SUMMARY

• VMware Technology Professional having 9+ years of IT experience in VMware, Windows, SAN Storage, and IT Support. Actively demonstrated strong analytical, troubleshooting and Interpersonal skills with a customer focused approach.
• Extensive experience in VMware infrastructure Involved in Windows OS Installations, User Creations, File Permissions, Scheduling the task, Performance Monitoring and maintenance of day - day activities.
• Experience in administering Microsoft Windows 2008 Server, Windows 2003,Windows 2000 Server Environments, Active Directory, DNS, DHCP
• Expertise with Rack/Blade servers, Windows Active Directory Administration, Windows Server … Server 2008 R2, Microsoft Exchange … DNS, TCP/IP, DHCP; managing Microsoft SQL Server …
• Extensive Experience with CISCO UCS servers (B-series, C-series), EMC Storage and thorough understanding and experience with VCE vBlock install, setup and administration.
• Administered, Installed (EMC VNX/Unisphere), Customized, and Supported Storage Area Networks (SAN) and Fabrics to meet technical computing requirements; also Identified Hardware, Software and Network issues
• Backup Enterprise Systems and Disaster Recovery operations; familiarity with SAN technologies; Solid understanding of VI 3.x, vSphere 4.x implementation with Shared Storage, Mapping (RDM), iSCSI, NFS/VMFS strategies for Performance and Optimization along with RAID concepts.
• Planning and Designing VMware vSphere (ESXi 4.0/ESXi 4.1/5.0/5.5 and VMware VirtualCenter)
• Managed Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) VMware View 4.x/5.x by configuring VMware View Composer, View connection server, View Agent and View Client
• Implemented VMware's VIEW, SRM, Virtual Switch technology (vSwitch), NIC teaming, VLAN trunking, and port groups, IP sub-netting, Load Balancing, High Availability (HA), Cluster groups, Resource Pools, Host Profiles, Licensing, Templates, Data Stores, and Networking
• Architect, Plan, Design, Installation, Configuration and maintenance of Hosted VMware products.
• Design, Implementation, Testing and Deployment of VMware Infrastructure, EMC and CISCO UCS products.
• Experienced in implementation, configuration, maintenance and support for EMC storage products like VNX, VMAX.
• Strong leadership and communication skills and working experience with customers, end users and colleagues. Demonstrated ability to work in both individual and team environments.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving and communication skills, with particular emphasis on clear, detailed Business Requirements into Functional Specifications, and generating reports for management.
• Adapts to new systems and environments quickly, takes ownership of all duties, meeting management skills, Good work ethics, Group and individual based problem solving and decision making abilities.
• Strong leadership and communication skills and working experience with customers, end users and colleagues. Demonstrated ability to work in both individual and team environments.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Fremont, CA

Sr. VMware/UCS Administrator

Responsibilities:

• VMWARE ESX 4.x to 5.x Servers Installation, Configuration & Administration.
• Administrated the VBlock 100,200,300,320,700 & 720 Series environment.
• Worked on all Matrix of VBlock from 2.5 to latest 3.5.6
• Knowledge on VCE Vision intelligence operations
• Migration of Vblock to components to new vCenter to manage by single UI from vSphere 5.1.
• Administering Windows servers2003/2008 Active Directory, DNS, DHCP and building new windows physical/virtual servers.
• Responsible for Virtual Server building using VMWare.
• Administering Private vCloud environment with in Vblock 300.
• Virtual Center Server & License Server Installation and Configuration.
• Configured HA, DRS& Resource Pool and Managed the Cluster Level.
• Configured VMotion, Alerts, Alarms, NTP.
• Managing Configuration and managing HA Settings and Customizing HA for Virtual Machines plus Configuring DRS in a Cluster. And the DRS Automation Level Using DRS Affinity Rules.
• Involved in building the windows 2003 and 2008 virtual servers by deploying from template, by cloning VM and also by creating the shell and installing fresh OS.
• Have built physical servers with windows 2003 and 2008 OS, on blade servers.
• Installation, configuration & management of Cisco UCS
• Training & implementation of Cisco UCS Director
• UCS Director Installation and Configuration (Standard & Multi-node deployment)
• Ability to customize the features for building proof of concepts
• Ability to translate customer needs in possible opportunities and conduct Q&A
• Ability to give demos to business and technical decision makers / influencers
• Resource Allocation, Network Configuration, License
• UCS Director Customization (Menu Settings, User Interface Customization, Add Users and Groups, LDAP Integration)
• Creation of Sites and PODs, Adding of Virtual and Physical Account
• Policies (Compute, Storage, Network, System and Cost Model Policies) vDC's and Catalogs
• Create and manage provisioning service requests, Configure VM disk provisioning on a preferred single or multiple DS
• UCS Director Advance Orchestration (End tEnd Operations and Provisioning Automation, Creation of Advance workflows, Custom Task, Trigger, Scheduler)
• Cisco Bare Metal Agent deployment, Service Profile Creation and PXE Booting
• Report regarding Chargeback, Cloud Sense, Cloud Management
• VM Ware Infrastructure Client configuration and managing the VM's through VI Client.
• Migrate Physical Servers to Virtual Server using VMware Converter (P2V Converter)
• Creation & Configuration of Virtual Switches, Ports, Port Groups and setting up layer 2 Security Policies for Virtual Networks.
• Performing Snapshots, Cloning, Cold Migrations and Hot Migrations.
• Creating templates from VM's, deploy VM's from templates and allocate resources.
• Creating duplicate VMs using Cloning feature.
• Troubleshooting issues relating to VMotion such as compatibility issues.
• Analyzing the VM-support logs for ESX servers and Virtual Center logs to diagnose the root cause for the problem and troubleshooting them.
• Expertise in building the monitor server which can monitor network devices, servers with its available services and any SNMP enabled devices and send instant alert.
• Expertise in configure and managing DNS, DHCP etc.
• Handling all Kinds of Wintel and hardware issues.
• Handling ON-CALL as per requirement.

Confidential, Bedford, OH

VMware /UCS Consultant & Infrastructure Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Installation, Configuration, Administration and Trouble shooting of VMWare, Network, & Storage Infrastructure
• Creating and Managing Virtual Machines and Templates
• Creating Clusters for High Availability (HA) and Distributive Resource Scheduling (DRS)
• Migrate Physical Servers to Virtual Server using VMware Converter (P2V Converter)
• Migrating of Virtual Machines using V Motion
• Creating Templates from VM's, deploy VM's from templates and allocate resources
• Monitoring of Virtual Machine's & ESX servers (CPU, Memory, Disk and Network Utilization) for Security.
• Setting up Users and Groups for access to the Virtual Center.
• Installation, configuration & management of Cisco UCS Blade Server & Rack Server
• Cisco Nexus 1Kand 5K configuration and operations.
• Local area network software, hardware including Network Attached Storage (NAS) and Storage Area Network (SAN), design, installation, and maintenance
• Provision NFS and CIFS shares with quotas
• Performance tuning of servers, Virtual sessions and management of server resources between Virtual Machine
• Configure & Manage VMware v Center, Hyper-V, KVM, UCSM, UCS Central, NetApp, UCS Invicta, EMC, Application Containers (Fenced Container, VSG) PNSC and Nexus Switches using Cisco UCS Director
• Managing of Windows Active Directory infrastructure
• Administering multiple disjoint Active Directory Forests, Domains, DHCP, DNS and various other Infrastructure services.

Confidential, Pearl River, NY

Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Established maintenance routines backing up and mirroring vital databases for SQL server 2005 to manage Databases for SCOM 2007 and VMware Virtual Center Infrastructure, maintenance plans to backup, delete old backups and mirror the DBs on another server delivering a robust and restorable environment
• Initiated migration from Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 to System Center Operations Manager 2007 seamlessly with zero perceived downtime, and effectively meeting organizational standards.
• Migrated from VMware Virtual Infrastructure 2 (ESX 4.0.x and Virtual Center 5.x) to Virtual Infrastructure 3 (ESX 4.5.x and Virtual Center 5.x) ensuring clear communication and coordination and providing appropriate exceptions to meet customer needs.
• Installing and Configuring Windows 2008/2003 servers on Physical and Virtual Environment.
• Installing and Configuring ESX 4.1 and ESXi 5.0/5.5 Servers on Cisco and HP DL series Servers.
• Building MSCS two Node Fail over Clusters on Windows 20 4bit servers.
• Working on V2V Cloning on Windows and Linux servers on VMware Environment.
• Working on P2V Migration Using VMware Converter 4.3/5.0/5.5.
• Configuring shared Storage for Cluster Builds on Dell MD 3200/1200 Storage.
• Creating Templates, Snapshots, resource pools and clones on Vmware Environment.
• Worked on configuring VMware clustering like HA and DRS clusters using Virtual Centre server.
• Worked on AD, creating users and giving permissions, group policy addition, removal and other amendments under security officer’s approval.
• Working on Data Migration Project Using Robocopy Tool in Windows Cluster Build and Non Cluster Builds and Data Migration Cutovers
• Scheduling Data Migrations (Full, Tureups and Final) and Adding Print Queues on the Destination Nodes.
• Installing and Configuring Netbackup, OVO Monitoring agent, MacAfee Anti-Virus’
• Installing and Configuring IIS, FTP, SMTP and .net
• Responsible for resolving issues related to active directory, OS & VMware ESXi 4.0/5.0.
• Managing virtual infrastructure and virtual centers.
• Monitoring ticketing tool continuously, SLA Maintenance.
• Worked on update manager, Net backup.
• Trouble shooting experience related to ESX server and VM’s.
• Worked on different VMware products like VMware workstation, VMware server, VMware Converter and ESX server 3.5 & VMware ESXi 4.1.
• Worked on creation of VM's and installing different guest OS like windows and Linux.
• Worked on Teaming, snapshots, templates, cloning.
• Have Good understanding of ESX server architecture
• In AD worked on privilege account, service account, Standard accounts and mirror accounts and AD daily checks.
• Worked on VMware resource management like creation resource pools, adding the VM's into the resource pools.
• Have experience on scheduling backup, rerunning backup, daily, weekly, Incremental backups depending on the policy. Troubleshoot the partial backups - Netbackup.
• Worked on VMware Migration like VMotion, SVmotion.
• Worked P2, P3, P4 tickets with in SLA and OLA.
• Creation of templates from VM's and Creation of VM's from templates.

Confidential, Orangeburg, NY

Sr. Technical Support Executive

Responsibilities:

• Expertise in configure and managing DNS, DHCP etc.
• Expertise in implementation, configuration, administration of Linux/Windows Servers.
• Expertise in manual/automated backup systems and restore.
• Expertise in Planning and designing Windows Active Directory Environment.
• Good in Group Policy Object Administration & Trouble Shooting.
• Expertise in Working with ADS, DHCP, DNS Server Roles, Domain Controllers.
• Expertise in IIS Server for using web based Applications.
• Handling all Kinds of Wintel and hardware issues.
• VM Ware Infrastructure Client configuration and managing the VM's through VI Client.
• Migrate Physical Servers to Virtual Server using VMware Converter (P2V Converter)
• Creation & Configuration of Virtual Switches, Ports, Port Groups and setting up layer 2 Security Policies for Virtual Networks.
• Performing Snapshots, Cloning, Cold Migrations and Hot Migrations.
• Creating templates from VM's, deploy VM's from templates and allocate resources.
• Creating duplicate VMs using Cloning feature.
• Troubleshooting issues relating to VMotion such as compatibility issues.
• Analyzing the VM-support logs for ESX servers and Virtual Center logs to diagnose the root cause for the problem and troubleshooting them.
• Implemented and Configured VM Ware Infrastructure cluster running on IBM Blade servers.
• Deploying various patches by using WINSCP.

Confidential, Pearl River, NY

Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Diagnose hardware and software problems, and replace defective components.
• Maintain and administer computer networks and related computing environments, including computer hardware, systems software, applications software, and all configurations.
• Maintain and administer network security appliances in order to protect data, software, and hardware. Coordinate computer network access and use.
• Perform data backups and disaster recovery operations.
• Install new / rebuild existing servers and configure hardware, peripherals, services, settings, directories, storage, etc. in accordance with standards and project/operational requirements.
• Develop and maintain installation, configuration, operational or other procedures.
• Maintain Data Archiving system.
• Provide Tier II support for Help Desk, and end user applications and systems. Investigate and troubleshoot issues.
• Repair and recover from hardware or software failures. Coordinate and communicate with impacted constituencies.
• Apply OS patches and upgrades on a regular basis, and upgrade administrative tools and utilities. Configure / add new services as necessary.
• Maintain computer inventory and asset management for operational needs.
• Perform periodic performance reporting to support capacity planning.
• Perform ongoing performance tuning, hardware upgrades, and resource optimization as required.
• Work with technical teams to maintain system integrity and infrastructure growth.