Vmware Aix
Resume:
Talal Gondal
AIX/LINUX Administrator
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US Citizen
Active DoD Secret Clearance
Career Profile:
Aix/Linux System Administrator with (10) years of experience in Administration and Development and Implementation of AIX RS6000/Pseries Systems for AIX 5.3, 6.1 and 7.1 versions and of Red Hat 6and 7 versions.
Experience in installation and maintenance of IBM AIX 5.3/6.1/7.1 on p570, p770 machines
Experience with LVM, NIM, DLPAR, NIS, NFS, NPIV, LPM
Experienced Installing sysback filesets and configuring sysback master and sysback client servers
Experienced in using sysback to backup and restore mksysbs, datavgs and appvgs
Experienced in working with Business Units to plan and implement Disaster Recovery
Experience Restoring LPARS using mksysb from Tape Drives and NIM
Experienced working with Business Units to plan and implement Disaster Recovery
Experience working with EMC SAN for allocation of npiv disks off of npiv switches for RS6000 servers
Experience in configuring network adapters, such as SEA on vio’s and etherchannels on LPARS
Worked with TSM, Avamar and Commvault Backup utilities
Experience server migration and refreshes
Experience upgrading HMC’s to latest versions and releases
Experience working in virtualized and standalone environments
Experience Installing and upgrading VIO servers
Experience defining NIM Clients and upgrading OS on them using NIM
Experience building NIM Master
Experienced in extensively working LVM in Red Hat Linux
Experienced in applying latest patches on Linux servers
Experienced in working with ESX/ESXi Vmware virtualization for Red Hat Linux Servers
Experienced in extensively working with vsphere to manage Virtual Red Hat linux Machines
Experienced in working with vmotion to move Linux servers between hypervisors
Experienced in working with Physical and Virtual machines at a large scale environment
Experienced in using PUPPET
Experienced in installing and updating packages using yum and rpm
Experienced in working large scale physical and virtual Linux environment
Experience restoring servers using mksysb lppsource through NIM master
Experience downloading latest TL SP for AIX 6.1 and 7.1 and defining them as LPPsources on NIM Master
Experience in using VIO to create Virtual Clients
Experience working with Oracle, DB2 environments
Experience with performing Disaster Recovery of 20+ AIX servers on p5, p6 and p7 machines
Experience working with EMC Symmetrix storage team to setup NPIV for lpars
Experience building AIX 5.3,6.1 and 7.1 servers on internal and SAN disks
Experience booting LPARS from EMC SAN disks
Experience working in large SAP, Lawson, Oracle and DB2 environment
Extensive experience working as AIX administrator on IBM RS6000 servers.
Experience in virtualization and configuration utilizing IBM HMC with PowerVM.
Experience to use NIM to install, manage, troubleshoot and restore LPARs.
Experienced with EMC powerpath software to manage hdiskpower LUNS
Experience with Hitachi SAN and allocation Hitachi LUNS on lpars and standalone systems
Experience Decommissioning servers
Experience with SVC.V7000 for configuration and creation of hosts, port ids wwpns, volumes, pools. Different IO pools V7000 connections to the fabric.
Experience with XIV disk.
Experience with IBM shark disks DS8700.
Experience building LPARS and standalone servers
Experience Performing DLPAR on RS6000/Pseries machines
Experience building NIM servers and clients
Experience working with Shell scripting (korn,bash) to automate system administration tasks
Experience working in EMC Symmetrix and Clarion, Hitachi and IBM Shark SAN environments
Experience determining Root Cause of problems and creating RCA documentation
Experienced working with IBM HTTP/Apache Web Servers/Apache Tomcat in AIX and Linux environment.
Worked in POWER 7 environment to migrate old p5 series systems to p7,p8
Experience patching AIX/Linux servers to latest levels and upgrading them to latest versions, such as AIX servers from 5.3 to 6.1 and 7.1
Experienced in working with SAN to allocate disks and troubleshoot path issues
Experience in AIX System LVM, with filesystems, paging space, dump devices, resizing Dump devices
Troubleshooting errpt and coordinating with IBM System Support Center for hardware replacement as needed
Worked in PowerHA environments, Experience with Installing and managing HACMP
Experienced in configuring networks using smit mktcpip and smit chinet
Knowledge of networking (TCP/IP, Ethernet), DHCP, NIS, DNS, NFS and RAID.
Experience on working with multiple ticket tools, including in house, USD, Maximo,Servicenow,ISM, Remedy ticketing tool, to generated and solve tickets
Professional Experience:
Apex systems ( FPL, Nextera Energy)
Feb 2020 to Present 2020
Miami, FL
Worked as a Teamlead for AIX/Linux team for Service Requests, upgrades, migrations, DR
Worked with upgrades (AIX & LINUX servers)
Worked on ISN & Service now for ticketing tool for incidents
Worked with TSM clients and performed backups and restores
Worked with VIOs and powervm environments, vscsi and vfc mapping
Created PMRs for IBM CE’s to replace Ethernet, Fiber, SCSCI devices and failed power supplies, added memory and CPUs
New build AIX LPARS on p6, p7, machines with 7.1 AIX levels from NIM
Made plans for DR testing and
Migrated LPRAS between p6 and p7 machines using LPM
Firmware upgrades on p7 machines
Created Application VG, LV & file systems for database teams
User account management, failed logins, locked account assistance, new users, new groups
Created CRONTAB jobs
Using NIM restored mksysbs from Tape, DVD, USB Drives
EMC powerpath SAN for allocation of npiv disks off of npiv switches for p6 and p7 servers
Worked on etherchannels on LPARS for redundancy
Configured and deployed patches, upgrades, bug fixes on both physical and virtual RedHat Linux servers using YUM
Alt disk cloning on p6 and p7 machines for restoration
Created NIM servers
Worked in coordination with administrators, engineers and team leads for designing and implementing VMware High Availability (HA) cluster across several virtual machines and ESXi hosts
OS troubleshooting to detect and fix performance problems
Upgraded EMC powerpath to newer levels on AIX servers
Applied ifixes to remediate os vulnerabilities
Experience with SVC.V7000 for configuration and creation of hosts, port ids wwpns, volumes, pools. Different IO pools V7000 connections to the fabric.
Experience with XIV disk.
Experience with IBM shark disks DS8700.
Created and maintained latest lppsources and spots on NIM servers
Allocated tape drives and cables SAN devices to the LPARS
Navy Federal credit Union
Vienna, Virgina
June,2019 to Present
Sr. Aix/Linux Engineer
Worked as a Teamlead for AIX/Linux team for Service Requests, upgrades, migrations, DR
Worked with upgrades (AIX & LINUX servers)
Worked on ISN & Service now for ticketing tool for incidents
Worked with TSM clients and performed backups and restores
Allocated additional vscsi disks from VIO to AIX lpars
Worked with IBM CE’s to replace failed devices such as disk drives and nic cards
Build AIX LPARS on p6 and p7 machines
Worked with Network team to troubleshoot network issues and replace bad cables
Worked with Business Units to plan and implement Disaster Recovery
Performed LPM migration between p6 and p7 machines
Performed firmware ugprades on p7 machines
Created fs, vg, raw lvs for app and db teams
Provided user account management assistance with failed login and locked account assistance
Implemented cronjob to schedule jobs on the server
Restore LPARS using mksysb from Tape Drives and NIM
Deployed various Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Windows Server virtual builds using VMware Templates
Configuring and maintaining virtual server environment using VMware ESX/ESXi, vSphere, VCenter
Worked in BCRS (Disaster Recovery) team
Built various different types of machines for different clients at their request
Build virtual and non-virtual aix machines
Restored mksysb and app data from Tape drives
Built LPARS from mksysb off of tape and NIM
Replaced bad adapters and cables in the Data Center
Hudson Bay, Jackson (MS) April,2018 to
April,2019
Team Lead/Sr. Aix Administrator
Upgraded Aix/linux servers to latest TL and SP versions
Build AIX LPARS on p6 and p7 machines
Patched AIX/Linux LPARS to latest TL, SP levels
OS troubleshooting to detect and fix performance problems
Worked on p5, p6,p7,p8 hardware
Worked on X86 Hardware.
Worked in coordination with administrators, engineers and team leads for designing and implementing VMware High Availability (HA) cluster across several virtual machines and ESXi hosts
Experienced with Dell, HP, Supermicro rackable servers running Linux, SUSE, Centos, and Ubuntu
Worked on tickets on daily basis.(SEV1,SEV2,SEV3)
Restore LPARS using mksysb from Tape Drives and NIM
Experience working with Shell scripting (korn,bash,python) to automate system administration tasks
Experience with SVC.V7000 for configuration and creation of hosts, port ids wwpns, volumes, pools. Different IO pools V7000 connections to the fabric.
Experience with XIV disk.
Experience with IBM shark disks DS8700.
Worked with IBM Support team to get custom fixes made for bugs in AIX
Created fs, vg, raw lvs for app and db teams
Worked with IBM CE’s to replace failed devices such as disk drives and nic cards
Provided 24/7 oncall assistance for prod servers
Performed alt disk cloning on p6 and p7,p8 machines for restoration
WIPRO, Columbus OHIO (NISOURCE) AUG,2017 to April 2018
Sr. Architect AIX/Team Lead
Worked as a Teamlead for AIX/Linux team for Service Requests, upgrades, migrations, DR
Worked with upgrades (AIX & LINUX servers)
Worked on ISN & Service now for ticketing tool for incidents
Worked with TSM clients and performed backups and restores
Worked with VIOs and powervm environments, vscsi and vfc mapping
Created PMRs for IBM CE’s to replace Ethernet, Fiber, SCSCI devices and failed power supplies, added memory and CPUs
New build AIX LPARS on p6, p7, machines with 7.1 AIX levels from NIM
Made plans for DR testing and
Migrated LPRAS between p6 and p7 machines using LPM
Firmware upgrades on p7 machines
Created Application VG, LV & file systems for database teams
User account management, failed logins, locked account assistance, new users, new groups
Created CRONTAB jobs
Using NIM restored mksysbs from Tape, DVD, USB Drives
EMC powerpath SAN for allocation of npiv disks off of npiv switches for p6 and p7 servers
Worked on etherchannels on LPARS for redundancy
Configured and deployed patches, upgrades, bug fixes on both physical and virtual RedHat Linux servers using YUM
Alt disk cloning on p6 and p7 machines for restoration
Created NIM servers
Worked in coordination with administrators, engineers and team leads for designing and implementing VMware High Availability (HA) cluster across several virtual machines and ESXi hosts
OS troubleshooting to detect and fix performance problems
Upgraded EMC powerpath to newer levels on AIX servers
Applied ifixes to remediate os vulnerabilities
Experience with SVC.V7000 for configuration and creation of hosts, port ids wwpns, volumes, pools. Different IO pools V7000 connections to the fabric.
Experience with XIV disk.
Experience with IBM shark disks DS8700.
Created and maintained latest lppsources and spots on NIM servers
Allocated tape drives and cables SAN devices to the LPARS
IBM, Remote May 2015- August 2017
Sr.IT Specialist/Team lead
Responsibilities:
Upgraded AIX servers to latest TL and SP versions
Worked with database teams to perform OS tuning by changing memory and network parameters
Used Nagios, Uptime to Monitor Linux server services
Deployed various Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Windows Server virtual builds using VMware Templates
Installing, configuring automation and configuration tool such as PUPPET. To push updates of configuration like sudo, ssh, send mail and patches to puppet clients (puppet Agents)
Setup and changed hscroot password on HMC
Worked with IBM Support team to get custom fixes made for bugs in AIX
Performed DLPAR on servers to add memory and cpu
Ensured server data integrity by evaluating, implementing and managing software solutions like Tivoli Storage Manager
Experienced in working with ESX/ESXi Vmware virtualization for Red Hat Linux Servers
Installed TSM clients and performed backups
Installed TSM clients and performed backup and restore
Allocated additional vscsi disks from VIO to AIX lpars
Worked with IBM CE’s to replace failed devices such as disk drives and nic cards
Build AIX LPARS on p6 and p7 machines
Worked with Network team to troubleshoot network issues and replace bad cables
Worked with Business Units to plan and implement Disaster Recovery
Performed LPM migration between p6 and p7 machines
Performed firmware ugprades on p7 machines
Created fs, vg, raw lvs for app and db teams
Provided user account management assistance with failed login and locked account assistance
Implemented cronjob to schedule jobs on the server
Restore LPARS using mksysb from Tape Drives and NIM
Worked extensively with EMC SAN for allocation of npiv disks off of npiv switches for p6 and p7 servers
Experience with SVC.V7000 for configuration and creation of hosts, port ids wwpns, volumes, pools. Different IO pools V7000 connections to the fabric.
Experience with XIV disk.
Experience with IBM shark disks DS8700.
Keep rootvg’s with internal disks in mirrored state
Created etherchannels on LPARS for redundancy
Configured and deployed patches, upgrades, bug fixes on both physical and virtual RedHat Linux servers using YUM
Replaced hardware for Power5, Power6 and Power7 machines
Performed alt disk cloning on p6 and p7 machines for restoration
Refreshed LPARS by moving them off of p5 machine to p7 machine
Configured NIM servers and NIM clients on different levels of AIX machines
Worked on p5, p6, p7 and p8 hardware
Deployed various Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Windows Server virtual builds using VMware Templates
Configuring and maintaining virtual server environment using VMware ESX/ESXi, vSphere, VCenter
Worked in coordination with administrators, engineers and team leads for designing and implementing VMware High Availability (HA) cluster across several virtual machines and ESXi hosts
Extensively worked with different type of EMC SAN
Performed OS troubleshooting to detect and fix performance problems
Replaced bad HBA’s and bad cables
Upgraded EMC powerpath to newer levels on AIX servers
Worked with EMC vendor in providing emcgrab data to troubleshoot disk issues
Patched AIX LPARS to latest TL, SP levels
Applied ifixes to remediate os vulnerabilities
Created and maintained latest lppsources and spots on NIM server
Physically allocated tape drives and cables SAN devices
Decommissioned p5 machines
Provided 24/7 oncall assistance for prod servers
IBM, Boulder, CO Aug 2014- Feb2015
AIX Administrator
Responsibilities:
Worked in BCRS (Disaster Recovery) team
Built various different types of machines for different clients at their request
Build virtual and non-virtual aix machines
Restored mksysb and app data from Tape drives
Built LPARS from mksysb off of tape and NIM
Replaced bad adapters and cables in the Data Center
Provided On-Site support to customer in the delivery room
Installed sysback filesets and configured sysback master and sysback client servers
Used sysback to backup and restore mksysbs, datavgs and appvgs
Built Fresh AIX 6.1 and 7.1 LPARS
Worked with Business Units to plan and implement Disaster Recovery
Restore LPARS using mksysb from Tape Drives and NIM
Worked extensively with EMC SAN for allocation of npiv disks off of npiv switches for RS6000 servers
Experience with SVC.V7000 for configuration and creation of hosts, port ids wwpns, volumes, pools. Different IO pools V7000 connections to the fabric.
Experience with XIV disk.
Experience with IBM shark disks DS8700.
Mirrored rootvg’s on servers with internal disks
Configured network adapters, such as SEA on vio’s and etherchannels on LPARS
Worked with Oracle and DB2 databases
Worked on other UNIX flavor Environments such as Linux Red Hat and Solaris.
Replaced hardware for Power5, Power6 and Power7 machines
Performed alt disk cloning on RS6000 machines
Worked on server refresh and migration project
Ensured high efficiency and performance of virtual machines by implementing VMware Distributed Resource Allocation (DRS) in a cluster environment
Created new virtual machine (VM)s via clone using existing VMs with guest operating system templates in Vmware Vsphere
Install and update VMware tools on vSphere
Converted ext3 fs into ext4
Configured NIM servers and NIM clients on different AIX level machines
Worked on p4, p5, p6 and p7 hardware
Extensively worked with different type of EMC SAN
Troubleshooted failed disk paths, hba’s and cabes
Replaced bad HBA’s and bad cables
Upgraded powerpath to newer levels on AIX
Provided troubleshooting assistance to clients during their Disaster Recovery process
Built Vanilla image servers
Patched AIX LPARS to latest TL, SP levels
Applied ifixes to fix OS bugs
Created LPPsources and SPOTS for different oslevels
Upgraded HMC’s to newer versions
Connected machines to HMC
Physically allocated tape drives and cables SAN devices
Upgraded HMC’s using DVD
Worked on HMC versions 6 and 7
Staged testing servers for test environments
Decommissioned p5 machines
Upgraded AIX 5.3 to AIX 6.1 using NIM
Used LPM to migrate LPARS to secondary frame during
Performed firmware upgrades on p5, p6 and p7 machines
Supported POWERHA Environments
Build VIO servers
Worked in Dual-VIO environments
Dynamically (DLPAR) Allocated CPU and Memory to LPARS
Kohls, Menomonee Falls, WI Mar 2011- July 2014
AIX Administrator
Responsibilities:
Defined NIM Clients and upgraded OS on them using NIM
Build NIM Master
Restored servers using mksysb lppsource through NIM master
Downloaded latest TL SP for AIX 6.1 and 7.1 and defined them as LPPsources on NIM Master
Install and maintained over 800 servers for production and non-prod environments Performed machine handshakes between new RS6000 machines and HMC’s
Performed server refreshes using mksysb off Tape drives and NIM servers
Built servers using Ghost images
Installed sysback filesets and configured sysback master and sysback client servers
Used sysback to backup and restore mksysbs, datavgs and appvgs
Built Fresh AIX 6.1 and 7.1 LPARS
Worked with Business Units to plan and implement Disaster Recovery
Restore LPARS using mksysb from Tape Drives and NIM
Worked extensively with EMC SAN for allocation of npiv disks off of npiv switches for RS6000 servers
Mirrored rootvg’s on servers with internal disks
Configured network adapters, such as SEA on vio’s and etherchannels on LPARS
Worked with Oracle and DB2 databases
Worked on other UNIX flavor Environments such as Linux Red Hat and Solaris.
Replaced hardware for Power5, Power6 and Power7 machines
Performed alt disk cloning on RS6000 machines
Worked on server refresh and migration project
Upgraded HMC’s using DVD
Worked on HMC versions 6 and 7
Staged testing servers for test environments
Decommissioned p5 machines
Installed Commvault and TSM on clients and master servers for restore and backups
Upgraded AIX 5.3 to AIX 6.1 using NIM
Used LPM to migrate LPARS to secondary frame during
Performed firmware upgrades on p5, p6 and p7 machines
Supported POWERHA Environments
Build VIO servers
Worked in Dual-Vio environments
Dynamically (DLPAR) Allocated CPU and Memory to LPARS
Performed Disaster Recovery annually on 20+ AIX servers on p5, p6 and p7 machines
Worked with EMC Symmetrix storage team to setup NPIV for lpars
Built AIX 5.3,6.1 and 7.1 servers on internal and SAN disks
Booted LPARS from SAN disks
Upgraded VIO from 1.5 to 2.2 version
Created temporary and permanent NFS mounts
Virtually alloted hba’s to LPARS for NPIV
Installed and upgraded Powerpath versions for EMC Symmetrix and Clarion SAN
Upgraded hardware firmware for machines such as Power5 Power6 and Power7
Worked with Remedy and Maximo
Worked with different business units to set and meet timelines for patching and migration projects
Performed vmo, ioo and no tuning on servers for SAP and DB teams
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