I am excited that I was invited here on the Hive and write a thousand words about me.

I am Manjunath from India. I was born in Madurai, India. I am working as a Linux Server Administrator L2 with 7 years of experience in Productions environment and understanding of business processes in Tata Consultancy Services, Chennai, India.

<h1> <b>Area of Proficiency</b>:</h1>

    Operating Sysytems : Linux - RHEL, Cent-OS, Ubuntu
	Virtualization     : Linux - XEN, KVM, OpenVZ
	Data & Storage     : LVM and RAID
	Cloud              : AWS
	Monitoring 	       : Nagios


<h1> <b>My Job responsibilities</b>:</h1>

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   - Providing Production support to end users by playing a responsible role in troubleshooting problems logged by the client throughout the world in Operations of their Domains, servers, Virtualization, DNS, Mails and providing complete Technical Support for the Client Company.

    - Building, testing & Deploying new servers in offshore and inshore locations as per the client needs and managing them.  
    - Monitoring all production servers, applications, services and respond to alerts according to SOP.
    - Installation and Troubleshooting server of various Virtualization such as XEN source, OpenVZ, KVM.
    - Creating Virtual machines in public and private cloud environment, managing and monitoring their performance.
    - Creating templates to the Virtual Machines with required services and configs 
    - Moving VM's from one nodes to another node.
    - Remotely accessing the server via SSH terminal and troubleshooting issues.          
    - Installation, configuration and troubleshooting of various server Control panel such as SolusVM, cPanel, Kloxo, Plesk etc.
    - Troubleshooting boot up problems via remote tools such as IPMI, iDrac, iLo etc.
    - Installing and configuring services like NFS, FTP, Apache, and basic knowledge on DNS, DHCP, HA Proxy and Squid. 
    - Configuring and running Backup and Restore operations in accordance with the norms and requirements of business.
    - Configuring and troubleshooting LVM, RAID.
    - Complete server management such as load monitoring, Installing, running and updating necessary applications. 
    - Upgrading and downgrading the server as per client needs and applying patches.
    - Installing, Configuring and monitoring servers using Nagios.  
    - Performing disaster recovery operations.

<h1> <b>Server Administration Skills</b>:</h1>

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   - Virtualization- Installing and configuring XEN, KVM and VZ. Creating and managing VM's in it. Upgrading/Downgrading its resources according to business needs. Migrating VM's from one LUN to another etc.

    - Internal Storage- Configuring and managing LVM based partitions.
    - Administration Tools: Impressive knowledge in SolusVM panel.
    - Performance Monitoring- Event logs, Top, IO monitoring, IPtraf for DDOS monitoring, SSH consoling, Remote desktops, VNC etc.
    - Monitoring Tools- Installing and configuring Nagios, nConf.
    - Web servers - Decent knowledge in Apache and Nginx. Installing, Configuration,  and troubleshooting basic issues.
    - Mysql-  Decent knowledge in Installing and optimization. Repairing tables if crashed, Taking dump, restoring databases.
    - Systems rescue/Hardware: Consoling through IPMI, iDrac, iLo, IRMC, KVM, Booting the server via rescue, single user, Live CD and troubleshooting.
    - Networking- Good understanding of network concepts such as TCP/IP, DHCP, Switches, routers, LAN etc.
    - Security- IP Tables, CSF, TCP wrappers, SSH. Preventing DDOS attack using IP Tables and other security tools, hardening the server etc.

<h1> <b>My Interest in Share Market and Cryptocurrencies</b>:</h1>

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In 2017, I started to learn about the Share Market and Cryptocurrencies. After getting enough knowledge, I have started investing in Share Market and Cryptocurrencies from March, 2018.

I love to read articles about the Web Hosting Issues and the Solutions, Cryptocurrencies, Share Market, Travel, Photography, but I haven't tried to write articles in blogs.

Today I am writing my first post about myself. I will continue to write my articles about the knowledge I get.

Thanks for giving me such great opportunity to share my knowledge.

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