Servers & Storage Engineer
King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Center
Total years of experience :25 years, 7 Months
Roles and Responsibilities:
•VMware Infrastructure 5.x vSphere Installation & Configuration.
•Planning and Designing VMware/vSphere (ESXi 5.1/5.5/6.0 and VMware vCenter)
•Currently managing 5 VMware Datacenters w/ 1500+VM's running on 200 ESX hosts.
•Created standard templates and deployed virtual machines from these templates.
•Managing Tasks, Events and Alarms.
•System Administration-Managing Users, Groups, Roles and Access Permissions.
•Migrated VMs across hosts within a HA cluster to perform maintenance tasks on ESXi hosts.
•Used VMware vMotion to eliminate application downtime from planned server maintenance by migrating running virtual machines between hosts.
•Performing Snapshots, Cloning, Cold Migrations and Hot Migrations.
•Installed and configured Update Manager. Imported patches and created the base lines for ESX Upgrades.
•Design & Deployment and Support of Veeam Backup & Replication 8.0 for virtual infrastructure.
•Design & Deployment of Veeam One monitoring.
•Performed hardware replacement and troubleshooting for the Dell Rack servers and HP Blade servers.
•Converted over 200 Physical servers to Virtual (P2V) using VMWare Converter.
•Installed several hotfixes and patches on windows servers to eliminate vulnerabilities.
•Failed over Windows cluster resources from Active to Passive nodes in a cluster environment for scheduled maintenance and emergency changes.
•Handled 1200+ Server Alerts by using SCOM and worked on the initial triage of the alerts followed by creation of Outage Tickets and intimating the business units through Email.
•In place renaming Virtual Machines.
•Efficiently handled the VMs Storage issues in environment.
•Installing, Configuring and OS tuning of Linux Servers (RedHat, CentOS).
•Experience in setting up Repositories, Application Deployment on Linux Servers.
•Managing user’s roles and privileges on Linux Servers.
•Backup and Restore the SAN switch configuration (Config upload/download).
•Switch Firmware upgrade/downgrade.
•Creation/Deletion of Zones and enable/disable and modifications of zone configurations
•Creation/deletion of RAID Groups.
•Successfully upgraded the Windows 2003 to Windows 2008/2012 with large data and minimal downtime.
•Configured and monitored Microsoft SQL server 2005/2008/2012 Databases and perform routine tasks such as performance tuning, indexing, purging and database replication for vCenter server and Database dependent virtual machines.
•Configuring the IBM Tivoli Client & Restore the data.
•Installing, Configuring, Customizing, Optimizing, Networking, Integrating and Troubleshooting 2003/2008/2012 Servers and Clients.
•Participating in infrastructure and strategies planning meetings.
•Ensure reported issues are solved in proper way and documented
Hail (KSA)
Roles and Responsibilities:
•Reengineered company’s systems setup, establishing automated server generation routines, optimizing system performance, installing upgrades/patches, establishing system monitoring and maintaining security protocols.
•Ensured that all server hardware, operating systems, software and procedures aligned with organizational standards and strategic business plan.
•Domain migration from Windows Server 2003 to Windows Server 2012 Datacenter.
•Mail server migration from Exchange Server 2010 to Exchange Server 2012.
•Implementation of IP VPN Network of Emarat Hail Region with 30 Branches.
•Web Server Installation and Maintenance (http://hail.gov.sa/site)
•Mail Server Installation and Maintenance (https://mail.hail.gov.sa/owa)
•Implemented Cisco ASA 5510 firewall security policies.
•Interactive Voice Response IVR implementation using Voice Guide software and Intel Dialogic Card.
•Implementation 2 Way SMS with Short Code ( 70070 ).
•Installing, Configuring and Administration of Dell MD3600f Storage.
•Application Support and providing training to the office employees.
•Installation and maintenance of Windows 2003/2008/2012 Server, MS-SQL Database servers.
•Responsible for the DMS (Document Management) System.
•Designed and implemented NT backup scheme.
•Creating and continually update Documentation on all systems and procedures
Hail, KSA.
•Performed business requirements analysis and data modeling
•Designed object relation diagrams, process flow diagram and objects modeling
•Created the triggers, functions and stored procedures.
•Conducted release testing, bug verification and software testing
•Worked and enhanced the flow of internal applications.
•Worked with the team of coding and handled coding of various applications described below.
•I.T. Asset Management System for Ministry of Interior, Hail Region, KSA
•InOut(Document Archiving) System for Ministry of Interior, Hail Region, KSA:
•Personal System for Ministry of Interior, Hail Region, KSA:
•Attendance System for Ministry of Interior, Hail Region, KSA:
•Agriculture System for Ministry of Agriculture, Hail Region, KSA:
•Quiz System conducted
Roles and Responsibilities:
•Implementation and maintenance of the Win NT 4.0/2000 Servers, of Novell Netware 2.0 /3.12.
•Managing File Server, Application Server, Print Server, Database Server.
•Internet Connection Sharing using MS Proxy 2.0, ISA Server, WinProxy, ICS.
•System administration and providing support for Oracle, MS SQL Server Database.
•Successfully completed Warangal District Citizen Database (Oracle 8.0) Project (Phase II & III).
•Scheduling regular backups and maintaining Server logs up to Date.
•Recovery of lost data using Final Data 2.0, Stellar Phonix software.
Adept in building strong relationships with IT staff, customers, vendors and third party contractors.
•Solid understand of application development, computer programming and architecture design.
•Experience with Virtualization technologies like Installing, Configuring, and Administering VMware ESX/ESXi.
•Responsible for creating and managing VMs and day to day management of VMware ESXi, including provisioning, patch management and issue resolution.
•Designed and Implemented Veeam Backup & Replication 8.0 later upgraded to 9.0 as Virtualization Backup Solution.
•Knowledge about SAN Configuration and Implementation, Storage Components like Internal storage, Attached storages, SAN Switches, HBA, LUN & Mapping, RAID groups, Volume Groups.
•Experience with Disaster Recovery Planning, Remote Access, Office Products, Routers, Switches and Backup devices.
•Experience in Installation of all types of Microsoft Windows OS (2016/2012/2008Servers), Linux OS (RedHat, CentOS) and Deploying Application Software under multi-platform environments.
•Experience in Active Directory, GPOs, DNS, DHCP, File & Print Server, IIS (Web Server), FTP, Terminal Server, NAT, Microsoft Clustering and Exchange Mail Server in Windows based server environment.
•Professional Working Experience on Dell Servers (Power Edge R910/R920/R720 Blade Servers M610/620/630) and HP Servers.
•Hands on experience in oracle database management
PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATION & TRAININGS: •TrendMicro Deep Security Certified Professional. •Corbonite Double-Take (DR Solution