SUMMARY:

• Overall 12 years of experience in Information Technology including SAN design,planning, administration, Sr.System administration backup and archiving,
• Held positions including SAN administrator, Backup Administrator.
• Worked as storage and Backup Architect.
• Expertise in multi vendor operating systems which includes Solaris, Linux, HP - UX, and Windows, VMware ESX and Cisco UCS servers
• Extensive experience on Multi tier Enterprise Storage systems design, installation, migration, virtualization, management, monitoring, Performance analysis & Reporting, Disaster Recovery solutions and Fabric installation and migration.
• Strong experience with Business Continuity Solutions using SnapView Clone/Snapshot,SANcopy at CLARiiON level and
• Experiencing in configuring cloning and SRDF for VMAX 40K and DMX for QA refresh activities and disaster recovery.
• Worked on Archiving of data using Arkivio for the effective usage of storage
• Worked on Thin pools and thin provisioning and also on FAST on VMAX.
• Storage provisioning on EMC CLARiiON and Symmetrix.
• Worked on EMC VNX 5500 and VNX 5300.
• Worked on VCE VBLOCK
• Worked on VMAX40K and VMAX20K using SYMCLI and EMC Unishphere.
• Worked on Data domains DD 860, DD 670 and DD 660.
• Worked on Hitachi Data system (HDS) storage arrays.
• Managing mutli-site, automated, business continuity solutions using EMC SRDF/Timefinder
• Installation, configuration and maintenance of Storage Area Networks in a heterogeneous environment using VMAX20K, VMAX40K, VNX 5300, VNX 5500, VBLOCK,EMC CLARiiON CX3 FC4700, CX300, CX400, CX500, CX600, CX700 and Symmetrix 800,DMX 1000,DMX 2000.
• Experience in various NetApp Storage Appliances, which includes V3160, FS825, FS840, FS940, and FS960, FAS3020.
• Created volumes and qtrees on net appliances and assigned disk quotas.
• Worked on Cloud Solutions Using Amazon AWS and Microsoft Azure.
• Worked on migrating the storage from Netapp to Microsoft Azure with Storsimple as the Cloud gateway.
• Worked on the taking the backups to the cloud with Amazon AWS and Riverbed Whitewater as the cloud gateway.
• Worked on the Amazon VTL POC using netbackup
• Worked on Panzura Backup usecase POC using netbackup
• Worked on Amazon cloud gateway POC for the backup use case using netbackup
• Created virtual servers on Onstor NAS gateways and created volumes and qtrees and assigned disk quotas.
• Migrated the data from one virtual server to another on the virtual servers for a NAS gateway.
• Involved in the SAN switch Migration from 5K to 48K. and 12 K to 48K
• Worked on LSI Engenio and Onstor storage arrays.
• Moved the volumes from one virtual server to another virtual server.
• Involved in creating the virtual servers on the Onstor NAS gateways.
• Strong experience in Administering VMAX, VNX, VBLOCK, Clarion, Symmetrix and Celerra using EMC Unisphere and Control Center.
• Configure and troubleshoot fabric switches Brocade and McData switches.
• Storage and Host integration for ESX, Windows, Linux, Solaris, HP-UX, AIXservers
• Generated Reports using Unisphere, ECC, and EMC Navishphere.
• Involved in running the fiber cables from the tape libraries and hosts to the Brocade 48K switch via patch panels in the datacenter.
• Excellent experience with SYMCLI, Navisphere Manager, NAVICLI and Connextrix Manager.
• Configured and managed Multipathing software like EMC Powerpath.
• Good exposure to Network Storage Solutions like DAS, NAS and SAN.
• Worked with the Quantum for the installation of additional drives in Quantum scalar i2000.
• Experience in setting up and administrating VERITAS/Symantec Netbackup including NDMP.
• Worked on creating the new storage units and configuring the new drives for the nas gateways on the VERITAS netbackup on quantum scalar i2000 library.
• Experienced in configuring and managing EMC PowerPath solution for path failover, load balancing, path management and automatic I/O failure detections.
• Design and implementation of Disaster Recovery Technologies of SRDF and SANCopy.
• Planning, designing and implementing Disaster recovery strategies using products like Veritas Netbackup.
• Design, plan, Implement server/storage Consolidation /Migration
• Adept at mapping client’s requirements, solutions & troubleshooting.
• Good ability to work in team environment. Good interpersonal skills.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Excellent in troubleshooting & root cause analysis.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating Systems: HP - UX 9, 10, 11.x Solaris 8,9 & 10 Linux, VMware ESX, DOS, RHEL 3.0 & 4.0 Windows 2000/XP/NT/Vista SAN/NAS CX300, CX500, CX600, CX700, DMX3000, DMX1000, DMX800, VMAX, VBLOCK, VNX 5500, VNX 5300, DD 860, DD670 and DD 660.: Engenio, Onstor, Brocade 48K, 24K, 12K,5K, 3900 and 3800, Cisco MDS 9000, HDS, NetApp V3160, FS840 through FS960 and FAS3020 series.

Software: EMC Unisphere,Navisphere 6, VERITAS Net backup 5.0/6.0/6.5, Data center Fabric Manager (DCFM), Mirror View, Snap Clone, SANtricity, SnapView,SnapMirror,SnapShot, Emulex HBA AnywhereVMware, SymCLI, Open MigratorTime Finder, SRDF, ECC, DNS.

HardWare: Cisco UCS Servers/ Blades, Sun Fire V880, modelsSun Enterprise 6800, 6500, 5500, 4500, 3500SFV210, SunUltra450, IBM 335 X series and Compaq servers, HPUX 9000 LClass, NClass ServersCisco catalyst 6000/4200 series switches with GB modules and Fiber modules.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Milpitas, CA

Storage & Backup Architect

Responsibilities:

• Worked on the storage design and planning for the VNX 5500 and VNX 5300.
• Implemented VNX 5500 at 3 different locations Singapore, Israel and Belgium.
• Implemented VNX 5300 at Germany from the scratch.
• Worked on designing and architectural daiagrams for all the implementations.
• Worked on building a strategy and design and planning the migration projects.
• Created CIFS servers and CIFS shares for different filesystems on VNX 5500 and VNX 5300.
• Implemented VMAX40K and VCE VBLOCK and responsible for administering and maintaining VMAX and VBLOCK.
• Implemented VNX replication from one location to other location using VNX replicator as a part of Disaster recovery.
• Created different clones for SAP and Oracle Database QA Refresh activities and backups.
• Implemented flash backup for critical databases for improved performance
• Implemented thin pools and FAST on VMAX40K
• Worked on storage provisioning using EMC Unishphere on VNX 5500 to solaris, UNIX and Linux machines.
• Worked on storage provisioning on VNX 5500 and VNX 5300 for VMware ESX clusters and Cisco UCS clusters.
• Worked on creation of thin pools and allocation of thin LUNS on VNX 5500 and VNX 5300 using EMC Unishphere.
• Worked on Cloud Solutions Using Amazon AWS and Microsoft Azure.
• Worked on migrating the storage from Netapp to Microsoft Azure with Storsimple as the Cloud gateway.
• Worked on the taking the backups to the cloud with Amazon AWS and Riverbed Whitewater as the cloud gateway.
• Worked on the Amazon VTL POC .
• Worked on Archiving of data that are not accessed for more than a year using ARKIVIO.
• Worked on FAST (Fully Automated storage tiering) on VNX 5500 and VNX 5300.
• Worked on VERITAS netbackup 7.1 on solaris and windows servers.
• Worked on initial configuration and implementation of Data Domain.
• Worked on DD 860, DD670 and DD 660’s.
• Worked on upgrades of the datadomain operating systems to the latest version.
• Implemented the OST/DDboost for the datadomains.
• Implemented Storage Life cycle policies (SLP’s) on netbackup by using Datadomain for backing up first copy onto the Datadomain and second copy onto the physical tapes.
• Configured the VTL’s on the datadomain.
• Worked on the POC of Gridiron systems (gridiron Turbo charger 1100) which is basically for the boosting of SAN to improve the performance of the applications and databases.
• Worked on the HDS storage arrays for allocation of the storage.
• Worked on Netapps storage provisioning.
• Created volumes and quotas and allocated space for different filesystems.
• Worked on the upgrade of the netapps ONTAP.
• Worked on storage provisioning on EMC Vmax storage array.
• Responsible for administration of storage devices such as EMC CLARiiON CX500 &700,
• Used Navisphere Manager to create Raid Groups, Storage Groups, Meta LUNs and LUNs.
• Experience with NFS and CIFS shares.
• Migrated the data from one server to another servers using RSYNC on the NAS gateways.
• Involved in migrating the hosts and servers from old brocade 5k and 12k to new Brocade 48K.
• Managed Brocade Fabric switches using webtools and CLI.
• Configured Zones on Brocade switches by creating the aliases according to the standards.
• Responsible to handle remedy request tickets.
• Storage provisioning (LUN creation, Masking, Mapping) on Clariion arrays.
• Involved in doing the SAN connections from different hosts and Patch panels to the Brocade 48K switch.
• Provided Support and administer assistance within the SAN environments.
• Performed the basic trouble shooting techniques and problem resolution to identify the HBA or driver software.
• Configured soft/hard zoning in brocade core/edge switches.
• Involved in monthly backup validations each month to make sure no backups are missed and perform monthly test restores.
• Backups, restores, disaster recovery ( VERITAS Netbackup, )
• Developed backup and recovery procedures including off-site backups, administration and installation of VERITAS Netbackup servers, and tuning and maintenance of tape devices and libraries

Confidential, Milpitas, CA

Storage & Backup Architect

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for administration of storage devices such as EMC CLARiiON CX500 &700,
• Worked on Engenio and Onstor storage arrays.
• Involved in running the fiber cables from the tape libraries and hosts to the Brocade 48K switch via patch panels in the datacenter.
• Involved in labeling the FC cables with the LSI standards and documenting them so that it will be easy for trouble shooting in the datacenter.
• Used Navisphere Manager to create Raid Groups, Storage Groups, Meta LUNs and LUNs.
• Worked on SANtricity to manage Engenio and Onstor Storage arrays.
• Configured Mirror View and Snapview Snapshots in Clariion Environment.
• Configured SAN copy for Migration of Luns.
• Worked on upgrading the EverON operating System from 3.3.3.8 to 3.3.3.15 on Onstor NAS servers.
• Worked on upgrading NAS servers from 4.0.2.10 to 4.0.2.13 and then to 4.0.2.15
• Created virtual servers on Onstor NAS gateways and created volumes and qtrees and assigned disk quotas.
• Migrated the data from one virtual server to another on the virtual servers for a NAS gateway.
• Involved in the SAN switch Migration from 5K to 48K.
• Involved in the SAN switch migration from 12K to 48K.
• Worked on the decommissioning of sun Storage Tek Libraries and moved all the backup policies/data to quantum scalar i2K libraries.
• Involved in the above decommission starting from the estimate phase till the implementation phase alone.
• Worked on LSI Engenio and Onstor storage arrays.
• Involved in the initial setup and configuration new engenios storage array.
• Involved in the initial setup and configuration of the new NAS onstor gateways
• Moved the volumes from one virtual server to another virtual server.
• Involved in creating the virtual servers on the Onstor NAS gateways.
• Involved in the decommissioning of storageTek libraries.
• Experience with NFS and CIFS shares.
• Migrated the data from one server to another servers using RSYNC on the NAS gateways.
• Involved in migrating the hosts and servers from old brocade 5k and 12k to new Brocade 48K.
• Managed Brocade and Cisco Fabric switches using Data Center Fabric Manager and CLI.
• Implemented Core-Edge design using Brocade 48000 fabric switches.
• Generated Reports using EMC Navishphere, SANtricity and shell scripts.
• Configured Zones on Brocade switches by creating the aliases according to the standards.
• Installed and configuration of Emulex and Qlogic HBAs.
• Responsible to handle remedy request tickets.
• Storage provisioning (LUN creation, Masking, Mapping) on Clariion arrays.
• Created virtual servers on Onstor NAS gateways and created volumes and qtress on that.
• Storage provisioning by creating volumes and volume groups on Engenio and Onstor storage arrays.
• Used Navisphere Manager and SANtricity for storage Provisioning.
• Involved in doing the SAN connections from different hosts and Patch panels to the Brocade 48K switch.
• Provided Support and administer assistance within the SAN environments.
• Disk allocation using NAVICLI and EMC Navishphere.
• Performed the basic trouble shooting techniques and problem resolution to identify the HBA or driver software.
• Storage provisioning using SANtricity and NAVICLI.
• Involved in SAN migration project to migrate the data across the storage arrays.
• Raid group and Storage group configurations by implementing different RAID levels on EMC Clarrions storage subsystems
• Configured soft/hard zoning in brocade core/edge switches.
• Involved in monthly backup validations each month to make sure no backups are missed and perform monthly test restores.
• Configured Snapshot backups and restored for VM’s.
• Installation of VERITAS Maintenance Patches and Rollout Patches in Production Servers.
• Installed VERITAS Netbackup client/server backup software.
• Worked with the Quantum for the installation of additional drives in Quantum scalar i2000 .
• Configured the additional drives on Veritas netbackup and mapped them to different gateways.
• Created zones for additional drives with Quantum library and configured them on veritas netbackup
• Managed approximately 300TB data on SAN and NAS environments
• Backups, restores, disaster recovery ( VERITAS Netbackup, )
• Developed backup and recovery procedures including off-site backups, administration and installation of VERITAS Netbackup servers, and tuning and maintenance of tape devices and libraries

Platform: Solaris 10, 9, 8, RHEL 9, ECC Navishphere, SANtricity, Veritas Netbackup 6.5

Hardware: CX300, CX500,CX 700, Engenio,Onstor,NetApps, Brocade 5k,12k &48K, Switches,Quantum i2k, Storage Tek,NAS,CIFS.

Confidential,CA

Sr Storage & Backup Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Responsible to handle remedy request tickets.
• Responsible for administration of storage devices such as CLARiiON CX500 &700, DMX 1000 and McData, Brocade switches.
• Used Navisphere Manager to create Raid Groups, Storage Groups, Meta LUNs and LUNs.
• Configured Mirror View and Snapview Snapshots in Clariion Environment.
• Configured SAN copy for Migration of Luns.
• Managed Brocade and Cisco Fabric switches.
• McData, Brocade and Cisco switch management using Connectrix manager and Fabric Manager.
• Worked on Hitachi Storage arrays (HDS).
• Implemented Core-Edge design using Brocade 4800 and 4100 fabric switches.
• Generated Reports using ECC, EMC Navishphere and shell scripts.
• Configured Zones on Brocade, MCData and Cisco switches.
• Installed and configuration of Emulex and Qlogic HBAs.
• Configured Persistent Binding on Solaris Hosts by modifying sd.conf and lpfc.conf.
• Installed and Configured PowerPath on UNIX, Solaris and Windows servers.
• Storage provisioning (LUN creation, Masking, Mapping) on Clariion/DMX arrays.
• Used Symcli, Navisphere Manager and ECC for storage Provisioning.
• Configured the Fibre Channel components/features into a production SAN.
• Provided Support and administer assistance within the SAN environments.
• Managing SAN using EMC Control center(ECC 5.2) .
• Configuration and Administration of Timefinder BCV/snap.
• Configuration and Administration of SRDF/A.
• Disk allocation using SYMCLI and ECC.
• Performed the basic trouble shooting techniques and problem resolution to identify the HBA or driver software.
• Configured LAN free backup using EMC clarions and VMware and VCB.
• Installed Leadville Patches and SAN foundation kit.
• Storage provisioning using solutions Enabler (SYMCLI) and NAVICLI.
• Involved in SAN migration project to migrate the data across the storage arrays EMC DMX2 to DMX3.
• Raid group and Storage group configurations by implementing different RAID levels on EMC Clarrions and Symmetrix storage subsystems
• Configured soft/hard zoning in brocade core/edge switches.
• Configured Snapshot backups and restored for VM’s.
• Configured LUNS to boot from SAN for SUN and windows servers.
• Installed VERITAS Netbackup client/server backup software
• Managed approximately 1 peta byte data on SAN and NAS environments
• Backups, restores, disaster recovery (Legato, VERITAS Netbackup, )
• Developed backup and recovery procedures including off-site backups, administration and installation of VERITAS Netbackup servers, and tuning and maintenance of tape devices and libraries

Platform: Solaris 10, 9, 8, RHEL 9, EMC Control Center, Veritas Netbackup,VM.

Hardware: CX300, CX500,CX 700, DMX-1000,DMX-4, Cisco Switches, Brocade switches

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Managed approximately 300TB data on SAN and NAS environments
• Configured zoning on primary and secondary fabrics
• Monitoring the backup jobs on HP Dataprotector Manager
• Installed clients on DP Manager and scheduled backups
• Responsible to prepare backup failure report
• Swapping the LTO-3 tapes on EML & ESL tape libraries.
• Experience in various NetApp Storage Appliances, which includes FS825, FS840, FS940, and FS960.
• Created volumes and qtrees on net appliances and assigned disk quotas.
• Generated Reports using ECC, EMC Navishphere.
• Responsible to handle remedy request tickets
• Created Qtrees and CIFS shares on NetApp Appliance using FilerView
• Upgraded DataOntap firm ware on NetApp Appliance
• Configured HBA’s on production servers using Emulex cards
• Managed HBA’s using HBA Anywhere
• Managed the resource across 50 hosts under VMware environment
• Responsible for Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) for various procedures

Sr Storage & Backup Administrator

Platform : HPUX-11.x, HP Command View TL, Navisphere 6.0,Fabric Manager, VMware ESX

Environment:, NetApps, NetApp FilerView.

Hardware: CX300,CX500, FAS3020, Brocade 24K, 2400E, McDataHP SW Ultrium 960, LTO-2,LTO-3

Confidential, Hartford CT

Responsibilities:

• Migrated 50 TB data from Old Symmetrix environment to new DMX environment
• Managed approximately 100TB data on SAN and NAS environments
• Migrated data using Various tools like Open Migrator, Open Replicator, SRDF and LVM migrations
• Mapping and masking of various symmetrix devices as per the business requirement
• Setup Automount for the NetApp NFS file shares and worked on CIFS
• Added new disk shelf’s to the newly upgraded FAS2050 NetApp head
• Deployed Time Finder Business Continuity Solutions by allocating BCV devices as per the business needs
• Implemented various Business Continuity RPO and RTO strategies as per the mission critical applications
• Monitoring data transfer rate between Production and DR sites using Cienna GUI tool
• Installed and configured primary and secondary domains on two different Brocade 48k fabric environment.
• Generated Reports using ECC, EMC Navishphere and shell scripts.
• Administration and management of Brocade fabrics using SAN fabric Manager
• Configured various HBA’s on Productons servers using QLogic, Emulex, JNI HBA cards.
• Managed HBA’s using san Surfer and HBA anywhere.
• Administration experience of VMware enterprise servers
• Managed the resource across 40 hosts under VMware environment
• Configured zoning on primary and secondary fabrics
• Performed various DR exercises using GBCV on RDF Symmetrix devices
• Analyze network & system response and determines tuning recommendations to improve performance
• Manage effective issue identification and resolution process; serve as the focal point for customer-servicing infrastructure-related issue / crisis resolution-Scheduled rotational on-call assignment-Provide project management oversight to customer-servicing infrastructure implementation projects.

Sr SAN Administrator

Platform: Solaris 8, 9, HPUX-10 &11.x, LVM, Symcli 5.x & 6.x, Open Migrator 3.xOpen Replicator 6.x, SRDF/S & SRDF/AFabricManager, VMware ESX environment.

Hardware: DMX3000, DMX1000, Symmetric 8830, 8530, FS840 & FAS2050, Brocade 48K, 24K12K, 3900, 3800, HP-UX, A/C/N class servers, IBM and Dell Blasé serversSun Enterprise servers

Confidential, MA

Responsibilities:

• Creating LUNS and allocating storage capacity to the DB servers in the event of emergency disk requirements
• Created Volumes and Qtrees on NetApp Appliances and assigned disk quotas
• Configured and Installed NDMP backups with Legato Networker and Spectra Logic libraries
• Setup Automount for the NetApp NFS file shares and worked on CIFS
• Upgraded NetApp filer heads from FAS 840 to FAS 960 to ONTAP 6.x
• Added new disk shelf’s to the newly upgraded FAS960 NetApp head.
• Experience in various NetApp Storage Appliances, which includes FS825, FS840, FS940, and FS960.
• Created volumes and qtrees on net appliances and assigned disk quotas.
• Implementing Disaster recovery process and writing Standard Operating Procedures
• Administration of Fiber channel switches and replacing HBA fiber cards
• Mapping and masking of various Symmetrix devices as per the business requirement
• Managed HBA’s using san Surfer and HBA anywhere
• Configured zoning on primary and secondary fabrics
• Managing VMware hosts & resources under VMware Beta environment

SAN Engineer/Storage Administrator

Platform: Solaris 8, 9, Redhat 7.x, 8 and 9, ADIC VTL Pathlight VX, EMC

Clarion, FS840 and FS960, VMware

Hardware: Symmetrix 8830, Symmetrix 8530, DMX 1000, Brocade 12K, Cisco, ADIC Pathlight VX

Confidential, Maryland

Responsibilities:

• Managed approximately 300TB data on SAN and NAS environments
• Configured zoning on primary and secondary fabrics
• Monitoring the backup jobs on HP Data protector Manager
• Installed clients on DP Manager and scheduled backups
• Responsible to prepare backup failure report
• Experience in various NetApp Storage Appliances, which includes FS825, FS840, FS940.
• Created volumes and qtrees on net appliances and assigned disk quotas.
• Generated Reports using ECC, EMC Navishphere.
• Responsible to handle remedy request tickets
• Created Qtrees and CIFS shares on NetApp Appliance using FilerView
• Upgraded DataOntap firm ware on NetApp Appliance
• Configured HBA’s on production servers using Emulex cards
• Managed HBA’s using HBA Anywhere
• Managed the resource across 50 hosts under VMware environment
• Responsible for Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) for various procedures