Yahya Khan

& VMware at HCL Technologies Ltd.

• United Arab Emirates
• My current job since January 2023

Providing general shift support to client Securitas India as a SAN & NAS Storage & VMware Admin.
•On Daily Basis Monitoring of storages & VM health checkup.
•Supporting abroad country storage remotely which are located at Saudi Arabia, Hong Kong DC, Thailand, Dubai DC, Singapore, Vietnam, Indonesia, Australia, China, Korea, South Africa & India.
•Handling NAS Storage - Synology, Drobo B800i, Synology SA3200D, HP StorageWorkS P2000G3, Synology NAS DS1522, Synology RS217, Synology DS220J, Synology RS3617RPxs & Dell PowerEdge Storage.
•Handling SAN Storage - IBM FlashSystem 5000, IBM Storwize V7000, IBM FlashSystem 5010 Dell SC4020, Dell Unity 380, Dell EMC SC7020 & SC9000.
•Handling MDS Cisco DS-C9148 & Brocade 6520 Switch.
•Handling VMware Vcenter, High Availability, DRS, SDRS, vMotion, SvMotion, Fault Tolerance, Standard vSwitch, Snapshot, templates & Clone ext.
•Live Storage Migration using SVMotion Live Server Migration using vMotion Live Server & Storage Migration without shared storage (vMotion+SVMotion).
•Strick Lock down mode VMFSL vs VMFS Partition.
•VM Server Creation, Deletion Creating, Taking, Scheduling, Managing & Deleting Snapshot Migration, Backup, Create Clone etc.
•Assign License to ESXi host and vCenter, Create Vcenter, create Datacenter, add Host, Create clusters.
•Create VM with Hot Add enable and install OS ESXi Maintenance Mode.
•VM tools installation, Hot Add of RAM, CPU & HDD, Hot extend of HDD, Register/Unregister VM.
•Exporting & deploying OVF template, Converting VM to template, creating content Library, Adding ISO image and template in content library.
•Adding AD domain to SSO, assigning permission to SSO and AD user, creating roles.
•Creating and applying host profile, reset ESXi root password using host profile, exporting and importing of host profiles.
•Creating VM port group, VMkernel network adaptor and standard switch, Adding/Removing vmnic on vSwitch NIC Teaming & Active/Passive failover testing Separating vMotion & FT Traffic.
•Creating users & Assigning permission to SSO user and AD user Creating roles.
•Used VMware vMotion to eliminate application downtime from planned server maintenance by migrating running virtual machines between hosts.
•Created clones from existing VMs (both live and powered-off) Deployed several VMs from Templates and customized their configurations as needed.
•Configuring FT, Creating Distributed Switch, Adding ESXi host to dvSwitch, Migrating all VMs and VMkernal to dvSwitch.
•P2V/V2V using VMware vCenter converter and Taking backup of vCenter and restoring.
•Using VMware Life cycle Manager to upgrade and patch ESXi host.
•Load Balancing across ESXi hosts using DRS Load Balancing across Datastore using SVMotion DRS Rules to keep VM separate & Together SDRS VM Affinity & vmdk Anti-Affinity rules.