vmware / windows admin

Sundeep Kumar

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SUMMARY

Windows/VMware Admin with 9 plus years of experience in building and implementing new systems as well as overseeing systems migrations/upgrades, develop and implement effective deployment strategies. Takes on additional responsibilities and meets new challenges as a result-focused team player making strong contributions to long-term business success.

Extensive experience in Windows 2dis003/ 2008/ 2012 R2 Servers at single or multi domain platforms.

Experience in Virtualization with vSphere, VMware ESXi 6.0/5.5/5.0/4.1/4 and Virtual Center server.

Experience in Active Directory, GPOs, DNS, DHCP, File & Print Server.

Working experience in System Operation Manager (SCOM) and System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM)

Extensive experience with Microsoft Cluster Server

Experience and Familiar with Virtualization technologies like installing, configuring, administering VMware ESX/ESXi. Created and managed VMs (virtual server) and also involved in the maintenance of the virtual server.

Expertise in implementation and supporting VMware vSphere ESXi 4.1/4.0/5.0/5.5/6.0 environment.

Expertise in upgrading of ESXi 4.1 to ESXi 5.0 hosts, vCenter 4 to 5, as well as upgrading 2000+ VM’s from Virtual machine hardware 7 to 8 as part of major enterprise upgrade.

Experience working with HP Blade System.

Extensively worked on VMotion, Storage VMotion and Microsoft Active Directory.

Sound knowledge on ESX Architecture, guest OS installation, and setting up of VM priorities, Cloning and Snapshots.

Experience in installation, configuring, and supporting vRealize.

Experience with large number of P2Vand V2V migrations using VMware convertor tool.

Sound knowledge on resource management framework like creation resource pools, adding the VMs into resource pools.

Experience in installing, configuring windows 2012 /2008 /2003 and ESXi on HP C-7000 enclosures Experience in configuring and upgrading Flex-10 shared Uplink Sets, SAN Fabrics, and Server Profiles on Virtual Connect Manager HP C7000 enclosures.

Expertise in configuring HP Rack Mount Servers and upgrading servers using HP Smart update manager.

Extensive background in working with the VMware vMotion technology.

Experience with VEEAM and VCOPS for backup and monitoring the entire ESXi environment

Experience in managing and configuring multipath based solution and well experienced in configuring Datastore LUNs.

Strong experience with the VMware HA and VMware DRS.

Knowledge of installing HP Proliant Server Hardware, Microsoft, HP products configuration.

Expertise in DHCP, WINS and DNS.

EMC SRDF/A/S AND MSC and knowledge on SRDF Host component.

Provide 24/7 support in a 99.999 environment to maintain maximum uptime and ensure server reliability

Experience in using VISIO, MS office.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Windows Server 2003/2008/2008 R2/2012/R2, DNS, DHCP, Windows Active Directory Services, Windows clustering 2003/2008/2012, VMware workstation 5.0/6.0, Vsphere 3.x/4.x/5.x & 6.x (ESX/ESXi server 3.x/4.x/5.x &6.x vCenter Server 3.x/4.x/5.x & 6.x), DRS, HA and FT, VMware update manager, P2V vConverter, VUM, ESXI Patch management, VCOPS, vRealize VMware, DHCP & DNS servers. HP C7000 Chassis, HP Proliant Rack Mount, Dell Power Edge Server, iSCSI SAN, FC SAN, NAS, EMC VMAX, VNX, EMC SAN storage, HP Proliant DL & BL Series. PowerShell, Installation of Hardware, Cable Management, VMware SRM, Veeam.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

TIAA-CREF, Charlotte, NC Aug 2015 – Present

Senior VMware Systems Engineer

Implemented ESX server infrastructure environment, Administrated server consolidation program through use of VMware ESX server and VMware Virtual Center, creating VMs, using/building VM templates and customization files, and scheduling tasks

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.

Performed Virtual Machines backup, snapshots, cloning, P2V and V2V conversion using VMware stand-alone convertor.

Installation, configuration and management of multiple server suites (Windows 2003/2008/2012) on VMware ESX server and Prepared the strategy and implemented ESXi Migration.

Configured HA and DRS on ESX clusters in VCenter, securing vCenter with Roles and permissions.

Install multiple Operating Systems in different VM's and configure VM tools on them to accelerate hardware functionality and also maintain and configure unattended VM's builds.

Created VRealize Orchestrator Workflows to automation tasks related to IT Operations (e.g. server shutdown, Disk clean-up, Service Restart, Resolve incident in Service, Take remote action).

Provided planning, installing, configuring, and upgrading support for vRealize Automation & vRealize Orchestrator.

Installation, Configuration and Administration of VMware ESXi 4.1.1 / Virtual Center 4.1 vcenter servers as well as upgrading to ESXI 5.0 / Virtual Center 5.

Worked with team in upgrading VCenter and ESXi to 5.5 using VMware Update manager and manual upgrades for Patching.

Performed datastore migration using VMware storage vMotion on Netapp NFS, EMC CLARiiON SAN Storage.

Configured fault tolerance (FT) for mission critical Virtual Machines Configured and Managed VMware cluster with HA and DRS.

Automating customized machine provisioning on various virtual and cloud platforms using vCAC.

Working on VMware operations manager and generate reports through VCOPS.

Deploy Virtual machines using VCAC and monitor deployment using VCloud application director.

Provide level high support for ESXi servers running on HP ProLiant BL460's/HP DL 580's/380's and Windows/Linux Virtual Servers.

Experience on AWS IAAS, PAAS.

Involved with capacity planning and hardware procurements as per Customer standards.

Involved in Data center migration more Than 500 ESX servers and large number of the windows physical servers

Migrating Linux based machines and Power off Machines to virtual machines using VMware converter.

Security hardening and Monitoring of VM’s & ESX servers (CPU, Memory, Disk, Network Utilization) for Security Compliance.

Configured and maintained MSCS (Microsoft Cluster Server) while utilizing VMware RDM feature.

Operated as 24-hour on-call escalation point for all project-effecting problems related to all Migration efforts. Anticipated obstacles and recommended solution options.

Maintain a disaster recovery plan by documenting current system configuration, identifying, analyzing, and evaluating critical data/hardware issues and documentation and testing plan.

Worked on service requests from the client through service-now

Created documentation for the server and VMware trouble shooting procedures.

Designed a challenging Citrix Printing Strategies for improving printing over the LAN and WAN connections by enforcing Citrix policies.

Installed, Maintained and configured Citrix XP, 4.0 and Xen App 4.5 servers

Member of 24X7 on call shift rotation for server and Virtualization environment support.

Configure and deploy new Microsoft windows using WSUS, SCCM for patch management throughout the data center on the servers running windows operating system.

Performance monitoring, tuning and troubleshooting of EMC SAN.

Environment:

VMware ESX 5.5/5.0/4.0, vSphere 4.0, 5.0, 5.5 & Windows Server 2012R2/2008R2/2012/2003, Active Directory 2003, VCOPS, HP Proliant Servers, Dell Hardware, VMAX, VNX, Citrix XenApp 6.0 etc. PowerCLI

Server OS: Windows Server 2000/2003/2008/2012/R2

UPS, Timonium, MD Apr 2013 – Jul 2015

Windows/VMware Admin

Implementation of migration strategy for consolidating Data Centers from around the world to centralized locations in US, which involves numerous servers of various Windows 2008 and 2012 R2.

Design, Installation and configuration of new vSphere 5 ESXi servers on HP DL series and HP Blade Server for the datacenter builds.

Participated in gathering and analysis of business requirements for software capabilities.

Installed Management Server (vCenter Server) instances to enable centralized management of multiple ESXi hosts.

Installation of ESXi 5.0/5.1 Hosts, vCenter Server, vCenter update manager and administering VM’s across 3 Datacenters running 2200 VM’s.

Provided ITIL process planning.

Deploying VMs through OVF, Templates, and Created & Troubleshot Virtual Networks for Virtual machines.

Migrated and Managed VMware ESXi - 5.0 and 5.1, worked on VMware vCenter Operations Manager.

Performed P2V, V2V Migration, Created clones and templates of Virtual Machines.

Configured VMware HA, VMware DRS in acquiring higher efficiency for VMware Infrastructure.

Worked on Migration concepts like vMotion, Storage vmotion using HA and DRS.

Creating the New virtual machines under the Host and configuring each VM, updating the Vmware tools and the hardware version.

Hands on Experience in creating Standard Switches, Distributed switches, Enabling and disabling the ports for the Distribution switches.

Used HP Systems Insight Manager to monitor systems and events.

Troubleshoot HP hardware if the Hosts are disconnected in the vCenter.

Automate ESXi host configuration across large number of hosts and clusters.

Provided level high support for ESXi servers running on HP ProLiant and Windows Virtual Servers.

Involved in Data center migration more Than 500 ESX servers and large number of the windows physical servers.

Administering Active Directory domain services, DHCP, DNS and WSUS.

Manage and monitor Active Directory services and group policies. Maintaining adding users and groups in Wintel Active Directory.

Providing users with access rights and permission for accessing the applications

In place upgrade of the Windows 2003 to 2008 Server by taking back up of.vmdk file of C drive of the Windows 2003 and upgrading the Operating system drive.

Support & Training - Provided necessary help / assistance to IT Helpdesk / Telecom Support Personal to resolve day-to-day issues.

Worked on Ticket process in Remedy Tool in 24x7 environment.

Environment:

Windows Server 2008R2/2012/2003, Active Directory, VMware ESXi 5.0/4.1 Server, vRealize, HP DL & BL server series, HP Insight Manager, BMC Remedy.

Fossil Groups, Dallas, TX Aug 2011 – Mar 2013

VMware Engineer

Planning and implementing Server setup, configuration & administration for Windows 2008, Windows 2003, Active Directory Administration and responsible for managing Windows and VMware. Environment.

Installation, configuration, administration, troubleshooting and maintenance of VMware virtual infrastructure (ESX 4.x and ESXi 5.x vSphere) platforms.

Creation and management of Virtual Machines and Templates.

Creation of clusters for (HA) High Availability, (DRS) Distributed Resource Scheduling and vMotion.

Conversion of physical servers to virtual environment using P2V and VMware Converter.

Administering rights for Users and Groups for Virtual Center access.

Experience with VMware update manager to install patches and updates on ESX/ESXi 4.0 hosts and virtual machines.

Familiar with backup and restore of Virtual Machine backup, snapshot, P2V-V2V conversation with VMware converter and with other third party converters, Patch updating, monitoring/reporting, SSH and SNMP and notification of alerts.

Maintain daily operations for Windows server infrastructure and components.

Coordinate with multiple teams to fulfill new server build requests to satisfy configuration, storage, backup and monitoring requirements.

Perform upgrades to hardware, operating systems, and applications.

Experience installing and configuration of solaris, linux for new build environment.

Experience on monitoring, configuring and managing SCCM environment.

Built servers and installed applications as per the company standards and requirement. Used windows 2003 Standard Edition. Upgraded the Firmware of the servers.

Coordination with vendor / Service provider for problem resolution.

Provide project support by configuring DNS, DHCP, GPOs and Active Directory changes and implementations as needed.

Environment: VMware ESXi 5.0/4.0/3.5, VSphere 5.0/4.0, Windows Server 2008R2/2003, HP Proliant Servers, HA/DRS

Cernium, Reston VA Sep 09 - July’ 11

VMware /Windows Admin

Responsible for participating in providing transition support and services for the Widows servers to gather and define the processes needed for the HP global delivery teams.

Maintaining the file server, application and Print Server.

Created User Accounts, groups and running scripts on production servers.

Assigned local security policies on member servers and standalone servers using RDP.

Manage and monitor Active Directory services and group policies.

Involved in the VMware implementation and expansion work.

Add 80+ hosts bringing total to 120 managed hosts and administered more than 2000+ VMs.

Created and managed separate VMware clusters like QA, Development and Production.

VMware tools upgrading and Windows patch updates.

Migrated datacenters and converted physical servers to virtual servers using VMware and HP Blade servers resulting in a reduction of racks and power usage, decrease downtime during maintenance and upgrades and improved monitoring.

Created and managed resource pools for Virtual Machines.

Monitoring and managing performance of ESX servers and Virtual Machines using Virtual center server for HA, DRS.

Involved in live migration of Virtual Machines and Virtual machines files using the VMotion and Storage VMotion.

Handled the VMware solutions to support multiple storage connectivity options such as FC-SAN, iSCSI, NFS (NAS) and internal storage.

Creation & Troubleshooting of Virtual Network, ESX & Virtual Machines.

Creation of templates from VMs and deploying VMs from templates.

Administer for windows server 2003-2008 and all related server services including FTP, AD, DNS, DHCP and VPN.

Perform regular maintenance of Server 2003-2008, which consist of adding users, editing user loginscripts and granting permission to directories and shared files.

Troubleshoot windows infrastructure by resolving trouble tickets assigned by the users.

Maintained and track hardware and software inventory and documents.

Maintaining documentation and process for supported systems and applications.

Provision VMware Datastore and configure storage for Virtual Machines.

Environment:

Windows 2003/2008R2/ Servers, Active Directory, HP DL & BL server series, HP Insight Manager, VMware ESX 5.1/5.0/4.0, vSphere 4.0, 5.0

BHEL, Hyderabad India Sep 07 – Jul 09

Windows Admin

Participated in 24/7 support roles for Windows Servers, to help maintain and troubleshoot both software and hardware.

Provided Hardware support, troubleshooting and diagnosis.

Created the user accounts and profiles, assign permissions using Active Directory.

Administered the Group Policy, to upgrade and repair software installations.

Respond to and address any tickets/ work requests in the Remedy Queue.

Provided Support for DNS/DHCP/WINS services.

Configured the Microsoft Virtual Server and Virtual PC for testing and development.

Installed WSUS and configured for patch deployment.

Administration of print servers and troubleshooting print jobs.

Troubleshot and resolve computer problems; built and upgrade systems; install software and perform general troubleshooting.

Handled multiple tasks to meet project deadlines.

Develop and update the required network/system administration documentation.

Environment: VMware ESX 5.0/4.0, vSphere 4.0, 5.0, Windows Server 2008R2/2003, Active Directory, HP Proliant DL and Blade Servers.

Certifications :

Microsoft certified Solutions Expert (MCSE)

EDUCATION:

Bachelors in Computer Science (BSc), Osmania University, India

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