Ramesh S

A competent professional with 17+ years of experience in:
Service Delivery Management Project Management People Management
Client Relationship Management Knowledge Management Stakeholder Management
Risk and Quality Management Incident/Change Management
Infrastructure Management Transition Management

• Performing health checks on all managed servers
• APAR, PTF, ML, Patch Cluster installation and management.
• Day to day server management which includes Disk Management, LVM Management, User Management, software installations, job scheduling, Backup and restorations.
• Firmware upgrade with various peripherals devices and p-series.
• Migration of data from XIV to SVC.
• TPC/IP configuration and management in AIX environment.
• Booting issues, System boot related issues.
• Filesystems synchronization and corrupted filesystems recovery.
• Installing / Uninstalling the IBM tools.
• Working with support team to replace Fiber card, Failure DIMM and other physical resources.
• Crating the filesystems according to the monthly data growth.
• Configuring the luns to VIO, mapping them to LPAR, and creating the VGs, LVs.
• Migration of LPARs from Frame to Frame.
• rootvg backup and all backup issues.
• HACMP 5.4 Resource Group Planning, Configuration and administration.
• Trouble shooting resource group and resource related problems through command line.
• Implementation of HACMP Failover Test/configuration.
• HMC migration, configuration and management
• Creation of LPARS and DLPAR in power5 and power6 servers.
• Managing LPARS using HMC command line.
• Planning and implementation of HACMP LPAR Migration.
• NIM Administration tasks
• VIO 1.5/2.1 installation (migration), configuration and administration
• Planning and Implementation of VIO 1.5 to 2.1 migration through NIM and DVD
• Configured and management of dual VIO environment
• SEA configuration and troubleshooting virtual adapter issue.
• Resolving the disk path issues in the server.
• Managing Swap space (Paging space).
• Verifying the logs (error logs, hacmp.out, etc).
• Collecting the System planner reports and discuss with the architect to plan the resources (memory, CPU, etc) for the lpar management.
• Performing Global Mirroring and simulating DR exercise as per customer need.

• Performing network installations, configuring NIM master, creating nim resources, defining machines, configuring nim clients and perform clients recovery by using their mksysb image, new installations, TL or ML upgrades etc.,
• AIX BOS installation, including different installations methods depending on the situation.
• Installing new software file sets, upgrades, APARs installation, ML up gradations etc.,
• Recovering root password, replacing failed hard disks, making disks high available by mirroring volume groups, logical volumes.
• Problem diagnose using system dump - system dump configuration, generation, estimating dump sizes, Coordinating with IBM engineer to analyze this dump vmcore files.
• Understanding of booting process, fixing booting issues, re-writing boot records, working with maintenance modes.
• Working with system management interface tool (smit), going through smit logs etc.,
• Configure NFS server and client and work on NFS issues if any.
• Configuring network interfaces, aliases, interface speed, diagnose network issues by looking at their statistics.
• Configuring startup daemons at system starting by configuring init tabs, creating, changing, and removing init tabs.
• Configuring new devices, working with configuration manager (cfgmgr).
• Fault network cards replacements, working with hot swappable devices such as hard disks, and replacing faulty hard disk for rootvg as well as user defined volume groups.
• Configuring cron jobs, and working on cron logs to checking for job status.
• Working on inetd.conf file configurations, enable or disabling services using this method.
• AIX LVM - creating volume groups, logical volumes, file systems, etc., resizing file systems, working with mount points such as changing mount point for file system.
• Migrating logical volumes, mirroring vgs and lvs, copying logical volumes, export and importing volume groups.