IT Consultant (TSM, VMware, SAN Storage)

My current professional focus lies on backup and recovery solutions
(TSM/Netapp), virtualization projects (VMware) and SAN storage. My work experience in the IT-services sector has allowed me to work with customers in diverse environments and fields.

I am a flexible person who can adapt quickly to new environments.
Never afraid of a challenge and open to a wide range of directions within the IT
world, I am looking for challenging projects in which I can feel completely motivated.
My current professional focus lies on IBM Tivoli Storage Manager, VMware
virtualization, Netapp Storage and the integration between these 3 technologies.
My work experience in the IT-services sector has allowed me to work with customers
in diverse environments and fields, allowing me to get a very deep knowledge about
the products that I have supported and implemented.
In recent years, my main focus has been on backup and recovery solutions
(TSM/Netapp), virtualization projects (VMware) and SAN storage. I feel comfortable
working in a Linux environment, as well as in a Windows Active Directory
environment. Because of my earlier work experience as an AIX Unix engineer, I also
have a strong background knowledge of the AIX operating system.

Characteristics:
· Work with structure and dedication
· Team player and also a good independent worker
· Curious and eager to learn new things
· Flexible and able to adapt quickly to new situations
· Not afraid of a challenge

Backup and recovery:
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o IBM Tivoli Storage Manager
Certified for TSM v5 and TSM v6

TSM Server: Installation, configuration, upgrade, migration, performance tuning, disaster recovery, troubleshooting, auditing.

Tivoli Data Protection (TDP) agents and backup scenarios for a large number of applications

TSM for Virtual Environments (VMware, Hyper-V)

Netapp Integration (Snapdiff, NDMP, Snaplock)

Replication and redundant TSM instance configuration

Performance tuning for backups and restores of large file systems
o Archiving solutions
o Replication of backups over multiple sites
o Tape libraries
o Virtual tape libraries
o Netapp snapshot and backup technologies:
Snapshot, Snapmanager, Snapdrive, Snapvault, Snaplock, OSSV
o Cristie CBMR and TBMR

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Virtualization:
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VMware Vsphere
Certified for Vsphere 4 and Vsphere 5
o Vsphere cluster design and implementation
o Vsphere clusters for multi-tenant hosting purposes
o Security, fencing, securely separating multiple customers running
on the same cluster
o Advanced network configuration using distributed virtual switches
o Performance and load balancing, resource pools
o Storage integration (VAAI), Storage tiering
o Fibre channel, NFS and iSCSI datastores
o Backup and recovery for virtual environments
o Netapp integration (VAAI, Netapp Snapmanager, Deduplication of
VMware datastores, thin provisioning)
o TSM Integration (TSM for VE)
o VMware View (desktop virtualization)

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SAN and Storage:
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o Fibre channel fabrics: SAN switch and FC fabric configuration and
administration
Experience with Brocade and Qlogic hardware, experience with
complex SAN fabric configurations
o Storage: Installation, configuration and administration. Experience
with numerous vendors: IBM, Hitachi, Netapp, EMC.
Mostly specialized in Netapp storage.
o Storage migrations:
Experience in migrating storage data between hardware from
different vendors.
Experience with the Netapp DTA migration appliance.
o Fibre Channel, iSCSI and NFS protocols
o Integrating Netapp controllers in an Active Directory domain to
provide File Server services (CIFS), without the need of dedicated
physical windows file servers.

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General IT knowledge:
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o General Microsoft knowledge

Windows Server:
Active directory, DNS and domain settings, DHCP, MSCS
cluster, Remote desktop services, user management and
policies, registry, file sharing, …

Exchange Cluster Continuous Replication (CCR)

SQL Server

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o General linux and unix related knowledge:

Red Hat Enterprise Linux installation, configuration and
administration

bootloaders and system files

user management and permissions

runlevels

file systems

shell / perl scripting

process management (ps, kill, nice, renice, …)

network settings

NTP timesync

Samba

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o General knowledge of AIX Unix

LPARs, HMC

Logical Volume Manager (LVM)

NIM (network installation manager)

Establishing connections with a Storage Area Network

Solving hardware problems

Automating tasks (crontab, inittab, shell scripting, perl
scripting, backups, …)

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o RMAN basics (Oracle backup)
o SQL language
o Monitoring (NAGIOS) for 24x7 client services to make sure SLA’s
are respected.
o Scripting:
Batch files, cmd files, shell scripts, VBscript, Perl, VMWare
PowerCLI, …
o General network configuration (IP, subnets, VLANs, routing, …)

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Background knowledge / educational knowledge:
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o CISCO CCNA sem 1-4
o Familiar programming languages: VB.NET, C, Java, COBOL
o Analysis: object-oriented analysis and conceptual planning
according to UML 2.0
o Webdesign: HTML, css, xml/xsl, Flash, ASP/ASP.NET/PHP,
database-driven dynamic websites
o Database related knowledge:

databases: Oracle, SQL Server, MySQLMySQL, MS access
o OpenVPN configuration
o Proxy server configuration (squid)
o Packet filtering / firewalls
o SSL encryption
o Apache webserver configuration
o …