Karthik B
Email: ***********@*****.***
Mob: +91-978*******
Career Objective
To seek a challenging opportunity in the area of Linux and VMware administration in an
organization, that will utilize my skills fully and provide me a position to grow with the
organization. Also to work in a creative and challenging environment where I could constantly
learn and successfully deliver solutions to problems.
Synopsis
Have a freelance experience in SUSE & RedHat Linux and Virtualization technologies like
VMWARE ESX 5.x.
Educational Qualification
Diploma in Electronics And Communication Engineering with 82.7% from DOTE, May
2010
B.TECH (Information Technology) with 7.05%(CGBA) from Anna University Chennai,
May 2013
Professional Certification
Novell Certified Linux Administrator 11.
RECE5 course completion Certificate on troubleshooting and network security conducted
by “WINWAYS”.
Trainings Attended
SUSEL 11.x and REDHAT 5.x Linux Administration
VMware ESX 5.x Administration
Technical Proficiency
Operating System : Red Hat Linux 5.x, SUSE Linux 11.x, Ubuntu 12.x
Virtualization : VMWARE ESX 5.x, XEN (Oracle VM) 3.x
Storage : IOMEGA iX-2 (ISCSI & NAS)
Network Protocols : TCP/IP, NFS, ISCSI, ICMP, FTP, DNS, SMTP
Hardware : Intel X86 Xeon Server
Technical Skills
LINUX
Installation, configuration of RHEL 5.x, SUSE Linux enterprise server 11.x.
Have a strong knowledge in VI editor.
Have a strong working knowledge in creation and troubleshooting of file-systems using
LVM.
Have good exposure in User & Group management. Creation of accounts using CLI and
Yast as per the requirement.
Troubleshooting account related issues like password reset, faillog etc…
Monitoring performance of CPU, MEMORY, NETWORK, DISK using NMON, TOP,
NETSTAT, IOSTAT, etc...
Configuring NFS server and clients in RHEL 5.x and SUSE 11.x to share a file-system
over the network.
Creating Yum Repositories in RHEL 5.x for package installation & OS updates.
Installation of packages using zypper & yast in SUSE Linux 11.x as required.
Configuring FTP servers using VSFTP in SUSE & RHEL environment for file transfer.
Configuring ACL’s for on files & directories using setfacl & getfacl.
Implementing quotas for users in SUSE & RHEL Linux servers.
Good understanding of tar, dd, rsync & gzip utilities for backup of files & directories.
Have a good knowledge of SSH remote authorization and configuring password-less
authentication using RSA & DSA keys.
Configuring SMTP relay server and clients using Postfix in SUSE & RHEL Linux
servers.
VMware
Installation & configuration of VMWARE ESX 5.x on Intel Xeon servers.
Built a Highly-available VMWARE ESX environment using 2 Intel servers.
Installation & configuration of Vcentre server on windows 2008 R2 for managing the
virtual infrastructure.
Adding an ESX host to the cluster and enable vMotion to perform migration of VM’s.
Monitoring the health and stability of Linux and VMware environments and preparing
reports for analysis.
Taking PIT backups using VMware snapshots.
Performing PIT restore using VMware snapshot.
Creating Vswitch, configuring VLAN and tagging VLAN to the Virtual Machines.
Creating resource pools and adding VM’s to the appropriate pools as per the priority.
Cloning VM’s & creating OVF templates from VM’s in VMWare ESX environment.
Deployment of virtual machines using pre-built OVF templates and modifying them.
Performing migration of VM’s between ESX servers to achieve load balance.
Performing storage vMotion of VM’s to the appropriate data-stores.
Creating data-store clusters to achieve high availability between the data-stores.
Configuring ISCSI storage adapters in clustered VMware ESX server to connect with
ISCSI storage.
Adding vNIC to a virtual machine and tagging VLAN’s to them.
Declaration:
I hereby declare that the above mentioned information is correct up to my knowledge
and I bear the responsibility for the correctness of the above mentioned particulars.