Sr. Consultant
CISCO
Total years of experience :12 years, 9 Months
Lead Engineer for Cisco in the Advanced Services team (Red badge), in the payroll of Flint. Leading large Datacenter implementations, Migrations, Involving HCI & Storage.
•Design, Install, Configure & Troubleshoot advanced Cisco UCS & DELL VxRail, Nutanix, Hyperflex & Netapp HCI Solutions from start for finish for vSphere, AHV and Hyper-V, VMware cloud Foundation deployments. Datacenter Sizing for HCI. Workload migration from VBLOCK to VXRAIL, Hyperflex & Nutanix.
•Datacenter Sizing for HCI (vSAN Sizer, Dell Live optics/ DPAC, Oracle AWE, Nutanix RV tools) . Workload migration from VBLOCK to VXRAIL, Hyperflex & Nutanix. Develop Migration strategy, Plan & execute Migration strategy P2V, V2V, V2C - (Anywhere to VMware & AHV). Migration tools like HCX, Platespin, Doubletake etc. Configure & Manage vCenter, VxRAIL Manager, Nutanix AHV, Prism Central & Calm. Troubleshooting & Monitoring the VxRAIL, Hyperflex & Nutanix.
•Prepare Design Documents for HCI, HLD, LLD based on the Customer requirement. Prepare Rack & Cabling Diagrams & send to the partner for the Rack & stack & Cabling. Verify the Rack & Stack & cabling. Configure HCI environment for Nutanix AHV & VMware ESXi Setup & configure management solutions like Prism Central & vCenter.
•Administering Storage arrays on HP Storage, PowerMax, PowerStore, PowerScale, Unity, VNX, Compellent, Netapp. Integrating multi-operating systems VMware, Microsoft, Linux etc. to existing storage of Dell Compellent, Unity, Isiolon, Netapp, 3PAR etc. Storage Administration, Performance troubleshooting & RCA.
•Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery - Setup Nutanix Data Protection & DR Runbooks. Automate DR runbooks Setup & validate cross-hypervisor DR solution
•VMware products Deploy, VDI infrastructure, Operation, Administration & Disaster recovery, VMware configurations such as HA, DRS, VSAN, NSX, server & storage vMotion.
•Cisco UCS health checks, UCS Architecture Assessment, UCS Configuration & Performance Audit, UCS Leading Practices Audit, Onsite Unified Computing Consulting Support, Nexus Series Health Check, UCS Operational Enhancement Assessment. SAN Assessment, SAN Architecture Review SAN Health check.
•Cisco UCS Manager Administration, Network Management, Server Management, Storage Management, Infrastructure Management, Firmware Management, System Monitoring, UCS S3260 integration into UCS manger, UCS 6200 FI to UCS 6454 FI. Experience of Cisco UCSM, Fabric Interconnects, FEX, B & C-Series Servers.
Chosen as migration & consolidation engineer for High profile customers. Implement & Administer Dell Servers, Cisco UCS, HP Storage, Dell EMC VMAX, VNX, ISIILON, Netapp, Compellent SAN (FC/iSCSI) Equallogic (iSCSI) Powervault Storage, Dell Force10 & PowerConnect implementation & integration into customer network, Dell Blade Chassis M1000e & Blades, Dell Poweredge, HP, IBM Servers & converged infrastructure.
•Design/ Deploy/ Administer VMware, Azure, AWS. Design & deploy the core management infrastructure for an enterprise, virtual data center, compute infrastructure, storage & networking infrastructures for an enterprise, virtual machines to run applications in a vSphere infrastructure, Design & Deploy Security. P2V migrations to Cloud.
Datacenter Design & System Integration, Implement, Administer DELL & Cisco UCS Servers, EMC Storage & VMware VSI & VDI solutions. Provide support for Dell & EMC products & solutions. Create HLD LLd documents. Implement new IT Infrastructure with DELL Blades Chassis PE M1000e, PowerConnect switches, Compellent, Equallogic, EMC VMAX, VNX, Fujitsu Eternus Storages, Brocade & MDS switches for SAN connectivity. PowerEdge Blade/ Rack Servers. Configuration of the servers, Blades I/O Modules.
•Design & Implement virtualization solutions - VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V. Datastore provisioning for the ESXi hosts & Storage Management. VDI Solutions from Vmware Horizon & Fujitsu Zero client. SRM & DR.
Datacenter Design & System Integrations, DELL Server & Storage related technical escalations for Oman. Design & Implement virtualization - VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper V. Datastore provisioning for the ESXi hosts & Storage Management Provide support for Dell Vendors in Oman. Compellent Implementation, Storage migration to Compellent & SAN Fabric Administration. Implement new IT Infrastructure with DELL Blades Chassis PE M1000e, PowerConnect switches, Compellent, Equallogic Storages, Brocade switches for SAN connectivity. PowerEdge Servers
Technical Lead -SAN Administration: Perform configuration on Netapp, IBM, EMC & Dell EqualLogic storage. HBA & SAN fabric configuration (Qlogic/Brocade). Resolve any storage shortages, Alert & resolve any performance issues & notify end-users Firmware up gradations, LUN provisioning, Zoning.
•AD infrastructure & Exchange administration: Up-gradation 2003 to 2008 AD, Group policy modifications to meet ISO/Audit recommendation. Ensuring Consistent desktop environment in whole organization. Troubleshooting AD related issues. DNS & DHCP administration. Performing Backups of AD, DHCP. Exchange Management Shell & PowerShell Proficiency. Linux & AIX patching, Hardening & System administration.
Manage company's IT Infrastructure. Dell, IBM Server, Netapp Storage & Cisco Network Devices Administration. Microsoft Servers & Linux Administration. Accountable for all hardware.