AKSHAY NIMKE

Senior-level Unix Administrator with 8 years of experience installing, configuring and maintaining servers with focus on Red Hat and AIX. Supports and improves business systems through regular server maintenance, ensuring data integrity and managing data recovery procedures. Offering deep expertise with VMware and virtualized servers.

• AIX Admin :
• LPAR OS Installation And Minimal Configuration.
• Creation of VIO and AIX LPAR configuration.
• LPAR creation, provisioning of storage as well as network to the LPARS and assigning space for particular mount point.
• Installation of Power Linux on IBM Power Server(Power 8 Server).
• Backups- rootvg backups using mksysb, mksysb restoration.
• Storage Lun’s scanning and Lun’s reclaimation.
• 'rootvg' related work such as rootvg backup and adding disk to rootvg,mirroring etc. User Management and administration (setup and maintaining account).
• Basic knowledge of HACMP.
• Basic HACMP Cluster Administration.
• Assign LUN from storage and make accessible on servers.
• Knowledge of AIX Boot Process.
• Knowledge of Zoning over IBM Brocade SAN Switches.
• Health checking of servers.
• DLPAR operations as per the requirement.
• Knowledge of LPM (Live Partition Mobility).
• Patching/Migrationof Server. (AIX Fixes/patches, Maintenance/Technology Levels and APARs) Configuration of backup agent on AIX servers (snap
• FC card Microcode Upgradation of Power Servers. Firmware Upgradation Of Power servers.
• Data refresh from production to Development/test VIO
• Linux Admin:
• Installed and configured all the Linux servers in the network as per specifications of clients.
• Knowledge of ILO(Integrated Lights-Out) Firmware and BIOS Upgradation.
• Knowledge of Linux/Ununtu/ CentOS Server (Physical and virtual servers) patching and downgrading the patching through YUM, LINUX Migration.
• Knowledge of Cluster Linux servers patching.
• Knowledge of Cluster management(VCS & PCS).
• Knowledge of Linux Command Line.
• Have good knowledge of FSTAB/FSCK.
• Knowledge of Partition Management. (Creation the Different Partition (Regular Partition & LVM Partition) using the Partition Tool).
• Knowledge of LVM (Logical Volume Management). Assign LUN from storage and make accessible on servers.
• Reclamation Volume Group.
• troubleshooting issues with live production Linux servers.
• Basic knowledge of Linux vi/vim Editor.
• User Administration.
• FSH-(File System Hierarchy)
• Runlevel & Switching Terminal.
• Knowledge of shell scripting (Bash Scripting).
• Knowledge of Linux Backup tools(zip,cp,rsync,tar).
• Knowledge of Linux Boot Process.
• Have knowledge of NFS Server Implementation
• Have knowledge of FTP,SFTP Server Implementation
• Have Knowledge of xinetd Service.
• Knowledge of ReaR Backup Utility(Relax and Recover).
• Knowledge of Tivoli Agent/Backup
• Agent configuration on client-servers.(51,54,50,ux & lo)
• Knowledge of Change Management Tools and Process(Service Now, ITSM, BMC Remedy)
• Knowledge of Ticket Management Tools(Service Now, ITSM) Basic Knowledge of Dynatrace.

• Awarded with “ Xtra Mile” account award from UK client for Quarter 4 in 2019
• Dec 2019 - Dec 2019
• Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals - AZ 900 (Issued Jun 2022)
• Jun 2022 - May 2023
• Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate - AZ 104
• Jul 2022 - Jun 2023
• Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert - AZ 305
• Jul 2022 - Jun 2023

• Reading And Travelling.