PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Experienced VMware Certified Professional (VCP) with 8+ years of experience in IT industry.
• Experience in implementation and administration VMware vSphere ESXi 5.x/4.x, ESX /3.x platform, vCenter 5.x/4.x/2.5 and vBlock … series.
• Extensive knowledge in advance features like vMotion, Storage vMotion and Network/Storage IO Control.
• Excellent experience in working on configuring ESXi hosts and clusters with all advanced features like HA, DRS, DPM etc.
• Experience in P2V, V2V MIGRATION using VMware Converter and Plate Spin tools.
• Experience in working on Host Profiles, Resource pools, storage profiles, VMFS datastore and templates for client VMs.
• Very good experience in creating DRS affinity, anti - affinity rules as required by business.
• Extensive experience in upgrading vCenter server and associated components like SSO and database servers.
• Upgraded ESXi servers using VMware Update Manager (VUM), CLI and DCUI.
• Excellent experience in working on vSwitches such as Standard vSwitches (vSs), Distributed vSwitches (VDs), and Cisco Nexus 1000V.
• Good Experience in creating port groups, VLAN networking and NIC teaming on VMware ESX 5.x/4.x and vCenter environment.
• Strong knowledge and extensive experience in data center migration projects.
• Good experience on working on VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM) for maintaining business continuity and performing disaster recovery (DR) activity.
• Monitoring of VM's & ESXi server components (CPU, Memory, Disk, Network Utilization) and security hardening for Security Compliance.
• Extensive experience with Windows clustering on virtualized environments.
• Worked on PowerShell which is used for management of a system.
• Experience on PowerShell Integrated Scripting Environment (ISE).
• Experienced in performing administration tasks using PowerShell scripting using cmdlets.
• Involved in working with PowerShell API's.
• Extensive experience in managing vBlock using native element managers including vCenter, UCS, UIM, Unisphere, Cisco Nexus CLI and fabric manager.
• Experience in working on day to day networking tasks across the converged infrastructure platform i.e. Cisco (7k, 5k, 3k, 1k & MDS) switches.
• Cisco UCS (Unified Computing Systems) implementation and configuration specific to vSphere, for compute platform high availability, redundancy and elasticity.
• Good knowledge and Experience with Cisco UCS and HP Blades for ESXi hosts.
• Strong communication and people skills, both written and verbal. Able to assess and resolve client issues quickly. A proven record of reliability, the ability to perform under time constraints, and good judgment under pressure.
• Ability to maintain a reliable and methodical approach to support and Documentation. Quick learner, highly motivated team player with excellent organizational and analytical skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Environment: Windows 2000/2003/2008 R2, SMS, SQL Server 2000, IIS 6.0/7.0, VMware ESXi 5.1 Server, Dell Power Edge Servers, CISCO UCS blade servers, HP Servers, IBM Blade Servers, Remote desktop services, IBM TSM, IBM NAS, Cisco Nexus 5K.

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Malvern, PA

VMware/Windows Administrator

Responsibilities:

• VMware implementation and troubleshooting VMware ESXi 4.1, 5.1 and 5.5 hosts.
• Installing, configuring, upgrading and supporting Red Hat Enterprise Linux servers in an enterprise Data
• Center environment P2V and V2V conversions using VMware vCenter Converter and Double Take.
• Administration of ESXi hosts on HP ProLiant DL385p Gen8 and DL580 Gen8 servers.
• Updating and upgrading ESXi servers, vCenter Server and virtual using vSphere Update Manager and VM
• Tools through manual updates.
• Managed ESXi hosts using vCenter Server/ vSphere Client and VMware Web Client.
• Performed vMotion and Storage vMotion of Virtual Machines across different cluster with respect to security policies and application development requirements.
• Creation of hot and cold Clones Templates from Virtual Machines (VMs). Deployed Virtual Machines from Templates based on requirements and build documents.
• Performed Virtual Machine Snapshots for Application machines for Migrations and failback.
• Experience with creating Standard vSwitches (vSS), Distributed vSwitches (VDs). Isolated networks were created with separate vSwitches and VMkernel Port Groups. Third party tools such as Wireshark packet capturing tool were used for network traffic monitoring, vMotion, storage and Fault-Tolerance (FT) security and stability.
• Automated configuration management and ensured compliance of vSphere hosts and virtual machines with vCenter Host Profiles.
• LUN creation and storage mapping along with Multipathing and VAAI.
• Handled VMware solutions to support multiple storage connectivity options such as Fiber Channel-SAN, iSCSI, NFS (NAS)
• Provide management of Microsoft Windows 2008, 2008 R2 servers. DNS DHCP and Active Directory.
• P2V of approximately 400 physical Windows 2008 servers to HP P-class blades using PlateSpin, while ensuring computing, memory, and disk capacity were maintained at acceptable levels.

Environment: VMware ESX 4.2 and ESXi 5.5 vSphere, Windows2008 R2, RHEL 5.X, 6.X, HP DL 380/580G and EMC Storage Array, WINTEL, Windows XP/Vista/Win 7, iSCSI SAN, NFS, Active Directory, Dell PowerEdge Servers, P2V-V2V conversation, Remote desktop services

Confidential, King of Prussia, PA

VMware/Windows Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Management and administration of Windows 2008 and 2008 R2 Active directory (Created Accounts, Reset Passwords, and • Allowed Access to different Directories using NTFS permissions)
• Installation/deployment of Windows 2008 using Sysprep and configuration of DNS, DHCP and WINS servers.
• Participated in meetings and planning for future migration of Windows server from 2008R2 to 2012R2.
• Design and implementation of global monitoring solution using SolarWindsNPM (Network Performance Monitoring) tool.
• Establishing ESX Deployment strategy, policies and procedures and deploying ESX cluster builds based on predefined policies.
• Infrastructure testing on the new ESX builds to identify potential flaws/failures from implementations before its release in production. vSphere Performance monitoring and analysis using Quest Fog light monitoring solution.
• Implementing Change requests for different configuration changes within the virtual infrastructure.
• Troubleshooting vSphere performance related issues.
• Performed a production wide VM networking migration from Standard Virtual Switches to Distributed Virtual Switch with live traffic.
• Built HP DL380/580 G Servers for VMware deployments.
• Executed a large scale live VM Storage Migration from EMC CX3-480 TO CX3-960.
• Worked intensively on Datacenter migration/consolidation by using VMware converter for P2V/V2V conversions.
• Performed Capacity planning for virtualize environment using VROPS 6.0 and monitoring the health and status of the VMware clusters
• Performing Disaster Recovery (DR) using VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM) for maintaining Business Continuity
• Experience in the Installation of desktops using VDI environment.
• Reviewed BOM's submitted by Solution Architects for new build requirements and suggested improvements based on infrastructure and hardware resource availability.
• Manage and monitor Point of Sale Systems -Lockdown terminals through Symantec End Point Protection Manager
• Used IP control tool for reserving Static IP and DHCP MAC reservations including VIP's. A and PTR records in DNS.
• Migrating File server from Windows 2003 to Windows 2012
• Created Windows 2012 cluster and setup DFS on new Windows 2012 environment
• Leveraging all the standalone and cluster 2003 file servers to new Windows 2012 File storage cluster

Environment: Windows 2003/2008/2012 , SQL Server 2012,2010, IIS 6.0/7.0,7.5, VMware ESXi 5.x Server, Dell Power Edge Servers, HP Servers, IBM Blade Servers, Remote desktop services, IBM TSM, Microsoft Visual StudioTFS.

Confidential, Mansfield, MA

VMware Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installing, configuring, Troubleshooting and management of ESX 4, ESXi 5 and vCenter Server 5, vcops, Vsphere 6.0
• Responsible for the project work by leading the VMware/Windows team.
• Well Experienced with designing, installing and implementing VMware ESX servers and vCenter server 4.0 and setting up of VMware Features like V-Motion, HA, DRS.
• Managed 300+ ESX servers located at various data centers by one virtual center. Each Data center has multiple clusters with biggest of 15 clusters used for HA and DRS for disaster recovery, Load balancing and troubleshooting.
• Creating and Deploying of Virtual Machines from Templates and creating Snapshots with in no time, cloning of Virtual Machines for future Deployments. perform root cause analysis on all VMware products. E.g. ESX hosts, Virtual Centers, and Virtual Machines.
• SUPPORT no SQL.
• Experience managing ESX and Virtual Center in a large environment.
• Experience in supporting Windows/Linux
• Designed and Implemented FAST for provisioning on EMC VNX's & VMax with Helping Customer needs on day to day tasks.
• Experience with NAS SNAPSHOT.
• Designed SAN Disaster Recovery solutions on Tier1 policies between both Data Centers on VNX & Clariion products. Also Protecting VMax Storage over DMX3 at DR site.
• Migrated ~100 hosts including HP, Linux and Windows from DMX-3 to VNX-7500
• Building new servers and perform v2v migrations on biweekly basis.
• Creating and configuring VNetwork Standard Switch (VSwitch), VM Kernel Ports, VM ports, Service console and NIC teaming.
• Configuring different type of Port Groups Policies, Applying Security policies, Traffic Shaping, Load balancing, Failover detection, Hard and Soft zoning and VLAN Tagging.
• Migrated Physical Machines to Virtual Machines (P2V) and Virtual Machines to Virtual Machines (V2V) using VMware converter and vCenter Guided Consolidation.
• Daily responsibilities included maintenance of Virtual machines for performance issues also implemented V-Motioning, Hot and Cold Migration of virtual servers and performed Storage VMotion where the storage is migrated.
• Created and maintained SQL server cluster for HA, DRS, VC, ESX servers and VM's.
• Good experience with VMware Update Manager and Host Update utility to install patches and updates on ESX hosts and virtual machines.
• Experience in administering Windows Terminal Server, Group Policy management and Active Directory environment.
• Created Domain User Accounts, Distribution Groups with Active Directory/Exchange.
• Design, implementing and managing Active Directory(AD), Internet Information Server (IIS), Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM)/System Center Operations Manager (SCOM), Systems Management Server (SMS)/System Center Configuration Manager(SCCM)
• Extensively managed Active Directory like all the problems related to user accounts, domain accounts, managing permissions etc.
• Experience in Remote deployment of Microsoft Windows 2003/2008/R2/2012 servers using Altiris deployment solution or manual installation of a server using ILO for remote connection to a server.
• Maintaining servers with latest security updates, critical patches, anti-virus, and backup.
• Install and maintain SCOM in the environment and maintain the monitoring configurations.
• Installed and configured Windows 2008/2012 servers. Maintain and monitoring 100+ servers for firm via SCOM alert system
• Extensively worked with Active Directory Services, IIS Servers, DNS, and DHCP.
• Configured and maintained new VM's and Installed Microsoft Windows / 2012/2008/2003 Servers, managing VM's and ESX servers.
• Involved in day to day support related to Data Center, documentation of run books,, support, and coordination with off-shore team for moving/relocating Widows/VMware/Applications/Backup
• Responsible for supporting system design and implementations as well as provide first level of support for any issues.
• Supports integration between virtual platforms and desktop tools to deliver optimal environment for Customer support reps
• Planning migration strategies, DR plans with SAN and NAS data.

Environment: vSphere 4.0 and 5.0, Hyper-V, Windows 2008/2003 Server, Cisco UCS 5108, HP Blade C7000 and C3000, HP VCEM- Virtual Connect Enterprise Manager, VMware View Dell Power Edge Servers, Citrix and SQL.

Confidential

System Engineer/VM Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Administered, maintained and monitored Central site with several remote Primary sites based on Windows 2003 Servers in a Windows 2003 Domain.
• Migration of virtual machines from ESX 3.5 to ESX 4.0.
• Maintain daily operations for Windows server infrastructure and components.
• Coordinate with multiple teams to fulfil new server build requests to satisfy configuration, storage, backup and monitoring requirements.
• Understanding of networking concepts, configuration of networks, Router Configuration and wireless security, TCP/IP, VPN, Content Filtering, VLANs, and routing in LAN/WAN, Ethernet Port and Wireless Networks.
• Installing and updating the windows patches.
• RHEL 5.x and 6.x administration and troubleshooting
• Managing Netbackup, Symantec Backup Exec, VEEAM, and EMC storage frames
• Maintaining the xenapp farm.
• Configuring vNetwork Distributed switches and migrating the networks from VNetwork standard switches to vNetwork Distributed switches
• Creating NTFS shares on Windows Servers and provide permissions to users.
• Setting up windows servers to analyse performance issues.
• Maintained and updated Active Directory for authentication purposes.
• Managing Registry settings as per application perspective.
• Maintaining Print servers, Application servers and File Servers.
• Clustered the Windows servers to reduce load on applications.
• Taking full responsibility till the installations must be done for a given period of time.
• Annual Maintenance Contracts follow-ups, keeping full track of customer invoices.
• Performed extensive testing across all Windows OS with users to get signoff for each application.

Environment: Windows 2000/2003, Oracle 7.x, PL/SQL, JDBC, Linux, Solaris and Windows NT.

Confidential

System Administrator/Windows Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Experienced in creating Virtual Machine Templates and deploy virtual machines from templates and allocate resources.
• Experience in Network LAN/WAN deployment, including IP Addressing and Troubleshooting
• Backup administration using Symantec Backup Exec and Symantec Netback up.
• Installation, Configuration and Administration of ESXi 3.5 and 4.0 Servers.
• Performed the day to day administration of Windows Server Windows NT/ 2003/2008/2008 R2.
• Installation of Citrix Presentation server 4.0/ XenApp 4.5 Citrix Client Tools
• Administration of Citrix Xen App Farms
• Configuration of Citrix server policies, Load Management and Printers in the Farm.
• Manage security groups and user and computer account permissions for 1200+ users
• Establishing backup procedures using various backup solutions.
• Migrate Physical Servers to Virtual Server using VMware Converter (P2V Converter)
• Investigated new technologies, software, patches, and security packages, which will improve system performance and systems administration procedures.
• Experience in administration of Active directory for users and computers.
• NIC teaming for ESX/ESXi Servers.
• Taking Snapshots and reverting back as per the requirements.
• Migration of Data, Shares, Users, Rights, and Configure printers and printer software.
• Regular backup and maintenance of critical data and user specific data from Servers.
• Managing User Accounts, Computer Accounts, Files and Folders

Environment: Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, VMware ESX, ESXi Server, Windows 2003/2008/2012 Server, Better Cloud, Google Admin Console, FTP,