Storage, Backup and UNIX Administrator - ADVANCED
Injazat Data Systems
Total years of experience :24 years, 0 months
• Storage Admin for EMC Storage ( CLARiiON, VNX, Symmetrix DMX-4, Celerra) and HP EVA Storage.
• UNIX Admin (Solaris and Red Hat Linux) in a huge data centre (the only Tier4 data centre outside North America)
• Backup Admin using EMC Legato Networker
Storage Technology:
• High-End EMC Symmetrix
• Mid-range EMC CLARiiON, VNX
• Zoning
• Storage volume creation, mapping, masking
• EMC Celerra NAS Storage
Backup experience:
• Using EMC-Legato Networker 7.4+ :
o Managing Networker Server under UNIX, Windows
o Adding Clients, Groups for file backups
o Configuring Oracle, SQL & Exchange backups
o Managing pools and offsite tapes
Sun Solaris experience:
• Installing Sun Solaris 10 on various Sun Hardware (see below)
• Setting up Custom JumpStart Installation
• Disk Partitioning and Formatting
• Developing interactive bash shell scripts
• Develop server monitoring and maintenance scripts
• SAN and Fibre connectivity integration (with EMC storage)
• Configuring networking and redundancy (aggregation)
• Managing scheduled tasks using “crontab”
• Installing packages and patches
• Configure nfs shares and remote shares
• Network management and troubleshooting
• Use sendmail to alerts system administrator
• Configure SSH key authentication
• Console Management (ALOM, iLOM, eLOM, XSCF)
• Sun Hardware Experience:
o Sun Blade Chassis 6000
o Sun M-series
o Sun Blade T6300, T6320, X6220, X6250
o Sun Fire T1000, T2000, T5120
o Sun Fire V880, V440, V240, V1280
Red Hat Linux experience:
• Installation of Red Hat Linux servers in various modes
• Install, configure and upgrade all Linux servers’ software,
patches and related products
• Maintaining web servers running Apache 2.0
• Configuring Samba, NFS, X Window system, NTP
• Configure SSH key authentication
• SAN and Fibre connectivity integration
• Ability to recover/restore RedHat Linux servers in case of a disaster
• Installation of EMC Networker Client agent
• Maintain and manage UNIX (Solaris) and Linux (Red Hat) servers
• Installation of Sun Solaris 9 and 10 on Sun SPARC, including setup of console (SC cli and XSCF)
• Installation of Red Hat Linux servers in various modes
• Install, configure and upgrade all Linux servers’ software, patches and related products
• Execute all administration / monitoring activities relating to Sun Solaris and Red Hat Linux servers; including crons, backups, user administration, and space management
• Maintaining web servers running Apache 2.0 under Red Hat Linux
• Configuring Samba, DNS(BIND), NFS, X Window system, RAID, NTP
• Ability to recover/restore RedHat Linux servers in case of a disaster
• Install, configure and maintain database servers’ software and related products
( Sybase - MS SQL Server 2000 )
• Installation of Oracle server on Red Hat Linux
• Installation of Veritas Netbackup on UNIX/Linux
• Perform backup and restore of data from tape media
Worked along with a team of programmers on the development of over 500 web pages for Samsung Electronics Middle East & Africa.
Attended training sessions in Sun Hardware and UNIX (Solaris) Operating System. These included installation of hardware and local networking.
BSC (Hons) Computer Science. Software-oriented course which included a group project and an individual project.
Univ of London examinations: A Levels in the final year at school. Univ of Cambridge examinations: IGCSE in the 10th grade.