Lead Storage & Systems
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Total years of experience :23 years, 11 months
I am an Integrated Technology Specialist in IBM's industry-leading Enterprise Power Systems and Storage.
Good skill in the entire range of IBM Storages & Power System administration/configurations, Break-fix & end-to-end deployment, and positioning.
Storages Metro Mirror and Global Mirror Replications on DS8800, V7000 and, & Flash Copy Services.
Deployment and administration of IBM Storage Insights, Spectrum Control (TPC), Spectrum Protect, and Spectrum Scale.
Hitachi enterprise Storage Administrations.
Entire Range of IBM TAPE Library Deployment and configuration.
IBM xSeries and Blade Center, PureFlex racking and deployment.
Performance & Capacity Planning on Servers and Storage
Deployment & administration of AIX, VIOS, IBM I, Red hat Linux, Windows, and VMware ESX.
Firmware and microcode analysis and recommendations for storage and servers.
Performance monitoring/tuning/health check Aix and storage
Sizing / Patch Management /Firmware up-gradation / FRU replacements on all IBM Lenovo, and Hitachi hardware.
Good verbal communication skills (English) in both technical and non-technical communications.
Creation of designing documents (HLD, LLD) diagrams (Visio), and presentations (PPT)
Cisco MDS, Brocade Fiber Channel director/switch administration/management
Netapp administration and troubleshooting
Storage data migration experience
VMware Infrastructure management/deployment /Up-gradations and support
Linux (Red hat and SUSE) deployment and Support
iSeries System Deployment ad OS Support
IBM AIX, VIOs, administrations & monitoring, TL upgrades, and performance tuning.
Training customers on deployed hardware/software
Familiar with ITSM tool. ITIL Practice
L2 Level Logs analysis and Action plan writing on IBM Storage and Power systems
Veritas NetBackup Administrator - provides technical support for production UNIX servers, including monitoring, installation, patching, backup & restore problem isolation, and resolution.
IBM Spectrum Protect/TSM backup administration.
RETAIN and CPSSIMS work experience.
IBM Mainframe Z13 Zseries and HMC experience.
IBM and AWS Cloud support
Technical capabilities to perform varied day-to-day tasks and issue
Logs analysis through IBM Tools (Dump decoder, Snap Analyzer, Tape toolbox, IBM I Syssnap Analyzer, wait2 tool, Pure application Log analyzer, PFE Snap analysis, PFE Pedbg Log analyzer, PFE VIOS Snap analyzer, SMOG; Snap decoder and XIV MRI decoder, SAN Switch Log Analyzer, B-type SMOG browser.
Responsibilities:
Here my responsibilities are to look after all ECOBANK, fidelity Bank, Airtel, Ghana, Nigeria, London and all affiliated sites IBM Power Series and Storage infrastructure remotely.
Core Tasks in ECOBANK:
IBM AIX 6.x and 7.x on Dual VIO Power VM administration and deployments.
IBM p550, p570, p720, p770, p780 p595, p795 and HMC Mgmt
IBM SAN Director/SAN Switches Administration
IBM Enterprise Tape Library TS3500 Management
IBM System Director administration
IBM TPC/TPC-R Administration for monitoring and replication,
TSM and Flash Systems, Flash Copy
IBM DS8800, XIV, V7000, DS5000, DS4000, DS3000 administration
Part exchange on all IBM infrastructure
Call logging to IBM for Hardware and software issue and faulty parts replacements.
Patch management and keep the systems on latest level.
Firmware update/upgrade as per IBM advise quarterly
Coordination and meetings with IBM to keep the systems healthy and up-to-date.
Performance monitoring of LPARS and Storage on I/O Levels
GPFS Administration
Meetings with customers for upgrade/health check quarterly
Implementations plan for new installations and configurations
Customer satisfaction on day by day actives
Coordination’s with IBM support for software and hardware PMR / RCMS calls for troubleshooting the customer issues as per entitlement
Daily health check of systems and storage and reporting daily/weekly and monthly to customer
Monthly meeting with customer on ongoing issues in environment and discuss the solutions to fix them
Rich experience on the followings:
Entire range of IBM Power Series, Storages, Backup solutions, Replications, Disaster Recovery
EMC storage administration on CX and VNX series
Replication and Backup Solution, Tivoli Storage Manager, Tivoli Fastback, Tivoli Productivity Center
IBM System Director, IBM AIX, VIOS, NIM, HACMP, GPFS, Symantec Netbackup,
Brocade SAN switches/Directors, Entire Range of IBM TAPE Library, ProtecTIER Deduplication Gateway
IBM xSeries and Blade Center
IBM Flash System, Performance & Capacity Planning on Servers and Storage
SAN/Storage Positioning
Complete end-to-end advance skills and knowledge on positioning the complete stack from Compute,
Storage, -Network, Virtualization and Management
Providing support for entire range of IBM pSeries Servers, IBM Power Series and Storages Parts exchange/replacement and upgrades experience
Shell scripting and performance monitoring / tuning / health check
Sizing / Patch Management /Firmware up gradation / FRU replacements
Look after fbr data centre of power systems and storage