Vijender Reddy

Sr. AIX Administrator

Mobile: +1 224 788 2777
Email: sadiq@epcot-tech.com

Summary:
11+ Years of Experience in the field of AIX System Administration.
Experience in Installation, configuration of AIX IBM pSeries Machines of 5L, 6.1 & 7.1
Experience in High Availability (Power HA & System Mirror) Cluster Configuration & Management.
Experience in Virtualization (VIO) configuration & Administration
Experience in installing, configuration, support, upgrading and patching Linux servers using Red hat
Satellite Server and also worked on registering different client servers and involved in building
channels and pushing the packages to master Red hat Satellite Server.
Installing and configuring VIO Servers, building LPAR clients and sharing IO devices to LPARs
Experience in Installation, configuration and Administration of Linux (RHEL 6).
Having strong knowledge on AIX LVM Experience in creating VGs, LVs and File systems on AIX
and LINUX and disks to VGs.
Expert in Power HA migrations from different version and in different methods
Experience in build, troubleshooting and Maintaining AIX and security Patching
Having good experience in performance tuning using nmon, iostat, vmstat, topas, memstat and
sar commands.
Installed, Supported Application and middleware WebSphere Application Server, IBM HTTP/
Apache Web Servers in AIX and LINUX environment for various projects.
Supporting and managing IBM pSeries servers (P6 & P7) using HMC .
Managing the hardware using the HMC and webSM consoles & Upgrading of Hardware
management console (HMC)
Use NIM servers to manage new LPAR builds for AIX
Performing administration on NPIV, by assigning the Virtual Fiber scsi adapters and assigning the
LUNs
Having good experience in setup and configuring SEA.
Experience in Firmware upgrade to the managed system.
Having good experience in IBM Power VC to manage to install, configure and mange servers in the Data
Center.
LPM administration and performing the operational acceptance test in between the managed
system to avoid any point of failures.
Experience in Monitoring & Performance tuning of AIX server for the latency issues reported by the
servers.
Experience in User Administration like creating users, setting password, changing the attributes
to the users.
Experience in IBM HACMP, POWER HA Cluster & working with the application team to ensure the
applications start/stop without any failure in case of event failures.
Physical memory & CPU upgrade for the managed system as per the requirement
Extensively worked on setting up network(NO), virtual memory(VMO), and Disk I/O parameters
to tune the performance.
Extensive experience in Multipath and Bonding in Linux and AIX.
Installed and Managed EMC SAN devices using EMC Power path on AIX servers.
Expert in Power HA migrations from different version and in different methods.
Experience in Migrating AIX servers from 5.3 to 6.1 and 6.1 to 7.1 versions.
Experience in DR drill for all the applications in the environment to ensure the data replication from
the production.

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 Upgrade and install Power path version 5.5 on clients
Experience in Amazon Web Services(AWS) - Design and Architecture, System Operations
Working with AWS EC2, EBS, ELB, VPC, Security Groups, S3, Route 53, Glacier.
AWS Instance Pricing, design and architecting Cloud Infrastructure to meet application
requirements.
AWS Instance configuration, application installation and high availability designing with Auto
Scaling and Instance deployments across Availability Zones.
Having good experience on DevOps tools Puppet, Git and Ansible
Performed all Linux operating system, disk management and patch management configurations, on
Linux instances in AWS
Experience in Installation, configuration of TSM
Working with 3rd party tools like ITM, SCM, TSM, to ensure the events are notified to avoid
outages on the productions servers.
Experience in Incident, Change and Problem Management.
Have the desire and capability of learning new Technologies.

Certifications:
IBM Certified System p Administrator
IBM Certified HAMCP Administrator
Red Hat Certified System Administrator
AWS Certified Solutions Architect

Educational Summary:
Master of Science in Computer Science (M.Sc. Comp) from Kakatiya University, India 2002.

Technical Skills:

Operating Systems : AIX 5.3, 6.1 7.1 & RHEL 6.1, 7.0
Cluster : HACMP 5.3, 5.4, 6.1
Virtualization : VIO, LPAR, DLPAR, HMC.
Disaster Recovery : Business Continuity Exercise
Network : NIM, NFS, TCP/IP, DHCP, SNMP, SMTP
Web Server : IBM HTTP Server, WebSphere, MQ and Apache
Hardware : IBM RS/6000, IBM p-Series (595, 670, 695, 770, 780, 795, 812, and
822), IBM PCs and Intel based Systems
Storage : EMC & IBM SAN
Backup : TSM

Professional Experience:

SunTrust Bank
January 2017 to August 2017

Sr. AIX Administrator

Responsibilities:
Installing the patches and bringing up the AIX servers to up to date patches.
Working with File systems creating, removing, changes such as increasing and decreasing the size
of the file systems.
Upgrading Power Broker versions on servers.
Installing TSM software, monitoring the daily backups and troubleshooting if any issues.
NFS Administration, exporting file systems, mounting exported file systems, working nfs
daemons and fixing any mounting issues.
Gathering NMON report & analyzing them with NMON analyzer
Skilled at IBM-AIX kernel Tuning, Performance Analysis and Load Balancing.

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 Active involvement in monitoring server performance, network traffic to reduce performance bottleneck
worked on setting up network(NO), virtual memory(VMO), and Disk I/O parameters to tune the
performance.
Used topas, lparstat, nmon, iostat, memstat and sar commands to check performance of the servers
and changed no and vmo parameters to increase the performance of the server and optimizing
database.
Generating MUP file on the servers & uploading IBM site to check the microcode levels.
Disk Storage Management in AIX Logical and Physical Volume management, configuring
disks, working with volume groups, logical volumes, and physical volumes.
Worked on Hardware Amber attention issues on servers & resolving them.
Mirroring volumes groups and logical volumes.
Creating system dump and increasing the sysdump size.
Writing script to automate mksysb backup and copy to NIM server.
Writing the scripts for application team requirements.
Day to day server management activities, LVM management, User Management and Software
installations.
HACMP - Monitoring servers, Starting and Stopping Cluster Services, moving resource groups across
the nodes, increasing file system in cluster file system
Upgrading firmware on Fiber Channel Adapters and replacing them.
Working with SAN paths upgrade and installation..
Mapping LUN's to VIO client & taking the VIO backup.
New server build & configuring them.
Working with IBM on software & hardware issues, generating snaps to them for analysis
Dynamically add, remove and move resources in the LPARs.
HACMP Cluster Configuration & Failover testing and verification, Cluster Synchronization, performing
HACMP health checks looking at cluster statistics, observing resource group status.
Participated on DR activity.
Mapping LUN's to VIO client & taking the VIO backup.
New server build & configuring them.
Having good experience in setup and configuring SEA.
Configuring FC Cards at OS end.
Connecting FC Cable from Fiber Switch to Servers.
Increasing the SAN space and Adding the HDD to Arrays.
Creating snapshots. Monitoring Storage Status & Performance using
IBM DS Manager Client SW.
Having good experience on WebSphere and MQ series administration.
Health checks on SAN and Storage environment.
Allocation of Luns according to the request from the server teams.
Handling Storage Reclamation Projects for LUN De-allocation.
Working on New Server builds projects.
Handled Service requests for LUN creation, Mapping.
Securing and Hardening RHEL Production systems by applying security using different tools available in
RHEL and configuring /setting/enforcing/removing/restricting different conf files/folders/users etc.
Administering Disks (Creating, Mount/Unmount, File System Integrity, Backup/Restore) the File Sys-
tems.

IBM India Pvt. Ltd

March 2012 to January 2017
Clients: Capital One, DuPont, D+H & Telstra
Sr. AIX Administrator

Responsibilities:
Installing the patches and bringing up the AIX servers to up to date patches.
Working with File systems creating, removing, changes such as increasing and decreasing the size
of the file systems.
Upgrading Power Broker versions on servers.
Installing TSM software, monitoring the daily backups and troubleshooting if any issues.
NFS Administration, exporting file systems, mounting exported file systems, working nfs

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 daemons and fixing any mounting issues.
Gathering NMON report & analyzing them with NMON analyzer
Generating MUP file on the servers & uploading IBM site to check the microcode levels.
Disk Storage Management in AIX Logical and Physical Volume management, configuring
disks, working with volume groups, logical volumes, and physical volumes.
Worked on Hardware Amber attention issues on servers & resolving them.
Mirroring volumes groups and logical volumes.
Creating system dump and increasing the sysdump size.
Day to day server management activities, LVM management, User Management and Software
installations.
HACMP - Monitoring servers, Starting and Stopping Cluster Services, moving resource groups across
the nodes, increasing file system in cluster file system
Upgrading firmware on Fiber Channel Adapters and replacing them.
Working with SAN paths upgrade and installation.
Working on Epic/Cache systems and resolving the issues.
Mapping LUN's to VIO client & taking the VIO backup.
Used IBM Power VC to manage to install, configure and mange servers in the Data Center.
New server build & configuring them.
Working with IBM on software & hardware issues, generating snaps to them for analysis
Dynamically add, remove and move resources in the LPARs.
HACMP Cluster Configuration & Failover testing and verification, Cluster Synchronization, performing
HACMP health checks looking at cluster statistics, observing resource group status.
Participated on DR activity.
Mapping LUN's to VIO client & taking the VIO backup.
New server build & configuring them.
Configuring FC Cards at OS end.
Skilled at IBM-AIX kernel Tuning, Performance Analysis and Load Balancing.
Active involvement in monitoring server performance, network traffic to reduce performance bottleneck
Worked on setting up network(NO), virtual memory(VMO), and Disk I/O parameters to tune the
performance.
worked on setting up network(NO), virtual memory(VMO), and Disk I/O parameters to tune the
performance.
Used topas, lparstat, nmon, iostat, memstat and sar commands to check performance of the servers
and changed no and vmo parameters to increase the performance of the server and optimizing
database.
Connecting FC Cable from Fiber Switch to Servers.
Having good experience on WebSphere and MQ series administration
Increasing the SAN space and Adding the HDD to Arrays.
Creating snapshots. Monitoring Storage Status & Performance using
IBM DS Manager Client SW.
Health checks on SAN and Storage environment.
Allocation of Luns according to the request from the server teams.
Handling Storage Reclamation Projects for LUN De-allocation.
Working on New Server builds projects.
Handled Service requests for LUN creation, Mapping.
Securing and Hardening RHEL Production systems by applying security using different tools available in
RHEL and configuring /setting/enforcing/removing/restricting different conf files/folders/users etc.
Administering Disks (Creating, Mount/Unmount, File System Integrity, Backup/Restore) the File Sys-
tems.
Performance monitoring and improvement by setting kernel parameters /using different tools available
in RHEL
Configurations of Servers: DHCP, DNS, NFS, SAMBA, FTP, SENDMAIL, NIS, HTTP
Installing Red Hat Network Satellite Server
RHN Satellite Server Administration
Red Hat Network Client Configuration

Tech Mahindra Pvt. Ltd

December 2010 to March 2012
Client: AT & T

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Role: AIX Administrator

Responsibilities:
Installing the patches and bringing up the AIX servers to up to date patches.
Rectifying the problems after patch up gradation if any.
Working with IBM CE to replace faulty disk.
Upgrading firmware on Fibre Channel Adapters and replacing them.
Working with SAN paths upgrade and installation.
Working with IBM on software & hardware issues, generating sanps to them for analysis
Troubleshooting PEM related alarms and clearing them.
Working with File systems creating, removing, changes such as increasing and decreasing the size
of the file systems.
NFS Administration, exporting file systems, mounting exported file systems, working nfs
daemons and fixing any mounting issues.
Day to day server management activities, LVM management, User Management and Software
installations.
Disk Storage Management in AIX Logical and Physical Volume management, configuring
disks, working with volume groups, logical volumes, and physical volumes.
Working with paging spaces creation, increase, decrease paging spaces as per the
requirement.
Troubleshooting booting related issues, creating boot records, working with system
maintenance mode, accessing rootvg in system maintenance mode, recovering root
password.
Mirroring volumes groups and logical volumes.
Creating system dump and increasing the sysdump size.
Working on ftp tool, cron job schedule tools, managing log files, errpt, daily management activities.
HACMP - Monitoring servers, Starting and Stopping Cluster Services, moving resource groups across
the nodes, increasing file system in cluster file system
Defining shared volume groups and working on different operations such as creating shared file
systems, increase or decrease file system sizes, concurrent disk for disk heart beat etc.,
Creating Volume Group, Logical volumes and file systems in both standalone and HA environment.
Experience in Firmware upgrade to the managed system.
LPM administration and performing the operational acceptance test in between the managed system to
avoid any point of failures.
Experience in Monitoring & Performance tuning of AIX server for the latency issues reported by the
servers.
Worked on setting up network(NO), virtual memory(VMO), and Disk I/O parameters to tune the
performance.
Used topas, lparstat, nmon, iostat, memstat and sar commands to check performance of the servers
and changed no and vmo parameters to increase the performance of the server and optimizing
database.
Experience in User Administration like creating users, setting password, changing the attributes to the
users.
Experience in IBM HACMP, POWER HA Cluster & working with the application team to ensure the
applications start/stop without any failure in case of event failures.
Hands on experience with PowerVM.
Creating AIX Lpars on POWER5,6,7 & 8 hardware managing the LPARS with Power VM.
POWERVM tasks like creating VIOS and LPARs, DLpar(virtual adapter ,Memory ,CPU), Micro
partitioning, VLAN Tagging and NPIV.
IBM Power VM experience including setup and management of VIO Servers and partitions.
Running HMC scanners to pull out all the information related to software/hardware
Recovering the old WWNs using HMC command line
Adding managed servers to HMC, HMC administration, creating and modifying partition profiles
Worked on HMC & Firmware Upgradation activity.
Implemented Active memory expansion on AIX logical partitions.

IBM India Pvt. Ltd

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November 2008 to December 2010
Clients: AoD, Disney & Amgen
Role: AIX Administrator

Responsibilities:

Installing the patches and bringing up the AIX servers to up to date patches.
Co- coordinating with the Delivery Project Executives (DPE) in getting the Down time from customer to
perform the changes.
Rectifying the problems after patch up gradation if any.
Creating and removing the User accounts. Working on account management tasks like password resets,
giving sudo privileges to the users etc.
Working with File systems creating, removing, changes such as increasing and decreasing the size
of the file systems.
NFS Administration, exporting file systems, mounting exported file systems, working nfs
daemons and fixing any mounting issues.
Day to day server management activities, LVM management, User Management and Software
installations.
Disk Storage Management in AIX Logical and Physical Volume management, configuring
disks, working with volume groups, logical volumes, and physical volumes.
Working with paging spaces creation, increase, decrease paging spaces as per the
requirement.
Troubleshooting booting related issues, creating boot records, working with system
maintenance mode, accessing rootvg in system maintenance mode, recovering root
password.
Mirroring volumes groups and logical volumes.
Worked on setting up network(NO), virtual memory(VMO), and Disk I/O parameters to tune the
performance.
worked on setting up network(NO), virtual memory(VMO), and Disk I/O parameters to tune the
performance.
Used topas, lparstat, nmon, iostat, memstat and sar commands to check performance of the servers
and changed no and vmo parameters to increase the performance of the server and optimizing
database.
Creating system dump and increasing the sysdump size.
Working on ftp tool, cron job schedule tools, managing log files, errpt, daily management activities.
HACMP - Monitoring servers, Starting and Stopping Cluster Services, moving resource groups across
the nodes, increasing file system in cluster file system
HACMP Cluster configuration, plan, design HACMP cluster nodes, Network configuration.
shared file systems, increase or decrease file system sizes, concurrent disk for disk heart beat etc.,
Creating Volume Group, Logical volumes and file systems in both standalone and HA environment.
LPAR operations, scheduling operations, configuring and using system profiles, and activating and
shutting down partitions, Power on/off partitions.
Create partitions, partition profiles, and system profiles, Activate partitions, and Schedule operations
for partitions, dynamic operations for adding, moving, and removing memory, processor resources, and
I/O slots.
Dynamically add, remove and move resources in the LPARs.

Organization: Hoch Technologies Pvt. Ltd.

April 2006 to November 2008
Role: System Administrator
Responsibilities

Installing, configuring, upgrade and administration of IBM pSeries and POWER7/8.

Working in LAN Desk to manage service requests, incident management and tickets.
Produce Technical design and Requirement documentation.
Create new LPARS on P7 & P8 servers for the application requirement.
Use NIM servers to manage new LPAR builds for AIX.
Upgrade AIX LPARS from AIX 5.3 to AIX 6.3

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 Monitoring and managing the alerts messages in Event Management application for all the AIX
servers.
Manage and maintain HACMP Servers for various applications.
Configure ports and HA node names for various applications.
Configuring HA (High Availability) cluster servers to keep applications running on the servers.
Add, remove and resizing Logical volumes using LVM in Linux and implementing software RAID at
installation time.
Regular disk management, partitioning according to the requirements, creating new file systems or
increasing existing ones, managing file systems and adding virtual swap space.
Define/setup network protocols, Network File Services (NFS), and Network Information Services
(NIS) in Linux Environments.
Installing & Configuring duel Virtual I/O servers and clients.
Participating in weekly change control meeting (CAB) to present AIX Production Changes.
Gather technical requirements including design and documentation
Understand Installation documentation (including updating if necessary).
Create / Update all necessary documents and communicate to the team in support of the project.
Conduct training and knowledge transfer on new versions with FTEs.