AIX and Storage Engineer
Northern Trust
Total years of experience :9 years, 0 Months
• Responsible for End of life Project for the all the HDS arrays. Virtualizing VSP or USPv behind VSPG1K for HTsM and NDM migration.
• Planning and scheduling to move all the hosts VMware, Unix/Linux and Windows from the old storage to new storage VSPG1000.
• Storage provisioning, LUN Management, LUN masking, zoning, performance management and volume management (Planning, allocations and de-allocations)
• Installation, configuration and operation of Hitachi software products (Device Manager, Tuning Manager, Tiered Storage Manager, Hitachi Dynamic Link Manager and Raid Manager)
• Responsible for weekly Storage migration with different technology of HTsM and Storage V-motion.• Troubleshoot SAN issues with HDS VSPG1000, VSP, USPv and EMC Symmetrix and CLARiiON..
• Configuration and administration of Fiber card Adapter's and handling AIX part of SAN.
• Configuration of VIO server and VIO clients from Hardware Management Console.
• Adding SAN (EMC Symmetrix, CLARiiON, IBM, Hitachi) on Unix systems.
• Design and implementation of SAN which includes installing and configuring of Hitachi storage boxes and fiber channel switches.
• Manage fiber switches/directors from Cisco, Brocade and Mc-data (Zoning / VSANs / FC-IP / ISL setup)
• Responsible for Planning and Design, Virtualization and Migration for the storage based migration using the Hitachi UVM-HTSM procedure.
• Managing HDS Enterprise storages like HUSVM, USP, USPv, VSP and VSPG1000 (moderate) and Modular Storage systems like AMS2500, HUS110, HUS130, and HUS150.
• Experience on installation and configuration of Hitachi Command Suites all versions like 7.5. 7.6, 7.6.1, 8.0 and 8.1.
• Responsible of taking the ownership of the entire project that includes Hitachi tools implementation such as Hitachi Device Manager, Tuning Manager, Replication Manager and Tiered Storage Manager.
• Compatible experience on Hitachi Universal Replication, Shadow Image, True Copy, Copy 0n Write (COW), and other replication techniques.
• Responsible for configuration of HDP-HDT pools and creating a parity groups, pool volumes and LUN allocations.
• Responsible for Virtualization, Installation, Configuration Management, Maintenance and Systems Development of AIX servers. Administration support and maintenance.
• Responsible for Host based migration on different Operating Systems such as Windows and Unix flavor.
• Migration of AIX OS from 4.3.3 to 5.1, 5.1, 5.2 to 5.3 and 5.3 to 6.1 on pSeries servers.
• Migrations of the OS’s like AIX/LINUX/SOLARIS both Standalone and Clusters.
• Creating the LINUX Lpars through Running the Scripts and VMware vSpere web client.
• Host based Migration, Performed Disk mirroring, backup and restore for better data availability and Disaster Recovery.
• Administered the UNIX System for clustered AIX Servers running HACMP and dynamic LPARs with fiber attached SAN storage.
• Backup the VIO Servers to the NIM and Upgrade 20 Virtual I/O (VIOS) from (1.3.x -1.5.2.1) and IBM EMC SAN (Symmetrix and CLARiiON) ODM (5.3.0.0 - 5.3.0.1) and Powerpath (4.5.3-b011 - 5.1.1) in dual LPAR Environment on p670, p650, p595 and p590 and SUN SPARC machines.
• Worked as Level 2 AIX support technician in IBM'S eBusiness group in IGS (IBM Global Services). Responsible for keeping network, web, and e-commerce services available and operating at established service levels for IBM content-hosted customers. Communicated
• Administered the UNIX System for clustered AIX Servers running HACMP and DLPAR’s with fiber attached SAN storage.
• Installing and Configuring MPIO in dual VIO environment for providing continuous availability of storage to the LPAR’s.
• Configuring SEA failover in dual VIO environment for providing continuous availability communication to the LPAR’s.
• Applying security patches to VIO servers without impacting to VIO client.
• Respond to customer / business partner inquiries and develop solutions to meet their needs.
• Created additional Vhost adapters on VIO servers to distribute limited luns through each adapter to improve data input/output rate.
• Provided technical support for the remote migration team and SAN team.
• Attended team meetings, change control meetings to update installation progress, and for upcoming changes in environment.
• Provide strong communication skill; maintain an effective relationship with customers, team members and management.
• Environment: Administration of AIX 4.3, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, and 6.1, HP-UX, Solaris and Linux
• Responsible for building p770 frames with DUAL VIO setup, installing VIOS, creating LPAR profile, performing all the powerVM operations, Installing OS, building NIM server, Security remediation and OS hardening, upgrading HMC, system firmware and VIOS.
• Performed server side tasks for SAN Migration from Hitachi VSP to VMAX.
• Performed open replicator based migration, NPIV based migration and virtual SCSI based migration.
• Host based Migration, Performed Disk mirroring, backup and restore for better data availability and Disaster Recovery.
• Creating Logical Partitions of VIOServers and VIOClients on pSeries frame and assigning processor, memory and Ethernet adapters to VIOS and assigning memory and processor to VIOC (LPARS).
• Virtualization - Independently built, configured and upgraded VIO servers to implement virtual HBA (NPIV) shared SCSI, shared Ethernet adapters, VLANS, allocating disks via VIO servers to client LPARs. Installed and upgraded HMC, upgraded system firmware. Created workload partitions for applications.
• Built POWERHA 6.1 clusters and Migrated servers with AIX 6.1
• Migration method SAN disk rezoning VIO or NPIV
• Worked with VAS tool for Joining, unjoining, deleting, linking and done a lot of troubleshooting on it.
• Prepared Disaster Recovery strategies & tested the same by restoring servers through mksysb restores
• Performed open replicator based migration, NPIV based migration and virtual SCSI based migration.
• Migrated all direct fiber disks on lpars to use virtual SCSI on vio. NPIV setup on Power7 using Power6/7 virtual switch configuration.
• Build LPARS by restoring mksysb
• 24x7 production support
• Created users, manage user permissions, maintain User & File System quota.
• Performed Maintenance level upgrades of over 4000 servers from AIX 5.2-08 to 5.2-10 and AIX 5.3-05 to 5.3-08. Performed TL/Firmware upgrade on all AIX servers in the chain to AIX 5.3 TL 12 Level.
• Extensively worked on Oracle RAC requirement, allocated 3.2TB of EMC SAN Storage, which was to be added to Oracle ASM including the ownership being given to DBA. RAC disks were to use ASM and not AIX LVM.
• Managing Automount, Netgroups, Secure NFS.
• Configuration and maintenance of Samba server.
• Migrating Windows environment to Linux environment.
• Configuring Kick-start servers for complete hands-free installation of workstations with custom profiles.
• Experience in Administration Concepts such as Virtualization and logical partitioning of CPU, HMC usage, Workload Manager.
• Monitoring Virtual Severs Using XEN Commands like CRM_MON, xm list Etc.
• Remodeling of network parameters like Virtual LAN based on the store requirements and new policies setup by client.
• Testing and installation of various patches (Fix Packs) on the servers to solve the problems encountered by the applications running on the servers.
• Extensive use of LVM, creating Volume Groups, Logical volumes, and disk mirroring
• Configuring and upgrading firmware of CISCO/Nortel switches available within blade centers. Handling and troubleshooting issues related to CISCO/Nortel switches during database migrations.
• Representing the company as hardware Technical Consultant, troubleshooting the Desktop, Laptop and all Ink Jet Printers.
• I handled all the hardware issue of the specific dell computer, related to hard drive, optical drive, mother board, graphic card, RAM, monitors and so on.
• Handled the blue screen error, window not booting, hard drives corrupted, optical drive, LCDs and all kind of BIOS issues.
• I also did sales for the company and customer. Did the upgrade and installation of new hardware.
• I served a sales spoke to the team, wherein I maintained the revenue targets of the team and contributed the maximum to team total.
• Served as a Sr. Technical Consultant, involved in handling the issues of the Customers using the Verizon Internet service and also managing the escalation.
• Worked on different IPconnectivity issues i.e., 0.0.0.0 or 10.x.x.x.
• Worked on flush DNS release and renew the Ip address.
• Worked with static and dynamic Ip address.
• Resetting the modem and routers manually or from the server end.
• Setting up the wireless connection with multiple laptops and desktops in the customer’s environments.
• Working extra mile for customer with all kinds of issues on Windows/ Macintosh desktop and laptops, installation of antivirus protections.
• Working with the team and motivating them to achieve targets that were fair, realistic, and achievable.
• Handling team meetings and group decision on weekly basics as to improvise on solutions and daily work best practices.
• My role in first six months, to handle the direct walk-in customer, be at front desk, arrange the interviews for candidates, maintain the daily reports and do all filing at the end of day.
• In charge of Front office Sales of HDFC Mutual Funds - Liquid Funds, Provident Funds and Long-term & Short-term Funds.
• Build a one on one rapport with customers and clients. Creation of power point display to provide presentations to various investors and Distributors about New Fund Offer \[NFO\] and SIP.
• Handled the backend process and documentation, assisted in training the new employees in customer service productivity, and product knowledge.
• After three months I was taken for the field job, wherein we meet our corporate clients like banks and distributors.
• Responsible for coaching Customer Service Representatives and provide feedback to management on productivity and growth figures.
• We provided presentation and understandings of products to corporate distributors so that it helps the business to continue at good rate.
• Take care of all kinds of business problems with distributor, if they are facing any major difficulties.
• Go to different city for marketing and generating business for the NFO(New fund Offer) and Sip(systematic investment plans).