Current Job Responsibilities :- AS a Data-Center Engineer in Govt . Ministry Gulf KSA.
*Managing VMWare vSphere suite - vCenter server, ESXi host, datastores etc.
Deployed, supporting and managing Vsphere 6.0, 6.5 and 6.7,7.0, which include managing all aspects of a virtual farm including ESX Hosts, vCenter, VMs, vMotion storage/host, and networking rules Configured vMotion, DRS, HA, Permissions, Patches, Snapshots, Templates in the VMware environment. And upgrading VMware infrastructure Vcenter and ESXi from previous version to latest one. Convert physical servers p2v v2v to VMware virtual infrastructure using VMware converter. Installing update manager server for vcenter esxi patches.
*Managing all blade servers in dell chassis, cisco UCS , Vblock.
Configure Cisco ucs profiles/Dell Chassis for migrating and add hosts for load balancing in vmware environment. Or physical servers standalone server
*Managing all Oracle servers X7-2 (in VMware environment) and it’s parts replacement.
*Managing Data center switches 7k, 5k,3k,9k,2k etc.
*Managing backup and restore through Veeam, Avamar- managing & configuring all backups Policies.
*Monitoring data-center racks , chiller, UPS, DDOS attack, all services through OPManager etc.
*Managing SAN switches- creating zoning between servers and storages.
*Managing Storage SAN- VMAX, XtremIO, and Pure storage/ Oracle ZFS - creating and Assigning LUNs to the hosts (VMware and physical host).
*Managing NAS-Isilon/Oracle ZFS assigning NFS and SMB shares to the hosts.
*Managing data-domain –CIFS and NFS, DDboost.
*Installation and configuration of all new hardware in data-center and replacing also defective
hardware parts.
*Managing & Configuring All type of OS like windows, Linux, oracle. Etc.