SUMMARY:

• Information Technology Professional having 8 years of total experience and with 5 years of hands onexperience on Storage Area Networks (SAN).
• Hands on experience in storage provisioning and administering multi - vendor operating systems.
• Experience in administering and maintain NetApp FAS6210, FAS3240, and FAS980.
• Experience in creating Aggregates, Volumes (Traditional, Flexvol and Flexclone, Qtrees and Quotasin NetApp FAS3040 and FAS6040 using System Manager and CLI.
• Experience in setup the NetApp filers, creating volumes, snapshot and snapmirror.
• Upgraded Data ONTAP from 8.1 to 8.2.
• Migrated data from 7 Mode to Cluster Mode using 7MTT.
• Storage infrastructure support for HP EVA 8000, XP 12000 and NetApp FAS 3000 series and 6000 series.
• Installed and configured the Device Manager.
• Creation of Aggregates, volumes, Qtrees on NetApp Filers.
• Good familiarity with NFS, CIFS file systems and Exports and Shares and also trouble shooting.
• Working experience on SnapMirror technology for high availability.
• Good Understanding of business & Financial procedures and work flow in big environments.
• Experience of working big environments and working with large teams.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Hardware: NetApp FAS 980/920, FAS 3040, FAS 3020, FAS 6080, Brocade 4100, 4900, 5000,5100 switches and directors, DCS, Emulex, Qlogic HBAs.

Software: Snapview, 7MTT, SAN Copy, SnapVault, SnapMirror, SyncMirror, FlexShare, OCUM, System Manager, Web tools, Fabric Manager, Powerpath, Veritas DMP, Work load analyzer, VMWare, Legato Networker, Veritas Netbackup, Tivoli Storage Manager, Veritas Volume Manager.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Santa Clara, CA

NetApp Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Configured and Maintained NetApp Filers both in 7 Mode and Cluster Mode.
• Installed, maintained and supported for NetApp filer including FAS3240 and FAS6210 systems.
• Maintained a healthy NetApp storage by configuring Vfiler, Qtrees, volume, aggregates andsnapshots using Data ONTAP System Manager, CLI and data fabric when required.
• Migrated data using SnapMirror.
• Installing and troubleshooting Qlogic and Emulex HBA’s to provide SAN access for Host integration.
• Worked on Designing and implementing bunker and remote replication using NetApp SnapMirror andSnapVault technologies.
• Creating and administering aggregates, volumes, Qtrees, Flexvol, Flexclone. Snapshots.
• Migrated data from NetApp filers 7 mode FAS3050 and FAS3240.
• Migrated NAS Data from 7 Mode Systems to Cluster Mode Systems using 7MTT.
• Upgraded Data ONTAP 8.1.X to Data ONTAP 8.2.X thereby gained experience on configuring Flexvol volumes while understanding raid groups.
• Managed Raid groups using Data ONTAP 8.1
• Worked on Brocade FOS upgrades and Migrations from 48Ks to DCX directors.
• Involved in troubleshooting of NFS, SAN and CIFS issues on NetApp filers.
• Installed and configured the Device Manager on different fabrics like Cisco and brocade on differentenvironment for Zoning mapping & LUN masking purpose.
• Experience in implementing NetApp NAS technology, including configuring shares, CIFS and NFSadministration.
• Involved in enabling the access to a LUN on the storage appliance using the Fiber channel protocol or isciprotocol.
• Adding two or more disks to form disk group & creating volumes from disk group using Veritas Volumemanger.

Environment: FAS3240, FAS3050 and FAS6210, Data ONTAP 8G 7 Mode and Cluster Mode, Device Manager, Snap Mirror, Snap manager, Snap View, Cisco & Brocade, Emulex HBA’s and Qlogic HBA’s, SnapVault, snapmirror, Veritas volume manager, Veritas Netbackup, Active directory, TSM.

Confidential, Phoenix, AZ

NetApp Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Facilitated a major ISP to implement tier-1 NetApp SAN in existing environment of EMC DMX onSolaris, AIX and Windows System.
• Installing and troubleshooting Qlogic and Emulex HBA’s to provide SAN access for Host integration.
• Used operations Manager for managing and monitoring SnapVault and open systems SnapVault disk-to-disk backups.
• Involved in migrating the primary data which is stored on NetApp system located in main data centerand using the NetApp SnapMirror software, was then mirrored to the second system for disaster recovery.
• Deployment and implementation of NetApp FAS 6080, NetApp FAS 3070, FAS 3020, FAS 960, FAS 250.
• Created Aggregates, volumes ( Flexvol and Flexclone) Qtrees and Quotas in NetApp FAS3040 and FAS 3020 using CLI.
• Designing & configuring Aggregates, Flex volumes, LUNs and Qtrees in AIX, Solaris and Windowsbased environments.
• Installed and configured the Device Manager on different fabrics like Cisco, McData and brocade ondifferent environment for Zoning mapping & lun masking purpose.
• Upgraded Data ONTAP from 7.X to 8.X
• Snap drive and snap manager expertise linking MS SQL to NetApp storage.
• Involved in troubleshooting of NFS, SAN and CIFS issues on NetApp filers.
• Responsible for the network in general including switches, routers, firewalls, systems (Windows mostly),Storage (NetApp, Store vault), backup/restore.

Environment: NetApp FAS 6080, FAS 3070, FAS 3020, Data ONTAP, Snap Mirror, Snap manager, snap View, Device Manager, Brocade 5000, 48000, DCX, Cisco 9000, Emulex HBA’s and Qlogic HBA’s, AIX, Windows.

Confidential, New York, NYC

NAS Engineer/Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Diagnosed and resolved problems in multiple storage environments (NetApp & EMC) mainly NetApp usingand implementing VFilers via CIFS and NFS.
• Coordinated with coworkers and vendors as necessary to facilitate maximum availability of client applicationsin financial and other mission critical environments.
• Worked with clients and sales team to determine data storage requirements in business developmentopportunities.
• Performed storage workload modeling and prediction for sizing and troubleshooting
• Performed capacity planning and reporting to ensure efficient use of storage
• Closely monitored server storage performance and utilization, identified problems also recommended and implemented solutions for them.
• Maintained backup/recovery environment using asynchronous/synchronous replication and NDMP to Tape.
• Implemented and documented recovery procedures.
• Supported recovery in the event of systems failures.
• Provided post-installation and technical support to clients and coworkers.
• Worked on different projects that required working on periodic evening and weekend commitments, some
• Travel.

Environment: NetApp FAS 6080, FAS 3070, Data ONTAP, Snap Mirror, Snap manager, snap View, Device Manager,Emulex HBA’s and Qlogic HBA’s, AIX, Windows.