Mohammed Sahid M Email & Phone Number

Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

▪ Design and deploy VMware vSphere Virtualization Environment.▪ Design and deploy VMware vSAN and VxRail Solutions.▪ Commissioning/Decommissioning ESXi hosts and Virtual Servers on vSphere vCenters in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.▪ Performance tuning, Optimization and Upgrades of vSphere components.▪ Built Server to (Block/File) Storage Infrastructure using FC/iSCSI data transfer protocols.▪ Installed physical servers/storage arrays of different vendors like Dell, HP, Hitachi, Cisco UCS, Pure Storage and readied them for the production deployment.▪ Commissioning/Decommissioning of Enterprise Storages such as EMC VMAX, PowerMax, PowerStore, Unity, VNX and Isilon, Pure Storage, HP 3PAR Storage, Hitachi G-Series.▪ Capacity related rebalancing work includes host-based migrations, host to host vMotion, Array to Array Storage migration.▪ Deployed various flavours of Linux Operating Systems such as RedHat, CentOS, Ubuntu, and Oracle.▪ Allocating disks, striping, mirroring and resizing filesystems using LVM.▪ Creating repositories and installing packages/addons in Linux machines via online/offline mode.▪ Setting up and maintaining UNIX user accounts and access management systems.▪ Troubleshoot server errors, respond to user issues, and monitor the performance.▪ Windows Server deployment, Upgrades & Patching.▪ Managing Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, and Exchange Servers.▪ Adding and resizing disks, creating shared drives over the network using SMB/CIFS and NFS protocols.▪ Installed and configured SAN switches (Brocade/Cisco), network switches (Cisco/Juniper/Huawei) and Firewall (Palo Alto/Fortinet).▪ Field experience in data centers, mounting physical servers, switches and storage arrays.▪ Cabling and labelling, replacing faulty hardware, onsite troubleshooting for any issues.▪ Delivered projects in Etisalat and Du data centers across Abu Dhabi and Dubai.▪ HLD & LLD preparation and Infrastructure System health checks and document submission.

Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

• BAU Administration of EMC VMAX, HP 3PAR and Pure Storage Arrays. • BAU Administration of Brocade and Cisco SAN Switches. • Troubleshooting and resolving the day-to-day incidents such as Hardware failures, Path failures, Port down, SRDF etc. • Participating in Major Incident Management calls across various operational teams to identify the root cause of the incident and resolve the incident thereafter. • Performing Zoning on Cisco MDS and Brocade Switches.• LUN creation, allocation and deallocation of LUNs.• Capacity related rebalancing work includes host-based migrations and VLUN migrations.• Coordinating with different Vendors on identifying and fixing the various issues in the SAN layer.• Planning Change activities and implementing the Changes in line with ITIL Standards.• Tools: EMC - Solutions Enabler (SYMCLI), Unisphere and ViPR SRM, 3PAR CLI, 3PAR SSMC, PURE CLI, PURE1 Manage, Cisco - CLI, Brocade – CLI, ServiceNow.