Thursday, August 19, 2010

Various technologies for a System administrators


  • EMC SAN

  • HP Smart arrays

  • SSH

  • NIS+

  • NFS

  • DNS

  • Veritas Net backup

  • Mid range/Enterprise Servers Hardware

  • Solaris 10 zones and containers.(virtualization)

  • Red Hat Linux OS

  • Solaris 8 & 10 OS

  • Disk storage management ( Solstice Disk suite and VERITAS Volume Manager)

  • HA skills (VERITAS Cluster server,Sun Cluster (a plus))

  • scripting ( Shell & Perl scripting)

  • Symantec Net backup Administration

  • Network Services: Webserver (Apache/tomcat), DNS, Mail, FTP

  • Fail over/Redundancy: RAID, Clustering, Heartbeat, LVS

  • Virtualization: Xen, Vmware,citrix

  • Security: IPtables, TCP wrappers, SElinux, Hardware based firewalls

  • monitoring tools i.e. open view , Tivoli , Big-brother , Ngaios