Summary:

• Senior SAN Expert with over 20 years of expertise in Designing, Installing, Configuring and Administration of complex SAN Environments.
• Professional and dedicated worker, committed to delivering the highest quality performance and superior customer service to ensure team success.
• Experience and proficiency with Administration, Configuration, Troubleshooting of Storage Systems such as EMC CLARiion, DMX, VMAX, VNX, NetApp and IBM Storage DS4000/5000/8000 Series, IBM XIV, V7000, SVC.
• Extensive experience working on EMC Software such as SMC, SPA, NaviCLI, Navisphere Manager, Unishpere, Celerra Manager, EMC ControlCenter, PowerPath, ECC Performance Manager, Data ONTAP v8.x, v7.x and NetApp Oncommand Suite.
• Expert in implementing Auto-provisioning and storage tiering on XIV, V7000, SVC.
• Experience in using FAST VP on VNX with which we could tier within the system enable to resourcefully use SSD for heavy utilized LUNs, SAS and SATA disc for optimum utilized LUNs.
• Experience in Implementing Disaster Recovery solutions such as Metro Mirror, Global Mirror, TimeFinder, SnapView, Mirror View, SAN Copy, OpenReplicator, RecoverPoint and SRDF S/A.
• Expert in symcli, SMC, Unisphere, DSCLI, SVC CLI, SVC GUI.
• Experience in Performance Monitoring using IBM Tivoli Productivity Center
• Experience with Virtual Provisioning, and configuring RAID protection levels for thin pools.
• Generate Reports, Review Storage Performance Reports and update configuration repositories.
• Proficient in using EMC Connectrix Manager, Brocade Fabric Manager and Cisco Fabric Manager, IBM Network Advisor to manage, monitor and configure switches in SAN.
• Configuring, implementing and administering SAN fabric and multi-pathing technologies SDDDSM, SDDPSM, VERITAS DMP, MPxIO, and EMC PowerPath .
• Experience with Virtual provisioning, and configuring RAID protection levels for thin pools.
• OS: Windows Servers 2008 R2, 2003, 2000, NT Administration, AIX, Linux management and support.
• VMware ESX Server 3.X-5.X Support and Windows Hyper-V Administration.

Technical Skills:

• EMC - DMX-3, DMX-4, V-MAX 10k/20k/40k and Clariion CX-3, CX4, VNX
• Brocade - DCX/48K/6510/5300/5100
• Cisco MDS - 9513/9509/9506
• IBM DS4XXX,5XXX, 8XXX, SVC, V7000, XIV

SAN Management Tools:

SMC, SPA, Solution enabler, EMC NavisphereManager, NaviCLI, EMC PowerPath, EMC ControlCenter, Open Replicator, Prosphere, ECC Performance Manager, ECC, Unisphere, Cisco DCNM, Brocade Network Advisor, Fabric/Device Manager, Open Migrator, SnapMirror, SnapVault, Robocopy, NetApp OnCommand Suite, SVC GUI, Storage Manager, DSCLI, HMC, IBM TPC

.Backup and Replication:

SRDF/S, SRDF/A, EMC TimeFinder-Clone, Snap, BVC, EMC MirrorView, EMC SnapView, EMC SANCopy, EMC Open Replicator, Solution Enabler SYMCLI, VERITAS Volume Management, Tape Library, EMC RecoveryPoint Appliance, CIFS/NFS Migration, Isilon backup Acclerator.

Multipathing:

SDD, SDDDSM, SDDPCM, Powerpath, MPIO and VERITAS DMP.

Operating Systems:

AIX, SUN SOLARIS, MS DOS, MS Windows 2000/XP/Vista/Win 7, UNIX, Linux, OS/2, Apple OSx

Employment History:

Confidential

• Lead migration and implementation of IBM Storage front ended by an SVC
• Defined policies for thin provisioning, user security and monitoring for IBM SVC and XIV
• Installed and trained team on IBM Tivoli Productivity Center for performance/capacity/data monitoring. Used all flavors of TPC for data, disk and fabric.
• Involved in Administration, Troubleshoot, Maintenance of Storwize V7000, XIV, Symmetrix VMAX, VNX, DMX, CLARiions, Celerra, NetApp FAS filers running Data ONTAP 8.
• Worked on Configuration and Allocation of Storage from SVC, V7000, and XIV using cli/GUI storage manager and VNX/DMX / VMAX CLARiion StorageArrays using SYMCLI/ECC/SMC.
• Performed storage migrations from Symmetric DMX-4, CLARiion CX4-480 to Symmetrix V-MAX using PPME Host Based , SRDF/S/A, OpenReplicator and SANCopy.
• Created Pairing between PROD and DR Data centers using SVC Metro Mirror/Global Mirror using TPC-R
• Established RDF pairing between DMX4 and VMAX for data migrations using SRDF/S/A, Implemented Business Continuity solutions for production data using TimeFinder Clone, Time Finder/Snap on V-Max and DMX arrays.
• Performed storage provisioning for VPLEX/VMAX and VNX arrays using Symcli, SMC and Unisphere.
• Configuring virtual pools and FAST/VP per EMC best practices using Unisphere Manager.
• Configuring CIFS servers and Migration of shares using Robocopy on VNX.
• Implemented FAST VP and Storage tiering for Applications like Oracle Database and SQL Server in VMAX.
• Configured FAST VP and Virtual Pools TDAT's and TDEVS and created Auto provisioning groups for mapping and masking using SYMCLI 7.x/ SMC 7.X for creating initiator groups, port groups, storage groups and Masking Views in VMAX Environment.
• Implemented SRDF/A, SRDF/S for production systems including creation of dynamic RA groups, creation of dynamic RDF pairs, enabling SRDF/A for the group of devices.
• Implemented Business Continuity solutions for Oracle Databases using Recover Point CRR.
• Non-disruptive Migration of VMware environments to VPLEX using data mobility.
• Extensively worked on SAN related host connectivity for various Operating Systems including SUN Solaris, HP, AIX, Linux, and Windows.
• Administration of Cisco MDS Director 9513 SAN switches, utilizing CLI, Cisco's Fabric Manager and Device Manager.
• Responsible for creating Zones, Zoning and firmware upgrades with Switches like Brocade, McData and Cisco.
• Troubleshooting various SAN not seen by host issues related to zoning, path failures, disk failures etc.
• Maintain, break fix, and monitor DWDM links between prod and DR site Metro Mirroring .

Confidential

• Reclaimed Terabytes of storage as a part of decommissioning project.
• Extensively worked on Time finder mirrors/clones for providing the Gold copies at DR site.
• Involved in Day to Day Administration of Symmetrix V-MAX, DMX, CLARiion and VNX Arrays.
• Performed Data Migration/consolidation of Arrays using sancopy, OpenReplicator, PPME/Open migrator.
• Worked with EMC CLARiion CX4-480 Series, for provisioning to Linux, Solaris and ESX Servers.
• Used Recoverpoint Implementation in CDP/CRR Environment and created consistency groups for Oracle/SQL databases.
• Used Unisphere and NavisecCLI in Implementing and Administration of VNX Arrays.
• Monitor Storage Area Network fabric/storage/hosts , EMC and IBM Storage Products.
• Manage SAN fabrics across multiple sites with heterogeneous Brocade and Cisco MDS fabric switches connecting several hosts on each fabric.
• Analyzed, modeled and optimized business processes and data flows.
• Worked with Symmetrix, Time finder, EMC SRDF/S, SNAPS, Time Finder, Clones, EMC Control Center, SMC and Clarion.
• Implemented Business Continuity solutions for ORACLE databases using Recover Point CRR.
• Non-disruptive Migration of VMware environments to VPLEX using data mobility.
• Actively involved in planning and design sessions migrating Unix/Linux/Windows Servers from DMX to VMAX platform using appropriate methodologies using Open Replicator/SRDF/Open Migrator.
• Worked on Netapp 2000 and 3000 Series and 6100 FAS filers.
• Created aggregates, volumes, qtrees, qoutas, NFS, CIFS and also on ISCSI lunsand FC luns.
• Implemented ARX Managed volumes on Netapp filers for Disk staging and provisioned CIFS and NFS from ARX for implementing Siebel applications.
• Vfiler administration for various vlan purposes.
• Provisioning storage on Netapp filers with best practices suggested by netapp and Autodesk Storage architects.
• Configured disaster recovery using SnapMirror and also Peformed DR tests.
• Implementation of new external storage and virtualization products IBM SVC .
• Microsoft Windows Servers 2008R2, 2003, 2000, NT Administration, Support, and Security management.
• Working closely with DBA, Development and QA teams in meeting their project deadlines.

Confidential

• Provisioning and maintaining IBM DS 3000, 4000, 5000.
• Implementing and Managing Connectivity between hosts, switches and storage
• Configuring zoning in the SAN environment on Cisco, Brocade and McDataHardware.
• Analyzed, modeled and optimized business processes and data flows.
• Perform necessary storage infrastructure maintenance and necessary data migration, as required.
• Facilitated change management system, partnered with DBA, DEV and Management teams to identify impacts of their functions and to assess organizational change readiness
• Implementation of new external storage and virtualization products IBM SVC .
• Worked closely with DBA, Development and QA teams in meeting their project deadlines.
• Involved in managing Microsoft Windows Servers 2008 R2, 2003, 2000, NT Administration, Support, and Security management.

Confidential

• Provided Desktop and Helpdesk support for over 450 users in a Novell 4x, and NT network environments.
• Configured user profiles on NT based PC's.
• Performed installations of hardware and software.
• Managed and distributed CATV cabling request using category 568b standards.
• Maintained and installed hubs, routers and switches.
• Deployed and setup of new hardware and software for Y2K compliance.
• Hardware: Compaq Desk Pros PCs, Teller As, Teller Bs, Checkmate scanners, and Teller check printers.
• Software: configuration of Win95, Office 97, Banstar, and 3270 displays in a Novell 4x server and network printers environment.

Confidential

• Provided on-site technical support for clients.
• Installed and maintained equipment in datacenter. Updated all documentation with any relevant changes to systems and network infrastructure for clients.

Confidential

• Troubleshoot issues for desktop and enterprise applications, local/networking printing, e-mail, connectivity, remote access, and hardware issues.
• Provide telephone and in-person support to users