محمد سيف أحمد, Senior Engineer

محمد سيف أحمد

Senior Engineer

Intertec Systems

البلد
الإمارات العربية المتحدة - دبي
التعليم
بكالوريوس, Engineering
الخبرات
16 years, 8 أشهر

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مجموع سنوات الخبرة :16 years, 8 أشهر

Senior Engineer في Intertec Systems
  • الإمارات العربية المتحدة
  • أشغل هذه الوظيفة منذ ديسمبر 2016

EMC Enterprise Hybrid Cloud - Administration of Enterprise Hybrid Cloud which is a completely virtualized datacenter, fully automated by software.
•EMC Enterprise Hybrid Cloud - Migration of VMs from VMWare Cluster to Cloud environment.
•EMC Enterprise Hybrid Cloud - Provisioning new Cloud Storage, Creating resource reservations, Assigning storage to Business group reservations.
•EMC Enterprise Hybrid Cloud - Managing Data Protection as a Service with Avamar.

•EMC Enterprise Hybrid Cloud - Managing Data Replication as a Service with RP for VMs.
•Providing technical inputs during Presales discussions, participating in RFP’s, Defining Scope of delivery.
•Migration of data using various technologies Open Replicator, Powerpath Migrator etc.
•Setup of EMC ESRS and Policy Manager for Proactive Remote Support of the SAN infrastructure.

Senior Engineer في International Turnkey Systems
  • الكويت - الكويت
  • أبريل 2015 إلى نوفمبر 2016

Design, Initialize & Implement VNX / VMAX Systems.
•Implementation of Multisite Physical and Virtual Recover Point Clusters - DR Drill to illustrate Functionality of RP.
•Implementation of ViPR SRM for Monitoring and Reporting of Storage Infrastructure.
•Migration of Unified VNX5500 to VNX5600 - File Server Migration from VNX5500 to VNX5600.
•Migration of Physical hosts and Virtual Machine RDM disks using Powerpath ME.
•Mirror View and Snapview Clone Implementation - DR drill to illustrate functionality.
•SANCOPY implementation and migration of hosts using SANCOPY.
•Setup of VNX replicator for File - DR Drill to illustrate functionality of Replication for file.
•Initialize and Code Upgrade VNX/VMAX arrays.
•Brocade SAN Switch - Code upgrade, zoning new hosts, ISL and Trunking.
•Implementation of Remote and Local Replication for VMAX systems - Symclone and SRDF.
•Pool creation, Storage Provisioning and Decommissioning on the VMAX arrays.

IT Architect في M.H.Alshaya Co.
  • الكويت - الكويت
  • أبريل 2013 إلى نوفمبر 2013
Senior Engineer في Computer Sciences Corporation India Ltd
  • الهند
  • يوليو 2012 إلى أبريل 2013

EMC
•Provisioning/Decommissioning of LUNs on the Storage arrays -EMC Symmetrix, EMC VNX.
•Creating Filesystems on the linux, Solaris hosts post LUN provisioning.
•Data Replication and Restore - SRDF / Symclone on the EMC Symmetrix arrays
•Data Protection on the EMC VNX using Snapshots and Clone.
•Project - Setup of EMC Control Centre - Centralized Alert Management Systems for the SAN environment
•Project - Data Migration from EMC DMX array to EMC VMAX array.
•Mapping and masking of devices using symcli and SMC Creating Meta’s, Thin pools, save pools, clones, rdf groups, adding data dev to thin pools, bind tdevs to thin pools, changing attributes of devices, setting FA port properties, SRDF /TF operations, Migration using
•LUN creation, Extending and Deleting using Unisphere, Creating Storage group adding host and LUNS to the storage group, Creating Private and Reserved pools for Snapview Clone and Snapview Snap, Verifying storage connectivity and identifying connectivity issues, Registering and Deregistering manually host initiators, Creating RG and Pools, Installing enablers using USM. Configuring notifications and alerts, enabling performance logging, collecting nar files and analyzing performance.
•Setup of the EMC Control Centre to monitor the entire SAN infrastructure.
•Documenting storage infrastructure inventory.

NETAPP
•Volume Creation.
•Replication using Snapmirror and Snapvault.
•Snapshot scheduling and Data Restore from snapshots and Snapmirror volume.
•Creating CIFS shares.
•Creating iSCSI/FC LUNs, mapping to igroups.
•Snap Drive Configuration and management.
•Volume Management - Increasing space, adjusting snap reserve, deleting snapshots.
•Volume Migration from one filer to another.
•Creating and managing Vfilers
•Project - Document and Carry out Disaster Recovery drill using Snapmirror/Flexclone.

Technical Lead في HCL Technologies Ltd
  • الهند
  • أكتوبر 2009 إلى يوليو 2012

EMC
•Provisioning/Decommissioning Storage on the EMC Symmetrix/VNX array.
•Local Replication of data using Time Finder Mirror and Time Finder Clone.
•Data replication to remote site using SRDF.
•On Demand Restoration of data from the local/ Remote Copies.
•Data Replication/Restore on the EMC VNX array using Snapshot, Clone and Mirror View.
•Setup of the EMC VNX Block - Pool Creation, FAST Policy creation, Alert notifications etc.
•Setup of the EMC VNX File - Creating Devices, Virtual Datamovers, Interface, CIFS Server.
•Creating NFS and CIFS shares on the EMC Celerra NS-960 and scheduling checkpoints.
•Zoning / reclaiming zones on the Brocade DCX switches.
•Developing SOPs for both customers and technical colleagues.
•Working knowledge of Veritas Volume Manager (VxVM).
• Project - Migration from Symmir to Symclone.
•Project - Data Migration from Symmetrix DMX-3 to Symmetrix DMX-4.
•Project - Data Migration from EMC CX-960 to VNX 7500 using SAN Copy.

NETAPP
•Aggro / Volume Creation.
•Replication and Restore of Data using Snapmirror, Snapvault and Snapshots.
•Creating NFS/CIFS shares.
•Creating iSCSI/FC LUNs, mapping to igroups.
•Snap Drive Configuration and management.
•Volume Management - Increasing space, adjusting snap reserve, deleting snapshots.
•Volume Migration from one filer to another.
•Creating and managing Vfilers
•Project - Data Ontap upgrade on all the filers in the environment.
•Project - Document and Carry out Disaster Recovery drill using Snapmirror/Flexclone.

Senior Analyst في Patni Computer Systems Ltd
  • الهند
  • يناير 2008 إلى سبتمبر 2009

EMC
•LUN Provisioning and Decommissioning on the EMC DMX and Clariion array.
•Creating/reclaiming zones on Brocade switches.
•Administering the SAN switches in the environment.
•Data Replication and Restore Using on ENC DMX using Symclone.
•Troubleshooting BCV backup failure issues to ensure successful copy of data on to the tapes.

NETAPP
•Volume Creation.
•Volume Management - Increasing space, adjusting snap reserve, deleting snapshots.
•Configuring Snapmirror, Configuring Snapvault, Snap scheduling.
•Snapshot, snap mirror and Snapvault restore.
•Volume Migration from one aggregate to another .Volume Migration from one filer to another.
•Providing permissions to hosts on the NFS volumes.
•Creating iSCSI LUNs and presenting to hosts.

Senior Associate في Wipro
  • الهند
  • مايو 2006 إلى يناير 2008

الخلفية التعليمية

بكالوريوس, Engineering

QUALIFICATION:

Specialties & Skills

Business Continuity
Disaster Recovery
Virtualization
DELIVERY
MANAGEMENT
MIGRATION
NETSCAPE ENTERPRISE SERVER
SCHEDULING
SWITCHES
UPGRADES

اللغات

العربية
متمرّس
الانجليزية
متمرّس
الهندية
متمرّس
الأوردو
متمرّس

التدريب و الشهادات

VMware vSphere: Optimize and Scale [V6.5] (تدريب)
معهد التدريب:
VmWare
تاريخ الدورة:
January 2018
المدة:
40 ساعة
EMCISA – Information Storage Associate V2 (الشهادة)
تاريخ الدورة:
January 2015
NCDA - NetApp Certified Data Administrator (الشهادة)
تاريخ الدورة:
July 2010
EMCSA – VNX Solution Specialist V 8.0 (الشهادة)
تاريخ الدورة:
January 2015
EMCSA – Platform Engineer, Symmetrix Specialist V7.0 (تدريب)
معهد التدريب:
EMC
تاريخ الدورة:
September 2015