RAM

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PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

 5+years of IT experience and gained expertise in systems – Windows and Linux

administration andtransformed traditional environments to virtualized environments
with VMWARE.
 Professional experience virtualization technologies like VMWARE, VDI and windows,
Unix
 Proficiency in installing and configuring VMware vSphere and VMware VCenter.
 Upgrading the vCenter server 6.0 to 6.5 version.
 Install, configure and maintain VDI Environment using VMware Horizon view. Created
Desktop Images, deploying Desktop Pools and Installing applications using APP
Volumeson user’s desktops, User management using View persona management, user
environment manager (UEM)etc.,
 Troubleshooting VDI environment Issues. Administration of VMware Horizon view
which perform daily maintenance and upgrade the service packs,Patches,hot fixes and
security configurations.
 Strong understanding of VMware Networking concepts like creation of vSwitches, vDS,
different types of port groups, NIC Teaming and VLAN.
 Extensive experience in working with vMotion and Storage vMotion technologies.
 Strong experience in configuring HA and DRS on clusters and using EVC mode as
needed.
 Provided systems administration support to physical Windows and Unix environments
for various web, application and database
 Expertise in design and Implementation of Windows, VMWARE environments on Cisco
UCS, HP Blade Servers, Dell Power Edge series.
 Good experience working on HP C7000 chassis, BL460 G8, G9 and G10 blades.
 Experience working with HP Onboard Administrator, Virtual Connect manager and HP
One-View.
 Well versed with Storage technologies, All Flash and Hybrid storage arrays of multiple
vendors – EMC,HP, IBM configured, and integrated virtual and physical environments
for high performance andavailability.
 Implemented Disaster Recovery Solutions of physical and virtual environments using
various local andremote replication methodologies – like VMWARE SRM, SAN Based
Replication like – EMC Recover Point, SRDF, HP Remote Copy.
 Strong knowledge and working experience on Citrix XenDesktop, VWMARE
VDIHorizonenvironment supporting user environments.
 Performed Data Center Migrations, OS version upgrade projects on Windows, Unix,
VMWARE, storageplatform refresh projects, POC’s.
 Worked on a project to upgrade vCenter from 4.5 to 6.0 across three Data Centers.
  Worked on P2V and V2V conversions using VMware Converter and Platespin.
 Worked on Data Center Decommission and Data Center Migration projects to migrate
4000 virtual and physical servers.
 Worked on a project to upgrade vCenter Operations Manager to vRealize Operations
Manager.
 Experience in Active Directory such as Domain Controllers, editing Domainusers and
Groups,Organizational Units, and Forest Functional Level.
 Experience in Domain migration and updating the windows server 2012 R2 servers to
windows server 2016.
 Extensive experience working on DFS and File servers. Worked on a project to upgrade
File servers from 2008 to 2012 R2.
 Experienced with BIG IP F5 load balancer and Cloudflare for managing and monitoring
the websites on IIS webservers.
 Experience in enabling VSAN on a cluster, creating manual disk groups, assigning
storage policiesand scaling VSAN cluster with additional hosts.
 Experience of installing, upgrading and configuring UCS B250M2,UCSB230M2,UCS
B200M2 and UCSC200 Rack-mount servers in UCS 5100 chassis and configuring the
Cisco UCS 6100 Fabricinterconnects.
 Experience working with HP OneView, HP iLOand UCS Manager.
 Experience working with Cisco M81KR VIC card, UCS 2104Fabric Extenders and
CiscoUCS 6248series Fabric Interconnects.
 Experience in configuring Nexus 1000v VSM and VEM modules, Nexus 5548 and
Catalyst 3500management switches.
 Experience with Exchange server,Microsoft office 365 and share point.
 Experience in installing and configuring SharePoint 2013/2010 and MOSS 2007 in small,
medium and large Web farms.
 Experience with PowerShell and python scripting for automating the tasks in the virtual
environment.
 Highly experience in LAN/WAN networking architecture and TCP/IP protocol stack,
wireless networks,Cloud computing concepts.
 Experience in distributed Firewall Services,Strong working knowledge of installing and
supporting DNS/DFS/DHCP/WINSenvironment.
 Administration of production Windows Servers infrastructure that includes Active
DirectoryDomain Controllers, IIS Web Servers, File and Print and FTP/SFTP servers.
 Design and implementation of global monitoring solution using SCOM, HP SIM and Dell
OpenManage.
 Good Knowledge and experience with Change Management process and CAB.

Education:

Masters from Rivier university, Nashua, NH.

Bachelor of TechnologyfromJNTUH, India.
Certification:

•VMware Certified Associate 6.0 – Data Center Virtualization(VCP6-DCV)

Technical Skills:
Server OS Windows 2008, 2012,2016, Windows 7, 8,10, Mac OSX,
Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Cisco IOS.
Scripting PowerShell Scripting, Python.
VMWARE VMware ESX, ESXi 4.5/5.0/5.5/6.0/6.5, vCenter, vCO, vCAC
vCloud Director, SRM, Double-Take, PlateSpin, vConverter,
vCOps, Citrix XenDesktop 7.x, VMware View 5 and ThinApp.
Hardware Cisco UCS 5108 Chassis, HP C7000 Chassis, Dell M1000E
Chassis, Cisco UCS C & B Series, HP ProLiant DL & BL Series,
DELL PowerEdge, Cisco 1000v, 1800, 2600, 2800, 3800 Routers.
Networking TCP/IP, DHCP, SNMP, WINS, DNS, NFS, NIS, LDAP, SMTP,
Protocols iSCSI,NFS, FC, FCOE.
Storage and SAN, NAS, (Dell, EMC, NetApp, Hitachi and HP) Comvault,
Backup Networker, Avamar, Data domain, Veeam.
Automation vCenter Orchestrator, PowerCLI, PowerShell.

Professional Experience:

System Administrator April 2018 -Present

Equifax, GA
Responsibilities:
 Administered VMware Infrastructure and IIS webservers. Supporting the VDI
environment. Configured and installing DellWYSE VDI thin clients.
 Installed Virtual Update manager (VUM) for patching the Esxi Hosts. Enabled DRS and
HA to achieve virtual machine zero downtime.
 Updated the VMware toolson the virtual Machines.Configured vMotion, storage
vMotion for migrating Virtual Machines and datastores.
 Installed and configured Microsoft SCCM system management toolfor patching the
virtual machines.
 Troubleshoot failedESXiHost connections and virtual machine connections in vCenter.
 Experienced with powerCLI to modify configurations and perform basic operations.
 Installed and configured CISCO UCS hardware,Updating UCS firmware, drivers through
policies &commission/ decommission of blades and chassis.
 Managed and support VMware vCloud Center and VMware vCenter Orchestrator
(vCO).
 Monitored virtual Infrastructure using VMware vRealize Operation Manager (vROPS)
and Enabled Email alerts for Hardware, CPU usage, Memory usage and storage usage.
 Customized Dashboards in vRealize Operation Manager(vROPS) for a quick overview at
Infrastructure.
 Monitored the IIS web servers, SQL servers Processes, services, application
performances using the Dynatrace Tool.
 Installed Dynatrace agents in the VM’s for communicating with Dynatrace monitoring
tool and McAfee agents to communicate with McAfee Console.
 Experienced with Solar winds tools for reserving IP address and Monitoring the virtual
Infrastructure.
 Deployed new virtual machines using customized templates and enabled hot plug and
Hot Add for future purpose to increase the resources without downtime.
 Working on windows server 2016 Active directory Domain controllers. Created
organizationalunits’structure for webservers, SQL servers, workstations, printers etc.,
 Joined new build servers in Domain and moved to appropriate organizational units to
apply GPO’s properly.
 Created GPO’s and applied at the OU level. Add new user accounts to security
groups/Distribution groupsand assigned required permissions.
 Took an active part in the quarterly audits, reviewed the audit requirements, and
provided audit documentation.
 Were cross-trained for management of Storage arrays in Dell EqualLogic.
 Deriving volumes and storage pools in Group manager.
 Installed IIS Role and features in windows server 2012 R2 and windows server 2016
severs.
 Identified firewall ports to join the new virtual machines in Domain controller,
communication between the webserver and SQL server and communicated with
networking team to open the firewall ports.
 Installed DNS, DHCP server Roles and features in windows server 2016 and created DNS
CName record, HOST A record etc., entries for websites Bindings.
 Configured BIG IP F5 Load balancer for IIS webservers by adding the virtual IP (VIP)
pool.Enabled monitoring, http to https (301,302,307) redirects.
 Worked on cloud flare for public facing Sites like DNS, creatingpage rules, purging
Cacheafter updating the Code etc.,
 Hosted websites in IIS webservers, created application pools and added sites binding.
 Created (SSL/TLS) Certificates in IIS webservers for secure https connections.
 Troubleshootedthe IIS webserverIssues like certificate errors, URL redirects,
Application Pool permissionsetc., also understanding the application internal/external
dependencies by viewing the web.config file.
 Experience in writing and using PowerShell scripts for automating the tasks like
Installation of softwares, agents on list servers remotely, Pulling the Information from
the servers, patching the ESXiservers, creating virtual machines, installingvmware tools
on virtual machines, troubleshooting etc.,
  Configured Disaster recovery solution for VMware vSphere Environment using Recovery
point, which takes point-in-time copy of a replica stored on the Data Protection
Manager (DPM) server.

VMware/Windows AdministratorAug 2016-April2018

West corporation, Omaha, NE

Responsibilities:
 Administered VMware Infrastructure - vSphere/vCenter/VDI environments by running
over 125 ESXiHosts and 3000 Virtual Machines
 Supported Production, Development and Test environments by supporting day to day
maintenanceactivities of virtual environment.
 Installed and tested VSphere 6.0 to enable Hybrid cloud architecture and implanted
open stack in testenvironment.
 Deployed vCenterOperations Manager(VCOPS), leveraging its capability for proactive
monitoring ofhealth of the entire virtual environment.
 Designed Test environment and implemented a cloud solution for internal customers,
based on VMware vCloud 5.
 Took part in a Proof of Concept of Cloud Automation Center, building and configuring
all components, adding automation to virtual server provisioning.
 Installed and tested vRealize Automation and vRealize Operations(VROPS), to enable
cloud orchestration layerfor Software DataCenter model in test bed.
 Managed and support VMware vCloud Center and VMware vCenter Orchestrator (vCO)
in Customerpre-production environment.
 Managed Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) VMware View by configuring VMware
View Composer,View Connection Server, View Agent and View Client.
 Configured Disaster recovery solution for VMware vSphere Environment using Site
Recovery Manager(SRM) integrating with storage-basedreplication.
 Integrated VMWARE with EMC backup technologies for image-based backups which
take advantage ofchange block tracking feature on VMWARE.
 Enabled VSI plugins to view storage in vCenter for better path management and storage
visibility.
 Analysis of existing PowerShell scripts, determination of required functional changes,
modification, testing, andimplementation of script changes.
 Updating UCS firmware, drivers through policies &commission/ decommission of blades
and chassis.Creating policies and building SAN boot blades servers.
 Performed Hardware and Software maintenance of VMware ESXiClusters, Servers and
VirtualMachines.
 Performed Daily Monitoring of System performance, capacity &managed
Inventoryadjust Systemconfigurations to accommodate required loads and
functionality.
  Experience with Physical System (rack/stack, cabling, hard drive replacement, hardware
upgrades)alsoInstalled, Configured and Supported HPservers one view, HP iLO for
remote management.
 Configured VMware on clustered environment, implementedvMotion and Virtualized
Windows serversusing VMware Converter P2V and setup Lab Manager
 Created and managed Virtual Machines, Installed VMware tools, Templates, Cloning,
Deploy VirtualMachines including deploying link Clones using View Composer. Assigned
dedicated/floating Pools as per requirement.
 Administered the Active Directory 2012 Domain Controller’s in the environment.
Creating users, groups assigning permissions, applying GPO’s at OU level etc.,
 Installed and configured windows Azure and Amazon web services in test environment.
 Utilize SCOM system management tool to monitor infrastructure health.
 Troubleshooting failedESXi host connections, and virtual machine connections using
PowerShell script.
 Used powerCLIto modify configurations and perform basic operations like managing.

VMware and Windows AdministratorFeb 2016 toAug 2016

BofI Federal Bank, San Diego, CA

Responsibilities:
 Design, Installation, configuring and support of new vSphere 5/5.5ESXi servers with
HPC7000 bladesystem and Cisco UCS.
 DeployedvCloud Director 5.5 in the vSphere environment.
 Install/Configure and troubleshoot VMware vCloud Director and administrating multiple
labs and testenvironment.
 Providing resource allocation and deployment via vCloud Director.
 Implementation, support and monitoring of the Cisco UCS environment.
 Upgrade the whole HP Blade Chassis environment to latest versions including upgrading
the HPFlexfabrics(VCM) to 4.0 firmware.
 Upgrade and stabilize the VI from ESXi 5.0 to ESXi 5.5 U1 using VUM and host profiles.
 Linked different vCenter servers using linked mode to have a single instance of vSphere
client tomanage the whole Virtual environment.
 Configuring High Availability (HA), Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS), Host profiles,
Storageprofiles, Standard Switch and vNetwork Distributed Switch (VDS).
 Configured VMware HA, VMware DRS in acquiring higher efficiency for VMware
Infrastructure.
 Install, troubleshoot and administer Windows2003 and 2008 R2 Servers.
 Creating and managing Virtual Machines and Templates, worked with clones and
snapshots of VirtualMachines.
 Design, Implement, Troubleshoots and Support Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI)
Horizonbased on VMwareView built on vSphere ESXihosts.
 Manage Desktop pools, user’s entitlement and Windows 7 image on VMware View
environment.
  Deployment of Windows 7 and Windows XP pools for different internal and external
clients.
 Deployed automated/manual linked clone and persistent desktops with floating and
dedicatedassignments.
 Experience in working with python scripts for deployment of desktop pools in the VDI
environment, troubleshooting ESXi connection issues, creating virtual machines in
VMware, patching windows servers etc.,
 Worked on migration of existing site from SharePoint 2010 to SharePoint 2013.
Migration activities involve migration of the site along with the custom developed
components like Custom web parts.
 Implemented the creation of templates for Windows 2008 taking snapshots and
implementation oflinked clone pools.
 Setup and manage Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, GPO, Folders redirect.
 Manage user application virtualization with VMware ThinApp and Citrix XenApp.
 Identify and push patches and software packages to the persistent desktops using SCCM

VMware AdministratorFeb 2014-Nov 2015

Login ITTechnologies, India

Responsibilities:
 Installing, Configuring and Managing VMware vSphereESXi 4.5/5.0 Server and Windows
2008/2012 servers.
 Installing vCenter Server, vSphere Client and Web Client for operations and management.
 Configuring and Managing Virtual Networks, Storage, Memory and processers for the
Virtual Machines.
 Creating and Managing Virtual Machines using templates and images, and building
production readyVM’s
 Monitoring and managing performance of vSphere ESXi servers and Virtual Machines.
 Experience in adding NFS storage and iSCSI storage to vSphere hosts.
 Implemented Virtual Machine cold clone and hot clone procedure while cloning the VM’s.
 Implemented Virtual Machine cold migration and hot migration procedures.
 Configured Resource pools and Shares in VMware Environment for Prod, test and dev
environments.
 Experience in configuring customized alarms in vCenter server for data store usage, host
CPU andMemory usage.
 Implemented storage vMotionto migrate VM’s from HP EVA to EMC VMAX, VNX storage.
 Maintain and administer all virtual backups withDellEMC Avamar/Data Domain Backup and
Recoverytechnology.
 Create and manage maintenance process procedures for VMware version updates patches
on all ESXi Hosts. Ensuring seamless failover and testing during maintenance tasks.
 Report on VM improvements, and make recommendations for the upgrades, which
includes VM virtual hardware versions, and VMware Tools with less business impact.
 Develop and implement processes to streamline management and VM builds within our
ESXienvironment.
 IntegratedDELL EMC storage array VNX, VMAX with vCenter server using VSI plugins, and
enabled VAAI andVASA.
 Participate in strategic planning and guidance ofESXi environment, which includes various
sites, and DRsolutions including SRM and VSphere replication.
 Management, monitoring and troubleshooting of physical server environment using
DellOpen Manager,Firmware and Bios updates and working with respective hardware
vendors for ordering troubleshooting.
 Enabled monitoring and alerting of virtual environment with the utilization of Solar winds
VM Monitor,vCOPS and various other monitoring tools.
 Provide on-call support for server infrastructure or application failures resulting in the need
to engageon-call IT personnel.