Storage & Unix Administrator - HPUK - Birmingham - 8 month Contract - £330.00per day Storage Administration Should have a strong background in Storage Area Network (SAN), NAS; SAN switches & Logical Units (LUN). Should be familiar with Vendor specific redundant & business continuity technologies such as Business Copy (BC), Continuous access (CA),Information Lifecycle Management (ILM), SRDF etc. Should have experience of installing & configuring Backups, Backup agents using tape libraries. Solid exp. of managing zones, Fiber Channel (FC) technologies. Working knowledge of Backup technologies such as IBM TSM, HP Data Protector, Veritas Netbackup etc UNIX Server High Availability Concepts, implement and management of High Availability Systems & Software, High Availability,Fault, Error, Failure, Single Points of Failure, Business continuity, DR. Expertise in platform specific vendor products such as Veritas Cluster Server (VCS), Sun Cluster, MCSG, HACMP, RHCS etc. UNIX Virtualization Concepts, understanding and hands on in managing UNIX Virtualization technologies such as nPar, vpar, IVM, Zones, Containers, ZFS, VMWARE, RHEV, vio, LPAR, HMC etc UNIX Server Performance management Performance Monitoring, data collation of parameters like DISK, Network,CPU, Memory. Working knowledge of inbuilt utilities such as iostat, vmstat, sar and vendorhird party tools. HP UX Firmware Patch Administration, Boot Disk Mirroring, Jumpstart server setup, Shell/ Perl scripting with respect to OS admin (not app support),OS Performance tuning & management, Hardware Upgrade, OS Upgrade, Server Partitioning, Managing core files Kernel Tuning, Kernel Patching, Kernel Recovery & Troubleshooting, H/W Crash Analysis, OS Crash Dump Analysis, Capacity planning OS & Software Depot Management, Cloning & Golden Image creation, Volume manger administration, Cluster implementation, HA Cluster Configuration/re-configuration,NISAdministration/configuration,DNS Administration/configuration, DHCP,Hardening of servers Log file analysis