Available consultant Vijay for Unix System Admin with sun Solories Expireance.




satish@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
217-241-2015


VIJAY

OBJECTIVE:
Server Builds - Sun Servers and Intel servers with networking,
storage, application servers, Volume management, Cluster server, SSH,
Monitoring, troubleshooting infrastructure problems, Software
upgrades, patching, pro-active maintenance for sustaining environment
for 99% uptime, comprehensive troubleshooting of the Environment with
all the above components.

PROFESSIONAL
SUMMARY

• 6+ years of professional IT experience in Unix System Administrator
(Sun Solaris/Linux) engineering/operations as a UNIX Solaris/Linux
Software administrator supporting mission critical 24x7 projects which
includes more than 5+ years of Assignments on Troubleshooting/
Resolving on services/Applications and hardware Issues in the domain.
• Worked in an environment of 600 Servers and 400 Boxes..
• Primarily worked on Widows, UNIX Solaris, Linux platforms, servers
and applications, Client-Server technologies.
• Installing and Configuring SUN Solaris 8, 10 on all Spark/sun4u
architecture Servers.
• Expertise in Solaris/Linux installation, configuration, design,
implementation, connectivity and maintenance on Sun Solaris, Veritas
Volume Manager, Veritas Cluster Server, Solstice Disk Suite, FTP, TCP/
IP, NFS, DNS, NIS, SSH, LDAP, ZONES, jumpstart, Apache.
• Involved in design, implementation and troubleshooting of complex
systems and networks, which span across multiple protocols, topologies
and physical media.
• Managing Sybase database, Oracle, Websphere, Sunone, Iplanet, Site
minder and Informix Applications
• Expertise in implementation of patches and packages on the Server
for performance enhancement on Solaris Platforms.
• Managing the Filesystems, Disk management and Crash and Recovery.
• Experienced in Sun Hardware Support of Enterprise and Sun Fire/
Virtual Servers.
• Handled server, workstations, user training and help desk support,
including UNIX problems.
• Worked with Large datacenter applications with High infrastructure.
• Run ACT (A Crashdump Tool) against a core dump or live system.
• Build new Unix SUN-FIRE 440, V490, V410, SUN E450, E420, E220, E10k …
etc Unix servers.
• Identifying FRU’s and CRU’S.
• RAID Management.
• Installing and Configuring windows 2003 server and managing ADS.
• Work on EMC SAN, Solistic Disksuite, Veritas Volume Manager, ZFS,
and Veritas Netbackup 5.0.
• Experience in installing Solaris 10, administration of SMF, Creating
a Zones(Containers).
• How to Get a Core dump from a Solaris 2.x system.
• General the flow of building logical volumes, creating a file system
and mounting it
• Designed LAN, handled user application troubleshooting and problem
resolution.
• Certified in Sun Certified Solaris Administrator V10 and Microsoft
Systems Administrator – MCSA.
• Strong troubleshooting, installation and configuration skills.
Attentive to details. Maintained meticulous records of all projects
• Installation, Configuration and Administration of VCS 3.0, Growing
File System
• Using Vxfs 4.1 and Solstice Disk suite, Disk arrays and quotas
• All levels of RAID configuration and management using Raid Manager
EDUCATION

Bachelors in Engineering
CERTIFICATIONS

Sun Certified System Administrator-SCSA V-10
Microsoft Certified Professional-MCP
Microsoft Certified System Administration-MCSA
TECHNICAL
SKILLS

Operating Systems: Sun Solaris V (8, 10), Linux, Windows 2000/2003, NT
4.0.and CCNA.
UNIX Services: NIS, NFS, Auto mount, DNS, SSH, DHCP, FTP and Jump-
start.
Software: VERITAS Volume Manager 4.1. VERITAS file system, ODS, (Disk
Suite), Auto, F-Secure (SSH). VERITAS cluster3.0, VERITAS Netbackup
5.0. EMC with SAN
Tools: ACT, SUNvts, STORtool,
Scripting: UNIX Korn, Bourne shell, Perl, awk, sed. etc.
Resources: ps-mon, ps, net stat, iostat, vmstat, /proc tools, sar,
top, Dtrace.
Monitoring: dmesg and syslog
Security: SSH, ACL etc.
Languages: Shell script
Server Hardware: Entire range of Sun Hardware: SUN-FIRE 440, V490, and
v410, E450 SUN E450, E420, E220 E10K
Networking: TCP/IP networking with Solaris, Linux, Windows 2000, NT.
Network Devices: HUB, Brocade switches, Cisco Routers


EXPERIENCE

September 2007 - EMBARQ Corp, Kansas
March 2008 Sr. Sun Solaris UNIX Admin

EMBARQ delivers a suite of leading-edge communications services to
both residential and business customers in 18 states. Every one of our
employees is committed to providing common-sense ideas, reliable
service and a renewed commitment to the communities we serve. It’s
this commitment to excellence that has propelled our growth, and
EMBARQ is expected to rank among the Fortune 500 in 2008.Embarq
includes all data, applications, systems, hardware, software and
networks.

• First responder/break-fix support for the IT midrange server
environment.
• Rebuild servers, Configuration & Upgrades for existing servers.
• Conducted diagnostic activities/testing.
• Diagnosed OBP Boot failure and recovery.
• Patches &Packages- Installing and maintaining operating system
patches, Firmware updates, and security patches.
• Managed Sybase database, Oracle, Websphere, Iplanet, Site minder and
Informix Applications.
• Recovery from System hung/panic systems
• Resolved installation and boot failure troubleshooting.
• Programming experience using UNIX Korn, Bourne.
• Analysis of system performance.
• Enable deadmans kernel in case of FATAL crash.
• Create a new domain on E10k (Administration).
• Force a crash when box in hung state.
• Setup and Configure sudoers file.
• Recovery file systems from inconsistency state.
• Disk error troubleshooting.
• Added additional swap space for Swap issues.
• New File system creation, resizing and also creating raw
filesystems.
• Changed file/directory permissions
• Resolved SCSI Errors on different sun hardware.
• Cleaned out full operating system directory structures (/, /home, /
var, /usr, /tmp) due to core dumps or improper utilization of system
• Checked paging space as a part of trouble-shooting system
sluggishness
• Added space after SAN allocation, proactive SAN support related to O/
S
• Add or enabling server hardware such as processors/Memory for
existing systems in support of sustaining maintenance or project work.
• How to Get a Core dump from a Solaris 2.x system.
• Ran ACT (A Crashdump Tool) against a core dump or live system
• Installing and Configuring Internetworking with TCP/IP.
• Experienced in installing Solaris 10, administration of SMF,
Creating Zones and managing Dtrace tool.
• Installation and configuration of VERITAS Volume Manager, VERITAS
File System.
• Builded logical volumes, created a raw, block filesystem and
mounting it.
• Created Vxfs filesystems in the VVM.
• Resized the filesystem in VVM.
• Booted the operating system without Volume manager.
• Deported and Imported a disk group.
• Mirrored the system disk partitions using Solstice Disksuit.
• Added additional swap space under the encapsulated root drive.
• Changed VxVM kernel parameters.
• Configured and Maintain High Availability Clustering-Veritas Cluster
server for soalris.
• Storage setups, RAID, Logical Volume Manager, system backup design
and recovery.
• Created User, Groups per client requirement.
• Disk and File system management through VERITAS Volume Manager4.1.
• Configured a Jumpstart including implementing a Jump Start server,
editing the sysidcfg, rules and profile files, and establishing
Jumpstart software alternatives (setup, establishing alternatives,
troubleshooting, and resolving problems)
• Configuration and Administration of VERITAS Cluster Server
• Installation, configuration and remediation of various Securities.
• Open Boot PROM firmware update.
• Configured of kernel parameters or Registry changes as required.
• SSH configuration.
• Configured Cron access, save core, Syslog.
• Trouble shooting of day to day system and user problems
• Configured of Hardware and Software RAID. Disk replacement and File
system recovery.
• Trouble shooting of day to day systems and user problems
• Jump-start installation on more than 50 workstations and inter
networking with the operating systems
• Hardware installation and repair, NIS configuration and FTP
maintenance, DNS configuration, operating system installation and
configuration, and tape backups.
• Designed and implemented a total network architecture and workflow
that increased the productivity within the company.
• Created users, granted roles and privileges
• Provided Network Logon facility for the departments by implementing
NIS + NFS + DNS+ Jump Start, Auto mount to the client machines from
the domains Root, Boot servers.
• Extensive experience in all administrative activities is including
OS (UNIX, Linux, windows) administration, applying patches to the
system, performance tuning. Worked extensively in all aspects of
client management creating, deleting clients in various modes.
• Expertise in installation, configuration, design, implementation,
connectivity and maintenance on Sun
• Configured LDAP clients on server test and troubleshoot for the
same.
• Solaris, Linux, VERITAS Volume Manager, VERITAS Cluster Server,
Solstice Disk Suite, FTP, TCP/IP, NFS, DNS, NIS, Custom jumpstart.
• Strong Name Service configuration experience NIS with auto mount
File System experience includes Unix file System, Network File System,
VERITAS file system, FAT, NTFS.
• Storage experience with Solstice Disk Suite, VERITAS Volume Manger,
Online Disk Suite,
• Recovery a primary boot disk
• RAID level Strong experience in VERITAS Volume Manager.
• Administration of heterogeneous networks – Solaris, Windows 2000/XP,
User Administration, Software Packages and Patches Installation.
• Experience in file system creation and redundancy configuration
(Raid 5, RAID 1 mirroring) with Solstice Disk Suite and VERITAS Volume
Manager.
• Configured and Maintain High Availability Clustering-Veritas Cluster
server for Solaris
• EMC Clarion Management
• Brocade Switches & Management
• SAN Management: Performed Storage management with Veritas cluster
server using EMC`S connectrix under Oracle9 database running on
Solaris Sparc 6500
• Power path configuration and foundation in SAN Technology.
• In-depth knowledge on performance monitoring, tuning and
troubleshooting using the native OS command (iostat, vmstat, netstat,
prstat and snoop).
• Good Exposure on Sun Mid-Range servers

Environment: Sun Solaris (8, and 10), E10K, SUN-FIRE 440, V490, v410,
E450, SUN E450, E420, E220…etc. Brocade switches, Legoto, Tivoli, and
EMC CLARION FC4700, Disk arrays A5000/D1000/T-3, Tape Libraries
Storagetek L700/L180, and SAN Storage Works.
Tools: ACT tool, SUNvts, Storetool, SUNWexplo


July 2006 - INOVIS Inc. (formerly Harbinger)
August 2007 Atlanta, GA
Unix System (Sun Solaris/Linux) Administrator

Upgraded and administered Solaris8, 10/Linux on large scale Sun fire
4800/12k/15k Enterprise server, sun SPARC Enterprise range servers
environment includes Suns Solstice Suite and Veritas Volume Management
tools configuration and maintenance. Maintained 24/7 operations for
the computing Network infrastructure and performed backup and restore
strategies for the system database Oracle 8I Database and implemented
secondary replica servers for load balance and high throughput

• Migrated the Servers with Flash archive tool to store a snapshot of
the Solaris operating with all installed patches and applications.
• Responsible for troubleshooting end user and application problems
• Monitored the system performance and tuning the kernel to enhance
the system performance.
• Created, deleted, managed user accounts and managing user quotas on
the Network.
• Created file systems and configuring NFS for easier sharing of files
and mounting on the mount points.
• Added cron jobs and at jobs and analyzing processes.
• Configured syslog.conf file for effective monitoring of system and
analyzing the application logs and /var/adm/messages log.
• Jump-start installation on more than 50 workstations and inter
networking with the operating systems
• Hardware installation and repair, NIS configuration and FTP
maintenance, DNS configuration, operating system installation and
configuration, and tape backups.
• Designed and implemented a total network architecture and workflow
that increased the productivity within the company.
• Created users, granting roles and privileges
• Provided Network Logon facility for the departments by implementing
NIS + NFS + DNS+ Jump Start, Auto mount to the client machines from
the domains.

Environment: Sun Solaris (8, 9 and 10), E10K, SUN-FIRE 440, V490,
v410, E450, SUN E450, E420, E220, Brocade switches. Legoto, Tivoli,
and EMC CLARION FC4700, Disk arrays A5000/D1000/T-3, Tape Libraries
Storagetek L700/L180, and SAN Storage Works


June 2004 - AMDOCS Corp
July 2006 Champaign, Illinois
Sun Solaris System Administration

AMDOCS is a global leader in providing innovative software and service
solutions designed to help companies build stronger, more profitable
customer relationships and recognized market leader in Billing, CRM
and OSS.

• User administration and File system, disk management
• Analysis of system performance.
• How to recovery file system from inconsistency state.
• Added or removed software packages, agents, or Operating system
utilities.
• Disk error troubleshooting.
• Swap issue troubleshooting.
• Resolved new user access issues at as requested by Corporate
Security User access Team.
• Resolved SCSI Errors on different sun hardware.
• How to Get a Core dump from a Solaris 2.x system.
• Ran ACT (A Crashdump Tool) against a core dump or live system
• For supporting 20 Sun servers such as Sparc 80, Ultra2, Ultra5,
Ultra 10 for production, development and testing.
• Responsible of Installation of, maintaining the Network
Administration and System Administration.
• Installed, Configured and Maintained the DHCP, DNS, NFS, and SSH in
servers.
• User Account Management, Group Account Management, configuring dumb
terminals, adding modems, formatting and partitioning disks,
manipulating swap, local and remote printer management, taking and
restoring backup, scheduling jobs.
• Performance tuning and preventive maintenance.
• Solaris/Linux Installation, Configuration and Administration of the,
NFS, Auto mount, NIS, DNS, Jumpstart, and LDAP servers in UNIX with
Linux environment.
• Strong Name Service configuration experience NIS with automount
• File System experience includes Unix file System, Network File
System, Cache file System, Veritas file system, FAT, NTFS.
• To boot without Volume manager.
• Deported and Imported a disk group
• Storage experience with Solstice Disk Suite, Veritas Volume Manger,
Online Disk Suite, RAID, Shared Storage SAN, and Brocade Zoning.

Environment: Sun Solaris 8.0/9, Linux, Sun Fire 4800/V240/V440/V880,
Enterprise 280R/220R, E10k, etc, Veritas Volume Manager.Etc.

October 2002 - Key Bank Corporation
June 2004 Cleveland, OH
UNIX Solaris System Administrator

• Responsible for day-to-day systems administration for SUN SOLARIS
and Windows NT, 2000 servers.
• Built the Servers with Solaris operating system.
• Third Party software upgrade and porting to Solaris.
• Storage setups, RAID, Logical Volume Manager, system backup
design.
• Systems performance monitoring.
• Solaris Operating Systems upgrade, package installations, updates,
patches and software fixes.
• Worked with Large datacenter applications with High infrastructure
• Built the Sun Enterprise Servers with Sun SOLARIS operating system
2.9 and configured the A1000 and D1000s using Sun RAID volume
manager and VERITAS volume manager.
• Responsible for troubleshooting end user and application problems.
• Created User accounts, groups, printer etc
• Installed operating systems, patches, hardware, vendor software
packages, system customization and documentation of all departmental
UNIX, PC-based workstations and Terminal.
• Monitored system resources, logs, disk usage, scheduling backups and
restoring.
• Set up Quotas for the user accounts & limiting the disk space
usage.
• Creation/configuration of Additional Swap/tmp dynamically as and
when required.
• NFS Management - Take care of user accounts/groups, setting up of
NFS Environment. Solving the problems as & when created when NFS data
being accessed.
• Configured auto mounts/maps for the user accounts.
• Administration/Configuration of Print Servers/Clients in the Network
• Worked closely with database administration staff to ensure optimal
performance of databases, and maintain development applications and
databases.
• Designed and maintained Mission Critical applications in 24X7
production environment on Sun servers.
• Designed computer displays to accomplish goals using flowcharts and
diagrams.
• Installed Operating Systems, Application Software’s and Installing
the required patches & packages on both workstation and servers.
• Monitored the system performance and tuning the kernel to enhance
the system performance.
• Created and deleted and managed user accounts and managing user
quotas on Network.

Environment: Solaris 2.9/2.8, Windows NT, 2000, SUNFIRE 3800/4800/280R/
450/250, Ultra machines, VERITAS Volume Manager and NFS, NIS, DNS,
Shell Scripts, DNS servers, and Custom Jumpstart.

Jun 2001 - Sun Microsystems India Pvt Ltd
September 2002 Kasturba Road Banglore
Sun Systems Engineer/Administrator

Handled the network of 30 Sun servers along with 135 clients.
Responsible for building and maintaining a stable production
environment consisting of Sun Solaris servers in a 24x7 environment.
Intec is a Facility providing Software Solutions to Big Corporate in
India. Being a system Engineer to Setting up Unix (SUN OS) volume
manager, and Network Administration.

• Diagnosis of Hardware problems like Disk crash, board failures, etc
and work with SUN Microsystems, to resolve the problem. Interacting
with Sun and Software Vendors to fix bugs and Problems.
• Resolved TCP/IP network access problems for the clients.
Implementing Remote System Monitoring with Sun Microsystems.
• Developed and automating Shell for performance monitoring and Disk
Performance Monitoring and Tuning
• Checked health of file system.
• Performed daily backup.
• Created users.
• Attended User related problems.
• Grew size of volumes.
• Proficient with Sun Enterprise (250, 220R, 280R), Experience in Sun
Solaris Operating systems 2.8-9, Windows 2000.
• How to diagnose hardware and software issues and depending problem
• Provided solutions or suggest changing the part.
• Experienced with user permission administration, backup, debugging.
Proficient with tar, Ufsdump, Ufsrestore. Administration of
heterogeneous networks – Solaris, Windows 2000/XP, User
Administration, Experience in file system creation and redundancy
configuration (Raid 5, RAID 1 mirroring) with Solstice Disk Suite and
VERITAS Volume Manager. Custom Jumpstart installation.
• Highly motivated, reliable, team oriented and with excellent
interpersonal skills, analytical and problem solving capabilities.
Have excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Created file systems and configured NFS for easier sharing of files
systems and mounting on to mount point.
• Added cron jobs, at jobs and analyzing processes.
• Configuring syslog.conf file for effective monitoring of system and
analyzing the application logs and /var/adm/messages log.
• Documented the inventory of all Unix Servers, Disks, Storage, Backup
tapes and network devices.
• OS hardening, installation of patches/packages and configuration of
SUN tool for remote access through RSC.
• Parsing of log files and System activity report
• Specified hardware and software resources, recovering the system by
coordinating with hardware vendor ensuring minimum downtime

Environment: Sun Solaris2.8, Windows NT/2000, Cisco Switches/Routers,
McAfee appliances, SAN EMC CX200 storage, Brocade Silkworm 3200, SUN
Volume Manager, Bluecoat Proxy servers appliances, BIND, SENDMAIL,
Enterprise Servers, Sunblade100, Netra T1, SparcStation 10,40, Donovan
SparcStationDonovan SparcStation.


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