ACCOMPLISHMENTS

• 9 years of strong experience inStorage Solaris/Linux System VERITAS Volume Manager and VCS Administrator.
• NetApp - CertifiedData Management Administrator 7-Mode
• Sun Certified in Solaris 9 and Solaris 10Upgradation.
• VERITAS Certified in Storage Foundation 5.0
• Linux Certified in RedhatLinux 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, LunMasking and Mapping to the servers
• Good practical knowledge in Reel Backup and VeritasNetbackup 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

Jobs and Responsibilities:-

• Worked in Data Center to Rack and Stack T5-2 hardware setup.
• Working on client place Illinois for participated in data center migration.
• Maintaining the user administration
• Experience on build the SAP Linux VM's on Red hat and SuSE Linux OS.
• Expertise in System Administration, Installation, Configuration, troubleshooting and Performance tuning of Red Hat Enterprise Linux and SuSE Linux SP3 installation.
• Build the SuSE and Red Hat Linux and do the installation configuration third party software's as per Client requirement.
• Expertise in Build the servers from Scratch Solarisand do the installation configuration third party software's as per Client requirement.
• Result driven consultant with good experience in the area of UNIX/Linux/NetApp System Administration
• Taken the transition from the client and transition given to offshore team members.
• Working as UNIX/Linux tracktransition lead for this project.
• Build servers in and do the dataMigration of Prod SAP DB and DR Dev/QA DB Servers from Xerox data centre to TCS data centre
• Build and Migration of the SAP DB landscape from Solaris 11.1 OS to Solaris 11.2 OS with existing Oracle Database
• Experience on Installation and configuration on SFCFSHA on Solaris and SuSE Linux OS.
• Experience on Configure the CPS servers and I/O fencing on VCS.
• Performance and System parameter setting for SAP DB Servers
• Migration of DR Dev/QA DB SAP System from Solaris 11.1 OS to Solaris 11.2 OS with exiting database and functionality.
• Participating in complete end to end SAP DB System testing which include Connection Testing between Non-SAP DB system to SAP DB System
• Migration of Non DB SAP System along with dependent system to avoid business work disruption.
• Installation and configuration SFHA and VCS cluster 6.2 on Solaris and SuSE Linux.
• As per client requirement we create the Suse Linux VM's template, and configured the required package installation and configuration as per Build Guide.
• Configuring the HBA cards on Server and Storage side
• Configuring Soft and Hard Zoning on Brocade switch
• Configuring the ISL and trunks between the brocade switches.
• Strong in providing SAN security using Zoning, Masking Mapping.
• Allocating the lun's to servers.
• Creating the file systems with storage lunsas per existing environment on new build server on Solaris and SuSE Linux VM's
• Doing the data migration From Xerox data centre to TCS data centre.

IBM Career History 02/2013 11/2014

Storage Administration NetApp :-

• 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.
• Hands on experience on Data OnTap v6.x, v7.x
• Implementing, Managing and administration Netapp 7 mode and 8.1 C-mode storage arrays.
• 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.
• Creating the volumes and Mapping the LUNs Creating Igroups and assigning to the servers Dedicated Virtual .
• 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.
• Filer configuration and Ontap upgrades and patching on host side
• Managing and monitoring SAN Luns and NFS shares
• Configuration of Snapmirror on Netapp Filers.
• Storage provisioning on Netapp filers
• Configuring Vfilers and providing storage from Vfilers
• HBA drivers and firmware installation and upgrade on UNIX Linux Servers and data ontap.
• Strong in providing SAN security using Zoning, Masking Mapping.
• Discovering the storage on UNIX/Linux and Windows Servers
• Migrating data to offsite datacenter on NetApp filers using snapmirror
• Creating and resizing the volumes on Windows hosts using Disk Management
• Perform capacity planning and reporting to ensure efficient use of storage
• Diagnosing hardware/software problems and provide solutions.
• Closely monitor server storage performance and utilization, identify problems and recommend/implement solutions.
• Documenting troubleshooting steps and procedure
• Resolve cabling and connectivity issues.
• Configured Autosupport on the filers.
• Provisioned the luns to hosts through ISCSI. Setup the iscsi CHAP authentication from filer to server.
• 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.
• Experience in implementing Thin provisioning on NetApp storage arrays.
• 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 Administration of Storage to Multiprotocol Environments like CIFS and NFS in SAN/NAS environment.
• Enabling, Configuring, the Quotas and Modifying quota limit as requested by the user
• PowerPath software installation, configuration and administration on UNIX Servers.
• Ran EMC Grab Utilities on the hosts and uploaded them to EMC for troubleshooting purposes
• Knowledge on Hitachi Storage

Confidential

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.

Jobs and Responsibilities:-

• Working as IST track lead for this project.
• Taken the transition from the client 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 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.

• 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 Kickstartprocedures 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.

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 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