PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

7 + years of experience in VMware 5.0 Installation, Administration,

and Configuration.
VM Servers build & rebuild (Deploying the New VM from the Template
and Cloning an Existing VM) as per the client request through change
management process.
Creating, managing VM Ware cluster. Enabling HA and DRS
features in a cluster P2V migration.
Creating templates from VM's and deploy VM's from templates
and allocate resources and creating duplicate VM's using cloning
technology.
Having experience in Cisco UCS 2.0 L1 to L2 level-Installing New
blade server in UCS chassis, Creating server profile, configuring
the server profile, Installing VMware ESX on blade severs,
mounting storage. Configuring alarms, Root Cause & System Log
Analysis and reporting and troubleshooting problems with the help of
Event Logs.
Build, configure and deploy VMs and templates. Completed Physical-toVirtual (P2V), Virtual-to-Virtual (V2V) migration of Windows
2003, & 2008 servers from VMware.
Installing and configuring the windows servers with specific
requirements on the VMware.
VMware activities like disk expansion, CPU and memory addition.
Taking snapshots of virtual machines and deploying and
exporting VMs from OVF.
Virtual machines migration from one data store to another data store.
Working as Windows 2008 server admin. Installing, configuring and
troubleshooting on the Windows server 2008 & 2008R2, 2012 over
7 years.
Responsible for third-level support for all server related issues.
Implemented security policy and virus Protection.
Participated in complete system builds, upgrades, migrations,
code deployments and patch management.
Responsible to maintain all windows servers operating systems like
(Windows 2003/2003 R2, 2008 and 2012).
Server hardware troubleshooting by using through ILO and HP SIM.
Deployed VMware View Manager 4.6 and 5.3
Performance optimization, regular health checks on servers and
Systematic Troubleshooting of problems.
Having good knowledge on CITRIX, HYPER-V

Installing and Managing Active directory and FSMO Roles Transfer

in Active Directory forest. Troubleshooting replication issues in
active directory.
Managing Microsoft failover clusters. Update server with Service packs,
and hot fixes.
Implementing Fault Tolerance RAID levels in Windows and
2003/2008.
Having good knowledge on Cisco MDS switches, Fiber channel
HBAs in SAN environments.
Knowledge experience in iSCSI, SAN, NAS, NFS storage and RAID
concepts. Strong understanding of Networking Protocols like TCP/IP,
UDP, SMTP, POP3, HTTP, DNS DHCP.
Design and implementation of global monitoring solution using SCOM,
HP SIM and Dell Open Manage.
Experience in installing, maintaining and managing various rack
mounted and Blade servers from CISCO, Dell, HP, and IBM
Extensive experience with Active Directory, GPOs, DHCP, DNS, IP,
Sub Nets, VPNs, vLAN, Network routing, firewalls, LAN/WAN
switching and Backup & Recovery, File & Print Server, IIS (Web
Server), FTP, Terminal Server
Documentation knowledge with Microsoft Office Vision.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:
Hardware

Cisco UCS 5108, HP C3000 and C7000 Enclosures, Dell

Power Edge and Rack mount servers.
OS
Sun Solaris 9 & 10, Windows Server 2003 & Windows
9x/XP/Vista, Active Directory
Backup
VMware vCB, Symantec backup exec, vRanger Pro
VMware
VMware ESX 3.5, 4.0, 4.1, 5.0 Virtual Center, vSphere,
VMware DRS & HA, VMware P2V Converter, vCenter
Server 2.5, Virtual Infrastructure 3.0, vSphere 4.0,
vSphere 5.0, ESX/ESXi
3.5, 4.0 and 5.0, VMware
Converter, VMware View, VMware Thinapp, VMware
Update Manager, HA, DRS, DPM, FT, VMotion, Storage
vMotion, VMware Guided Consolidation, Lab Manager
and VMware Workstation.
Database
Oracle 9i/10g/11g, MSSQL 2000/2005/2008 R2, IBM
DB2, MySQL
Third
party Plate Spin power convert, Vision core, vCharter Pro,
VMware
Plate Spin Power Recon, Solar winds, vFoglight.
Applications

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
BEAUMONT HEALTH SYSTEM, TROY, MI
JUNE 13 - TILL DATE
Role: SR. VMWARE ADMINISTRATOR
RESPONSIBILITIES:
Installing, configuring, Troubleshooting and management of ESX 4,
ESXi 5 and vCenter Server 5.
Well Experienced with designing, installing and implementing VMware
ESX servers and
vCenter
server
4.0
and setting up
of VMware Features like V-Motion, HA, DRS.
Managed 300+ ESX servers located at various data centers by one
virtual center. Each Data center has multiple clusters with biggest of
15 clusters used for HA and DRS for disaster recovery, Load
balancing and troubleshooting.
Creating and Deploying of Virtual Machines from Templates and
creating Snapshots with in no time, cloning of Virtual Machines
for future Deployments.
Creating and configuring VNetwork Standard Switch (VSwitch),
VM Kernel Ports, VM ports, Service console and NIC teaming.
Configuring vNetwork Distributed switches and migrating the
networks from VNetwork standard switches to vNetwork Distributed
switches.
Configuring different type of Port Groups Policies, Applying Security
policies, Traffic Shaping, Load balancing, Failover detection,
Hard and Soft zoning and VLAN Tagging.
Migrated Physical Machines to Virtual Machines (P2V) and Virtual
Machines to Virtual Machines (V2V) using VMware converter and
vCenter Guided Consolidation.
Daily responsibilities included maintenance of Virtual machines for
performance issues also implemented V-Motioning, Hot and Cold
Migration of virtual servers and performed Storage VMotion where
the storage is migrated.
Created and maintained SQL server cluster for HA, DRS, VC, ESX
servers and VM's.
Good experience with VMware Update Manager and Host Update
utility to install patches and updates on ESX hosts and virtual
machines.
Experience in administering Windows Terminal Server, Group Policy
management and Active Directory environment.
Created Domain User Accounts, Distribution Groups with Active
Directory/Exchange.
Design, implementing and managing Active Directory(AD), Internet
Information Server (IIS), Microsoft Operations Manager
(MOM)/System Center Operations Manager (SCOM), Systems

Management Server (SMS)/System Center Configuration

Manager(SCCM)
Extensively managed Active Directory like all the problems related to
user accounts, domain accounts, managing permissions etc.
Experience in Remote deployment of Microsoft Windows
2003/2008/R2/2012 servers using Altiris deployment solution or
manual installation of a server using ILO for remote connection to a
server.
Maintaining servers with latest security updates, critical patches, antivirus, and backup.
Install and maintain SCOM in the environment and maintain the
monitoring configurations.
Installed and configured Windows 2008/2012 servers. Maintain and
monitoring 100+ servers for firm via SCOM alert system
Utilize SCOM system management tool to monitor infrastructure
health.
Maintaining Print servers, Application servers and File Servers.
Extensively worked with Active Directory Services, IIS Servers, DNS,
and DHCP.
Configured and maintained new VM's and Installed Microsoft Windows /
2012/2008/2003 Servers, managing VM's and ESX servers.
Involved in day to day support related to Data Center, documentation
of run books, training, support, and coordination with off-shore team
for moving/relocating Widows/VMware/Applications/Backup
Responsible for supporting system design and implementations as well
as provide first level of support for any issues.
Supports integration between virtual platforms and desktop tools to
deliver optimal environment for Customer support reps
Planning migration strategies, DR plans with SAN and NAS data.
Environment: vSphere 4.0 and 5.0, Hyper-V, Windows 2008/2003 Server,
Cisco UCS 5108, HP Blade C7000 and C3000, HP VCEM- Virtual Connect
Enterprise Manager, VMware View Dell Power Edge Servers, Citrix and SQL.
EBAY SAN JOSE, CA
MAY
12 - MAY 13
Role: VMWARE CONSULTANT
RESPONSIBILITIES:
Directly responsible for deployment and support of VMware vSphere
ESXi4.1/ESX 4.0
Performed up gradation of ESX 3.5 to vSphere 4.0, vCenter 2.5 to
4.0
Experience in Deployment and Implementation of VDI View 4.5.
Manage snapshots, clones, templates during patch releases and
new server deployments

Experience with installing, configuring and troubleshooting VMware

Lab Manager.
Expertise in Dell physical servers and HP Proliant blade servers
in Data centers.
Hands on experience in updating / upgrading ESX servers, Virtual
Center servers and windows virtual machines using VMware Update
manager and manual upgrades
Installation and configuration of Microsoft Windows Vista, XP, 2000
server, Professional, Windows 2003 and 2008 Servers.
Manage and monitor Active Directory services and group policies.
Updated ESX hosts using VMware Update manager
Supported a large scale Data Center projects including server
installation, hardware maintenance, and break/fix activities
Assisted in P2V conversions of Windows servers using VMware
vConverter.
HP Blade Center administration on HP blade models C7000/C3000.
Connecting to ESX server by using VIC, putty and Web access. Provide
research into VMware Thinapp initiative for increasing server
virtualization
Involved in Assessment of current environment for desktop
virtualization.
Involved in definition of success criteria for use cases.
Created use cases for desktop design and implementation.
Design and implementation of Thinapp environment.
Application virtualization using VMware Thinapp 4.5 version.
Building new Windows Server 2003/2008/R2 on Intel Server
Platforms, IBM/HP/Dell Power Edge servers as per the companys
Windows build standards.
Administered and setup user profiles in Win2003/2008 servers and ADS
maintenance
Administered and setup Print servers in Win2003/2008 server.
Implementation of Microsoft DHCP, DNS, and Domain trust relationship,
file and print services, user and group management.
Expertise in System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) and
System Center Operations Manager (SCOM)
Implemented RAID5 for Fault Tolerance on Domain Controllers.
Installed SQL server 2005 and deployed many SQL cluster
deployments for clients for database requirements.
Migrated IIS6.0 to IIS7.0 using windows deployment tool 2.0.
Patching the Production Servers during the green zone window with
security patches.

Maintain the Software deployment and management solution and

ensure proper patching on client systems. Maintain the Domain
environment, including setting policies as per the security settings.
Defining group permissions and creating local and global groups with
account policies using Enterprise Administrator. Creating user
rights and defining local and roaming profiles.
Responsible to maintain the server inventory and document the server
build/decommission, application installation/configuration, backup
verifications, Operating System user accounts auditing, etc.
Working on Change Management and Request Management Tickets in
Remedy Tool
Thinapp Packages Applications Upgrades and deployment testing and
Production Implementation.
Experience in writing and debugging multi-threaded applications and
packaging.
Assist staff with the installation, configuration, and ongoing usability of
desktop computers, peripheral equipment and software within
established standards and guidelines.
Worked on resource management framework like creation resource
pools, adding the VMs into Resource pools
Environment: vSphere 4.0 and 5.0, ESXI 5.0, Windows 2008/2003 Server,
Cisco UCS 5108, VCE V block, UCS manager, VNX, EMC Unisphere, HP Blade
C7000 and C3000, putty, Power shell and SQL.
COMCAST, PHILADELPHIA, PA
JAN
11 APR 12
Role: VMWARE ADMINISTRATOR
RESPONSIBILITIES:
Designing and Documentation for Racks move from one cage to other
big cage in datacenter.
Worked on large datacenter consolidations and completed them
successfully using multiple P2V conversion using VCenter
Converter.
Job includes installation and configuration of VMware ESXi 4.x,
installation and configuration of VMware Virtual Center Server and
creating Virtual Machines.
Assist in P2V conversion of Windows 2000, Windows 2003, and
Linux based 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 center 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 Veeam Backup and
Replication 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: Virtual Infrastructure 3, vSphere 4.0, Hyper-V, Windows
2008/2003 Server, HP EVA 8400, HP Blade C7000, HP Blade C3000, HP VC
Flex 10
AGILITY LOGISTICS, INDIA
JUN
09 OCT 10
Role: VMWARE/ WINDOWS ADMINISTRATOR
RESPONSIBILITIES:
Main role is to provision virtual machines and physical as per client
requirements.
Extensively managed Active Directory like all the problems related to
user accounts, domain accounts, managing permissions etc.
Involved in operational support of Active Directory, WINS, DNS, and
AD enabled applications.
Installing and updating the windows patches.
Creating NTFSshares on Windows Servers and provide permissions to
users.
Setting up perfmon windows servers to analyze performance issues.
Built and manage Virtual servers on VMwareESXServer3.0/3.5.
Experience in creating Clusters in Virtual Center and adding ESX Hosts
to Virtual Center Cluster.
Experience in setting up VMKernel Network and Enable VMotion.
Worked on Migrating Virtual Machines with VMotion.
Experience in configuring VMware DRS Rules and VMware HA on
Clusters in Virtual Center.
Experience in creating and monitoring Resource Pool for Virtual
Machines Resource Reservation and Limits.
Troubleshoot computer/network, Internet and email problems for users.

Creating and managing user accounts and the groups in Active

Directory users and computers.
Involved in daily Performance monitoring and Active Directory
troubleshooting with the ability to analyze server performance and
make recommendations for improvement.
Helped in auditing Datacenter Inventory in the process of Data center
migration.
Environment: HP Proliant BL C 7000, VMware VSphere 4.0, ESX 3.5, VM
Converter, Virtual Center, Virtual Infrastructure Client, VMotion, VReplicator,
clustering, SAN/NAS, VCB, VCenter Capacity Planner, Disaster Recovery &
Backup, VMware HA & DRS, Windows Server 2000/2003/2008, Veritas
Netbackup, Seagate Backup.
CADILA PHARMACEUTICALS, INDIA
NOV
07 MAY 09
Role: SYSTEMS ADMINISTRATOR
RESPONSIBILITIES:
Configuration of Domain Naming Server (DNS)
Configuration of Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol.
Configuration and Managing Remote Installation Service (RIS), FTP
server
User, group, OU creation, implementing group policies.
Configuration of Printer, Modem, Scanner.
Semantic antivirus console management, updating antivirus
definitions through centralize Symantec antivirus server.
Installation of Operating Systems Win98, Win XP, Win NT, Win
2000, Win 2003, Linux.
Trouble shooting the networking related problems
Installation of various software Active involvements in monitoring
server Performance, network traffic to reduce performance bottleneck.
Managing cron jobs, batch processing and job scheduling.
Maintaining network inventory, data backup and documentation for all
hardware & software
Responsible for Installation, Configuration, Support and troubleshooting
existing systems in Redhat Linux 3 and 4.
Created users and groups and assigned privileges to them, as a part of
Network Security.
Used the logical volume manager (LVM) to create a volume group,
which was then partitioned into logical volumes.
Environment: Windows 2000 Server, Windows 2003 Server, Windows NT
Server, Windows XP/98