Vikhar Mohammed

• Company Overview: At "INFOLOB" Global Services on 'Axis Bank Limited' Project
• Hardware installation, Exadata patching and maintenance:
• An Exadata machine is maintained by periodic maintenance like firmware upgrade/disk/DIMM/Lan Interface faulty replacement with ZERO DOWNTIME
• Maintain power usage & monitor from OASG & ILOM.
• Resetting the Power Panel if it is stopped in Exadata Machine Rack.
• OASG configuration & implementation in both Prod & DR Exadata Engineering systems for gaining ASR & Platinum services.
• ASR (Automatic Service Request) configuration & implementation to ensure proper monitoring & management of hardware malfunction & critical notifications over the mail.
• DIMM/HardDisk/HBA Adapter/Cell Disk/SFP – replace on Exadata Storage Cell.
• Replace a Hard Disk on Exadata Storage Cell Server.
• Firmware upgrade on PDU, Compute Nodes, Cell Nodes.
• Maintaining the Hard Disks of Oracle Exadata Storage Servers.
• Maintaining Flash Disks on Oracle Exadata Storage Servers
• Replacing a Flash Disk Due to Flash Disk Failure
• Monitor Flash Disk Degraded Performance Issues
• Replacing a Flash Disk Due to Flash Disk Problems
• Performing a Hot Pluggable Replacement of a Flash Disk
• Enabled Write Back Flash Cache

Maintaining PMEM Devices on Oracle Exadata Storage Servers

• Replacing a PMEM Device Due to Device Failure
• Replacing a PMEM Device Due to Degraded Performance
• Enabling and Disabling Write-Back PMEM Cache
• Enable Write-Back PMEM Cache
• Disable Write-Back PMEM Cache

Changing Existing Elastic Configurations for Storage Cells

• Adding a Storage Server
• Adding a New Storage Servers to an existing Exadata Cells
• Adding Storage Cells using OEDACLI
• Expanding an Existing Exadata Storage Grid
• Patching Exadata System software
• QFSDP Patching quarterly (Database servers, Cell servers, RoCE switches, Cisco network)
• Administering Oracle ASM Disk Groups on Oracle Exadata Storage Servers
• Configuring Security for Oracle Exadata System Software

Monitoring Oracle Exadata System Software Components

• Monitoring Exadata Smart Flash Cache
• Monitoring XRMEM Cache
• Monitoring PMEM Cache
• Monitoring Exadata Smart Flash Log
• Monitoring Smart I/O & Cell Disk I/O

Monitoring Cell Disk I/O

• Monitoring Grid Disks
• Monitoring the Host Interconnect
• Monitoring SMART FLASH CACHE

Monitoring Exadata Smart Flash Cache Using Exadata Metrics

• Monitoring Exadata Smart Flash Cache Using AWR

• Company Overview: At SA Technologies Partnered with Dell Tech
• Exadata Skills
• Expertise in Exadata/ExaCC Architecture & Engineering services
• Clear understanding of Exadata features like Flash cache, Storage Index, HCC and IORM
• Solid exposure of Exadata hardware

• Company Overview: At SA Technologies Partnered with Dell Tech On ANZ Australia & New Zealand Banking Group
• Database Migration for various sites in Australia involves 5k+physical servers across Mount Valley & TM Datacenters
• Migration from legacy Pure & IBM SVC to new Power Max & IBM flash arrays
• Migration from On premises to Azure & Cloud
• Upgraded the Oracle database from 12c - 19c
• Migration of various databases to EC2 instance, RDS (Oracle to PostgreSQL & Amazon Aurora)
• Relocation of database from Onenode & Twonode RAC in 15 node cluster
• Hands on Experience in Adding, Dropping & Recreating Disks On Disk Groups

• Company Overview: At DXC Technologies On Deutsche Bank Project, Bangalore, Karnataka Formerly called as Hewlett Packard Enterprise
• Clone or Rebuild Standby database using Duplicate Active database.
• Working with Deutsche bank to resolve Outage problems, improve operations and provide exceptional customer service.
• Architecting, planning, designing, developing, deploying and supporting 12C/11g Oracle RAC, Exadata, DataGuard and ASM environments.
• Setup/Managing Databases on Amazon RDS. Monitoring servers through Amazon CloudWatch, SNS.
• First hands-on experiences in software and firmware maintenance of both the Database and Storage servers in the Exadata database machine.
• Provide & implement performance tuning solution of all components in Exadata database machine.
• Oracle Database Advanced Security Administration
• Database vault 12c, Data masking, Real Application security
• Configured DR for high availability, restore & recover database.
• Restore & Recover databases from Prod - DEV/UAT : Prod - Prod
• Switchover & switchback of database(s) from Primary to DR server.

• Company Overview: GlobeMed Qatar, Doha
• Rebuilding the indexes periodically
• Supervising all activities related to 5 production & DR databases respectively
• Managing switchover operations using DataGuard Broker
• Leading standby database configuration for manual switchover

• Company Overview: Alkhaleej Computers & Electronic Systems, Riyadh
• Client#1: Ministry of Social Affairs (MoSA):
• Platforms: Web based, Oracle Forms & Reports on Weblogic, Oracle 11g RAC Database on HP-UX
• Client#2: Ministry of Labor
• Title: Planning, Design & Implementation of Oracle Database 10g on RAC
• Client#3: Customs at Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
• From Core implementation to end-to-end support.
• Planning, Design, Implementation, Capacity planning & services.
• Planned and implemented security measures to safeguard vital business data

• Company Overview: Najm For Insurance Services, Riyadh, KSA
• Designed and developed Life Cycle of Car insurance and analytical data structures.
• Administered, supported and monitored databases by proactively resolving database issues and maintaining servers.
• Installed, upgraded, configured and tuned systems and all associated middleware in LINUX and Windows environments.

• Company Overview: ITES Call Center Services.