SUMMARY

• 6+ years of strong experience in Storage Administration.
• Expertise in NetApp SAN/NAS, EMC NAS/SAN storage configuration.
• Proficient inNetApp FAS-3000/6000 Series Filer Administration, NFS/CIFS configuration, exports, quota management, near store Administration, and Data migration support.
• Experience in Data Fabric Manager/Operation Manager for NetApp storage Allocation and Monitoring for issues.
• Extensive experience in Snap Mirror, Snap Vault for replication and backup support.
• Extended extensive support for DMX 1000, 2000, 3000, CX600, CX700 CX 3-80
• Installed and supported Navisphere management software (Navisphere/NaviCLI), Symmetrix Management Console/SYMCLI for storage allocation.
• Expertise inBinding/Unbinding, Naming and Resizing, Meta creation, Decommissioning LUN’sthroughNavisphere Manager/NaviCLI.
• Proficient in using SMC/SYMCLI for Meta creation, Mapping, Masking/Unmasking, Dissolving Meta, Decommissioning storage & backing VCM database.
• Extensive experience in SRDF, Time Finder, SAN Copy, Mirror View, for replication and migration support.
• Monitored storage arrays inEMC Control Center for performance and data protection.
• Knowledge of Centera Viewer, CLI Administration, Centera redundant array of independent nodes (RAIN) Administration.
• Proficient inCisco (Fabric Manager/CLI, Brocade Connectrix Manager/CLI) for creating zones andzone setsandFabric Configuration.
• Administered timely resolution of trouble calls where the core issues related to connected storage arrays – EMC NAS/SAN, NAS/SAN NetApp filers, Quota Management, fiber channel switches, HBA, FA/SA, Backend Disk Adapter and fiber channel tape (NDMP) devices.
• Extensive experience with problem resolution, root cause analysis, etc. of hardware and software platform problems in complex, layered, client/server based software
• Experience in implementing and supporting SUN Microsystems SUN Fire 120S servers, Redhat Linux.
• Possessexcellent communication, problem solving and personal skills.Other strengths arededicated teamwork,excellent work ethicand commitmentto realizing results and goals.
• Managed and extendedVeritas Cluster/ Veritas Netbackup Administration and Solaris zonesupport
• Excellent knowledge of Network configuration, implementation, Administration using Windows NT /2000/2003 server, workstation 4.0 and Design configuration.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

SAN: EMC- Clariion (Navisphere Manager 6, NaviCLI), Symmetrix/DMX (ECC, SYMCLI), EMC Control Center Administration/Monitoring, Centera (Viewer/CLI), and Storage provisioning/decommissioning, CX (Flare code upgrades, SP replacement, Disk Array Enclosure upgrades, Disk replacements, Navi Analyzer support, CX Break Fix issues), SRDF, Data Center Migration and Disaster Recovery support. SAN Copy, Mirror View Administration.

NAS: NetApp (3000 Series) filers, Near store , R150 , FAS (6000) series Filers Administration , ONTAP upgrades , Controller Upgrades, Disk Shelf upgrades, Disk firmware upgrades, qtree and quota Management, NFS, CIFS support, Snap Vault, Snap Mirror, Snap shots Administration.
Switches: Brocade Silk Worm (3016/3250/3850/3900/4100/4500 /4900 Switches, 12000/24000/48000 Director), Cisco (9020/9100/9124/9500 Fabric Switches), Fabric manager/Connectrix Manager for zoning support.
Database: Oracle 10g, 9i, 8.x & 7.x, SQL Server 2000

Networking: Data Communication and Networking, TCP/IP, DHCP, DNS, WINS, IIS, FTP, IE, Netscape, Client/Server, Lotus domain, SMTP, SNMP, NIS+/NIS, LDAP, HTTP, HTTP, SAN / NAS, Fibre channel, SCSI

EDUCATION:
Bachelors in Engineering - BE

CERTIFICATIONS:

• Cisco Certified Network Associate - CCNA
• Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer – MCSE
• Sun certified system administrator -SCSE

EXPERIENCE

Confidential, CA/NJ
Sr. SAN/NAS Administrator
06-30-2008 to Till Now

• Involved in data/host migration support for Celerra NS600, NetApp, Clariion, and DMX attached hosts.
• Provided support for data migration from Celerra NS600 to FAS 3020/3040.
• Successfully performed Active/Active Cluster configuration for NetApp FAS-3020 filers.
• Worked with Operations Manager/Filer View for FAS-3020/3040/6000 Administration/configuration, LUN creation, NFS/CIFS share creation, exports, Qtrees Exports, Quota allocation/management.
• Used Operations Manager for performance monitoring & troubleshooting.
• Support for FAS 3020/3040/6000 - Ontap upgrades and Disk firmware upgrades.
• Configured Snap Vault on NetApp filer for disk based backup & NDMP for Tape Backup.
• Configured Snap Mirror on NetApp filer for Data Replication to remote/local sites.
• Configured SAN Copy for Array based data/host migration from CX700, Symm 8000 to DMX-2, DMX-3.
• Involved in executing preparation work for host analysis for migration and working with support matrix.
• Preparation work involving & executing meta creation/dissolving, mapping/un-mapping, masking/unmasking scripts through SYMCLI/SMC for DMX-1000/2000/3000.
• LUN carving on different disk groups with different RAID configuration.
• Preparing LUN mapping guide, sun mapping and updating volume mapping etc. through SYMCLI/SMC.
• Coordinated with Remote Facility Storage engineers created device groups, composite group established SRDFpairing/splitting/suspend/restore/failover/failback, swapped SRDF devices & removed RDF flags
• Creating & executing scripts/commands for pairing/suspend/set pace.
• Installed and maintained EMC Clarion CX-500/600/700.
• Installed and supported Navisphere Management/NaviCLI software for Meta Creation, LUN binding/unbinding, Naming & resizing, RAID group creation, storage allocation/decommission.
• Upgraded CX700 Flare Code – 6.24.5.0.5.
• Upgraded NaviCLI and NaviAgent - 6.24.6.0.
• Upgraded EMC Control Center SP to 5.2.0.5.139 – GA HF.
• Installed Brocade 48000/24000 core Director Switches in the environment.
• Provided support for EMC 4900, Brocade 12000/24000/48000 Director Series Switches.
• Provided support for creating zones, zone sets and fabric configuration using Fabric Manager & Connectrix Manager.
• Provided daily support and maintenance for the systems hardware (involving FC HDD failures, FA Adapters. Backend Adapters & Switch SFP failure) & applications.
• Applying patches for system upgrades, installing new servers, integrate, administer and support Network Services.
• Supervised network monitoring standards, security, disaster/recovery, resource utilization and stability.
• Worked with HP Service Desk ticketing (v4.5) for work flow management & break fix issues, follow up and support.

Confidential PA
Sr. SAN administrator
01-15-2007 to 06-15-2008

• EMC Clariion, Symmetrix, DMX 1000, 2000, Centera, Netapps, NAS support
• Cisco 9509 installation and support
• Installed and maintained Clarion CX 700,500 and LUN masking and Zoning and Hosts Configurations support
• Solaris, Linux, Aix Unix, Windows servers Administration and support
• Fabric Manager, Connectrix Manager Administration For Zoning
• NAS Administration, NetApp filers installation, Ontap upgrades, snap mirror and quota, Qtrees Administration
• DMX 2000, ECC support, Storage provisioning and decomm support
• Experience With Connectrix Manager and data Fabric manager, Zoning, LUN allocation, Storage allocation to storage groups
• Experience in EMC SAN storage network configuration, clariion 700, 600,500 Connectrix (ED64M), Connectrix Manager, and Fabric Manager
• Supported Cisco MDS9509, Cisco Catalyst 5500/4000/2950/1900.
• Experience with Cisco fabric manager, zoning, storage allocation
• Support Ontap upgrades; export Qtrees, creation and exports through NFS.
• Installed and support Navisphere MGT software for storage allocation
• Experience in Binding LUN’S, Naming, resizing, Unbinding LUN’S Through Navisphere
• Experience in creating zones and zone sets and fabric configuration
• Experience With ECC (EMC Control Center, Power Path, Time Finder, SymCLI, symconfigure, SRDF, EMC Snap, Copy cross, Snap view, Power path, Mirror view, EMC Replication Manager, SAN Navigator, Connectrix Manager, support.
• Provided daily support and maintenance for the Storage Array, systems and applications.
• Applying patches for system upgrades, installing new servers, integrate, administer and support Network Services.

02/03/2003 –12/16/2006
Confidential
SAN/System administrator

• Installed and maintained Clarion CX 700,500 and LUN masking and Zoning and Hosts Configurations support
• Solaris, Linux, Aix Unix, Windows servers Administration and support
• Fabric Manager, Connectrix Manager Administration For Zoning
• NAS Administration, Net apps filers installation, on tap upgrades, snap mirror and quota, Qtrees Administration
• DMX 2000, ECC support, Storage provisioning and decomm support
• NET APPS filers FAS 960 and FAS 940 Installation and support
• Experience With Connectrix Manager and data Fabric manager, Zoning, LUN’S allocation, Storage allocation to storage groups
• Experience in EMC SAN storage network configuration, clariion 700, 600,500 Connectrix (ED64M), Connectrix Manager, and Fabric Manager
• Supported Cisco MDS9509, Cisco Catalyst 5500/4000/2950/1900.
• Experience with Cisco fabric manager, zoning, storage allocation
• Support Ontap upgrades; export Qtrees, creation and exports through NFS.
• Installed and support Navisphere MGT software for storage allocation
• Experience in Binding LUN’S, Naming, resizing, Unbinding LUN’S Through Navisphere
• Experience in creating zones and zone sets and fabric configuration
• Net Apps NAS Administration, Filer Administration, CIFS, NFS configuration
• NAS Netapps Filers quota Management, Near store Administration, NFS exports, Data migration Administration
• Installing and removing software packages and patches on Solaris.
• Installed Sun Solaris 2.7, cluster patches and third party packages over the network
• Navisphere Mgt for allocating LUN’S to servers.
• Monitoring File System integrity
• Installed and configured Secure ssh software to provide secure login, shell and data transfer with the support of ssh1, ssh2, telnet, and serial connections
• Supervise network monitoring standards, security, disaster/recovery, resource utilization and stability.
• Maintaining Database, taking backups from remote servers,
• Maintaining EMC and SUN servers
• Configured DNS, NFS, SAMBA, PRINT SERVERS, and all server applications in Unix SMTP, SNMP, NIS+/NIS, LDAP, HTTP, HTTPS, etc.
• Maintaining of Mail servers and proxy servers
• Configured and maintaining of RAID technologies,
• Taking back ups in DLTS and tape drives
• Configuring all applications hardware diagnostics for SUN SPAPARC systems.
• Installed and configured Modems, Network Printers & SCSI Tape drives.
• Also setup a Send mail email system. Other applications also implemented were Apache Administration in Multiple Domain enterprise Network
• Trouble shooting such as -DNS, FTP, SSH, HTML, and other protocols
• Provided daily support and maintenance for the systems and applications.
• Applying patches for system upgrades, Installing new servers, integrate, administer and support Network Services

05/02/2002 – 01/18/2003
Confidential India
Systems Administrator

• Implementation and administration of server, desktop, and network infrastructure implementation and administration of Sun Solaris 2.6-9,
• Managing user accounts and groups of heterogeneous Network using SMB
• Sharing file systems using NFS, WEBNFS
• Mounting and Unmouting remote file systems through AutoFS
• Backing up and restoring file systems
• Monitoring disk space and maintaining the disk quotas.
• Up gradation of Hardware and Software according to the necessity on workstations.
• Configuring and Administering APACHE Web sever on Solaris.
• Installation and maintenance of Lease Line equipments and Router configuration.
• Installed and configured routers like (Cisco) 2600,and switches like Cisco 1900 series.
• Installing and Maintaining Cisco/Intel RAS, Cache Servers and Router.
• Planning the cable lay out as per standards.
• Designing and implementation of Networks.
• Installation & Maintenance of Windows-NT network.
• Installation & Maintenance of Linux (Red-Hat) network.
• TCP/IP Pool management.
• Implementing DHCP, DNS
• Web hosting through IIS 4.0
• Administering LAN with heterogeneous network comprising of Windows 95, Windows NT, and Linux Systems connected with Switches and Hubs with Internet connectivity.
• Maintaining Mail Server (Send Mail), Bill Server and, Proxy Server (Squid), DNS Server and Cache Server (Linux based), Apache Web Server.
• Configured Mail server using Send mail
• Configuration of PPP server and dial-in dial- out client
• Configuring Samba server for interconnectivity between Windows and Unix
• Administering Print Server on both Solaris and NT
• Troubleshooting in HPUX, IRIX, SOLARIS, AIX UNIX, LINUX
• Solaris installation and troubleshooting on SUN hardware
• Cisco Catalyst 2900, 6500, 5500 configuration, port Grouping
• Administration and marinating of Emc2 server for data storage
• Setting up NFS/NIS/SAMBA, FILE And Print servers
• Installed, configured and setup networks.
• Maintaining of RAS servers in Linux
• Configure Cisco 3500,6500 switches and routers
• Web server Technologies both on win NT and Unix platform
• Configured in Windows NT Environment: DNS, Proxy, Exchange, TCP/IP, DHCP& Internet information server.
• Configured in Unix Network administration: Web Apache, Proxy, DNS, PPP and FTP & Telnet
• Web server Technologies both on Win NT and Unix platform
• Job responsibilities include Windows NT, UNIX networking and also
• Maintaining Database, taking backups from remote servers
• Configuring RAS servers
• Hard ware and software Troubleshooting and all types of software
• Integrating Servers and workstations and configuring software, Security Disaster/Recovery, Built servers and workstations
• Installed configured and setup networks
• Configured Routers