Summary:

• Around 7 years of experience in EMC Enterprise SAN Storage Arrays DMX/VMAX Symmetrix, VPLEX, VNX/CLARiiON and Hitachi.
• Experienced in OpenReplicator, Power Path Migration Enabler PPME , Solutions Enabler Symcli , SAN Copy, Time Finder, ECC,SMC,Unisphere Symmetrix Performance Analyzer SPA , VPLEXCLI,VPLEX Management Console ,Navisphere Analyzer, SRDF/S, SRDF/A, Mirror view, Snap view and Power path .
• Experienced performing data migrations using Power path Migration Enabler PPME with Host Copy and Open Replicator .
• Extensive Experience on Open Replicator to migrate data from DMX to DMX, DMX to VMAX, VNX/CLARiiON to DMX. Configured, Created, push and VNX pull sessions to migrate devices.
• Designed new VMAX for operations. Designed and configured Virtual Pools according to best practices.
• Implemented FAST VP on the new VMAX array and documented the best practices. Created FAST Virtual pools, TIERS and policies.
• Experience in managing and configuring the Isilon environment.
• Experience in working with multi-platform environment such as VMware including VSAN, windows, Linux, IBM AIX.
• Extensively worked with Brocade DCX back bone switching platforms and Fiber Channel switches including 6505, 6520, 7500 and 7800 and FCR configurations and LSAN zoning, McData and Cisco SAN switches in zoning for improving SAN security.
• Extensively worked on FCIP and iSCSI protocols on Brocade and Cisco switches for tunneling, compression and security.
• Implemented Fully Automated Storage Tiering FAST for Virtual Pools FASTVP .
• Excellent experience in Solaris and knowledge of Microsoft, AIX, and Linux platforms as it relates to disk allocation, managing LUN's and HBA configuration.
• Experienced in performing storage system checks, monitor and alert failures within external arrays and SAN fabric components in order to identify and rectify potential hardware failures. Familiar with SANscreen and EMC Control Center.
• Experienced in System Administration that includes Solaris, Red hat Linux, HP-UX, IBM AIXand Windows NT/2008/2003 server versions.
• Experienced in preparation of reports depending on the management requirements using Storage Scope.
• Preparation of operational procedures and technical documentation of all SAN related projects using MS-office.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY:

Confidential

Storage Administrator

Environment:

EMC VMAX,VMAX 40K, DMX-4/DMX-3, Cisco 9500 series, VSAN zoning, FCIP and tunneling and VSAN configurations ,SYMCLI 7.x, VNX 5700,VNX 5600, Xtreme IO , Avamar ,Data Domain, SMC 7.0, Unisphere for VMAX, Unisphere for VNX, EMC Power Path, IBM-AIX 5.3, Solaris 8/9, Windows 2003/2008 and Red Hat Linux ES3/ES4 .

Responsibilities:

• Provisioning new storage as per requests to AIX, Windows and VMware environments from VNX / VMAX/Xtreme IO using Unisphere and XIO Storage management application.
• Implementing Virtual Provisioning from VMAX array to hosts by creating Data devices, thin devices, Thin Pool, binding Thin Devices to Pool and masking the Thin Devices to the host, using Unisphere for VMAX.
• Allocation File system storage and Block storage from VNX as per requests to AIX environment using VNX Unisphere.
• Configuring and allocating XtremIO storage for VDI environments through VMware Environments.
• Trouble shooting performance issues with VMAX ,VNX and XtremIO in the SAN environment
• Upgrading and patching the code for VNX, VMAX code and upgrading unisphere and SYMCLI for VMAX.
• Configured VPLEX metro ports and designed Run Book.
• Experience in thin provisioning by creating storage views on VPLEX metro using VPLEX management console.
• Migrated of data behind VPLEX using VPLEX mobility central with no host impact and no server downtime.
• Implemented FAST for Virtual Pools FASTVP to automate the allocation and deallocation of application data across different performance tiers based on the changes in application performance requirements.
• Configured VTL and backups in data domain for the environment
• Extensively Worked on SYMCLI and Unisphere for VMAX to implement concurrent SRDF and successfully replicated the storage to the remote site using SRDF solutions SRDF/S and SRDF/A .
• Successfully conducted Disaster Recovery Test in coordination with various environment teams and validated all environments successfully.
• Implemented and Configured Business Continuity Solutions using Time finder BCV/Clone/ Snap for Symmetrix DMX and V-MAX.
• Creating and generating reports on monthly usage of the SAN environment and forecasting the future usage.
• Configured Zoning on Cisco switches through Device Manager and Fabric Manager.
• Involving in choosing best practices for storage systems like implementing data protection type of logical volumes.
• Storage migration from VNX/CLARiiON, DMX to VMAX for hosts UNIX Windows with host level migration as well as EMC Open Replicator and SAN copy.
• Worked with EMC in installation of new VMAX 40k and new XtremIO and in solving issues in the SAN environment and

Confidential

Storage Administrator

Environment:

EMC VMAX, VNX/CLARiiON, Hitachi, SYMCLI, Open Replicator, PPME, EMC Power Path, AIX, Solaris, HP-UX, VMware and Windows 2008/2012.

Responsibilities:

• Perform daily provisioning configuration changes using SYMCLI, SMC, and Navisphere.
• Allocate storage to specific servers/applications mostly comprising of UNIX, VMware VSAN ESX and windows machines.
• Configuring Isilon smart pools and dynamic Smart Connect in an Isilon environment
• Migrating data from NAS servers to Isilon using host based migration technology
• Troubleshoot issues with Isilon NAS in the environment.
• Create storage reports using Isilon insight IQ
• Implementation of Symmetrix V-Max Thin Provisioning, FAST VP, Virtualization and Auto provisioning, Used thin devices TDevs , virtualization and Auto provisioning features on the VMAX.
• Configured initiator groups, storage groups, and port groups and masking views.
• Implemented Virtual Provisioning from VMAX array 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.
• Analyzing Grabs and Heat Reports for Pre-migration. Used eLab navigator to check end-to-end software compatibility for SAN components. Responsible for Migrating Windows and ESX servers from various Symmetrix DMX boxes to VMAX using Open Replicator.
• Implemented FAST for Virtual Pools FASTVP to automate the allocation and deallocation of application data across different performance tiers based on the changes in application performance requirements.
• Created FAST Policies, TIERS, associated storage groups with different policies and monitored performance using SPA.
• Used EMC's Open Replicator software, and executed data migration from existing DMX to new VMAX storage arrays.
• Extensive Implementation of Open Replicator Hot Pull and Hot Push for Migrations.
• Experience in Storage allocation and de-allocation on EMC VNX/CLARiiON, DMX and VMAX
• Worked on Tiering concepts Tier 1, Tier 2 and Tier 3 .
• Storage migration from VNX/CLARiiON, DMX to VMAX for hosts UNIX Windows with host level migration as well as EMC Open Replicator.
• Experience With Connectrix Manager and data Fabric manager, Zoning,
• Migrated TB's of data from Hitachi, VNX/CLARiiON and DMX to VMAX using PPME and Open Replicator.
• Configured data domain for backups in the environment
• Worked with the EMC CE to implement Data Domain in the environment
• Configured VTL in a Data Domain environment
• Created storage capacity reports in a Data Domain environment
• Extensively Worked on SYMCLI to implement concurrent SRDF and successfully replicated the storage to the remote site using SRDF solutions SRDF/S and SRDF/A .
• Investigate performance issues on Symmetrix and VNX/CLARiiON using Symmetrix Performance Manager
• Analyzed .btp files and Unisphere Analyzer .nar files.
• Responsible for Migrating Windows and ESX servers from various Symmetrix DMX boxes to VMAX using Open Replicator.
• Configured and created, hot pull sessions to migrate devices using EMC open replicator
• configured consistency groups
• Used SPA to investigate and analyze performance issues on VMAX.
• Implemented and Configured Business Continuity Solutions using Time finder BCV/Clone/ Snap for Symmetrix DMX and V-MAX.
• Implemented and tested SRDF for selected high performance Tier 1 applications from DMX3 to DMX4 including creation of dynamic RA groups, dynamic RDF pairs and device groups.
• Configured Zoning on Cisco switches through Device Manager and Fabric Manager.

Confidential

Sr. Storage Administrator- Consultant

Environment:

EMC VMAX, DMX-4/DMX-3,Brocade DCX, 6505,6520,7500 and 7800 and FCR configurations and LSAN zoning,48K, 12K, 4900, FCIP and tunneling and LSAN configurations, SYMCLI 7.x, VNX/CLARiiON CX4-120/240/480/960, CX3-40, NS 704/NS 480SMC 7.0, Navisphere Manager6.x, EMC Power Path, AIX 5.3, Solaris 8/9, HP-UX 11.i, Windows 2003/2008 and Red Hat ES3/ES4 Linux.

Responsibilities:

• Implemented Auto provisioning by creating Initiator Groups, Port Groups, Storage Groups, and Masking Views for the V-MAX system.
• Allocated storage from VMAX, DMX4, and VNX/CLARiiONCX3-40, CX4-480, CX4-960.
• Used EMC Grabs and prepared migration scripts to migrate data using Open Migrator, Open Replicator, and SAN Copy.
• Upgraded hosts as per the HEAT report and installed / upgraded and configured Power Path for AIX, Solaris and Windows Operating Systems before migrating to the new storage arrays.
• Migrated TB's of data using VMware using VMware vMotion
• Allocated Nfs and VMFS data stores to VMware VSAN clusters
• Troubleshot issues with power path/VE on VMware VSAN cluster environment
• Worked with the customer support engineers and managed the issues in the environment
• configured storage and capacity reports to analyzed the requirements for the next quarter
• created the procedural and architectural documentation for the team
• Trained the NOC team about the sev-1's and sev-2 and escalation procedures
• Implemented Virtual Provisioning in CLARiiON CX-4using Navisphere Manager 6.x and created thin LUNs.
• Responsibilities also included registering hosts, creating RAID groups, binding LUNs, and adding LUNs to Storage groups using Navisphere and NaviCLI for various UNIX and windows hosts.
• Configured and allocated storage for VMware VSAN hosts from DMX-3/DMX-4 and VNX/CLARiiON including configuration of port flag settings for FA ports/
• Configured Zoning on brocade switches MDS 9513.

Confidential

Storage Administrator- Consultant

Environment:EMC CLARiiON/Symmetrix, Navisphere, NaviCLI, Networker, SnapView, MirrorView, Powerpath, BCV, SRDF, Zoning, TimeFinder, McData switches/directors, Brocade Directors6505,6520,7500 and 7800 and FCR configurations, EMC control center, Emulex, QLogic HBA, Microsoft Windows, Linux, AIX servers.

Responsibilities:

• Implementing SAN with CLARiiON CX Series, created Raid Groups and Storage groups, assigned LUNs to Hosts using Navisphere manager, ECC and NaviCLI.
• Monitoring and troubleshooting issues with hardware software.
• Designing and Implementation of SAN NAS Storage solutions in WINDOWS and UNIX Environments.
• Installed and configured the Navisphere Agent/CLI on UNIX and Windows Servers.
• Creating SAN Copy Sessions using Navisphere Manager to perform migration.
• Configured Snapview Snapshots and Snapview Clones on CLARiiON CX Series Sub-Systems.
• Performed configuration changes with SYMCLI.
• Involving in choosing best practices for storage systems like implementing data protection type of logical volumes.
• Implementing and managed switches/directors. Managed switches with vendor specific GUI. Most of the switches configured are EMC Connectrix family. Knowledge of Connectrix manager and Fabric manager.
• Configuring Brocade switches for FCIP and iSCSI for tunneling and compression
• Data growth analysis and storage resource forecasting also comes under my responsibilities.

Confidential

Storage Administrator- Consultant.

Responsibilities:

• Experience in CLARiiON, DMX, ECC support, Storage provisioning and decommission support.
• Experience with Connectrix Manager and data Fabric manager, Zoning, LUN allocation, Storage allocation to Host groups.
• Installed and supported Navisphere MGT software for storage allocation.
• Experience in Binding LUNs, Naming, and resizing, Unbinding LUNs through Navisphere.
• Experience in creating zones, zone sets and fabric configuration.
• Installed and maintained Clarion CX 700,500 3-20, 3-80 and LUN masking and Zoning and Hosts configurations.
• NAS Netapps Filers quota Management, near store Administration, NFS exports, Data migration administration and Ontap Upgrades on FAS3000 FAS6000 series.
• Network Appliance Data ONTAP running on NetApp FAS6000 in fail over configuration.
• Creating File systems, CIFS shares and NFS Exports.
• NAS Administration, Net apps filers' installation, on tap upgrades, snap mirror and quota, Qtrees Administration.
• Fabric Manager, Connectrix Manager Administration for Zoning.
• Work Flow ticketing systems, Change management, incident management and Break fix issues follow up and support Supervise network monitoring standards, security, Health checks, resource utilization and stability.
• Installed and configured Secure SSH software to provide secure login, shell and data transfer with the support of ssh1, ssh2, telnet, and serial connections.

Confidential

System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for day-to-day System Administration on Sun Solaris servers.
• Monitoring system resources, logs, disk usage, scheduling backups and restore.
• Installing operating systems, patches, hardware, and vendor software packages.
• Customization and documentation of all departmental UNIX, PC-based workstations.
• General system administration including NFS, NIS and DNS Active Directory configurations and maintenance.
• Worked closely with DBAs to ensure optimal performance of databases, and maintain the development applications and databases.
• Assembling the systems and installing operating system and application software.
• Designing computer displays to accomplish goals using flowcharts and diagrams.
• Installing Operating Systems and Application
• Installed Solaris and Linux and created user logins, administered the system performance and monitoring user activities
• Installed VERITAS volume manager and implemented various RAID levels, logical volume creation, mirroring and file systems.
• Management and support of internal DNS, and NIS servers.
• Maintaining system securities.