Professional summary:-

> Having overall **+ Years of experience in IT infrastructure

Administration

> 5 + years of experience in VMware infrastructure Administration

> Installation, Configuration & managing of vSphere 4, vSphere 5 and

vSphere 5.5 environment.

> Building and troubleshooting experience with ESX & ESXi servers.

> Performance monitoring for VMs on vSphere platform.

> Expertise in P2v & V2v migration

> Expertise in installing upgrading of ESX 4.0 and ESXi 4.1, 5.1 & 5.5

hosts, as well as upgrading app 1500+ VMs from Virtual machine

hardware 9 & 10 as part of a major enterprise upgrade

> Experience in Building, configuring and deploying VMs and templates.

> Converting Physical-to-Virtual (P2V), Virtual-to-Virtual (V2V) and

Virtual-to-Physical (V2P) migration of Windows NT, 2003, 2008, and

2012 R2 as well as Linux servers from VMware, Hyper-V, legacy

hardware.

> Configuring different types of port group policies, applying security

policies, traffic shaping, Load balancing, Failover detection and VLAN

tagging.

> Experience on SAN Storage and Disaster recovery solution with VMware

SRM

> Design, Implement and troubleshoot any issues related to VMware

Distributed Resource Scheduling, Resource Pools, High Availability,

Enhanced vMotion (EVC), ESX and ESXi Host Profiles, Distributed Switch

(VDS), vShield and VMware Fault Tolerance (FT)

> Experience in Applying patches and performing upgrades using VMware

Update Manager (VUM).

> Extensively worked on vMotion and Storage vMotion for Array

migrations.

> Experience with Application Virtualization.

> Experience in creating, analyzing and managing Resource pools, virtual

clusters, alert structures, security Groups, Permissions and virtual

network.

> Experience with VMware view design on Virtual desktops deployments

> Sound knowledge on FC SAN, iSCSI, SAN and NAS storage.

> In depth knowledge of Installing and configuring HP, Dell Servers.

Configuring RAID, Disk Mirroring, SAN Volume Expansion, SCSI

Controller Installation.

Client: Hartford Insurance, Hartford, CT

Role: VMware Administrator

1 Duration: 2015 FEB - 2016 April

2 Responsibilities

> Installation, Configuration & managing of vSphere 4,5 and vSphere 5.1

environment.

> Managing Virtual Infrastructure vSphere 4 5.1 and 5.1

> Updating ESX/ESXi environment from 4 to ESXi 5 update 1

> Performing ESX patching through update manager.

> HA, DRS, VMotion and SAN configuration and troubleshooting on Virtual

Center

> Creating and managing VM Ware cluster. Enabling HA and DRS features in

a cluster

> Creating and Managing Virtual Machines and Templates.

> Installing VMware Tools for Virtual machines.

> Assigning LUNs to ESXi hosts and creating Data stores

> Upgrading virtual hardware.

> Increasing RAM on ESX servers.

> Upgrading ESX 4.0 to ESX 5.0 in cluster level.

> Migrating Virtual machines with VMotion, cold migration and Storage

VMotion.

> Troubleshooting hardware related issues in ESX servers.

> Good experience on converting physical to virtual (P2V) and

configuring and bringing the VM servers into production.

> Expert on V2v Migration

> Raising case with product vendors in case of faults found in server

hardware

> Performing Snapshots and Cloning.

> Extending disk space in VM's according to the requests.

> Updating Virtual infrastructure Using Update Manager.

> Taking snapshots of VM's and increasing the server drive space without

downtime .

> Creating templates and deploying templates to the VM's.

> Troubleshooting ESX issues and VM issues.

> Updating Firmware, Bios and Network Drivers versions of IBM and HP

servers

> Configurations of Virtual switches and network connections.

> Configuring dedicated vmkernel & multiple service Console for better

performance.

> Migrate and manage virtual machines to ensure high availability of

applications.

> Creating and configuring port groups.

> Configured iSCSI and connected to ESX Server manage the VM's.

Client: Sysco Corporation, Houston, TX

Role: VMware Administrator

3 Duration: 2014 Sept - 2015 Feb

4 Responsibilities

> Administration and Management of ESX 5.0 Hosts

> Administration of VMware infrastructure using vCenter 5.0

> Creating Data Centre, Adding Host and VMs and Creating Clusters in

Virtual Centre Server.

> Creating Virtual Machines & Installing VM Ware Tools into VMs.

> Using VM Ware Converter, perform live migration.

> Using P2V tool perform a cold migration, if required.

> Creation of Resource Pool and adding Virtual Machines under that.

> Managing templates and creating of VM clones

> Creation of Virtual Switches.

> Deployment of Virtual Machines from templates.

> VM Snapshot management.

> Configuration of HA, DRS, V Motion & Storage V Motion.

> Monitoring VI Performance, Setting Permissions & Managing Tasks,

Events and Alarms.

> Monitoring the health status of ESX Servers.

> Managing Add-ons like, Update Manager

> Configuring iSCSI,using HP LEFTHAND

> ESX patch management using update manager

> Configured HA, DRS clusters and capacity planning for new clusters and

configured FT for the important VM's and also Maintained FTP Sites,

Web Servers and created Virtual Directories in IIS7

> Performed Virtual Machines backup, snapshots, cloning, P2V and V2V

conversion using VMware stand-alone convertor

> Creating/Managing Virtual Machines, creating clones and

templates/images for deploying VMs, audit them for perfection and

manage utilities and applications installed on those VMs

> Using Veeam to backup physical server

> Experienced HP Service Manager 7 and Remedy ticketing systems

> Participated/coordinated Weekly Status meetings and reported on the

project status, Incident Reports and Change Management for the

transition process

> Install multiple Operating Systems in different VM's and configure

vmtools on them to accelerate hardware functionality and also maintain

and configure unattended VM's builds

> Installed Server instances to enable centralized management of

multiple hosts. Maintaining and troubleshooting VMware

Client: Hess Corporation, IBM, Bangalore

Role: VMware Administrator

5 Duration: 2012 Dec - 2014 Sept

6 Responsibilities

> Using VMware vCenter, created Datacenter Environment by creating

VMware clusters, adding ESX hosts in the clusters, and implemented HA

and DRS.

> Installed and configured ESX 4.0 Servers on Blade Servers.

> Performed physical to virtual (P2V) migrations for approximately 70+

physical servers using VMware Converter.

> Installing, configuring and troubleshooting VMware View

> Performed V2V Migration

> Created clones and templates of Virtual Machines

> Deployed VMs through Templates

> Creating & Troubleshooting Virtual Networks and VSwitches

> Used VB and PowerShell scripts to Automate Tasks in the Guest VMs

> Installed and configured 40 new servers at client location with win

2003 Operating System and their required Applications.

> Installed following servers Win98, Win 2000 Win XP, Win NT, Win 2003,

Win 2008.

> Configured Group Policies, Active Directory, password resets etc.

Configuring, troubleshooting and monitoring core services such as

Active Directory, TCP/IP, DNS, WINS, DHCP and group policy

> Installation and configuration of Windows 2003 and designing of Active

Directory Configured DNS, DHCP.

> Configured HP Blade DL460 using the ILO, Onboard Administrator and HP

Insight Manager.

> 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.

> Upgrading the Firmware to the latest version/date on the BIOS/

controllers/ hard drives.

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Client: Philips, IBM, Bangalore

Role: VMware Administrator

7 Duration: 2011 Dec - 2012 Dec

8 Responsibilities

> Installation, Configuration & managing of vSphere 4 and vSphere 5

environment.

> Upgrading ESX/ESXi 4 hosts to ESXi 5 update 1

> Creating and Managing Virtual Machines and Templates.

> Installing VMware Tools for Virtual machines.

> Migrating VM's through VMotion, cold migration and Storage VMotion

> Good experience on converting physical to virtual (P2V) configuring

and bringing the Vm servers into production.

> Upgrading ESX 4.0 to ESX 5.0 in cluster level.

> Troubleshooting hardware related issues in servers.

> Troubleshooting ESX and VM related issues.

> Raising case with product vendors if any failed hardware parts found.

> Performing Snapshots and Cloning.

> Performing Updates Using Update Manager for ESX/ESXi Host and VM's.

> Performing Windows Patching in servers.

> Managing & Scheduling Backups Using NT Backup.

> Managing partitions with RAID levels (RAID0, RAID1 and RAID5).

> Taking snapshots of VM's and increasing the server drive space without

downtime using the EASUES.

> Creating templates and deploying templates to the VM's.

> Patching of ESX servers and troubleshooting of ESX failure issues.

> Troubleshooting hardware related issues in servers

> Checking the servers for missing patches deploying the patches getting

results of 0% patch missing.

> Raising case with product vendor if any hardware found fault.

> Creating DFS links for different shares present in different file

servers.

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