Abrar Ahmad

Above (4) years of extensive experience in Microsoft & VMware Infrastructure Managing, configuration, troubleshooting and having expertise in following areas:
 Administering, Configuring and Managing the VMware Virtual Infrastructure locally & internationally.
 Deploying VMs through templates & clones on hosted machines and implementing the patches on them through VMware Update Manager for fixing the vulnerabilities.
 Managing more than 1000 VMs (Virtual Machines) those were hosted on 80 plus vSphere 5.5 and 6.0 host machines.
 Deploying VMware Data-Center Virtualization environment and configured the cluster services among the host machines (High Availability (HA) & Distributed Resource Scheduling (DRS)).
 Upgrading the Virtual Infrastructure from VMware vSphere 5.1 to 5.5. 6.0.
 Consolidate the Data-Center & Departmental physical desktop machines to Virtual Infrastructure without losing data using VMware Converter utility.
 Deploying environments (MS SQL Server 2012 Cluster, MS SQL Server 2012 Always-On and MS SQL Server 2012 MSMQ) on high end servers.
 Deploying Oracle RAC 11g (11.2.0.4.0) environment for different Projects of NetSol on Physical & Virtual environment.
 Installing, Configuring & Managing the Blade Servers (IBM H20/21 & Intel Modular) and also performing same activities for Dell PowerEdge (R420/R520/R720/R820/T320), HP (ProLiant DL380 G7).
 Installing, Configuring and Deploying SAN (Dell EqualLogic PS6100, HP P2000 G3 & IBM DS4700 & Ex 810) at NetSol Lahore Datacenter.
 Configuring the iDRAC 7 on Servers for automatic email alert notifications of Hardware.
 Coordinating with projects key stake holders regarding housekeeping of Virtual Infrastructure.
 Performing the backups of Virtual Infrastructure through Veeam Backup & Replication v8.0 software.
 Deploying Virtual Machine manager (VMM) environment in NetSol Lahore Office for hosting VMs on Microsoft Hypervisor (Hyper-V 2012)