SUMMARY:

• Experience of 7+ years in Storage consulting, process, problem solving and technical skills to improve individual, team and organizational performance. Designed, developed, and implemented several technical infrastructural solutions supporting technologies EMC Symmetrix, DMX, VNX, NetApp, EMC Clariion series,Brocade and Cisco SAN Switches, VMAXStorage Solutions in various organizations.
• Expertise in Multiple vendors Storage administration such as EMC and Netapp.
• Extensive knowledge of NAS and SAN storage, including managing major migrations and deployments, maintenance, and troubleshooting solutions.
• Experience with installing, supporting, and maintaining high - end servers.
• Great understanding of RAID concepts and mirroring techniques.
• Configured and administered Fiber Channel Switches (Cisco) and Zoning.
• Experienced in installing and configuring EMC PowerPath to provide multipath I/O, LUN management, work load balancing and path failover.
• Experienced in administration of Symmetrix VMAX 20K, 40K and DMX4 storage arrays.
• Experienced in Administration of VPLEX VS2 hardware.
• Provisioned Virtual Volumes to Hosts which are encapsulated to VPLEX.
• Migrated storage across heterogeneous storage arrays using VPLEX Data Mobility.
• Good at Remote Replications using Recoverpoint CRR.
• Configured CGS and Managed Journal Volume expansions and Dealt with Failover-Failbacks in DR Tests.
• Worked on switches such as Cisco MDS 9509/ 9506/ McData M4700.
• Excellent on planning for to fix the open hardware and software issues on storage environment involved in daily tasks like Storage provisioning and SAN monitoring.
• Possesses hands on expertise in troubleshooting day to day SAN/Storage and host related issues quickly.
• NAS Netapps Filers quota Management, near store Administration, NFS exports, Data migration support.
• Data migration using NDMP, Snap Mirror, Snap Vault, Snap Protect tools.
• Hand-on experience in collecting the Perfstat and nSanity reports and work with NetApp support to find out the performance issues.
• Done SAN switch migration from Cisco to Brocade.
• Worked on different NetApp technologies like - vFilers, ASUP DATA, Deduplication, SAN/NAS, CIFS, NFS, Data Fabric Manager - Operations Manager, Protection Manager, Provisioning Manager, and Thin Provisioning.
• Very Good experience with generating SAN Monitoring and SAN health check reports.
• Very good at preparing the documents and share the knowledge within the group to make the environment: run smooth. Excellent team building, project implementation, analytical, interpersonal andcommunication skills.
• Worked with various Storage provisioning tools including Solutions Enabler (SYMCLI), NetApp Storage manager, EMC Control Center.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Hardware: VMAX-20k, DMX-3/4, DMX 2000, Clariion CX4-960/480, CX3-80/40, CX 700/500, Celerra NS480/960, VNX 5100/5300, VNX 5500, 7500,VPLEX VS2 Engines.Brocade Silkworm Directors 48K, 24K, 12K and Departmental switches 4900, 4100 and 3900.Cisco MDS 9500 Series Multilayer Directors, EMC Emulex series and Qlogic HBAs.

Software: EMC Access Logix, Unisphere for VNX, Unisphere for VMAX, NAVI Sec CLI, Navisphere Manager, SAN manager and Connectrix Manager, EMC PowerPath, EMC TimeFinder and SRDF, EMC Control Center, Snap View and Mirror view, web Tools, Fabric manager and Device Manager, Data ONTAP 6.5, Brocade switches, Brocade web tools, Open Replicator, Robocopy, FScopy tools, Celerra manager.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Aiken, SC

Sr. Storage Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Performed Data Migration from FAS system using volume SnapMirror for retiring the FAS 3070 filer.
• Creating/ManagingVServer, LIF, Aggregare, Volumes.
• Creating/Managing QOS Policies.
• Measuring performance using DFM/System Manager/Ops Manager.
• Creating Snapmirror(Load Sharing/Data Protection) for DR purpose or redundancy.
• Created datasets, resource pools and automated jobs inside the OnCommand Unified Manager (DFM Protection Manager) to perform scheduled SnapMirror and SnapVault operations.
• Conducted zoning and masking operations between the NetApp systems and the host systems using Brocade DCFM & Cisco Fabric Manager.
• Administered the Brocade SAN switch environment using DCFM network advisor 12.0.
• Performed several Disk Firmware, Shelf Firmware, RLM/SP Firmware and ONTAP Upgrades on NetApp filers.
• Configured Autosupport on the filers.
• Responsible for the configuration of storage infrastructure using DMX, Symmetrix,VMAX, EMC Vlpex.
• Configured Brocade, Cisco SAN Switches.
• Responsible for Configuration and administration of EMC Symmetrix, DMX,VMAX, CLARiiON arrays and SVC.
• Experienced in Administration of EMC Enterprise Storage Arrays using Auto Provisioning and Virtual Provisioning.
• Troubleshoot performance issues on disks connected to Symmetrix, CLARiiON.
• Installed HBAs and configured driver, firmware on Wintel and Unix based servers. Tuned the hba configuration file based on the best practices recommended by EMC and HBA vendors.
• Configured Brocade Director Switches, using WWN zoning to create aliases and zones. Created and maintained ISL Trunking, zoning, performed firmware upgrades, and integrated all SAN connected hosts.
• Document, Troubleshooting, performance analysis, and issue escalation with vendors.
• My other duties were the weekly shifts of 24x7 on-call duty and the cooperative queue management of trouble calls using a trouble-ticket system.
• Analyzing hardware issues on Storage and SAN, coordinating with Venders to get it fix.
• Implementation and managed data storage such as EMC VMAX, VPLEX.
• Involved Zoning, Storage provision and configuring Multipath and Server decommission projects. Managed assorted issues on Storage and SAN environment like port errors and hardware fails.
• Experience in DMX and VMAX with the new VMAX systems using VPLEX and SRDF.
• Created Port Channels, VSANs, Zones and Zonesets on Cisco Fabric.
• Migrated data from Clarion to VNX using SAN Copy.
• Created Time Finder/Clones and Time Finder/Snaps from production LUNs for backup and testing.
• Experience in Implementing FASTVP.
• Migrations using VPLEX (VS1, VS2), Local/Metro configurations.

Environment: DMX, Symmetrix,VMAX, EMC Vlpex, Netapp FAS 3070, 6290, Snapmirror, DFM/System Manager/Ops Manager, DCFM network advisor 12.0, Snapvault,Brocade,Cisco SAN Switches, Flashcopy, Open Replicator, Brocade Director Switches, FASTVP, VPLEX (VS1, VS2), Local/Metro.

Confidential, San Francisco, CA

Sr. Storage Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Setup the new NetApp 6290 systems for EPIC, provisioned the storage by creating RAID groups, Aggregates, volumes, LUNs, CIFS/NFS shares and presented the LUNs to various host servers.
• CreateVserver/LIF/Export Policy/Volumes/Aggregate.
• Basic administration like lun provisioning and ldev configuration.
• Configured NFS/CIFS protocol.
• Worked on NFS/CIFS volumes.
• Creation Virtual EVS's in HDS filer.
• Migrating EVS from one physical node to another.
• Responsible for creating data vServer's, volumes inside the dataVserver, assigning namespaces and presenting them to the host systems using the LIFs
• Configured Snapmirror between the two filers and migrated the data from one filer to another.
• Configured Autosupport on the filers.
• ImplementingVMAX, DMX, Virtual provisioning, SMC, agent monitoring, andSRDF.
• Extensive experience in performing storage administration tasks including Mapping, Masking, Virtual
• Provisioning, Auto provisioning (V - MAX), Virtual LUN migration (V-MAX) on EMCVMAX.
• Managing, Monitoring, tracking file system usage, storage usage and available capacity and resolving day to dayissues on Celerra NS 480 in production environment.
• Plan & implement SAN fabric switch upgrades, migrations, Cisco MDS, fabric manager.
• Created initiator group, port group and storage group as a part of storage allocation from Symmetrix VMAX.
• Created Masking View and associated initiator group, port group and storage group to it.
• Created Meta devices, mapped and masked devices to servers using SYMCLI and SMC.
• Implemented Virtual Provisioning fromVMAXarray to hosts by creating Data devices, thin devices, Thin
• Pool, binding Thin devices to Pool and masking the Thin devices to the host, using SMC 7.0. & SYMCLI.
• Implemented SRDF for selected high performance Tier 1 applications fromVMAXtoVMAX including creation of dynamic RA groups, dynamic RDF pairs and device groups.
• Involved in choosing best practices for storage systems like implementing data protection type of logical volumes.
• Configured Zoning on Cisco switches through Device Manager and Fabric Manager.
• Assist NetApp professional services to configure new NetApp filers from scratch.
• LUN Management - Creating, formatting and mapping to target.

Environment: VMAX, DMX, Celerra NS 480, Cisco MDS, fabric manager, VMAX, DMX, Celerra NS 480, Cisco MDS, fabric manager,Snapmirror, NetApp FAS 6290 series, NFS and CIFS, SRDF, openreplicator, Cisco UCS 5100 chassis/B200 M2, B230 M2, B440 M2 and HP Blades C7000, NFS and CIFS.

Confidential, Houston, TX

Storage Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Provision and maintain storage from EMC VMAX 10K/DMX-3/CX4-960 and NetApp FAS 6200/3200 series arrays.
• Implemented data migrations between NetApp filers using Volume, Qtree SnapMirror.
• Created Aggregates, Volumes, Qtrees and Quotas on Filers using Data ONTAP.
• Worked with Data ONTAP 6.5 Filer Administration and upgrades to 7.x.
• Expertise in creating, deleting Snapshots, FlexClones on FlexVolumes.
• Obtain performance statistics using Performance Manager (ECC) and NetApp Operations manager.
• Pulled capacity based reports using ECC Storage Scope for both EMC and NetApp arrays.
• Performed storage migrations from DMX/CX series to VMAX 10K using SAN Copy, Open Replicator and implemented DR solution using SRDF, MirrorView.
• Performed Storage Migrations from Celerra NS 3-40, FAS 3200 series to NetApp FAS 6200 series using Robocopy, FScopy tools.
• Managing Celerra using Celerra manager and Unisphere software.
• Installed and configured new data movers in Celerra NS series. Created virtual data movers.
• Integrated LDAP with Celerra and VNX.
• Performed storage allocation and reclamation activities in multi-vender OS environment like Windows, AIX, Linux and VMware.
• Administered Brocade switches, using Brocade web tools and Brocade Fabric OS (CLI).
• Performed provisioning and troubleshooting.
• Unix Support included starting and stopping application and NAS services, shutdown and restarting servers.
• Performed creation of accounts, implemented file, folder and group policy security access and assisted Active Directory Administrators with creation and support of ACTIVE DIRECTORY.
• Implemented array based data migration using Open Replicator from Symmetrix DMX 3, DMX 4 to VMAX and VNX storage array.
• Created, developed, and tested preventative procedures and software to improve efficiency of overall Data Center operations.
• Collaborated with multiple support teams to resolve critical time-sensitive issues, and responded to system emergencies.
• Worked closely with Storage and Networking teams to ensure allocated SAN, Fiber and networking infrastructure reflects specifications laid out in the initial VMware farm design to ensure successful deployment.
• Performed troubleshooting of operating system and software infrastructure issues on Domain Controllers, Member Servers, Server Clusters, and Virtual Machine Farms.
• Performed server incident root cause, service, and crash dump analysis.
• Provided guidance, delegation of projects, and supervision for junior IT technician staff.

Environment: Symmetrix DMX 3, DMX 4 to VMAX and VNX storage array, EMC VMAX 10K/DMX-3/CX4-960 and NetApp FAS 6200/3200 series, LDAP with Celerra and VNX, DMX/CX series to VMAX 10K using SAN Copy, Open Replicator and implemented DR solution using SRDF, MirrorView.

Confidential, Columbus, OH

SAN Support Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Worked on various Disk Array like EMC VMAX, Symentrix, EMC Vplex and EMC Clariion.
• Worked on decommissions of switches and servers and involved on reclaim of storage.
• Monitored multiple disk arrays by using ECC and monitoring SAN switches health.
• Host integration for multi operating system environment.
• Analyze the usage of disk arrays over the fabric by using SMC.
• Enough knowledge on Symantec Netbackup and NOM (Netbackup Operational Management).
• Worked on EMC Tape Library and loaded and labeled taped manually and fix the issue and recorded daily activities in the Data Center.
• Monitoring the SAN and storage devices and perform physical health check and coordinated for hardware fix.
• Worked on creating NAS shares, qtree and assign to the client to map the shares.
• Good Understanding of Ethernet protocols.
• Monitoring Symantec NetBackup and responded as per the request.
• Analyze and resolve escalated problems within targets and prepare root cause analysis.
• Configurations including Nettapp, qtree, volume, aggregates and snapshots. Creating CIFS, NFS shares expending volumes.
• Performed disk part alignments for windows, VMware servers for better performance.
• Manage Fan out ratio; monitor I/O per sec from host to FA port.
• Involved SAN switches and EMC/NetApp blade servers rack movement project for power and data center space consumption.
• Performed FC cable trace and labeled activity over the data center.

Environment: EMC VMAX, Symentrix, EMC Vplex, Ethernet protocols, NAS shares, EMC Clariion, Nettapp, qtree, volume, aggregates and snapshots.

Confidential

System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Allocation/De-allocation of storage on Clariion Series and Symmetrix storage arrays.
• Created SnapView and TimeFinder Snap/Clone copies for backup and testing.
• Configuration of RDFG groups, Device and Composite Groups between source and target storage systems.
• Preparing Method of Procedure documents for migration of hosts from DMX Storage systems.
• Configuration of SRDF Sync, Adaptive Copy, Snap/Mirror and Snap/Clones (BCVs) for data protection and disaster recovery.
• Storage Allocation and de-allocation with SYMCLI and ECC.
• Configuration and troubleshooting Fiber switches (CISCO MDS Series and McData Director Series) with new zones and zonesets.
• Host Level Migration, Switch level Migration of Storage systems.
• Installed peripherals such as Printers, Tape devices, Plotters and Disks.
• Provided Helpdesk support for Level-2 Desktop supports for the production system.
• Hands on experience in creating all kinds of zones and zonesets with proper aliases.
• Setup the ECC to provide the errors and alerts from SAN environment. And also generate the reports to see trend analysis.
• Order replacement parts and return faulty parts on a timely manner.
• Allocate storage to Windows and Linux servers.
• Very good knowledge in Identifying and resolving several SAN cable and configuration issues.
• Provide documents for operational management, troubleshooting the issues that occur in the SAN environment.

Environment: Symmetrix DMX-3, Cisco MDS 9513/9216 switches, EMC VMAX 10K/DMX-3/CX4-960, Windows 2003/2000 and Powerpath.

Confidential

Jr. System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Administered and managed SAN environment consisting of Symmetrix DMX-3 and CLARiiON CX3-40 Storage systems.
• Performed storage provisioning on DMX-3 using Solutions Enabler.
• Allocated storage from CLARiiON CX3-40 storage arrays for Windows and UNIX host using Navisphere Manager and NaviCLI.
• Created Raid groups, LUNs, Storage groups and allocated storage to servers.
• Aliased WWN and performed zoning on Cisco switches using Fabric Manager and Device Manager.
• Performed replication on CLARiiON storage arrays using MirrorView/Synchronous and SnapView Snapshots.
• Configured and managed SRDF/Asynchronous between two sites for disaster recovery.
• Performed integrated capacity utilization report and trend analysis across heterogeneous storage infrastructure using EMC Storage Scope.
• Configured EMC PowerPath on Windows servers for redundant path failover and recovery.
• Performed LUN migration within CLARiiON storage arrays using Navisphere Manager.
• Dealt with troubleshooting issues related to storage, configuration errors and connectivity issues.
• LUN Provisioning Using Navisphere Manager.
• Experience in Configuration, troubleshooting, and administration of SAN Environment using Navisphere Manager.
• Configuring, Monitoring and managing SAN switches.
• Zoning and Hosts Configurations support.
• Upgrade / downgrade the flare codes, Installation of solution enabler.
• Fabric Manager Administration for Zoning, Cisco CLI zoning.

Environment: Symmetrix DMX-3, Cisco MDS 9513/9216 switches, Cisco Fabric Manager, Cisco Device Manager, MirrorView, EMC Storage Scope, PowerPath, and Windows 2003/2000.