Mohamed Benbrahim

Background

About Mohamed Benbrahim

ENTERPRISE VIRTUALIZATION AND STORAGE PROFESSIONAL with over 25 years of experience in IT. Passion, excitement and creativity in developing, maintaining and supporting, VMware Virtualization infrastructure and cloud platform, storage, backup, and business continuity and disaster recovery solutions for the enterprise. Over 11 years of extensive knowledge and experience in VMware Virtualization, VMware HCI, Storage, and Disaster Recovery. Collaborator with strong analytical skills for sound decision-making and technical acrobatics to aid team with infrastructure requirements in designing, building, testing and implementing physical and software defined data centers. Valued team trainer, technical author, and project support in cross-functional teams. Committed to continuous growth and improvement. Excellent verbal and written communication in English and French. • Strong design, installation, configuration, management, updating/patching, and troubleshooting expertise in the VMware vSphere virtualization platform including VCenter, ESXi (2.x to 6.x), SRM, and VR • Strong infrastructure design and management experience using VMware virtualization platform and ecosystem of applications and tools • Deep understanding of FC SANs and NAS storage concepts, troubleshooting techniques and BLOCK and File replication. • Strong SAN/NAS Storage access, connectivity, and performance problem troubleshooting skills • Exposure to multiple SAN/NAS storage controllers from multiple major storage industry vendors • Solid understanding of SAN storage concepts and applications including, initiators, targets, queuing, FC zoning, LUNs, LDEVs, storage provisioning, storage groups, storage security groups • In-depth expertise in the design, implementation, and troubleshooting of VMware DR solutions with SRM & VR. • Solid experience in planning, implementing and testing N:1 and 1:1 SRM DR solutions. • Strong understanding of key metrics for CPU, memory, network, and storage performance analysis troubleshooting • Excellent understanding of networking concepts such as TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, Switching (L2) and Routing (L3) • VMware PowerCLI/Powershell scripting and other software development background • Strong analytical, problem solving, and troubleshooting skills • Excellent ability to collaborate and work well with the internal and external organizations at all levels • Excellent communication skills with the ability to explain complex technical concepts in simple terms • Solid computer science/engineering education background.