Senior / VMware Admin

SUMMARY

• Professional experience of 8 years in VMware VSphere 5.0/ 4.0 / ESXi 4.1, ESX 4.0/3.5 and VMware VCenter 4/VCenter 3.5, VDI, VMotion, Storage VMotion, HA, DRS, FL, Host Profiles, SRM 2.0/4.0/5.0, VApp, VMware VCenter Converter, vCenter web plugin, VMware systems monitoring tools and APIs
• Managed and provided connectivity to host and storage through EMC SAN. Monitored SAN on a daily basis. Worked with LUN and RAID
• EMC SAN storage protocols and PowerPath configuration and administration.
• Expertise in design and Implementation virtualization solutions based on VMware Infrastructure 4 VI 4 platform with EMC VNX storage and Cisco UCS Blades
• Experience in Virtualization with VMware ESX / ESXI 3.5 and 4.0 4.1, 5.0 Servers and Virtual
• High level understanding of VDI environment like VMware View 4.6/5.0, Thin App.
• Experience in Installing and configuring HP C7000, Cisco UCS Blades, Compaq, and Dell Servers. Configuring RAID , Disk Mirroring, SAN Volume Expansion, Raid, SCSI Controller Installation
• Experience in user profile management user rights management using AppSense 8.2/8.3 suite i.e. Environment Manager, Application Manager Performance Manager Management Center.
• Strong Knowledge in Citrix presentation servers 3.0,4.0 and 4.5
• High understanding on resource management framework like creation resource pools, adding the VMs into resource pools, P2V and V2V conversions by using VMware Converter. Conducted 300 plus P2V migrations using VMware converter.
• Experience with x86 / x64 Intel, HP, IBM Dell hardware like rack-mounted servers, tower servers, desktop, laptop and other peripherals.
• Experience in Active Directory such as Domain Controllers, editing Domain users and Groups, Organizational Units, and Forest Functional Level.
• Installation and configuration of Microsoft Windows Vista, XP, 2000 server, Professional, Windows 2003/ 2008 Servers, MS Exchange 2003/2007 and Microsoft SharePoint 2007
• Extensive experience in working with the VMotion technology, working with the Storage VMotion technology. Strong knowledge of VMware HA, EVC and VMware DRS.
• Strong understanding of VMware Networking concepts like creation of Vswitches, different
• Types of port groups, Nic Teaming and VLAN. Increasing resources like HDD, Memory and Cpu.
• Performed in place upgrades of Windows 2003 server to Windows Server 2008/R2 on Dell Physical Servers -Power Edge 1950, R610 R710
• Worked on HP Proliant Servers, Dell Power Edge rack mount servers, SuperMicro Servers.
• Highly experience in LAN/WAN networking architecture and TCP/IP protocol stack, wireless networks Cloud computing concepts. DNS/DFS/DHCP/WINS Management.
• Design and implementation of global monitoring solution using SCOM, HP SIM and Dell Open
• Manage.

Confidential

Role: Senior Windows/ VMware Admin

Responsibilities:

• Administrating 3PAR storage, which includes SSD, FC and NL drives.
• Generated load on 3PAR storage, CPU, and Network by using IOmeter, CPU Burn-In, Iperf tools with A.O. Adaptive Optimization .
• System load testing and reporting by using Solar wind Storage profiler and Orion Network Performance and Performance monitor.
• Installed and configured ESX 4.0 Servers on HP Blade Servers C-7000.
• Configure Vcenter Server in production environment and created many cluster and enabling HA and DRS for Load balancing and High Availability.
• Configured VLAN for Production servers.
• Creation of templates from VMs and Creation of VMs from templates
• Installed and configure Hyper-V manager on Windows 2008 Hyper-V Host
• Installed and configure System Center Virtual Machine Manager SCVMM and added Hyper-V host on that.
• Performed tons of Live Migration in SCVMM for Hyper-V VMs
• Cloned many production servers from one host to other host and Snapshoot of VMs in Hyper-V and VMware environment.
• Prepared Back up and Rolled Back up plan for Production Servers.
• Exported tons of VMs for Back up
• Worked on Migration concepts like Vmotion , svmotion and cold migration
• Added and removed server roles and features configured AD Domain Services roles configured network infrastructure roles configured file and print services configured IIS7 on Server Core.
• Installed and configured SharePoint 2007 Server and Exchange Server.
• Configured Server Core configured networking security and system settings on Server Core.
• Administered change management related to server upgrades and software installation.
• Prepared and maintained documentation of technologies, standards and procedures.
• Migrated Windows Server 2003, 2008 and 2008-R2 of wintel server from test environment to the production environment.

Environment: Windows 2000/2003/2008 R2, Windows XP/Vista/Win 7, VMware ESX 4.0 Server, Hyper-V, SCVMM, Hyper-V Manager, HP Proliant Blade Servers C7000, HP 3PAR Storage includes SSD-FC-NL, Dell Power Vault NAS, Sonic Wall Firewall, Wintel Server, Remote desktop services, Tools used CPU Burn-In, IOmeter, Iperf, Solar wind Storage Profile, Orion Network Performance, Performance Monitor.

Confidential

Role: Sr. Windows/VMware Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Job includes installation and configuration of VMware ESX 4.x, installation and configuration of VMware Virtual Center Server and creating Virtual Machines
• Assist in P2V conversion of Windows 2000 and Windows 2003 server editions using enterprise VMware converter and also installed the VMware tools on that machines.
• Provided disaster recovery and backup services using the VMware consolidated Backup VCB
• Job also includes creating templates and deploying Virtual Machines through templates, cloning Virtual Machines and managing Virtual Center permissions
• Creating and Managing VMware cluster with HA and DRS
• Creating and Managing resource pools for Virtual Machines
• Monitoring and managing performance of ESX servers and Virtual Machines
• Using Virtual centre server for HA, DRS and Vmotion.
• Working on Migration concepts like VMotion and cold migration
• Creation Troubleshooting of Virtual Network
• Troubleshooting ESX Virtual Machines
• Creation of templates from VMs and Creation of VMs from templates
• Performance monitoring and tuning for ESX Servers, Virtual Center Server and VMs
• Installation, configuration and management of vizioncore vRanger for virtual machine backup.
• Management of HP SIM for hardware monitoring.
• Installation, configuration and management of Windows Server 2003..
• Management for Active Directory and patch management.

Environment: Windows XP/Vista/Win 7, VMware ESXi 4.0 Server, VMware View, VMware Lab Manager, VMware converter, VMware Vsphere client, Windows 2000/2003/2008 R2, Fault tolerance, High Availability and Distributed resource scheduling

Confidential

Role: VMware Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installed and configured ESX 4.0 Servers on Blade Servers.
• using VMware Vcenter, created Datacenter Environment by creating VMware clusters, adding ESX hosts in the clusters, and implemented HA and DRS.
• Performed physical to virtual P2V migrations for approximately 500 physical servers utilizing VMware Converter.
• daily provisioning and optimization of storage environment with NetApp FAS3050, FAS3160, FAS270
• administrated multiple labs in VMware Lab Manager
• involved in installing/configuring and troubleshooting VMware Lab Manager and administrating multiple labs in Lab Manager and dealing with Lab Manager issues
• Reduced CPU load on NetApp filers from 90 to 55 by optimizing volume configuration.
• planned and performed a head swap from a NetApp FAS3050 to a NetApp FAS3160
• installed, configured and done troubleshooting of VMware View 4.6
• performed tons of V2V Migration
• created clones and templates of Virtual Machines
• deployed VMs Through Templates
• created Troubleshot Virtual Networks and switches
• worked on Migration concepts like Vmotion and cold migration
• configured Netback up Client
• Installed following servers Win98, Win XP, Win NT, Win 2000, Win 2003, Win 2008 etc.
• applied patches on Windows servers and workstations with Company standards
• Configured DNS, DHCP etc.
• Configured Domain Naming Server DNS and created forest/reverse lookup zones with associated pointer records.
• customized Win 2000/2003 servers in terms of Registry, Audit/Account/Security policy, patching to sustain Company Standard Operating Environment
• configured Citrix Terminal Servers
• Responsible for deploying, managing, and maintaining HP Proliant BL-series C-class blade servers and DL-series servers.
• Worked with business clients to evaluate, streamline, and improve current systems, processes, and workflow.
• ensured adherence to procedures and processes for hardware, software, and applications
• Performed operational turnover on all system implementations.

Environment: Windows 2000/2003/2008 R2, Windows XP/Vista/Win 7, VMware ESXi 4.0 Server, VMware View, VMware Lab Manager, VMware converter, VMware Vsphere client, Fault tolerance, High Availability and Distributed resource scheduling

Confidential

Role: System Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Installing and configuring ESX 4.1, ESXi 5.0 and Virtual Center Server 4.1.
• Installing and configuring Hyper-V on windows Server 2008 R2.
• Creating and Configuration virtual machines, installing VM Tools into VM's and allocating for end user.
• Monitored ESX Server alarms generated from Virtual Center and take the necessary action.
• Handled the VMware solutions to support multiple storage connectivity options such as FC-SAN, iSCSI, and NFS.
• Extensively worked on VMware Update manger for Host upgrades and patches.
• Strong understanding of VMware Networking concepts like creation of vSwitches, different types of port groups, Nic Teaming and VLAN.
• Involved in live migration of Virtual Machines and Virtual machines files using the vMotion and Storage vMotion.
• Monitoring and managing performance of ESX servers and Virtual Machines using Virtual center server for HA, DRS.
• Creation Troubleshooting of Virtual Network, ESX Virtual Machines.
• Installed and configured Symantec Antivirus 10 and VERITAS Net Backup Client 5 on all virtual machines.
• Installation Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.X Linux O/S on virtual machines.
• Management of HP SIM for hardware monitoring.
• Installing and configuring System Center Configuration Manager 2007.
• Worked on Site Recovery Manager 5.0 for Disaster recovery.

Environment: Windows 2000/2003/2008 R2, Windows XP/Vista/Win 7, VMware ESXi 4.0 Server, VMware View, VMware converter, VMware Vsphere client, Fault tolerance, High Availability and Distributed resource scheduling