This document summarizes a candidate's technical skills across several areas: 1) Administration of the AIX operating system including installation, partitioning, performance tuning, disaster recovery, and scripting. 2) Virtualization technologies on PowerVM including virtual I/O servers, logical partitioning, processor and memory virtualization. 3) Cluster technologies including PowerHA, GPFS file systems, storage pools, replication, and monitoring tools. 4) Performance analysis tools like nmon, lpar2rrd, and trace utilities. Hardware management including HMC, processor/memory placement, I/O mapping. 5) Storage infrastructure administration including IBM SVC, Storwize, Brocade switches

1. Details of Technical Skills:
AdministrationofAIX
- Install and cloning techniques
- LVM and file systems operations
- Miror pools
- Auditing
- Performance analysis and tuning (Memory, CPU, I/O, Network)
- Live Partition Mobility (LPM)
- Testing the environment and components, processor utilization, memory utilization, disk storage bottleneck
identification, network utilization
- OS based services: FTP, NFS, SSH, NTP, DNS etc.
- Designing and implementing network based installation methodologies (NIM Server)
- Disaster recovery planning, implementation and testing operations
- Custom scripting for monitoring critical components of systems (Bash, Ksh, Perl)
VirtualizationTechnologiesofPowerVM
- Best practices of installing, migrating, and configuring DUAL Virtual I/O Server
- Etherchannel, vSwitch, VLAN tagging and optimal SEA configuration (Load sharing, NIB)
- Virtual SCSI and N-Port Virtualization (NPIV) hosting
- PowerVM Technologies: Power Hypervisor, PowerVC, Dynamic Platform Optimizer (DPO) and PowerVP
- Multipath Device Drivers: SDDPCM and PowerPath
- Logical partitioning technologies: Dedicated LPAR, Dynamic LPAR, Micro-partitioning
- Processor virtualization: Shared-Processor Pools and capacity planning, Shared-dedicated capacity planning,
Processor folding, Active System Optimizer and Simultaneous Multithreading
- Memory virtualization: Active Memory Sharing, Active Memory Expansion
ClusterTechnologies
 PowerHA SystemMirror v6.1 and v7.1 (HACMP)
- Installing, administration, configuring and migration operations
- NFS cross-mounting in PowerHA/HACMP
- HyperSwap for active-active two-site configurations
- Deploying SAP, IBM DB2 and Oracle environments
- Performance tunnings
 General Parallel File System (GPFS)
- Implementing Many-Node Redundant GPFS Local and Remote Clusters
- Managing file systems, NSD servers and NSD disk operations
- Managing storage pools, policies and rules
- Setting up a GPFS cluster with synchronous mirroring utilizing GPFS replication
- Monitoring GPFS I/O performance with the mmpmon tool
- Snapshot and backup operations
PerformanceTools
- NMON: Collect performance data and analysis with nmon visualizer and nmon analyser tools
- Lpar2rrd: Installation and Implementation
- Trace tools (trcrpt, tprof, curt, pprof, filemon, netpmon) and PerfPMR
- Custom Scripts: AIX health check scripts for daily reporting status of critical components
Hardware
- Hardware Management Colsole (HMC): Dual HMC implementation and upgrade operations
- Performance consequences for processor and memory placement (p6-595, p7-780 and p7-795)
- Performance consequences for I/O mapping and adapter placement (p6-595, p7-780 and p7-795)

2. Storage&SANInfrastructure
- IBM SVC and Storwize v7000: Administration and implementation, Data migration, FlashCopy and Remote copy
operations
- Brocade SAN Switch/Director: Zonning best practices, Upgrade and Migration operations
ExperienceofMiddlewareApplications
- Basic experience with IBM DB2, MySQL, Oracle, IBM Content Manager, IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center