OBJECTIVE

Technical Solution Architect/IT Consultant/Infrastructure Specialist (IBM Server & Storage)

PROFILE

• As a Technical Solution Specialist, I am excel on the design & implementation of infrastructure which includes IBM medium and high servers, storage, non - application software and networks that support the applications and business processes required by the client.
• With deep and wide knowledge of operating systems, servers, storage, virtualization and clusters technology, as well as TCIP/IP networking, I have the knowledge and understanding to purpose, design and configure high-end systems within multi-million dollar projects.
• I match customer requirements with industry best practices to deliver a suitable design and implementation.
• As solution do not end with a design & implementation.
• I also have excellent troubleshooting skills to address any post implementation issues.
• More than seven years of experience in IT industry using various technologies.
• Experience working with IBM RS6K, p5(520,550,570), p6(520,550,560,570,595), p7(720,740,750,780)
• Experience working with IBM Blade Center E Chassis & H Chassis with IBM Blade HS22/HX5/JS12.
• Experience working with NetApp and IBM Entry & Mid rage storages (DS3K, DS4K, DS5K, V3700, V7000 Storage) and SAN Technologies (SAN48B, SAN80B, SAN06B)
• Experience working with IBM Tape Library (TS3100, TS3200)
• Experience working with AIX 4.2/5.3/6.1/7.1 system Administration, configuration & Troubleshooting.
• Experience working with LPAR and DUAL VIOS configuration & troubleshooting.
• Experience working with High Availability Cluster Multi-Processing (HACMP/PowerHA/System Mirror), Red Hat Cluster Suite (RHCS), Microsoft Failover Cluster.
• Experience working with full Disaster Recovery configuration and troubleshooting.
• Experience working with Linux Environment (RHEL4/5/6/7, OEL5/6, SLES 9/10/11, Fedora, CentOS) system Administration & Configuration.
• Experience working with IBM NIM, Redhat Kick Start/PXE Installation & Configuration.
• Experience working with Share Storage & Utilities like: GPFS, GFS, CIFS, OCFS, ASM
• Experience working with VMware vSphere, SRM, FT, HA configuration & Troubleshooting.
• Experience working with Oracle Database, IBM DB2 & RAC installation on both RHEL & AIX.
• Experience dealing with Customers, Distributors, OEMs from technical or sales perspective.
• Experience dealing with renowned Banks and Telecom companies.
• Experience managing technical project and customer SLA, TDA.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• IBM RS6000, p5(520,550,570), p6(520,550,560,570,595), IBM p7(710, 720,740,750,770,780), p8 S824
• IBM SystemX x3640 M3/4/5, x3950 X5, x3850 X5, HP DL380p Gen8, Sun Server X4-2
• IBM Tape Library TS3100, TS3200 installation & configuration.
• IBM FasT200, FasT600, DS4K, DS5K, v3700, v7000, NetApp FAS6170A, HP StorEasy 1640 32TB SAS storage
• IBM SAN48B, SAN80B, SAN06B Brocade SAN switch configuration.
• IBM Blade Center E/H/S Chassis, HP HP Blade System c7000 installation & configuration.
• IBM Blade Server HS22, HX5 & JS12, HP BL460c/480c, BL280c G6
• Install & Replace Hot Plug-able Devices
• #5802,#5877 PCIe IO Drawer connection
• CEC merge to increase capacity
• IBM 6400 Line Metric Printer
• AIX 5.3/6.1/7.1 Installation & Migration
• Manage VG, LV, FS (LVM Concept)
• Software installation management
• RAID, Mirroring, Manipulate ODM entry
• Device Administration
• User Management, Paging Management
• AIX TCPIP Configuration(IP Config/NIC teaming)
• Printing management
• NFS server & client configuration
• Crontab Scheduling, Sudo configuration
• System Backup and Restore
• Installation of Firmware, APAR and TL
• Problem determination & Resolution
• Performance Monitoring & Tuning
• Configure HMC Network and HMC
• Manage Server using HMC
• Create LPAR and Install OS in LPAR
• DLPAR configuration and Operation
• Install and Configure DUAL VIOS
• Configure sysback with Tape Library
• Install & Configure NIM, GPFS
• Configuration HACMP/PowerHA
• Installation & Configure Linux RHEL(4,5,6)/Fedora/Centos/SLES(9,12)/Solaris 10/OEL
• LVM, Device & User administration & Package management.
• Install & Configure GFS, OCFS
• Configure & Manage Red Hat Cluster Suite
• Configure and troubleshooting of Network services like NFS, SSH, SAMBA, SMTP, POP, IMAP, DHCP,DNS
• Configure PXE/Kick Start Linux Installation Management.
• Install and Configure Oracle 10g/11g r2, DB2 9/10 Database on Linux & AIX.
• Intermediate skills on administering Oracle/MySql/DB2 Database
• Intermediate skills on Oracle RAC installation
• Dump file import/export using EM & TOAD
• Install, Configure and Manage vSphere 5.1/5.5
• Vmware P2V and V2V Migrations
• Vmware vSphere ESXi builds and administration
• Install & Configure vCenter Server
• Configure Vmware HA & DRS, FT
• Configure Vmware Auto deployment&Update
• Intermediate Skills in installing, configuring and troubleshooting hardware related to backup systems to include: tape drives, tape libraries, servers, and external storage devices
• Intermediate Skills in IBM Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) v6 and backup software to include: installation, testing, and integration of new software releases
• Intermediate Skills installation, configuration, administration and troubleshooting of IBM Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) 6.5
• Intermediate Skills on installation, configuration of TDP for mail & Database
• Intermediate Skills in performing, monitoring and troubleshooting data backups and restore operations.
• Skills in install & configure IBM System Director
• Competencies in install & configure Nagios in Linux
• Intermediate skills on bash and ksh scripting knowledge
• Oracle Solaris 10 Basic System Administration
• Install and configure Windows 2003/2008/2012 Active Directory, DNS, FTP, IIS
• Strong Knowledge on windows XP, Windows 7/8, Windows 2003/2008/2012 Administration
• Intermediate knowledge on MS-VISIO and MS0Project
• Skills on WIN2K3/2K8 Cluster Installation
• Intermediate Knowledge on Ubuntu /Debian/ UnixWare/FreeBSD
• Conduct training on customer site for better understanding of system concepts.
• Vast R&D experience in appliances like Openfiler, Startwind, QuadStor VTL, VMware Workstation, Oracle VirtualBox. QEMU, Hyper-V & Linux KVM

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Assistant Manager

Responsibilities:

• Evaluates customers business and technical environments, qualifies opportunities, architects solutions, assures the solution’s technical feasibility, drives implementation planning, and ensures a successful implementation.
• Provide enterprise-wide Unix System infrastructure support for complex system and interconnected technologies to maintain optimum performance and utilization.
• Provide post implementation support for IBM Power Systems/Blade Center/Storage Systems and Backup Solution.
• Evaluate customer existing infrastructure, identify bottleneck and propose new H/W components capacity to maintain RSA.
• Install, configure & Manage VMware vSphere & Red Hat Enterprise Linux related implementation.
• Ensure the availability of customer systems and infrastructure, to agreed levels of service (SLA), by pro-actively monitoring, maintaining, tuning and upgrading those systems.
• Prepare presentation slide, diagram and documentation
• Answer technical question and deliver knowledge transfer session for the client.
• Interact with E-config/SSCT/SPT/x-config to generate BOM and list price
• Build relationship with key stake-holders both in IT and Business/Operations
• Manage customer accounts and provide consultancy on capacity planning.
• Contact with IBM Tech-line/Distributor/Local IBM to validate the design & sizing

Confidential

Assistant Manager

Responsibilities:

• Handle Large and highly virtualize/physical server implementation.
• Ensure the availability of customer systems and infrastructure, to agreed levels of service (SLA), by pro-actively monitoring, maintaining, tuning and upgrading those systems.
• Provide 24x7 On-site support Power System Servers, System x and Storage.
• Provide L2 support in Nepal & Bhutan for Confidential servers
• Routine health checks of systems and plan for future capacity, modifications, connections, and licensing issue.
• Work closely with IT staffs at client locations to observe and recommend on backup and restores, creating test environments, application updates and apply patches to applications.
• Conduct hands-on training after implementation for better understanding of the system concepts.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Assemble & Rack mount IBM BCH Chassis & 8 HX5 Blades
• Upgrade Firmware for all modules and HX5 Blades
• Install & Configure ESXi5.1 in HX5 Blades
• Configure Brocade SAN and Cisco Catalyst Switch Modules
• Configure TCPIP and SAN Zoning
• Add new ESXi5.1 with existing HA Cluster
• Map Shared storage resources
• Verify cluster failover, DRS & vMotion etc.
• Install and Configure SRM
• Test Failover between Sites
• Submit documentation on final setup
• Document the existing Data Center Servers information and prepare the H/W diagram and deployment plan
• Install and configure all IBM hardware (IBM p740, V7000 storage, SAN80B-4, SAN60B-R, x3950,TS3200 and HP DL380 G7)
• Install and Configure PowerVM and vSphere ESXi 5.5 and vCenter Server.
• Configure ISL and SAN Zoning between SAN
• Configure V7000 Volumes and Flash copy
• Restore AIX 7.1under corresponding LPARS
• Configure and Test DC-DR Replication
• Configure TSM 6.5 Server & TDP for mail and Database

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Check existing p7 780 Servers readiness for the upgrade
• Plan the upgrade action plan.
• Unpack and Install new Memory Modules as planned
• Ensure SMP cables are re-installed properly
• Put CoD activation code and check processor, memory, PowerVM license are activated permanently
• Check newly activated resources availability
• Add newly added resources to their existing LPARs.
• Submit documentation on final setup.
• Document the existing Server information
• Design new hardware topology to upgrade each server.
• Prepare newly purchased IBM p7 770 CEC and 5877 I/O drawer(Hardware installation, rack mounting)
• Service processor redundancy/SPNC looping/12X DDR looping
• Put CoD activation code and check processor, memory, PowerVM license are activated permanently
• Add newly added resources to their existing LPARs.

Confidential

Executive, Technical Services

Responsibilities:

• Prepare IBM System eleven p7 740 and onep7 720 (Hardware installation, rack mounting, Firmware update)
• Power on each Server using HMC and create NIM server
• Install and configure IBM AIX 6.1 Standard Edition(such as tcpip, etherchannel, nfs, lvm, ssh etc)
• Install and Configure 3 sets 2 nodes PowerHA
• Install 2 sets GPFS for Oracle DB.
• Create file systems in each server as required.
• Create resource group and put application start, stop and monitor script in HACMP.
• Test HACMP Failover for each set of cluster
• Test GPFS Filesystem availability in case of node failure
• Install and Configure Servers for Disaster Recovery
• Establish DC-DR Replication
• Test DC-DR Failover
• Prepare and submit Documentation
• Prepare Twelve p6 550 (Hardware installation, rack mounting, Firmware update)
• Power on each Server using HMC.
• Configure NIM Server one LPAR to install AIX on the remaining LPARS.
• Install and configure IBM AIX 5.3 TL11 Standard Edition(such as tcpip, etherchannel, nfs, lvm, ssh etc)
• Attached Shared LUN with all the LPARS
• Create file systems in each server as required.
• Migration of all existing data to newly configured server.
• Configure NFS server, Jailed FTP, SSH and Sudo
• Take system backup of all the LPARS
• Collect LPARs and Shared volume details which will be replicated at DR Site
• Configure Disaster Recovery site according to the customer plan
• Check DC-DR failover and roll reverse failover
• Prepare and submit Documentation

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Prepare IBM System 3 p7 750,1 740, IBM DS5020 & Cisco MDS 9000 SAN SW (Such as, Hardware installation, rack mounting, Firmware update)
• Power on each Server using HMC to create LPAR as required.
• Create 33 LPARs (3 p7 750=7 LPARs in Prod Node A+8 LPARs in Prod Node B+ 14 LPARs in Dev Node and 4 LPARS in p7 740 server for DR)
• Install and configure NIM server to deploy IBM AIX 6.1 Standard Edition in each LPARs.
• Install and configure IBM AIX 6.1 Standard Edition(such as tcpip, bonding, lvm, nfs,ssh etc)
• Install and Configure DUAL VIOS
• Configure sysback for taking system backup using Tape Library and TSM
• Configure 4 Sets PowerHA as requested
• Prepare IBM System two p6 550 and Nine p6 520 servers (Hardware installation, rack mounting, Firmware update)
• Power on each Server using HMC.
• Install and configure IBM AIX 5.3 TL09 Standard Edition(such as tcpip, etherchannel, lvm)
• Configure NFS server, Jailed FTP, SSH and Sudo
• Install and Configure two sets HACMP
• Install and configure a two nodes GPFS.
• Create file systems in each server as required.
• Create resource group and put application start, stop and monitor script in HACMP.
• Migration of all existing data to newly configured server.
• Configure Disaster Recovery site.
• Check DC-DR failover and roll reverse failover

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Prepare Eleven IBM System x3650 M3 Servers (Such as Hardware installation, Rack mounting & Firmware update)
• Configure a system for kick-start installation server
• Installed and configure Network settings
• Install Oracle Enterprise Linux 5(OEL)
• Configure TCIP/IP, LVM and multipathing software
• Configure 2 sets of Active-Passive 2-nodes Redhat cluster(RHCS)
• Verification of Failover Test on Both Clusters.
• Configure Disaster Recovery Site
• Test DR-DC Failover
• Prepare 2 IBM p6 595, 12 4-CEC & 2-IO Drawers p6 770 Servers (Such as Hardware installation, Rack mounting & Firmware update)
• Configure each server to connect with Redundant HMC
• Create 9-LPARS in both p7 595 Servers
• Installed and configure AIX 6.1 TL04 in each servers
• Install Configure TCIP/IP, LVM and multipathing software
• Configure 4-sets of Active-Passive 2 nodes PowerHA 6.1 Cluster for Oracle Database HA
• Verification of Failover Test on Both Clusters.
• Configure Disaster Recovery Site