SUMMARY

• 6+ years’ experience of designing, implementing, managing VMware ESX/v Center and Citrix server.
• 5+ years of experience of Installing Citrix Meta Frame Presentation server 3.0, 4.0 &Xenapp 4.5/5/6, components and manage the farm through Presentation Management Console.
• Sound knowledge on Virtual Center server 2.5 and VC 4.0/4.1 for managing multiple ESX/ESXi servers, SRM 4.0, View 4.5, vShield and VCloud Directory
• Excellent understanding on ESX Architecture, guest OS installation, setting up of VM priorities, Cloning and Snapshots.
• Building Cluster Environment for High Available Applications andincreasing resources like HDD, Memory and CPU.
• Experience with ESXCLI 5.x scripting, Citrix XenApp VDI, Citrix VDI Virtualization solution and leveraging.
• Experience with Cisco UCS B200 /HP Blades C7000 Virtual Connect Module
• Create baseline Windows 7 image to work within VMWare VDI Environment to ensure that all patches and security measures are in place to be compliant with DoD specifications.
• High understanding on resource management framework like creation resource pools, adding the VMs into resource pools, P2V and V2V conversions by using VMware Converter.
• Generating Performance Reports and Patch Management of ESX Hosts using VMware Update Manager,Extensive experience in working with theVMotion and Storage VMotion technology.
• Strong experience with the VMware HA and VMware DRS.
• Strong understanding of VMware Networking concepts like creation of Vswitches, different types ofport groups, Nic Teaming and VLAN and load balancing, beacon traffic, notification to switches for connectivity problem.
• Good understanding on storage types including iSCSI, NAS and SAN, VM creation capable file systems including VMFS and NFS, NetApp SAN technologies such as LUN creation, LUN masking, zoning, LUN addressing and, storage management for SAN using SCSI devices and EMC Clariionstorage servers.
• Experienced on backups usingVRangerand Tivoli Backups Exec.
• Responsibilities included installing, configuring and troubleshooting Windows 2008/Windows 2003 and 2008 servers, SQL 2005 and 2008 servers per enterprise standards.
• Worked on Change Management, request management and Incident tickets of Remedy tool.
• Exceptional skills in Win NT / Win2K / Win2K3 Networks with very strong experience in Active Directory and TCP/IP Protocol Family.
• Experienced in configuring DNS, DHCP, WINS and Active Directory Services in Windows based server environments.
• Maintaining the File Server and Print Server and Cloning the Desktops on Network in Windows Environment.
• Excellent skills in Virus updates, Security updates and Service Pack updates.
• Outstanding skills in supporting users over phone as well as using RemoteSupport Tools such as VNC, Windows Remote Desktop, WebEx, DS View and ILO to connect to the servers.
• Involved in Exchange Server configuration and administration with experience in Exchange Virtual server creation on windows Server Cluster.
• Considerable hands - on experience with Server/PC hardware integration, Network Monitoring, Troubleshooting, Switches, Routers, Firewalls and VPN.
• Significant experience in identifying, analyzing and troubleshooting technical service requests.
• Manage the deployment, maintenance, support and upgrade of servers, hardware, software, OS and distributed printers in a Microsoft Windows OS and server environment.
• Installed Presentation Server 4.0/4.5 components like Resource Manager, Installation Manager, and Load Manager.
• Publishing applications and providing access to the users using PS console
• Migrating from Citrix Metaframe Presentation Server 1.8 to 4.0.
• Enabling Web Access and Securing Access to Published Applications and content
• Configuring MetaFrame Presentation Server Policies, Load Management and Printers
• Configuring Citrix Access and Citrix Secure Gateway.
• Monitoring and Managing Citrix Metaframe Presentation Servers
• Creating a test Environment in Citrixor VMware for Production Team to test their applications.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: Windows 2000 Server, Windows 2003 and 2008 Server, Windows NT 4 Server and Workstation, Windows XP, Windows Vista (Professional and Home), Red Hat Linux 9

Networking Protocols: TCP/IP, DHCP, DNS, WINS, Active Directory, Terminal Services, FTP

Hardware: Cisco UCS B200,HP C7000, HP Prolient DL360 G7, DL380 G6,DL385 G1, DL385 G2, HP Blade BL35p,BL460c G6, BL 465c G6 IBM X Series

Virtualization: VMware ESX 2.01,2.5,3.0, 3.5,4.0,Vmware Infrastructure 2.0/3.0, Putty, Vmconverter, VMware vSphere, VM vCenter server, VMware vMotion, VMware view, VMware ThinApp, VMware Workstation, VMware Player

Terminal Application Servers: Citrix Metaframe PS 3.0/4.0/4.5 and Xenapp 4.5/5.0/6.0.

Databases: SQL Server 2000/2005/2008 , Oracle8i, 9i, 10g, MS-Access, My SQL

Web Technologies: HTML, PHP, XML

Web Servers: IIS 5.0/6.0/7.0

Mail Servers: Microsoft Exchange 5.5/2000/2003

SAN: Hitachi Freedom store 9900, EMC Clarion CX700, EMC DMX2000, XP1024, XP12000, SUN A5200, D1000, A1000.

Tools: VNC, WebEx, ADMT, Remedy, IBM ISM MAXIMO, AD Snapshot Tool, Tivoli Backup Exec, DS View, ILO, NetworkRegister and Blade Logic

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Waltham, MA

Sr. Vmware/ Citrix Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Assessment design and Planning for Implementation of vSphere Environment, Worked on vSphere Upgrade projects from ESX 3.5 to ESX 4.0/4.1.
• Application packaging and integration withVDI View environment
• Installing and configuring VMware vCenter Server, VCenterplug-ins including vCenter converter and upgrade manager and Managing vCenter permissions
• P2V migration using VMware converter and V2V conversions using VMware converter and Plate Spin and doubletake
• Experience with Cisco UCS B200 and HP Blades C7000administration.
• Migrating existing infrastructure into virtualization environment using VMware Physical to Virtual Converter and VMware Workstation.
• Responsible for creating and building Windows7/8 &Windows 2003/2008 server virtual images on VMware ESX servers.
• Installing and configuring ESX 3.5/4.0/4.1 in large scale environment
• Creating templates and deploying Virtual Machines through templates and Cloning VMs
• Using Virtual centre server for HA, DRS, FT and VMotion
• Creating and Managing VMware cluster with HA and DRS
• Creating and Managing resource pools for Virtual Machines
• Scheduling replication and snap shot specific tasks
• Experience creating Virtual Apps
• Create virtual switches and port groups, configure virtualization networking settings for redundancy by teaming up NICs, configure network traffic, security and load balancing policies.
• Good knowledge on integrating SAN, iSCSIand NAS with ESX servers.
• Excellent log analysis knowledge for monitoring performance (CPU, Memory, Disk, network Utilization) and virtual infrastructure alarms in VCenter servers.
• Create and maintain environment specific installation and configuration guides for P2V Conversions, ESX server and VCenter Server installation.
• Replicated all the Production Server for Disater Recovery using VReplicator.
• Installed and Configured Citrix Presentation Server including Applications in more than 1000 servers.
• Publishing applications through Citrix Presentation server and managing user permissions.
• Printer Management in CitrixPS4.0 and XP farms and maintaining the Print Drivers on Citrix Servers in the Farm.
• Extensive installation and administration of Citrix Xenapp4.5 on windows 2003 servers.
• Configured Policies in Citrix on Farm level and Server Level.
• Resolving various issues such as Windows Policies, Application licensing through RDP.
• Solved issues raised in Installing and Configuring while replicating the Production Server to DR Servers.

Confidential, NJ

Sr. Vmware/ Citrix Administrator

Responsibilities:

• VMware implementation and expansion work
• Management of a 200 node ESX Farm running 1800 plus VM’s.
• Installing ESX 3.5 host and building virtual servers using virtual center.
• Create and maintain the VMware session in Test and Production Environment
• Deployed VMware ESX hosts, defined and Automated Company standards for configuration
• Deployed core image process for new server deployment.
• Created and documented process for deploying Virtual machines on VMware.
• Created VM Machines for Test Environments to test applications.
• Cloning sessions and also creating Templates through Virtual Infrastructure Client.
• Designed and implemented fully automated DRS and HAclusters with HP and Hitachi SAN storage.
• Monitoring and managing performance of ESX servers and VMusing Vcenter server for HA, DRS.
• Worked on large datacenter consolidations and completed them successfully using multiple P2V conversion tools like Vcenter Converter and VConverter DR.
• Managed separate VMwareclusters like QA, Development and Production.
• Extensively worked on VMware Update mangerand VMware toolsfor Host upgrades and windows patches.
• Perform capacity analysis of existing physical production environment using VMware Capacity planner.
• Migrated datacenters and converted physical servers to virtual servers using VMware and HP Blade servers resulting in a reduction of racks and power usage, decrease downtime during maintenance and upgrades and improved monitoring.
• Involved in live migration of Virtual Machines using the VMotionand Storage VMotion.
• Handled the VMware solutions to support multiple storage connectivity options such as FC-SAN, iSCSI, NFS (NAS) and internal storage.
• Teamed NIC’s using HP Teaming software and Broadcom for redundancy during failures.
• Creation & Troubleshooting of Virtual Network, ESX&Virtual Machines
• Maintain Microsoft Windows Servers (2003 and 2008), DNS DHCP and Active Directory.
• Design and implementation of global monitoring solution using NetIQ and HP SIM.
• Was responsible for maintaining and supporting 2500+ servers with about 3000+ users.
• Installed and Maintained Windows 2003 and Windows 2008 Servers.
• Installed Citrix Metaframe 4.5/5.0 (XenApp).
• Publishing and assigning the user permissions to access the Applications in Citrix Management Console.
• Interacting with business users for gathering the requirements for on boarding the applications to Citrix Servers.
• Configured alerts for server, Application etc and send the alerts via email, SNMP.
• Created Packages Using Installation Manager and deploy those packages to different Citrix servers.
• Created Isolation environment for two version of the same software to co-exist on the same server.
• Solved issues raised in the Citrix Farm related like printers, Applications etc.
• Configured printer properties to use Universal printer drivers provided by Citrix.
• Used HP Smart Start 7.xx and 8.0 to build the Windows server, HP Insight Manger to run Diagnostics to rule out hardware issues.
• Installed patches using patch link software.
• Active participation in moving the Data CenterMigration from one Location to another Location.
• Created User accounts and groups in Active Directory.
• Worked with Remedy Tool for ticketing process.
• Worked on various environments such as testing, implementation, Production support and giving Production support on 24x7 basis (during critical issues).

Confidential, Milwaukee, WI

Sr. VMware/Citrix Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Maintaining IBM Pseries Servers 690, 680 and 670, HP Proliant Servers DL360, 380, 580 and 370, Dell PowerEdge Servers.
• Configuring ILO connections on IBM and HP Blade Servers.
• Server Build by manual and also the Automation Process by using Altiris Tool
• Documentation of high level design and project implementation plan.
• Main role is to implement the Active Directory upgrade project along with regular Server and Network administration to manage servers and multiple sites.
• Installing and updating the OS with latestPatches released by Microsoft on all Servers.
• Creating an user accounts and make sure that they have appropriate groups assigned to the accounts
• Configure Network attached storage Devices for with File and Print server (NAS - Snap Servers)
• Monitor storage groups for data consistency andtroubleshooting file systems (DFS).
• Configuring Remote Logins using DS View 2.2 and 3.0, ILO, RDP
• Maintaining ESX 3.5 Environment in the Organization
• Creating VMSession on ESX servers through Virtual infrastructure Client.
• Performed hot and cold cloning of VMs.
• Create VMs on ESX hosts for installing, configuring and managing guest operating systems such as Linux and Windows server 2003.
• Created patch updates baselines and remediated ESX hosts
• Performed snap shot management activities.
• Configured and managed HA and DRS clusters
• Creating Templates and cloning Servers through VI Client.
• Create, test and deploy virtual environments using Virtualization Technologies - VMware Workstation and ESXServer, MS Virtual PC
• Working on the regional server issues through Incidents Tickets of Remedy Tool
• Publishing the Applications for Users through Presentation Console
• Managing the Print drivers and configuring Client Redirection while accessing the Printers through Published Applications
• Installing the Citrix Presentation Server 4.0and 4.5 (XenApp)and Managing the Farms through Presentation Server Console and Access Management Console.
• Managing the Printers in Citrix PS 4.0 and 4.5 environment.
• Packaging the Citrix Application through Rapid Deployment package and Wise.
• Installing and Maintaining Citrix Access Gateway in the environment.
• Updated and maintained current running projects, escalation charts, contact details, risks and issues
• Created and maintained document management systems for the team’s collaboration.
• Experience on Working On Call 24x7.

Confidential, Cincinnati OH

Citrix/ Vmware Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Was responsible for monitoring and maintaining Citrix MetaFrame Farm which includes +150 servers; + 2500 user base and more than 100 various applications. Up till current date built 25 Citrix Presentation 4.0 servers.
• Migrated more than 300 users from Metaframe Presentation Server 1.8 to 3.0.
• Involved in Migrating from windows 2000 to Windows 2003.
• Created Virtual Servers on ESX 3.0 and maintained through VCenter Infrastructure Client.
• Configured HA, Failover and DRS in VI
• Created templates and build servers on ESX Host.
• Configured memory, processors, switches etc on for virtual Servers on ESX host.
• Monitored and managed the performance and the load balance of the Servers.
• Created a test Environment in Citrix and VMware for Production Team to test their applications.
• Worked on Remedy tickets and prioritizing the work as per the SLAs. Giving global Support to entire network that span over 5 IDC (International Data Centers) and +110 remote locations (around the globe). System and Network administration on Windows2003 advance server withActive Directory Domain including 14 Domain controllers, + 5000 users.
• Publishing the Desktops and Individual Applications according to the Department requirements in the organization and Providing users with access rights and permissions for accessing the applications
• Coordination/implementation of hardware and software installations and upgrades.
• Performance and capacity monitoring and management.
• On boarding of applications to Citrix Environment.
• Experience with Citrix Access Gateway.
• Weekly server maintenance, planning and coordination.
• Created Process Documents and Standard Operating Procedures as per the ITIL standard and was reviewed by Manager.

Confidential

Citrix /Vmware Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Building new Intel Servers and racking on the Cabinets. Worked on HP Proliant DL360 and DL 380 Series and BLP 20 Series Blade and Non Blade Servers.
• Configuring and Managing the Citrix Metaframe Presentation Server.
• Publishing the Desktop and Applications to users.
• Configured Metaframe Presentation Server Policies, Load Management and Printers.
• Creating the Load Evaluators for load balancing purpose while the users accessing the application.
• Installing and updating Citrix Patches on Servers.
• Packaging Citrix Applications using Rapid Deployment Tool and Citrix Install Manager
• Installing and maintaining Citrix Web server
• Involved in operational support of Active Directory, WINS, DNS, and AD enabled applications and managed AD like all the problems related to user accounts, domain accounts, managing permissions.
• Configuring and Managing the Network Printers, Print Server, File Server, Profile Servers.
• Managing the Working on various environments such as testing, implementation and giving Production support on 24/7.
• Experience in Configuring and maintaining NAS storage using RAID levels for data redundancy using Dell power-edge 4600 storage boxes and knowledge on SAN.
• Monitoring the system patch updates and install through Marimba Channel on all the desktops.
• Configure System backup. Computer assembling and troubleshooting of hardware.
• Built and manage Virtual servers on VMware ESX 3.0
• Managing ESX servers through Virtual Infrastructure Client
• Configured Citrix Access Suite and Secure Gateway.
• Troubleshoot computer/network, Internet and email problems for users.
• Creating and managing user accounts and the groups in Active Directory users and computers.
• Helped in auditing Datacenter Inventory in the process of Data center migration
• Installing the applications on the user desktops through marimba channel.
• Worked on Remedy Tool to solve the Incident Tickets, Change tickets and Request Management Tickets.