Aix administrator vs storage administrator

The differences between aix administrators and storage administrators can be seen in a few details. Each job has different responsibilities and duties. It typically takes 1-2 years to become both an aix administrator and a storage administrator. Additionally, a storage administrator has an average salary of $92,434, which is higher than the $80,735 average annual salary of an aix administrator.

The top three skills for an aix administrator include disk, linux and aix servers. The most important skills for a storage administrator are linux, switches, and NAS.

Aix administrator vs storage administrator overview

	AIX Administrator	Storage Administrator
Yearly salary	$80,735	$92,434
Hourly rate	$38.81	$44.44
Growth rate	5%	5%
Number of jobs	56,543	71,753
Job satisfaction	-	-
Most common degree	Bachelor's Degree, 69%	Bachelor's Degree, 65%
Average age	43	43
Years of experience	2	2

Aix administrator vs storage administrator salary

Aix administrators and storage administrators have different pay scales, as shown below.

	AIX Administrator	Storage Administrator
Average salary	$80,735	$92,434
Salary range	Between $63,000 And $102,000	Between $65,000 And $130,000
Highest paying City	Hamilton, NJ	San Francisco, CA
Highest paying state	Washington	California
Best paying company	Barclays	The Citadel
Best paying industry	Finance	Health Care

Differences between aix administrator and storage administrator education

There are a few differences between an aix administrator and a storage administrator in terms of educational background:

	AIX Administrator	Storage Administrator
Most common degree	Bachelor's Degree, 69%	Bachelor's Degree, 65%
Most common major	Computer Science	Computer Science
Most common college	-	-

Aix administrator vs storage administrator demographics

Here are the differences between aix administrators' and storage administrators' demographics:

	AIX Administrator	Storage Administrator
Average age	43	43
Gender ratio	Male, 87.0% Female, 13.0%	Male, 89.3% Female, 10.7%
Race ratio	Black or African American, 7.6% Unknown, 5.0% Hispanic or Latino, 11.9% Asian, 14.2% White, 61.0% American Indian and Alaska Native, 0.3%	Black or African American, 8.0% Unknown, 5.0% Hispanic or Latino, 11.7% Asian, 14.0% White, 61.0% American Indian and Alaska Native, 0.3%
LGBT Percentage	9%	9%

Differences between aix administrator and storage administrator duties and responsibilities

Aix administrator example responsibilities.

Used LVM for managing volume groups, logical volumes and file systems.
Work on LDAP manage servers migrate servers between security models and from one OU to another.
Manage blocks of 20 public IP addresses by sub netting to 24 and provision on MTA and DNS servers.
Manage HMC's version 6.1 , 6.2 , 6.3 and migrate them to HMC version 7.1 to accommodate power 7 machines.
Manage disk space and other system resources with respect to various applications and make recommendations to Business/ management regarding environment requirements.
Install and configure RHEL Linux on servers and desktops.

Storage administrator example responsibilities.

Accomplish using mediums such as: FICON, SNA, ESCON, IP, FC, & ISCSI.
Manage, and deploy LUNS from EMC storage frames to multiple servers using the UNISHERE for VNX and VMAX.
Support teams which manage CentOS.
Manage and support SRDF replications between DR data centers.
Create CIFS, setting up permissions as per customer requirements and manage DFS.
Manage users and groups on a large scale in NIS and LDAP environments.

Aix administrator vs storage administrator skills

Common aix administrator skills

Disk, 6%
Linux, 5%
AIX Servers, 5%
LPAR, 5%
Unix, 4%
SAN, 4%

Common storage administrator skills

Linux, 7%
Switches, 6%
NAS, 5%
Troubleshoot, 5%
Isilon, 4%
VNX, 4%

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