SUMMARY

• Over 5 years of excellent experience in large enterprise environment in Design, implementation and administration of Tivoli Storage Manager TSM solutions
• Good hands on experience in Implementing and supporting various hardware, backup solution like TSM, Enterprise System Management tools Tivoli etc. The involvement in these areas including planning, design, Implementation and support.
• Professional experience supporting desktop, laptops, printers and server systems including Microsoft OS, Microsoft Exchange, Network Appliance NAS, Unix OS, hardware installation, troubleshooting including component level replacement
• Strong Experience in Implementing Tivoli storage Manager for backup and recovery strategy. Have extensive experience in Installing and managing RISC as well as CISC based Systems
• Experienced in creating maintaining and managing LPARS and VIOS with HMC console
• Organized migration from non-TSM solutions Backup Exec, Symantec Netbackup to Tivoli Storage Manager
• Performed TSM Client, TDP SQL, and TDP Domino backups and restores
• Maintained backup scheduling, load balancing maintenance activities for TSM Servers
• Responsible for Disaster Recovery planning and practice
• Experience in Migration of HACMP 4.5/5.1/5.3 to HACMP 5.5 using Node-by-Node migration without changing the cluster setup
• Linux Windows Server administration for backup servers
• Performed all backup/recovery tasks involving nix, Exchange, MS-SQL, Notes and Oracle
• Designed and operate an ITIL service management structure to optimize Information Technology IT services
• System Administration, implementing, configuring, troubleshooting and administration of Storage,
• Backup on various flavors of UNIX like AIX, Unix, Sun Solaris, Linux, Wintel, Windows NT, windows2000 and windows 2003.
• Efficient in independently handling large installation. Excellent Communication Skills. Leadership qualities and team working.

SKILLS

EXPERIENCE

TSM Storage Administrator

Confidential

Responsibilities

• Installation, configuration and management of TSM Servers on Windows and AIX Platform.
• Migration from TSM v5.4, 5.5 to TSM v6.1 and 6.2.
• Monitor components of TSM, including databases, logs, tape libraries, messages and backups.
• Define and manage retention policies, management classes and copy groups.
• Administer TSM server environment s to monitor and manage enterprise data management processes. Monitor TSM application server processes and errors to ensure overall system performance and stability.
• Monitor and ensure that backup server maintenance tasks are successful on a daily basis, correcting any errors when necessary.
• Provide support for backup server Tape drives and library problems, including halting and/or restarting the backup server software application.
• Configuring TSM TDP such as Tivoli Data Protection for Lotus Domino, MS Exchange and Oracle.
• Backup and recovery of Microsoft SharePoint Portal 2003 and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 environment.
• Solving Failed and missed backup problems and to work on root causes.
• Weekly schedule of new servers to TSM Server Registration and Association to backup schedules and test.
• Maintained backup scheduling, load balancing maintenance activities for TSM Servers
• Responsible for Disaster Recovery planning and practice
• Performed all backup/recovery tasks involving nix, Exchange, MS-SQL, Note and Oracle
• Implementation of LAN free tape backups using TSM in SAN environment
• Installed and configured TSM B/A Clients and configured CAD service for remote access on multiple platforms.
• Installed and configured IBM Ultrium 3582, 3584 and 3594 Tape Library.
• Monitor on-off site tape rotations and inventory, and monitor procedures for compliance with Disaster Recovery program.
• Participate in disaster recovery planning, testing and maintenance for the enterprise TSM environment.
• Provide technical/solution contributions to current operations and to the vision for the future.
• Manage capacity and performance of the backup infrastructure ensuring the integrity of infrastructure on a day to day basis.
• Maintain and update documentation for the standards, processes and procedures to be adhered by the team.
• TSM Operational Reporting including adding new TSM Servers in Operational Reports mmc, configuring Reports and automating Reports, Produce and analyze TSM Reports.
• Experience with configuring ISLs Inter Switch Links and ISL Trucking.
• Hands on experience in IBM ESS 800, IBM DS4500, DS8300 storage administration.
• Wrote Shell and Perl scripts to automate tasks and SMTP daily reports.
• Define and configure the client schedules and administrative schedules.
• Using CBMR running the whole system backup and troubleshooting the issues related to CBMR.
• Monitoring the TSM Server's health on a day to day basis. On call availability on a rotational basis performed troubleshooting and documenting the fixes and/or the work a rounds.
• Perform capacity planning functions for the hardware supporting backup and recovery.

Environment: TSM V 5.x, 6.1, 6.2, CBMR ATL's 3582, 3584, 3594 AIX 5.1, 5.2, 6.1, Windows server 2003 and 2008, Unix, Linux, Lotus Domino, MS Exchange, Oracle, SAN.

TSM Storage Administrator

Confidential

Responsibilities

• Monitor components of TSM, including databases, logs, tape libraries, messages and backups.
• Performing day-to-day support of 4 remote Data Centers, TSM instances running on AIX with tasks inclusive of troubleshooting, upgrades, TSM DB maintenance as well as TSM client tuning in addition to assisting in support of backup management for corporate data warehouse environment.
• Experience in Server LPAR Migration From one hardware to another p4 to p5 or p5 to p5 and AIX OS migration from Lower level to Higher Level, using NIM server, and different type of Migration methodology
• Perform restores of customer data as well as assist in complete server recovery due to failures or as part of disaster recovery scenarios using TSM.
• Develop migration plan for daily backup checkouts, problem determination, and file/server recovery steps.
• Provide subject matter expertise for Windows platform backup and recovery configuration as well as in assisting with server down recovery situations in addition to basic AIX administration in support of TSM.
• Complete TSM solution build-outs inclusive of base install library configuration, mgmt classes, storage pools, etc.
• Support applications running on the Windows servers.
• Implement utilities that help to increase security, sustain high degrees of availability and allow for proactive support of the infrastructure servers.
• Assisted with the re-architecture of corporate data center TSM environment as part of data center relocation project, trending and analysis of client backup durations and TSM server performance in addition to the redirection of server backups to the new TSM AIX environment.
• Developed and revised tape retention and rotation schemes on TSM for data center as well as remote sites.
• Define and manage storage pools in line with standards.
• Define and manage retention policies, management classes and copy groups.
• Provide support for backup server Tape drives and library problems, including halting and/or restarting the backup server software application.
• Configuring TSM TDP such as Tivoli Data Protection for Lotus Domino, MS Exchange and Oracle.
• Plan to determine Storage and Backup needs and solution for Enterprise projects.
• Solving Failed and missed backup problems and to work on root causes.
• Weekly schedule of new servers to TSM Server Registration and Association to backup schedules and test.
• Weekly monitoring of TSM databases, recovery log and Storage Pools Extend if necessary.
• Annual review of TSM Architecture, feature and functions.
• Implementation of LAN free tape backups using TSM in SAN environment.
• Enhance DR environment by providing additional solutions to address any short falls.
• Monitor on-off site tape rotations and inventory, and monitor procedures for compliance with Disaster Recovery program.
• Provide technical/solution contributions to current operations and to the vision for the future.
• Maintain and update documentation for the standards, processes and procedures to be adhered by the team.

Environment: TSM 5.2/5.3/5.4, AIX 5L V6/5.3 OS, Sun Solaris 10/9, PeopleSoft, WebSphere V6 EMC Symmetrix Clarion SAN, EMC PowerPath, MultiPath IO, UNIXIBM AS/400, P4, P5, HS22 Blade Center Server and Sun Solaris, SAN, VIOS Servers, HACMP5.1/5.2 for SAP and DB2, EMC Clariion, Avamar, Data Domain, NIM Setup, Cisco Switches, ATLs 3584, 3594 and VTLs ProtecTier, Data Domain, XIV storage.

TSM Administrator

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Installation of Tivoli Storage Manager 5.2 server software
• Monitor components of TSM, including databases, logs, tape libraries, messages and backups
• Configuration of policies for various clients
• Registering client nodes and administrators
• Estimation of Database, Recovery log and storage pool sizes
• Configuration of LTO Tape library
• Configuration of various clients and admin schedules
• Server scripting for automizing the tasks
• Installation and configuration of TDP for Oracle and Notes
• Configure LAN Free Backup using storage agent.
• Implementing Sysback for AIX
• Monitoring of client schedules, Processes
• Defining schedules for Inventory scanning
• Customization of system startup and shutdown
• Implementation of Backup strategy
• Configuration and Maintenance of Network File Systems
• System Performance monitoring and Tuning
• Documentation.

Environment: TSM 5.2/5.3, AIX 5.1, 5.2, Windows 2000, Windows 2003 server, Oracle, LAN,

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