VMware Administrator/Senior System Administrator
DR SULAIMAN AL HABIB MEDICAL GROUP
Total years of experience :11 years, 10 Months
Performing daily system monitoring, verifying the integrity and availability of all hardware, server resources, systems and key processes, reviewing system and application logs, and verifying completion of scheduled jobs.
•Configure ESXi host name as per naming conventions.
•Configure NTP on ESXI Host.
•Creating & Documenting ESXi vLans.
•Isolating Management network on ESXi Host, as well as vMotion network.
•Proper labeling of Port groups.
•Performing ongoing performance tuning, hardware.
•Making sure ESXi hosts/ datastores are not over provisioned to avoid performance issues.
•Creating snapshots when required.
•Troubleshooting VMs when required.
•Opening support cases and working along with VMware support team.
•Experience in working with VEEAM backup & replication.
•Configuring backup jobs.
•Configuring VEEAM 3-2-1 steps on backup infrastructure.
•Proactively monitoring ESXi Hosts/VMs health check using VEEAM ONE.
•Monitoring virtual machines disk/CPU/Memory usage.
•Setting up VMware & VEEAM alarms notifications.
•Generating Weekly/Monthly backup reports.
•Generating Monthly VMware health check report via VEEAM ONE reporter.
•ESXi AD integration.
•Proactively monitoring ESXi & VMs Health by vRealize operations manager & VEEAM ONE.
•Experience in performing all aspects of VMware vSphere Operations and actions which is essentially required for virtual machines such as vMotion, Storage vMotion, HA, DRS, DPM.
•Experience in Virtual Center Upgrades from 5.1 to 5.5 & 5.5 including upgrading ESXi hosts.
•Migrations from physical servers to vCenter using VMware stand alone converter.
•Migrations from Hyper-V to VMware environment.
•Adding new ESXi Hosts to vCenter.
•Managed the complete duties associated with vSphere Infrastructure design and maintenance.
•Deployed VMs using generate new SID option to avoid SID conflicts.
•vCenter, implementation for centralized managements all ESXi Hosts in the organization.
•Server efficiency evaluation and performance tuning, including SQL Server workloads.
•Experienced in administration of VMware ESXi Servers on HP C7000 Chassis.
•Implementation and Administration of HP C7000 chassis.
•Checking all the Events logs on the daily basis.
•Experience in working on HP C7000 blades..
•Establish underlying useful resource concern for cluster, host and VMs level and
•Customize the threshold for infrastructure objects and VM Objects utilizing vROPS.
•Worked on Troubleshooting vMotion, Storage vMotion, resource pools patches.
•Enabling Virtual machine vRAM & CPU Hot add.
•Installing/Upgrading VMware tools on the VMs.
•Frequent checks on performance by using command esxtop.
•Configure ESXi Host logs location.
•Configured vCenter linked mode.
•Performing full windows updates to VMware templates.
•Experience in upgrading RAM and disk capacity on physical servers in data centers.
•Experience in building various versions of RHEL VMs.
•Organizing VMs\datastores in proper folders.
•Applied rapid VM deployment, preparing templates, cloning and exporting VM to OVF.
•Experience in creating and managing standard switches.
•Reclaiming VMFS deleted blocks on thin-provisioned LUNS.
•Assigning PARA Virtual SCSCI controllers to data disks of high work load VMs.
•Configured automatic reboot of ESXi Host after PSOD.
•Configuring Memory & CPU reservation for mission critical VMs.
•Taken care of allocating required amount of CPUs only to the VMs to avoid application performance impact.
•Experience in ESXi HBA upgrades lpfc/Emulex.
•Configured RDMs to the required VMs using Microsoft Clustering.
•Rescan of ESXi HBA, when RDM capacity is increased from storage end.
•Migrated vCenter SQL express to remote SQL.
•Patching ESXi hosts using VMware Update Manager.
•Manual consolidation of virtual disk when they fail automatic consolidation after backup.
•Fine tuning of VMware environment as per VMware KB best practices using Runecast Analyzer.
•Maintaining proper number of VMs on the datastores to avoid storage I/O latency in cases where sDRS is not in use.
• Assigning vCenter permissions to vCenter users.
•Changing ESXi host timeout value if required when working with individual ESXi hosts, as they get locked out after 15 mins.
Installation, Configuration and administration of Windows 2008/2012 Servers.
•Installation, configuration and administration of Windows XP, Win 7 Professional Client OS.
•Adding Windows Computers to windows Servers domain.
•Responsible for server deployments, which include application installations, operating system updates & security patches.
•Handling Desktop Management including Home Directory, Profiles, and Folder redirection.
•Creating and administering user accounts in Active directory on Windows Server.
•Troubleshooting LAN Connectivity related problems.
•Taking up the users email client issues and login into their remote systems.
•Taking Backups and Troubleshooting Systems.
• Assigning Folder Permissions to users.
•Windows updates to VMs.
• Maintaining Assets Inventory and documentation.
•Creating VMware virtual machines.
•Monitoring VMware Environment
•Patching VMware templates.
•Copying .iso images to datastores if required.
•Troubleshooting virtual machines.
•Upgrading ESXi hosts.
•Deploying OVF templates.
•Creating snapshots.
•Increasing disk space of VMs.
•VMotion of VMs during maintenance activity.
•Configuring VMware alarms.
•Adding ESXi hosts to vCenter.
•Exporting list of VMs from vCenter with desired fields.
Masters Degree in IT from UEL (UK)
Bachelor of Technology in Electronics & Communication Engineering