1. JAYACHANDRA.M
E-mail: Jayachandra.chandra01@gmail.com
Mobile: +91-9008620325
Skills: AIX,NIM,HACMP,LPAR, DLPAR, LPM, HMC, NPIV and VIO.
Objective:
To contribute strong technical skills and commitment to achieving your company’s goals
in an IT consulting capacity.
Professional Summary:
5+ years of experience e in IT industry of experience in IBM AIX Administration,
As Technical Lead to key customers. Having very good knowledge and experience in server
Building and troubleshooting in PowerHA, LPAR, DLPAR, LPM, HMC , NIM, NPIVand VIO environments.
Summary of work Experience:
Working As SSE in CGI Information systems and Management (CGI) Since Dec15th to till date.
Working As Unix Administrator-Tech Lead AIX for Wipro Ltd (Wipro Infotech) since March-2011 toDec -2015.
Professional Certificates:
IBM certified system P administrator AIX V6.1
IBM certified Virtualization technical support For AIX and LINUX – V2
IBM certified system P administrator AIX V7.1
IBM PowerHA for AIX (HACMP).
Education:
M.C.A-Master of computer Application from Bangalore University -2010
Achievements:
Spot Award for service excellence in customer support at IOB.
Spot Award for in recognition of exemplary performance at Indian Overseas Bank.
Galaxy Award for exemplary performance in south 1 Region.
Key Skills:
AIX : LVM, NIM, Performance,Multibos, Installation.
VIO : SEA, NIB, MPIO,VIO, NPIV.
HMC : LPM, DLPAR, LPAR, COD.
Tools : BMC Remedy and Service-now .
Backup Tools : Legato.
Hardware: System P5, Power 6, Power 7 (780/795).
JobResponsibilities:
working as a team lead and providing AIX and HACMP, VIO support where the project involves
support for managing operations.
Building LPAR and configuring AIX server 5.3,6.1 and 7.1
Migrating OS from AIX5.3 to AIX 6.1. and 5.1 to 5.3 versions by using NIMADM and conventional method.
Upgrading and installing TL,SP and APAR on AIX servers.
Creating and managing swapspace.
Configuring system dump devices , taking system dump and estimating system dump size and resolving the
dump issues
Taking regular system backup using Mksysb and volume group backup using savevg utilities
Working with network file systems – configuration, troubleshooting network shared issues.
Work closely with various lines of businesswith in the organization ensure the quality and delivery of
assigned tasks.
upgrading or installing TL or ML on AIX Operating system using alternate disk installation and
Multibos.
Working on Access Control Lists, configuring sudoand identifying group of users and granting some set of
commands.
Faulty disk replacement, runningdiag against the hardware of the server to diagnosis the issues.
Performance tuning,network tuning,system security and IO monitoring analysis.
Rebuilding the AIX servers incase of OS corruption or un-stable OS conditions using the NIM/Mksysb image.
Fixing booting related issues and working with the bootlists in SMS mode, bosboot to fix the booting
problem.
Performing the Daily activity LVM and user admin tasks and other.
Disk Storage Management in AIX - Logical and Physical Volume management,configuring disks,
working with volume groups, logical volumes, and physicalvolumes.
Handling NFS share creation and Send mail configuration on the AIX servers
2. Working with paging spaces - creation, increase, decrease paging spaces as per the requirement.
Running snap on AIX Server to analyze system issues.
Monitored system performance using sar, prof, vmstat, iostat, netstat, Nagios..
Checking the file systems and increase/decrease the file system if required.
Designed, installed and configured HACMP cluster environment, with cascading and mutual
takeover.
Expertise in Troubleshooting on High Availability Clusters (HACMP).
Responsible for migrating HACMP form v5.4 to 5.5 and to PowerHA
Experienced in configuring SAN bootable servers/LPARS, HBA card virtualization (NPIV), HEA/IVE
virtualization (LHEA) and live partition mobility (LPM).
Managing HACMP environment, Creating VIO, LPAR and DLPAR partitions.
Good knowledge over Logical Volume Manager, Managing Physical Volumes, Volume Groups,
Logical Volumes, Performing file systems management, Managing Paging Space.
Managing Physical and Logical devices.
Experienced in IBM AIX operating system migration, from AIX 4.3/5.1/5.2/5.3 to 5.2/5.3/6./7.1 and
extensively performed TL/SP upgrades using AIX OS DVD, NIM server alt_disk_install/NIMADM to minimize
downtime
Having Strong knowledge on NIM server Environment like Configuring NIM master.
Working on HACMP and system mirror 7.2 configuration.
Migrating system mirror 7.3 cluster setup to new P780 hardware.
Working on Upgrading HACMP from 5.5 to 6.1 PowerHA
HACMP - Monitoring servers, Starting and Stopping Cluster Services, moving resource groups
across the nodes,increasing file system in cluster file system, synchronizing cluster resources
and cluster verification
creating NIM resources, Extracting ISO image to create lpp and spot resources, installing OS on NIM clients
Power Systems (POWER5,POWER6 & POWER7) product and architecture knowledge
File system mounting and swap space management.
Patch and package management.
User and group management.
Hardware fault detection and correction - vendor liaising.
OS Installation & upgrade from NIM and administration. Dual VIOS setup
VIO Upgrades and health checks on VIO's and VIO clients, Map disks from VIO to clients, Perform
SEA failover tests.
Working on HACMP and system mirror 7.1 configuration.
Migrating system mirror 7.1.3 cluster setup to new P780 hardware.
Working on Upgrading HACMP from 5.5 to 6.1 PowerHA
HACMP - Monitoring servers, Starting and Stopping Cluster Services, moving resource groups
across the nodes,increasing file system in cluster file system, synchronizing cluster resources and cluster
verification
Working on Upgrading HMC version to latest level
Upgrading Manage system Firmware to latest.
Worked on Live partition Mobility , Moved LPAR from P6 to P7
Experienced on IBM AIX server Hardware Migration from p5 to p6
Create partitions, partition profiles, and system profiles, Activate partitions, and Schedule
operations for partitions,
DLPAR operation for adding, moving, and removing memory, processor resources, and I/O slots.
Upgrading the CPU and Memory on the LPAR/DLPAR partitions.
Activating CoD code for Processor, memory, and VET.
Activating on/off COD code for processor, Memory.
EXPERIENCE DETAILS:
Dec 2015 – Till Date: CGI Information systems and Management.
Roles & Responsibilities :
Supporting UNIX infrastructure.
Supporting more than 10 customers with shared infrastructure.
Server Virtualization.
Production support for all customer production servers.
Perform HACMP fail-over test and troubleshoot.
Perform DR SAN to SAN(storage-to-storage replication)
or Rync Disaster recovery (DR) Pre & Post Planning and operations.
System level Microcode/Firmware upgrade.
Communicated problems clearly entire team and collaborate with direct Reports/documents that Issues.
Troubleshoot various types of issues like NPIV/VSCI Issues, Host Issues,Performance Request Cases, Host
Implementation cases etc.
3. Perform root cause analysis and educate the client.
Working on Problem Management if we do not have a direct solution and checking with the vendor to
provide and come up with the resolution in a specific time frame.
Maintain Capacity Analysis report of all frames for projecting Capacity availability and suggesting LPM
Migration lpars.
Provide 24x7 Remote Incident Support in case of emergency incidents includingsystem-failure, hardware
failure, etc.
Opening of change management record to schedule maintenance window during
off-load hours for regular AIX activities like AIX Patching/upgrades VIO's upgrade,HACMP upgrade.
Take up initiative on service improvement that would help in performance analysis
EXPERIENCE DETAILS:
MARCH 2011 – Dec-2015 : Wipro InfoTech
Roles & Responsibilities:
Major responsibility is P-Series server management,OS management,Technical support for AIX 5.3,6.1 & 7.1
with powerHA 6.1&7.1
Providing Support for 200-Pseries Servers (P5,P6 and P7) with 600 LPAR’s , 15 dualVIO setups and 25
powerHA cluster setups.
Monitor, troubleshooting and implementation of Truecopy, HUR and HURD replications.
Performing Switchover and Switchback of production from one DC to another DC.
Planning and performing disaster recovery(DR) activities.
Performance monitoring - CPU,Memory, Disks - troubleshooting within the SLA
Planning and implementation of new IBM P-Servers(LPAR creation, DLPAR operations and installation)
OS installation and migration with CD and NIM
Patch upgradation (TL, SP)
Hitachi storage and SAN switches migration.
Zoning in Brocade switches.
Supporting daily backup related issues and troubleshooting (Quantum - Legato)
Building LPAR and configuring AIX server 5.3,6.1 and 7.1
Migrating OS from AIX5.3 to AIX 6.1. and 5.1 to 5.3 versions by using NIMADM and conventional method.
Upgrading and installing TL,SP and APAR on AIX servers
upgrading or installing TL or ML on AIX Operating system using alternate disk installation and Multibos.
Performing the Daily activity LVM and user admin tasks and other.
Working on Upgrading HMC version to latest level
DLPAR operation for adding, moving, and removing memory, processor resources, and I/O slots.
Activating on/off COD code for processor, Memory.
Working on HACMP and system mirror 7.2 configuration.
Migrating system mirror 7.3 cluster setup to new P780 hardware.
Working on Upgrading HACMP from 5.5 to 6.1 PowerHA.
Building VIO with 2.2.3 and configuring as per requirement.
Patching new VIO version on single and dualvio environment.
Migrated VIO servers from 1.4 to 2.2 versions in Dual and single VIO Environment.
Configuring SEA,NIB, MPIO,Etherchannel, Link aggregation as per requirement.
Configuring NPIV and mapping fc's to client LPAR to allocate disks.
PERSONAL DETAILS:
Gender:-Male
Marital Status:-Single
Passport :Valid.
Languages: English ,Telugu, Tamil and Kannada.