PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• 11 Years' of experience that includes 9 years' of experience in NETAPP, EMC, 3PAR storage systems architecture, installation, implementation, integration, security and administration in local Geo-DR remote environments and 2 years of experience in Systems Network administration.
• Excellent experience in administrating, maintaining and troubleshooting of NETAPP-FAS EMC-VMAX, DMX 3PAR systems.
• SAN Switch Management Cisco, Brocade
• Experience in zoning using Brocade CLI and Cisco Fabric Manager and CLI Installation and deployment of Cisco MDS switches in the existing environment Creation of VSANs, Zone Sets and Zones HP c7000 enclosure internal switch connectivity NPIV/Access Gateway Mode .
• Experience in SAN expansion ISL in Brocade and Cisco fabrics and SAN migration between Brocade and Cisco Free port allocation, reservation planning
• Experience of implementing SAN and NAS primarily in NetApp environments using NFS, CIFS, FCP, iSCSI protocols Data Ontap 7 mode Ontap Cluster-Mode cDOT
• Experience in Aggregate, Flex Volume, Lun, Flex Clone, Snapshots, Snaprestore, Hot-backups, Snapmirror and Snapvault vFilers, vServers Configuring Snap Creator oracle, sybase, db2, Snap Manager Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Sharepoint.
• Physical Storage Management: Assigning Disk Ownership, aggregate, RAID-DP, Disk Scrubbing etc.
• Performing the Ontap upgrade Hardware replacements Managing takeover and giveback for Active/Active Configuration.
• Participated in transition phase from 7mode to cDOT
• Troubleshooting and managing CIFS Shares, NFS exports Qtree and Quotas management.
• Expertise in storage provisioning and monitoring of VMAX DMX using Unisphere, SYMCLI, SMC, ECC respectively to various operating systems.
• Experience in design and implementation of remote replication techniques and disaster recovery solutions using SRDF/S/A/AR on VMAX, DMX arrays.
• Experience in implementing EMC Business Continuity solutions using Time Finder Clone/Mirror/Snap on VMAX, DMX, using Unisphere for VMAX and SMC, SYMCLI.
• Experience in implementing array based migrations using Open Migrator, PowerPath Migration Enabler PPME and host based Logical Volume Manager, SRDF/S/A/AR, CLARiiON SanCopy.
• Expertise in 3PAR thin provisioning, setting the FC and NL templates and creating CPG's, TPVV LUNs, CPVV LUNs and export to dedicated and synaptic hosts.
• Experience in 3PAR RO RW snapshots, clones, Hot/Cold snaps, Hot Back-ups DB Rcopy remote replication .
• Experience in troubleshooting on CPG alerts and rcopy link alerts Setting correct persona for ports and adding hosts and generating reports in System Reporter 2.6
• Good Knowledge of virtualization VMWare , Install, maintains, and supports VMware ESX Servers .
• Troubleshoot and resolve the Storage related issues generated in the production, Development and testing environments.
• Coordinating with vendor support team for hardware failures.
• Experience in Windows administration.
• Experience in managing installation, configuration and troubleshooting of Operating Systems, SQL Server, MySQL, Antivirus, Visual Studio, .Net, Java, Apache, IIS, Active Directory and scheduling regular database back-ups, files and folder rights and permissions, group, file security and access control, disk space management and managing all servers patches and service packs.
• Hardware installation and maintenance of workstations, servers, networking equipment, and other supporting hardware.
• Trouble shooting day-to-day problems and on call support 24X7.
• Good team player, highly motivated, adaptive and quick learner with excellent interpersonal, technical and communication skills.

TECHNICAL CORE COMPETENCY:

SAN Management Tools:

• Cisco - Fabric Manager, CLI, Device Manager
• Brocade - CLI, Web Tools, DCFM
• Netapp - Netapp Management Console, Oncommand System Manager, Cluster Shell, Operations Manager, Protection Provisioning Manager, DFM, Qtree Quota Manager, OnCommand Insight, Performance Adviser, Snap creator, Snap Manager
• EMC - SYMCLI 6.x/7.x, SMC 6.X/7.x Unisphere Manager for VMAX/VNX, Navisphere Manager Navi CLI, ECC
• 3PAR - Inform CLI 2.2.6

SAN Operations:

• Ports Verification, Assigning and Zoning Soft/Hard
• Switch Level Operations
• SAN Storage Administration
• Data ONTAP 7 Mode
• Data ONTAP 8 Cluster mode cDOT
• Auto provisioning, Lun Management, Monitoring and Replications
• Storage Provisioning Storage Reclamation
• Snapshots, Flexclones, Timefinder - Mirror/ Clone/ Snap
• Snapmirror, Snapvault, SRDF
• Troubleshooting, Incident Resolutions, Root cause analysis
• Problem Capacity Management

Hardware:

• Brocade 12000/4900, Cisco MDS 9000 series
• NETAPP - FAS 6240, FAS 6280, FAS 3070, FAS 3040, FAS 3250, FAS 3170
• IBM NAS - N3220, N3240, N3400, N6240
• EMC - SYMETRIX VMAX-10K/20/40K, DMX 2/3/4
• 3PAR - S400X, T800

Operating Systems:

• Windows 2k3/2k8, Red Hat Linux 5.x, 6.x, Sun Solaris 9 and 10, VMware Vsphere 4.0/5.0

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Role: Storage Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for administrating Netapp, EMC VMAX, and 3PAR storages and Brocade Cisco switches.
• Migration tasks from 3PAR to VMAX, 3PAR to NetApp, NetApp to NetApp.
• Coordinating with capacity management team on switch ports selection, reservation, allocation and thereafter planning zoning Coordinating with IDC for fiber running between Hosts, Switches and Arrays Installing, Monitoring and Administration of SAN switches Brocade, CISCO , Zoning soft and Hard of fabric switches.

NETAPP:

• Responsible for managing different kinds of FAS series 6xxx, 3xxx in SAN/NAS environment. Responsible for production support operations for shared and dedicated clients.
• Worked on both SAN and NAS environments.
• Implementing, Managing and administration Netapp 7 mode and 8.1/8.2 C-mode storage arrays.
• Implementing 7mode - SAN and NAS primarily using FCP, NFS, CIFS, iSCSI protocols Creating new aggregates on FC and SATA drives. Adding the disks to existing aggregates.
• Creating the volumes and Mapping the LUNs Creating Igroups and assigning to the servers Dedicated Virtual . Configuring snapshots remote replications Snapmirror Creation of FlexClone volumes and LUN clone for testing purpose Increasing Flex Volume, LUN and Aggregate as per client requirement. Migrating volumes from one filer to other or aggregate to other aggregate. Troubleshooting and managing NFS exports Creating Qtrees and setup the thresholds for alerting Enabling, Configuring, the Quotas and Modifying quota limit as requested by the user setup the quota thresholds for alerting.
• Using oncommand system manager and cluster shell on command tools to create new vservers, aggregates, volumes and provisioning new storage.
• Exported the volumes through NFS exports to UNIX hosts and CIFS shares to windows hosts through CLI and Filer view.
• Configured Snapmirror between the two filers and migrated the data from one filer to another.
• Configured Autosupport on the filers.
• Provisioned the luns to hosts through iscsi. Setup the iscsi CHAP authentication from filer to server. Created iscsi group and added the nodes to group. Verified iscsi group and checked the authentication. Created volume/qtree, created lun, mapped lun to iscsi group.
• Worked with Operations manager, provisioning manager, performance manager. Perfomed DR testing and resync and fall back on Netapp filers.
• Decommissioned Netapp filers by destroying all volumes, aggregates. Added the disk sanitize license to the filer for sanitizing the disks and power off the filer head and shelf as a part of decomm process.
• Troubleshooted performance issue on Netapp using sysstat output. Generated perfstat on the filer for troubleshooting the Netapp filer performance issues. Enable the VIF interfaces when they are down. Managing takeover and giveback for Active/Active Configuration.
• Configuring and enabling the snaps using Snapcreator and Snap Manager for different types of databases - Oracle, DB2, Sybase, MS-SQL server, Sharepoint.

VMAX:

• Responsible for administration of 16 VMAX arrays across 9 Global data centers.
• Allocated storage using Auto-provisioning of VMAX-10K/20K/40k, by creating storage groups, port groups, initiator groups and masking views using Symcli 7.X and SMC 7.X
• Created 2-way Mirror, TDEV's, created Meta's and binding to pools and add the Meta to storage group. Created Masking views with Initiator, Storage and Port groups.
• Allocated storage for various OS's and setting HBA port flags accordingly.
• Used SRDF/A for setting up Disaster Recovery between VMAX to VMAX and enabled consistency at the Device Groups. Created Dynamic RDF groups and RDF devices in order to implement SRDF/A.
• Also worked in disaster recovery operations team to perform the DR exercise to check the data consistency at the remote site using failover, update and failback operations.
• Implemented and Configured Business Continuity Solutions TimeFinder Mirror/Clone/ Snap for Symmetrix DMX and VMAX.
• Implemented various Business Continuity strategies as per the RPO and RTO requirements of mission critical applications.
• Actively involved in the design of the migration methods by discussing with system/database administrators and application owners.
• Ran emc grab and generated heat reports to troubleshoot SAN storage related issues including identifying the software requirements to bring up the server to the current EMC Standards.
• Based on the EMC support matrix, updated required patches Operating System and HBA drivers on all systems that are part of the data migration.
• Allocated storage to VMware ESX, Linux, Windows, AIX, HP-UX, Solaris servers along with clusters from VMAX.
• Setup alerts for monitoring of thin pools usage on VMAX and expanded the pools accordingly.
• Responsible for performing day to day operational tasks like storage provisioning and maintaining high availability as per EMC best practices.
• Administration of ECC, monitoring alerts, set data collection policies and alert thresholds, responsible for testing and verifying device configuration recommendation to enhance EMC array performance.
• Involved in the installation and configuration of ECC 6.1 and took care of installing the agents for the hosts in the production.
• Performed Zone administration on the fabric to do migration according to requirements.
• Involved in migrating the SAN environment from old switches to the latest Director Class switches.

3PAR:

• Worked on Storage Thin Provisioning on 3PAR. Setting the FC and NL templates, Created CPG's, created TPVV luns, CPVV luns and export to hosts. Zoned the hosts to 3par using brocade switches.
• Worked on snaps and full copies of 3PAR volumes for local replication. Setup the rcopy groups for the remote replication of 3PAR volumes. Moving the hosts from one 3PAR array to other 3PAR array.
• Setup the hotbackup for the volumes. Worked on promoting the snap volumes to base volumes. Tuning the vv from NL-FC drives. Worked on DR tests for the 3PAR volumes
• Worked with system reporter 2.6 to get the reports of the 3PAR arrays. Migrated the existing storage from old server to the new server. Migrated the data from 3PAR to Netapp.
• Troubleshooted on CPG alerts and rcopy link alerts on 3PAR

Technical Environment: NetApp FAS3020,6280,6240, VMAX 10K, 20K, 40K, 3PAR T/S series, Brocade 3900, Cisco MDS 9000 series, ONTAP 8, Operations Manager, Netapp system Manager, DFM, Snap Manager, Snap Cretor, Oncommand Insight, SMC, ECC Ionix Control center, Performance MangerSYMCLI 7.2.1, RedHatLinux, Windows2000/2003 VMWARE ESX Servers.

Confidential

Role: Senior Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Installation, administration, integration of NetApp Filers FAS 2000/3000/6000 in UNIX and Windows environment.
• Data ONTAP Administration that involves good understanding of native Snapshots, SnapMirror, FilerView.
• Updating disk, disk shelf firmware for the purpose of updating DATA Ontap version for 6.5 to 7.2.
• Creation of aggregates, volumes and qtrees on the filers and enabling quotas on the created volumes.
• Configuring NFS exports and CIFS shares for the UNIX and windows clients NetApp accessibility.
• Creation of vFilers and assigning resources to them and concerned with migration of vFilers between filers.
• Creation of luns and configuring iSCSI initiators for SAN based storage requirements on NetApp storage box.
• Registering hosts, binding luns, creating storage groups and providing accessible storage to the hosts using NaviSphere Manage on CLARiiON CX 400/500 environment.
• Configured and Troubleshooting Emulex HBA connected to the hosts in the SAN environment.
• Implemented zoning on Brocade switches in the SAN Fabric and merging new switches to the existing fabric.
• Closely worked with the disaster recovery team of CLARiiON that mainly focused on MirrorView and SnapClones

Technical Environment: NetApp, CLARiiON, Brocade, Data Ontap, NaviSphere, Solaris 8, AIX 5.0, Windows 2003.

Confidential

Role: Senior System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installed, configured and managing EMC CLARIiiON IP4700 Fiber Channel Storage Device as NAS
• Configure the volumes by implementing RAID1/0.
• Implemented NetApp NAS with clusters and created Volumes, QTrees.
• Configured Volumes, Qtrees, Exported File systems Using NFS on NetApp filers FAS 270C.
• Configured Fibre channel Switches, Zoned Hosts with Using web tools and Fabric manager.
• Installation and configuration of EMC,SGI XSAN storage systems
• XSAN Implementation on Mac OS XServers and G5 machines.
• Install and Manage HBA cards on hosts, host configurations support firmware upgrade.
• Create and Manage Zones h/w s/w , RAID Groups, Volumes, LUN's.
• Testing the performance of the DAS Boxes.
• Configured different RAID Technologies like RAID 1, RAID 0,RAID 5,RAID1/0, RAID 0/1 on Windows 2000,
• Linux and MacOS.
• Kernel tuning on Linux for Playout software.
• Installation, maintenance and administration of NIS Master and Slave servers on Linux.
• Installation, maintenance and administration of NTP Master and Slave servers by using for centralized time on
• Linux Writing shell scripting for simple administration tasks.
• Managing machines as Network File Service NFS , Network Information Services NIS , Network Time
• Protocol NTP and DNS.
• Implementing Quotas and restricting users more access of disk space.
• Installation and configuration of Squid proxy and Samba Server.
• Configured NFS server In Linux and mounted the file systems at clients throughAuto mount.
• Installed and configured Linux 8 for desktop pcs. This included Custom KickStart Installations.
• Installing, configuring and maintaining LDAP.
• Creating maintaining Volumes using LVM Maintaining different secure FTP servers like Proftpd and vsftpd.
• Using remote logins like SSH ,Telnet Rlogin Writing shell scripting for simple administration tasks.
• Installing and compiling network and scsi drivers for Linux servers.
• Installing and configuring APACHE Server.
• Installing using SNMP servers network monitoring tools like big brother and OpenNMS.
• Installing and configuring PAM-LDAP for using user authentication on Linux workstations.
• Installing,configuring and maintaining web based documentation using Tikiwiki pages

Technical Environment: Redhat Linux, Solaris, AIX, MacOs, Mac OS Xserver, Brocade, Cisco, Brocade.

Confidential

Role: System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Creation of LIC user accounts, groups and implementing quotas.
• Installing, configuring Raid Controllers and Troubleshooting Server RAID 5 in IBM Xseries 225 E Server
• on Linux Platform.
• Assembling and peripheral maintenance, troubleshooting and preventive maintenance.
• Installation and configuring Apache server on Linux for Branches websites.
• Kernel updating on Linux.
• Configuration of various devices like External CD-ROMs, External SCSI devices.
• Adding configuring various hardware devices like hard disks network interfaces, memory

Technical Environment: Red Hat Linux,Windows 98, Windows XP, Windows 2000