Viswanath Baskaran Email & Phone Number

Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

Citrix, Vmware, Hyper-v Consultant(Project Implementation, Support)

Abu Dhabi

As a Citrix, VMware Consultant, I have been engaged on numerous projects, which range from architecture and design, to engineering and implementation, to post implementation support and administration. • Projects include all aspects of the Citrix including XenApp, Xenserver and Xendesktop, Xenmobile, Netscaler.• Design, Technology Presentation, Implement, and support for Microsoft Windows 2000, 2003, 2008, Citrix XenApp upgrade and maintain 5, 6.0, 6.5,7.6 and Administration of VMware vSphere v4, 5. • Building a Project Plan for Managing and Deploying Citrix XenApp, Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Citrix XenApp with Application Streaming, Password Manger Single - Sign on, Citrix Secure Access Gateway, Access Gateway, Citrix Edge Sight Server to monitor application performance and reports. • Implemented Secure Gateway Internal / External and Web Access hosting XenApp 5, 6, 6.5 at the same site. • Create Citrix Profiles, Policies and Procedure. Generate Policies for Printing, and Load Balancing. • Experience on Citrix and VMware Migration to Latest versions.• Work independently and in small teams. Microsoft servers and Active Directory Citrix GPO on VMware platforms ESXi 4, 5.5• Application testing, Maintain and administer computer networks and related computing environments, including computer hardware, systems software, applications software, and all configurations. • Gather data pertaining to customer needs, and use the information to identify, predict, interpret, and evaluate system and network requirements. • Recommend changes to improve systems and network configurations, and determine hardware or software requirements related to such changes. • Monitor network and systems performance in order to determine whether adjustments need to be made, and to determine where changes will need to be made in the future. • Maintain proper documentation and control records. Provide second-level technical assistance to end-user support staff.

Citrix• Managing VDI Environment for Verizon employee more than 4000+ Task based Users like .Net, Web logic, etc.• Managing 21 virtual disks (Golden images) in our Provisioning Server Data Store presented by SAN storage. • Patching Virtual Disks (Golden images) at regular Change activity, which includes MS and Antivirus Patches.• Deployed Citrix UPM 4.0 and PVD to manage user profiles in Citrix Xendesktop and Xenapp environment. Managing user profile settings using custom ADM templates. • Involved Implementation of Citrix Xenapp wherein we have installed more than 300+ applications.• Having a similar Non Prod environment where we have Virtual servers deployed for Citrix Desktop Delivery Controller, Provisioning Server and VMware Virtual Center Server. The test environment can hold 500+ desktop.• Upgraded Citrix components Xendesktop 5 to Xendesktop 5.1 then to Xendesktop 5.6, PVS 5.1 to PVS 6.1, and Xenapp 6 to Xenapp6.5 and citrix license server.• Handling L3 level escalated Tickets resect to Citrix VDI.VMware• Installing, Configuration, Administration and Trouble shooting of ESXi 5.1, Virtual Center, VI Client.• Creating Cluster for High Availability (HA) and Distributive Resource Scheduler (DRS).• Creating Resource Pool, Motion, Alerts, Alarms, NTP.• Creating and Managing Virtual Machines and Templates.• P2V & V2V migration and general maintenance activities regularly.• Monitoring VMWare Infrastructure – CPU, Memory, Disks and network.• Assigning Permission and Privilege based on the access level.PowerShell Automation• Automating Citrix Tasks(Provisioning Application, Adding Machines to Catalog and Desktop Group) Using PowerShell • Created PowerShell Self-help Auto fix Tool for user login issue with Citrix VDI• Automated daily health check Dashboard which include all high level components (DDC, PVS, Vcenter, SQL, WI)• Developed trend report to view the historical reports for weekly and monthly views for Top management.

System engineer

Symantec specalist

Master Of Computer Applications (Mca), Computer Science

MCA

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