Murali

Mobile: +91-8712305000
Email:bmkchowdhary@gmail.com

Profile

More than four years of experience in UNIX support role primarily focusing on and AIX
Administration, VIO configuration, HACMP build and administration.
Currently working at Bank of America as Unix Administrator .
File system support, new system installation and performance monitoring for AIX 5.3.
Administration, maintenance and 24/7 support of IBM pSeries Servers including p6 p550/570/590,
p5 p550/570
Hand on experience in LPAR/DLPAR technology for installing partitions through NIM & Managing
partitions through HMC Console
Experience in VIO client/server on p5 Servers
System recovery through NIM server by the use of mksysb image
Familiar with SMITTY, Mirroring, Paging space management, creation of CRON jobs and
User Account management and Group management.
Installation, Planning and resource group creation for HACMP.
Management of file permission and ownership of important files and directories
Management of network solution such as TCP/IP, NFS .
Experience in Upgrading, downloading Patches and installing to keep system in current
maintenance level
Experience to take system backup on external device
Involved in day-to-day troubleshooting and performance tuning for the end users on AIX based
applications
Problem solving, Troubleshooting and Performance tuning skills.
Excellent communication and interpersonal skills

Professional Experience

Working as a AIX Administrator at Bank of America Bangalore from Aug 2013 till Present
Worked as a System Engineer with Virtusa, Bangalore ( Dec 2011 to July 2013)

Current Project:
Bank Of America Feb 2012 Till date
Role Module Lead -AIX Admin, Server Admin
Environment AIX, VIO, HACMP

Responsibilities:

Created and maintained DLPAR by HMC on the pSeries servers according to the resources
demands from the other teams.
Experience in the building LPAR and making them VIO Servers and VIO clients as per requirement
and Virtual Ethernet, Virtual SCSI (using the HMC) etc.
Installation, upgrade, configuration, fail over/fail back testing for HACMP.
Installation and maintenance of AIX 5.3 and 6.1 on pSeries systems through NIM and through hard
drive as well
Worked with the Application and Network teams to analyze and solve problems
Remotely access of the File Systems on the NFS Client through NFS Server
Worked on TCP/IP configuration, IP address assigning, network interface configuration, static
route creation, assigning gateway for two different networks, host name resolution, changing IP
address.
Troubleshooting of the system boot errors, installation errors and TCP/IP problems
Worked on Excel, PowerPoint and Microsoft Word for the presentations and documentation
Improved development and implementation of the procedures by analyzing and execution of the
test plans and developing the system documentation
Coordinated with other team members for the shift work adjustment
HACMP
Configuring cluster and testing cluster
Moving resource groups over the nodes
Build many 2 node & 3 node clusters.
Experience in breaking HA Clusters.
Upgrading of AIX by applying patch & Brining up Resource groups online.
Performing the fall over test of Resource groups and service IP.
Creating the volume groups (VG) and logical volumes (LV) through C-SPOC.
Creating the shared VG on both the nodes.
Extending the size of HACMP file system through C-SPOC.
Move RG from one node to another through C-SPOC.
VIO Server & Client

Planning for VIO server & Clients setup & Logical diagram as per demands.
Create the VIO Server LPAR & Install VIO Server
Define the VIO Server -Virtual Ethernet (using the HMC).
Define the VIO Server -virtual SCSI (using the HMC).
Create the VIO client LPARs (using the HMC).
VIO Server preparing for the clients:
Virtual Ethernet , Virtual SCSI using logical volume disk partition for Clients
Virtual SCSI using a whole disk for Clients
VIO client LPAR installations & Backing up a VIO Server and VIO client
Performing work on Production Servers during weekends

Previous Experience
Virtusa

Dec 2011 July 2013

Job Responsibilities:
Server installation, maintenance and performance review, Performance Monitor, Server Logs.
Provided remote administration support for IBM-AIX servers
File system management - Creation, Deletion, File Systems Changes - Grow and Shrink.
Experience troubleshooting performance related issues (CPU, Memory, Network, disks)
NIM Administration like creating lppsource and spot etc.
Restoring mksysb from NIM
Firmware upgrade for managed system
VIO SEA adapter creation, SEA failover, disk mapping.
VIO Server operations, creating virtual adapters and configuring Ethernet or LUNs to LPARs and
performing other troubleshooting techniques.
LVM, Disk management
TL upgrade on AIX
Aix Migration
Device Configuration
Upgrading servers as and when required.
End-to-end account administration and management.
Disk Space and File System management of servers
NFS server and client configuration
Managing and configuring cron jobs
Installing customized software and patches
TCP/IP and IP Routing
User and group management
Diagnosis and coordination for resolution and closures
Coordination with customers, team members and with the end-user
Automation incorporated good error handling techniques
Implementing of the company security policies.
Sending information / error reports to the concerned people as and when required, wherei some
errors would automatically recovered without manual intervention
Configuration of servers as per the project requirement.
OS installation and NIM.