1. Arrisis a fortune 500 company
AD Management,FullyManage 12 UCS Domainswith147 M3/M4 bladesworldwide. WSUSPatch
Managementforover9000 devices,SCCMManagement,VMWare,Manage 5 Citrix
XenDesktop/XenApp7.6MCS Environments
Projects:
Arriswas inneedof a Citrix Administrator –I volunteeredtotake control overthe 5 Citrix
environmentsthatconsistedof XenDesktop7.6and XenApp6.5 – Tookcontrol and remediated
a lot of the issuestheywere having.
- Citrix XenDesktopWarehouse–EnvironmentinaDMZ forwarehouse contractors that
consistof Wyse Terminals
- CreatedPowershell scripttoalertonCitrix Eventlogerrors
- DesignedandImplementedMicrosoftMDOPAGPM(AdvancedGroupPolicyManager)
- Arrisneedsome change control parameterssoimplementedthissolutionforProdAD
Infrastructure
DesignedandImplementedMicrosoftMDOPMBAMSolutionforArris
- Encrypted over5k deviceswithBitlocker
- Createdspecial policiesforexclusions,OSOnly,External Only,Full thatmetSecurityand
Businessneeds
Createda CiscoUCS HA environmentbetweentworowsinourHQ DC thatUtilizedVMWare HA
- Designwasto satisfyBusinessneedtomeetnodowntime of Prodsystems. Thisgave us
the abilitytomove all VMs fromone row to anotherandfull patchone systemandbring
themback and balance loadwithnodowntime.
ImplementedUCSCentral forour12 UCS Domains
CreatedPowershell ScripttoMonitor UCS ECC Errors
- We wouldconstantlygetECCerrors in the SEL logs and thenthe blade wouldcrash and
cause major outages. We constantlyran itup Cisco’s chainof command that thisis a
huge issue thatwe couldnot alertfromthe UCM the ECC errors
- RemediatedbycreatingaPowershell scriptthatwouldparse throughthe logsandsend
an proactive alerttoour Enterprise group
DecommissionedDMZdropzone that wascreatedfor the MotorollaHome Migrationafterthe
acquisition
- Migratedabout 150 VMs locatedina DMZ to Prod
UCS RAM Upgrade x 2
-RefreshedourPRODUCS environmentwithover100 UCS Bladesdoublingthe RAMtwice
-Tooktwo weekseachrefresh.
2. SCCMDeploymenttoUSand non US Sites
- DeployedSCCMserversto12 remote sites:China,Chicago,CorkIR,DenCo,WA,
Westborough,TLV,KWA,State College,BevertonOR,TijuanaMexico.
- SCEP Migrationoff of SymantecEnd PointtoSCEP
CiscoUCS Migration/VMESX/Exchange/SubnetMigration
- Projectwasto move UCS blades/ESXandExchange tonew VCand new UCS Domain
- SchedulingdowntimewithExchange Team, movedbladesandreconfigure NICs
CiscoUCS DMZ Project
- Projectwasto move oldVMenvironmentlocatedinDMZ to new CiscoUCS
Environment
- OldHP out of warranty hardware
- BuiltoutUCS FIand Blades
- Side bySide ColdMigrationtonew VC 5.1 Environment
WSUS/Patching
- Patchingwasin badshape.
- Deployedremote Downstreamserversforeachremote site withaSQLback-endindex
scriptto keepall serversupto par.
- Wrote script to keepWSUSserversandall remote downstreamserverscleanedwith
email reporting.
Motorola Home Migration
- MigratingServersfromMoto's coloSite CSC utilizingVMWare/VeeamandAcronis.