also using interactive upgrade.
• Profound knowledge of VMware vCenter Server 4.x, 5.x architecture, installation, configuration maximums, optimization and upgrading.
• Installation of vCenter server as an appliance and also on windows environment. Installation of vCenter Server plug-ins.
• Configuration and administration of ESX servers through vCenter Server, vSphere Client and vSphere web client.
• Design and Implement Virtual Network Infrastructure.
• Creation and Configuration Virtual Switch, different types of Port Groups, NIC-Teaming and VLAN.
• Configuration of vNetwork Distributed switch and then migrating the networks from vNetwork standard switches to vNetwork Distributed switch.
• Creating and converting new LUN's to VMFS data stores and adding them to ESX hosts.
• Assigning LUN's from storage array to ESX Server.
• Scheduling of file system backup on Windows, Linux and Solaris platforms.
• Work closely with Storage and Networking teams to ensure allocated SAN, Fiber and networking infrastructure reflected specifications laid out in initial VMware firm design to ensure successful deployment.
• Creating Virtual Machines, installing guest operating systems and installation of VMware tools.
• Creation and customization of Templates and clones from VMs, VMs from templates and deploying them.
• Working on Migration concepts like vMotion, Cold Migration and perform vMotion and Storage vMotion on Virtual Machines with no interruption to production environment.
• Taking virtual machine snapshots before testing the software, managing snapshots using snapshot manager.
• Creating and managing virtual machines using VMware vSphere vApp.
• Resource Management- Configuring VMware HA, VMware DRS, storage DRS, DPM Clusters for high availability and load balancing. Configuration of Fault tolerance for critical virtual machines.
• Configuration of Admission control policies, Affinity rules and DRS groups for Virtual machines and Hosts.
• Performance Monitoring and tuning for ESX Servers, vCenter Server and Virtual Machines.
• Optimization of resources for virtual machines in the clusters by creating resource pools and prioritizing of virtual machines through shares, limits and reservations.
• Configuring vCenter Server notifications. Setting alarms with condition-based or event-based triggers, viewing and acknowledging triggered alarms.
• Configuration of VMware ESXi firewall by enabling or disabling services, and by setting the range of IP addresses of remote hosts that can access each service.
• Configuration of startup policy for the security profile services.
• Integration of vCenter server with Active directory services. Configuring roles and permissions of users and groups.
• Configuration of VMware VSphere Client plug-in VShield Manager, a critical security component for protecting virtualized datacenters.
• Configuring VMWare vSphere Update Manager for centralized, automated patch and version management of VMware vSphere. Worked on creating baselines, scanning for updates and patches, viewing compliancy, remediating objects.
• worked with SANs in VMware environments and troubleshooting and upgrading firmware in VMware and other environments such as Windows
• Fully automated migration and failover with vCenter Site Recovery Manager 4.
• Plan and Deploy P2V migration using VMware Converter Enterprise and PlateSpin Converter.
• Installing new software versions replacing deprecated software due to hardware limitations.
• Taking backup and then upgrading hardware to replace 32-bit deprecated guest OS to 64-bit guest OS.
• Troubleshooting ESX /ESXi 3.5, 4.0, 4.1, 5.0, 5.1 Windows 2003, 2008.
• Work with VMware Thinapp to hand over the packages to the end users.
• Virtual machine decommissioning.
• Participating in weekly meetings.
• Documentation of the environment.

Confidential

VMware Administrator

Responsibilities

• Installation and configuration of VMware ESX 3.x 4.x and ESXi 4.x, Virtual Center Server 2.5, vCenter Server 4.x and creating Virtual Machines.
• Assist in P2V and V2V conversion of Windows 2000 and Windows 2003 server editions using enterprise VMware converter.
• Creation of templates and deploying Virtual Machines through templates, cloning Virtual Machines.
• Provide disaster recovery and backup services using the VMware consolidated Backup VCB .
• Creating and Managing VMware cluster with HA, DRS and resource pools for Virtual Machines.
• worked with SANs in VMware environments and troubleshooting and upgrading firmware in VMware and other environments such as Windows
• Monitoring and managing performance of ESX servers and Virtual Machines using Virtual center server.
• Work on migration technologies like VMotion, Storage Vmotion and Cold migration.
• Creation and troubleshooting of Virtual Network, ESX/ESXi and Virtual Machines.
• Configuring Network policies Security, Traffic Shaping and NIC teaming .
• Upgrade ESX 3.5 to ESX 4.x, ESX 4.x to ESXi 4.x.
• Experience with VMware Life Cycle Manager to provision virtual machines and removing them from service at the end of their life cycle.
• Installation and configuration of Windows 2003 / 2008 servers.
• Manage Active Directory / DNS/DHCP.
• Study the requirements of the organization, installation, configuration and deployment by using the System Management Server, and provide assistance in Hardware, Internet, Network and VoIP related issues.
• Attend to clients for solving their technical problems and gave prompt solutions to their problems for ensuring high satisfaction levels.
• Track asset movements and ensure software and hardware assets were within control using the License Compliance and Asset Management System.
• Work on troubleshooting in case of a failure and maintain server uptime above 99.99 .

Confidential

Windows Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installation and configuration of Windows Server 2003, Desktop OS Windows XP and Vista.
• Basic AD administration and configuring of DNS and DHCP
• Designing and Deploying Active Directory Domain.
• Configuration of Microsoft Cluster Services MSCS .
• Patching all Windows servers and workstations to Company standards
• Customize the 2000/2003 servers in terms of Registry, Audit/Account/Security policy, patching, to sustain Company Standard Operating Environment.
• Assist staff with the installation, configuration, and ongoing usability of desktop computers, peripheral equipment and software within established standards and guidelines.
• Analyze existing infrastructure using VMware Capacity Planner.
• Plan and participate in Vmware Infrastructure consolidation plan reviews, meetings and conference calls.
• Work with team members in taking snapshots prior to system maintenance activities.
• Participate in physical to virtual conversion of current running systems for the optimization of the resources and application infrastructure.
• Create and Manage virtual machines hosted on ESX 3, installation, configuration and administration of windows guest OS in virtual machines.
• Work on day to day administration tasks and resolve tickets using Remedy.
• Resolve DNS issues, add Zones and domain addresses to the configuration files and the daemons on the live servers.

Confidential

Junior System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Windows 2000 and 2003 Servers configuration and deployment.
• Installation, configuration and management of Active directory, DNS and DHCP Servers.
• Anti-Virus updates and MS Patches Management.
• Active Directory Services -- Managing Users Other Resource objects.
• Managing Cluster Services -- Installation Administration.
• Installation and configuration of third party applications.
• Perform hardware maintenance for servers like equipment replacement, capacity planning.
• Daily tasks such as taking data backups, cleaning junk content and updating software.
• Troubleshooting various Network related problems and installing software's.