Virtualization & Storage System Administrator
HEWLETT-PACKARD
Total years of experience :16 years, 0 Months
Located at client SAUDI POST
VIRTUALIZATION & STORAGE:
Handling design, architecture & implementation of Virtual Infrastructure environments using vCenter, DRS, HA, VUM, VMware VI, Web Client, DPM, vMotion, VMware Data Recovery, VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM) & vCenter Operations Manager
Virtualized the Disaster recovery (DR) Datacentre with VMware 5.5
Proven expertise in designing & implementing:
o vSphere 5.x with HP Blade Center C7000, HP ProLiant BL460c, BL660c G8 Blade
o HP Virtual Connect, FlexNics, FlexFabric Networking
o VMware SRM 5.5 for Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity
o HP 3PAR Remote Copy for Async & Sync SAN Replication
Successfully implemented Bidirectional SRM Failover/Failback BCDR Strategy
Strong knowledge of VMware, vCenter, vSphere, installation, configuration, troubleshooting
o Creating VAPPS, Virtual machines and Templates.
o Cloning of Virtual machines.
o VMWARE SNAPSHOT management.
o VMWARE Tools management.
o Distributed resource scheduling migration and
o Storage distributed resource scheduling migration.
o Managing ESXi hosts and cluster.
o Maintaining Data stores and Storage cluster
o Rebuild ESXi 5.x hosts as 6.x hosts
o Experience in P2V conversion
Deploy HP Storages EVA 440, 3PAR 7200 & 7400
Experience in creating Common Provisioned Groups(CPG), Virtual Volumes(VV), creating Hosts, exporting Virtual Volumes to Host, creating Virtual Domains, Domain object and managing Domain objects in HP-3PAR.
Knowledge Provisioning and exporting LUN’S to ESXI, Linux and Windows hosts.
Designed, Deployed Virtualization using the VMware vCenter Server 5.0, ESXi 5.0, clusters, HA and DRS vMotion, High Availability (HA), virtual networking, VMware Update Manager (VUM), P2V, V2V Migration, VM templates, cloning
•Managing, monitoring Managing and Troubleshooting ESXi Hosts and Virtual Machines using vCenter
•VM provisioning
•Migrated all Physical Server to Virtual.
•Migration of MS Exchange 2013 to Virtual Environment.
•Upgrade ESXi servers, Deploy patches using VMware Update Manager
•Increasing resources (CPU, RAM, NIC) on the VM's
•Deploy and administer HP-3PAR 7200, HDS arrays, performance analysis, migrations, replication, etc. Very good understanding of concepts and architecture, capacity reporting/planning.
•Provisioning and Exporting storage between storage arrays and server assets (Esxi, Windows and Unix Based), assignment of RAID levels, LUN configurations
•Hand on experience on Adaptive Optimization, Performance monitoring and management using CLI and System Reporter, vendor management, FLASH CACHE, RAID protection.
•Well versed with 3PAR CLI, SSMC, System Reporter, SRM, HDS CLI, HCS and Tuning Manager.
•Experience in managing fiber channel switches - Brocade. Knowledge of NFS, CIFS,
•Advanced knowledge of SAN best practices for current VMware, Windows and Linux operation systems, Files systems, MS SQL
•Implementing and Managing Active Directory 2012 R2
•Implementing Group Polices and Managing DNS, DHCP.
•Implementing and Managing Exchange server 2013 and upgrade from 2010 to 2013.
•Deployment of MS SQL 2012 on Microsoft Cluster.
•Implementation of Microsoft SCOM 2012 and SCCM
•Planning and Implementing VERITAS NetBackup 7.5 & 8.0 Backup system
•Experience with Linux Server administration like Red Hat 6 & Oracle Linux6.X. Management and Maintenance of OS and operations software administration and patching. Installation, Configuration, Monitoring and Troubleshooting. Disk Management using Logical Volume Manager (LVM) User and group Administration
Accomplishments:
•Implementation of windows 2002 Active Director and Exchange Server 5.5
•Administering user in Active Director and user's mailbox.
•Installed & Configured Internet Access Policies using ISA-Server2000
•Deployed e-Fax Solution using Enterprise Right Fax manager
•Upgrading Active Director
courses: Technical Certifications and Trainings : •ITIL V3 (Certified) •VCP DCV 5.1 (Certified) •MCPIT Enterprise Administrator 2008, MCSA 2008, MCSE 2003, MCSE NT (Certified) •Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA) (Certified) •Symantec NetBackup 7.5 for UNIX and Windows -Advanced Administration (Training Attended). •EMC san storage (Training Attended). •Managing HPE3PAR StoreServ I & II (HP Training Attended). •Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP). •Red Hat 6. (Training Attended) •HPE Backup Data Protector 9.0 (HP Training Attended). •Microsoft SCOM, SCCM. (Training Attended).