OBJECTIVE:

Looking for challenging career in the field of SAN Administrator to utilize my skills to make a lasting Contribution to a progressive, growth - oriented organization as a part of professional team

SUMMARY:

• Experience of 5+ years in Storage Administration and Support.
• EMC SAN Management with proficiency in Administrating, Monitoring, Troubleshooting and Supporting complex Storage Area Networks using SAN Management tools.
• Proficiency in EMC-Symmetrix DMX, V-MAX, CLARiiON, VNX, VPLEX Storage Arrays
• Experience in Multi-Tier Enterprise EMC Storage System Installation, Migration, Virtualization, Management, Performance Analysis.
• Experience in Disaster Recovery Administration using EMC Local Protection ( Snapshot), Remote Replication Techniques (SRDF, Mirror View )
• Experience in Host Attachment and Integration to the storage arrays CLARiiON, Symmetrix DMX, V-Max, VNX, Vplex.
• Configuring and managing of Multipathing Software like EMC power path on Windows server for Path Failover, Load Balancing.
• Proficiency in HITACHI DATA SYSTEMS (HDS) USP-V, AMS2500
• Managing Brocade Fabrics
• Configuring, Masking and Zoning using Webtool and DCFM, Connectrix Manager (CMCNE) and CLI.
• Good Knowledge in CLARiiON CX series, Symmetrix, Hitachi Storage USP-V & AMS 2000 family
• Self-starter and ability to learn new domain in minimal time frame.
• Excellent communications and interpersonal skills combined with high commitment to achieve corporate goals and ability to work collaboratively in a team.

TECHNOLOGY SKILLS:

Symmetrix Arrays: DMX-4, V-MAX.

CLARiiON Arrays: CX3-80, CX4-120, CX4-240

VNX Arrays: VNX 5100(BLOCK), VNX 7500 (Block).

VPLEX: VS2.

HDS: USP-V, AMS2500.

Storage Management Software: Navisphere, Unisphere Manager, SYMCLI, Brocade Web tool & CLI, DCFM, CMCNE, EMC Replication Symmetrix SRDF/S & A, Mirror View.

Protocols: FC, FCIP, iSCSI.

Virtualization: Vplex, USP-V

COMPUTER SKILLS:

Operating Systems: Windows 2003, 2008, AIX, HP- UNIX, Linux.

Storage Management Skills:

Symmetrix: SYMCLI, Unisphere for VMAX

VNX, CLARiiON: UNISPHERE

VPLEX: Vplex Management Console V5.0.1, Vplex Unisphere 5.1

HDS USP-V AMS2500: Hitachi Command Suit.

WORKING EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Storage Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for Administration of Multi-Vendor Tiered Storage Environment, perform daily Administrative task like Storage Provisioning and Troubleshooting SAN related issues.
• Performing functions of a Storage Administrator including Zoning, LUN Masking and LUN Provisioning for EMC Symmetrix DMX, V-max, EMC ( VNX & Vplex ), Hitachi (USP-V & AMS 2500) arrays and Netapp FAS6080 filers
• Administration of EMC Symmetrix DMX, V-MAX, CLARiiON CX series, VNX, Vplex, USP-V, AMS2500 and Netapp FAS6080 filers.
• Assigning LUNS from storage array to Windows, Unix, Linux Servers
• Establishing SAN Security using Zoning & Masking.
• Manage zoning activities on, brocade switches using EMC Connectrix Manager, web tools including zone create / delete / modify,
• Upgrading Switch Firmware
• Troubleshooting the SAN connectivity on different Operating Systems like Windows, Linux, Sun Solaris and VMware
• Strong in depth knowledge and analysis for troubleshooting back end and front end problems
• Always proactive in doing preventive measures for storage
• Writing and executing test plans and test cases in highly structured and loosely structured development environments and performing all types of testing
• Worked on windows for Multipathing software
• Configure HBA, Installing HBA drivers and other HBA Management software
• Verifying the System is up and stable by running CAP2 on the environment.
• Perform Incident resolution, Problem Determination and Root Cause Analysis in accordance with Service Level Agreements
• Familiar with for Incident Management, Change Management, Problem Management
• Analyzing performance statistics at the disk frame and host level to verify disk I/O health and identify any bottlenecks
• Coordinate and/or apply microcode & firmware upgrades as required
• Analyze resource utilization from monthly reports on Lun utilization, storage array port utilization and storage space utilization
• Good at fast learning the technologies
• VMAX
• Performing storage allocation and de-allocation to various servers from VMAX
• Adding data device to existing Thin Pools
• Creating and deleting of Storage group, Initiator Group, Port Group, Masking view.
• Monitoring Thin pool utilization and subscription Limit.
• Allocating thin device to various servers Windows, Linux, AIX
• Allocating storage using auto provisioning in Vmax by both SYMCLI and Unisphere for VMAX
• Mapping and masking thin Devices from thin pools.
• Creating & Dissolving FBA Meta device in Symmetrix V-MAX
• Managing FAST in Unisphere for VMAX and SYMCLI
• Implementing FASP VP to storage group using Unisphere for VMAX
• Knowledge on both SYMCLI and Unisphere for VMAX
• Performing day to day operation like LUN creation, LUN deletion, LUN expansion
• Creating Meta device in Unisphere for VMAX and Symcli
• Creating SRDF pairs and performing SRDF operation.
• Performance analysis and Trouble shooting in VMAX by Unisphere for VMAX
• Trouble shooting VMAX issues and coordinating with Vendor for Hardware issues
• EMC Vplex Unisphere V5.2, Performing day to day storage provisioning in Vplex through Vplex Unisphere and Vplex CLI
• Strong Knowledge in Consistency group, Mobility Jobs, Rule set for Distributed volumes
• Claiming Storage Volumes, Creating Extents & Devices in Vplex Clusters, Creating Virtual Volumes in Vplex Clusters
• Registering Storage Initiators & creating Storage Views
• Creating Distributed Volume, expanding Distributed volumes, detaching mirrors
• Creating Local & remote mirrors in Vplex Clusters
• Monitoring, system reporting, Trouble shooting
• Creating, Deleting volumes using Hitachi device managerLun Management using Storage Navigator
• Adding new Host and removing Host of both Fiber channel and ISCSI using Device manager
• Expanding size of DPpool by online without any disturbance to Production
• Performing Pair splitting, Deleting and resync True copy sessions using Hitachi replication Manager and Storage navigator
• Performing Disaster recovery using HDS True copy sessions and maintain Business continuity.
• Having strong knowledge of performing Shadow Image for array based replication.
• Create a Shadowimage pair split a Shadowimage pair putting the two volumes into suspended state
• Resynchronize a suspended pair and bring volumes back into Pair status and confirm the Pair status of a Shadowimage pair through command History.
• Creating and deleting of Copy Groups using Hitachi Device Manager.
• Using Shadowimage, mirroring production data and use for QA test analysis from storage prospective.
• Working with Hitachi Command suite and Upgrading according to Hitachi recommendations.
• Performing failover and failback of production Volumes by Shadow Image replication
• Analysis performance of various Host environments (Windows, UNIX)
• Migrating data from DPpool to DPpool according to tiering Policies
• Co-coordinating with HDS Customer engineer for Hardware replacement
• Performing Capacity management for HDS Systems
• Analyzing the user activity using Syslog’s and Audit logs.
• Understanding of IOPS and Performance Tuning for HDS Storage Systems
• Find the Root cause for Major impact and creating Problem tickets.
• EMC Power Path concepts, SAN configurations, including basic understanding of the software tools used to manage Fibre Channel.
• Implementing Unisphere Security, Configuring and managing storage system Network, SP Memory and SP Cache
• Provisioning and managing RAID Groups, Storage Pools, Traditional, Thick and Thin LUNs
• Manage host access to storage with Access Logix, Common Host Integration Tasks and Concepts.
• Integration with Windows Host, Linux Host, UNIX Host into a VNX system
• Strong Knowledge on VNX Advanced Storage - LUN Migration, Fully Automated Storage Tiering (FAST), Data Compression, FAST Cache, Configure Event Monitor and Alerts, Unisphere Analyzer benefits and configuration
• VNX Block Snapshot Principles & Operations, VNX Block Clone Principles & Operations
• Upgrading VNX Operating Environment

Confidential

Storage Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Symmetrix Lun allocation for various operating systems Hp-Unix, AIX, Windows servers
• Create new devices in the Symmetrix integrated with Windows server using symcli commands (Solution Enabler).
• Mapped devices to the Front End adapter.
• Created FBA Meta device in symmetrix DMX,V-MAX
• Masked devices to the HBA in the Server
• Provisioning in V-MAX According to the requirements
• V-max Lun allocation to HP-Unix, AIX, Windows servers
• V-max Virtual Lun allocation to the servers
• SRDF allocation for hosts which is used business continuity.
• Creating & Destroying Meta Luns in Symmetrix DMX.
• Enabling & disabling ports on SAN Switches according to the requirement.
• Storage scope report generation on monthly basis.
• Creating Cases in EMC Power link for technical issues and driving them to closure.
• Verifying Power path on windows servers.
• Using Remedy tool for incident, problem, asset and change management
• Monitoring Storage Array hardware failures through EMC Control center and
• Create Service request with EMC Customer support to resolve the hardware failure in Symmetrix arrays.