SUMMARY:

• Around 8 years of Experience as Storage Administrator and VMware Administrator. Expertise includes VMware, Storage Area Networks (SAN) and NAS.
• Experience in Supporting Virtualization Platform (Citrix XenApp/XenDesktop, VMware vSphere, Hyper - V).
• Expertise in the area of Virtualization with vSphere, VMware ESXi 5.5/5.0/4.1/4 hosts and Virtual Center server.
• Implemented vSphere 5.5 VCenter environment in large scale production environment.
• Expertise in implementation and supporting VMware vSphere ESXi 5.0/5.5 environment.
• Windows XP, Windows 2000 Professional and Windows NT System Administration & support.
• Extensive background in working with the VMware vMotion technology.
• Very well versed in handling the customer requirements by interfacing with not only customer higher echelon management but with system/database administrators and application owners as well to determine business and technical needs and set expectations for a deliverable solution.
• SAN Experience includes SYMCLI/ECC/SMC, Unisphere, Navisphere/Navicli, Webtools, Fabric Manager/Device Manager, Storage resource management, Vipr Controller.
• Hands on Experience with VPLEX, VMAX, DMX-4, DMX-3, VNX5400/5800 CLARiiON CX480.
• Implementing and Maintaining FAST Cache and FAST VP in VNX and Setting up new hosts for Storage Provisioning and assigning storages to the host,
• Performing LUN expansions and LUN migrations in VPLEX, VMAX, DMX, CLARiiON & VNX and Implementing, Administrating THIN Provisioning in VNX & VMAX
• Experience with Cisco enterprise directors like Cisco MDS 9513/9509/9506 and 9120/9140 departmental switches.
• Hands on experience with various Brocade enterprise directors (12k and 48k) and departmental switches (3900, 4100 and 4900).
• Encapsulated VMAX behind Vplex Metro.
• Migrated data from VNX to VMAX 40k using Mobility Central in VPLEX.
• Experience in implementing data migrations using Array based solution (SRDF, Open Replicator) and host based solution (Open Migrator/LVM mirroring).
• Implemented Disaster Recovery solutions using SRDF/S/A/AR for production systems and tested disaster recovery readiness.
• Design and implement local replication solutions within storage devices using EMC replication software such as SnapView - Snapshots and Clones for CLARiiON, Timefinder BCV, Clones and Snaps for Symmetrix.
• Hands on expertise in troubleshooting day to day SAN/Storage and VMware related issues quickly.
• Highly motivated Team Player with good communication skills.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Deerfield, IL

SR. Storage Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Provides support for implementation, troubleshooting and maintenance of Windows servers.
• Planning and implementing Server setup, configuration & administration for Windows 2012, Windows 2008 & Windows 2003 Server and Active Directory Administration
• Responsible for managing Windows and VMware.
• Installation, configuration, administration, troubleshooting and maintenance of VMware virtual infrastructure (ESX 5.1 and ESXi 5.5 vSphere) platforms.
• Migration of virtual machines from ESX 5.1 to ESX 5.5.
• Maintain daily operations for Windows server infrastructure and components.
• Performing LUN expansions in CLARiiON & VNX, Implementing and Administrating THIN Provisioning in VNX
• Day to day jobs include storage allocation, Zoning, mapping, masking, troubleshooting and monitoring the SAN environment.
• Maintaining the infrastructure using ECC, troubleshooting errors and alerts, configuring DCPs and alerts for management of the entire SAN infrastructure and also dealt with performance issues.
• Created Run book for the Customer Environment.
• Working experience with DR activities using SRDF/A between Symmetrix arrays and RecoverPoint between heterogeneous arrays.
• Managing consistency groups, replication sets, journals and snapshots in RecoverPoint.
• Working experience with array based splitters (VMAX and VNX) and SANTap splitters in RecoverPoint.
• Working experience with OneFS in administering NFS mounts and Confidential shares on Isilon
• Planned for Brocade Switch FOS upgrades and VMAX code Upgrade .
• Coordinating with vendor for hardware failures
• Management of Brocade 5480 (8 GB SAN module for HP c-Class Blade System).
• Effectively managing the space on aggregates and volumes using dedup and snapshots.
• Cloned volumes using VolCopy, ndmpcopy and Snap Mirror.
• Troubling shooting performance issues related to Confidential and NFS in NAS environment.
• Working experience with Snap Drive management.

Environment: Vplex, VMAX, VNX,, CX480,, EMC RecoverPoint, Open Replicator, Brocade 5300,5480,4100,3900,4024, Brocade DS 300, Cisco MDS 9513, 9509, 9222i, Solutions Enabler 8.0, ECC 6.1, Storsimple 7520, Unix, ESX, Windows 2003/2008, Open VMS servers.

Confidential, Mooresville, GC

Storage Solutions Architect

Responsibilities:

• Provided application teams secure and patched systems within the proper OS and middleware software lifecycle standards
• Maintained and patched a robust and burgeoning VMware 3i environment of over 100+ hosts and 1600+ VMware guest operating systems hosted on enabling SAN technologies.
• Patching using BigFix Enterprise Management software for 3500 physical and virtual servers monthly. Maintain security and functionality of the Intel/AMD based server environment. Maintain server patching documentation methodology.
• Worked on different VMware products like VMware ESXI server, Lab Manager, VMware Workstation and VMware player.
• Troubleshooting Windows OS, VMware ESX 3.5/5.0 and application issues. Provide 1st and 2nd level support for critical IT business emergencies and issues.
• Migrated 300 TB’s of data successfully from DMX to VMAX using SRDF, Open Replicator using PPME and host based mirroring technologies for multiple servers.
• Set up and management of the EMC Symmetrix VMAX arrays.
• Set up and management of the EMC VNX Arrays and CLARiiON CX series arrays.
• Setting up new hosts for Storage Provisioning and assigning storages to the host, successfully allocated Storage using Symcli, Navisphere, Navicli, and Unisphere Manager for open systems storage environment from CX3, CX4, DMX-3, DMX-4, VMAX, and VNX to Windows, Solaris servers.
• Performing LUN expansions and LUN migrations in VMAX, DMX, CLARiiON & VNX, Implementing and Administrating THIN Provisioning in VNX & VMAX
• Managed EMC Virtual Provisioning on EMC VMAX array.
• Implementing and Maintaining FAST Cache and FAST VP in VNX, Configuring and managing Network for Block and File in VNX
• Implementing and Administrating SNAP View Snap Shots, Snap clone, Mirror View in VNX & CLARiiON
• Monitoring and managing alerts in VNX using Unisphere manager. Performing software installations using Unisphere Service manager.
• Implementing File Level retention tools and De-duplication and compression in VNX
• Responsibilities also include registering hosts, creating RAID groups, binding LUNs, creating Storage groups and providing accessible storage using Navisphere manager/Navicli to the respective hosts.
• Day to day jobs include storage allocation, Zoning, mapping, masking, troubleshooting, monitoring and Reporting the SAN environment.
• Provided the copies of production data for testing and decision making (patch testing and new upgrades) by configuring BCV and clone using Time Finder Business Continuity.

Environment: VMAX, VNX, Recover point, CX 480, Cisco MDS 09 / 9120, SMC, Storage Manager, SYMCLI Solutions Enabler, Navisphere Manager, Unix Servers, ESX series, Windows 2000/2003/2008 , ESX 5.0.

Confidential, Deerfield, IL

Storage Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Involved in migrating complete data from DMX to VMAX and also from CX to VMAX.
• Planned and implemented migrations using Open Replicator hot pull and Push.
• Installed and configured powerpath v5.3 Installed and configured VMware ESX 4.X on Hosts
• Used EMC Grabs and prepared migration scripts to migrate data using Open Migrator, Open Replicator, and SAN Copy.
• Installed and configured SMC and SYMCLI to manage VMAX.
• Created storage groups, initiator groups, port groups and associated them to masking view using symcli and SMC.
• Created runbook for the customer and received appreciation from customer
• Created pools, Meta devices and performed virtual provisioning using SMC and symcli.
• Responsibilities include trouble shooting operating system and san related issues.
• Migrate Physical Server to Virtual Server on Windows
• Manage virtual server resources such CPU, Memory and Hard disk on Hyper-V Failover cluster
• Monitoring and managing performance of ESX servers and Virtual Machines.
• Creation of templates from VMs and Creation of VMs from templates.
• Windows Server 2003 - Managed ADS, created group policies, and Maintained DHCP/ DNS services on the DCs and ADCs.
• Managed and maintained Active Directory infrastructure, and troubleshot server environment for smooth functioning of network.
• Performed day-to-day storage allocations from VMAX to various servers and monitored the performance of VMAX using performance analyzer.
• Analysed Emc grab of both (UNIX and windows hosts) using DCA tools like Heat report, Elab navigator and Emc support matrix.
• Provided all the documentation to the customer and helped them in performing day-to-day tasks.

Environment: DMX-3/4, Symmetrix VMAX, CLARiiON CX3-80, CX4-480, Brocade 12k and 24 k director class, Windows 2k3/2k8 with Microsoft Clusters, VMware, Sun Solaris 10,Powerpath v5.5, PPME, Open Replicator, SYMCLI v7.x, SMC v7.1, SPA v2.0, ECC 6.x, Brocade, windows 2003/2008.

Confidential, Stamford, Connecticut

Storage Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Configured and implemented Data Center Migration for terabytes of data with no loss of data with little host intervention using host based Open Migrator/LVM and array based Open Replicator, SRDF, Mirror View and SAN Copy.
• Migrated data from DMX2000/DMX3000 to DMX3/4 using Open Replicator with little interfering of host applications.
• Implementing SAN solutions & providing support in a multidomain storage environment. .
• Monitoring and analysing I/O performance of the Servers from the SAN side
• Allocating/ de-allocating space to Unix/Windows servers
• Well Versed with DMX-4/3 storage allocation and architecture.
• Involved in the migration of CLARiiON CX-500/700 to CX-3-80 using Mirror View and SAN Copy.
• Involved in installation of symmetrix management console 6.1 (SMC) and Configuration and management of symmetrix arrays using SMC including discovering symmetrix arrays.
• Created checkpoints for file systems and restoring files from the checkpoints.
• Installed and configured Cisco MDS 9513 and was involved in the fabric migration from Brocade 48k switches to CISCO 9513.
• As part of the Fabric Migration, collected all the Switch reports to verify the Zones, Domain IDs, IP address etc.
• Installed/upgraded symcli software on control servers to support the storage operations and had a very good knowledge and hands on experience with SYMCLI software.
• Used Replication Manager for managing consistent data replicas and for setting up schedules and policies.
• Allocated Storage using ECC, Symcli, Navisphere and Navicli for open systems storage environment from CLARiiON, Symmetrix DMX3000 / DMX-3/4, CX-3, CX500/700.

Environment: DMX-4, DMX3, DMX2,CX700/500, CX 480,CX3-80, Cisco MDS 09 / 9120, Brocade 48K, 4100, SYMCLI Solutions Enabler, ECC 6.1, SMC 6.1.2, Navisphere Manager, Celerra manger/Cli, Cisco CLI and Cisco Fabric Manager, Unix Servers, VMware, Windows 2000/2003

Confidential, Marietta, GA

System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Maintained daily system backups and data recovery of critical systems
• Installed, configured and maintained Solaris 8 and Windows NT 4.0 operating systems, system software and hardware, backup and recovery. Additional responsibilities included system performance management and assisted in capacity planning.
• Scheduled, planned and performed system upgrades, including coordinating the transition from test to production environments.
• Supported in the networking with along with DNS configuration, FTP and Telnet.
• Managed all new install projects for servers, switches, and other network resources.
• Installation and up gradation of operating systems and software packages.
• Resolved hardware and software issues by troubleshooting with the expert team.
• Managed disk space along with addition and removal of peripherals.
• Analyzed system logs and identified potential issues with computer systems.
• Maintained servers up to date by applying operating system patches and service packs and also protected from virus by upgrading antivirus frequently.

Environment: Sun Solaris, Windows NT 4.0, Windows 98, VERITAS Volume Manager 2.5.