SUMMARY

• EMC SAN Systems Engineer worked with EMC as an EMC Resident, having 6 yrs. of experience with expertise in SAN/NAS Installations, administration, monitoring, Planning, management, Migrations troubleshooting the Storage environment using SAN/NAS management solutions.
• Certifications: EMC Proven Professional Associate EMCPA Six Sigma Certified Professional Green Belt .
• EMC Storage Exposure: Excellent experience in setting-up, configuring and managing EMC Products CLARiiON, Symmetrix- V-Max/DMX, VNX, RecoverPoint, Celerra VPLEX.
• Storage Migrations:
• NAS Migrations File : Excellent experience in migrating NAS Shares, from EOLS EMC Celerra array to New EMC VNX 5700 Storage arrays using rsync EMCopy, host level migration technique. Knowledge of AD Groups, Users, Security, permissions, Network IPs requirements involved in NAS migration.
• SAN Migrations Block : Excellent experience in migrating more than 1 PB of block data using SANCopy, SRDF, Open Replicator, PPME host copy, RecoverPoint replication CG over Fiber cable while working on various Projects with different Clients. Migration involved EMC Storage arrays CX700, CX3-340, CX4-960, CX4-240, DMX3000, DMX4, Symmetrix 8830 as Source Arrays and VNX-5500, VNX-5300, VNX-5700, Symmetrix VMax, DMX-4 as Target Arrays.
• Storage Operations:
• Experience in administrating EMC CLARiiON Storage environment using Unisphere/Navisphere Manager, PowerPath, SnapView Clone/Snapshot, and MirrorView.
• Experience in administrating EMC Symmetrix Storage environment using EMC Control Center, EMC Symmetrix management Console, EMC TimeFinder BCV/Clone/Snap, SRDF/S, SRDF/A, Solution Enabler SymCLI .
• Expert in administrating and managing V-Max using Symmetrix Management Console SMC SymCLI.
• Expert in Storage provisioning Block level on EMC CLARiiON, EMC VNX EMC Symmetrix-DMX/V-Max and storage provisioning File level for CIFS Share and NFS export on EMC VNX EMC Celerra.
• Experience with Cisco Brocade switches. Configuring Fabric switches using Fabric Manager, WebTools and Command line and Port assignment, Zoning, Masking Mapping to EMC Storage products.
• Binding LUNs, Creating MetaLUNs, Creating Fracturing Mirrors, creating and defragmentation of RAID Group, LUN Migration.
• Experience configuring Virtual/Thin Provisioning LUNs and FAST using SMC.
• Configured and managed Multipathing software like EMC PowerPath VERITAS DMP for path failover, load balancing, path management automatic I/O failure detections on EMC Storage environment.
• Responsible for all kind of brake Fixes, Preventive maintenance and coordinating directly with EMC.
• Experience working on Linux/Solaris/HP/AIX/Windows O.S platforms.
• Expert in Capacity Planning, Performance Planning, Storage Planning, Storage Growth trending good knowledge of SAN Architecture, designing RAID Groups, pools, LUN Layouts depending upon availability or performance factor.
• Experience with New Storage systems Installations such as EMC- VNX 5500, VNX 5700, CLARiiON, V-Max, and RecoverPoint. Installed and configured EMC SAN Control Center 5.2/6.1 ECC 5.2 6.1 infrastructure agents configured ECC Alerts based on the SAN environment.
• Implemented and configured RecoverPoint 3.4 using SANTap Splitter and Array based splitter.
• Experience with WLA/SPA doing performance analysis of the Arrays.
• Experience with .NAR and .NAZ files collections to analyze the performance impact. Configuring the optimal setting as per the best practice solution for SP properties, Cache, dirty pages, Throughput, Utilizations.
• Executed consolidation of the SAN environments with Performance Monitoring, tuning Reporting tools. Created Reports on Storage using EMC SAN StorageScope.
• Created Business Continuity Solution used for Testing such as SnapView/clone/snapshot/RecoverPoint consistency groups on EMC CLARiiON/Celerra/ Storage array TimeFinder on EMC DMX Storage array.
• Created Disaster Recovery Solution like SRDF/S/A for EMC DMX Storage array MirrorView/RecoverPoint for EMC CLARiiON Storage array.
• Storage Core:
• Storage Performance:
• Disaster Recovery Solutions:

TECHNICAL FUNCTIONAL SKILLS

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Working as Storage Systems Engineer for Platform Host Solution Team for American Airlines IT department.
• Responsible for Migrating Block level and file level data from End of Support life Storage arrays to the New EMC VMax, VNX Storage arrays. NAS Shares, both CIFS and NFS using rsync and EMCopy techniques.
• Lead the Migration project of more than 20TB of NAS Data from Gateway Celerra NAS702G to VNX5700 array.
• Coordinating with Application team, Operational team, Networking team and Host platform team to schedule accomplish the NAS Migration, Guiding them through out the actual migration for un-mounting and mounting share, restarting applications etc.
• Created Migration Plan and Run Books for NAS Migration implementation.
• Created NAS Shares, Interfaces, Mounting CIFS Share and Exporting NFS Share on Celerra NAS702G and VNX-5700.
• NAS Migration using Incremental and Full copy using EMCopy for CIFS Shares and rsync for NFS Shares.
• Migrated Solaris 10 hosts from CX700 to VNX5700, using VERITAS Volume Manager.
• Implementation for new EMC VNX5700 EMC VMax arrays installations. Providing the Plan and design for Network connectivity, fabric connectivity, VMs for SAN Management tools, Pools- RG design, NFS Exports- CIFS Shares, Best practice for Storage allocation.
• Host remediation for windows Solaris hosts connected to EMC CLARiiON Symmetrix, checking the support Matrix using ELAB Navigator and running Host Grabs/EMC Reports using ELAB Advisor.
• Designed disk layouts, Pools, RGs for VNX5700 using EMC Best practices for different disk types.
• Created Data device and added them to the Thin Pools for Virtual Provisioning.
• Created FAST/FAST VP policy for VMax 20K.
• Used VLUN Migration to pin from one pool to another.
• Generating Brocade Switch Report for further analysis and remediation of Storage Environment.
• Develop strategic technical documentation standards documents, procedural documents Coordinating between Operation and internal departments responsible for maintaining system specific applications and databases and storage growth in check, including storage capacity planning.
• Work with Application Engineers and Operational staff to allocate storage and performing data migrations.
• Report storage utilization and consumption including historical trending maintaining storage hardware and software, including storage subsystems.
• Managing the backup and recovery of data on storage subsystems using EMC RecoverPoint.
• Responsible for ensuring reliability of storage environment integrity of replicated data.
• Ensure the reliability, availability and performance of storage network systems.

Environment:

EMC Symmetrix DMX 1000, DMX3-3500, DMX3-2500, Symmetrix 8830, EMC VNX-5700, EMC VMax, EMC VPLEX, EMC Celerra NS-702, Celerra G8, EMC CLARiiON CX4-480, CX3-40f, CX-700, CX-500, EMC RecoverPoint 3.4, Cisco and Brocade switches.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Working as EMC Resident-SAN Consultant in UNIX team for PSE G IT department, providing my Storage Area Networking expertise for building up the SAN environment.
• Managing 12 SAN Switches, 5 CLARiiON, 2 Celerra, 1 Symmetrix, 1 VNX, RecoverPoint Appliance and CISCO Switches.
• Working on EMC CLARiiON CX4-480, CX700 EMC Celerra NS-480, Symmetrix DMX-3, EMC VNX 5500, CISCO MDS 9222/9509/9506, AIX 5.3 , HP-UX 11.23 , Linux 2.6.9 2.6.18 , Sun Solaris 10, Windows 2003 2008 Servers connected to SAN.
• Lead the Various Projects includes the latest VNX Install from initial set-up to final Storage assigning to servers. Totally handled the full responsibility for New VNX install. which includes:-
• Installation of VNX, Powering up, cabling and connections to SAN.
• Capacity planning based on future storage requirement and existing storage servers capacity, Deciding RAID Type, RAID Size, Storage Pool, No. Of disks, Secondary/Replication LUNs etc.
• Performance planning determining Host load, disk load, type of disk drives, speed of disks, RAID Group Storage Pool Matrix across Buses and DAEs.
• Storage planning that how many drives required meeting the storage capacity requirement for existing array plus future coming requirements.
• SAN Connections- Fabrics, Fabric topology, zoning VNX with Servers and RecoverPoint
• Carving RAID groups, LUNs, Storage Groups, installing FLARE Code level.
• Migrations- Planning migration, what migration tool, what method, using SANCopy Push to migrate all the storage from Old array to New VNX one server by one.
• Responsible for Storage allocation from Symmetrix Storage array using Symmetrix console Manager SMC EMC Control Centre ECC to Windows and UNIX servers.
• Responsible for Allocating space to UNIX and Windows servers from CLARiiON and Celerra arrays using Unisphere Manager.
• Expert in Local and Remote Replications on CLARiiON, Symmetrix, Celerra and VNX storage array over MirrorViews and EMC RecoverPoint appliance.
• Work closely with Database applications and Server team for assisting with Disaster Recovery Tests on regular basis.
• Expert in EMC RecoverPoint for Replications and migrations. Creating Secondary Images, Consistency groups, Replication sets, Journals and Remote Replicas.
• Responsible for all kind of Brake fix issues and work with EMC Customer Engineer to get the change and Incident issues done.

Environment:

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Working as SAN Engineer in ExxonMobil Oil Gas Corporation in Information Technology department EMIT . Work for Storage Operations EMIT/GSC/BLI/ESS/Storage ops .
• Supported and administrated 9331 TB 9.3 PB of Data with 237 EMC Arrays, 2177 Enclosures and 31536 disks worldwide in Africa, Asia, Europe, Middle east, North South America regions.
• Worked on EMC CLARiiON CX4-960/480/240/120, CX700/300, CX3-80/40/20/10, AX150/100 , CISCO MDS 9513/9509/9506/9216/9134/9124 , Brocade DS32B3/DS16B3/DS32B2/DS4100B, DS4700, DS8B2, DS8B3 , AIX 5.3 , HP-UX 11.23 , Linux 2.6.9 2.6.18 , Sun OS 5.1 5.8 , Windows 2003 2008 Servers connected to SAN.
• Lead, Planned, configured and setup SANCopy Migrations. Migration of data from CLARiiON CX700 to CX4-960 and CX3-80 to CX4-960 using SANCopy and Navisphere, which involved 11 windows servers to migrate data.
• Worked on EMC Celerra NS 120, 480 and 960 for creating File Systems and Created CIFS shares to provision to servers using Celerra manager.
• Storage provisioning for Clusters and Servers. Excellent knowledge of zoning with CISCO SAN switch MDS 9513,09, 06, 9216, 9134 series on CLARiiON Storage Array using CISCO Fabric manager, creating Zones, zone sets, Device FC Aliases.
• Troubleshooting with Servers side for issues like Host registration with Storage array, disk invisible to server side, cabling connections, path failure, and PowerPath and FLARE issues.
• De-fragmenting the RAIG Group to compress the gaps between the free space and creating more contiguous space.
• Keep an eye on the CLARiiON day-to-day performance by monitoring the SP's to make sure they are handling the load and checking dirty pages for better performance.
• Worked on LUN Migrations to move data from source LUN to destination LUN while changing the type of drive the data is stored on. For example more economical ATA to faster FC.
• Commissioning and Decommissioning the Old Servers and Storage arrays.
• Responsible to Installing FLARE 04.30.000.5.509 to all the CLARiiON CX4 arrays.
• Creating tickets using Remedy Change Management version 6.03.00 patch 023. Responsible to Create Change Management Tracking system tickets for SANCopy project.
• Created Mirror View for Remote destinations for Disaster recovery.
• SAN Port assignment for new LUN request for Windows, Exchange, Virtual, HP-UX servers using CISCO Device Manager and Fabric Manager.
• Configured and set-up New Sever with Storage array and created the RAID Group and LUN Layout.
• Designed and Laid out RAID Group/LUNs on standard CLARiiON Binder for references and Storage Estimations for future and present storage requirements. Designing the LUN layout according to the Storage optimization and Servers Performance.

Environment

EMC CLARiiON CX4-960/480/240/120, CX700/300, CX3-80/40/20/10, AX150/100, Cisco MDS 9513/9509/9506/9216/9134/9124. Brocade DS32B3/DS16B3/DS32B2/DS4100B, DS4700, DS8B2, DS8B3. Open system servers Windows, Solaris , Exchange Servers, Virtual Clusters, Sun OS, HP-UX, Linux, EMC Celerra NS120, NS 480 and NS 960.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Administration and supporting a large storage environment with over 800 TB of data comprising of EMC DMX/Symmetrix, EMC CLARiiON, Cisco McData Enterprise SAN connectivity switches.
• Storage Provisioning for DMX-4 storage array using SYMCLI and Storage provisioning for V-Max storage array using Symmetrix management console SMC .
• Created Initiator group, Port group and Storage group including Masking in V-Max using SMC SYMCLI.
• Implemented and configured multiple CLARiiON Storage environments from initial setup to binding LUNs, creating RAID group, installing CLARiiON storage array software's, enabling the host address the EMC CLARiiON storage array, provisioned and documented them to meet the requirements.
• Responsible for storage allocation in SAN environment. Allocated storage from EMC V-Max/DMX/CLARiiON storage array to Solaris, Windows servers using EMC Control Center, Sol. Enabler- SYMCLI, EMC Navisphere Manager SMC.
• Involved in data migration from EMC DMX-4 Storage array to EMC V-Max Storage array.
• Planned and implemented mission critical data migration from DMX 3000 Storage array to DMX-4 Storage array for consolidation of storage resources using EMC SRDF/S.
• Successfully deployed and tested Disaster recovery solutions for selected business applications using EMC SRDF/A for high performance.
• Used EMC Open Replicator for data migration from Symmetrix 3830 storage array to DMX 3000 storage array
• Installed and configured EMC SANCopy for data migration from CX 600 to CX3-40 for Windows and Solaris operating system.
• Implemented a consistent data replication solution for UNIX servers from CX700 to CX700 using EMC MirrorView and powered up secondary host during maintenance.
• Planned and participated in a SAN expansion SAN migration from a mesh fabric McData ED64M/DS32B to Cisco fabric with MDS 9509/9506 which was connected to more than 200 hosts in SAN environment.
• Installed EMC SnapView enabler successfully and created Snapshots SnapView sessions for backups.
• Configured point-in-time PIT BCV mirror copies/clones of production data to provision them to backup hosts and provided current access using EMC TimeFinder local SAN storage replication solution.
• Installed and configured EMC Control Center infrastructure agents, discovered objects arrays, switches, hosts etc. in the infrastructure. Monitored SAN environment using EMC Control Center and configured EMC Control Center alerts.
• Identified underutilized host based assets using EMC StorageScope reporting and Performance Manager/WLA. Proactively resolved the capacity allocation issues for whole SAN area.
• Troubleshooting and resolving issues like one path failure in SAN Storage environment, host not seeing storage, and HBA failure in SAN environment and performance issues.
• Strong in fundamental of UNIX networking and file systems- UNIX file systems and VERITAS file systems, defragmenting file systems. Tuning file systems, paging and swapping.

Environment:

EMC DMX 4/3000/1000 Storage array, EMC Symmetrix 3830 Storage array, EMC CLARiiON CX 3-40/600/700 Storage array, Connectrix MDS 9509/9506. McData Ed64M/DS32B , Open system servers Windows, Solaris and VMware for SAN environment.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Managed and monitored SAN environment with EMC CLARiiON storage array AX 150/100.
• Worked on a CLARiiON AX150 and AX100 -based data migration project in SAN environment for Solaris, HP-UX and Win2003.
• Depending upon the host's request created MetaLUNs or allocated additional LUNs for additional storage and also decommissioned the unused storage to improve resources availability.
• Non-disruptively Migrated LUNs from one RAID group to another to overcome the performance issues with I/O in SAN environment.
• Register new HBAs whenever there is a failure in the HBA of particular host using EMC Navisphere manager.
• Dealt with the situations like one-path-failure, trespassed LUNs, failure in the objects also upgraded the FLARE CODE version.
• Installed and configured SUN E220/E420/E450 servers with Solaris. Created partitions, mounted file systems, user administration by controlling the system processes, patch and packages administration along with Tape backup and restore for file systems in SAN space.
• Installed and configured Windows operating system, diagnosed technical issues involving Windows 2000, NT, Macintosh, MS Office applications and hardware related issues for troubleshooting and ensuring proper network connectivity and better system performance.
• Provided technical support and aided the development research projects by implementing acceptance-testing procedures.
• Maintenance of hardware's and software's manufactured for a wide variety of applications.
• Analyzed existing infrastructure and proposed feasible system/ software upgrades with potential incompatibilities identified.
• Configured the e-mail servers to make the electronic mail capabilities of the server operational at peak performance at all times.
• Over see the network connectivity, implementation, and integration and troubleshooting for printers, scanners and Laser Jet format plotters.
• Determined the requirements and proposed the purchase of new network equipment's that included switched, routers, servers, workstations and backup equipment.