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VMWARE/WINDOWS ADMINISTRATOR
Employer: EMAIL AVAILABLE
PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:
Over 7+ years of experience as a Systems Administrator with extensive knowledge in VMware
Virtualization
Extensive experience in Installing and Configuring vCenter, VMware Vsphere (Infrastructure
Virtualization suite), ESX/ESXi Server, Virtual Machines and vSphere Client.
Experience with Data Centre Migration and Infrastructure
Managing Access Control through vCenter server, Optimizing Resource Utilization, Load Balancing
(VMware DRS) and ensuring High Availability (VMware HA).
Experience in administering Windows Terminal Server, Group Policy management and Active
Directory environment, DNS, DHCP.
Administering, Planning and Maintaining a Microsoft Windows Server 2012/2008 R2/2003/
2000 Active Directory Infrastructure Managing over 1200+ servers.
Experience in implementing and configuring hardware and software RAID under Windows
NT/2000/2003/2008.
Good experience in Blade server hardware, RAID, Microsoft Windows Clusters. Compaq / HP Blade
Server hardware maintenance. HP Insight Manager
Expertise in WINS, DNS, DHCP and Active Directory services in Windows 2003/2008 servers
Deploying Virtual Machines (VM s) through Templates, Converting Physical to Virtual (P2V) and Virtual
to Virtual (V2V) Machines.
Proficient Experience in installation and configuration of VMware ESX 3.0/3.5,vSphere 4.0, VMware
ESXi 4.1/5.0/5.1, VMware Virtual Center 2.0/3.5/4.0/5.0.
Experience in configuring VMware CPU and memory shares for virtual machines.
Experience in created 200+ servers virtual machines in Vcenter and 30+ servers have build
physical.
Experience in building VMware virtual machines from templates and CD/ISO image.
Experience on the converged infrastructure Vblock by integrating VMware, Network and storage
components.
Administration of VMware Virtual Center and virtualization services VMware DRS, VMware HA,
VMotion and SVMotion.
Experience in configuring VMware standard VSwitch & DVSwitch.
Experience in cloning VMs and deploy new virtual machines from clones.
Converted many (P2V) physical servers to Virtual Machines using VMware vCenter Converter part of
decommission legacy servers effort.
Experience in migrating the virtual machines between the ESX (i) Hosts using cold migration and
VMotion
Experienced in creation of VM s on ESX server and installation of Windows, Linux and its flavors.
Administering and managing Windows server 2003 / 2008 Active Directory services, DHCP and DNS
servers. Updating servers with latest service packs, security patches and antivirus definitions.
Experienced with design and deployment of middleware and applications running in VMware
Infrastructure.
TECHNICAL SKILLS:
Hypervisor: vSphere 5.1 / 5.0 / 4.1 / 4.0, ESXi 5.1 / 5.0, ESX 4.1 / 4.0,
VMware Standalone Convertor, Vsphere CLI, VMware Power CLI, VShield
Manager, VCenter, VCenter Update Manager , HA, DRS, Storage vMotion, Host
Profiles, vApp, VMware vCenter Heartbeat, VMware vSphere Client, VMware
Thinapp, P2V, V2V, VMware Consolidated Backup, VMware Management
VMware Tools: Assistant, Capacity Planning, Plate spin Power convert, ,Citrix Xen Server.
Operating Systems: Windows 2003/2008/2012; Wintel Systems; Windows XP/7 /8; Red Hat Linux.
Protocols/Services: TCP/IP, SMTP, PPP, HTTP, Telnet, SSH, DNS, DHCP, FTP and IIS
Applications: IIS, Tomcat, MSOffice 2010, MS Visio
Database: Oracle 8i, IBM DB2, Sql Server, MS Access
HP Onboard Administrator, HP Virtual Connect Manager, Avocent DS View,
Putty, MKS Integrity Change Management Software, Groundworks VI
Other Management Monitoring Tool, Vkernel Monitoring Software, Microsoft Robocopy GUI, Solar
Tools: winds IP Address Tracker, Veeam Backup, FastSCP.
WORK EXPERIENCE:
Client: EBAY, San Jose, CA
Duration: November 2013 - Present
VMWARE Admin
RESPONSIBILITIES:
Design, Implementation and Troubleshooting VMware ESX 5.5/5.0/4.1 Hosts, VMware vSphere virtual
center.
P2V and V2V conversions by using VMware Converter, Double Take, Recovery Point Approach.
Administration of VMware ESX and ESXi Servers on HP Chassis 7000, DL380P GN8.
Hands on experience in updating / upgrading ESX servers, Virtual Center servers and windows virtual
machines using VMware Update manager and manual upgrades.
Managed VMwareESX (i) hosts using vSphere client and Web client.
Performing VMotion and storage VMotions.
Creating Clusters for High Availability and Dynamic Resource Scheduling.
Played a vital role in Creating Virtual Machines, Cloning virtual machines, converting P2V(used
standard VMware converter tool), VM-Provisioning (Linked clones, thin disks, de-duplication ) taking
Snapshots of virtual servers, HA, DRS, VMotioning.
Experience on creating host profiles and deploy to hosts in a VMware clusters.
Experience in installing and configuring Microsoft Windows 2008 Servers from ILO management tool
on Rack servers and blades.
Experience with vSphere Host Profiles, Standard and Distributed Switches setup.
LUN creation and storage mapping administration and configuring Multipathing.
Installing and Managing ESX and ESXi Servers on HP & Cisco hardware
Managed and Designed Inter-VLAN routing, Ether channel, Stacking and SPAN ports configuration on
Cisco switches.
Handled the VMware solutions to support multiple storage connectivity options such as FC-SAN, iSCSI,
NFS (NAS).
Provided day to day system administration and technical support for Windows 2003, 2008 and 2012
Servers.
Configuring and Managing Active Directory, DNS, and DHCP.
Managed Microsoft 2003/2008 active directory server.
Created the User Accounts and Profiles, assigned permissions using Active Directory.
Installing and configuring consoles for any new Servers, Storage Device, Routers and Switches.
Audit data center spares, cabinets, rows, hardware , and fiber and patch cables and cross connects
specifics for periodic reports.
Attending new project call and provide solution, suggestion for the environment setup based on business
requirement as per the standard.
Provide on-call support, troubleshooting, incident notification and resolution, problem management and
root cause identification.
Maintaining disk spaces, RAM and connections to SAN of virtual servers.
Maintaining Backups of the VM s, taking snapshots.
Customizing VM s (Memory, hard disk, Nic).Analyzing log files, Resources utilizing monitoring.
Upgraded VMware tools for the VM s
ENVIRONMENT: VMware Infrastructure 4.0, 5.0 and 5.5, vCenter Server, VCenter operation Manager ,
VMware standalone converter, Windows 2012/2008/2003 Server, HPC7000,DL380P GN8, Cisco Nexus 5000K,
Dell PowerEdge Servers, EMC VNX 5200, 5500, VMAX, EMC Recovery,P2V,V2V,VMotion.
Client: Catholic Health Initiatives, Denver, CO
Duration: JAN 12 NOV 13
VMWARE ADMIN
RESPONSIBILITIES:
Design, Implementation and Troubleshooting VMware ESX 5.1 Hosts, VMware vSphere virtual center.
P2V and V2V conversions by using VMware Converter, Plate Spin.
Administration of VMware ESX and ESXi Servers on HP Blade Servers C7000 and C3000.
Hands on experience in updating / upgrading ESX servers, Virtual Center servers and windows virtual
machines using VMware Update manager and manual upgrades.
Experience with vSphere Host Profiles, Standard and Distributed Switches setup.
Handled the VMware solutions to support multiple storage connectivity options such as
FC-SAN, iSCSI, NFS (NAS).
Periodic update of patches, drivers and firmware s for all our Global ESX hosts.
Installation and configuration of Microsoft Windows 2000, 2003 and 2008 Servers on Virtual Machines.
Provided day to day system administration and technical support for Windows 2003 and 2008 Servers.
Configuring and Managing Active Directory, DNS, and DHCP.
Provide server and client support for all issues such as: logon failures, account lockout, network
connectivity, DNS and name resolution, authentication problems.
Managing VM s by vSphere Client and Web Client.
Cloning, deploying new VM s from Templates different type of guest OS like Windows 2K3/2K8, Red
hat Linux. Creating virtual NIC cards for the respective VMs and assigning the network connections.
Building new VMware virtual machines to meet the specifications provided by the client.
Experience in deploying new Virtual Machines from OVF/OVA templates.
Creating Roles and permissions in VMware ESX Server 4.1/5.1
Migrated VMware ESX 4.1 to ESXi 5.1 using VMware update Manager.
Experience on hot and cold clone process.
Implementing and managing Block based VNX/VMAX storage system in VMware virtualization
environment.
Installed/updated patches on VMware ESX (i) hosts using VMware Update Manager tool.
Updated VMware tools on virtual machines using Update Manager tool.
Provided 24/7 On Call support onsite and remotely on rotation basis.
ENVIRONMENT: VMware Infrastructure 4.1/5.1, vCenter Server, Windows 2000/2003/2008 Server, Plate Spin,
VMware vCenter Converter, Active Directory Migration, TCP/IP, DNS, Windows Clustering, FTP, File and
Printer Server,P2V,V2V,VMotion.
Client: Fidelity National Financial, FL
Duration: Dec 10- DEC 11
SYSTEM ADMINISTRATOR
RESPONSIBILITIES:
Installation and implementation of VCenter server to administrate the ESX servers which include
licensing, HA/DRS clustering, managing the Fiber channel/ISCSI SAN storage configuration.
Participated in 24/7 support roles for servers, to help maintain and troubleshoot both software and
hardware.
Managed Esx servers and VCentre.
Ensuring Data Protection and Disaster Recovery by using VMotion and VMware Consolidated Backup.
Installed and configuring VMware Vsphere products.
Managed Microsoft 2003/2008 active directory server.
Managed Microsoft Exchange 2003/2007 Server.
Migrated production applications from physical servers to virtual instances within the downtime window.
Migrated the physical servers to virtual instances using VMWARE P2V converter and PLATESPIN
tools.
Converted P2V and V2V using VMware Standalone Converter.
Created Clusters for High Availability and Dynamic Resource Scheduling.
Utilized the Hot plug option for windows 2008 Servers and added processors, RAM, NIC, disks to the
VM
Troubleshooting issues relating to v motion such as compatibility issues with help of event log
Monitored all UNIX Servers for CPU utilization, Network traffic, and hard drive space and Memory.
Using the Linux system with yum and downloading the rpm package files with Yum downloader.
Using Red hat package Manager and runs yum automatically.
Installing and managing Antivirus on all the servers and desktop.
Admin knowledge of Microsoft SQL and Oracle Database.
Maintaining antivirus Server.
ENVIRONMENT: Vsphere 4.0, ESX 3.5/4.0, Virtual Sphere, VMotion, VMware HA, VMware DRS Clusters,
Red Hat servers, Veritas Net backup, windows 2003/2008 server.
Client: Hasbro Inc., Pawtucket, RI
Duration: OCT 09- Dec 10
Senior Systems Engineer
RESPONSIBILITIES:
Installed and configured over 100+ VMware VSphere 4.0 ESX/ESXi nodes, vCenter and vClient.
Configured Management and Resource Cluster, Add Host to a Cluster, Configure its licenses, Network
Configuration, DNS and NTP.
Administration of environment running ESX/ESXi Hosts and Virtual Machines.
Manage Virtual Machines, Installing VMware Tools, Creating Templates, Cloning, Deploy Virtual
Machines using Templates, Converting Physical to Virtual Machines (P2V).
Manage user permissions in vCenter Server.
Manage VMware Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS), vMotion and High Availability (HA) Clusters.
Worked closely with Storage and Networking teams to manage the allocated SAN, Fiber and Networking
Infrastructure.
Update the Patches for ESX Servers using VMware Update Manager in Virtual Center.
Monitor capacity, performance and utilization across all Windows Server and its Hardware.
Installed SQL 2005/2008 clustered and non-clustered servers and also, Creating SQL Database.
Day to day support and maintenance of Operating Systems.
Coordinate/Facilitate all planned and unplanned power outages for all environments.
Worked on Symantec Antivirus and Symantec Endpoint protection for administering updates and cleanup of a
community of workstations.
Managing Incident tickets and Change Management.
Environment: VSphere 4.0, ESX 3.5/4.0, Virtual Center, VMotion, VMware HA, VMware DRS Clusters, Virtual
Machines on Windows 2003/2008 and Red Hat servers OS Platform.
Client: Bharti Airtel, India
Duration: JAN 07 - OCT 09
SYSTEM ADMINISTRATOR
RESPONSIBILITIES:
Installed Windows 2000/2003 Server for the organization with over 200 clients.
Created the User Accounts and Profiles, assigned permissions using Active Directory.
Administered the Group Policy to automatically upgrade and repair software installations.
Installation and support for desktops with Windows 2000/XP Operating systems.
Provide Remote Support and administration on network for internal and external clients using tools like
Microsoft Remote Desktop Connection (RDP).
Created Virtual Machines for member servers which host services like IIS, DNS, and DHCP.
Installed VMware Converter to convert Physical to Virtual (P2V) and Virtual to Virtual (V2V) machines.
Provide day to day support (troubleshooting and installing) for more than 200 users for hardware, network
and software including Microsoft Office applications, Mail clients and other network related issues.
Installation and configuration of network Printers.
Provided the backup and recovery of the files and data, worked on Windows Firewall, Terminal Server, and
Troubleshooting computer related problems. Attending client calls related to computers and network
problems.
Environment: Windows 2000/2003 Server, Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, Group Policy, Backup and Recovery,
IIS (HTTP and FTP), Managing the Domain and Domain Controller, ISA, Terminal Services, Disk Management
and File Sharing.
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