BD Lab

Hello , It is Abdullah here, have experience working as Cross Platform Virtualization platform, mostly on VMware, Proxmox, oVirt and Sysadmin at various remote IT farm, where I have gathered hands on experience on administering, design and planning Windows, Linux and Unix based core system & network infrastructures, both physical and cloud based. I have experience working on the followings: - VMware skills on install, migration, upgrading vsphere, vROP, configuring vDS distributed switches, deep troubleshooting - Windows/Linux/Unix Server Administration - Active Directory designing as well as LDAP/OpenLDAP directory protocol and Group Policy management using GPO Editor - Shell/bash/Perl scripting - Windows, UNIX & Linux TCP/IP networking, firewall plan - Special experiences working on IBM AIX and its Servers - System/Infrastructure design and implementation, Microsoft Windows automation using SCCM and SCOM - Vmware/Citrix XEN/Microsoft Hyper-V/Oracle Solaris Zone, LDOM & VirtualBox Virtualization platform design, VDI (Virtual Desktop Infrastructure) design and delivering hosted application, fine tuned virtual software and hardware resource delivery - Windows Terminal Server/RDSH design, load balanced and distributed design of RDP session - Cloud administration and DevOps support for Amazon AWS, Linode SSD Cloud, Rackspace and Microsoft Azure Server - Virtualization High Availability, Fault Tolerance planning, Backup & Restore using Veeam and Nakivo as well as proprietary tools like VMware Replication, Hyper-V Replication, VMware vCenter and Microsoft System Center, Xen Manager - Microsoft Office365 Administration, application publishing - Microsoft Exchange Server administration - Remote client support and IT Infrastructure automation using Kaseya, Labtech, Connectwise I have good knowledge on designing & supporting data-center, from purchase recommendation to final implementation. Also have experience using IT Infrastructure automation and quick deployment tools like -Chef -Puppet -Saltstack -Ansible -Jenkins including CI/CD I am a Cisco CCNA certified, and preparing for the following certificates, though have experience for a long time: Microsoft MCSE-Server (Exam 70-410 to 414) and MCSE-Private Cloud Red Hat RHCE, RHCVA Cisco CCNP Cisco CCNA-Security and EC-Council CEH & LPT Vmware VCP6-DCV and VCP6-Cloud Oracle DBA I have also some basic to moderate experience working with Oracle, MySQL and Microsoft SQL server administration, Software SQA testing, Selenium, Jira and Tarantula. My areas of expertise in brief: - Microsoft Windows platform (Home to Datacenter Server), Azure, Hyper-V - VMware Cloud and Virtualization, Horizon Virtual Desktop Infrastructure - Citrix XenServer and XenApp - VirtualBox support including Guru Meditation fixes - EMC and Veritas Storage administration - Linux/Unix Server Administration including Oracle Solaris, HP-UX, Red Hat, Ubuntu - Cloud based administration, security and optimization support on AWS, Google Cloud, Rackspace, Linode, Openstack dedicated cloud - Basic usage experiences on automation tools like Chef, Ansible, Saltstack, Puppets, Jenkins - Moderate experiences on Docker, Vagrant, Heroku, Dokku, Flynn, DEIS - Setting up server monitoring tools using Nagios, Zabbix, Cacti, Cloudstats.me, mist.io etc, Grafana, Influxdata, Riemann - Basic knowledges webserver fine tuning and optimizations, specially on Nginx, Apache, Phusion Passenger - Network design, plan, implementation using Cisco/Juniper/Mikrotik Routers, Firewall and switches - Wireless network design, custom firmware flashing and configuration, Hotspot design and implementation - Enterprise class attached and network storage (physical and virtual) and data backup service design, based on NAS, DAS, SAN, iSCSI & NFS - Teaching and training on Vmware, Linux, Windows, Networking - Infrastructure security perimeter hardening, testing - Software Quality Assurance, Testing, Verification & Validation - Web design using Wordpress, Joomla, web security hardening and vulnerabilities fixes