SUMMARY

• A Senior Open Systems Storage professional having more than 7.5 Years of IT Industry experience in SAN, NAS, Backup Disaster recovery, Vmware and Vblock.
• Expert in administration of critical SAN and Vsphere environments.
• Experience in Datacenter Migrations and managed all alone Entire Confidential Infrastructure comprising of around 2PB.
• Worked on Migrating the data center from legacy IBM servers to brand new Vblock720 which includes 1000 virtual machines.
• Worked on Creating Zones in Cisco MDS 9148 SAN switch.
• Worked on VMAX10k in creating LUNS which are above 2TB size for that used the concept of Meta Luns. Created Storage Profiles and applied Fast policies to them.
• Created Initiator Groups and Masking Views.
• Worked on Storage Vmotion and Vmotion While migrating the Virtual Machines from Netapp Stoage to Vmax10k
• Worked Cisco Nexus 1000V in vsphere environment.
• Experienced in using administrative tools Unisphere for VMAX / VNX / VPLEX / Recover Point / CX, SMC, Prosphere, EMC Control Center, SYMCLI and NaviSec CLI.
• Day to day administration of VPLEX Geo/Metro environments. Encapsulating devices from backend arrays, migrated data on to new arrays using Device/Extent Level Data Mobility jobs, Created Consistency Groups, Distributed Devices and Virtual Volumes.
• Planned, Designed and Deployed Disaster Recovery solution for protecting data using VPLEX Geo/Metro integrated with Recover Point, SRDF synchronous/Synchronous, Mirror View, Recover Point CDP/CRR/CLR.
• Administration and management of storage systems consisting of VSP, USP V/VM/1100, 9980V, HUSVM, HUS 150/130/110 and AMS 2500/2300/2100.
• Administration and management of storage systems consisting of HP P9500, HP XP12K, HP XP1024, HP XP128 and HP EVA Storage Arrays.
• Administration and management of storage systems consisting of EMC Symmetrix VMAX,VNX, DMX - 4, DMX-3, Clariion CX4-960, CX4-480, CX3-20/40/80 CX700, CX500, AX4-5.
• Proficient in EMC storage systems (CLARiiON, Symmetrix and Celerra) and EMC software such as Control Center, Navisphere Manager, Connectrix Manager, Visual SAN and Visual SRM.
• Experience in administering, maintaining and troubleshooting of diverse array of equipment including EMC CX, VNX series, Netapp FAS series.
• Perform daily provisioning configuration changes using Symcli, Unisphere and Navisphere. Allocate storage to specific servers/applications mostly comprising of Unix, Vmware ESX and Wintel machines.
• Configured BCV's and Clones using TimeFinder tool in DMX/VMAX for Business Continuity, data backup and testing environments.
• Implemented SRDF for Production by creating R1 and R2 device pairing, RDF groups and device groups.
• Created performance reports from Symmetrix Performance Analyzer.
• Expertise in allocating storage from NetApp NAS FAS 3000 series, FAS 6000 series filers, managing volumes, Qtrees and Quotas.
• Hands on experience with EMC and NetApp management tools like Navisphere, ECC, SMC, Snapview snapshot/clone, Mirror View, Filerview, Snapmirror, SnapVault and PowerPath.
• Experience in installing, configuring and administration of Cisco and Brocade switches and fabric management.
• Great Understand of RAID concepts and Mirroring Techniques
• Extensive knowledge on implementing EMC NAS and NetApp products.
• Configured NetApp storage across the Environment
• Expertise in implementing business continuity solutions using various migration and replication tools like SnapView Snapshot/Clone, SAN Copy, Snapmirror and Snapvault.
• Hands on experience with Zoning, Storage Provisioning, LUN creation, Mapping and Masking.
• Worked on integrating storage on Exchange and SQL databases.
• Experience installing ECC, deploying master agent and pushing application agents.
• PowerPath installation and configuration on both Windows and UNIX platforms for failover and load balancing purposes.
• Working knowledge on various Unix Flavors - AIX, Red Hat Linux, Solaris
• Good knowledge on Win 2K/Win 2K3 networks, Active Directory and TCP/IP protocols.
• Expertise in DNS, DHCP, WINS and Active Directory configuration in Windows based server environments.
• Proficient in configuring Cisco Catalyst 2900,2960, 3560, 3750, 4500, 4900, 6500 series and Nexus 2248, 5548 and 7010 switches.
• Expertise in end user support over the phone and also remotely using Windows remote desktop, VNC, WebEx, DS view and ILO to connect to the servers.
• Solid experience in identifying and analyzing technical issues and troubleshooting them.
• Worked on Remedy tool Change management, Request management and Incident tickets.
• Experience in ITIL and ITSM tools
• 24X7 Production support on call.
• Versatile team player with good communication and problem solving skills
• Planned and Executed Block Level storage migrations using Open Replicator, SRDF, SanCopy, and VPLEX Data Mobility. Migrated data onto utility arrays and Retired / Decommissioned legacy storage arrays & 3rd party arrays.
• Employed EMCopy, Robo Copy to migrate CIFS & NFS shares from VG2 to VG8.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Storage Arrays: HDS VSP, USP V/VM/1100, HDS 9980v, HDS AMS 2500/2300/2100/1000/500 & HUSVM, HUS 150/130/110. HP P9500, HP XP12K, HP XP1024, HP XP128 & HP EVA.EMC Symmetrix DMX-4 & DMX-3.EMC Clariion CX4-960, CX4-480, CX3-80, CX3-40, CX3-20, CX700, CX500, AX4-DellCompelent.VPLEX, VMAX 40K/20K, VNX

SAN Switches: Cisco MDS 9513, MDS 9509, MDS 9506 Brocade DCX, 48K, 24k, 12K, 6505, 5380, 5240, 5140, 4900, 4100, 3800.

Platforms: Solaris 10/9/8, HP-UX 11.1/11.2, AIX 6.1/5.3, Windows 2008/2003.

Applications/Software: Storage Navigator 2, Storage Navigator, Storage Navigator Modular 2, Hitachi Command Suite, Universal Volume Manager, Hitachi Tiered Storage manager, Shadow Image, True Copy, Hitachi Universal Replicator (HUR), Hitachi COW Snapshot, Hitachi Tuning Manager, Hitachi Dynamic Link Manager, HP Web console, HP Command View XP, Business Copy, Continuous Access, SMC, Solutions Enabler/SYMCLI, Navisphere Manager, Navisphere Analyzer, ECC SAN Manager. Dell Storage Center.

Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity: VPLEX Geo/Metro, Recover Point CDP/CRR, SRDF Sync/Async, Mirror View Sync/Async, Time Finder Clone/Snap, VP Snap, VNX Snap Sure

Data Migration Strategies: VPLEX Data Mobility, EMC Open Replicator, SRDF, SAN Copy, Mirror View, Storage vMotion, vMotion, Logical Volume Mirroring, VERITAS Volume Mirroring, EMC Power Path Migration Enabler, Open Migrator, EM Copy, ROBO Copy

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Ozark, AR

Sr Storage and Vmware Vblock Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for Migrating Production Virtual Machines running on Legacy IBM blades to Brand New Vblock Environment without downtime.
• Worked and Created a Environment where VM's running on IBM blades can access both Legacy storage(Netapp) and the vblock storage which is VMAX10k.Used the concept called swing box.
• With that implementation storage migration was done.
• Configured Cisco MDS switch and created Zones.
• In Vmax created LUNs of size more than 2TB using the concept of META LUNS.
• Created FAST Policy and Applied to the Storage Groups appropriately.
• Worked on Vsphere5.5 and Cisco Nexus 1000v.
• Managed the CISCO UCS and created new interfaces using the service profiles and replicated the customer DMZ scenario on Vblock.
• Primarily Responsible for deploying and configuring Recover Point CDP/CRR solution with VPLEX and VMAX,VNX as backend arrays. Dissolved VPLEX distributed devices for EPIC systems and VMware hosts, Created consistency groups at VPLEX and RecoverPoint, Added Virtual volumes, Tag volumes as RecoverPoint devices and establish Recover Point CRR. Deleted SRDF/Mirror View sessions for datastore volumes and replicated those devices through RecoverPoint to have access to latest bookmarks to rollback in case of disaster. Configured VPLEX distributed devices to establish always available active-active VPLEX Geo replication solution. Migrated VPLEX meta-volumes and log volumes. Encapsulated storage volumes and performed VPLEX Data Mobility jobs to migrate physical and virtual hosts from XIV/VMAX 20K to VMAX 40K/VNX. Performed SANCopy data migration to migrate servers from CX-4 to VNX 5600. Planned and executed Business Continuity solution for EPIC systems using Time Finder Clones of Clones Designed Thin Pools, Port Groups and FAST VP on VMAX for better performance. Deployed Prosphere and Unisphere for analyzing performance. Performed zoning on Cisco and Brocade fabrics. Day to day storage administration tasks, Storage provisioning to servers, installed ODM file sets on AIX servers to use EMC Power Path multi pathing software, Knowledge transfer and documenting the process.
• Perform VNX software and capacity upgrades.
• Administered and EMC NetWorker environment with mixed Data Domain Boost, virtual tape and physical tape storage environments across multiple data centers.
• Implemented Data Domain Boost backups within NetWorker reducing overall network bandwidth usage by 1/3rd andTrained junior and mid level backup administrators in day to day administrative tasks and basic troubleshooting within Avamar and EMC NetWorker
• Migrated from replicated VTL tapes for offsite replication to NetWorker clone controlled replication, allowing easy offsite recovery of replicated data.
• Install and configure Netapp\VNX appliances.
• Data replication for disaster recovery using Celerra Replicator.
• Perform DART code upgrades.
• Design and implement storage solutions tailored to different environments such as VMware, SQL, and Oracle.
• Storage provisioning on EMC storage arrays SAN/NAS.
• Host based/array based data migration from end of life arrays to newer arrays.
• On-call duties interacting with customers, other teams and vendors when required to resolve incidents within SLAs.
• Monitor alerts to proactively identify possible problems that could impact production environment.
• Create and maintain operational procedures.
• Mentor members from storage and other teams in the organization
• Deploy proof of concept of new technologies in the lab.
• Managed and administrated Hitachi VSP and USP V models.
• Demonstrated experience in NetApp Snapshot, SnapVault and Snap Mirror.
• Created and Configured RAID Groups, Storage Groups, Binding LUNs, Naming, Resizing.
• Provisioned and Decommissioned storage from NetApp FAS and EMC Celerra.
• Installed new NetApp and EMC and implemented best practices.
• Perform various methods of data migration from NetApp to EMC and EMC to NetApp and providing the customer with practical methods in transferring large amounts of data to remote locations.
• Daily tasks Included Managing and provisioning on NetApp Filers/Celerra and VNX/VMAX/DMX/ CLARiiON using Data ONTAP CLI, Filer View, Celerra CLI and Celerra manager.
• Administered a SAN environment comprising of EMC VMAX/VNX/CX Arrays.
• Responsible for infrastructure tasks including provisioning storage, connectivity issues, upgrades, and day-to-day issues and audits.
• Used Open Replicator software to execute data migration from existing DMX to new VMAX storage arrays and CLARiiON to VMAX arrays.
• Manage EMC VMAX, CLARiiON CX 700, CX3-80, Symmetrix DMX 2000, DMX 3000, in heterogeneous environments, which includes windows and Unix systems.
• Monitor NetApp Systems, configure thresholds, capacity management, using Operations Manager (DFM) software.
• Utilized NetApp Storage Administration using System Manager, FilerView, Management Console, Operations Manager, SSH, RSH.
• Generating Historical Performance Reports for VNX 5500/5700/7500 storage arrays using Archive (NAR) Files in both Production and DR for troubleshooting purpose.
• Generating Capacity planning reports for VNX 5500 storage array for monitoring the growth of each Server for Budget planning.
• Performed Filer Installations, Upgraded Data ONTAP and firmware on filers, FC Switches and also installed and upgraded Operations Manager and OnCommand, DFM plugins and other hardware upgrades.
• Provisioned block storage from VNX 5500/5700/7500 by registering hosts, Creating Storage Pools/Raid groups, Creating LUN, creating Storage Groups, and adding hosts to the storage group using Unisphere.
• Manage and analyze problems with EMC Symmetrix, DMX and VMAX disk arrays,, SnapView, MirrorView and SAN Copy setups.
• Installation and configuration of EMC Control Center (ECC), Navisphere suite.
• Storage provisioning on symmetrix by using ECC and Symcli.
• Migration of data from Symmetrix-Symmetrix and Symmetrix-CLARiiON by using Open Replicator.
• Implemented NetApp OnCommand Protection Manager backup system for critical clinical trial statistical data.
• Did zoning, mapping and masking for Symmetrix and Clariion.
• Create RAID Groups, bind LUNs, create Storage Groups, Register Hosts, assign LUNs and Install agents.
• Configuration and Administration of SRDF/A.
• Performed brocade switches upgrades to 6.4 and Cisco switches upgrades to 5.2.8b on DS-C 9513 model.
• Upgraded ONTAP from 7.3 to 8.0 on 200 NetApp systems during various weekend GZ.
• Supported Qtrees, creation and exports through NFS
• Creating and administering aggregates, volumes, Qtrees, FlexVols, FlexClones, Snapshots, and Space Guarantee etc.
• Create, configure, and manage CIFS & NFS shares, quotas, groups, and permissions.
• Configuring SnapMirror, SnapReserve, allocating & deallocating shares to UNIX and Windows Clients from NetApp storage systems.
• Configured and Administered Open System SnapVault and SnapRestore for backup and restore operation in Netapp NAS Environment.
• Administer NAS Environment using DataFabric Operations Manager.
• Configured the replications using snapmirror on NetApp and Celerra on EMC Celerra and VNX.
• Collected and analyzed performance data using perf advisor from VMWare supported storage systems.
• Performed upgrades on clariion to FLARE 30.
• Configured EMC ControlCenter for end to end Administration and Management of Storage environment.
• Monitored, analyzed and fine-tuned the performance issues in Clariion/Celerra using EMC Navisphere Analyzer and EMC Unisphere.
• Project managed the consolidation of data from old EMC Cellera and Windows based fileservers onto NetApp filers.
• Used Storage Resource Management (SRM) tools to monitor Storage Area Network infrastructure systems such as CX 480/960, NS120/480/960 and VNX 5300/5500.
• Installed and configured ECC alerts/agents to supervise Storage environment for Clariion, Cellera and hosts also include was attaching management policies.
• Actively participate in the planning and implementation of storage and backup solutions.
• Problem determination and resolution including troubleshooting and submitting results reports to upper management and root cause analysis.
• Develop and maintain storage standards, procedures, policies, security etc.
• Installs and configures various models of the EMC Celerra, providing a more efficient method of file system access and productivity.
• ISCSI, NFS, Fiber Channel Protocols, Fiber Channel Cabling, Switching and Zoning.
• Led complete Physical-to-Virtual (P2V), Virtual-to-Virtual (V2V) and Virtual-to-Physical (V2P) migration of Windows NT, 2000 & 2003 Servers.
• Resolved all issues related with performance of SAN backed VMware ESX Infrastructure to determine proper allocation of resources to a multi-department user population with widely varying needs.

Environment: Hands-on experience performing upgrades on Avamar, NetBackUp, Data Domain Migration of Clients From Symantec Net backup to EMC Avamar Configured ORACLE RMAN backups using DD Boost in EMC Data Domain Configures SQL Backups Direct to EMC datadomin,EMC VPLEX, VMAX 40K/20K, VNX 7500/5600, Recover Point, CX-4, IBM XIV, Unisphere for VMAX/VPLEX/Recover Point/VNX, Cisco Device Manager, Brocade web Tools, VMware, Windows, AIX, Cisco Nexus 1000V, Nexus 2248, 5548.

Confidential, Long Island, NY

Sr.Storage and Vmware Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Managed EMC Symmetrix VMAX arrays:
• Created DATA devices, Thin Pools and Thin Devices (TDEVs), monitored their usage, and reconfigured Thin Pools as needed
• Hands-on experience performing upgrades on Avamar, NetBackUp, Data Domain Migration of Clients From Symantec Net backup to EMC Avamar Configured ORACLE RMAN backups using DD Boost in EMC Data Domain Configures SQL Backups Direct to EMC datadomin
• Hands-on experience performing upgrades on Avamar, NetBackUp, Data Domain Migration of Clients From Symantec Net backup to EMC Avamar Configured ORACLE RMAN backups using DD Boost in EMC Data Domain Configures SQL Backups Direct to EMC datadomin
• Utilized Fully Automated Storage Tiering (FAST) on Thin Pools, to ensure optimum storage usage between EFD, FC, and SATA Thin Pools.
• Created LUNs in Vmax20k and exposed those LUNs to the VM’s using the vsphere.
• Worked on trouble shooting the issues in Vsphere5.0.
• Worked to install the ESXI 5.1 on Physical Blades Deployed in Vbock Environment.
• Bringing up new NetApp filers this includes configuring creating Aggregates, Volumes, Qtree, configuring CIFS, NFS and providing the access to different projects and troubleshooting.
• Involved in Installation and Configuration of NAS device EMC Celerra NS501G, NS700.
• Configured Celerra Replicator on Celerra Systems for Local and Remote replication.
• Created Aggregates, Volumes (Traditional, FlexVol and FlexClone), Qtrees and Quotas in NetApp FAS 3040 and FAS 3020 using Filerview.
• Troubleshoot NFS, SAN and CIFS issues on NetApp filers and fine tune the filers for optimal performance.
• Performed NetApp OS upgrade.
• Monitor, replace, and reconfigure disk drives, FC HBAs (Host Bus Adapters), Compact Flash Card, tape drive/libraries.
• Experience in implementing Netapp NAS technology, including configuring shares, CIFS and NFS Administration.
• Configuring the RLM and e0M ports for remote administration.
• Configuring, Administering Snapshots copies and restoring lost files.
• Configuring the Volumes as IBM and NetApp recommended for Clear Case environment and fixing the performance issues.
• Enabling, Configuring, the Quotas and Modifying quota limit as requested by the user.
• Manage and resolve problems identified by OS Admins or monitoring software
• Increasing the Volume storage space as per the requirement.
• Add disk as needed to existing storage systems and configuring.
• Allocate shares/storage to new servers as needed.
• Exposure on configuring iSCSI LUNS, assigning to Solaris/Linux hosts and administration.
• Exposure on Snapmirror and SnapVault usage for Data Protection.
• Maintain reports on disk utilization, availability and growth patterns.
• Coordinating with Global storage team in Global Maintenance Break (GMB) activities
• Investigate, identify and document proposals that will improve application configuration and recoverability.
• Monitoring Filers through DFM for Disk, Network, CPU usages.
• Configured and deployed over 30 Cisco UCS computing clusters with VMware ESXi 5 and vCenter 5
• Configured and deployed over 25 ESXi 5 clusters leveraging EMC UIM/P
• Configured and deployed Cisco 1000v virtual switch module appliance within vCenter vSphere 5 infrastructure
• Configured and deployed VMware SRM for Disaster Recovery/ Business Continuity
• Deployed EMC VNXe SAN for vSphere 5 high availability management cluster configuration for 8 customers
• Administered and documented Data Protection health checks for NetWorker environments with mixed Data Domain, Tape and EDL storage environments. Supported and extended backup clone scripts for NetWorker and EDL backup environments.
• Gave intensive support for NetWorker/Data Domain customer with severe capacity issues and assisted in remediation of associated backup issues.Provided daily operational support and reporting for enterprise NetWorker customers.
• Planned, developed and implemented backup strategies using Legato NetWorker for medium to large sized environments in Europe and North America including specialized modules including NetWorker PowerSnap for Clariion and Symmetrix, SnapImage, NetWorker Module for Oracle, NetWorker Module for SAP and NetWorker Module for Lotus.

Environment: VMAX 10K/40K, DMX-2/4, VNX, CX, HP EVA, Brocade and Cisco Switches, SMC, Navisphere, Unisphere, SYMCLI, Windows, Solaris, Linux, HP-UX, NEXUS.

Confidential, Cincinnati, OH

NAS Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Actively participated in Project transition activities
• Playing a vital role in handling incidents which we receive through BMC Remedy tool and closing it with in SLA.
• Demonstrated experience in NetApp Snapshot, SnapVault and Snap Mirror.
• Experience in NetApp Filer Fiber Channel SAN configuration.
• Creating and expanding volume when required.
• Interacting with the client daily to discuss about the ongoing issues and the steps to be taken to resolve the same.
• Working with flexible volumes.
• Interacting with NetApp to fix the hardware failure.
• Using DFM to generate reports and to check the server status.
• Preparing plan for change request and implementing it in the scheduled time.
• Creating lun and mapping it to the igroup using snapdrive.
• Configured CIFS in the filer.
• Involved effectively in managing the snapshots
• Created Volumes, Luns using Filerview and console.
• Configuring snapmirror relationship between filers whenever required.
• Performed DATA OnTap upgrade.
• Copied data from filer to filer using snapmirror and ndmp.

Environment: VMAX 20K, VNX 7500, Recover Point, VG8, VG2, DMX-4, CX-3, SYMCLI, SMC, Unisphere, ECC, Performance Analyzer, Navisphere, Cisco and Brocade switches, ESX 4.0

Confidential

SAN Admin

Responsibilities:

• Installation, Configuration and Integration of NetApp filers with the Windows and UNIX domains.
• Configured Aggregates, Volumes, Qtrees, Snap mirror, Snapshots & Snap Vault.
• Configured volumes for CIFS / NFS. Upgraded Data ONTAP v6.1 to v7.2.3 via NFS
• Creating volumes and allocating size to file systems using quotas.
• Assigned storage to Windows, Solaris, and LINUX servers by configuring storage groups, assigning LUN’s, registering HBA’s on hosts in CLARiiON environment.
• Managed EMC CLARiiON CX 700, CX3-80, DMX 2000, DMX 3000, NetApp FAS 3040 SAN upgrades, and re-designs in heterogeneous environments, which include the following operating systems: Windows 2000/2003/MSCS, AIX, Red Hat Enterprise Linux versions 3 & 4 and Solaris.
• Deployed Time Finder Business Continuity Solutions by allocating BCV devices, Clones and Snapshots as per the business needs on DMX and Clariion.
• Implemented Virtual Provisioning technique with creation of Thin Devices on DMX using Symcli.
• Storage Provisioning (Lun Creation, Mapping, and Masking) on Clariion/DMX arrays through Symcli, Navisphere/Navicli and ECC tools.
• Successfully allocated Storage for open systems storage environment from Clariion, Symmetrix to Windows, Solaris, Linux, IBM-AIX and HP-UX servers.
• Installation and Configuration of Raid groups, storage groups and disk mirroring.
• Storage provisioning on Clariion and Symmetrix Systems for Windows, Solaris and AIX hosts.
• Proposed LUN, RAID Group and Storage Group configuration after evaluating company’s present and anticipated growth.
• Created BCVs (Business Continuity Volumes) using EMC Timefinder on SRDFs to offer workload compression, performing backups, increase productivity, etc.
• Installation and management of SRDF, Timefinder and creating BCVs as disaster recovery solution.
• Perform monitor and generate reports using ECC and extract file lever reports using storage scope.
• Actively participate in the planning and implementation of storage and backup solutions.
• Participated in Data center migration of Symmetrix DMX 2000 using Open Replicator.
• Storage Provisioning using zoning, LUN masking, mapping and reclamation, Capacity planning, disk layout planning.
• Configured and administered Brocade and McData Fiber channel switches.
• Installation, Migration, implementation on NetApp FAS series and NearStore VTL
• Involved in Installation and configuration of Emulex and Qlogic HBA’s for SAN connectivity.
• Replacing the failed disks on Netapp Filer
• Worked on Perl and Shell Scripts.
• Installed and Operated on NearStore VTL 300.
• Worked on Designing and implementing bunker and remote replication using NetApp SnapMirror and SnapVault technologies.
• Administered and Managed Multiple Veritas clusters on different platforms from a single web-based console.
• Planned and implemented High availability & Disaster Recovery of SAN/NAS Storage.
• Involved in the team for designing and Configured Nexus 7000/5000/2000 in Top of Rack & End of RowArchitecture for a Scalable Production Network that supports Rack & Blade server architecture

Environment: VMAX, VNX, CX, DMX, SYMCLI, LINUX, UNIX, Nexus 7010,5548,2248, Windows, Brocade and Cisco fabrics.

Confidential

AIX/Linux System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installation and maintenance of AIX Systems.
• Administration of AIX Operating Systems.
• System & backup management using IBM ADSM Backup Server.
• IBM RS/6000 SP System Software Maintenance AIX System Dump Generation and sending System Dump to AIX System Support Center.
• Installation/administration of AIX, Linux, Solaris, and NT/2000 Servers on a LAN, setting up optimal RAID levels (fault tolerance) for protected data storage in NAS environments. Install and configure DHCP, DNS (BIND, MS), web (Apache, IIS), mail (SMTP, IMAP, POP3), and file servers.
• Defined and setup network printers, and install client/server applications. Define/setup network protocols, Network File Services (NFS), and Network Information Services (NIS).
• Setup and administered room / Mentored students during
• AIX systems administration and Disk Management using SMIT.
• Logical Volume Management (LVM) of AIX.
• Predefined and Customized Volume Group management on AIX
• Installation and Administration of TIVOLI Service Desk.
• Disk Replacement Strategy on AIX.
• Managing cron jobs, batch processing and job scheduling.
• Software installation and maintenance.
• Installation and administration of peripherals.
• Security, users and groups administration.
• Networking service, performance, and resource monitoring
• Daily backup and restore operations.
• Set-up and administration of DNS server.
• Completed a full migration of UNIX Server (Solaris), including all network services, applications from NT 4 to Windows 2000 platform.
• Installation/setup of client/server MMS Applications. Create RDBMS backend with Oracle8 Database and MS SQL Server for the University at telecommunication sites throughout the US.
• Review Design Documentation confirming to Software Requirements
• Systems administrator providing support for production and development systems. Environment consisted of multiple IBM RS/6000’s (SP, R-series) and X-Window terminals
• Used perl v5 for systems tasks as well as C and Korn shell scripting.
• Deployed Nexus 2000, 5000 and 7000 series switches.
• Design and implemented SMIT configuration screens.
• Other standard system administration tasks performed, such as system monitoring, performance usage, network support, and user support.