SUMMARY

• A SAN professional with over 11+ years of experience in Information Technology industry including experience in enterprise storage management.
• Having 8+ years of experience as Storage Area Network(SAN) Administrator / Engineer on EMC storage products including VMAX, DMX, VNX & CLARiiON, EMC Isilon, VPLEX, XtremIO, vBlock, ATMOS and Netapp FAS3070, FAS6070, Hitachi VSP.
• Experience in management of storage environment consisting of Symmetrix VMAX 20K/40K, VMAX 3, DMX - 4, DMX 3, Clariion CX600/700, CX3-40/80, Cisco MDS 9509, 9513 and Brocade 4900, M4700. 48K Director Class.
• Hands on experience in using SYMCLI, Navisphere Manager, Unisphere Manager, SMC, Solutions Enabler, EMC Control Center, Hitachi Command Suite, Hitachi Storage navigator, Hitachi Dynamic Provisioning, Hitachi Dynamic Tiering, Hitachi Tiered Storage Manager, Hitachi Universal Replicator.
• Involved in Binding LUNs, Creating Storage Groups on different series of CLARiiON arrays.
• Experience in using Open Replicator to migrate from Clariion, DMX to VMAX. Configured, Created, push and pull sessions to migrate devices.
• Involved in implementing Clustering, Zoning, and Masking.
• Presenting san storage to virtual machines using ISCSI.
• Presenting CSV’s to the host clusters in virtual environment.
• Configuring data storage in Netapp FAS series Filers that run Data ONTAP 7G.
• Performed storage array End of life migrations using PPME.
• Providing Recover point protection to devices in production environment as per requirement.
• Experience in EMC SRDF/A, Recoverpoint, Mirror view, Snap view, SAN Copy and Power path.
• Experience in EMC Isilon(SmartConnect,SmartFail, SmartPools/Zones, SyncIQ, SmartQuota, SnapshotIQ, SmartLock, InsightIQ), VPLEX, XtremIO and Netapp.
• As a SAN Engineer, analyzing the requirement and providing technical solutions based on architecture.
• Experience in SAN Migrations using PPME, Open Replicator and Knowledge on NAS migrations using Robocopy, EMC Rainfinity.
• Having good knowledge on TSM(Tivoli Storage Manager).
• Installation and configuration of Virtual Environments like VMware VSphere 5 and Confidential Hyper-v.
• Excellent hand-on experience with Vmware vSphere ESXi, vCenter.
• Excellent knowledge of Vmware vMotion, Storage vMotion, High Availability, DRS and Site Recovery Manager (SRM).
• Monitor health of VMs operating in various datacenters.
• Manage replications and VM movements between datacenters.
• Excellent skills in analyzing, designing, implementing and system integration.
• As a SAN Engineer preparing technical documentation for new process implementations and changes in existing processes.
• Established customer relationships through weekly/monthly Storage Planning & Management meetings, upcoming scheduled SAN/NAS projects and daily activities.
• Self starting individual with good intercommunication skills combined with the ability to work collaboratively and as well as an individual to achieve management goals. Process orientated with a strong attention to detail.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: Windows,Sun Solaris 9, LINUX

Virtualization: VMWare, Hyper-v

Storage Arrays: EMC- VMAX, VNX, Clariion, DMX, ISILON, VPLEX, XtremIO, vBlock, ATMOS, Netapp, Hitachi VSP.

Storage Tools: EMC Navisphere Manager, Unisphere Manager, ECC, SMC, ViPR SRM, SymCLI, SRDF, Timefinder Mirror/Clone/Snap Mirrorview/Snapview, Sancopy, PPME, Recover Point, Hitachi Command Suite, Hitachi Storage navigator, Hitachi Dynamic Provisioning, Hitachi Dynamic Tiering, Hitachi Tiered Storage Manager, Hitachi Universal Replicator.

Switches: Brocade & Cisco

Fabric Management: Soft zoning, Hard zoning, FC SAN topologies, Inter switch link’s, Multi-pathing (Redundant Fabrics), Webtools Connectrix Manager, Brocade Fabric Manager, Brocade CLI.

Database: SQL Server, Oracle

Programming Languages: C,C++,Java

Protocols: TCP/IP, NIS+, NIS, NFS, CIFS, DNS, DHCP, SCSI, ISCSI, FCP, IFCP, FCIP

Scripting Languages: Perl, Shell, Java script

Backup Tools: Avamar, Data domain, Symantec Netbackup

Trainings attended: Hadoop administration(Big Data) - Map reduce, Hive, Linux, Java, HBase, Pig, Sqoop, Flume.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Redmond, WA

Storage Administrator (Tech Lead)

Responsibilities:

• Support mid and high range, enterprise SAN (Storage Area Network) for mission critical applications .
• Have hands-on experience on EMC Symmetrix DMX,VMAX,CLARiiON,VNX, XtremIO,Isilon, Hitachi VSP.
• Providing Technical solutions based on the architecture.
• Configuring pools and policies for tiering.
• Configuring Zoning, Device Mapping and Masking for multiple hosts and storages.
• Installing compatible Multipath Software like Power path.
• Installed and configured Unisphere Manager, Solutions enabler.
• Provisioning storage from Hitachi VSP using Command Suite.
• Configuring data storage in Netapp FAS series.
• Assigning &/allocating LUNs to Servers from Clariion CX-600, CX-700, CX 3-40, CX 3-80 Boxes using Navisphere.
• Storage provisioning and administration of EMC DMX and VMAX arrays using Unisphere Manager/SMC and SymCLI.
• Knowledge of NFS and CIFS share creation using Isilon GUI.
• Knowledge on SyncIQ, SnapshotIQ, Smart Quota, SmartConnect, Subnets and pool configuration.
• Knowledge of OneFS 7.1 and good understanding of Isilon S,X and NL series and hardware architecture Infini-band switch connectivity, node connectivity, I/O flow and load balancing between nodes.
• Configured anonymous file sharing to connect clients to the cluster via SMB/NFS for windows operating environment using SmartConnect.
• Presenting san storage to virtual machines using ISCSI.
• Presenting CSV’s to the host clusters in virtual environment.
• Installing HBA Drivers on the servers and resolving the issues related to SAN.
• Implementing FAST policies on storage groups.
• Involved in PPME (Host based) migrations for standalone and clustered servers.
• Performed storage array End of life migrations using PPME.
• Involved in growing striped lun with protection using BCV.
• Involved in VLUN migrations in VMAX for pool balancing.
• Providing Recover point protection to devices in production environment as per requirement.
• Monitoring and analyzing I/O performance of the servers from the Storage end
• Troubleshooting the Brocade and Cisco Switches problems
• Troubleshooting the SAN problems
• Troubleshooting storage issues related to clusters.
• Installed and configured PowerPath on various operating systems to support the load balancing and failover features among the HBAs on the system.
• Involved In configuring Zones to the hosts.
• Configured and implemented a standardized SRDF/AR group for disaster recovery.
• 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.
• Creating the RAID Groups and binding LUNs on EMC CLARiiON Storage systems.
• Creating the storage groups and carving the LUNs on EMC CLARiiON arrays.
• Configure LUNs, LUNs Provisioning, and LUN Masking on EMC CLARiiON storage systems by using Access Logix.
• Responsible for performing day to day operational tasks like storage provisioning and maintaining high availability as per EMC best practices.
• Generated health reports periodically for the entire SAN/Storage environments.
• Experience in EMC Clariion/VNX Administration by Using Navisphere/Unisphere Manager.
• Installed Navisphere Agent/CLI on Solaris & Windows Servers.
• Troubleshooting of multi-Pathing issues.
• Troubleshooting on Connectivity issues by co-ordinating with sites team.
• Removing of unused LUNs from servers as part of decommission of servers.
• Providing 24/7 support.

Environment: EMC VMAX-20K,DMX-4, DMX1000/pdf/DMX3000.pdf VNX,ISILON, XtremIO,VPLEX, Netapp FAS 6070,CLARiiON CX-600/700, CX3-40, CX3-80,FAST, SRDF/A, Recoverpoint, PPME, ISCSI, Hitachi VSP, Brocade, CISCO Windows, SYMCLI, Unisphere Manager for VMAX, Navisphere Manager, Hitachi Command Suite, Brocade CMCNE and Webtools, CISCO using Fabric Manager, Device Manager and DCNM.

Confidential

Storage Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Support mid and high range, enterprise SAN (Storage Area Network) and NAS(Network Attached Storage).
• Having good experience on EMC Symmetrix VMAX, DMX, CLARiiON, Celerra and VNX.
• Opening SR’s with vendor for resolving the hardware related issues.
• Co-ordinating with vendor for resolving the issues related to performance.
• Co-ordinating with sites team in providing access to vendor team for hardware replacements and troubleshooting issues.
• Configuring Zoning, Device Mapping, and Device Masking for multiple hosts and storages.
• Installing compatible Multipath Software like Power path.
• Assigning &/allocating LUNs to Servers from Clariion CX-600, CX-700, CX 3-40, CX 3-80 Boxes using Navisphere.
• Storage provisioning and administration of EMC DMX and VMAX arrays using SMC or SymCLI.
• Presenting File shares to from Netapp 3070.
• Presenting shared storage through ISCSI to virtual machines which will be clustered
• Installing HBA Drivers on the servers and resolving the issues related to SAN.
• Monitoring and analyzing I/O performance of the servers from the Storage end
• Involved in co-ordinating with EMC support team for EOL migrations using Open migrator.
• Troubleshooting the SAN problems
• Installed and configured PowerPath on various operating systems to support the load balancing and failover features among the HBAs on the system.
• Involved In configuring Zones to the hosts.
• Configured and implemented a standardized SRDF/AR group for disaster recovery.
• Creating the Device groups and populating the proper devices and export those groups to the remote side to use in case of a disaster.
• 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.
• Configure a Host integration to access the EMC CLARiiON storage array by using Navisphere manager 6.x.
• Creating the RAID Groups and binding LUNs on EMC CLARiiON Storage Systems.
• Creating the storage groups and carving the LUNs on EMC CLARiiON.
• Configure LUNs, LUNs Provisioning, and LUN Masking on EMC CLARiiON storage systems by using Access Logix.
• Responsible for performing day to day operational tasks like storage provisioning and maintaining high availability as per EMC best practices.
• Generated health reports periodically for the entire SAN/Storage environments.
• Experience in EMC Clariion Administration by Using Navisphere Manager.
• Monitoring EMC Clariion arrays performance by using Navisphere Analyzer.
• Installed Navisphere Agent/CLI on Solaris & Windows Servers.
• Troubleshooting of multi-Pathing issues.
• Troubleshooting on Connectivity issues.
• Removing of unused LUNs from servers.
• Excellent hand-on experience with Vmware vSphere ESXi, vCenter.
• Excellent knowledge of Vmware vMotion, Storage vMotion, High Availability, DRS and Site Recovery Manager (SRM).
• Monitor health of VMs operating in various datacenters.
• Manage replications and VM movements between datacenters.
• Providing 24/7 support

Environment: DMX1000/pdf/DMX3000.pdfCLARiiON CX-600/700, CX3-40, CX3-80,DMX-2,VMAX, Netapp 3070, Brocade 48k, Solaris, Linux, Windows,Vmware Vsphere 5, SYMCLI, ECC 6.0, Navisphere Manager, Brocade CLI and Webtools.

Confidential

System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Administrating user accounts in windows NT 5.0 SERVER
• Administration of ISA proxy servers and proxy firewall clients.
• Configuring and maintaining DNS, DHCP servers
• Performance tuning, trouble shooting the event logs.
• To create users on request in the domain
• Rectifying all type of Network problems
• Upgrading the service packs, software’s, account packages
• Diagnosed different type of software problems
• To Monitor Health Condition and implement recommendations
• Troubleshot hardware problem’s
• Monitoring Disk Activity, logs, Checking for free space and removed temporary Core files
• Installation of Sql server 2000 database.
• Restoring the database in Sql server 2000.
• Troubleshooting the installation problems of various software’s on Windows 2000/2003 & XP systems.

Environment: Windows 2000/2003, XP, Sql server 2000