Virtualization Engineer
diyar united company
Total des années d'expérience :19 years, 5 Mois
As a Virtualization Engineer to support and always maintain SLA for our client IT Datacenter Servers. My responsibilities is to involve in various projects to take care Virtual/Physical Environment to study Design, Implement, Install, Administrating, Monitoring and Troubleshooting in Government & Private sector Projects for VMware vSphere/ Horizon View VDI/ Microsoft Hyper-v/ Citrix XenDesktop/ Linux/ Solaris/ SAN EMC Storages/ SAN Switches/ Cisco UCS/ IBM, HP, DELL Blade-Rack Servers.
Since 2013, I have been Residential Engineer in Central Bank of Kuwait. I have implemented the VMware vSphere with SRM Virtualization Solution and Cisco UCS 5108 Hardware Solution for Virtualization Environment, Migrated from SAN Switches to SAN Directors and Maintaining EMC VNX & VMAX SAN Storage.
IMPLEMENTED PROJECTS:
(1) Upgrade, Maintain, Monitor & Support Virtual (Hyper-v/VMware) Infrastructure & Storage SUN StorageTEK 6580 in Box Hill College of Kuwait (BHCK)
(2) Implement Windows 2008 Active Directory Domain Services and Exchange 2010 in BHCK
(3) VMware vSphere & View 5.0 VDI Project for Princess Noura Bint Abdul Rahman University, Saudi Arabia
(4) Diyar In-House Project to Implement Hyper-V for Project/Development Department
(5) Implement VMware vSphere 5.0 and SRM 5.0 with EMC Storage in Zajil Datacenter
(6) Implement VMware vSphere 5.5 and SRM 5.5 with Array Replication through EMC VNX 5500 in Central Bank of Kuwait
(7) Implement vSphere 5.0 with HP StorageWorks P2000 G3 between Riyadh & Jeddah site in Saudi Arabia Co-operative Insurance Company, Saudi Arabia
(8) Citrix XenDesktop 7.0 POC in Arab Open University, Kuwait
(9) Hyper-V 2012 & P2V Migration with SCVMM 2012 SP1 Implementation in Institute of Banking Studies, Kuwait
(10) Implement Cisco UCS 5108 in Central Bank of Kuwait & Princess Noura Women University, Saudi Arabia
(11) Netbackup Upgraded from 6.5 to 7.5.0.6 in Public Authority of Civil Information (PACI), Kuwait
Virtualization Administration:
Solving issues as faced in a datacenter by the System Administrators on VMware
My work involves timely delivery of VMware solutions across the Jamcracker. We work on a Service Level
Agreement basis and follow proper escalation matrices as and when required.
Installation, Configuration, Administration and troubleshooting VMware Hypervisor ESXi4.0/ESX3.5 Hosts
Installed, Configured & Maintaining VMware vCenter 4.0
Installed VMware vSphere Client for accessing VCenter & Connected all the VMware ESXi 4.0/ESX3.5 servers
for Cluster
Installed, Implemented & Configured open filer iSCSI SAN Array Server for Shared Storage of all
VMware ESXi4.0/ESX3.5 Hosts
Creation of LUNS across all RAID Levels and troubleshooting issues relating to SAN, iSCSI deployment.
Creating and Managing Virtual Machines and Templates, Working with Snapshots of Virtual Machines.
Installing VM’s into VMware ESXi 4.0/ESX 3.5 hosts from existing VM Templates or Cloning VM’s through vCenter
Cold Migration of Virtual Machines using VMware Converter, Hot Migration of Virtual Machines using vMotion. Troubleshooting issues relating to vMotion such as compatibility issues.
VM’s Cold & Hot (vMotion) Migrated between VMware ESXi4.0/ESX3.5 Host due to Hardware
Failures/Maintenance
Creating Clusters for High Availability and Dynamic Resource Scheduling
Configured HA & DRS with Fault Tolerance in Cluster Mode via VCenter (Datacenter)
Converting P2V for Windows Physical server by using VMware Converter & V2V for VM’s through VCenter
Creation of Virtual Switches, Ports and Port groups and setting up Layer 2 Security Policies for Virtual Networks
Setting up Users and Groups for access to the Virtual Center
Enabling Firewall Services like allow SSH, block ICMP & etc
Migrating VMware ESX 3.5 to ESX 4.0/ESXi4.0
Updating and Patching VMware ESX 3.5, ESX4.0/ESXi4.0, vCenter 4.0
• Installation, Configuration and Administration of Windows 2003 Servers, Windows XP
• Users & Group Administrations: Add, Modify and Remove User and Group Accounts in Windows 2003
• Maintained VMware Workstation, GSX Server for virtual machine servers
• Maintenance of remote systems & servers in all local region through IPSec PPTP VPN
• Designing and Implementing Group policy as per the project requirements.
• Performing daily activities report for all the major servers.
• Installing, Configuring & Maintaining Dell Servers
• Provided Desktop support for terminal clients.
• Trouble shooting Dell, IBM, HP, Acer Desktops & Laptops.
• Configuring and troubleshooting mail Clients like Microsoft Outlook and Outlook express.
• Handling vendor interactions for AMC and purchases of IT Assets
• Assemble & Fixing all types of Hardware
• Installing & Maintenance of Software, Microsoft Vulnerability patches, Etc.
• Backup the data on daily and weekly basis by using NT Backup
• Implemented, Configured & Monitored the Cisco Routers in Aramco Intranet Networks
• Configuring and troubleshooting D-Link & Alcatel Switches
• Configuring and Installing VoIP Phone
• Monitoring and troubleshooting Network & Bandwidth utilization.
• Installing, configuring and administering windows XP, 2000 & 2003
• Configuring and troubleshooting all type of Local & Network Printer
• Installing and configuring Windows Server 2000/2003 Active directory Structure
• Backup and Restoration of data from Disaster Recovery with NT Backup
• Configure security settings in Windows Operating Systems, Remote security and Evaluate Scans
• Installing and configuring of DNS, DHCP in client
• Providing the complete support for the Hardware, Software and Application
• Installing, configuring and administering Windows XP, 2000 Professional
• Collecting files and uploading files to client through FTP
• Maintaining the Local Area Network Connections