My name is Finnur Örn Guðmundsson.

I live in the great country of Iceland.

I currently work as a Systems Administrator for a large IT service provider but that’s where I have been for the last 9 years. I’m in charge of keeping our SAN infrastructure up and running, keeping our UNIX and Linux machines running and designing and implementing solutions based on the Linux operating system & our partners SAN solutions. I also do a lot more but these are my primary responsibilities.

Contacting:
You can find me on the FreeNode IRC network as finnzi.
Also, you can mail me at: finnzi -AT- finnzi DOT com

I have a pretty wide knowledge of software and hardware …here is a list of some of them:

Certifications:

Red Hat Certified Architect
Microsoft Certified Professional
IBM Certified Operator – Tivoli Storage Manager V5.3 & V5.4

Hardware:

IBM xSeries servers: including: 306, 336, 346, 445, , 3550, 3650, 3850 M2, Blade centers (HS Series, JS Series) and others.

HP Proliant servers: including: DL360, DL380, DL385, Blade centers – Pretty much all generations ;) ….

IBM DS3000, 4000 series storage solutions.

Brocade SAN switches, from edge to director class.

HP EVA storage solutions: 3000, 5000, 4400.

IBM San Volume Controller.

EMC Clariion CX4.

Good knowledge of implementing HA SAN based solutions.

Cisco CSS 11500 series

Software:

Linux: Done large amount of work on Red Hat based systems. Hold a RHCA certification.

Windows: Done large amount of work on Windows 2000, 2003 and 2008. Loads of troubleshooting driver issues, performance issues.

Clustering: Good HA knowledge, done work on HP ServiceGuard and Red Hat Cluster Suite. (Most implementations cluster Oracle, NFS, MySQL, Tomcat).

Virtualization: Done a lot of work with VMware’s enterprise solutions (ESX, vSphere, DRS, HA).

HP-UX: Misc work, daily maintenance.

MacOSX: Good knowledge of OS X

Misc programs: IBM TPC, VYRE, Tomcat, Apache, Bind, Men And Mice suite, Brocade Data Center Fabric Manager, Red Hat centric programs.

More to come ;)