Summary

• Over 8 years of remarkable and professional experience with storage systems, Backup and Disaster Recovery environments.
• Familiar with CLARiiON CX600 Series, CX - 700 Series and CX3/4series, VNX, Symmetrix V-Max, DMX-4000, 3000, 2000, 1000 series, and EMC Celerra NS 120/480/960 administration.
• Installed and configured NetApp filer/Clusters which include FAS 6270, FAS 6210, FAS 3170, FAS 3140 and FAS 2000, V 6210 and R200 series.
• Experience with NetApp Data Protection features like Snapshot, Snaprestore, SnapMirror, Snapvault, OSSV, Snap Drive, Sync Mirror and SnapLock.
• Dealt with NetApp Management software's like Oncommand system manager, DFM, Operations Manager, Protection and Provisioning manager and Snap Manager.
• Configuring, Administration and Troubleshooting of VMAX systems which includes but not limited to Thin-Provisioning and Automated Storage Tiering.
• Experience in migrating data from an EMC array to an EMC and a third party array
• Experience working with SYMCLI, Unisphere Manager, Navisphere Manager, Data Center Fabric Manager, Connectrix Manager, Fabric Manager and Device Manager.
• Installed and configured MirrorView, SnapView, BCV's using TimeFinder and SRDF at Symmetrix level.
• Managed EMC VMAX using SRM tools and Prosphere.
• Hands on experience in Storage and fabric consolidation Data migrations and switch migrations.
• Experience and through understanding on Migration tools, open Replicator, SAN Copy, Open Migrator, Powerpath Migration Enabler.
• Worked on MultiPathing software, EMC Powerpath and native multi path.
• Designed, implemented DR solutions using SRDF, MirrorView and RecoverPoint.
• Proficient with zoning and administration of Cisco, Brocade and McData SAN Switches.
• Knowledge on Microsoft 2008, 2003, Hyper-V, SUN Solaris, IBM AIX 5.3, HP-UX, Linux VMware platforms as it relates to disk allocation, managing LUN's, Host Side and HBA configuration.
• Understanding on RAID levels and implemented all levels.
• Effective personal communication skills, learning agility and ability to handle critical situations are plus.

Technical skills:

• Storage Enterprise Arrays: EMC CLARiiON CX, Symmetrix DMX series, EMC Vmax, EMC Vnx, Celerra
• NS and NetApp FAS filers.
• Switches: Cisco MDS 9509, 9506, 9200, Brocade 24000, 3900, 4100, 48000, 2800,
• 3200, 3850, 5000, McData 3232, 6064, 4400, 4500.
• Storage software's: EMC Control Centre, EMC Navisphere Manager, Replication Manager,
• Mirror View, Snap View/Clone, SANCopy, Time Finder, SRDF, Power
• Path, RecoverPoint, NaviCLI, SnapMirror, Flexclone, NetApp snapshots,
• Snapdrive, snap manager for exchange/SQL, Cisco fabric manager, brocade fabric manager, Connectrix manager, ECC.
• Operating systems: windows 2003/2008, UNIX, SUN Solaris v8, 9, 10, IBM AIX v5.3, v4.3.

Professional experience

Confidential

Role: System Storage Admin

Responsibilities:

• Storage allocation to new build and existing UNIX, Windows servers/clusters and VMware ESX environment using auto provisioning on VMAX using SYMCLI/SMC. Tasks include creation of tdevs, binding tdevs to thin pools, creation of initiator/storage/port groups and creating masking view and enabling bit settings to initiators.
• Responsible for administration and management of IBM Storwize V7000 block and unified clusters.
• Provisioning storage to AIX and ESX environments. create snapshot/clones/mirrors using local copy services for backup
• Create and manage Global mirror relationships for remote replication between production and DR sites.
• Administered EMC VNX 5300/5500/5700. Created storage pools and provisioned storage
• Generated monthly performance and capacity reports using TPC application.
• Work with Different Storage Vendors for code upgrades, firmware upgrades and issues.
• Documenting and updating the existing storage environment.
• Administered IBM XIV and HP EVA, MSA storage arrays using GUI and Cli.

Environment: EMC Vmax, DMX4, DMX 3, Clarrion cx3-80, cx4-480, Celerra NS-480, SRDF, PPme,Robocpy, Veritasnetbackup, SnapVault, brocade 48000/3900 fabric switches, brocade fabric manager,Windows 2003/Windows 2008, SUN Solaris 9/10 and Rhel 4/5.

Confidential

Role: System Storage Admin

Responsibilities:

• Allocated storage from a Vmax and Dmx array using SMC, ECC and solutions enabler
• Migrated data from a DMX to Vmax array using host based tools such as Robocopy and SRDF.
• Created DG's, R1-R2 pairs and established the SRDF sessions for migration and DR purposes as well
• Migrated data from Clariion to DMX and DMX to vmax using PPme or powerpath migration enabler
• Created masking views, storage groups, initiator groups and ports group in a vmax environment to allocate storage to different OS platforms
• Installed and configured SPA, SMC and SMAS in the environment
• Worked with the emc customer support to get the ESRS gateway configured in the environment
• Created pools, filesystems and shared NFS and Cifs shares in a Celerra environment
• Added luns to the pools as required by the customer
• Created interconnects, network interfaces in a celerra environment
• Configured the celerra replicator session at a VDM level for DR purposes
• Provided capacity planning, storage expansion, storage creation and presentation as well as all zoning activities on the Brocade and Cisco Fiber Channel switches.
• Executed Weekly zone pushes on Brocade 48k and Cisco 9509 switches for new filers that are being added to backups.
• Dealt with SnapManager for Microsoft exchange.
• Monitored and trouble shot many SAN/NAS related issues, escalate to vendors if needed.
• Dealt with Veritas NetBackup for backups and recovery.
• Performed Host Analysis, document recommendations for any required Upgrades on Host's for smooth migration
• Handled many trouble shoot and SAN allocation issues.

Environment: EMC Vmax, DMX4, DMX 3, Clarrion cx3-80, cx4-480, Celerra NS-480, SRDFPPme,Robocpy, Veritasnetbackup, SnapVault, brocade 48000/3900 fabric switches, brocade fabric manager,Windows 2003/Windows 2008, SUN Solaris 9/10 and Rhel 4/5.

Confidential

Role: NAS/SAN Administrator

Responsibilities:

• As a storage admin implemented SAN NAS Solutions projects from all technical aspect by coordinating with internal client groups.
• Demonstrated and managed NetApp FAS2000 and FAS3000 series, V series, R200, NetApp Clusters, EMC DMX, Celerra NS 480, NS 960.
• Executed NetAppSnapManager with Oracle Database technologies.
• Assigned storage to Celerra fileserver and created filesystems and Configured CIFS and NFS.
• Implemented CIFS Multi protocol and other Celerra features HOMEDIR and Snapsure.
• Configured NDMP backups with Legato and Veritas Net backup.
• Provisioned storage to and configured all OS hosts
• AIX/HP/Solaris/Windows/VMware from CLARiiON /Symmetrix/DMX arrays
• Installed and Configured the CAVA on Celerra. Implemented and configured EMCCelerra iSCSI.
• Designed and implemented Celerra High availability solutions IP Replication and Celerra SRDF to EMC Clients.
• Migrated data from Windows servers to Celerra using EMCopy, Robocopy, Quest Consolidator to clients and verification using 3rd party tool Confidential compare and EMC tools fsscan and fsdisk.
• Performed Migration data from Windows to EMC Celerra and Celerra to Celerra using Celerra replicator and robocopy.
• Performed in-depth storage assessments.
• Implemented LUN Masking using Solution Enabler and ECC on Symmetrix/DMX arrays.
• Co-ordinated the flare code upgrade on all CX3 and CX4 series.

Environment: MirrorView, SAN Copy, EMC Recover Point, Snap View/SnapView Clone, Replication Manager, SRDF, Time Finder, Celerra Snapsure, Celerra IP, Windows 2000/Windows 2003, SUN Solaris 8/9, IBM, AIX, HP-UX, Linux, .

Confidential

Role: SAN Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installation, implementation and migration of CLARiiON CX3-80, CX4-960, CX3-40, CX3-20F, CX3-10C and Symmetrix DMX4 into a Storage Area Network.
• We supported Petabytes of EMC storage. Performed lun management, Metaluns, raid groups, storage groups, hypers, and Meta's.
• Allocated storage from CLARiiON cx3-40, cx3-80, cx4-480, cx4-960 and DMX4, VMAX using Navisphere Manager, ECC, Symcli and SMC
• Performed zoning on the Cisco switches
• Provisioned storage from Celerra NAS using Celera manager.
• Created virtual data movers and configured CAVA on the Celerra
• Involved in creation of filesystems and allocating shares from Celerra
• Managed NaviCli and Navisphere Agent on all the hosts in CLARiiON environment.
• Installed master agents and discovered the servers into ECC
• Installed and configured Emulex, Qlogic HBA's for SAN connectivity on Solaris and windows servers
• Created SRDF sessions to migrate the data from DMX to VMAX
• Involved in documenting the procedure for creation and managing SRDF in the environment
• Created Snap sessions for rollback during any possible data corruptions.
• Performed SANCopy incremental to migrate data between CLARiiON storage systems.
• Configured standard disk groups for BCV operations using TimeFinder.
• Performed firmware upgrade and zoning on Brocade Fiber Channel switches.

Environment: EMC CLARiiON cx3-40, cx3-80, cx4-480, cx4-960, DMX 4, DMX3, VMAX, Celera NS480Navisphere Manager, NaviCLI, ECC, Symcli, Connectrix Manager, Celera Manager, SnapViewMirrorView, SANCopy, TimeFinder, SRDF, Emulex, Qlogic, Cisco MDS switches Windows 2000/2003Linux, Solaris 8/9.

Confidential

Role: Storage Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Creating RAID groups, binding LUNs, creating Meta LUNs, creating Storage Groups, registering Hosts.
• Installed, configured and administrated Brocade switches. Implement Core-Edge design for Brocade 4 .
• Implemented Boot from SAN for Windows Servers.
• Provisioned storage for Windows 2003 Solaris using CLARiiON NaviCLI Navisphere Manager .
• Allocated Storage from EMC Symmetrix using Symcli
• Performed Host Analysis, document recommendations for any required Upgrades on Host's for smooth migration.
• Identification of Source devices create a Bin Request for CE to create Target devices on DMX3000 prepare From-To-List for CE to create the pairing of R1-R2 devices.
• Zoned administration to assign new storage after migration.
• Dealt with symconfigure to perform configuration changes on the DMX/Symmetrix arrays.
• Created/dissolved Meta Volumes, Change device configuration, map/unmap devices to FA ports as and when required.
• Configured lpfc.conf and sd.conf files in Solaris environment for storage visibility to the servers.
• Installed and configured PowerPath in UNIX and Windows environment.
• Assigned storage from DMX/Symmetrix CLARiiON arrays to UNIX Windows systems using symcli and/or ECC 5.x.
• Installed NaviSphere Agent and NaviCLI on all the hosts in CLARiiON environment.
• Assigned storage from CX700/CX380 using NaviSphere Manager.
• Performed Host Analysis, document recommendations for any required Upgrades on Host's for smooth migration.
• Zoned administration to do migration and assign new storage after migration.
• Created SANCopy Sessions using Navisphere Manager or scripts to perform migration-using SANCopy.

Environment: EMC Symmetric DMX-3000, DMX3-1500, CLARiiON CX700, CX-380, Brocade B48000i, Cisco MDS 9000 Series 9509/9216/9216 i .EMC Celerra NS704G, NS702, NS40, SUN Solaris, UNIX, Red hat Enterprise Linux3.x, Fedora Linux, E15K, E10K, E6500, SunfireV880, V440.

Confidential

Role: Solaris Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Performed system administration of UNIX servers by using Operating Systems of Solaris 2.5/2.6/7/9.
• Configured and maintained NIS, NFS, and DNS client.
• Performed system startup and shutdown.
• Ensured appropriate user service level is maintained.
• Monitored Console error messages.
• Backing up and restoring files across the network.
• Responsible for Connectivity Issues among various Servers.
• Installed and Configured Veritas NetBackup on Sun E 4500 servers.
• Worked with installation and configuration of Veritas Volume Manager 3.5.
• Responsible for Installation of various software components on several servers.
• Troubleshooter console error messages.
• Provided support for local and remote users.
• Installed and Configured Sendmail Utility on Sun UNIX Servers.
• Performed scheduled incremental backups using ufsdump and recovered and rolled over backups.
• Maintained machine logs to record use of system using Service Center Management
• Administering NFS Mounts.
• Troubleshooting Backup and Restore problems.
• Constantly Monitored System Performance. Involved in Day-to-Day trouble shooting for the end users on Solaris based applications.

Environment: Solaris 2.5/2.6/7/8, Sun E4500, NIS, NFS, DNS, Veritas Volume Manager 3.5, ufsdump, Veritas NetBackup3.0