CAREER OBJECTIVE:

I have 10 years' experience as an IT specialist. 8 years of strong experience in System OS and Storage administrator. Possess the enthusiasm for work, strong desire to succeed and commitment to continuous skill Developments that help build confidence and high level motivation to achieve desired results. Very ambitious to help others and work in the IT field.

ACCOMPLISHMENTS

• 8 years of strong experience in Solaris/Linux System VERITAS Volume Manager and Storage Administrator.
• NetApp - Certified Data Management Administrator 7-Mode
• Sun Certified in Solaris 9 and Solaris 10 Upgradation.
• VERITAS Certified in Storage Foundation 5.0
• Linux Certified in Redhat Linux RHSCA RHSE 6.0
• Good Practical knowledge in Veritas Volume Manager, Veritas File System.
• Experience on VERITAS Cluster and Knowledge on SUN cluster and Knowledge on HP-UX and AIX
• Experience on NetApp/EMC SAN VNX Storage
• Experience on Brocade switches
• Knowledge on Hitachi storage
• Working experience in data center
• Working with Brocade switches to create Zoning, Lun Masking and Mapping to the servers
• Good practical knowledge in Reel Backup and Veritas Netbackup monitoring Backups.
• Experience in Creating LDEV's in EMC SAN VNX storage and Mapping to the Linux and windows hosts
• Good Practical knowledge resolving the backup issues on OMNI and Networker Backups.
• Efficient in independently handling SOLARIS/Linux OS installations and up-gradation.
• Systems administration, maintenance and monitoring various day-to-day operations.
• Administered server consolidation program through use of VMware ESX server and VMware Virtual Center
• Effective team member.
• Effective communicator expressed in conveying technical information in an concise, coherent manner.

KEYWORD SUMMARY

Experience Summary

Confidential

Project Description:-

Solaris:-

Confidential the only communications company in Australia that can provide customers with a truly integrated telecommunications experience across fixed line, mobiles, broadband Confidential information, transaction and search Confidential.

• Installation configuration of Solaris 9,10 11 operating system Base OS Installing and configuring of Standalone Servers E25k, M-Series T-Series .
• Solaris Volume Manager Administration.
• Solaris Zone creation and configuration.
• Taking major part in Kernel Patches upgradation in Production servers.
• Using Blade logic tool to installing the kernel patches on test and development servers
• Installing Blade logic software/agent in the servers.
• Installing the OS Kernel Patching Packages
• Firmware Upgradation and HBA Driver Upgradation on production servers.
• Creating technical plans and implementing changes on production servers.
• Experience in ZPOOL and ZFS file technologies
• Experience in managing ZFS data Backup Restore
• Experience to create the volumes with use zfs file system.
• Experience on creating LDOM's and Managing the ldoms servers
• Patching experience in Control domains and Guest domains.
• Taking part of Decommission of the servers and Old luns form the Servers
• Creating the volumes and extending when ever requested the customer
• Hands on Experience in Incident Management, Change Management and Problem Management.
• Involving in daily incident management and resolves the day to day problems raised by the users and incidents which are logged by Event monitoring systems.
• Managing the user's rights, accounts accessibility to the servers.
• Monitor, Configure, troubleshoot and control access to files and directories.
• Troubleshoot the Disk Management. Replacement the failed disks.
• Coordinate with third party venders Sun Microsystems regarding hard ware failure.
• Adding/Deleting the boards System Boards / IO Boards Online and offline.
• System Controller SC patches work. SC management.
• Working with different consoles RSC ,LOM , ALOM , SC

Linux:

• Expertise in System Administration, Installation, Configuration, troubleshooting and Performance tuning of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
• Experience in Kick Start installations using PXE with NFS to deploy OS.
• Good expertise with TCP/IP, subnets, security, maintenance of user accounts, configuration of various servers including DNS, NIS, NFS, and SendMail with IMAP with Firewall protection.
• Experience on managing with packages administration using with RPM, YUM.
• Experience on LVM Administration.
• Knowledge on File system's like Ext2, Ext3, GFS.
• Extensive experience in creating newfilesystems, mounting file systems and umounting file systems, usage and load of the system performance monitoring.
• Experience in installation and management of network related services: DHCP, LDAP, SAMBA, HTTPD, VSFTP, tftpd, SMTP
• Expertise in IP-Subnetting, DNS, TCP, UDP and TFTP.
• Strong organizational and communicational skills.
• Performed all System Administration tasks like cron jobs, installing packages.
• Configured and administered Apache Web, VSFTPD services and JBoss.
• Build and configuration of new servers for different application development projects.
• Testing and upgrading production, development and test Linux and Solaris servers.

Storage Administration

• Knowledge on Hitachi Storage
• Ran EMC Grab Utilities on the hosts and uploaded them to EMC for troubleshooting purposes
• PowerPath software installation, configuration and administration on UNIX Servers.
• Enabling, Configuring, the Quotas and Modifying quota limit as requested by the user
• Experience in Administration of Storage to Multiprotocol Environments like CIFS and NFS in SAN/NAS environment.
• Expert understanding of HBA's Qlogic, Emulex FC switch architecture, configuration, and management zoning, fan-in / fan-out, ISL's, lun masking, etc , and relevant multi-pathing/failover device driver technology.
• Experience in implementing Thin provisioning on NetApp storage arrays.
• Created iscsi group and added the nodes to group. Verified iscsi group and checked the authentication. Created volume/qtree, created lun, mapped lun to iscsi group.
• Provisioned the luns to hosts through ISCSI. Setup the iscsi CHAP authentication from filer to server.
• Configured Autosupport on the filers.
• Resolve cabling and connectivity issues.
• Documenting troubleshooting steps and procedure
• Closely monitor server storage performance and utilization, identify problems and recommend/implement solutions.
• Diagnosing hardware/software problems and provide solutions.
• Perform capacity planning and reporting to ensure efficient use of storage
• Creating and resizing the volumes on Windows hosts using Disk Management
• Migrating data to offsite datacenter on NetApp filers using snapmirror
• Discovering the storage on UNIX/Linux and Windows Servers
• Strong in providing SAN security using Zoning, Masking Mapping.
• HBA drivers and firmware installation and upgrade on UNIX Linux Servers and data ontap.
• Configuring Vfilers and providing storage from Vfilers
• Storage provisioning on Netapp filers
• Configuration of Snapmirror on Netapp Filers.
• Managing and monitoring SAN Luns and NFS shares
• Filer configuration and Ontap upgrades and patching on host side
• Troubleshooting and managing NFS exports Creating Qtrees and setup the thresholds for alerting Enabling, Configuring, the Quotas and Modifying quota limit as requested by the user setup the quota thresholds for alerting.
• Creating the volumes and Mapping the LUNs Creating Igroups and assigning to the servers Dedicated Virtual .
• Implementing 7 mode SNA and NAS primarily using FCP, NFS, CIFS, iSCSI protocols creating new aggregates on FC and SATA drives. Adding the disks to existing aggregates.
• Implementing, Managing and administration Netapp 7 mode and 8.1 C-mode storage arrays.
• Hands on experience on Data OnTap v6.x, v7.x
• Responsible for managing different kinds of FAS series 6000, 3000 in NAS environment and VNX unified storage. Responsible for production support operations for shared and dedicated clients.
• Experience in creating storage pool and Raid group Raid 5 /Raid1/0
• Experience in creating traditional luns and lun folders.
• Creating the Thick and Thin Luns. Expanding the luns pools
• Experience in implementing Thin provisioning on VNX storage arrays.
• Experience in Creating LDEV's in EMC VNX storage and Mapping to the hosts
• Experience in Snapshot creation Lun Cloning, and Lun Migration on VNX
• Strong in providing SAN security using Zoning, Masking Mapping.
• Allocated storage to VMware ESX, Linux, Windows, AIX, HP-UX, Solaris servers along with clusters from VNX.
• Exporting the file systems for NFS clients.
• Configuring the Network to adding the servers.
• Creating SAN copy, Lun expansion and Snap mirror.
• Configuring VXN SP memory and SP catch settings and SP network.

Virtualization Responsibilities:

• Administered server consolidation program through use of VMware ESX server and VMware Virtual Center, using Virtual Center, ESX, creating VM's, using/building VM templates and customization files and scheduling task.
• Installation, configuration and management of multiple server suites Windows 2K/2003, Red Hat Linux, SuSE, UNIX on VMware ESX server.
• Worked with defining, designing, and implementing new features for the VMware ESX high performance scalable server environment.
• Performance Tuning and High Availability configuration of SAN/NAS gear as well as client servers.
• Supporting activities surrounding the VMware Virtual Infrastructure, which includes 60 VMware ESX 2.x servers, which are SAN/NAS connected.
• Installation of multiple operating systems, Anti-Virus MacAfee Antivirus, Norton Antivirus suites. Managing heterogeneous environments of hardware and networking products.
• Ensure that all services are consistently available to all the end users. Provide technical assistance and consulting to the users if necessary.
• Applying VMotion technology to the virtual Machines over ESX Server failover issues.
• Also responsible to apply Load balancing and resource sharing plan in the environment over the clusters.

Confidential

Confidential company is the world's largest dedicated provider of flash memory storage solutions. SanDisk products enable you to capture, share, preserve and enjoy an exciting world of digital content.. It's creates transformational memory products through world-class manufacturing facilities that produce hundreds of millions of flash chips annually. We serve three high-growth mega markets, all of which increasingly require flash memory to deliver compelling benefits to consumers and businesses.

Jobs and Responsibilities:-

• Working as IST track lead for this project.
• Taken the transition from the client sandisk and transition given to team members.
• Result driven consultant with good experience in the area of UNIX/Linux System Administration
• Expertise in System Administration, Installation, Configuration, troubleshooting and Performance tuning of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
• Maintaining the user administration
• Went onsite California for participated in data center migration.
• We migrated the servers from old datacenter to new datacenter.
• Experience on SVM metaset Administration.
• Experience on LVM Administration.
• Installation, configuration of RHEL Jumpstart /Kickstart Installations for different projects.
• Performing Sun baseline patching and kernel upgradation.
• Adding packages for Redhat servers based on the requirements.
• Solaris Volume Manager and Veritas Volume manager Administration.
• Build the servers by using Jumpstart server
• Work experience on zones/containers
• Creating technical plans and implementing changes on production servers.
• Installing the OS Kernel Patching Packages
• Handling the Veritas cluster issues.
• Taking part of Decommission of the servers and reclaim the Old luns form the Servers.
• Hands on Experience in Incident Management, Change Management and Problem Management on Remedy and service now tools
• Involving in daily incident management and resolves the day to day problems raised by the users and incidents which are logged by Event monitoring systems.
• Managing the user's rights, accounts accessibility to the servers.
• Monitor, Configure, troubleshoot and control access to files and directories.
• Troubleshoot the Disk Management. Replacement the failed disks.
• Coordinate with third party venders Sun Microsystems regarding hard ware failure.
• NetApp Storage Administration- via secure shell through ONTAP CLI, Filer View and NetApp System Manager 1.1
• Administer Data Ontap functionalities.
• Manage the aggregate, volume, qtree.
• Export NFS and CIFS share the volume/qtree to the client and manage permissions.
• Create and map LUN's in storage array Netapp .
• Creating the volumes and Mapping the LUNs Creating Igroups and assigning to the servers Dedicated Virtual .
• Enabling, Configuring, the Quotas and Modifying quota limit as requested by the user Updating the quotas using Qtree Quota Manager
• Exported the volumes through NFS exports to UNIX hosts and CIFS shares to windows hosts through CLI.
• Manage user home directories.
• Manage snapshot and restoration.
• Manage important configuration files /etc files .
• Perform tasks like monitoring, performance diagnosis.
• Build and manage Snap mirror relationship.
• Decommissioned Netapp filers by destroying all volumes, aggregates.
• Added the disk sanitize license to the filer for sanitizing the disks and power off the filer head and shelf as a part of decomm process.
• Troubleshooted performance issue on Netapp using sysstat output. Generated perfstat on the filer for troubleshooting the Netapp filer performance issues. Enable the VIF interfaces when they are down.
• Hands on DFM to run reports and diagnosis.

• Confidential one of the world's leading semiconductor companies. Confidential are used in everything from computing, networking, and server applications, to mobile, embedded, consumer, automotive, and industrial designs. Our products are built on decades of design and manufacturing expertise and we continually build on past experience to strengthen the quality of our products and the reliability of our manufacturing processes. And because we manufacture our products from start to finish, we're better able to monitor and control the final quality of our products than most other manufacturers.
• To manage the day to-day tasks, operation and problem-solving of a team to meet with the required service level Agreements and standards
• Handling new project works CQ's like new Server builds, Server decommissioning and Server migrations as per the customer requirement.
• Installing SUN Solaris /Linux servers using Wanboot and Kickstart procedures and patching SUN servers to latest patch level. Also as per requirement installing Patrol, TSM Client and Marimba packages.
• Day to day administration and troubleshooting on NFS which includes exporting volumes/Qtrees from Filers NAS Storage and mounting /configuring them on Unix clients using automounts/regular mounting
• Administration and trouble shooting skills in multipathing tools like EMC Power Path, MPXIO and Veritas DMP while configuring host for SAN setup Day to day administration and troubleshooting on NIS, NIS and LDAP which includes creating/modifying maps/tables/objects
• User accounts administration and troubleshooting in NIS, NIS and LDAP environment.
• Trouble shooting and rectifying Solaris hardware and o/s problems in coordination with Sun and Veritas.
• Patches and packages installation and troubleshooting.
• Implementing, managing and troubleshooting of Veritas Volume Manager and Veritas Cluster on Solaris and Linux OS.
• Implementing, managing and troubleshooting of Solaris Volume Manager SVM .
• Experience on LVM administration on Linux/AIX server
• Experience on creating/managing aggregates, volumes and qtree's
• Export Nfs and cifs share the volume/qtree to the client and manage permissions.
• Create and map LUN's in storage array Netapp .
• Manage user home directories
• Administration of Resources, Service groups in VCS.
• Trouble shooting and diagnosing for resources, service group and system faults in VCS.
• File system administration with SVM, VXVM which includes configuring Storage Luns SAN and Creating/Extending/Shrinking/Migrating files systems using RAID technologies.

Project Description:-

Confidential is the only communications company in Australia that can provide customers with a truly integrated telecommunications experience across fixed line, mobiles, Confidential.

Jobs and Responsibilities:-

• Installation configuration of Solaris 9 10 operating system Base OS Installing and Configuring of Standalone Servers E25k, T2000, T5220 .
• Solaris Volume Manager Administration.
• Solaris Zone creation and configuration.
• Taking major part in DATA migration from MSS storage to EMC storage TB's of data migration has done
• Installing the OS Kernel Patching Packages
• Firmware Upgradation and HBA Driver Upgradation on production servers.
• Adding I/O fencing disks in VCS and Quorum disks in Sun Cluster servers
• Creating technical plans and implementing changes on production servers.
• Taking part of Decommission of the servers and Old luns form the Servers
• Creating the volumes and extending when ever requested the customer
• Hands on Experience in Remedy Incident Management, Change Management and Problem Management.
• Involving in daily incident management and resolves the day to day problems raised by the users and incidents which are logged by Event monitoring systems.
• Managing the user's rights, accounts accessibility to the servers.
• Monitor, Configure, troubleshoot and control access to files and directories.
• Troubleshoot the Disk Management. Replacement the failed disks.
• Coordinate with third party venders Sun Microsystems regarding hard ware failure.
• Adding/Deleting the boards System Boards / IO Boards Online and offline.
• System Controller SC patches work. SC management.
• Working with different consoles RSC ,LOM , ALOM , SC

Technical skills on Veritas Volume Manager:-

• Installation, Configuration and Administration of Veritas Volume Manager.
• Upgrading Veritas Volume Manager
• Creating Sub disks, Plexs, Logical volumes.
• Creating, mounting, of veritas file systems.
• Changing layouts online by using Vxassist.
• Implementing RAID levels
• Creating, Resizing, Restarting, and Removing the Volumes.
• Coordinate with third party vendor Symantec regarding login the case.
• Trouble shooting on VXVM

Cluster Tasks:-

• Switching the Service Groups across the nodes in the cluster.
• Performing freeze and unfreeze service groups during system maintenance activities.
• Adding and removing the cluster monitoring for resource groups.
• Clearing the fault in resources and bringing SGs/RGs online.
• Add and remove the node.