Platform Engineer
Saudi intelligent Solutions
Total years of experience :21 years, 2 Months
• Data Center and Cloud Transformation: SDDC, SDS, SDN.
• Cloud Solutions: Private Cloud, Public Cloud, Hybrid Cloud, OpenStack, PAAS, IAAS, SAAS, VDI
• IT Solutions: Hyper-Converged infrastructure, High end Server and Storage, HA and DR solutions.
• Manage Three SDDCs, 100+ ESXi Host, 1018+ VM, 6 vCenters.
• Attempt to increase virtualized servers percentage from 75% to 95%.
• Design & Implementing VMware SRM Solution.
• Planning & Migrating 49 Physical RDM within 5 clusters (SharePoint, Evault, Quest, SQL clusters) from OLD EMC storage to IBM SVC storage.
• Reduce RDM disks numbers from 130 to 70 for fast storage operations (Add, remove, rescan).
• Patching hosts with RDM LUNs that take a long time to boot or during LUN rescan.
• Applying best PSP that fit Storage array type plugin to handle path fail-over.
• Using SDRS for Out-Of-Space avoidance and Storage tiering.
• Resolving IBM SVC SCSI reservations conflicts due to FC Switch Outage through forcing a loop initialization (LIP) via the HBA driver.
• VMFS Data stores Block size alignment to fix the huge storage operations delay on ESXi hosts Cluster.
• Migrating Cluster VMs with Physical RDM Across boxes “CAB” & in boxes “CIB”.
• Use vCOPS & ESXTOP to discover and analyses production latencies and bottlenecks.
• Use PowerCLI to apply bulk Network & storage tasks like add/modify VLANs or scan cluster hosts HBA.
• Find workaround for virtual machines clone, migrate obstacles between geographically distributed datacenters.
• Recover virtual networking migration failure during upgrade from 4.1 to 5.0.
• Troubleshooting vCenter Server database configuration issues like Purging old data & VM deletion errors from the vCenter database that makes server delay.
• Process Re-engineering - Setting up decommissioning process which includes physical removal of obsolete/out of warranty machines out of datacenter.
• Collecting diagnostic information (resource usage, partitioning, and bottlenecks) for VMware Infrastructure for best action.
• Planning & upgrading for vSphere 5.x using Update Manager.
• Following up Veeam backup operations and failures.
• Support Network architects for STP & bridges loops.
• Install and configure ESXi.
• Install and configure vCenter Server components.
• Configure and manage ESXi networking and storage using vCenter Server.
• Deploy, manage, and migrate virtual machines.
• Manage user access to the VMware infrastructure.
• Use vCenter Server to monitor resource usage.
• Use vCenter Server to increase scalability.
• Use VMware vCenter™ Update Manager to apply ESXi patches.
• Use vCenter Server to manage higher availability and data protection.
• Managing and troubleshooting 200 Dell PowerEdge M610 & HP Bl280c Servers.
• Enclosures and interconnect Modules distributed at remote sites.
• Using System Insight Manager server for remote support, Monitoring and firmware update repository.
• Disaster investigates and recovery for memory errors within 96 server.
• Proof the Manufacturer error for HP and Replacing 192 memory modules.
Work Experience of the following:
• Best practices Virtual Desktop solutions (VMware view 4, Citrix Xendesktop) using display protocols (ICA, PCoIP, RDP with RemoteFX) software based to build Virtual Desktop Infrastructure.
• Best practices on Cloud OS (MS Windows Azure & VMware vCloud Express)
• HP Blade Systems Enclosures and Virtual connect switches and HP SIM servers.
• Hands on deployment and manage VMware virtual Infrastructure and Hyper-V and ISCSI storage solution on large scale Data centre.
• Specializing in server and desktop deployment and maintenance Using Ghost Solutions Suites to Deploy Windows in wide-scale Environment.
• Developing Single Intel/AMD & uni/multi-processor with Windows XP, Vista, Win7 Image include essential software kit to be deploy on any computer.
• Deploying MS Cluster on Direct Attached Storage Using MS WSS.
• MS Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, Hyper-V server.
• Symantec Backup Exec, Arc server, Websense Filtering software.
• Installing and Configuring of EMC Storage Devices, DELL servers.
• Active participate in company-wide Technology Improvement projects.
• Evaluating new technologies to enhance operations for use.
• Monitor, plan and coordinate the distribution of and applying of operating system updates, patches and configuration changes.
Also Monitor & review execution of plans and taking corrective actions, Participate in operation design and taking final technical decisions, Review the team deliverables against function specification, maintain a consolidated view of the product, and of how to qualify this Product.
Administrate hertz egypt domain and network design and troubleshooting .
also administrate EDGE software for car rental .
and implement exchange server .
26 live Lab Exam which include all vSphere sides, Storage, Networking, Management, with a very tricky tasks.
MCSA Microsoft Certified System Administrator
MCSE Microsoft Certified System Engineer