SUMMARY:

• Certified EMC consultant with 5 years of IT experience which includes Storage, SAN/NAS and System administration.
• Excellent experience in maintaining and troubleshooting of EMC VPLEX, V-MAX 10K/20K/40K, DMX-2/3/4, VNX 5500/5700/7500/CLARiiON CX-4/CX-3.
• Expertise in storage provisioning and monitoring of EMC Symmetrix, VPLEX, VNX and CLARiiON using SYMCLI, SMC, Unisphere both VMAX and VNX and Navisphere manager respectively to various operating systems.
• Created extents, devices, virtual volumes and storage views and allocated storage to different hosts using Unisphere for VPLEX and VPLEX CLI.
• Experience in design and implementation of remote replication technologies and disaster recovery solutions using SRDFS/A/AR on VMAX, DMX arrays and MirrorView/S/A on VNX and CLARiiON Arrays.
• Experience in implementing EMC Business Continuity solutions using TimeFinder Clone/Mirror/Snap on VMAX, DMX, and TimeFinder VP-Snaps on VMAX using SYMCLI and SMC and on VNX and CLARiiON using Navisphere and NaviSecCLI.
• Experience in Configuration and troubleshooting of SAN / NAS storage systems in the virtual environment.
• Experience in implementing array based migrations using SRDF, Open Replicator, Federated Live Migration FLM , SanCopy, and host based migrations using Open Migrator, PowerPath Migration Enabler PPME and Logical Volume Manager.
• Configured and implemented Replication Manager for local, remote replications and for data migrations using SanCopy.
• Experience in SAN expansion in Brocade and Cisco fabrics and SAN migration between Brocade and Cisco.
• Experience in installation, configuring ISL, Zoning in Brocade environment using Brocade CLI, Web Tools and DCFM.
• Experience in configuring VSANs on Cisco MDS 9124, 9134, 9120, 9140 and MDS 9513, 9509, 9506 directors using Cisco CLI and Fabric Manager.
• Experience with Configuration and Management of EMC VNX 5500/5700/7500.
• Implemented FAST-DP and FAST-VP in VMAX, and FAST, FAST-Cache on VNX arrays.
• Installed and configured PowerPath for AIX, HP, Solaris, Linux and Windows Operating Systems to support the load balancing and failover features among the HBA's on the system.
• Experience in planning, installing, connecting and configuring nodes in an ISILON cluster.
• Used IMC Isilon Management Cluster to manage Isilon cluster.
• Configuring cluster by adding nodes, assign IP address, Reimage to match cluster OS version.
• By using NFS exports through Web Administration Interface enable access for Unix and through SMB protocol to connect Windows clients to shares on ISILON cluster.
• Used Window's Robocopy utility to migrate data to Isilon cluster.
• Similarly used UNIX based Rsync utility to migrate data to Isilon cluster.
• Experience in SAN related host connectivity for various Operating systems like Solaris, Linux, HP, AIX, Windows and VMware.
• Experience in installing and configuring SYMCLI, SMC/SPA, Navisphere Manager, and NavisecCLI.
• Worked on VMware VSphere 4.x/5.0 installation and virtual machines setup using Virtual Infrastructure client.
• Ability to absorb and get used to new technologies, good team player in lively work group atmospheres and also self-motivated to work individually with excellent communication skills.

Technical Skills:

PROFRESSIONAL EXPERINENCE

Confidential

Sr. SAN / Storage Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Daily maintenance and administration of EMC storage products included VMAX 20K, DMX-3/4 arrays.
• Day to day tasks includes storage provisioning on V-MAX, VPLEX, DMX-3, DMX-4 using SYMCLI, SMC, and VNX, CLARiiON CX4-960 storage arrays using Unisphere Manager.
• Registered various hosts with VPLEX and allocated Storage from VPLEX using VPLEX CLI and Unisphere for VPLEX.
• Created Meta volumes for virtual to physical mapping information and allocated it to VPLEX. Also created Distributed devices between clusters.
• Performed VPLEX metro backend zoning to VMAX and DMX based on EMC best practices.
• Migrated data behind VPLEX using VPLEX mobility central with no host impact and no server downtime.
• Performed VPLEX metro backend zoning to VMAX and DMX based on EMC best practices.
• Encapsulated the VMAX LUNs to VPLEX Metro.
• 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.
• Implemented BCVs, Clones and Snaps for local replication and used SRDF/A, SRDF/S for remote replication on Symmetrix VMAX arrays.
• Claimed storage from heterogeneous arrays and allocated storage to Windows, Linux and ESX servers by creating Extents, Devices, Virtual Volumes and storage views.
• Also worked in disaster recovery operations team to perform the DR exercise to check the data consistency at the remote site using failover, update and failback operations.
• Worked closely with the Business Continuity Management team to identify the critical servers, Designed and implemented the DR solution VMware SRM for the virtual infrastructure for effective failover and failback.
• Implemented and Configured Business Continuity Solutions Time Finder Mirror/Clone/ Snap for Symmetrix DMX and VMAX.
• Worked with critical business units to determine the best virtual solutions for their business requirements
• Implemented various Business Continuity strategies as per the RPO and RTO requirements of mission critical applications.
• Actively involved in the design of the migration methods by discussing with system/database administrators and application owners.
• Migrated terabytes of data from several DMX/CX arrays to V-MAX using Open Replicator and Open Migrator.
• Experience in planning, installing, connecting and configuring nodes in an ISILON cluster.
• Used IMC Isilon Management Cluster to manage Isilon cluster.
• Configuring cluster by adding nodes, assign IP address, Reimage to match cluster OS version.
• By using NFS exports through Web Administration Interface enable access for UNIX and through SMB protocol to connect Windows clients to shares on ISILON cluster.
• Used Window's Robocopy utility to migrate data to Isilon cluster.
• Similarly used UNIX based Rsync utility to migrate data to Isilon cluster.
• Based on the EMC support matrix, updated required patches Operating System and HBA drivers on all systems that are part of the data migration.
• Allocated storage to VMware ESX, Linux, Windows, AIX, HP-UX, Solaris servers along with clusters from DMX, VMAX, CX and VNX arrays.
• Implemented disaster recovery solution MirrorView/A/S for remote replication between CLARiiON CX4-480/960 and CX3-80.
• Implemented FAST VP and Data compression for LUNs and configuring FAST cache on VNX.
• Setup alerts for monitoring of thin pools usage on both CLARiiON and VMAX and expanded the pools accordingly.
• Administration of VNX 5500/5700 including creation of file systems, exporting and mounting CIFS/NFS shares and configuring network interfaces.
• Created and configured virtual machines, installing VM Tools into VMs and allocating for end user.
• Performed Zone administration on the fabric to do migration according to requirements.
• Involved in migrating the SAN environment from old switches to the latest Director Class switches. Migrated the SAN environment from Brocade 48K switches to Cisco MDS 9513.
• Configured Cisco switches by creating VSAN's, Port Channel, TE ports and zoning.

Environment: EMC VMAX, DMX-4/DMX-3, VPLEX, VNX5500/5700, CLARiiON CX4-480/960, CX3-80, NS 480/704, Brocade 48K, 4100, Cisco MDS 9513/9509, SYMCLI 7.x/6.x, SMC 7.1, ECC 6.1, Unisphere for VPLEX, VPLEX CLI, Navisphere Manager 6.x, SRDF A, TimeFinder Mirror/Clone/Snap, MirrorView, Open Migrator, Open Replicator, Brocade Web Tools/ CLI, Cisco CLI/ Fabric Manager, Celerra Manager/CLI, Celerra Replicator, BMC Control-M, EMC PowerPath, AIX 5.3, Solaris 8/9/10, VMware.

Confidential

Sr. SAN / Storage Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Day to day management of SAN environment, storage provisioning, zoning, registering hosts, create RAID groups, Binding LUN, creating Storage Groups using Navisphere Manager.
• Implemented Virtual Provisioning in VMAX and DMX-4using thin pools with oversubscription for maximum utilization of storage assets.
• Expanded LUN to Striped or Concatenated MetaLUN using Navisphere 6.x and NaviCLI.
• Monitored performance of CLARiiON using Performance Manager and Navisphere Analyzer.
• Implemented various business continuity data recovery, backup operations using TimeFinder Mirror/Clone/Snap local replication, SRDF remote replication and storage provisioning.
• Created and managed Time Finder/Mirror sessions using device groups on a regular interval to provide the data change rate by performing full/incremental Establish and Split actions.
• Restored the data from the BCVs in case of a corruption/deletion on the production environment.
• Implemented mission critical data Disaster Recovery using SRDF/Sbetween DMX-4 and DMX-3 arrays at remote site, for production systems requiring fastest recovery with zero RPO.
• Implemented a consistent data replication setup symreplicate to run on regular interval for critical applications between 2 DMX-4 using SRDF/ARbased on the RPO requirement.
• Created and deleted RDF pairs dynamically using symrdf createpair and deletepair and managed RDF sessions using RDF type device groups and symrdf query.
• Implemented disaster recovery solution MirrorView/A/Ssessions for remote replication across geographically distant CLARiiON CX3-80 and CX700 arrays for continuous remote replication that protects most critical data in the event of unplanned outage.
• Implemented the online/hot backup, space saving logical copy SnapView Snapshotsfeature of CLARiiON, on production data for immediate access by backup and decision making groups.
• Implemented the online full volume physical copy Snap View clone feature of CLARiiON for data warehouse applications running across heterogeneous platforms.
• Configured fail safe networks and various network parameters for Celerra.
• Installing and configuring ESX 4.0 and vCenter Server 2.5 and 4.0.
• Manage virtual machines using Virtual center and troubleshoot typical ESX server issues.
• Performed ongoing hardware and software maintenance of Windows server environment, including VMware ESX Server and virtual machines
• Configured Soft zoning, hard zoning activities by creating aliases, zones and configurations on Brocade Switches using Brocade Fabric Manager, Web tools and CLI.
• Implemented SAN expansion by joining the new switches to the existing fabric or merging two fabrics with minimal or no disturbance to the production.
• Configured and implemented core-edge using MDS Cisco directors 9509, 9506 and 9124, 9134 switches to configure a multi-tier SAN environment.
• Performed Firmware upgrade and downgrade Fabric OS on Brocade switches.
• Performed archiving restoring Brocade switch configurations on Brocade switches.
• Performing day to day monitoring of scheduled jobs, contacting application team for failed jobs, completing the scheduled jobs.
• Installed and configured the Navisphere Agent/CLI on UNIX and Windows Servers.
• Good knowledge on identifying and resolving SAN cable and configuration issues.
• Generated health reports periodically and take necessary action required to keep the environment up.

Environment: EMC Symmetrix VMAX, DMX-4, DMX-3, CLARiiON CX3-80, CX700, NS 40G/80G, Cisco MDS 9509, 9506 Directors and MDS 9124, 9134 Departmental switches, Brocade 48k Directors and 3800 departmental switch. ESX4.0, vCenter Server 2.5 and 4.0, AIX 5.2/5.3 , HP-UX 11.00/11.11 , Win 2k3/2K8 Solaris 8/9/10. SYMCLI, Celerra Manager/CLI, Celerra SnapSure, TimeFinder/Mirror, Clone Snaps, SRDF/S and SRDF/AR, MirrorView/S/A, NaviSecCLI, Navisphere Manager, SnapView Snap/Clone, Brocade CLI, Cisco CLI, Cisco Fabric Manager, Cisco Device Manager.

Confidential

Sr. Implementation Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Experience with storage provisioning on VNX-5300using Unisphere Manger, NavisecCLI and NaviCLI.
• Implemented file and block storage allocations to ESX/Windows servers from VNX-5300.
• Implemented Vcenter Migration from one host to other using VMotion and migrated virtual machines using SVmotion.
• Hands on experience in installing iSCSI cards on VNX5300 and assigned IP's.
• Configured switch iSCSI initiator ports on ESXi.
• Experience with Microsoft iSCSI software initiator package which adds support to Windows operating system for using iSCSI targets.
• Hands on experience in creating Tiered pools and created Raid groups on VNX5300.
• Installed VNX/Clariion array splitter on VNX 5300 via Unisphere Service Manager.
• Configured DNS, NTP server, SMTP and SNMP on VNX 5300.
• Installed compression enabler and thin provisioning software's on VNX 5300 using USM.
• Hands on experience in configuring CIFS servers, managing CIFS shares and have profound knowledge on CIFS features.
• Created NFS file systems and implemented NFS export to various clients with required permissions.
• Adopt in configuring and maintaining file storage and network retrieval infrastructure which includes Ethernet channel, Link Aggregation Control Protocol LACP , Fail Safe Network FSN and mastered in creating devices and interfaces.
• Responsibilities also include registering hosts, creating RAID groups, binding LUNs, and adding luns to Storage groups using Unisphere for windows and ESXi servers.
• Day to day jobs include storage allocation, mapping and masking including troubleshooting, monitoring and reporting on the SAN environment.
• Hands on experience in configuring Reserved Lun Pool for Snapshots.
• Actively involved in Host Relocation projects, where the physical server is moved from one data center to the other.
• Extensive experience on monitoring alerts using EMC Unisphere.
• Troubleshooting routine critical issues including server throughput, port availability, zone requirements, PowerPath issues, host issues host is unable to see storage .
• Troubleshooting various SAN not seen by host issues related to zoning, path failures, disk failures etc.

Environment: VNX-5300,VMWARE 5.0 ESXi, VMware workstation and Windows 2008 R2, Unisphere Manager, CiscoCLI, VMware VCenter Converter Standalone Client, SVmotion and VMotion.

Confidential

SAN/ Storage Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Performed functions of a Storage Administrator including Zoning, LUN Masking and LUN Provisioning on Symmetrix and CLARiiON.
• Involved in Symmetrix configuration, connecting management server to the Symmetrix through fabric.
• Converting the STDs to BCVs using symconfigure, create and manage device groups and setup the BCVs to do establish, split and mount volumes on a different server to do the backup operations.
• Consolidated storage and expanded by upgrading from CX 700 to a higher capacity CX3-20 using San Copy.
• Created a complete documentation that includes all the components in the SAN environment, BCV setup for backup, disaster recovery procedures.
• Implemented High availability solutions like MirrorView, SAN Copy on CLARiiON for source and target sites.
• Followed proper Change Management Procedures, well prepared and submitted all the required documents for all SAN / Storage migration projects.
• Creating the Meta luns based on the application requirements using SYMCLI, Navisphere Manager.
• Reclaimed the storage after destroying the data, unmounting the file systems, unmasking, unmapping from the FA ports and dissolving the Meta devices using SYMCLI.
• Cleaned up the old storage which includes deleting SRDF pairs and clone relationships.
• Provided documents for operational management, troubleshooting the issues that occur in the SAN environment.
• Implemented a core-edge topology with Brocade 3800, 3900, 12k, 48k directors and connected all the storage DMX3, DMX-3000, and CX3-20, CX700 systems to core and host systems to the edge switches which provide a huge connectivity options for future use.
• Created copies of production data by configuring clones from the production data using TimeFinder Business Continuity used for testing and development and for backups.
• Implemented san migration from a linear 24K topology to core-edge with 48K and Brocade switches.
• Converted the device personalities as per the requirement converting STD to BCVs and BCVs to BCV/R1 and setup R1 and R2 etc. .
• Implemented a disaster recovery solution using SRDF/AR between the two sites production and DR located geographically apart.

Environment: DMX-3, DMX-3000, CLARiiON CX3-20, CX700, Brocade 12k,48k Directors and departmental switches, SYMCLI, TimeFinder/Mirror, Clone Snaps, SRDF/AR, MirrorView/S/A, NaviCLI, Navisphere manager, SnapView Snap/Clone, SanCopy, Brocade CLI, Brocade Web Tools. AIX 5.2/5.3 , HP-UX 11.00/11.11 , Win 2k3/2k8, Solaris 8/9.