Sr. Datacenter and Vmware Engineer with ** years of Experience in Deployment & Implementation, Solution Design and Support activities.

SUMMARY:

Comprehensive experience in Solution Design, BOM/Estimate Creation, Solution Validation, Demos, Proof of Concept/Value, Customer Presentations.

Qualified IT professional with VMware Certified Professional, Citrix Certified Administrator and Microsoft Certified Professional.

Presently associated with Medina Development Authority as VMware

& Datacenter Engineer, managing VMware infrastructure, Vmware VDI, Citrix XenApp, Emc SAN,NAS Storage and Cisco UCS/HyperFlex

Excellent working and troubleshooting knowledge of VMware VSphere, Storage, Cisco UCS, HCI and committed towards latest developments.

An effective communicator & team leader with strong analytical & trouble shooting skills. PROFESSIONAL COURSES/ CERTIFICATIONS:

Certified VCP-DCV VMware 374197405.

Certified VCP-DTM VMware 374197405.

Certified VCP-CMA VMware 364681834.

Certified CCA Citrix CTX443367.

Certified MCP Microsoft MCP661423.

Certified Traps Palo Alto.

Certified Vulnerability management Qualys.

Trained in SAN Management Dell EMC.

Trained in NAS Lision Storage Dell EMC.

Trained in Implementing Cisco DC Unified Computing Cisco. Trained in Hyper Flex Koenig Dubai.

Trained in ACI Koenig Dubai.

Trained in CDM Rubric Backup.

Trained in Incident Response.

Trained in Duo Security.

B.E E.C.E

Anna University INDIA-Chennai-

2006

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C O N T A C T

adhj9m@r.postjobfree.com

Madinah, KSA

E D U C A T I O N

S K I L L S

FAISAL KHAN.S

TECHNICAL

Virtualization-vSphere

VDI-Horzion

CISCO-UCS

Storage-EMC-SAN,NAS

Backup - Rubrik

App-V-Citrix,RDSH

HCI-Hyperflex

CISCO ACI-SDN

Endpoint Security

NMS,DataIq,Stogragegrid

P E R S O N A L D E T A I L S

Date of Birth - May 15, 1984

Passport No - G 3258716

Iqama No -226-***-****

Language- English, Tamil & Arabic

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Client: Medina Development Authority june’2017 to till date Hired as a full-time Datacenter and Vmware Engineer and also manage Vmware VSI, VDI, Cisco Ucs, HCI and Emc Storage.

Projects Undertaken:

-Cisco Hyper flex, Vsphere6.5, Emc Lision, Vmware VDI 7, Rubrik backup, Endpoint Security Technologies Handled: Vmware Vsphere Vmware VDI, Emc, Cisco, Backup, Microsoft Role:

Hands-On-Experience of Datacenter Design scenarios and involved in regular customer meetings to design new BOM solution/improve existing Datacenter

Having work experience in analysis of Cisco, DellEMC, products with other Competitors and providing Solution

Having Experience on error-free BOM/BOQ configuration for Cisco Datacenter /Dell Storage.

Highly skilled in reviewing proposals, providing estimates and recommending the best product solutions

(RFI, RFQ, RFP)

Skilled Subject Matter expert (SME) for Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS) /Cisco HCI/Dell EMC Storage, and Backup Technologies.

Helping Partners with Installation/Deployment of CISCO UCS/HCI/DELL EMC Storage products/Backup Products.

Support on Implementation & Deployment, Installation & Updating/Upgrading of Technology/Product line, along with software/version updates.

Provided product updates to clients – Explained technical capabilities and business benefits to the customer.

Worked with the Sales team to Create/Propose, Estimates for Datacenter and storage Product for existing Deals to develop recommendation Engine.

Lead Pilot phase/ testing phase and helped in developing effective Technology Solution and provided competitive analysis.

Provided Technical Documentation to team for Project/Pilot phase launch.

Analysis of Cisco, DELL, IBM, HP serves with Gartner providing solution reports to customer.

Having Experience to request RMA and engaging team to providing timely updates.

Having Work Experience on Escalations from L1 on queries related to BOM, Product Enquiries Sizing etc.

Work on Power Calculations of BOM solutions delivered to customers

Provided Product Information/Enquiries to the customer.

Handled Workshops to MDA IT Teams on Installation, Configuration

Trained Junior SEs on UCS and Customer Handling Scenarios.

Managed Team of 10 Junior Engineers and trained them on UCS, HCI, Storage SAN/NAS, Vmware VSI/VDI, Backup Rubrik

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Client: Medina Development Authority june’2013 to 2017 Hired as a full-time Datacenter Administrator and also manage Vmware Virtual Desktop, Cisco Ucs and Emc Storage.

Projects Undertaken:

-Cisco UCS,Vsphere5.5,Emc Vnx 5500,Vmware VDI.

Technologies Handled : Vmware Vsphere,Citrix,Vmware View,Emc,Cisco, Role:

Hands-On-Experience in VSphere, EMC SAN/NAS, Cisco UCS/Hyperflex HCI, Rubrick Backup, VRA, VDI Horizon, AVI, Endpoint Security and Appv.

Support on Implementation & Deployment, Installation of VMware vSphere environments with Virtual Center/HA/DRS EVC/vMotion/vDS/vSW and VMware (VDI) infrastructure.

Hands-On-Experience in VRA Cloud.

Hands-On-Experience in NetBackup/Rubrik Backup.

Having Experience on path selection fixed to round robin.

Hands-On-Experience in SAN host Initiators failover mode Active –passive to Active –Active mode.

Analyze Performance issue in ESXI hosts, virtual Machines and Storage.

Using VMA for generating Reports in Vcenter and VDI.

Install and Configure Vmware vRealize Operation Manager in Vcenter.

Design, Deployment of Vmware VDI including: Vmware Vsphere ESXI, Vcenter server, View Connection, View Replica, View Composer, View Security, RDSH and VGPU Servers

Creating Pools, Desktops, and troubleshoot agent unreachable, unassigned user issues.

Creating Storage Reports increase storage size of user persistent Data Disk in Virtual Desktops.

Configure ThinApp and Install Application and Build a ThinApp Application.

Configuring the ThinApp Repository and adding ThinApps into View Server & Entitling a App to users.

Design and Configure VNX Storage for Vmware VDI.

Creating Storage Pools, Luns and perform a Lun migration in different storage polls.

Hands-On-Experience EMC Power Path for redundant path failover and recovery.

Analyze hardware failure in VNX and working with EMC support to replace the failed Hardware.

Gathering the Reports for hardware failures on EMC VNX and open SR in EMC Support.

Collecting logs, dumps file and send to EMC support.

Hands on experience in iSCSI, NFS, and Fiber Channel protocols, FC cabling, switching, and zoning.

Experience with 3rd party solutions in VMware environments including VEEAM/Commvault/Symantec/Rubric

Configured and deployed Cisco UCS with VMware Esxi and vCenter

Using Cisco UCS manager creating service profile, VSAN and LAN.

Using UCS manager maintaining Chassis, FI, Ethernet ports, FC Ports, User and License Management.

Installing, configuring and maintaining Citrix environment, as well as both physical and virtual servers.

Design, Deployment of Microsoft technologies including: Windows Server 2008, 2008 R2,2012,2016; Exchange Server 2010,2013,2016; DNS; Active Directory; Group Policy Design and Implementation IIS; and Remote Desktop Services.

Manage and Deployment of Exchange 2016,2013: CAS/MB/ECP/OWA/ Auto discover, Receive Connector/send Connector/Trend Micro Email Security.

Hands-On-Experience in Endpoint Security Traps, TrendMicro apex one and deep security.

Hands-On-Experience in patching system and server’s infrastructure.

Worked with the Cyber Security team to analysis vulnerability and Document all the incident report.

Handling tickets Based on SLA (ITIL Process Management). PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Maameer Group of Company-Saudi Arabia, Mar’09 to May 2013. Hired as a full-time Systems & Vmware Administrator, Provide Windows/Linux administration, and VMware administration, also manage FTP servers, AD/DNS/IIS/Citrix. System & VMware Administrator

Projects Undertaken:

VMware Esxi.

McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator, Symantec Endpoint Protections, Symantec Critical System protection

Isa 2004 Proxy Server and Gfi web monitor.

Open ERP

Technologies Handled: MS Windows 2008 Server, ISA 2004, SQL, VMware Vsphere, Citrix Xenapp. Role:

Installation, Configuration, and Troubleshooting VMware ESXi and Virtual Center, DRS, vMotion, HA, Fault Tolerance (FT), DPM, EVC, Virtual Networking, VMware Update Manager (VUM).

Develop, and maintain a disaster recovery plan for critical VMs and application data.

Responsible for maintaining IT infrastructure including server hardware, VMware environment, data storage and all Microsoft technologies.

Experience in AD, GPOs, DNS, DHCP, IIS FTP, Microsoft Clustering and Exchange Mail Server.

Creating groups, user, unlocking, analyzing locked users using auditing tools in AD.

Creating and maintaining user accounts, profiles, security, rights, disk space and process monitor.

Server performance analysis and performance tuning, including SQL server workloads.

Resolving system errors and crashes.

Responsible for OS maintenance activities like upgrading the OS, updating the services and 3rd party software's.

Implemented ISA Proxy Server and monitor website using GFI web Monitor.

Managed Windows/Linux systems – Performed patching operations and provided technical support.

Maintained MS Exchange Server – Performed troubleshooting and provided solutions for server.

Implemented proper recovery for user mailbox.

Design, Deployment of Citrix/Microsoft technologies including: Windows Server 2008 R2, RDS, Xenapp Farm, License Server and Web Server.

Publishing applications to users in different Sites and configure SSL Certificate in Web server. PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

White House Business Solution-Chennai, Jan’08 to Jan’2009 Hired as a full-time Asst System Administrator, Provide Windows administration, LAN/WAN administration, Cute FTP servers and AD/DNS/IIS.

Asst System Administrator

Projects Undertaken :

link2school.

I learn Chemistry.

I learn Smart.

Smart Books ERP.

Technologies Handled : MS Windows 2000, 2003 Server, ISA Server 2000, SQL, VMWare Server 2.0, Squid Server, MDAEMON Mail Server.

Role:

Managed Microsoft Active Directory, Group Policy, DNS, DHCP, IIS and SQL servers.

Analyze user login failure, account locked, Profile issue and password failure.

Configured Cute FTP server in different location and upload/download data in Server.

Migration windows 2000 AD to windows 2003 Server.

Maintained and configured IIS web Server.

Configured and Maintained MDAEMON Mail Server.

Implemented appropriate Windows Server User Policies.

Maintained and configured McAfee e- policy central server.

Applied security policies and understand security logs and alerts.

Configured ISA proxy and Squid proxy server in WHBS Network.

Maintaining Dell Power Edge and HP Servers.

Diagnosed hardware and software problems, and replace defective components.

Configured and Maintained ISA Proxy Server, User Gate & CC Proxy Server.

Remotely supported users and servers with NETSUPPORT and RDP.

Providing IT Support to Users.

ACADEMIC QUALIFICATION:

Bachelor of Engineering (ECE) at Anna University (2006). Personal Details:

Date of Birth May 15, 1984.

Passport No G 3258716

Iqama No 226-***-****

Language Known English, Tamil & Arabic

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