SUMMARY

• More than Seven years of progressive Administrative and implementation experience in large - scale and midrange storage for EMC Storage Area Networks (SAN) and Network Attached Storage (NAS)Extensive experience with business continuity, disaster recovery.
• Working experience on the installation, configuration and provisioning of VNX, VMAX, VBLOCK, DMX4, CX4-960, Vplex, RecoverPoint and NS series, HDS and IBM.
• Expertise with the following monitoring tools and configuration tools: Unisphere Manager, SMC, ECC, SYMCLI, Navisphere Manager, NaviCLI/NaviSecCLI.
• Performance monitoring with Unisphere. Experienced in administrating EMC CLARiiON Storage environment using Navisphere Analyzer, Navisphere Manager, PowerPath ME and SANCopy.
• Experienced in administrating EMC Symmetrix Storage environment using, EMC TimeFinder Mirror, SRDF/S, Operational knowledge on SRDF/A, Open replicator, Solution Enabler (SYMCLI) & SANCopy.
• Strong experience in Backup management and disaster recovery administration using EMC Time Finder family (snapshot, Clone and BCV’s), Remote replication techniques (SRDF, Mirror View and SANCopy)
• Successful in troubleshooting the complex technical issues related to storage while analyzing the root cause of storage issues and resolve to the management contentment
• Hands on experience in Migration of data between EMC to EMC arrays and EMC to Third party Arrays Using SRDF, SAN COPY, Open replicator and RecoverPoint
• Experience with configuring and managing Isilon environment
• Hands on experience installing troubleshooting and configuring Zoning using WebTools for Brocade switches and Fabric/Device Manager for Cisco MDS switches.
• Worked on switches such as Cisco MDS 06 /9148, McData M4700, Brocade 12000/4800/4100
• Experience in Virtual infrastructure resources specializing in VMware ESX server 3.5, 4.0 and 4.1; VMware vCenter server 4.0, 4.1 and ESXi 5.0
• Extensive Experience is Networking, System Administration of Windows and Unix Operating Systems.
• Hands on experience with HP Proliant Servers and Dell Power Edge rack mount servers.
• Strong understanding of VMware Networking concepts like creation of vSwitches, different types of port groups, and security policy setting by NIC Teaming, load balancing, beacon traffic, notification to switches for connectivity problems.
• Experienced in Installation and configuration of SUN Solaris 8, 9 and 10 on Sun Servers Using Jumpstart automatic installation.
• Good understanding on storage types including iSCSI, NAS and SAN, VM creation capable file systems including VMFS and NFS.
• Extensive experience in working with the vMotion technology and Storage vMotion technology.
• Experience in Windows Server 2003 and 2008 server architecture and administration.
• In-depth understanding of Operating Systems, Servers, and enterprise applications, as well as their compatibility with storage architecture, business goals and technology strategies.
• Excellent leadership qualities, good communication skills and interpersonal skill

TECHNICAL SKILLS

STORAGE ARRAYS: VNX5700, VNX7500, VBLOCK-320/720, CX3-80, CX4-960, Symmetrix VMAX 10K,20K, DMX-3, DMX-4, Netapp FAS3020, FAS3070, FAS3240, FAS6240, HP Storage (super Domes), HDS (Hitachi data)

SAN SWITCHES: Cisco MDS9513,9509, 9140 & 9120 and Brocade 48k/12k/5100/4900/McData 4500/McData 4700/McData 6064/McData 6140

SOFTWARE: EMC Control Center (ECC), EMC Navisphere Manager, EMC Unisphere, NaviCLI, SYMCLI, Symmetrix Management Console (SMC), SRDF, SRDF/A, TimeFinder/Clone, MirrorView,, SanCopy, Open Replicator, Open Migrator, PPME, RecoverPoint 4.0, NetApp Filerview, Hitachi data device Manger, NetApp Data OnTap 7.x, 8.1, Netapp operations manager, NetApp SnapManager for exchange/oracle, Cisco Fabric manger

WINDOWS ADMINISTRATION: Configuration of DHCP and DNS, installation and configuration of VPN client, Windows Server 2003/2008 - installation and configuration, installation and configuration of Active Directory and Internet Information Service (IIS 5.0/6.0), creating users and groups, setting user access controls, domains creation and setup

SERVER HARDWARE: HP Proliant DL380 G5/G6, HP Proliant DL385 G6/G7, HP Proliant DL580 G5, Dell PowerEdge 2850, 2950,6850,R710,R900, HP BL 460c G5/G6 blade servers, C7000 HP Chassis, Cisco UCS chassis.

PLATFORMS: Windows, Linux (RHEL / OEL), AIX, VMware, HPUX, Solaris.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, DURHAM, NC

SR. STORAGE ENGINEER

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• SAN / NAS Administration in a storage environment consisting of EMC Clariion, VNX, VBLOCK, DMX, VMax, Netapp FAS Series, Cisco and Brocade Switches.
• Assigned storage from VBLOCK 320 to Windows and VMware environments.
• Migrated virtual hosts by using vMotion to new data store created on VNX pool storage.
• Performing LUN expansions and LUN migrations in VMAX and VNX, Implementing and Administrating THIN Provisioning in VNX & VMAX.
• Configuredstorage Pools for File and created file systems, Tree Quotas and Group Quotas
• Implementing and Maintaining FAST Cache and FAST VP in VNX, Configuring and managing Network for Block in VNX.
• MIGRATION of data using LUN migrator within Homogenous pools and SAN copy.
• Provided best practices for storage planning and provisioning for SAP and Siebel environments.
• Planning and implementation of the VPLEX cluster.
• Provisioning and administration on VPLEX.
• Experience in provisioning Luns, adding capacity to the existing Luns, using GUI and Vplex cli.
• Involved with EMC CE to design and installed RPA splitters on VBLOCK-320 and implemented RecoverPoint Clusters.
• Used Recover Point for disaster recovery.
• Performed a CRR copy sessions using recoverpoint.
• Migrated 63TB of data using Data Mobility on Vplex. (VNX to VNX behind Vplex)
• Upgraded PowerPath version from 5.1 to 5.5 sp1 to bring host to latest version of PowerPath supported by Powerpath by VPLEX.
• Migrated and virtualized data behind VPLEX using mobility central with no host impact and no serverDowntime.
• Planning and configuration of automated backups and restores using VERITAS Netbackup 6.5.
• Perform administration and management on VMAX 20K with Enginuity 5876.
• Creation of Cascading Storage groups, Cascading Initiator Groups, Port Groups and Masking Views on Unisphere.
• Implemented FAST VP and created best FAST policies for Storage Groups.
• Monitor performance of the VMAX by using performance manager.
• Performed storage decommissioning on VMAX, delete zones, unmap devices and dissolve metas.
• Performed zoning/IVR on VMAX and hosts in CISCO 9513/9501 environment.
• Configuration of qtrees, quotas, volumes, aggregates/ spare disks (NetApp FAS 3250, 3070)
• Performing Snapshot restore for business critical applications as and when required
• Support & Configure multi-protocols including NFS, CIFS for UNIX and Windows Hosts
• Worked on server remediations on windows 2008, 2003 and 2000 servers.
• Created performance trend reports and capacity planning reports by using SRM (storage resource Manager) and VNX monitoring and reporting tool and NetApp OnCommand Management Software.

ENVIRONMENT: VNX7500 (unified), VBLOCK 320 & 720, Clariion, Vplex Local, RecoverPoint 4.0, Vmax 20K, VERITAS NetBackup 6.5, EMC Data Domain, Netapp Metro cluster, NetApp OnCommand Management SoftwareIBM V7000, SVC, XtremIO/O, and Dell Tape Library.

Confidential, CHICAGO IL

SAN/STORAGE ADMINISTRATOR

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Administration and maintenance of enterprise storage arrays like EMC CLARiiON CX 4-120/240/480/960 , Symmetrix VMAX, and DMX3/4.
• Created and configured RAID groups, storage groups, binding LUN’s, Naming, Resizing, and Unbinding LUN’s through Navisphere manager and NaviCLI.
• Performed mapping and masking on Symmetrix arrays DMX-3 using SYMCLI.
• Hands on experience on Symmetrix virtual provisioning using Solutions enabler.
• Extensive hands on experience with Clarions CX 4-120/240/480/960 using Unisphere.
• Install and Manage EMC Symmetix family DMX 3, 4, VMAX, VNX7500, CLARiiON CX 4-120, CX3-80, in heterogeneous environments, which include the following operating systems: Windows 2000/2003/MSCS, Enterprise Linux versions 3 & 4 and Sun Solaris 9/10.
• Expertise in SRDF and Time Finder
• Local replications using TF/snapshots and TF/clones.
• Strong Understanding of storage replication and virtualization technologies
• Managing large heterogeneous SAN fabric comprising Enterprise class Cisco 9513 and Brocade 48K switches managed using Connectrix Manager 10.4.5 and CLI.
• Day to day based Storage Provisioning to Windows and UNIX hosts as required
• Regular environment check and maintenance with current releases of firmware and operating systems
• Working on ISL and ICL’s in a Brocade Switch.
• Capacity planning and calculating storage using Storage Scope.
• Heavy on Multipath software like Power Path and MPIO.
• Day to day work involved troubleshooting, maintaining groups and user accounts and also daily backups by using VERITAS Netbackup on Windows Servers & Perform restores.
• Proven ability to resolve technical problems, analyze performance and make recommendations to improve current performance.
• Experience in providing operational and disaster recovery support for all storage platforms; document environments, edit/create best practices in regards to storage; provide after hours support as needed.
• Provide assistance and guidance to System Administrator's in regards to attaching hosts to the SAN
• Experience with FAST on Symmetrix VMAX, CLARiiON and VNX.

ENVIRONMENT: EMC VMAX, Symmetrix/DMX, EMC Clarion CX 4-120/240/480/960 , EMC Control Center v6.1, EMC Navisphere Manager v6.x,Unisphere, EMC Time finder/Clone,TimeFinder/Snapshot, SYMCLI, VERITAS Netbackup, EMC Power Path v6.0, Both SRDF/S and SRDF/A, SnapView, disaster recovery planning theory and best practices and testing.

Confidential

SAN/STORAGE ADMINISTRATOR

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Administration and Management of VNX 7500, CLARiiON CX3-80, CX4-480, VMAX 20-K
• Allocation of storage from VNX 7500 model array using Unisphere Manager to Win 08, Linux, Vmware, Exchange and AIX.
• Disaster recovery implementation and planning for Tier-1 storage arrays using SRDF
• Implementing and Administrating THIN Provisioning in VNX & VMAX
• Implementing and Maintaining FAST Cache and FAST VP in VNX, Configuring and managing Network for Block in VNX.
• Managing and monitoring SAN using Unisphere, SMC, SYMCLI and DATA ONTAP
• MIGRATION of data using open replicator and SAN copy.
• Configured and Managed EMC VMAX and VPLEX.
• Assisted EMC in installation of 2 engines VPLEX in the datacenter.
• Hands on experience on configuring and managing CISCO 9500 series switches and created zone and VSAN using fabric manager
• Created CIFS and NFS share in Data domain
• Monitored Data domain storage and reported it to the management.
• Installed NetBackup agents on the Unix and windows servers and discovered them in to the system
• Implemented SmartLock, SmartConnect, Smartpools and Smartfail operations on Isilon clusters.
• Creation and implementation of NFS Exports and SMB Shares.
• Management of Isilon cluster usingWeb Administration InterfaceandCLI.
• Configured Data Domain for De Duplication
• Worked with EMC to configure the filesystems on the DataDomain
• Created and Managed SNAP Mirror for Disaster recovery.
• Involved in installation and configuration of NAS device EMC Celerra NS501G, NS700
• Created and administered Celerra volumes, slices
• Configured Celerra Replicator on Celerra systems for Local and Remote Replication after creating checkpoints
• Troubleshoot NFS, CIFS issues on the EMC Celerra and fine-tuned the file server for optimal performance
• Created aggregates/volumes and qtrees in a NetApp environment.
• Allocated and configured storage using different protocols such as NFS/CIFS/SAN from FAS3070/FAS3020 to different OS platforms.
• Work with Netapp customer support to troubleshoot any issues and also open tickets when required.
• Working knowledge on migration of data between EMC and Netapp using Recoverpoint by array based splitters
• Implementing NFS and CIFS shares in VNX, Creating and Managing File Systems, shares and quota
• Increase and decrease the quota and volume sizes as per the requirement
• Upgraded VMware ESX 3.5 servers to ESX 4.0 servers and to ESX 4.1 and also Virtual centers from vCenter 2.5 to vCenter 5.0.
• Prepared the standard Virtual machine storage migration procedural document for different versions of Virtual Centers.
• Installed and upgraded HBA drivers and firmware on all open system environments.
• Troubleshooting the issues that occur in the SAN environment and providing documentation for operational management.

ENVIRONMENT: VNX 7500, CX4-960, VPLEX, Symmetrix DMX4, VMAX 20K,DataDomain 880, Cisco 9513, SMC, ECC, SYMCLI, SRDF, Open replicator, SAN copy, Recoverpoint, ESX server 4.1,vCenter 5.0,NetApp 3000 and 6000 series filers, HP Proliant DL580 G5, Windows 2008 R2, Solaris, AIX

Confidential

SAN/STORAGE ADMINISTRATOR

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Administration of VNX, CLARiiON CX3-80, CX4-480, HDS, Symmetrix VMAX, DMX3.
• Storage allocation on CLARiiON by using Navisphere Manager/Analyzer and Symmetrix by Symmetrix mgmt. console (SMC)/ SYMCLI.
• Allocated storage from VNX 5700/7500 model arrays using Unisphere Manager to Win 08, Linux and AIX.
• Implementing and Maintaining FAST Cache and FAST VP in VNX, Configuring and managing Network for Block and File in VNX
• Installation of VNX with 3 POOL Storage along with Fast cache.
• Performing LUN expansions and LUN migrations in VMAX, DMX, Clariion & VNX, Implementing and Administrating THIN Provisioning in VNX & VMAX
• Implementing and Maintaining FAST Cache and FAST VP in VNX, Configuring and managing Network for Block and File in VNX
• Configuring mixed qtrees and authentication for both Unix and windows environment
• Allocated storage from different arrays such as NetApp and EMCCLARiiON Arrays.
• Migrated data from DMX-4 to VMAX using array based migration technologies like PPME, Open Replicator.
• Migrated the NAS filesystems from stand-alone NAS server to netapp arrays.
• Configured snapshots schedule on the Netapp volumes in the environment.
• Created Aggregates, Volumes (Traditional, FlexVol and FlexClone), Qtrees and Quotas in NetApp FAS 3040 and FAS 3020 using Filerview.
• Created and exported NFS and CIFS shares from EMC Celerra using Celerra manager.
• Troubleshooting SAN Switches for dial home events and symptom codes using consoles like Fabric manager, Web Tools.
• Zoning, merging of new switches to existing fabric on brocade switches.
• Proactively analyzing SAN environment using Brocade SAN Health reports.
• Worked closely with SAN admin team in LUN creation, LUN masking, zoning and LUN addressing by supporting multiple storage connectivity options such as FC-SAN, iSCSI, NFS (NAS) and internal storage.
• Developed and documented the installation and allocation procedures.
• Installed VMware vSphere ESXi 4/4.1 and ESX server 4.1/4/3.5 in a total of 200 ESX servers, 2000+ servers, and 2 virtual centers.
• Designed and successfully implemented VMware ESX servers for server consolidation.
• Build/Design Windows 2008/2003 Servers on standalone and blade servers based on application design and deployed stack on these servers using CA Unicenter software deployment.
• Upgraded VMware ESX 3.5 servers to ESX 4.0 servers and to ESX 4.1.

ENVIRONMENT: VNX, CLARiiON CX700, CX3-800, CX4, Symmetrix DMX3, V-MAX, Cisco 9513, Brocade 3850, 4100, SAN Copy, Snapview, Time Finder, Navisphere 6X, SRDF, Brocade web Tools, Windows 2008/2003, VMware ESX, AIX .