This document contains a summary of the professional experience and qualifications of RAMA.KUPPAGIRI. It lists over 9 years of experience as a Linux, Solaris, and VMware administrator, including expertise in systems administration, networking, storage, virtualization, and automation/monitoring tools. Key skills include Red Hat Enterprise Linux, CentOS, Solaris, VMware vSphere, and scripts/configurations in Bash, Python, Perl.

1. RAMA.KUPPAGIRI
Linux/Solaris/VMware Admin.
Email : ramkuppagiri@gmail.com
Phone: +1-717-623-9844
Professional Summary :---
 Overall9+ years of experience as Linuxsystem administrator whois Motivated, enthusiastic,and
pro-active with an excellent 'can-do' attitude and ‘go-to’ personal.
 Red Hat certified professional with 9 plus years of system administration and operational
experience on Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Cent OS, SUSE, Solaris, AIX, VMware VSphere and
Windows.
 Providing 24X7 On-call Production and Customer Support including trouble-shooting problems
related to Linux and Solaris servers.
 Experienced in System Administration, building servers and maintenance of operating systems
like RHEL 5.x, 6.x, 7.x, Cent OS 7.x, Solaris 10.x, 11.x, AIX 6.x and Windows 2008, 2008 R2 and
2012 server versions.
 Installed, configured and administered Worked on configuring the Linux machines through
Kickstart (Red Hat Linux) and Jumpstart Servers and interactive installations.
 Planning, Installation, Configuration, Maintenance and Administration of Linux (Redhat 5, 6, 7
&SuSE Linux) and day to day system admin tasks.
 Efficient in managing User Management, Password Management, Data and Network
Management, according to the client requirement.
 Expertise in managing several file systems and implemented Logical Volume Manager, software
RAID concepts over File Systems.
 Experienced in implementing of Package Management using RPM and YUM repositories.
 Proficient in monitoring the network related services using commands like vmstat, netstat,
iostat, ifconfig, trace route, nslookup, dig and Nagios, Tivoli and Splunk monitoring tools.
 Managed several file systems and process related using manual commands like fdisk, du, df,
free, top, lsof, ps, kill and nice.
 Hands on experience with configuring and maintaining common Linux application services such
as NFS, DHCP, BIND, SSH, HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, Samba, LDAP, SMTP, MySQL, and LAMP.
 Expert in deploying the code trough web application servers like Web Sphere, Web Logic,
Apache Tomcat and JBOSS.
 Moderate experience on database servers like Maria DB, MySQL and SQL Server to connect,
store and access data for 3-tier web applications.
 Implemented and ensured the application security with the help of SELinux, IPTables, Firewalls
and TCP wrappers.
 Experienced on provisioning and decommissioning Servers and responsible for IP reclamation.
 Worked and troubleshot hardware issue on HP Blade center C-7000 series, DL 380, DL 580, BL
460c and BL 660c, Dell PowerEdge 6950/M-series, IBM Blade center HS-series/x-series.
 Excellent working knowledge on implementing NIC teaming for load balancing the network in
case of over load on LAN devices.
 Performed Back-up management using tape drives, manual commands (tar, scp, rsync) for
remote server storage.
 Possess strong trouble-shooting attitude and business oriented user interface. And ability to
Server builds using Jumpstart and Kick start.

2.  Expert level knowledge in writing the shell scripts with Bash, Python for automation of daily
routines and some specific tasks.
 Configuration and administration of Fiber card Adapter's and handling Linux part of SAN (SAN
arrays HITACHI, EMC).
 Experience with enterprise class storage including SCSI, RAID and Fiber-Channel technologies,
 Installation, Configuration and Administration of HP Data Protector& VERITAS Netback up.
 Worked on storage technologies like iSCSI, FC-SAN technologies on EMC Symmetrix, IBM ESS
storage servers.
 Implemented High Availability and load balancing with the help of two node cluster service like
Heartbeat and HA Proxy, and Red Hat Clusters.
 Experienced in configuration and managing Virtual Machines under VMware, VSphere (ESXi,
VSphere Client and VCenter Server) virtualization software suite on Linux and Windows 2008,
2008 R2, 2012 server environments.
 Experience using cloud providers and API’s for Amazon(AWS) with Cloud Sigma(EU).
 Worked on Data-Center operation and migration across Unix and Linux platforms
 Experience in Creation and managing user accounts, security, rights, disk space and process
monitoring in Solaris and Red Hat Linux.
 Experienced in implementing and maintaining an Apache Tomcat /MySQL/PHP, LDAP, LAMP
web service environment.
 Installation and up gradation of Packages and Patches configuration mgmt., version control,
service pack. & reviewing connectivity issue regarding security problem.
 Experience in configuration of NIS, NIS+, DNS, DHCP, NFS, LDAP, SAMBA, SQUID, postfix, send
mail, FTP, remote access, security management and Security trouble shooting skills.
 Experience on Web servers such as iPlanetWeb server 6.0 /Sun one web server6.3, 6.5, Tomcat
3.x, 4.x, 5.x, 6.x, and 7.x & Apache Server 1.x, 2.x and integrating them with Web logic 10.x
servers.
 Experience in Installing, upgrading and configuringRedHat Linux 4.x, 5.x, and 6.x using Kick start
Servers
 Experience with Veritas Volume Manager (Vivo), Veritas File System (Vexes), Veritas Net
Backup, Veritas Clustering with SAN, NAS environment.
 Experience in installing,configuring and implementing the RAID technologiesusingvarioustools
like Vivo and Solaris Volume Manager.
 Experience in Server monitoring, capacity planning, application monitoring with the help of
Navies, Cacti, Sabrix, Puppet, Spelunk.
 Implemented Trip wire and Digital board band
 Experienced on Red Hat Satellite Server with custom repositories to provide a stable
management solution for the Linux environment.
 Participated, documented, managed ITIL controls and supported Linux environment.
 Experience in writing shell scripts to automate the administrative tasks and management using
cron
 Expertise in scripting for automation, and monitoring using Shell, PHP, Python & Perl scripts.
 Experience in Installing Firmware Upgrades, kernel patches, systems configuration,
performance tuning on Unix/Linux systems.
 Good understanding of OSI Model, TCP/IP protocol suite (IP, ARP, TCP, UDP, SMTP, FTP, and
TFTP)
 Installation and configuration of JBoss, Web Sphere 5.1/6.0 Application Server on Solaris and
Linux boxes.
 Experienced in implementing Spelunk, Puppet, Chef, and Divots.

3.  Experience supporting 24x7 production computing environments. Experience providing on-call
and weekend support.
 Ability to work independently as well as a team member.
 Experienced in Trouble shooting and Back and Recovery.
Certification: RHC SA Andric E
Education: Bachelors in Computers and science from JNTU, India
Technical Skills:
Operating Systems RHEL 3/4/5,, Solaris Release 2.10/2.9/2.8/2.7, IBM-AIX 5.X, svn
Windows 2003, 2008, 2012 and NT
Hardware HP Proliant, Blade servers, Sun Servers E450, E3500, E4500, E5000,
E6500, E10k, E15k, E25k, Sun Ultra's, V210, V280, V490, V880, V6800
SUN Ray (1g Ultra-Thin Client) SUN Desktops (SPARC 10, 5), DMX3 and
DMX4 Storage Arrays, F5
Software Veritas Volume Manager 3.5/4/5, Veritas File System, Veritas Cluster
Server 3.5, Veritas Netback up 6.0, MS-Office/MS-Project
Web/ Application Server Tomcat, Apache DB2, Oracle
Network Protocols DHCP, DIG, DNS, SNMP, SMTP, Ethernet, IOS, net stat, NFS, NIS,
nslookup, RIP, OSPF, BGP, TCP/IP, and tcpdump, FTP, TFTP.
Cluster Environment Sun Cluster Servers 2.2, 3.1, 3.2 and VERITAS Cluster Servers 4.1
Programming Languages C, SQL, HTML, PHP, XML, Bash, Perl and Shell Programming, JSP,
Python and Ruby
Other tools VMware VSphere, ESX/ESXi, VCenter Server, Datacenter
Puppet,splunk,Chef and Navies
Professional Experience: --
Client: AT &T , Alpharetta, GA Jan 2016 – Present
Role: Linux/Solaris/VMware Admin
Responsibilities: --
 Managing Linux Infrastructure involves day-to-day maintenance of servers and troubleshooting.
 Provisioning Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server using PXE Boot according to requirements.
 Performed Red Hat Linux Kickstart installations on Red Hat 6.x/5.x, performed Red Hat Linux
Kernel Tuning, memory upgrades.
 Building the host using the Kick start and configuration of LVM and maintaining them.
 RPM and YUM package installations, patch and other server management.
 Managing systems routine backup, scheduling jobs like disabling and enabling cron jobs,
enabling system logging, network logging of servers for maintenance, performance tuning,
testing.
 Installing and configuring Apache and supporting them on Linux production servers.

4.  Setting up network environments using TCP/IP, NIS, NFS, DNS, SNMP agents, DHCP and Proxy.
 Set up user and group login ID's, printing parameters, network configuration, password,
resolving permissions issues, user and group quota.
 Regular disk management like adding / replacing hot swappable drives on existing
servers/workstations, partitioning according to requirements, creating new file systems or
growing existing one over the hard drives and managing file systems.
 Deployed File System in Veritas.
 Experience in Migrations using different software's like EMC open migratory, LVM, and rsync.
 Experience working Red Hat GFS and Veritas Cluster File systems
 Performed different configuration under Veritas for Oracle agents.
 Performed boot from SAN installs of RHEL6.x and OEL 6.x on Unified Cisco Servers (UCS) blade
servers.
 Installed configured Linux clustering for High availability for critical applications.
 Installed and configured Nagios/NRPE to monitor Linux servers.
 Manage daily system administration cases using BMC Remedy Help Desk.
 Performed scripting on Perl and shell for monitoring and scheduling the Jobs.
 Migration of LDAP and up gradation of RHEL 5 to RHEL6.
 Preparing servers for Oracle RAC installation which includes tuning the kernel, agent
installation, adding NAS storage.
 Configuring the FTP, DHCP, DNS and troubleshooting them.
 Installed and configured Spacewalk/Satellite Server to serve as Patching, Provisioning and
configuration management for all Linux servers.
 Server hardening, checking I/O and Memory performance.
 Responsible for start-up and shutdown of the boxes and services.
 Adding and configuring disks and creating new file systems.
 Responsible for, NFS, SAMBA, NIS, SSH, FTP, NIS, Apache, Tomcat, Send mail, DNSservers
Installation and configuration.
 Performance monitoring with Ksar, iostat, vmstat, mpstat and Other Tools.
 Managing internal DNS server records addition and deletion.
 Application readiness/OS checkpoint.Install &config oracle 10g and coordinating with the
oracle team.
 Troubleshooting of Veritas Volume manager and Sun solaris manager.
 Setup LVM. Install OS packages and patches, break/fix support. System security management.
 Worked on OS upgrade plan for Solaris on development and production servers.
 Perform daily administrative tasks, including log reviews, account, group, system accessibility
issues, and server software maintenance.
 Production Support activities based on incidents to solve end user issues related to their
accounts, orders as in when required.
 Implemented Clustering, Performance tuning and troubleshooting of WebSphere Application
Server 7.0/6.x.
 Provided load/stress, Performance testing and troubleshooting on issues such as Out of
Memory, 100% CPU Usage, hung Thread sessions, session replication.
 Responsible for maintaining complete VMware infrastructure for the customer.
 Involved Datacenter server migration and SAN storage migration Activities.
 Responsible for upgrading the Virtual Machines, VMware ESXi hosts and vCenter servers in the
organization.

5.  Installed and configured Linux virtual machines on VMware infrastructure.
 Created New Virtual Machines, cloning VM, DRS and Snapshots.
 Created and managed templates in VCenter.
 Server migration from Physical to Virtual (P2V) and Virtual to Physical (V2P)
 Installation and configuration of Red Hat Linux on VSphere and VMware ESX.
 Created and managed Standard and Distributed Switches (dvSwitch) in the vCenter servers for
making use of best network design and stability across the vCenterservers.
 Responsible for performing monthly patching on infrastructure servers.
 Took active part in troubleshooting vCenter and ESXi issues and also in system
hardwarefailures.
 Responsible for VMware and ESX patch management using vCenter update manager.
 Responsible for upgrading the Hardware version and VMware Tools version on the Virtual
Machines.
 Migrated ORACLE RAC servers using system EMC Open migrator and effectively worked with the
database team to bring up/down the databases.
 Expertise in filesystemconcepts like LVM, SVM, VxVM. Creating new filesystems,increasing and
decreasing filesystems, mounting filesystems, unmounting filesystems and troubleshooting Disk
space issues.
 Efficiency in installing, configuring and implementing the RAID Technologies using various tools
like VxVM and SVM.
 Involved in System Analysis and Performance Monitoring of Red Hat Linux.
 Implemented and monitored clustering on SPARC servers using Veritas Clustering.
 Supported DNS, Open LDAP and Performed User Account creation, assigning access permission,
creating user quota by using Shell scripts.
 Installed and configured Veritas NetBackup and TSM on Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
 Creating volume groups, logical volumes, extending logical volumes based on the requirements
using Logical Volume Management (LVM), SVM, ZFS & VERITAS commands.
 Upgraded Oracle WebLogic servers from 9.0 to 11g on Linux based servers.
 Backup and restoration of Progress Database servers using SQL scripts.
 Installed and upgraded servers using the security patches and service packs released.
 Installed Red Hat Enterprise Linux over the network using Kickstart Installation and Jumpstart.
 Installed and Configured Multiple OS using VMware ESXi on Dell using Virtual Center Server and
VI client.
 Migrated and Managed VMware Esxi - 5.0 and 5.1, Worked on VMware capacity planning.
 Performed tons of P2V Migration, Created clones and templates of VirtualMachines.
 Deployed VMs Through OVF/OVA Templates, Created & Troubleshot Virtual Networks and
vSwitches.
 Worked on Migration concepts like vMotion and cold migration and Remediate.
 Configuring the Host profiles in VMware, Disable and Enable the ports for the Virtual D
Environment: Red Hat Linux 6.x/5.x, HP ProLiant, DELL IDRAC, Cisco UCS, solarwinds, Zendesk, Vcops,
Satellite Server, WebSphere, Apache, Tomcat, Windows 2008 R2, 2012, VMware ESXi 5.x, update
manager, DRS, HA, vmotion, svmotion, Distributed switches, Data center Migration.

6. Client: Sapientnitro, Miami, FL May 14 – December 2015
Role: Linux/Solaris/VMware Admin.
Description: Sapient is a marketing and consulting company that provides business, marketing, and
technology services to clients. The company operates three divisions, Sapientnitro, Sapient Global
Markets and Sapient Government Services.
Responsibilities:
 Installation of RHEL (RedHat Enterprise Linux) 5.X, 6.X, 7.X administrator and server
maintenance
 Using and configuring RedHat Satellite server, Yum repositories and Troubleshooting activities.
 Experience in Installation, configuration, patching, support to application and web server.
 Built Solaris servers , including LDOMs and Zones
 Worked with backend multi-TB storage systems such as EMC, Netapps, Hitachi using Volume
Managers such as LVM, ZFS/ZPOOL, Veritas Volume Manager
 Migration of DC and re-platforming of applications and DBs for tech-refreshes and consolidations
between various Unix flavors (Solaris, RHE Linux, AIX)
 Bash scripting supporting Linux and Solaris servers
 Involved in support and maintenance of HP ProLiant servers,HP blade systems, Dell PowerEdge
Servers, Sun Fire V series, T series and M-series servers
 Experienced in working with Apache web servers, Tomcat, JBoss application servers.
 Diagnosis and maintenance of hardware issues involving single and multiple point failures,
working with vendors for H/W replacements
 Proficient working experience with vendors like HP, Oracle, Dell, Veritas and RedHat for
troubleshooting issues.
 Creating and managing Virtual Machines and Templates on VMware ESX (4.x, 5.x)
 Worked with clones and snapshots of Virtual Machines on VMware 5.x
 Support GUI and autofs mounts, installing packages using yum and AD authentication on Linux.
 Worked on Updating the workstations through spacewalk. Using spacewalk to patch, monitor
and provision workstations and servers.
 Expertise in managing Virtual Linux servers running on VMWare ESX 4/5.
 Currently working on build activities which involves building RedHat Enterprise Linux 6 and 7
servers in both Physical and Virtual platforms and procedure documentation.
 Experience installing, configuring, tuning, and supporting Linux servers.
 Installed and configured DNS Server for training and Configured DHCP.
 Involved extensively in virtualizing and managing them using VMware and VCenter VSphere.
 Experienced in recovering OS from VM snapshots and working on Maintenance mode through
VM console.
 Perform Backup and restore using Veritas Netbackups. Restored files for end-users when
necessary.
 Work on implementation of security controls and monitors compliance with security policies
and procedures (PCI, SAS70, HIPAA, DSS, etc).
 Experienced in tasks like managing User Accounts and Groups, managing Disks and File
Systems.
 Experienced in creation and maintenance of user accounts and active directory.
 Perform tasks related to technical support & management.
 Worked on Analyze system performance, client to server traffic and server to server traffic.
 Supporting infrastructure environment comprising of RHEL and Solaris.

7.  Building and supporting environments consisting Testing, Contingency, Production and Disaster
Recovery servers.
 Performed OS provisioning using Kickstartthrough BMC Blade Logic.
 Performed patching of RHEL using yum, up2date and BladeLogic.
 Experience with VMware Virtualization using ESX hypervisor of VSphere.
 Creation, Installation and administration of Red Hat Virtual machines in VMware Environment.
 Create, extend, reduce and administration of Logical Volume Manager (LVM) in RHEL
environment.
 Creation of SAN File System on Red Hat Linux using multipath configuration.
 Configuration of Network bonding which include Active/Standby and Active/Active.
 Installation of HBA cards ( Emulex and Logic )
 Rebuilding of kernel in RHEL using mkinitrd.
 Troubleshooting Network,memory,cpu,swap and File system issues,TCP/IP, NFS, DNS, SMTP in
Linux and Solaris servers.
 Performance tuning of Virtual Memory, CPU, system usage in Linux and Solaris servers.
 Configuration of Monitoring tools in Linux and Solaris servers.
 Performed Disaster Recovery in RHEL servers which consists of LVM based FS and Red Hat
Clustering.
 Supported class monitoring and management tools such as Open NMS, Tivoli and VCO.
 Installation, configuration and administration of Jboss, Apache, Weblogic, Tomcat and
Websphere.
 Building of Oracle RAC (Oracle Real Application Clusters) environment.
 Creation, initialization, addition of Oracle ASM and FSR devices in multipath environment
 Performance Monitoring and Performance Tuning using Top, prostate, SAR, vista, pHs, iota.
 Creation of Jumpstart and Kick start configuration for the automatic provision of servers using
Blade logic.
Environment:Environment: Red Hat Linux 5.X, HP & DellServers, Oracle/DB2, VmWare ESX 4.x, Autosys,
VMware VSphere,ESX, BMC BladeLogic.
Client:Truven health analytics,Denver,Colorado Jul 13 - Apr 14
Role: Linux/Solaris/VMware Admin.
Description:Truven Health Analytics delivers the answers that clients need to improve healthcare quality
and access while reducing costs. We provide market leading performance improvement solutions built
on data integrity, advanced analytics, and domain expertise.
Responsibilities:
 Installation and troubleshooting of Red Hat Linux, Debian, Ubuntu, and SUSE Linux (10, 11)
 Installed and maintained OpenStack on KVM for cloud based applications.
 Writing shell, Ruby and Perl scripts for automation of various tasks.
 Configuring file systems using Logical Volume Manager (LVM) on RHEL 7, 6 servers
 Updating RHEL systems and softwares by using RHN satellite server.
 Installation of ESXI VMware, creation of new CentOS servers, worked on creating and
monitoring new virtual machines.
 Performance analysis of various storage/ Hypervisor for network device drivers and
benchmarking real time applications on Azure.

8.  Built Linux servers using VMware ESX and VMware ESXi.
 Good Knowledge on Openstack Cloud Technology.
 Management of Veritas Volume Manager (VxVM) and Zettabyte File System (ZFS) in Solaris.
 Experience in Install LAMP stack, backup and restore MySQL database.
 Experience in configuring multipathing for RHEL 6, 7 servers and HP-UX servers.
 Configuring DNS, sub netting, TCP/IP, NFS, DHCP on RHEL 5, 6 and solaris machines
 Experience in administering, troubleshooting and deployment of Tomcat 6.x on RHEL 5, 6
 Experience in managing and troubleshooting Apache Web servers on RHEL 5, 6.
 Experience in installation and management of Hadoop cluster spanning multiple racks.
 Manage scalable Hadoop cluster environments by providing developer's support
 Build data warehousing solutions in SQL and MongoDB, Hadoop HBase, Cassandra for
structured and non-structured l data.
 Working with SQL developer, Teradata, MySQL Server to interact with different databases.
 Expertise in designing SAN infrastructure Environment.
 Proficient in Configuration and implementation of SAN disk storage on the Open systems
environment such as HP-Unix, Linux, VMware and Windows Systems.
 Implemented automated local user provisioning in instances created in Openstack cloud.
 Experienced in configuration of DNS, DHCP, LAN/WAN, NFS, LDAP, SAMBA, Send mail, FTP,
Printers remote access on RHEL
 Experience with VCS clustering of applications and databases running on RHEL 5, 6, 7 servers
 Worked as a team member in administering 1300+ servers running RHEL 5, 6, 7 versions
 Configured and administered Web logic 10.3 application servers on RHEL 5, 6, 7 servers
 Managed JBOSS and Tomcat application servers
 Good and thorough knowledge on openSSL, openSSH, security tools
 Administration and setting up Oracle RAC on RHEL 5, 6, 7 servers
 File systems management using LVM, SVM and VERITAS volume manager.
 Imported and managed multiple corporate applications into Subversion (SVN)
 Created and maintained the Python deployment scripts for Tomcat web application servers.
 Build OpenStack test and development infrastructure and maintaining Chef Cookbooks for
production rollout.
 Experience with developing capacity planning reports with various systemmetrics such as CPU,
RAM, SAN local file system usage for predicting future Capacity needs.
 Configured file systems using LVM for various critical applications
 Good Knowledge on backup software Tivoli Storage Manager
 Experience in writing shell scripting for automation of various tasks
Environment: VMware, Azure, RHEL 5, 6, 7, Weblogic 10.x, JBOSS, VCS, JBoss, Tomcat, Cloudstock,
OpenStack, Shell,Perl, puppet, Ansible, AWS, SAN, NAS, Solaris 9, 10, tomact, apache,mysql, LDAP,LAPR,
OpenStack, Oracle, MongoDB, Hadoop HBase, Cassandra.
Client: Restore Health, Madison, WI Apr 12 - Jun 13
Role: Linux/Solaris/VMware Admin
Description: Restore Health is the first trusted national brand wholly dedicated to bringing personalized
medicines to healthcare providers throughout the United States. The company delivers personalized and
specialty medicines to physicians and their patients through cutting-edge diagnostics, including genetic
testing, custom pharmacies and service networks

9. Responsibilities:-
 Installation, Maintenance, Administration and troubleshooting of OEL, Linux, Sun Solaris, AIX,
HP-UX systems.
 Performed automated installations of Operating System using Jumpstart for Solaris and
kickstart for Linux.
 As a Solaris administrator primary responsibility includes building of new servers which
includes rack mounting, installation of OS, configuring of various OS-native and third party
tools, securing of OS, installing & configuring, job scheduling.
 Installation and configured Solaris 10 with Zones, Containers and Ldoms.
 Extensively worked on hard disk mirroring and stripe with parity using RAID controllers.
 Involved in Server sizing and identifying, recommending optimal server hardware based on
User requirements.
 Installation and configuration of Veritas Storage Foundation Suite::Veritas Volume Manager,
Veritas File System, Veritas Cluster Server and Oracle SF RAC.
 Installed the Operating System on Solaris and Linux servers and Blades over the network.
 Built servers according to standards specified as per individual applications
 Built virtualized Linux servers on ESX and Blade servers to host multiple applications on same
chassis across different server hosts.
 Worked on installing,configuring splunkonlinux,solaris servers, to enable log,port monitoring
of servers, applications, escalating issues to the particular teams.
 Worked on puppet, scheduling changes, profile creation, pushing the changes across all the
servers.
 Installing, configuring puppet on linux, unix clients, pushing profiles to new servers, running
checks, modifying scripts, pushing changes to the clients.
 Set up Linux servers for iSCSI LUN boot instead of using local hard disks
 Set up Sun servers for SAN-through-FCP boot as against booting from internal hard disks
 Set up Linux servers for LAMP implementations and readiness
 Created File systems from local storage as well as NFS partitions for application portability
 Created Zetabyte file system (ZFS) in Solaris 10. Created zpools. Exported ZFS from local zones
to local zones.
 Creating, cloning virtual machines on VMware 3.5, 4.0, installed ESX hosts, performance
monitoring of virtual machines, taking vmware snap-shots, recovery, creating vswitches,
 Installed and verified that all AIX/Linux patches or updates are applied to the servers.
 Preparing servers for Oracle RAC installation which includes tuning the kernel, agent
installation, adding NAS storage.
 Worked on resolving production issues anddocumenting Root Cause Analysis andupdatingthe
tickets using BMC Remedy.
 Designing Firewall rules for new servers to enable communication with application, Oracle 10g
servers.
 Monitored server and application performance & tuning via various stat commands (vmstat,
nfsstat, iostat etc) and tuned I/O, memory, etc.
 Experienced in Troubleshooting critical hardware and software issues and other day-to-day
user trouble tickets.
 Adding servers to the domain and monitoring them using spectrum, sitescope, cacti.

10. Environment: RHEL 5.5Solaris 8,9,10, AIX 5.3, 6.1, SAN(Netapp), BladeLogic, Veritas Cluster Server 5.0,
Windows 2003 server, Shell programming, Jboss 4.2, JDK 1.5,1.6, , VMware Virtual Client 3.5, VMware
Insfrastructure 3.5.
Client: Acacia Communication ,Maynard, MA, Jan 11 - Mar 12
Role: Linux/Solaris/VMware Admin
Discruption:Acacia was founded in 2009 by leading experts in the field of optical networking. With
multiple products in our portfolio, the Acacia team has enabled the leading OEM equipment vendors
deploy thousands of coherent.
Responsibilities :
• Create full server backup and removing RPMs and uninstalling vormetrics on the server.
• Backup Branch Boks unique configuration data.
• Installation of SVT version on branch servers.
• Restore the branch specific data and Empress Database.
• Perform ILO and UPS configuration.
• Install the latest Osupd6- firm patch.
• Installation, configuration and upgrade of servers.Troubleshooting all kinds of UNIX problems and
assisting users.
• User and Group administration in Linux and Solaris environment.
• Creating and maintaining user, groups account on LINUX server.
• Knowledge of installing RHEL Server from scratch using kick start and PXE boot.
• Hands on experience using the VI editor.
• Install, configure, tuning, security, backup, recovery and upgrades of RHEL 5.5 and higher.
• Perform day to day System Admin tasks.
• Experienced working script in shell.
• Experience in Installation and support of server adapters HBA (host based adapter) and network
cards.
• Experience with Linux installations, configuration management and patch administration as member
of a production support team.
• Strong knowledge of Linux kernel configuration, performance monitoring, and tuning.
• Good Knowledge of LVM, which include creating PVs, VGs, LVs and filesystems and troubleshooting.
• Responsibleforinstallation,configurationandadministrationofSunSolaris9andRedHat Enterprise
Linux on x86 architecture.
• Implemented puppet for configuration management.
• Installed, monitored and supported Web and Application Servers on AIX and Linux environments.
• Implementation and setup of local Linux disk backups using open Source applications.
• Installation and troubleshooting on VMware running Linux (Red Hat) and Windows (wintel, windows
7, XP, Vista).
• Worked with DBA for Installation of Oracle on Linux and Solaris.
• Worked on installation of Power path on all Linux boxes.
• Participate in installing and configuring of UNIX/Linux based Oracle 10g products
• Profound understanding of networking and LINUX/UNIX
• Outstanding decision-making and problem-solving skills
Environment: Unix/RedHat Linux, Solaris, Unix/Linux. VMware, Citrix, BMC Remedy

11. Client: HDFCBANK, Mumbai, Maharashtra Jun 08 - Dec 10
Role: Linux Admin
Description: The Housing Development Finance Corporation Limited (HDFC) was amongst the first to
receive an 'in principle' approval from the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to set up a bank in the private
sector.
Responsibilities:
 Installing and configuring Linux and Solaris OS on IBM Servers. Installation, Configuration,
Administration & Trouble Shooting of RHEL servers on large scale
 Installing and Configuring SAMBA on RHEL servers
 User administration through power broker and power password tools.
 Linux kick start process
 Creating and deleting user-ids as per requests.
 Installing and Applying OS and security patches for Linux Operating Environment.
 Worked on Implementing OS Hardining i.e implementing the PAM authentication module on to
the servers.
 Configuring and managing sudo access to the servers.
 Troubleshooting and configuring SSH related issues.
 Monitoring and troubleshooting system performance related activities.
 Monitoring and troubleshooting system services related issues.
 Creating and managing Volumes using LVM.
 Assigning LUNs to the server.
 Working with sudo/crontab//permission.
 Configuring and managing Network interface
 Review and Maintain logs of production failures and resolutions.
 Inspect, review and comment on any documentation produced in relation to software releases.
 Effectively resolving any networking related issues, application related issues.
 Participating in cross-functionalteammeetingsandfurnishingthequalitativetechnicalservices
to internal and external customers
Environment: Unix/RedHat Linux, Vi Editor, Solaris, Unix/Linux, Shell Scripts, VMWARE.