SUMMARY

• IT Professional with over 7+ years’ experience in Systems and VMware Administration with primary focus on installation, configuration, and administration of VMware vSphere environment including ESXi, VMware, vCenter, Update manager, SSO server, inventory services, Web client server, associated vCenter Database and optimizing the existing virtual infrastructure.
• Extensive experience on Virtual Machines OS installation, setting up VM priorities, Cloning, Creating Templates and Snapshots.
• Expertise with Windows Active Directory Administration, Windows Server 2003,Windows Server 2008 R2, DNS, TCP/IP, DHCP and managing Microsoft SQL Server.
• Extensive knowledge in Physical to Virtual (P2V) and Virtual to Virtual (V2V) conversions by using VMware Converter and vCenter.
• Strong understanding of VMware Networking concepts like creation of vSwitches and different types of Port Groups, NIC Teaming, VLAN Problem Management on VMware ESXi 4.X/5.X, vCenter and vMotion.
• Strong and thorough understanding on Cisco UCS, HP C7000 Chassis administration and VBlock.
• Manage Licensing, SAN Policy, page files sizes and location, dump file settings, registry settings for SNMP.
• Experience on group policies, SCOM, SCCM and configuring file/print services.
• Experience in deploying failover clusters to provide high availability of applications.
• Hands on experience in administration and configuration of vSphere Replication Manager and Site Recovery Manager (SRM).
• Deep knowledge on TCP/IP, HTTP, FTP, SCP, SFTP, TFTP, Network Bridges, Router, Switches, Hubs, Routing protocol OSPF, IGRP, EIGRP, RIP, RIP v3 across network.
• Configured networking concepts DNS, NIS, NFS and DHCP.
• Strong analytical, problem - solving and communication skills, with particular emphasis on clear, detailed business requirements into functional specifications, and generating reports for management.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

VMware Tools: ESX/ESXi Server, VSphere 4.1, VMware converter 4/3 and VMware VMotion. Core VMware

Virtualization Skills: ESX 3.5, ESXi, VSphere 3 and 4, VI3, Virtual Center Server, P2V, V2V, Storage VMotion, HA, DRS, SRM 4.0, Host Profiles, VApp, VMware Consolidated Backup, VMware Management Assistant, VMware VSphere Client, VMware View 4, VMware ThinApp, Events and Alerts, Capacity Planning, PlateSpin PowerConverter

Operating System: Windows 2012, 2008, 2003, 2000, Win 7, XP, 2k, Vista.

Hardware: HP Proliant DL360, DL380, DL580 Servers, BL465c Blade Servers and Dell Power Edge Servers.

Storage: SAN, EMC Vmax, VNX 5300, EMC Celera, HP Storage works P4500.

Directory services/Internet: Designing, Deploying and Migration of Windows Based Active Directory. Installation and Administration of IIS 6.0, DHCP & DNS servers.

RDBMS: Oracle and MS SQL Server (installation), and MS Access.

Networking Protocols: TCP/IP, HTTP, DHCP, DNS, POP3, SMTP, and SNMP.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

VMware/Windows Admin

Confidential, Columbus, OH

Responsibilities:

• Currently part of the virtualization team administrating various VMware farms including vBlock by Cisco UCS. Administration and last level support of an enterprise infrastructure of over 2000+ physical and virtual Microsoft Windows servers in two large datacenters. Microsoft file/print server migration, Windows 200x to 2008 & 2012 Server migration, and hardware refresh of Dell PowerEdge servers and HP ProLiant Servers.
• Performed capacity planning and server migration planning by creating a runbook for every migration wave. This included working very closely with the storage engineers. Also created an alternate protocol for the VM's that were not supported for replication due to storage limitations in a very short period of time
• Installation of Windows server Operating System like Windows 2000 all the versions Std. edition, Enterprise, R2 edition, after configuration of proper RAID method.
• Started to group non-critical production VMs (Servers) first, setup in SRM Consistency Group & Recovery Plan and migrated VMs using SRM Plan migration then applied same process to rest of the critical business Servers
• Administrated server consolidation program through use of VMware ESX server and VMware Virtual Center, creating VMs, using/building VM templates and customization files, and scheduling taskS.
• Migrating Physical Machines to Virtual Machines (P2V) and Virtual Machines to Virtual Machines (V2V) using VMware converter.
• Planned upgrade drive for existing ESXi hosts to version 5.5, this included upgrading few of the virtual machine hardware versions as well.
• Creating and Managing Virtual Machines, Installing VM Tools into VM's and allocating for end user, cloning the VM's as on required and performing Snapshots, Cold migrations and hot migrations.
• Monitored Data Stores performance using SAN symphony-V tool and generated Alerts.
• Install, configure and administration of Active Directory, DHCP, DNS, File and Print Services.
• Creating and managing users, groups, OUs, computers, printers in AD.
• Acted as a liaison between the management and technical staff by maintaining proper coordination & communication with Project Managers, Business managers, DBAs and Application Team.

VMware System Engineer

Confidential, El Dorado Hills, CA

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed existing infrastructure for implementation of gradual consolidation in phases after conducting extensive feasibility study.
• Installed and configured over 1000+ VMware VSphere 4.1/4.0 ESX/ESXi nodes.
• Administration of environment running ESX/ESXi Hosts and Virtual Machines
• Manage the data centers of more than 400+ physical & 200+ virtual servers,
• Performed physical to virtual (P2V) migrations for approximately 500 physical servers utilizing VMware Converter.
• Monitoring & Troubleshooting IBM e server Blade Center HS21 IBM X345, X365, X3650 M2, X3650 M3, Dell PoweredgeR710, T710, R310, R810 & R815 servers
• Using VMware vCenter, created Data Center Environment by creating VMware clusters, adding ESX hosts in the clusters, and implemented HA and DRS.
• Integrating ESX/ESXi with Active Directory for better user's administration within domain
• Experience with VMware SRM 4.5 and VDI View 4.5 environment network.
• Configured 12 node host clusters with features like HA, DRS, Data store heart beating to detect isolation, affinity rules, anti-affinity rules, Fault Tolerance
• Performing commissioning & decommissioning of servers as per requested approval & performing server installation checklist & server release checklist accordingly.
• Providing and maintaining user access in VMware virtual Center, configuring mail alert for any failure in HA, DRS, CPU and memory.

Windows Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Deploy a corporate VMware ESX Server infrastructure with capacity for 780 servers across 3 separate datacenters. Installed and Implemented VMware ESXi 4.0/5.0 host servers with vSphere Client
• Involved in deploying the Virtual machines, maintaining and troubleshooting the issues arising
• Handled all the vCenter operations like HA, DRS, VMotion, Storage VMotion, VM templates and maintaining the resource pools.
• Design and implement Active directory Services/DNS/DHCP/IIS in Windows 2003 Server environment
• Migrated FTP users from Windows 2000 servers to Windows 2003 servers.
• Extensively used Active Directory Services to manage Domain controllers and domain trusts and replication.
• Installation, configuration and maintenance of 32-bit and 64-bit Windows 2003 servers and 64-bit Windows 2008 servers.
• Technical support, administration and troubleshooting of Microsoft Windows 2003 &Windows 2008 cluster servers
• Migrate / Upgrade ESX 3.5
• Hands on experience on DNS, DHCP, FTP, WSUS, HTTPS, IIS Web Server and SQL Database Server, System Management Servers (SMS) servers
• Involved in On Call rotation for supporting production strictly maintaining SLA's.
• Operated as 24 hour on-call escalation point for all project effecting problems related to all Migration efforts. Anticipated obstacles and recommended solution options. Solved numerous tickets related to performance issues, provisioning requirements, tools update, BSOD, PSOD, unable to start services issues and many more.
• Configured Domain Name Server (DNS) and created forward/reverse lookup zones with associated pointer records.