RAMARAO KASANA

Cell: 408-***-****

E-mail: abg3cg@r.postjobfree.com

SUMMARY:

* ***** ** ** ********** specialized in System Administration

working on Redhat Linux, Sun Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, Weblogic and

Windows NT/2000 environments.

Installs, Upgrades, Patches, Configuration, performance tuning on

LINUX and system software & hardware.

> Extensive experience in installation, configuration and administration

of Solaris 2.x,7,8,9,10, Redhat 3,4,5, HP-UX 10.x,11.x, IBM AIX

4.3,5L.

> Support and maintenance of Sun Ultra Enterprise Servers (E3500, E4500,

E450,

E420R,E250),SunFire(6800/4800/3800/v880/V480/V240/V210/V440/280R), Sun

workstations (Ultra 5, 10, 20, Blade 100,150, 2000).

> Installing, upgrading and configuring SUN Solaris 7, 8, 9 and 10 on

Sun Servers Using Jumpstart Servers and Interactive Installation.

> Linux-based Virtualization implementations such as VMWare and Xen.

> Creating and maintaining user accounts, profiles, security, rights,

disk space and process monitoring.

> Expertise in Veritas Volume manager (VxVM), Creating new file systems,

mounting file systems and unmounting file systems.

> Planning, documenting and supporting high availability, data

replication, business persistence, fail-over, fail-back using Veritas

Cluster Server 3.x/4.x, sun cluster server in SAN environment.

> Expert in Installing, configuring and maintaining apache/tomcat, samba

& send mail, Web Sphere Application Servers.

> Expertise in implementation and maintenance of DHCP, NFS, NIS, DNS and

Apache SMTP.

> Efficiency in installing, configuring and implementing the RAID

Technologies using various tools like Veritas volume manager, Solaris

volume manager.

> Experience in using Veritas Net Backup, Proficient in System Backup

and Recovery from tapes using ufsdump, ufsrestore, tar and cpio, File

system administration.

> Configured Networking Concepts DNS, NIS, NFS and DHCP, troubleshooting

network problems such as TCP/IP, providing support for users in

solving their problems.

> Networking and Communication devices, Server Utilities, TCP/IP, FTP.

Expert in Data center operations including hardware, software setup

monitoring, troubleshooting on a 24 x 7 basis with BMC patrol, Team

Quest, Unicenter & Smart trouble ticketing Systems/remedy

tickets/kintana tickets etc.

> Installing, Configuring Solaris Volume Manager (Solstice Disksuite

4.2.1) & Veritas Volume Manger. Installed & Configured HBA (PCI/PCI-X)

in SAN storage. Configured & installed ALOM (Advanced Lights Out

Manager) & Load Balancer.

> Used open source tools like Syslog-ng for logging security.

> Resolving system errors and crashes, huge file sizes, file system full

errors and Installing network Printers and rectifying the Printer

problems over the net work.

> Excellent skills in analyzing, designing, implementing and system

integration, Knowledge on Switches, Routers, & Firewalls.

Education: Bachelors in Computer science and engineering.

Technical Skills:

Operating Systems Sun Solaris 10, 9, 8, Redhat Linux ES & AS, HP-UX,

IBM-AIX, Windows 2003/XP/2000

Hardware Sun Ultra Enterprise Servers (E3500, E4500,

E450,E420R,E250,Sun Fire

(6800/4800/3800/v880/v480/v210/v440/280R/15K/25K),

Sun Workstations (Ultra 5, 10,20,Blade 100,150,2000),

IBM F-series and P-series, IBM RS6000, Sun Storage

Array D1000,A5000

Software Veritas File System, Veritas Volume Manager,

Solaris Volume Manage, Solistice Disk Suite 4.x.

Tape Hardware Storage tek tape libraries L40, L80, L180,

L700,Sl500,Sl850,DAT & DLT, STK 9940B, 9840B, LTOs

Cluster Veritas Cluster Server, Sun Cluster Server

Web/Application Server Tomcat, Apache, IBM RSA/WAS, Web Sphere

Scripting Languages Born, Bash, KSH & Perl

Database Oracle, DB2/UDB, AS/400, Sybase

Languages C ++, Java, VB 6.0,XML,HTML,Perl,Shell Scripting

ERP SAP R/3, peoplesoft, Siebel

Professional Experience:

Client: Hewlett Packard Collierville TN

Duration: SEP 2010 - till date

Role: LINUX Administrator

Responsibilities

> Installed & manually configuring Sun Sparc & X86 machines and through

jumpstart installation on workstations like sun ultra 20, sun ultra

40, sun ultra45, sunsparc blade 2500, sunfire servers V215 and adding

in netgroups. Installed, configured Zones and maintenance in sun

solaris 10.0.

> Installed & Configured Sun Fire 210, V240, V440, V490, V880, E450,

1280 & HP Proliant. DL-320/360/380/560/580 L Servers. Installation

Redhat Linux 8, 9.0, 10.0 on Dell, Proliant, Enterprise Server 4.0.

> Installed the HP-UX Operating Environment, and configured dedicated

hardware for the Virtual Partitions (vPar).

> Device management and configuration on HPUX systems.

> Monitored Network devices using SNMP.

> Configured & Managed storage resources using LVM

> Providing 24 x 7 supports to various application level server level &

network level Monitoring & troubleshooting of any datacenter outages.

Day-to-day administration on Sun Solaris which includes Installation,

upgrade & loading patches & packages.

> Veritas Netback up installation & maintenance Backup/restore on ADIC

(Intelligent Storage Scalar i2000k - Library Management Console) using

server Windows NT/2000 & Sun Solaris server & taking backup in DLT

tape & checking the job failures.

> Configured NFS Servers, NIS+ Servers, NIS+ Clients, Diskless clients

and Auto clients and automounted the file systems using direct and

indirect maps. Also setup entries in /etc/dfs/dfstab in Solaris share

file systems and mounted the disks onto the client systems.

> Extensively used LAMP background in various applications.

> Linux kernel, memory upgrade and swap area. Redhat Linux Kickstart

Installation - Sun Solaris Jump start Installation.

> Installed, configured Vm's on Esx server.

> Experienced in configuring and troubleshooting JBoss Application

Server

> Formatted raw disks & partitioned them using the format utility.

Created file system using newfs and mounted it. Created devices and

special files using mknod. Installed, managed Solaris Volume Manager

(Configuring mirror/Breaking mirror/metadata bases Solstice Disk suite

4.2.1).

> Installed, managed Verities Volume Manager 3.5 (VxVM) on Solaris 9.

Created Role Based Access Control (RBAC) for users.

> Veritas Netbackup installation and maintenance Backup/restore &

Disk/Volume management with Veritas Volume Manager on Sun SPARC

Storage Arrays & Multi-Packs. Written shell scripts to take backup

Oracle database.

> Monitored server and application performance & tuning via various stat

commands (top, mpstat, prstat, nfsstat, prtconf, prtdiag,

iostat,top,printmgr, hpimliview, dmidecode,smc etc) and tuned I/O,

memory etc.

> Installation of web logic, upgraded to service pack updates, installed

BEA patches, configuring and creation new domain & services starting &

stopping. Installation of Oracle10g on Linux and Solaris, creating

database, creating Oracle users & export and importing database,

creating roleback segment etc.

> Perform backup and recover operating using native unix tools and CA

Brightstor ARCserve Backup.

> Provided second level HP-UX server and workstation support for end

users, spread across whole United States.

Environment: Redhat Enterprise Linux 4.0/5.0, Sun Solaris 8/9/10 Sun

Storage Edge Disk/Veritas volume manager, HP-UX 11i, HP-UX 10.X, Windows

2000,2003, Apache Web Server 1.3.x, 2.x, Oracle 8i,9i, mySQL, Perl, ksh,

Sun v480, v880, E220, IBM p630, p550, Dell PowerEdge 700,2650,6650.

Client: ACXIOM CONWAY AR

Duration: JAN 2009- JULY 2010

Role: LINUX Administrator

Responsibilities:

> Problems & performance issues; Deployed latest patches for Sun, Linux

and Application servers, Performed Solaris and Redhat Linux Kernel

Tuning for TCP stack. Installation Redhat Linux 8, 9.0 on Dell,

Proliant, Enterprise Server 4.0.

> Installed & configured Sun Fire 210, V240, V440, V490, V880, 1280 & HP

Proliant. DL-320/360/380/560/580 L Servers. Mirrored root disks on all

the servers by using Solaris volume manager. Installed and configured

HBA card in SAN storage.

> Installed HP-UX 11iv3 (11.31) on the nPar/vPars and created a stable

operations environment including full documentation and

installation/operations procedures.

> Installed HP SA (opsware) and managing it with 24/7 operation Team.

> Implemented and configured vmware on Proliant servers.

> Providing 24 x 7 supports to various application level server level &

network level Monitoring & troubleshooting of any datacenter outages.

Day-to-day administration on Sun Solaris which includes Installation,

upgrade & loading patches & packages.

> Configured NFS Servers, NIS+ Servers, NIS+ Clients, Diskless clients

and Auto clients and auto mounted the file systems using direct and

indirect maps. Also setup entries in /etc/dfs/dfstab in Solaris share

file systems and mounted the disks onto the client systems.

> Working experience with LAMP background.

> Linux kernel, memory upgrade and swap area. Redhat Linux Kickstart

Installation Sun Solaris Jump start Installation. Configuring DNS,

IDNS, DHCP, NIS, NFS in Sun Solaris 8/9 & other Network Services.

> Support Level1, Level 2 and Level 3 calls for users worldwide.

> Data Centers support contains 500 + servers.

> Integrated system with SAP, working with SAP consultant

> Installation and configuration of Veritas Storage Foundation Suite,

Volume Manager, Cluster Servers & Veritas File systems (Vxfs).

> Formatted raw disks & partitioned them using the format utility.

Created file system using newfs and mounted it. Created devices and

special files using mknod. Working experience on Virtualization.

> Integrating UNIX file systems using packages like SAMBA. Setting up

printers on UNIX / NT machines to work seamlessly across platforms.

> Installed, managed Solaris Volume Manager (Configuring mirror/Breaking

mirror/metadata bases Solstice Disk suite 4.2.1). Installed, managed

Verities Volume Manager 3.5 (VxVM) on Solaris 9.

> Network trouble shooting using 'ndd', 'traceroute', 'netstat',

'ifconfig' and 'snoop' etc

> Installation of weblogic, upgraded to service pack updates, installed

BEA patches, configuring and creation new admin & managed servers,

start & stop web logic server

> Installation of Websphere, upgraded to service pack updates, installed

IBM patches, configuring and creation new admin & managed servers,

start & stop Websphere server

Environment: Redhat Enterprise Linux 4.0,Sun Solaris 8/9, HP-UX 10.x, HP-

UX 9.x, Sun Storage Edge Disk/Veritas volume manager, Sun Fire 6800, 4800,

V880, V420R, E220R, E450, Veritas Foundation Suite, Tivoli Storage Manager

5.x, Veritas Cluster Servers, Veritas Net backup, Websphere, Iplanet.

Client: 3M St PAUL MN

Duration: FEB 2007 - NOV 2008

Role: LINUX ADMINISTRATOR

Responsibilities:

> Documented Apache Web Server Development, Staging & Production

environments, installed configured and managed Solaris 2.7-2.8 on Sun

Enterprise systems, Administered, maintained Redhat 2.1, 3.0 AS, ES,

Troubleshooting Hardware, Operating System Application & Network

problems and performance issues; Deployed latest patches for Sun,

Linux and Application servers, Performed Solaris and Redhat Linux

Kernel Tuning for TCP stack.

> Installation Redhat Linux 7.2, 9.0 on Dell, Proliant, Enterprise

Server3.0/AS3.5. Installed and configured Sun V880, V490, V440, V240

servers; Mirrored root disks on all the servers by using Sun Disk

Suite.

> Providing 24 x 7 supports to various application level server level &

network level Monitoring and troubleshooting of any datacenter

outages. Day-to-day administration on Sun Solaris which includes

Installation, upgrade and loading patches.

> Veritas Netbackup installation, Catalogue backup and maintenance

Backup/restore on ADIC (Intelligent Storage Scalar i2000k - Library

Management Console) using server Windows NT/2000 & Sun Solaris server

and checking the job failures.

> Production support of Apache and JBoss including installation,

configuration, management and troubleshooting.

> Formatted raw disks & partitioned them using the format utility.

Created file system using newfs and mounted it. Created devices &

special files using mknod. Installed, managed Solaris Volume Manager

(Configuring mirror/Breaking mirror/metadata bases Solstice Disk suite

4.2.1).

> Installed, managed Verities Volume Manager 3.5 (VxVM) on Solaris 5.8.

> Used Veritas Netbackup tool for Backup and recovery.

> Responsible for DNS and Configured DNS Servers and Clients and

troubleshooting system and DNS issues.

> Installed and configured new hard drives and memory.

> Package, Patches management, migration, integration & distribution in

development, testing, QA, Training, Production environment. (Testing:

UAT, SIT, OAT, Performance testing)

> Used Admintool for adding and managing new users, groups, software and

printers.

> Created disk groups, volumes, volume groups and RAIDs using Veritas

Volume Manager.

> Involved in disk configuration and disk crash recovery using format

and fdisk. Bad spots on disk were repaired using repair and analyze.

Created new slices, mounted new file systems and unmounted

filesystems.

> Installation, Configuration and Administration of High Availability

Veritas Cluster Servers for failover and redundancy purpose.

> Created Korn shell scripts to automate cron jobs and system

maintainance. Scheduled cron jobs for job automation.

> Involved in preparation of functional and system specifications.

Estimated Storage requirements for applications.

> Installed of all the required Software, patches, documentation,

licensing trouble shooting.

> Setup various user profiles, environment variables/security to ensure

smooth operation.

> Responsible for fax link and sendmail.

> Used smitty (AIX) tool for Printers, Applications, Processes,

Services, Software License Management, Software Installation, Users

and Security Management.

Environment: Redhat Linux 7.2, 9.0, Sun Solaris 2.x/5.7,8, AIX 4.3.2,

Windows NT 4.0, Windows '98, Sun Enterprise 4500, Sun Enterprise 250, IBM

RS/6000, Motorola Machine, Pentium PCs, Genicom Printers and Laser Jet

Printers, Veritas volume manager, VCS, Veritas Net Backup 4.0

Client: Soft Sol INDIA

Duration: OCT 2004 - AUG 2006

Role: UNIX System Administrator

Responsibilities:

> Performed system administration of UNIX servers by using Operating

Systems of Solaris 2.7/8

> Managing SUN Solaris, Compaq and Linux workstations and servers.

> Installation of patches and other software packages

> Disk and File system management through Solstice Disk Suite on Solaris

and other logical volume manager for other flavor of UNIX.

> Configuration of Hardware and Software RAID on Digital & Sun Servers

> Installation of Oracle Patches and Troubleshooting, Creating and

modifying application related objects, Creating Profiles, Users, Roles

and maintaining system security.

> Configuration and maintenance of NIS, NFS, DHCP and DNS Servers on

Solaris.

> Administrative tasks such as System Startup/shutdown, Backup strategy,

Printing, Documentation, User Management, Security, Network

management, dumb terminals and devices carried out.

> Installation and configuration of Oracle 7.x/8.x

> Performed the administration of the Domain Name Server and

configuration of the Database Files.

> Troubleshooting Backup and Restore problems and performed Day-to-Day

trouble shooting for the end users on Solaris based applications.

> Performed OS upgrades and Patch loading as and when required.

> Backing up and restoring files across the network

> Responsible for Installation of various software components on several

servers.

> Installed and Configured Sendmail Utility on Sun UNIX Servers.

> Administering NFS Mounts.

> Troubleshooting Backup and Restore problems.

Environment: Sun Solaris7/8, Redhat Enterprise Linux3.x, SunFire 4500/V880

/V480/E420R/E450/ E250, IBM, Sun StorEdge L280, Sun StorEdge A1000, A5000,

JBODs, Compaq servers, Solstice Disk Suite, Oracle 7.x/8.x

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