Manager Active Directory

Name: Dikshit

Phone: 682-***-****.

Email: *******.*.******@*****.***

Professional Summary:

Experienced VMware Certified Professional (VCP) with 8+ years of experience in IT industry.

Experience in implementation and administration VMware vSphere ESXi 5.x/4.x, ESX /3.x platform, vCenter 5.x/4.x/2.5 and vBlock 100/200/300/700 series.

Extensive knowledge in advance features like vMotion, Storage vMotion and Network/Storage IO Control.

Excellent experience in working on configuring ESXi hosts and clusters with all advanced features like HA, DRS, DPM etc.

Experience in P2V, V2V MIGRATION using VMware Converter and Plate Spin tools.

Experience in working on Host Profiles, Resource pools, storage profiles, VMFS datastore and templates for client VMs.

Very good experience in creating DRS affinity, anti-affinity rules as required by business.

Extensive experience in upgrading vCenter server and associated components like SSO and database servers.

Upgraded ESXi servers using VMware Update Manager (VUM), CLI and DCUI.

Excellent experience in working on vSwitches such as Standard vSwitches (vSs), Distributed vSwitches (VDs), and Cisco Nexus 1000V.

Good Experience in creating port groups, VLAN networking and NIC teaming on VMware ESX 5.x/4.x and vCenter environment.

Strong knowledge and extensive experience in data center migration projects.

Good experience on working on VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM) for maintaining business continuity and performing disaster recovery (DR) activity.

Monitoring of VM’s & ESXi server components (CPU, Memory, Disk, Network Utilization) and security hardening for Security Compliance.

Extensive experience with Windows clustering on virtualized environments.

Worked on PowerShell which is used for management of a system.

Experience on PowerShell Integrated Scripting Environment (ISE).

Experienced in performing administration tasks using PowerShell scripting using cmdlets.

Involved in working with PowerShell API’s.

Extensive experience in managing vBlock using native element managers including vCenter, UCS, UIM, Unisphere, Cisco Nexus CLI and fabric manager.

Experience in working on day to day networking tasks across the converged infrastructure platform i.e. Cisco (7k, 5k, 3k, 1k & MDS) switches.

Cisco UCS (Unified Computing Systems) implementation and configuration specific to vSphere, for compute platform high availability, redundancy and elasticity.

Good knowledge and Experience with Cisco UCS and HP Blades for ESXi hosts.

Strong communication and people skills, both written and verbal. Able to assess and resolve client issues quickly. A proven record of reliability, the ability to perform under time constraints, and good judgment under pressure.

Ability to maintain a reliable and methodical approach to support and Documentation. Quick learner, highly motivated team player with excellent organizational and analytical skills.

Technical Skill:

VMWare

VMware vSphere 4.0/4.1/5.0/5.1/5.5, VMware vCenter 4.0/4.1/5.0/5.1/5.5, Site Recovery Manager,

Application Servers

Microsoft Active Directory.

Backup Solutions

Avamar, Data Domain, VEEM

Desktop Application

Microsoft Office 2003, Outlook 2003 and Evolution, Open Office, VMware Workstation 5.0 and 6.0

Hardware

Dell, Cisco UCS, HP C7000.

Certifications:

VMware Certified Professional, VCP 510.

Professional Experience:

Sabre Airlines, Southlake, TX. April 2014 to Till Date.

Role: Sr. VMWare Admin.

Responsibilities:

Installed and managed multiple versions of vCenter server and complete virtual infrastructure.

Involved in setting up new VBlock 300 and Cisco UCS Blade Servers with EMC VNX storage.

Installed ESXi on physical servers and configured them as per requirement, and added them to the clusters.

Converted several physical servers (both Linux and Windows) to virtual servers using Plate Spin.

Worked on troubleshooting ESXi hosts including DRS Cluster errors with shares, pools, and limits.

Provisioned LUN’s on the arrays and added them as data stores on several ESXi hosts.

Created data store clusters and configured Storage vMotion for efficient usage of resources and obtain good performance.

Configured multipathing options on the hosts as per requirement.

Experience in monitoring cluster performance, optimize the server environment, diagnose and resolve production issues amongst Data Centers and over servers.

Managing multiple vCenter Server inventories using VMware vCenter Linked Mode.

VNX Block Storage Provisioning and Management including Raid Groups and Traditional LUNs, Pools and Thin LUNs, LUN Migration, FAST VP, FAST Cache, Storage groups, Host Initiator registration.

Implemented and Tested desktop virtualization and introduced VMware View to the client.

Installed and configured VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM) on multiple sites and created disaster recovery plans.

Involved in upgrading every component of the Vblock and personally responsible for seamlessly upgrading entire Vblock.

Participating as an active member of the software development lifecycle, through attending new feature requirements reviews and developing leading edge processes to support these new product enhancements.

Maintained data center environment and monitoring equipment.

Provided performance metrics, work load status update, and project status updates at biweekly workload tracking meetings

Created User Accounts and Groups in Active Directory (AD) as required after gaining required approvals.

Experience using a formalized change management and incident management process.

Environment: VMware ESXi 5.5 Server, Windows 2003/2008 R2, SQL Server 2000, IIS 6.0/7.0, Dell Power Edge Servers, HP Servers, CISCO blade servers, IBM Blade Servers, Remote Desktop Services, IBM TSM, Microsoft Visual Studio TFS.

Citizens Bank, Providence, RI. Oct 2012 to March 2014.

Role: VMWare Admin.

Responsibilities:

Working on the converged infrastructure VBlock and handling VMware, Compute, Network and storage components of it.

Involved in the storage operations on all the models of VNX 5300, 5500, 5700, VNX-e 3100 and closely worked with EMC team on VMax storage as well.

Installing ESXI on Cisco UCS blades and C200 racks, using scripted installations, configuring and hardening ESXi servers.

Administration of various network infrastructure components including Nexus 1000v, UCS Fabric Interconnect 6120/6140, Nexus 5548.

Cisco UCS integrations with Cisco Nexus 5548 for LAN and Cisco MDS for SAN.

Installing and implementing the VMware ESXi 5.1 host servers with vSphere Client, vSphere CLI. Configured HBAs and iSCSI SAN storage.

Configuration of vMotion, vSwitch, and VLAN in VMware vCenter.

Trouble shooting issues related to VMware ESX host, VMware virtual center, HA, DRS, VMware update manager.

Part of the Data Center migration team, handling server backups and maintaining the server inventory list, getting server up and running after the Data Center migration.

Created the Images for Windows and using those Images for bringing back the physical servers, which went down after migration. Performed the back up of virtual machines by taking snapshot.

Establishing Single Sign on access between two applications using Active Directory Federation Service Software (AD FS 2.0).

Administrating the Domain and Services, Active Directory, GPO, IIS (performing code loads on the production environment), Generating certificate request and Installing VeriSign certificate on the website.

Configuring and administrating DNS, DHCP, web servers and other Active Directory Services.

Worked with the IBM Tivoli Storage Manager, for taking the Incremental backup of the server.

Rack-mounted servers like IBM & Dell hardware, tower servers, desktop, laptop and other peripherals.

Environment: Windows 2000/2003/2008 R2, SMS, SQL Server 2000, IIS 6.0/7.0, VMware ESXi 5.1 Server, Dell Power Edge Servers, CISCO UCS blade servers, HP Servers, IBM Blade Servers, Remote desktop services, IBM TSM, IBM NAS, Cisco Nexus 5K.

ON Semiconductor Corporation, Phoenix, AZ. Oct 2011 to Aug 2012.

Role: VMWare Admin.

Responsibilities:

Installed and Implemented VMware ESXi 4.0 host servers with vSphere Client, vSphere CLI. Configured HBAs and iSCSI SAN storage.

Installed and configured the ThinApp version 4.5 for capturing the application.

Supported VMware architecture for the storage and Network Virtualization.

Worked with VMware ESX 4.0/4.1 Servers.

Configuring HA/DRS related advanced configuration settings per VMware Best practices.

Implementation of Shared Storage across ESX Hosts to leverage vMotion and svMotion capabilities.

Performed backup and restore of VMware host server configuration, Virtual Machine backup, snapshot.

P2V-V2V conversation with VMware converter, Plate spin 6.8.x and with other third party converters, Patch Update, monitoring/reporting, SSH and SNMP and notification of alerts.

Installed and implement NFS server using windows UNIX service and configured with VMware Host servers for storage.

Creating LUNs, Storage groups, Raid groups and Pools in CX3-480/960.

Installed and implemented open source Open Filer 2.3 iSCSI SAN with RAID 10 for VMware and other servers with iSCSI initiators.

Executing seamless upgrades of vBlock infrastructure from vSphere, Cisco UCS, Cisco Nexus switches to EMC VNX arrays per VCE released certification matrix.

Vblock Converged Infrastructure Administration and management with Cisco UCS Manager, Nexus CLI, Fabric Manager, vCenter, Unisphere and UIM.

Support day-today issues in VMware Virtual Infrastructure, EMC CX, Cisco Nexus and Cisco UCS/HP Blade environments.

Performance tuning of ESX hosts and Guest OS on VMs.

EMC Clarrion CX3-480 and CX3-960 based Storage Provisioning and Administration using Navisphere.

Administrating production server’s/network infrastructure that includes Windows Administration of Domain Controllers, IIS Web Servers (HTTP/S, FTP and SMTP), and Exchange 2003/2010 Mail Servers, NAS, File and print Servers, RADIUS, Blackberry 5.0 and Terminal Servers on Windows 2003/2008/2010.

Responsible production support of Active directory (AD), GPO, Domain users, Users and groups and given appropriate permissions, shares and privilege to access LAN and Domain environment.

Implemented Microsoft Clustering for IIS Web Servers.

Familiar with windows, Software and Hardware based Firewalls. Allow/Block ports, inbound/outbound TCP/UDP Traffic, PAT/NAT, Remote Access VPN and site to site VPN, content filtering, log analysis, reporting, configurations of Syslog, SNMP and Access control.

Connected Thin Client (WYSE, Devon IT), desktop Windows Xp2 clients to RDS 6.1.

Participated in the migration planning, developing, testing and moving the migration process onto full-fledged production network.

Environment: Windows 2000/2003/2008, Exchange Server 2003/2010, Windows XP/Vista/Win 7, VMware ESXi 4.0 Server, Open filer iSCSI SAN/NAS, iStore SAN, CISCO UCS blade servers, Dell PowerEdge Servers, Dell Power Vault NAS, Cisco Nexus 5K switches, Zywall and SonicWall Firewall, Remote desktop services.

L&T InfoTech, Hyderabad, India. Jan 2010 to Sep 2011.

Role: VMWare/Windows Admin.

Responsibilities:

Worked with VMware ESX 4.0/4.1 Servers.

Design and Implementations of VMware ESX server infrastructure in multisite/multi Datacenter Environments.

Monitoring and managing performances of ESX/ESXi servers and virtual machines.

Configuring and Managing VMware cluster with High Availability and Distributed Resource Scheduling.

Large Scale Migration of existing VMs from HP Blades to Cisco UCS.

Cisco UCS Deployment and Implementation for Virtual Environment.

Performing upgrade of the Virtual Infrastructure.

P2V conversions of Windows servers using VMware converter.

Administrating DNS, DHCP, and Exchange & ISA servers. Created and managed user and group accounts in User Manager and in MS Exchange Administration.

Experienced with / x64 Intel, HP, IBM & Dell hardware like rack-mounted servers, tower servers, desktop, laptop and other peripherals.

Worked on Wintel Servers supporting x86 architecture.

Installing, configuring, administering, troubleshooting VMware server on ESX platform and VMware client, workstation.

Managing Exchange 2003 servers and troubleshooting issues related to mail delivery, configuring MX records to enable and disable domain.

Responsible for Active directory, GPO, Domain users, Administrating users and groups and given appropriate permissions and privilege to access our LAN and Domain environment.

Installed & configured Windows 2008 with Active Directory service.

Excellent understanding of SAN, NAS storage architecture.

EMC CX 480/960 SAN Storage Administration and Provisioning for ESX hosts.

Installed and managed McAfee EPO software on servers and clients.

Creating a backup job and also took backup of data center on daily, weekly and monthly basis.

Disaster recovery planning, implementation and recovering systems during crash or hardware failure.

Experience in IT decision-making, policy direction, planning, and team management. Participated in the migration planning, developing, testing and moving the migration process onto full-fledged production network.

Coordinate hardware and software installations and upgrades to ensure work is performed in accordance with company policy. Recommends resolutions to complex matters of significance and coordinate the implementation of the approved course of action.

Coordinate and monitor troubleshooting to isolate and diagnose common system problems: document system events to ensure continuous functioning. Recommend course of action and implement as approved.

Coordinate testing, upgrade and configuration of system files and services. Ensure changes are in accordance with appropriate operating procedures.

Environment: Windows 2000/2003, SMS, SQL Server 2000, IIS 6.0, Exchange Server 2003, Microsoft WSUS, Windows XP, VMware ESX Server and Workstation, Open filer, IBM TSM, EMC SAN, Dell NAS, Zywall and SonicWALL Firewall.

3D Networks Pvt. Ltd. Bangalore, India. May 2007 to Nov 2009.

Role: Network Administrator.

Responsibilities:

Installing, configuring, administration of Windows 2003 servers, Active Directory Services, DNS DHCP, FTP, WSUS, IIS Web Server and SQL Database Server, System Management Servers (SMS) servers.

Experienced with x86 / x64 Intel, HP, IBM & Dell hardware like rack-mounted servers, tower servers, desktop, laptop and other peripherals.

Managing Exchange 2003 servers and troubleshooting issues related to User and group accounts, mail delivery, configuring MX records to enable and disable domain.

Administering DHCP Server-creation of reservation and under reservation options, configuring of router IP address.

Responsible for Active directory, GPO, Domain users, Administrating users and groups and given appropriate permissions and privilege to access our LAN and Domain environment.

Configure and Managed Microsoft Outlook 2003/2007 for the users.

Configured Terminal Server to access to the servers using Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP).

Migrated the Windows XP desktop environment to the Windows7.

Excellent understanding of SAN, NAS Storage Architecture.

Responsible for Security Patch Management and Deployment to all clients using Microsoft WSUS.

Installing, configuring, administering, troubleshooting VMware server on ESX platform and VMware client, workstation.

Installation and Configuration of networks, router/switches configuration and wireless access point/router with security, TCP/IP, VPN, Content Filtering, Access Control Lists on router/switches, VLANs (port mapping, naming etc.), and routing IP address in both LAN/WAN and wireless networks.

LAN Cabling, RJ-45 crimping, Labelling, Patch Panel, PC Junction boxes, Phone Switches and Rack set-up.

Analyze, log, track and complex software and hardware matters of significance pertaining to networking connectivity issues, printer, server, and application to meet business needs.

Creating a backup job and also took backup of data center on daily, weekly and monthly basis.

Environment: Windows 2000/2003, SMS, IIS 6.0, Exchange Server 2003, Microsoft WWSUS, Windows XP, VMware ESX Server, VMware Workstation.

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