SUMMARY

• Total 10 years of experience in Storage, VMware and UNIX System Administration.
• 7 years of experience in storage technologies with SAN & NAS storages EMC & Confidential .
• 8 years’ experience in UNIX system administration on Solaris 10, 11, RedHat Linux 6, 7 and HP - UX.
• 3 years’ experience in the field of VMware ESX/ESXi virtualization.
• Experience with different storage protocols like FCP, ISCSI, NFS, FCOE, CIFS, NDMP and SCSI
• Expertise on ESXi and ESX Architecture, guest OS installation, setting up of VM priorities, cloning.
• Hands on experience in Configuring and maintaining NFS, NIS, DHCP, DNS & LDAP.
• Having experience with shell and python scripting for automated framework.
• Experience in implementation of backup and restore, data protection and storage performance.
• Expertise in Maintains and Performs disaster recovery procedures regarding servers, storage, and datacenter applications using VMware Site Recovery Manager.
• Worked on Solaris packaging and patching development.
• Extensive knowledge in advance features of ESX VMOTION, SVMOTION, and VM Lab Manager.
• Experience in the V2V and P2V migration using VMware Standalone Converter or Plate Spin.
• Good experience with Solaris Volume Manager and File System (SVM/UFS/ZFS).
• Experience with Installing, managing and troubleshooting zones, containers and Solaris VM's.
• Experience with Linux Kick Start and Solaris Jumpstart installation methods.
• Expertise in VERITAS Volume Manager (VxVM 4.0), Disk management, Volume management, software RAID solutions using VERITAS Volume Manager, Solaris Volume Manager (SVM).
• Administered and supported high availability, data replication, business persistence, fail-over, fail-back using VERITAS Cluster Server 4.x/5.x and SUN cluster 3.x/4.x
• Proficient in Backup utilities, restoring using VERITAS NetBackup
• Expertise in Installation & configuration of Storage arrays, Storage Provisioning, performance management, SAN maintenance tasks, Replication, storage level data migration
• Hands on experience with active directory
• Having experience on Confidential snapshot, snap mirror, NDMP and SnapDrive configurations.
• Hands on experience of Installation, Configuration ONTAP OS on Confidential storage equipment.
• Well expertise in vender certifications like VITA and SCATE
• Having experience on block level replication and deduplication.
• Experience installing and managing multipathing software's like EMC Power path and Native multipathing device mapper and MPXIO on Linux, Solaris and HP-UX.
• Experience in virtualization, VMware (VCenter, ESX) and Confidential Storage (Data ONTAP C &7-mode).
• Experience in Virtualization technologies like installing, configuring, administeringVMware ESXi.
• Experience in creating Raid Groups, Storage Groups, LUNs and assigned LUNs to Windows and VMwarehosts
• Strong hands-on experience with Cisco routers/switches, VLAN's, TCP/IP.
• Good exposure on Brocade and Cisco switch configuration.
• Expertise in creating snapshots, Flex Clones on volumes
• Implemented Snap Mirror as DR solution between filers
• Worked on designing and implementing bunker and remote replication using Confidential Snap Mirror and Snapvault technologies.
• Experience in Data ONTAP 7-mode and c-mode.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: Sun Solaris 9/10/11, Red Hat Linux 6/7, HP-UX, AIX

Hardware: Ultra SPARC Series, SPARC Server 1000, Ultra 2, SUN Enterprise 00/E6500, SUNFIRE 440/480/880, SUNT2000/5120/T3/T4/T5 SUNM4000,SUNM10,SUNX 4150/4170/4200

Protocols: ISCSI, FCP, FCOE, NFS, TCP/IP, RLOGIN, SSH, SCP, RCP, FTP, TELNET.

Naming services: NIS,NFS, DNS

Languages: Shell Scripting, python Perl, SQL

RDBMS: Oracle

Third Party SW: VERITAS Cluster Server, LVM, VERITAS VOLUME MANAGER. Remedy, Virtual tech, sun cluster, service center, OVO, Open view service desk, OPSware, virtual rooms, OCM, OCP,OEMBMC Patrol

Switches: Csco 4948/5020/5010 and brcd 300/5000/5120/6505

Storage: SAN/NAS/DAS, Confidential, EMC

Devops Tools: Chef, Puppet, Cfengine, Opsware, Oracle Ops Center

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Sunnyvale, CA

Senior VMware &Storage Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Used SVM and Veritas volume manager to create volumes using Confidential LUNs and provided redundancy during failure.
• Support in Administration of RHEL, Centos and Ubuntu which includes installation, upgrading and loading patches, troubleshooting both physical and virtual server issues.
• Supported Veritas cluster server 4.1 & 5.1 for high availability and failover applications.
• Creating, Monitoring and Replication Strategies (Snapshot, Snap Mirror, Snap Vault).
• Confidential filers FAS 3070, 3270 and FAS 8040 Installation and support.
• Utilized Flex Clone tool to replicate LUNs during System Refresh and applied Flex pod.
• Migrating Storage from 7-Mode to C-Mode Confidential Arrays using 7 Mode Transition Tool
• Installing, configuring, and administering DNS, NFS, NIS, Mail servers, FTP servers RPM servers on Sun Solaris and Red Hat Linux platforms.
• Interop testing on different storage protocols like SCSI,FCP, ISCSI, NFS,NDMP and FCoE for both Solaris and Linux servers.
• Configuring hardware iSCSI SAN, FC SAN, NFS and NAS storage to VMware ESX (i) hosts from vSphere client.
• Controlling the System Logging services, and examining system Log Files of all system events.
• Handled hardware issues dealing with RAID, SCSI controllers & Host Bus Adapters (HBA)
• Installing and Implementation of VMware ESXi 5.0 host servers with vSphere Client, vSphere CLI and also Configured HBAs and iSCSI SAN storage.
• Installing, configuring and administrating of Storage arrays, Storage Provisioning, performance management, SAN maintenance tasks, Replication.
• Build VMware vSphere hosts and added to new/existing VMware Clusters

Environment: UNIX, Solaris 9/10/11, Sun Fire servers and Sun Enterprise Servers, Disk Suite and Solaris Volume manager, Veritas Volume manager, Network and server management, Desk top and Server Management, Shell Scripting, Jumpstart.

Confidential, Sunnyvale, CA

Sr. VMware and Storage Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Assist in SAN design, development and integration. Assist in SAN Zoning, LUN Masking, Volume sizing of Datastores. Assist in Managing Brocade and Cisco SAN Switch
• Data protection functionality verification using Confidential proprietary Snapshot and Snapmirror protocol. Backup and recovery of dataset to simulate actual network and disaster recovery.
• Set-up, configured and installed ONTAP OS on Confidential storage equipment for QA testing .
• Worked on vender certifications like VITA and SCATE
• Upgrading Data ONTAP on 7-Mode Filers and successful in upgrading Data ONTAP on Cluster Mode Filers.
• Experience on CISCO and Brocade Switch Zoning Changes.
• Install, configure VMware ESX, ESXi, within vSphere 4 and 5 environments with Virtual Center management, VMotion and VMware Data Recovery
• Maintained VMware virtual machine port groups, VM kernel port groups and VLANs
• Configuring hardware iSCSI SAN, FC SAN, NFS and NAS storage to VMware ESX (i) hosts from vSphere client.
• Migrating Storage from 7-Mode to C-Mode Confidential Arrays using 7 Mode Transition Tool.
• Confidential filers FAS 3070, 3270 and FAS 8040 Installation and support.
• LUN mapping/creation on Confidential devices, F/C Switch Configuration management.
• Creating, Monitoring and Replication Strategies (Snapshot, Snap Mirror,SnapVault).
• Worked on Hard disk and CPU module replacements.
• Installed and configured Zones (virtual servers) for Solaris 11/10 Server.
• Actively participated in patch and package management.
• Configured ALOM/ILOM, Console on Sun/Oracle servers for remote access
• Worked on applying Kernel Patch on Solaris servers for SPARC and X86 Servers.
• Worked on firmware upgradations for all the Solaris and Linux Servers.

Environment: VMware, Solaris 9/10/11(U1-U6), Sun/Oracle Enterprise Servers, V Series, T Series, X Series, SunFire Series, X86 servers, EMC Symmetrix/CLARiiON, EMC Power Path, MPXIO, SVM, ZFS, Veritas Volume Manager, Assyst, Remedy, PCA tool (for Patch Installs)

Confidential, Austin, Texas

Senior UNIX &Storage Admin

Responsibilities:

• Good exposure on Solaris installation using jumpstart or manual
• Good exposures on SAN boot Concept.
• Testing Veritas storage foundation 6.xx Packages on different Solaris versions.
• Worked on Hardware testing like HBA/CNA (Qlogic/Emulex) drivers and firmware
• Good Knowledge on Clustered environment on both Host and Target systems.
• Testing Multipathing solutions(Solaris Native )
• Working Knowledge on Zoning operations in FC switch fabric
• Worked on VITA (Veritas Integrated Test Automation) Certification for customer called Symantec to support Confidential storage.
• Debugging interoperability issues found during test execution and ability to drive those issues to closure with development team or system vendors
• Implementing and configuration of FAS 3170/3270/8040 series Confidential filers
• Worked on different cluster products like VCS and OSC
• Worked on UNIX RedHat Linux and virtualization (VMware) operating systems.
• Lun Management like creating, assigning and managing in Confidential storage environment
• Good working experience on triaging on critical issues during test executions.
• Defects Reporting and follow up
• Creation of clusters for (HA) High Availability and (DRS) Distributed Resource Scheduling
• Upgrading existing hosts from ESX 4.0 to ESXi 5.5.

Environment: Solaris 8/9/10/11, E450 servers, T2000 servers, Sun M10, SunFire 280, SunFire V240, Confidential FAS series - 270, 940, 2000/ 3000/ 3200/ 6200/ 8000 , SAN/EMC storage, Power Path, Solstice Disk suite, Veritas Volume Manager.

Confidential

UNIX & Storage engineer

Responsibilities:

• Installed/Configured/Maintained Solaris 10 Zones using zonecfg/zone adm/zlogin
• Performed Zone administration using zoneadm and zlogin commands.
• Hands on experience with Solaris 10 SMF features - svcs/svcsadm/svccfg/inetadm.
• Worked with LDOMS/Containers.
• Coordinated and worked with application developers to fix application and OS related issues.
• Patch and Package management
• Maintenance of DNS, NIS, NFS, NTP, Samba, SNMP, VPN, HTTP, SSH.
• Jumpstart and Kickstart server maintenance and client installations.
• Server performance Troubleshoot using vmstat, PR stat, top, iOS tat, Etc.
• Provided support for VERITAS File System VFS, 5.0, 5.1, VERITAS Volume Manager VVM 5.0, 5.1, VERITAS Cluster Server VCS 5.0, Sun Cluster 3.1, VERITAS NetBackup 6.5, and 7.0.
• Configured NIS Master Server and Slave Servers and setup NIS clients in a heterogeneous environment comprising of SUN machines
• Configured disk suite mirroring for boot disks for disaster recovery and failover
• Worked with SAN Storage on lun allocation, masking and zoning.
• Involved in different kinds of change controls/projects like Solaris Upgrade, Veritas Upgrade, EMC SAN migration & Frame migration
• Perform IOS upgrades on Cisco network devices
• Perform all standard storage administration tasks including the enhancements/upgrades of the existing storage hardware/software solutions.
• Perform software upgrades on Brocade network devices.
• Management of HP-Open view tools like Service-Desk, HP-OVO and HP-OVPM.
• Servers are monitored using the HP-Open View Operations (OVO) suite, with HP-Service desk solution providing Help Desk Operations functionally.

Environment: UNIX, Solaris 8/9/10/11, HP-UX 10.x and 11.x, E10K, Sun Enterprise Servers and Sun Fire servers, Sun blades and workstations, Veritas NetBackup, Shell Scripting, VERITAS Cluster, Sun Cluster, Disk Suite and Veritas Volume manager.

Confidential

UNIX and Storage Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Incident Management: Troubleshoot and escalate Software/Hardware Issues as per Service Level Agreement (SLA) and update tickets with documentation
• Change Management: Execute and close Change Controls with proper documentation
• Worked with vendors on hardware replacements to restore the services as per ServiceLevelAgreement(SLA)
• Installation, Configuration, administration of Sun Solaris and RedHat Linux OS
• Worked on Incident, Problem Management & Change Management.
• Created System Administrator role-based Access permissions
• Creating and Managing the User Accounts and Group Accounts
• Working with Solaris Volume Manager for creating volumes and file systems for various applications and databases.
• File System configuration using Solstice Disk suite, Veritas Volume Manager.
• Installed Patches on quarterly basis as well as on-demand.
• Configuration/customization and support of Storage Area Network (SAN) environment
• Support in Administration of RHEL, Centos and Ubuntu which includes installation, upgrading and loading patches, troubleshooting both physical and virtual server issues.
• Assist in SAN design, development and integration. Assist in SAN Zoning, LUN Masking, Volume sizing of Datastores
• Jumpstart and Kickstart server maintenance and client installations.
• Handled hardware issues dealing with RAID, SCSI controllers & Host Bus Adapters (HBA)
• Monitored system activities, log maintenance, and disk space management.

Environment: UNIX, Solaris 8/9/10, Sun Fire servers and Sun Enterprise Servers, Disk Suite and Solaris Volume manager, Veritas Volume manager, Network and server management, Desk top and Server ManagementProject: 6

Confidential

UNIX and Storage Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installed Solaris 10 Operating System using Jumpstart.
• Worked on Incident, Problem Management & Change Management tickets.
• Installation and configuration of Solaris Zones/container.
• Administered zones with Zoneadm/Zlogin commands.
• Created/Administered ZFC files system in Solaris Global and Local Zones/Containers
• Working with Solaris Volume Manager for creating volumes and file systems for various applications and databases.
• File System configuration using Solstice Disk suite, Veritas Volume Manager.
• Installed Patches on quarterly basis as well as on-demand.
• Configuring, Managing and Administering the NFS server/client
• Configured NIS Master Server and Slave Servers and setup NIS clients in a heterogeneous environment comprising of SUN machines.
• Helping “operations and development team” by installing and configuration of new software’s and scheduling crontab jobs.
• Performance monitoring done with conventional tools such as sar, iostat & netstat
• Monitored system activities, log maintenance, and disk space management.
• Worked on 24/7 shifts

Environment: UNIX, Solaris 8/9/10, Sun Fire servers and Sun Enterprise Servers, Disk Suite and Solaris Volume manager, Veritas Volume manager, Network and server management, Desk top and Server Management, Shell Scripting, Jumpstart.