Summary:

• A Senior Open Systems Storage professional having 6 Years of IT Industry experience including over 5 Years in SAN, NAS, Backup and Disaster recovery.
• Experienced in administrating, maintaining and troubleshooting of high end EMC Symmetrix DMX, VMAX series, mid range EMC CLARiiON Arrays CX, CX3, CX4 series, VNX 5300, 5700, 7500 and storage federation solution VPLEX
• Well experienced with Virtual provisioning on EMC Symmetrix DMX-4, V-MAX, V-MAXe and performed Virtual LUN migration in DMX-4, V-MAX, V-MAXe and auto-provisioning in V-MAX and V-MAXe storage array using SYMCLI and Symmetrix Management Console SMC .
• Hands-on experiences with VNX block storage provisioning and management on VNX-5700/7500 and performed virtual lun migrations in VNX-5700/7500 arrays using Unisphere Manager.
• Implemented FAST VP and FAST Cache in VNX-5700/7500 using Unisphere Manager.
• Presented the storage volumes from back end arrays like EMC Symmetrix DMX.VMAX, CLARiiON to EMC VPLEX engines and federate the storage volumes into set of VPLEX virtual volumes
• Proficiency with Disaster Recovery Solutions using SRDF/S and SRDF/A between various Symmetrix arrays
• Expertise in working with SAN tools Cisco CLI/Fabric Manager/Device Manager, Brocade CLI/Web Tools/DCFM and Connectrix Manager.
• Experience in design and implementation of High availability Disaster Recovery Solutions for SAN/NAS Environments.
• Knowledge on VMware Infrastructure design implementation experience.
• Expertise in zoning, storage provisioning, LUN creation, Mapping and Masking.
• Experience in Installation, configuration and troubleshooting of VERITAS Volume Manager VxVm VxFs , VERITAS Netbackup 6.5.
• Deploy, Configure and maintain SAN Directors and Switches which include Brocade, McData and Cisco MDS.
• Experience in administration of NetApp filers such as creating volumes, configuring CIFS/NFS exports and implementation of snapmirror replication.
• Experienced in configuring and managing EMC Power Path solution for path failover, load balancing, path management and automatic I/O failure detections.
• Expertise in configuring the Brocade Silkworm FC switches in a fabric using Brocade Fabric manager, switch administration and zoning.

Technical Skills:

Hardware:

EMC V-MAX, Symmetrix DMX 1000, 2000, 3000, DMX-3 EMC CLARiiON CX3-80, CX3-40, CX3-20, CX600, CX700, CX200 and AX series EMC Celerra NS 500, NS704 EMC Centera Network Appliance IBM NS5600, Hitachi 9900v, McData 3232, Brocade Silkworm 200E, 3800, 5000, 12000, 24000, 48000, 49000, DS-16B, DS-16B2 , Cisco MDS 9216 switches, and, Storage Tek series.

Software:

EMC Access Logix, Control Center, Solutions Enabler, Navisphere Manager, NaviCLI, SymCLI, MirrorView, SnapView, SAN Copy, TimeFinder, SRDF, Storage Scope, PowerPath v5.1, Connectrix Manager, Fabric Manager, Celerra Manager, Celerra Replicator, Data ONTAP 7.2.3, SnapMirror, SnapVault, SyncMirror, SnapDrive, SnapManager, FlexShare, DataFabric Operations Manager, Filerview, Legato Networker, VMware ESX 3.0, Tivoli Storage Manager, VERITAS Volume Manager, VERITAS Backup Exec and VERITAS Netbackup.

Operating Systems:

Solaris 8/9/10, AIX 5L v5.1/5.2, RedHat EL 4/5, Windows NT/2000/2003

Work Experience

Confidential

SAN Administrator

• Migrated 1400 servers with nearly 6 PB of data from 18 DMX -3/DMX-4, 6 CLARiiON CX3/4, using array based migration techniques Open Replicator and host based array migration software Open Migrator/LM, on various operating systems including AIX, Solaris, Linux, HP-Unix and Windows
• Experience in Auto-provisioning feature of Enguinity 5874/5875- created storage, port, initiator groups and masking views with SymCLI and SMC for storage allocation from VMAX.
• Presented the storage volumes from back end arrays like EMC Symmetrix DMX.VMAX, CLARiiON to EMC VPLEX engines and federate the storage volumes into set of VPLEX virtual volumes
• Implemented and tested SRDF/A for selected high performance Tier 1 applications from DMX3 to DMX4 including creation of dynamic RA groups, dynamic RDF pairs and device groups.
• Implemented Virtual/Thin-provisioning on V-MAX, DMX-4 by creating thin pools, Data devices and Thin devices for improved capacity utilization by using SYMCLI and SMC
• Created CIFS servers, CIFS shares, managed CIFS Files permissions and Share permissions Expanded R/W file systems on VNX 5700 and Celerra storage systems.
• Increased SavVol size deleted old check points Performed failover and Failback operations of Data mover in Celerra NS 40G using Celerra Manager/CLI.
• Provisioned block storage from VNX by registering hosts, Creating Storage Pools/Raid groups, Creating LUN, creating Storage Groups, and adding hosts to the storage group using Unisphere.
• Hands on experience on configuring FAST, FAST Cache, SnapView Snapshots/ Clone/ SnapSure and MirrorView S/A in VNX.
• Implemented NAS monitoring by configuring email notifications on Celerra using Celerra manager to send alerts to users while threshold is reached on file system usage.
• Involved in the migration of data using SANCopy from CLARiiON CX3 -80 to VNX5700.
• Configured EMC ControlCenter for end to end Administration and Management of Storage environment.
• Monitored, analyzed and fine-tuned the performance issues in Clariion/Celerra using EMC Navisphere Analyzer and EMC Unisphere.
• Worked on creation and extension of file systems and giving access to Windows by creating CIFS shares and UNIX servers by using NFS exports using Celerra manager from EMC Celerra 84G, 82G.
• Installed and configured ECC alerts/agents to supervise Storage environment for Clariion,Celerra and hosts also include was attaching management policies.
• Actively participated in the planning and implementation of storage and backup solutions.
• Troubleshooting critical issues including threshold optimization, server throughput, ports availability, meeting zoning requirements, one-path down, host not seeing storage management problem.

ENVIRONMENT: EMC VMAX, DMX-4/DMX-3, Clariion CX4-480, CX3-80, VNX 5700, Celerra 84G, 82G, EMC VPLEX Metro cluster, Symmetrix DMX 2000/3000, CLARiiON, HDS, SAN-CDL Virtual Tape ,Cisco 9513, SAN Manager, Symmetrix Manager, Performance Manager, Storage Scope, Symmetrix Optimizer, Powerpath, Navisphere Manager, Navisphere Analyzer, Solutions Enabler CLI, Repli-SRDF/S, VERITAS Volume Manager, Veritas Netbackup 6.5, OS-2003/W2K/NT, Solaris 8,9,10, AIX., VMWARE ESX Server

Confidential

SAN Administrator

• Configured the Veritas Cluster Services for high availability and I/O fencing for failover scenario.
• Trained in managing/monitoring Cisco MDS 9000 Series Multilayer SAN switches.
• Manage Brocade and McData switches using Fabric Manager.
• Install, configure, and maintain Network Appliance Filers like FAS270, FAS980.
• Configured and implemented multiple VMware ESX server 2.1on CLARii0N with virtual hosts.
• Design and Implement data migration solutions in SAN environment using TimeFinder/BCV, SAN Copy, MirrorView.
• Installation and management of SRDF and creating BCVs as disaster recovery solution.
• Dynamically reallocated Symmetrix using symconfigure utility.
• Assigning Storage to Hosts include configuring the LUNS, Lun provisioning and LUN Masking on EMC Clariion storage systems by using Access Logix with Navisphere Manager and NaviCLI.
• Installed and configured EMC Control Center 5.1.1 on Windows 2000/2003 servers to manage storage and SAN configuration.
• Storage provisioning on Symmetrix DMX 2000 for Windows, Solaris and AIX hosts.
• Created MetaLUN's using striping and concatenation procedures by expanding base LUN's.
• Implemented a disaster recovery solution using SRDF/A to support a bunch of application running on different servers.
• Created Aggregates, Volumes Traditional, FlexVol and FlexClone , Qtrees and Quotas in NetApp FAS 270 and FAS 980
• Created point-in-time copies of LUN's using SnapView Snapshots and clones.
• Hands on experience in creating all kinds of zones and zone sets with proper aliases.
• Involved in Installation and Configuration of NAS device EMC Celerra NS501G, NS700.
• Configured Celerra Replicator on Celerra Systems for Local and Remote replication after creating checkpoints.
• Administered Brocade silkworm switches 2800, 3900 and Director 12000 using Fabric Manager and Fabric OS.
• Experience in Installation, configuration and troubleshooting of Veritas Volume Manager VxVm VxFs .
• Worked with backup team in scheduling and performing regular backups using Veritas Netbackup.
• Monitored Veritas Netbackup backup's status and escalated the backup issues.

Environment: Symmetrix DMX 2000, Clariion CX 300, 600, 700, CX3-40, Celerra NS501G, NS700, NetApp FAS270, FAS980, VMWare ESX Server 3.0, Brocade 2800, 3900, 12000 McData 3232, Cisco 9000, Navisphere Manager, NaviCLI, SymCLI, EMC Control Center, Storage Scope, Performance Manager, Symmetrix Remote Data Facility SRDF , Timefinder, Snapview, MirrorView, Celerra Manager, Celerra Replicator, Data ONTAP 7.0.1, SnapVault, SnapMirror, SyncMirror,Web tools, Fabric Manager, Powerpath, Veritas Netbackup, Veritas Cluster Services, Veritas Volume Manager.

Confidential

SAN Administrator

• Installation and Configuration of Raid groups, storage groups and disk mirroring.
• Storage provisioning on Clariion and Symmetrix Systems for Windows, Solaris and AIX hosts.
• Proposed LUN, RAID Group and Storage Group configuration after evaluating company's present and anticipated growth.
• Created BCVs Business Continuity Volumes using EMC Timefinder on SRDFs to offer workload compression, performing backups, increase productivity, etc.
• Installation and management of SRDF, Timefinder and creating BCVs as disaster recovery solution.
• Perform monitor and generate reports using ECC and extract file lever reports using storage scope.
• Actively participate in the planning and implementation of storage and backup solutions.
• Assign storage from Clariion CX600/CX700 using Navisphere Manager.
• Level 1 and Level 2 support tasks included performing daily system health checkouts, HW/OS installs/upgrades.
• Involved in Installation and Configuration of NAS device EMC Celerra NS501G, NS700.
• Configured Celerra Replicator on Celerra Systems for Local and Remote replication.
• Created Aggregates, Volumes Traditional, FlexVol and FlexClone , Qtrees and Quotas in NetApp FAS 3040 and FAS 3020 using Filerview.
• Troubleshoot NFS, SAN and CIFS issues on NetApp filers and fine tune the filers for optimal performance.
• Experience in implementing NetApp NAS technology, including configuring shares, CIFS and NFS Administration.
• Install, configure, and troubleshoot Brocade 5000 and 49000 and McData 3232 fibre channel fabric switches.
• Trained in managing/monitoring Cisco MDS 9000 Series Multilayer SAN switches.
• Supported EMC NetWorker for backup and recovery operations across an enterprise.
• Experience in Installation, configuration and troubleshooting of Veritas Volume Manager VxVm VxFs .
• Restoring the lost files on to the storage array as well as the windows and UNIX hosts using Veritas Netbackup.
• Configuring master and media servers for performance using Veritas Netbackup.
• Configure and Maintain backups, backup policies and restores using Veritas Netbackup.

Environment: Symmetrix DMX 2000, DMX-3, Clariion CX 300, 600, 700, CX3-40, CX3-80, Celerra NS501G, NS700, NetApp FAS 3040, 3020, VMWare ESX Server 3.0, Storage Tek Tape Libraries, Brocade 5000, 49000, McData 3232, Cisco 9000, Navisphere Manager, EMC Control Center, Storage Scope, Solution Enabler, Performance Manager, SRDF, Timefinder, Snapview, MirrorView, EMC Networker, Celerra Manager, Celerra Replicator, Data ONTAP 7.2.3, SnapVault, SnapMirror, SyncMirror.

Confidential

SAN Administrator

• Discovered Clariion environments into ECC for Management and Alerting. Tested provisioning from ECC for Tier 3 platforms.
• Configuring and Managing Clariion CX 200 arrays using Navisphere Manager.
• Created the storage groups and carving the LUNs on EMC Clariion storage systems.
• Storage Allocation on Symmetrix for Windows and Solaris Environment.
• Host to LUN mapping, load balancing and Failover activities via Powerpath and Navisphere tools.
• Configured Snapview Snapshots and Snapview Clones on CLARiiON CX Series Sub-Systems.
• Acquired knowledge on configuring MirrorView for remote replication in multiple environments.
• Zoned and unzoned Brocade switches.
• Experience in Installation, configuration and troubleshooting of Veritas Volume Manager VxVm VxFs .
• Assign policies to Clients in Veritas Netbackup 4.0
• Configure the SAN and NFS storage on AIX and Solaris hosts
• Upgrading Solaris from 8 to 9 using live upgrades and Flash Archives.

Environment: Clariion CX 200, Symmetrix DMX 2000, Brocade DS-16B2, EMC Control Center, SnapView, MirrorView, Powerpath, Navisphere Manager, Solaris 9, AIX 4L, VERITAS Netbackup 4.0.

Confidential

System Administrator

• Planning, architecting design, implementing Win2000 solution and system infrastructure integration. Win 2000 Active Directory, DNS, WINS, DHCP
• Installation Maintenance of Samba, Apache Web Server on Solaris Linux.
• Implementation of RAID levels and Crash recovery of Volumes and disk groups
• Scripting for daily routine administrative tasks. Scheduling tasks using CRON. Backup and Restore Management.
• Inetd, SSH, iptables, crontab and autosys scheduling, rpm building and management, GRUB, FTP.
• Configuration of networks with NIS,NFS,DNS and Sendmail services
• Installed sudo for use of user command limitations.
• Installed Ssh for user login security via internet on an unsecured network.
• Experience in setting up clusters and creating repository queue managers for load balancing.
• Experience in analyzing logs, problem determination, and Recovery and restart.
• Troubleshooting network services.
• Responsible for installation and maintenance of AIX 4.x servers in a test environment. Predefined and Customized Volume Group management on AIX. Disk Management on AIX using SMIT.
• Worked with Korn shell, Bash shell and Bourne shells.
• UNIX Shell Scripting and Perl Scripting.
• Implementing and Maintaining VERITAS Volume Manager.

Environment: Windows Server 2000, Solaris 9, IBM AIX 4L, Veritas Volume Manager, Shell Scripting, Perl, Samba, Apache 2.0, Sendmail.