Ejaz Ahmad

Dynamic and resourceful System Administrator with over 11 years of progressive IT experience, adept at managing enterprise-level IT infrastructures to ensure optimal system stability and security. Recognized for comprehensive problem-solving abilities and a creative approach to addressing a wide range of technical challenges, consistently delivering effective solutions. Strong verbal and communication skills facilitate diplomatic interactions with diverse teams, enhancing collaboration and fostering a productive work environment. Committed to leveraging expertise in networking protocols, cybersecurity measures, and system optimization techniques to drive organizational growth and success.

• Installation & configuration of Veeam (Backup S/W).
• Hands on Experience Backup tool.
• Remedy Tool, HPSM Tool, ITSM Tool & Service Now (HPSM-Incident, Change & Problem Management).
• Should have good knowledge of LTO / Backup library.
• Backup: creating image-level backups of virtual, physical, cloud machines and backups of NAS share files.
• Restore: performing restore from backup files to the original or a new location. Veeam Backup & Replication offers a number of recovery options for various disaster recovery scenarios, including Instant Recovery, image-level restore, and file-level restore, restore of application items and so on.
• Replication: creating an exact copy of a VM and maintaining the copy in sync with the original VM.
• Storage Systems Support: backing up and restoring VMs using capabilities of native snapshots created on storage systems.
• Recovery Verification: testing VM backups and replicas before recovery.
• Advance knowledge HP Data Protector / Backup Library setup and operation & Troubleshooting.
• Raid configuration and Server installation 2012, 2016, and 2019.
• Server restoration image and data by recovery tools.
• Disk management and user management.
• Configuration Task Scheduler and page file.
• Maintain Server survey record and Health check-up time to time.
• Remote Server installation and configuration by ILO/iDRAC.
• Collect Server logs and diagnosis by ILO/iDRAC.
• DHCP, DNS, ADS Server configuration and file sharing.
• Server diagnosis by log event log, IML log, HPS Log, HP tools and.ahs report.
• Firmware update and Service pack ProLiant update.
• Backup tools use for Backup and Restoration Server by snapshot, windows server backup, HP-Data Protector.
• Experience in Administration and Troubleshooting of Windows 2008, 2012, 2016, 2019 ,2022 servers.
• Analyzing system logs and identifying potential issues with computer systems.
• Performing routine audits of systems and software.
• Installing and configuring new hardware and software.
• Relevant experience with large-scale VMware based virtualization design, implementation, operations, performance analysis etc.
• Solid technical, functional and architectural understanding of the Virtualization technology domain
• Experience on VMware 5.0, 5.1, 5.5, 6.0,6.5,6.7,7.0,8.0
• Experience in P2V, V2V and VMware virtual center.
• Good hands on Experience in diagnostics & troubleshooting of ESX server environment.
• Experience in performance tuning of VMWare Servers and Virtual sessions and management of server's resources between virtual machines.
• Handling/ Setting/Configuring Servers.
• Experience in Data Center and IT Infrastructure technologies, specialization in Virtualization VMware vSphere and V-Center expertise.
• Migrate Physical Servers to Virtual Server using VMware V-center Converter, Disk2Vhd.MVMC (P2V and V2V Converter).
• LUN Configuration in windows, ESXi.
• Monitoring of Virtual Machine’s & ESX servers (CPU, Memory, Disk and Network Utilization) for Security.
• Creating duplicate Virtual Machine’s using cloning technology (hot & cold).
• Creating Clusters for High Availability and Dynamic Resource Scheduling
• VMware ESXi host configurations, Hyper-V in 2016 servers.
• File system management and management quota system.
• Managing & remote administration, user rights, accounts and network resources.
• Strong working knowledge of storage technologies (i.e., SAN, NAS.
• Installation and Configuring Hyper-V (Host and guest).
• Creating and Managing Virtual Machines, clone and Templates
• Setting up Users and Groups for access to the Virtual Center.
• Provide support for backup/recovery and disaster recovery solutions.
• Vendor management & Managing DC & DR Sites.
• Server Operation, Patch Management, Job Management basis.
• User management in windows server and Linux Server time to time collect system information and disk information.
• L1 Support –Storage management, Network operation Center(NOC)
• Media management, CMDB (Server list & configuration Of DC & DR sites)
• Ensuring that Change Control and correct processes are adhered to whilst adhering to very tight customer SLA’s whilst never allowing compromise in the standard of work.
• The highly SLA driven environment consisted of a mixture of Physical and Virtual servers (using VMware)
• Installations for security patches, functional patches and version upgrades.