Professional Summary:

• Over 7 Years of IT Experience in SAN Storage Administration of EMC Netapp Storage Product Lines which includes Storage Architecture, Administration, Technical design, Implementations and Integration in Local Geo-DR Remote Environments.
• Hands on experience in administering CIFS and NFS in VNX and NAS/SAN environments.
• Experience in installing and configuring storage technology such as SAN, NAS, ISCSI, and RAID.
• Implementing, Managing and administration Netapp 8.1, C-mode storage arrays.
• Worked on various SAN Fabrics FC SAN, ISCSI SAN and NAS storage.
• Expertise in SAN, NAS and storage based on customer performance requirement.
• Expertise in storage provisioning and monitoring of Symmetrix, VNX using Unisphere, NaviSphere for VMAX respectively to various operating systems.
• Experience in design and implementation of remote replication techniques and disaster recovery solutions using SRDF/S/A/AR on VMAX arrays.
• Expertise with local data replication solutions with in the arrays and between the two arrays.
• Experience in SAN expansion in Brocade and Cisco fabrics and SAN migration between Brocade and Cisco.
• Experience in configuring Inter Switch Links ISL , soft, hard, mixed zoning in Brocade 4900, 5100, 5300, 48k and DCX-8510 switches using Brocade DCM, CLI, Web Tools.
• Hands on experience in administering CIFS and NFS in VNX and Celerra NAS/SAN environments.
• Knowledge on FAST-DP and FAST-VP in VMAX with Enginuity 5875, and FAST in CLARiiON arrays operating on FLARE 30 and also with FAST-Cache on VNX and CX-4 arrays.
• Experience in generating host remediation reports using EMC Host Environment Analysis Tool HEAT , E-lab navigator, Netapp Nsanity and grab analysis reports.
• Installed and configured PowerPath for AIX, Solaris, HP-UX, Linux and Windows Operating Systems to support the load balancing and failover features among the HBA's on the system.
• Experience in SAN related host connectivity for various Operating systems like Solaris, Linux, HP-UX, AIX, Windows and VMware.
• Proven experience in installing and configuring SYMCLI, Unisphere manager for VMAX, SMC, Unisphere Manager, NaviSphere Manager, NaviCLI.
• Worked on VMware VSphere 4.x/5.0 installation and virtual machines setup using Virtual Infrastructure client.
• Experience in evaluating and architecting SAN policies and procedures to help customers improve their existing SAN infrastructure.
• Good Knowledge of virtualization VMWare , Install, maintains, and supports VMware ESX Servers .
• Good Knowledge on VI client and VMware converter.
• Knowledge in ESX Architecture, guest OS installation, setting up of VM priorities, Cloning, Snapshots, Creating Teams, Nic teaming, VM resource allocation.
• Experienced with Windows 2003/2008 Active Directory design, installation and deployment of Enterprise-wide Group
• Policies using Active Directory components. Involved in scheduling tasks, assigning policies and creating domains using
• Microsoft Windows AD.

Technical Core Competency:

Netapp, EMC SAN Applications Management Tools

• Data ONTAP 7 Mode
• Data ONTAP 8 Cluster mode
• On command system manager
• Snap Mirror
• Operations Manager
• Netapp System Manager
• Netapp Performance adviser
• Netapp Balance
• Filer view
• Unisphere Manager for VMAX/VNX
• NaviSphere Manager
• Navi CLI
• Brocade CLI
• Cisco Fabric Manager
• Cisco CLI
• Cisco Device Manager
• Time Finder-Mirror/ Clone/ Snap, SRDF/S, SRDF/A, Mirror View/A/S, Snap View Clone/Snapshot,
• Power Path Migration Enabler, Open Migrator, San Copy,

EMC NAS SAN Storage Operations

• Technical Support
• SAN Storage Administration
• Lun Management, Monitoring and Replications.
• Storage Provisioning
• Storage Reclamation
• Local Replication using Time Finder
• Remote Replication using SRDF
• Administration Implementation
• Troubleshooting
• Switch Level Operations
• Configuration Implementation
• Incident Resolutions
• Root cause analysis
• Problem Capacity Management

Hardware Platforms

EMC:

• SYMETRIX VMAX-10K/20/40K
• VNX-5500/5800
• CLARiiON CX 500,700

NETAPP

• Netapp FAS 3070
• Netapp FAS 3250
• Netapp FAS 3270
• Netapp FAS 6030
• Netapp FAS 6220
• Netapp FAS 6240
• Netapp FAS 6290

Switch

• Cisco MDS 9513/9509 directors and 9124, 9140 switches and Brocade 48K, DCX
• directors
• 4100/4900/5100
• 5300 switches.

HBA's

• QLogic HBAs
• Emulex HB

Work Experience:

Confidential

Sr SAN Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for managing different kinds of FAS series 6030/6240/3270/3250/3070 in SAN/NAS environment.
• Performed installation and implementation of Netapp FAS 3070 and FAS 6040
• Worked on both SAN and NAS environments.
• Implementing, Managing and administration Netapp 8.1, C-mode storage arrays.
• Administered tools like FilerView, Data Fabric Manager for managing the arrays
• Operated OnCommand System Manager which integrates Netapp Operations Manager, Provisioning Manager, and Snap Manager.
• Using Command Line and On Command System Manager to create new aggregates, volumes and vserver on Clusters C-mode .
• Participated in migration of data from 7-mode to C-mode.
• Seamlessly move resource Volumes and Luns around the cluster without impacting the host applications and users.
• Non-disruptive operations, Eliminate the downtime, resources and time required for upgrades, refreshers and migrations.
• Add capacity as you grow across both SAN and NAS environments.
• Massively scale pairs of nodes by clustering up to 8 nodes for SAN and 24 nodes for NAS.
• Eliminate planned and unplanned downtime.
• Add storage Shelves or controllers to a cluster and redistribute volumes for future growth.
• Clustered Data ONTAP 8.2 X offers the additional option of a single-node cluster configuration. This is intended for smaller locations that replicate to a larger data center.
• NetApp OnCommand System Manager, OnCommand Unified Manager, OnCommand Workflow Automation, and other NetApp applications are available for management, configuration, and monitoring of clustered Data ONTAP Systems.
• Cluster-interconnect are a private, dedicated, redundant network used for communication between the cluster nodes and for Data Motion data Migration within the cluster.
• Each cluster can have one or multiple SVMs, allowing the cluster to host isolated independent workloads and applications.
• In clustered Data ONTAP 8.2, Infinite Volumes can coexist with standard SVMs and support both NFS and SMB client access.
• Clustered Data Ontap license keys are node locked.
• Creating different RAID groups like RAID 0, 1, 3,5,6,10,50, hot spare disk like global local and individual disks as per the client requirement.
• Worked on Creation of aggregates, volumes, qtrees, quota management, NFS exports and Data Migration administration.
• Installed and Managed NetApp FAS 3200, 6200 series on Clustermode.
• Planning and carrying out migrations from 7-Mode to Clustered ONTAP under time constraints.
• Architecture and implementation of OnCommand Unified Manager, Performance Manager, Insight installations.
• Implemented advanced configurations of clustered and 7-mode systems.
• Upgraded Data ONTAP from 7.3.4 to 7.3.6 in order to remediate newly discovered bugs.
• Worked with provisioning team to create Aggregates, Volumes, Vserver, LIF, Qtrees and Quota using Filer view and CLI.
• Worked with provisioning team to create LUN's on Fibre Channel SAN and presented them to the hosts.
• Designed and Architected remote replication using NetApp Snap Mirror and Snap Vault technologies.
• Worked with provisioning team to create, configure, and manage CIFS NFS shares, quotas, groups, and permissions
• Worked with change and problem management tools.
• Migrated Data from EMC NAS array to NetApp array and decommissioned old EMC NAS devices.
• Created new scripts for daily routine Tasks and Reports.
• Worked on Open System SnapVault and SnapRestore for backup and restore operation in Netapp NAS Environment.
• Worked with provisioning team to create VIFs/VServers in Netapp 7-mode and Cluster Mode NetApp Devices.
• Creating point snaps, clones and remote snaps assigning to hosts as per the requirement.
• Created CIFS servers, CIFS shares managed CIFS Files permissions and share permissions.
• Provisioned storage to customers using both ISCSI and Fiber Channel provisioning.
• Created SAN Luns and Thin provisioned luns on the volumes. Provisioned the luns to hosts through iscsi setup the iscsi CHAP authentication. Created iscsi group and added the nodes to group. Verified iscsi group and checked the authentication. Created volume/qtree, created lun, mapped lun to iscsi group.
• Troubleshooted performance issue on Netapp using sysstat output. Generated perfstat on the filer for troubleshooting the Netapp filer performance issues. Enable the VIF interfaces when they are down
• Decommissioned Netapp filers by destroying all volumes, aggregates. Added the disk sanitize license to the filer for sanitizing the disks and power off the filer head and shelf as a part of decomm process.
• Used Snapmirror to transfer data across filers at volume and qtree level. Snapmirror was used mainly for replication and disaster recovery.
• Performed Health Check on NetApp storage using the NetApp Operation Manager.
• Responsible for replication related issues of Netapp based storage using Snapmirror.
• Backed up data for Disaster Recovery purposes using snap vault Qtree replication.
• Provisioning of data for testing purposes using Snap view/Snapshots and Clones data replication
• Implemented VMware ESX 4.0 host server with vSphere Client, vSphere CLI.

EMC:

• Built High-Availability Infrastructure across Two Storage Arrays VMAX-VMAX, VNX-VNX in geographically isolated datacenter.
• Responsible for performing day to day operational tasks like storage provisioning and maintaining high availability as per EMC best practices.
• Installation and configuration of new VNXe3510 array to production at the data center.
• Implemented FAST VP and Data compression for LUNs and configuring FAST cache on VNX.
• Responsible to configure Thick/Thin Provisioning and FAST VP on VNX arrays.
• Created pools, NFS/CIFS, Raid groups and Fast cache/pool on VNX.
• Controlled over Auto tiering to promote and demote luns inside the pool.
• Administered VNX file-based systems including creation of file systems, exporting and mounting CIFS/NFS shares and configuring network shares using Unisphere.
• Administration of EMC VMAX 20k storage using Unisphere for VMAX, SMC and SYMCLI.
• Worked on Tech Refresh Projects and performed Array based, Host Based storage migrations using Open Replicator, San Copy, SRDF-DM, Open Migrator and PowerPath Migrations Enabler.
• Performed Storage Migrations using VPLEX Data Mobility as a migration method.
• Management of EMC VNX 7600/7500/5700/5500/5300/5100 Unified Block/File , VNXe storage arrays using Unisphere for VNX and NAVICLI.
• Administration of EMC CLARiiON CX4-120, CX4-480, CX-4-960, Unisphere, NaviSphere and NaviCLI.
• Administration of EMC Celerra NS4-120, NS4-480, NS4-960 storage using Celerra Manager and Unisphere.
• Management of Brocade SAN DCX-4s directors, 6510, 5300, 300 environments with DCFM, Web Tool, CLI, Connectrix Manager.
• Management of Cisco MDS 9509, 9506, 9148 directors using Fabric Manager, Device Manager, CLI, Connectrix Manager.
• EMC VMAX Virtual LUNS, Thick Thin provisioning with FAST rules and policies.
• Migrating Storage from EMC CLARiiON CX-4 960 to EMC VNX7500.
• Migrating Storage from EMC CX-960 VNX7500 to EMC Symmetrix V-Max.
• Configured Brocade LSAN zoning across Two Fabrics in geographically disperse datacenter.
• Layout EMC Recover point multiple CDP, CRR in Sync/A sync mode for production business critical and non-critical systems.
• Storage Migration of Hosts using PowerPath Migration Enabler, Open replicator for Symmetrix and San copy for CLARiiON storage.
• Configured EMC VSI Virtual Storage Integrator for VMware vSphere to simplify administration of the storage arrays VPLEX, VMAX, VNX, CLARiiON .
• Experience with multiple backup and recovery technologies like Cloning, Snapshots, and Disaster Recovery technology.
• Worked with snap vault for D2D backups directly between Netapp system minimizing the need for external infrastructure and appliances.
• Worked with snap protect software which combines Netapp snapshot copies and replication with tape in a single backup solution to improve speed and efficiency.
• Configure the Auto Support on the filers.

Environment: NetApp FAS3270,3070,3250,6240,6290,6220, VMAX 20k/40k,VNX 7500/ 5700/ 5400/ 5300/5100, VNXe, Brocade 3900, Cisco MDS 9513,Performance Manger, Time Finder snap/clone, SRDF /S,SRDF/A,SRDF/AR, Filer view, ONTAP 8, Operations Manager, Open Migrator, PowerPath, Filer view, NaviSphere Manager, Snap View, MirrorView, SAN Copy, EMC Recover point OnCommand System Manager, RedHatLinux, Windows2000/2003 VMWARE ESX Servers. CLARIION CX3-80, CX500/700.

Confidential

Storage Engineer

NetApp and EMC Duties:

• Responsible for managing different kinds of FAS series 960, 6030, 6240, 6280 in SAN/NAS environment 3050 VFiler in SAN environment. Responsible for production support operations on Netapp vFiler for the client TARGET.
• Worked on both SAN and NAS environments.
• Implementing, Managing and administration Netapp 8.1 C-mode storage arrays.
• Using on command system manager and cluster shell on command tolls to create new vservers, aggregates, volumes and provisioning new storage.
• Created new aggregates on FC and SATA drives. Added the disks to existing aggregates. Created volumes and kept the snap schedules to the volumes. Created qtrees and setup the thresholds for alerting. Exported the volumes through NFS exports to UNIX hosts and CIFS shares to windows hosts through CLI and Filer view.
• Extensively worked on Netapp migrations both volume and qtree level migrations. Migrated data from FAS 960 to FAS 6030. Exported the snaps to the hosts and extensively worked with filer view.
• Configured Snapmirror between the two filers and migrated the data from one filer to another.
• Configured Auto support on the filers.
• Created the SAN Luns and Thin provisioned luns on the volumes. Provisioned the luns to hosts through iscsi. Setup the iscsi CHAP authentication from filer to server. Created iscsi group and added the nodes to group. Verified iscsi group and checked the authentication. Created volume/qtree, created lun, mapped lun to iscsi group.
• Zoned the hosts and Netapp filers through Cisco fabric manager. Worked with Operations manager, provisioning manager, performance manager. Performed DR testing and resync and fall back on Netapp filers.
• Provided capacity planning, storage expansion, storage creation and presentation as well as all zoning activities on the Brocade Fiber Channel switches.
• Add switches into current production SAN fabric. Monitor and response to SAN related issues, escalate to vendors if needed.
• Creating and managing volume like flexible and traditional volumes as per the requirement and exporting to ESX clusters and rack servers.
• Taking cold and oracle hot backups are per the clines requirement.
• Configuring troubleshooting snap mirror site to site replication on Netapp arrays.
• Extensively Worked on SYMCLI to implement and Setup the SAN environment for disaster recovery test procedures.
• Zoned the hosts and Netapp filers through Cisco fabric manager. Worked with Operations manager, provisioning manager, performance manager. Performed DR testing and resync and fall back on Netapp filers.
• Extensively worked on Netapp migrations both volume and qtree level migrations. Migrated data from FAS 960 to FAS 6030. Exported the snaps to the hosts and extensively worked with filer view.
• Deployed and executing Disaster Recovery plan using Snap Mirror Replication, snap restore.
• Allocated storage using Auto-provisioning of VMAX-10K/20K/40k, by creating storage groups, port groups, initiator groups and masking views using Symcli 7.X and SMC 7.X
• Perform various methods of data migration from NetApp to EMC and EMC to NetApp and providing the customer with practical methods in transferring large amounts of data to remote locations.
• Administered a SAN environment comprising of EMC VMAX/VNX/CX Arrays.
• Generating Historical Performance Reports for VNX 5500/5700/7500 storage arrays using Archive NAR Files in both Production and DR for troubleshooting purpose.
• Provisioned block storage from VNX 5500/5700/7500 by registering hosts, Creating Storage Pools/Raid groups, Creating LUN, creating Storage Groups, and adding hosts to the storage group using Unisphere.
• Manage and analyze problems with EMC Symmetrix, DMX and VMAX disk arrays, Snap View, MirrorView and SAN Copy setups.
• Storage provisioning on Symmetrix by using EMC Control Center and SYMCLI.
• Migration of data from Symmetrix-Symmetrix and Symmetrix-CLARiiON by using Open Replicator.
• Implemented NetApp OnCommand Protection Manager backup system for critical clinical trial statistical data.
• Create RAID Groups, bind LUNs, create Storage Groups, Register Hosts, and assign LUNs and Install agents.
• Created 2-way Mirror, TDEV's, created Meta's and binding to pools and add the Meta to storage group. Created Masking views with Initiator, Storage and Port groups.
• Used SRDF/A for setting up Disaster Recovery between VMAX to VMAX and enabled consistency at the Device Groups. Created Dynamic RDF groups and RDF devices in order to implement SRDF/A.
• Responsible for performing day to day operational tasks like storage provisioning and maintaining high availability as per EMC best practices.
• Implemented Virtual Provisioning from VMAX array to host by creating Data devices, thin devices, thin pools, binding thin devices to pool and masking the thin devices to the host, using Unisphere.
• Migrated data successfully from CX600/CX700 to CX4-240 using Mirror View/S and SAN Copy and CX600/CX700 to DMX-3 to DMX-4 using Open Replicator /Open Migrator.
• Establish reporting, escalation, and resolution process, Manage solution implementation. Manage ongoing operations and support.

Environment: Data ONTAP 6.x, 7.x, EMC Symmetrix VMAX, DMX-4, DMX-3, CLARIION CX series, NetApp 6040/3040/3070/2020, Cisco MDS 9509, 9506 Directors and MoDS 9124, 9134 Departmental switches, Time Finder/Mirror, Clone snaps, SRDF/S and SRDF/A, MirrorView/S/A, NaviSphere manager 6.x, Snap view Snap/Clone, SAN Copy, Cisco Device Manager, Cisco Fabric Manager, Snap Mirror, Brocade Switches.

Confidential

Storage Engineer

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Configured and managed the EMC storage environment such as EMC VNX, CX, CX4-480, DMX 4, VMAX and Celerra NS480, NS960.
• Allocated storage to Linux servers and created file systems and mounted them as required on Linux environment.
• Created aggregates/volumes/Qtrees in the NetApp environment and provisioned storage to different teams on their requirements.
• Implement FCP and iSCSI SAN protocols, including boot from SAN with ALUA, OS based multipath.
• Operated Symmetrix Performance Analyzer SPA for identifying the root causes of performance issues, monitoring to for efficient utilization of the Environment.
• Implemented array-based splitter on VMAX arrays and Recover Point Appliance to provide continuous data protection
• Masked Recover Point cluster initiator group with the host port group and host storage group, to include production volumes, replica volumes, journal volumes, repository volumes and gatekeepers
• Dart Code upgrade on NS480/NS960 series. Vcenter Ops manager.
• Performed host-based data migration from EMC arrays to NetApp FAS6240 filers using Robocopy, resync, LVM, and DTA migration tool.
• Extensively worked on the Snap mirror technology and created the connection entries to use the specific interface based on the network traffic go perform the migrations.
• Profound experience and in-depth knowledge of NetApp Hardware FAS 2020, 2040, 3240, 3280, 6210, 6280 V6210 filers and Disk Shelves setup, configuration and maintenance, DATA ONTAP software features like Provisioning using Flexvol, Flex clone.

Environment:Ns960,CX4-480, DMX4, VMAX, SPA, VMware, Linux, Unix, NetappFAS3240, 3280, 6210, V6210,Flexvol,Fex Clone, VMware, Esx 4.1/5.1,Linux 5/6 and windows 2000/2k3/2k8

Confidential

System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Configure and administer SLES /Windows 2003/ Win XP policies and fine tuning for optimal performance as desired by client.
• Installation of new machines in the network, adding and maintaining remote printers and installing required software as per the project.
• Implementing User/Group rights permissions and allotting proprietary LIC software access rights using 3rd party software.
• Deploying the Symantec Endpoint software in to the client PCs and secluding the virus scans and collecting and cleaning the quarantines from client PCs.
• Troubleshooting the virus related problems, preventing all the machines from virus infection using Symantec endpoint Protection 11.
• Troubleshooting DHCP, DNS, and ADS related issues in the domain.
• Configuring MS-Outlook and Outlook express.
• Troubleshooting and configuring connectivity devices like Ethernet, switches, hubs and DSL Modems.
• Maintaining user level backups, using Microsoft NTBackup.
• Maintaining documentation of Network and System admin tasks for ISO audits.