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Unix System Administrator

• Installation, migration, Configuration and Administration of AIX 5.3, 6.1 7.1.
• Install/Configure VIO servers as well as configuring virtual Ethernetshared Ethernet SEA , virtual SCSI and NPIV on IBM Power 6 and 7 systems
• Perform O/S, firmware and required infrastructure software upgrades
• Perform DR Failovers and disk replication failovers using Jackson's custom HA solutions.
• Responsible for maintaining and administering IBM p570, p740 p750 AIX servers.
• Responsible for both AIX and VIO server upgrades.
• Performed Host Based SAN migration from IBM to IBM Series and EMC.
• Responsible for UNIX part of storage migration from one storage array to another storage array and SVC migration.
• Installed and configured Tivoli Work Load Scheduler.
• Responsible for TSM backups of the systems.
• Creating Logical Partitions for VIO Servers and Clients on power frames and assigning processors, memory and Ethernet adapters to VIOS and assigning memory and processor to VIOC LPARS .
• Installation of VIOS 2.1.2 and applying VIOS Fixpacks.
• Installation of AIX 6.1 on all VIO/LPAR Clients via NIM Sever.
• Creating SEA Shared Ethernet Adapter to bridge between Physical Ethernet network and Virtual Ethernet Adapters.
• Setting up Shared Ethernet Adapter failover.
• Setup of VIO Clients/LPARS sharing Ethernet Adapters and SCSI's
• Allocating SAN to client LPARS using NPIV by creating virtual fiber channel adapters using HMC and mapping Physical to Virtual adapters on VIO Server.
• Allocating SAN luns to Client LPARS using Virtual SCSI adapters in which LUN's are initially allocated to VIOS which are virtually allocated to client LPARS VIO's by Creating Virtual Disks/Virtual Target Device VTD as per the disk requirement of each client LPAR VIOC .

Confidential

Unix Administrator

• Provided support in a demanding 24/7 Production Environment in AIX, Solaris and Linux.
• Install and configured AIX 5.3,6.1, on p550, 550,570,750 and 770
• Worked on SUN SPARC -- M4000, M5000, M8000, M9000, T3-1, T3-2, T5100/T5200
• Build Solaris Local zones, branded and native, sparse and full root
• Install backup software including Avamar, TSM and Legato Networker and VERITAS Netbackup.
• Creating Jumpstart Server and setup of Solaris servers through jumpstart
• Work with Sun Solaris ZFS systems and VxFS.
• Build and configured VIO server from the scratch and provided shared disks and network resources to the designated clients using Virtual SCSI/NPIV and Shared Ethernet Adapter.
• Lead storage migration project migrating AIX servers using Brocade. NetAPP/IBM DS4800 to EMC VPLEX using VMAX and VNX on the backend.
• Moved NPIV based VIO clients to VSCSI based storage to reduce the NPIV initiators requirements for AIX lpar clients.
• Setup and maintenance of Tivoli rules for monitoring the UNIX/AIX environment
• Installed Tivoli Storage Manager for AIX for backup and recovery on the Power Series AIX server
• Extensive use of LVM, creating Volume Groups, Logical volumes, and disk mirroring on AIX.
• Configured and administrated VIO server and VIO clients.
• Daily roles included dealing with LVM extensively. Strong hold of LVM on AIX.
• Daily tasks included dealing with AIX side of SAN. Like troubleshooting Fiber on card adapter, replacing Fiber card adapters and LUN's Configuration.
• Setup of full networking services and protocols on AIX, including NIS/NFS, DNS, SSH, DHCP, NIDS, TCP/IP, ARP, applications, and print servers to insure optimal networking, application, and printing functionality.
• Configured and installed LPAR's and VIO servers on P570, P595 servers.
• Performing Failovers in HACMP cluster environment, monitoring servers.
• Build AIX BOS on IBM p Series and IBM Blade server using CD, existing mksysb and NIM.
• Migrated AIX 5.3 to AIX 6.1 using NIMADM procedure.

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Unix/Aix Administrator

• Installed and upgraded operating system AIX 5.1/5.2 to AIX 5.3 and AIX 6.1
• Installed and upgraded service pack ML08/ML09 for AIX 5.3 and latest fixes
• B0uilt and Created Several LPARs using VIO Server and HMC
• For the Performance Tuning used HMC to allocate and reallocate the CPU micro partitioning on the LPARs under different VIO Servers.
• Added new storage on the LPARs by using HMC/VIO server
• Involved with making the documents of HACMP upgrade from HACMP v5.2 to HACMP v5.4
• Installed and configured HACMP 5.4 cluster for upgrade testing purpose.
• Installed and Upgraded HACMP v5.2 to HACMP v5.4
• Installed DB2 database, Opsware client on different Servers and HACMP clusters.
• Installed TSM client, configure the server and DB2 database backup to the TSM server for different Servers and HACMP Clusters.
• Installed several application software, handled trouble shooting, user management and hardware support, backup and restore patches, upgrades.
• Handled NIM, User System Resource management, job scheduling, and Paging Space management.
• Extensively used LVM, creating Volume Groups, Logical volumes, and disk mirroring.
• Maintained availability, increased capacity performance of production machines by upgrading their hardware disks,cpu,memory, io board,power cooling unit,mother board etc firmware.
• Analyzing errpt to find any reported problem.
• Maintained system security protecting the data on the system by modifying the file and directory permission.
• Assisted backup team for defining backup policies
• Trouble shooting any reported issue.
• Work with DBAs on installation of DB2, restoration and performance tuning.
• Attended team meetings, change control meetings to update installation progress, and for upcoming changes in environment.
• Implement all changes by following change management rules.

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System Engineer

• Install and manage several IBM RS/6000 AIX, Solaris, Linux systems, which include disk
• management, network management, performance management, test, development and production.
• Software and Hardware upgrades of AIX systems.
• Coordinate with DBA team, users, developers and vendors.
• Implement all changes by following change management rules.
• Assist in the setup of a Web development environment on AIX platform.
• Configured TCP/IP for servers and workstations and setup of complete network.
• Experience with TCP/IP, FTP, DNS, NIS, BIND, Sendmail, sys logging, UNIX account management and filepermissions
• Administered enterprise backup using VERITAS BACKUP Exec.
• Performed maintenance on AIX RS/6000 machines, such as tape and hard drive replacements, make andchange logical volumes and file systems.
• Performed User Account management, Problem Management, OS, data backups mksysb, savevg , cloning and user's logon support.
• Extensive Shell scripts for application management, performance and security monitoring including theirmaintenance.
• Performed the daily system administration tasks like managing system resources, writing scripts, and endusers support, operations and security.
• Supported existing production environment including various applications and planned to improveperformance with growth.