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vikas027 · #1 (**permalink**) 06-08-2008, 12:33 AM

Hi all,

I need a career Advice.

About myself -- I have 2 years of work experience as a System Administrator (Linux and Solari

. I am Sun Certified System Administrator on Solaris 10.0 currently working in a MNC.

As for career growth, I am doing 3 year MBA course from distance learning, currently in first year. Will get an MBA degree by 2010, will be having total 5 years of work exp then.

I have a pretty good hand on shell scripting and I am still working to get it better. I don't want to be limited to only system administration. I know its a vast field but still....

Now, so as to boost my career, I can think of two options - Oracle DBA on Solaris (as it requires Shell Scripting) and Veritas Volume Manager.

I want to know atleast basic knowledge of Oracle DBA and seek Oracle certification as I have seen many job openings for Unix+Oracle.

Can you guyz please help me out ? Am I thinking the right way ?

All suggestions are most welcome.

Thanks in Adv.

Vikas

rockdalinux · #2 (**permalink**) 06-08-2008, 01:28 AM

Vikas, Welcome to forum!

Having multiple knowledge of each field helps in a long run. If you have a time and money do it. It won't hurt. Currently following is wining combo
Storage + UNIX / Linux + Perl with shell scripting + Oracle basic

Usually, large project have dedicated DBAs.

I hope this helps and good luck with your studies!

vikas027 · #3 (**permalink**) 06-08-2008, 05:48 AM

thanks for the valuable info rockdalinux, I will go for Basic Oracle knowledge.

vikas027 · #4 (**permalink**) 06-08-2008, 06:19 AM

what comes under storage part rockdalinux ??

nixcraft · #5 (**permalink**) 06-14-2008, 11:58 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by vikas027

what comes under storage part rockdalinux ??

It can be os level storage (NFS, CiFS, Samba) or network layers (NAS, SAN, iSCSI). It can be also backup and snapshots etc.

A typical company look for clustering based storage / technologies for failover, failback etc and uses vendors sych as EMC, Legato, netapp etc. You need to have in-depth knowledge of these vendor products and technologies.