SUMMARY

• Over 7 years of experience with expertise in VMware administration and Windows Administration, Implementation, Installing, Monitoring and Troubleshooting of network and communication equipment.
• Practical work experience in Installing, Maintaining, Monitoring, Troubleshooting and Managing Blade, Rack and Tower servers, Configuring and Zoning Storage Area Networks and SAN Switches and VMware ESXi Server Administration.
• Technical knowledge & proficiency in Windows Servers, VMware and Network Administration.
• Expertise in installation, configuration and administration of Windows 2003/2008/2008 R2/2012/2012R2/2016 & 2019 servers on HP/Compaq, Dell Power Edge, IBM xSeries hardware platforms.
• Extensive experience with VMWare/Microsoft VDI products (Horizon View 6.x,7.x/RDS, RDSH).
• Worked on HCI platforms vSAN, Azure HCI on server 2016 and server 2019.
• Experience with Nutanix cluster configuration and management.
• Experience configuring and managing Active Directory, GPOs, DNS, DHCP, File & Print Server, IIS (Web Server), FTP, Terminal Server, RRAS, Microsoft Clustering and Exchange Mail Server in Windows based server environment.
• Developed PowerShell scripts to automate various tasks in Active Directory & VMware PowerCLI automation.
• Hand - on Experience on installing and managing SQL 2008/2012/2016 , configuring WSUS and NTP.
• Intermediate understanding of power CLI (windows/VMware).
• Experience on IIS 7.0/7.50/8.0/8.5 Architecture, Deployment, Security & Configuration mechanism.
• Experience Installing, Configuring, and Administering VMware ESX/ESXi servers.
• Experience in iSCSI SAN, NAS, NFS storage and RAID concept.
• Proficient Experience in installation, configuring and upgrading of VMware vSphere 4.x,5.x,6. x. minor and major versions.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

VMware Tools: vSphere 6.7/ 6.5/ 6.2 / 6.0 /5.1 / 5.0 / 4.1 / 4.0 , ESXi 6.x, 5.x, ESX 4.1 / 4.0, VMware converter 4/3

VMware Virtualization Skills: ESXi 6.5, ESXi, vSphere 6.x and 5.x, P2V, V2V, Storage vMotion, HA, DRS, SRM 4.0, Host Profiles, VApp, VMware Consolidated Backup, VMware Management Assistant, VMware vSphere Client, VMware View 6.x,7.x, VMware ThinApp, Events and Alerts, Capacity Planning, Plate Spin Power Converter.

Microsoft Products and tools: Active Directory Domain Services, AD lightweight Directory Services, AD Certificate Services, DNS, Exchange 2007, Exchange 2010, Hyper-V, WSUS server, SQL Server 2008/2012/2016 , Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM), Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM), SCVMM, IIS 6, IIS 7, DHCP, TCP/IP.

Hardware: HP ProLiant DL360, DL380, DL580 Servers, BL465c Blade Servers and Dell Power Edge Servers 12G/13G/14G, MX7000 chassis

Operating System: Windows 2008 R2, 2012, 2012R2,2016,2019/Windows 7,8,10, LINUX.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, MO

Senior VMware/Windows Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Providing support to a large virtual infrastructure environment comprising of 5+ vCenters, 4000+ Virtual servers, 200+ ESXi hosts, 3000+ VDI .
• Perform execution of Installation Qualifications (IQ) and change controls to maintain the validated state of the systems.
• Worked with vRealize automation to deploy virtual machines through it.
• Upgrade ESXi hosts from 5.x to 6.x and applying patches to the present 6.x environment .
• Administration of VMware ESX and ESXi Servers on Dell PowerEdge servers .
• Configured HA/DRS related advanced configuration settings per VMware Best practices.
• Maintaining and troubleshoot windows server’s windows 2008, 2012R2, 2016 and 2019 versions and configuring them for SolarWind monitoring and Symantec NetBackup .
• Hands on experience in deploying vSAN and Nutanix SDS solutions.
• Configured Dell MX7000 Blade chassis with MX740c full-height blades and MX5016s storage sleds. Mapped the IOM MX5000s to storage sleds and configured IO module MX5108n.
• Configured management and storage network on respective vLAN’s.
• Administration of DNS and DHCP servers , Creation of user and group accounts in MS Exchange Administration .
• Used SCCM to push windows updates on the windows machines.
• Managed Active Directory users and computers/ Configured GPO’s for VDI users and restricted users.

Environment: VMware ESXi 5.5/6.5, vSphere 5.x, 6.x, VMWare Horizon View 6.x, Microsoft RDSH & Windows Server 2012/2016, Dell Hardware MX7000 (Rack and blade servers), Symantec Netbackup, Active Directory and vRealize automation.

Confidential, VT

Senior VMware Server Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Installed and configured ESXi 6.0, 6.5 on Rack and Blade infrastructure.
• Used VMware vCenter , created Datacenter Environment by creating VMware clusters , adding ESX/ESXi hosts in the clusters , and implemented HA and DRS .
• Used PowerShell , Power CLI scripts for migrating VMs , creating snapshots.
• Worked with various Windows Servers (2008R2,2012,2012R2,2016) and configured server roles like Active Directory, DNS, Web Services, File Services, Print Services.
• Administered Active Directory domain services, DHCP .
• Plan and design clusters and Datacenters.
• Design Backup and recovery plan for VMware.
• Certificate renewal process for vSphere 5.5 using the SSL automation tool (command line utility).
• Managed 2000+ servers utilizing Windows 2008 and 2012R2, 2016 and VMware platform, providing monitoring and support of production hardware and application servers.
• Deployment of the SCOM Agents to the client machines for enabling the monitoring.
• Deploy and Integrate SolarWinds Products to monitor various organization's infrastructure.
• Configured RDSH Terminal Servers to host the applications and publish it with Horizon view
• Implemented the migrations of ESXi servers from 5.1 to ESXi 5.5 .
• Configure and implement Resource Pools, VMware Clusters, HA, DRS, Patch Management using VUM in high-end ESXi environments.
• Upgraded VCenter and ESXi to 5.5 using VMware Update manager and manual upgrades.
• Configuring and troubleshooting vSphere Networking (VSS and VDS policies) .
• Build, configure and deploy VMs and templates. Completed Physical-to-Virtual (P2V) , Virtual-to-Virtual (V2V) and Virtual-to-Physical (V2P) migration of Windows 2008, and 2012 as well as Linux servers from VMware.
• Creating and setting up alert management window and tickets in SDP.

Environment: VMware ESXI 5.5,6.0,6.5,6.7 vSphere 5.0, 5.5 & Windows Server, Proliant Servers & Dell Hardware, VCE / emcvnx5800, SCOM, SolarWinds, oracle Linux 6.4, Cisco UCS and Nexus and NetApp FAS.

Confidential, Raleigh, NC

Senior VMware Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Designed and implemented ESXi server infrastructure environment, Administrated server consolidation program through use of VMware ESXi server and VMware Virtual Center, creating VMs, using/building VM templates and customization files, and scheduling tasks
• Worked with team in upgrading vCenter and ESXi to 5.5 using VMware Update manager and manual upgrades for Patching.
• Administration functions including deploying code solutions (.wsp), PowerShell scripts, server optimization, server management, term store maintenance, taxonomy, content deployment, web and service applications in Central Administration.
• Create and maintain Database maintenance plans for SQL .
• Setup custom vApps and resource pools to individually manage specific groups of VMs and provide custom priorities.
• Performed necessary storage infrastructure maintenance in accordance with EMC and Customer change management policies.
• Supported design creation of data migration architectures.
• Involved with capacity planning and hardware procurements as per PwC standards.
• Federation Services implementations, with ADFS, ADFS-PRX and DirSync server installation and configuration 2008R2 AD and 2012 Server DirectAccess design and implementation.
• Involved in Data center migration more Than 500 ESX servers and large number of the window’s physical servers.
• Performed VMware view upgrade from 4.0.1 to 4.6,
• Security hardening and Monitoring of VM's & ESX servers (CPU, Memory, Disk, Network Utilization) for Security Compliance.
• Operated as 24-hour on-call escalation point for all project-effecting problems related to all Migration efforts. Anticipated obstacles and recommended solution options.
• Worked on service requests from the client through service-now.
• Member of 24X7 on call shift rotation for server and Virtualization environment support.

Environment: VMware ESX 4.0/5.x, VSphere 4.0, 5.0, 5.5 & Windows Server 2008R2/2012R2, Active Directory 2008R2, HP Proliant Servers & Dell Hardware, VCE / UCS, VBLOCK, SCOM, Cisco, Solarwinds, VNX, PowerCLI

Confidential

VMware/Windows Admin

Responsibilities:

• Design and Implementation of migration strategy for consolidating Data Centers from around the world to centralized locations in US, which involves numerous servers of various Windows 2008R2 and 2012.
• Design, Installation and configuration of new vSphere 5 ESXi servers on HP DL series and UCS Cisco C240 M2blade Server for the datacenter builds.
• Participated in gathering and analysis of business requirements for software capabilities.
• Formulated and installed Lync functionalities for multiple clients.
• Provided technical guidance for migration, configuration and deployment of Lync.
• Installed Management Server (vCenter Server) instances to enable centralized management of multiple ESXi hosts.
• Installation of ESXi 5.0/5.1 Hosts, vCenter Server, vCenter update manage r and administering VM's across 3 Datacenters running 2200 VM's .
• Maintain standard practices and policies for corporate LAN/WAN environment.
• Hands-on migration of a highly customized SharePoint internet/intranet farm using PowerShell including setup of Active Directory trusts, SharePoint security, forms-based authentication, custom workflows, web applications, content deployment etc.
• Administering, troubleshooting and automating vSphere ESXi using Power CLI.
• Provided level high support for ESXi servers running on HP ProLiant UCS B200's B250's and Windows Virtual Servers .
• Involved in Data center migration more Than 500 ESX servers and large number of the window’s physical servers.
• Administering Active Directory domain services, DHCP, DNS and WSUS.
• Manage and monitor Active Directory services and group policies . Providing users with access rights and permission for accessing the applications
• Actively participated in troubleshooting of Windows Server Based& SCOM related issues
• Configuration of the SCOM 2007 monitoring and management
• In place upgrade of the Windows 2003 to 2008 Server by taking back up of .vmdk file of C drive of the Windows 2003 and upgrading the Operating system drive .
• Worked on Ticket process in Remedy Tool in 24x7 environment.

Environment: Windows Server Windows 7/XP, Active Directory, SCOM, VMware ESXi 4.0 Server,VMware View, HP DL & ML server series, IBM Xseries & System x servers, HP Insight Manager, Solarwinds, Cisco Enterprise Network, MS PowerShell