SUMMARY

• Seven years of experience in Storage Administration - NetApp, EMC and HP Hardware and software products and Disaster Recovery.
• Experience in administering NetApp Storage systems on Data ONTAP 7-Mode
• Administration experience in storage to Multiprotocol Environments like CIFS and NFS in NetApp SAN/NAS environment.
• Experience in administering, maintaining, implementing NetApp Storage Systems FAS8040, FAS 6280, FAS3240, FAS6040.
• Monitoring and managing NetApp environment using OnCommand suite, DFM & OnCommand Balance.
• Experience in Snap Vault, Snap Mirror and Snap Restore technologies
• Administration of Symmetrix VMAX using SymCLI and SMC.
• Performance monitoring with Symmetrix performance analyser On VMAX and DMX-3, 4.
• Experience in implementing data migrations using Array based tools Open Replicator- host based tools Open Migrator/Powerpath Migration Enabler.
• Experienced in administrating EMC Symmetrix Storage environment using, EMC TimeFinder BCV/Clone/Snap, SRDF/S, Solution Enabler (SymCLI)
• Experienced in configuring and providing Zoning, Masking & Mapping for Storage Provisioning in EMC Symmetrix Storage array & EMC Clariion Storage Array.
• Experienced in new Thin Pool Creation, adding tdat’s to thin pools also expanding existing thin pools by adding additional tdat’s performing pool rebalancing.
• Configuring LUNs on Storage array to optimize Overall space and Increase the performance of LUNs on server.
• Experienced with FASTVP sub lun level data movement on VMAX, by creating tiers, FAST policies associating storage groups to the FAST policies
• Experience in EMC XtremIO (XIO) Storage Array
• Experience in creating Common Provisioned Groups(CPG), Virtual Volumes(VV), creating Hosts Persona, exporting Virtual Volumes to Host, creating Virtual Domains, Domain object and managing Domain objects in HP-3PAR
• Experience in implementing HP 3PAR Thin Technologies for space management and Autonomic groups (VVSet and HOSTSet).
• Experience in implementing Virtual Copy to create snapshots of physical/virtual data copy and Remote Copy to allow mirroring data between two remote arrays in HP-3PAR for disaster recovery.
• Experience in configuring remote Copy and AO
• Hands-on experience in Generating host remediation report using EMC E-lab Advisor, Grab analysis tool, EMC Host Environment Analysis Tool (HEAT) for remediation and root cause analysis on Host
• Experience in end to end reclaiming storage from EMC/ NetApp/ HP storages, both SAN and Switch level.
• Experience in installation, configuration and administration of Brocade, Cisco MDS Switches.
• Experience in 24*7 on call support.
• Coordinated with the patch upgrades, with EMC and HP Operations engineer
• Performed data migration in NetApp, HP and EMC Storage Systems.
• Proficient in Administering and Storage Provisioning in multi-vendor OS environment including Solaris, IBM AIX, Red Hat Linux, and Windows.
• Highly motivated Team Player with good communication skills

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Hardware: NetApp - FAS 8040, 6000 series and 3000 series.EMC Symmetrix - DMX & VMAXEMC CLARiiON - CX3-20, CX3-40, CX3-80, CX600, CX700, CX200, CX4 960EMC VNX 5700EMC DD 160, 2500EMC XtremIOHP EVA- HSV 450HP 3PAR- 7400, Inserv V400Switches - Cisco - MDS 9000, Nexus 5596, MDS 9710Brocade 5000 Series

Software: NetApp - Data ONTAP 8.x (7mode & C-mode), SnapMirror, SyncMirror, SnapVault, OSSV, SnapManager, Data Fabric operations manager, SnapDrive, FlexShare, Filerview, Config AdvisorEMC - Control Center v6.x, Solutions Enabler v6.5, Navisphere Manager v6.x, NaviCLI, SymCLI, MirrorView, SnapView, SAN Copy, TimeFinder, SRDF, PowerPath v5.1, Connectrix Manager, SANtegrity, Fabric Manager, Device ManagerHP - HP Management Console, HP 3PAR System Reporter, HP EVA Console, Remote Copy, AO, DO, Online Import for Migration

Operating Systems: Red Hat Linux 4/5, Solaris 8/9/10, Windows NT/2000/2003/XP/Vista, AIX 5L v5.1/5.2

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Austin, TX

Storage Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for Administration and Maintenance of Storage Area Networks on multiple Data Centres
• Day-to-day administration includes storage allocation, zoning, troubleshooting and maintenance of Storage arrays & SAN fabric.
• Storage allocation to new build and existing UNIX, Windows servers/clusters and VMWare ESX environment using auto provisioning on VMAX using SYMCLI/SMC/Unisphere for VMAX.
• Tasks include creation of tdevs, binding tdevs to thin pools, creation of initiator/storage/port groups and creating masking view
• Implemented FASTVP sub lun level data movement on VMAX, by creating tiers, FAST policies associating storage groups to the FAST policies
• Troubleshooted performance issues using EMC Symmetrix Performance Analyzer
• Working experience in XtremIO (XIO) Storage Array
• Configured aggregates, volumes, Qtree on NetApp filers
• Implemented provision requests from customer for CIFS/NFS shares and configuring and managing permission.
• Provisioned LUN’s to different servers using NetApp Oncommand System Manager
• Responded to DFM alerts and do troubleshooting
• Worked on Creating Virtual Volumes, Common Provisioned Groups (CPG), creating Hosts, exporting VVs to Host, to create Virtual LUNS.
• Obtained strong knowledge about HP 3PAR Thin Technologies for space management.
• Implemented Dynamic Optimization by moving data between CPG's using both IMC and CLI.
• Implemented Adaptive optimization to improve the performance by moving the data at sub-LUN level.
• Implemented Autonomic groups to create VVSet & Hostset, for provisioning storage.
• Creating virtual copy snapshots using IMC and CLI
• Setup Remote Copy between HP 3PAR’s in different locations
• Involved in migrations between HP EVA and NetApp filers
• Worked on migrating data between HP subsystems using HP online import tool
• Collect performance data using system reporter tool and analyse the data as per client needs
• Coordinate with different vendors for disk replacements or any other hardware related issues
• Worked on Decommissioning Servers and reclaiming unwanted storage from EMC, NetApp and HP arrays and clean up on zoning level
• Worked with different storage vendors for firmware and code level upgrades
• Attended weekly meetings with HP/EMC/NetApp and Production Managers
• Experience in zoning between servers and arrays using Brocade Switches
• Created and Documented best practices in SAN for future use
• Involved in solving tickets assigned via Service Now Ticketing Tool and carry out scheduled change controls and let customer know status through phone/email/page.
• Opened tickets with EMC, NetApp and HP customer support and work with them to resolve the open issues
• Continuous availability to Team/customers for any issues during on-call schedule for whole week (day & night).
• Worked on exporting and importing tapes using Commvault backup software
• Generated weekly report and sent exported tapes to Iron Mount

Environment: EMC VMAX20K, XtremIO, Unisphere, Solution Enabler, Performance Analyzer, EMC Replication Manager for snapshot Management, Brocade 5000 series, NetApp 3000 and 6000 series, DD 160, 2500, HP EVA, HP 3PAR 7400, HP Management Console, NetApp Oncommand System Manager and Service Now Ticketing Tool, Online Import Tool, System Reporter for HP

Confidential, Glen Mills, PA

Storage Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for Storage Engineering and operations support at Confidential
• Perform daily storage administration activities such as storage provisioning, capacity planning, coordinate both planned and break/fix maintenance, perform code upgrades, and adhere to documented storage best practices
• Experience with Auto-provisioning by creating initiator groups, port groups, storage groups
• Implemented FAST within the array which enables the use of Enterprise Flash Drives for heavily utilized LUN’s and low cost SATA for less frequently used Lun’s
• Implemented Business Continuity solutions for production data using Time Finder Clone Emulation, Time Finder/Snap on V-Max arrays
• Configured aggregates, volumes and Qtree on NetApp filer 8040
• Configured NFS and CIFS shares from NetApp filers
• Provisioned Luns to windows servers using OnCommand System Manager
• Worked with NetApp technical support on various maintenance issues.
• Provided regular updates in weekly meetings with team, EMC, NetApp production managers.
• Installed DCNM severs and Solution Enabler on different Hosts
• Worked on zoning different servers
• Performed server remediation prior to migration by collecting “grab” reports from servers and based on report generated by Host Environment Analysis Tool (HEAT)
• Worked on Migrating FA ports to different set of FA Ports
• Administration of HP EVA storage arrays
• Worked on Creating Vdisk and present it to different hosts
• Coordinate with HP vendor for hardware failures and code upgrades
• Migrated data from NetApp to HP EVA arrays - Host based Migration
• Worked on implementing migration plan - moving existence cisco fabric to newly connected MDS 9710 director’s
• Resolved performance issues by monitoring and analysing the end-to-end performance of the infrastructure using EMC Symmetrix performance analyser.
• Handled pool utilization rate, making sure that it does not reach the alert levels
• Involved in migration activities between EMC and NetApp Arrays
• Decommissioned storage for open systems by reclaiming the storage after destroying the data, unmounting the file systems, unmasking, unmapping from the FA ports and dissolving the Meta devices using SYMCLI and cleaned up the old storage includes deleting SRDF pairs and clone relationships
• Created copies of production data by using Time Finder BCV for testing and development and also for backups
• Used Performance Analyzer, created reports for storage and capacity planning purposes
• Created Visio diagrams for all storage arrays using Microsoft Visio software
• Updated the documentation of the servers which are provisioned and upload into the client SharePoint
• Assigned switch ports for the hosts and make sure the ports are in correct VSANs and Zoning on Cisco MDS switches
• Continuous availability to team/management/customers for any issues during on-call schedule for whole week (day & night).

Environment: Remedy Tool, EMC VMAX10K, Unisphere, Solution Enabler, Performance Analyzer, Cisco 9148, Nexus 5596 MDS 9710, NetApp 8040 C Mode, HP EVA

Confidential, Fort Worth, TX

Storage Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for Administration and operations support in Confidential environment
• Gathered replication information from different V-MAX frames for the purpose of DR Test
• Worked as per the server team requirements
• Checked whether replication exists or not for the devices and created BCV, Clones if missed anything
• Responsible for Providing Clone Luns for UAT applications regarding testing to new environment.
• Creating BCV and SRDF relationship and assigning them to the backup hosts from EMC Symmetrix
• Performed the clean-ups after the DR Test
• Documented the DR procedures for future purposes
• Assigning switch ports for the hosts and make sure the ports are in correct VSANs and Zoning on Brocade switches.
• Decommission the storage as per the requirement
• Day-to-day administration includes storage allocation, zoning, troubleshooting, taking daily & weekend backups and maintenance of Storage arrays & SAN fabric.
• Experience with storage provisioning on Symmetrix V-MAX running Enginuity 5875 using SYMCLI 7.4
• Experience with Auto-provisioning by creating initiator groups, port groups, storage groups and putting them into masking views on VMAX
• Worked on V-MAX Thin provisioning and storage tiering.
• Experience in administering HP 3PAR and HP EVA systems
• Experience in set up AO, Remote Copy
• Using Online Import Tool, done migrations between HP EVA to HP 3 PAR arrays
• Worked on performance related issues by tuning manually from one CPG to another CPG (DO)
• Using System Reporter, generate related reports and check different system parameters and their trend
• Coordinate with HP support for any code or patch upgrades
• Document all best practices and create RCA for all P1 and P2 issues
• Knowledge of provisioning storage for new hosts and existing hosts (Solaris, Windows & Linux)
• Troubleshoot and work with storage support on production related issues
• Planned and implement storage solutions in production environments
• Worked with the system administrators to troubleshoot Unix connectivity issues
• Provided regular updates in weekly meetings with team, EMC, production managers.
• Monitor space utilization in storage subsystems and resolving the issues.

Environment: Service now ticketing system, EMC VMAX, DMX, VPLEX Metro, EMC DMX-3,4, EMC VNX 5500,5700, EMC Control Center, Solution Enabler, Performance Manager, Symmetrix Remote Data Facility (SRDF), TimeFinder, Cisco 9506, 9513, Netapp, Hitachi HDS, HP 3-PAR, HP EVA, Online Import, system reporter

Confidential, Monterey Park, CA

Storage Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for Administration and Maintenance of Storage Area Networks on multiple Data Centres
• Hardware Installs of NETAPP storage shelves
• Coordinate with other IT departments to gather information for design and planning purposes
• Created Hardware Visio diagrams for all Storage Systems at Confidential
• Verify system compatibility with NETAPP specific requirements for hosts attached to NETAPP storage systems.
• Trace and label Fiber attached storage systems and SAN switches
• Configured aggregates, volumes and Qtree on NetApp filers
• Provisioned SAN/NAS storage for NETAPP and EMC Symmetrix attached servers
• Worked on V-MAX Thin provisioning and storage Tiering
• Worked with team in upgrading Data ONTAP to 7.3.5.1P3, 8.0.1.
• Provisioned storage for new hosts and existing hosts (Solaris, Windows & Linux) from HP 3PAR.
• Performed system level remote support for HP-3PAR Storage arrays
• Planned and implement storage solutions in production environments
• Involved in daily storage activities to production support during on-call and or after hours.
• Involved in assisting clients on various Performance issues
• Snapshots, snapmirror replication and snapvault management. Configured snapvaults and troubleshoot failed jobs.
• Provided business groups with snapmirror replication with desired frequency and also snapvault backups for disaster recovery purpose.
• Responsible for snapmirror configurations and monitoring the relationships.
• Provided regular updates in weekly meetings with team, Netapp, EMC, production managers.

Environment: NetApp FAS 2000’s, 3000’s and 6000’s, Operations Manager, Performance advisor, Config Advisor, Filerview, Data ONTAP, BMC Remedy Automatic ticketing system, EMC VMAX, DMX, EMC DMX-3,4, EMC VNX 5500,5700, Cisco 9506, 9513.

Confidential, San Francisco, CA

Storage Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Allocated storage from EMC DMX and VMAX Arrays to different Unix/windows and VMware platforms
• Configured aggregates, volumes and Qtree on NetApp filers
• Configured NFS and CIFS shares from NetApp filers
• Configured multistore and vfilers in the NetApp environment
• Configured snapmirror and snapvault between filers for Disaster recovery and archival purposes
• Documented the DR procedures for future purposes
• Created reports for storage and capacity planning purposes
• Co-ordinate NetApp ONTAP upgrades with NetApp PSE’s
• Install and upgrade the solutions enabler and SMC in the environment.
• Worked with the system administrators to troubleshoot Unix connectivity issues
• Involved in assisting clients on various issues - Provision Management, Break/Fix, LUN Security, HBA Consulting, Firmware/Microcode Management and Storage Infrastructure Management.
• Involved in solving tickets assigned via internal ticketing system and carry out scheduled change controls and let customer know status through phone/email/page.
• Snapshots, snapmirror replication and snapvault management. Configure snapvaults and troubleshoot failed jobs.
• Provided business groups with snapmirror replication with desired frequency and also snapvault backups for disaster recovery purpose.
• Responsible for snapmirror configurations and monitoring the relationships.
• Work with the backup team to troubleshoot issues in the environment
• Responding to DFM alerts and troubleshooting.
• Monitor weekly Open System Snapvault (OSSV) jobs and resolve out of sync jobs which hold critical backups for business units.
• Implementing provision requests from customer for CIFS/NFS shares and configuring and managing permissions
• Continuous availability to team/management/customers for any issues during on-call schedule for whole week (day & night).
• Worked with Netapp technical support on various maintenance issues.
• Maintenance and Troubleshooting of Netapp filers at hardware level and administration level problems.
• Providing the customer support for the agencies with storage I/Os issues
• Resolved performance issues by monitoring and analysing the end-to-end performance of the infrastructure using EMC Symmetrix performance analyser.
• Handling of pool utilization rate, making sure that it does not reach the alert levels
• Storage reclaims and Decommission of the hosts in the clusters
• Creating Data stores and extension of data stores at the LUN level.
• Setting up new SRDF storage as per the requirement
• Upgrading Fabric manager and assist EMC admins with the Firmware upgrades
• Experience in Aliasing and Zoning on Cisco switches.

Environment: NetApp FAS 900’s, 3000’s and 6000’s, Operations Manager, Performance advisor, Filerview, Data ONTAP, EMC VMAX, EMC VNX 5700, EMC DMX-3 Storage array, Cisco MDS 9500, MDS 9200, 9100

Confidential, Basking Ridge, NJ

SAN Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Planned and implement NetApp storage solutions in production environments
• Perform daily storage administration activities such as storage provisioning, capacity planning, coordinate both planned and break/fix maintenance, perform code upgrades, and adhere to documented storage best practices
• Plan, manage, and assist with migration activities
• Consulted with clients to gain an understanding of their IT needs, budget, and their current operating environment then design storage solutions to meet those criteria
• Configured NetApp filers in SAN (FC and iSCSI) and NAS (CIFS and NFS) environments
• Configured and managed Truecopy pairs for disaster recovery
• Documented the Truecopy configuration and architecture in the environment
• Opened tickets with EMC and NetApp customer support and work with them to resolve the open issues
• Knowledge transfers to the network operation team about the different san environments for better monitoring and escalation of issues internally.
• Load software and patches relative to NetApp functionality on servers running different OS platforms (Windows, Unix, Linux)
• Confirm interoperability of current operating environments to new install hardware and software to eliminate any documented issues
• Managed Storage infrastructure, which included NetApp FAS series (3000's, 6000's) in Clustered Highly Availability (HA) configuration.
• Maintenance and Troubleshooting of FILERS (NAS) hardware level and administration level problems.
• Designed a solution to migrate their existing Oracle Infrastructure to NetApp Filers over NFS and Snap Manager for Oracle.
• Daily tasks included storage provisioning on Clariion arrays using navisphere manager.
• Tasks included creating Meta luns, expanding Meta luns, creating storage groups, configuring templates for array monitoring, generate reports for management in a windows/solaris/linux/vmware environment.
• Configured SnapView Snapshots and SnapView Clones on CLARiiON CX Series Sub-Systems.
• Performed daily administration duties using EMC control centre and SYMCLI for allocating LUNs, fabric zoning and masking in a heterogeneous environment.
• Provided storage to hosts in a SAP environment from Symmetrix, configured BCVs on Symmetrix using TimeFinder CLI.
• Monitored Array performance using control centre Performance manager.
• Performed zoning (add, remove, rename and replace zone members) on Brocade director level switches.
• Performed switch migration from brocade switches to directors. Knowledge in admin domains on Brocade directors. Daily performance and troubleshooting on directors
• Installed EMC control centre 6.0, installed master agents on windows hosts, VMWare ESX hosts, created and managed data collection policies, configured alerts, created alert policies.
• Configured storage scope, created reports for Storage management using queries, monitored the environment using the performance manager.
• Resolving tickets for failed backup jobs.
• Coordinated with a backup administrator in fine tuning the backup policies and schedules.

Environment: NetApp FAS6040, FAS3070, Symmetrix DMX 2000, DMX-3, Clariion CX 600, 700, CX3-40, CX3-80, Cisco 9509, 9516, SnapMirror, SnapVault, SnapRestore, SyncMirror, Multistore, DataFabric Operations Manager, Navisphere Manager, EMC Control Center, Storage Scope, Solution Enabler, Performance Manager, Symmetrix Remote Data Facility (SRDF), Timefinder, Snapview, MirrorView, Connectrix Manager, Web tools, Fabric Manager, PowerPath