SUMMARY

• 6 years of experience in SANalong with System administration
• Experience on Multi-tier Enterprise EMC Storage systems installation, migration, virtualization, management, monitoring, performance analysis reporting
• Experience in managing and configuring backups to different kinds of media such as tape and VTL
• Experience with SymmetrixDMX ,Vmax and ClariionCX, VNX and Data Domain, Avamar arrays
• Extensive experience in implementation, administration and maintenance of EMC CLARiiON arrays
• Extensive experience in EMC SAN technologies and provisioning of LUNs on CLARiiON platform using Navisphere Manager
• Good knowledge ofnew EMC arrays such as EMC VNX and VMAX system
• Experienced in NetApp NAS and SAN technologies and creating NFS/CIFS shares on NAS and provisioning LUNs using ISCSI and FC
• Strong experience in SAN data migration solutions that include EMC Open Replicator, Replication manager, Recoverpoint and ClariionSANCopy
• Working experience of backups and restores using VERITAS NetBackup
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills combined with high commitment to achieve corporate goals and ability to work collaboratively in a team

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Role : Storage Administrator

• Configured VNX 5500 in the environment
• Racked IBM servers for VMware and documented the environment
• Assisted the team in understanding what is required to implement a private environment with vnx, vmware and Cisco Nexus switches
• Installed Vmware esxi5 on IBM servers
• Configured cisco MDS switches for san storage
• Configured VNX for the San Allocation as per the requirements gathered
• Work with EMC to get the VMAX and ESRS installed
• Document the parameters of the environment as per the requirements
• Document what kind of alerting mechanisms are required for the future pro-active management
• Created Test cases for redundancy tests in the environment
• Create Raid Groups, Storage Groups Bind LUNs on Clariion storage arrays.
• Choose the right RAID level for high performance and high availability.
• Created Pools filesystems in a Celerra environment
• Exported cifs and NFS shares in Celerra environment
• Troubleshoot issues on SAN environments. Planning Backup Crash Recovery Data management with VeritasNetBackup Volume Manager.
• Performing zoning on Cisco and Brocade director class switches with Fabric Manager.
• Worked with the storage team to document the storage allocation procedure in a EMC Clariion environment
• Created pools and allocated storage from a CX4-480 environment using unisphere
• Migrated data from cx-480 to Vnx using mirrorview and PPME
• Worked with EMC to get VNX 5500 installed in the environment
• Configured VNX file for NAS and VNX block for SAN
• Configured and allocated storage fromVmaxenvironment
• Involved in a disaster recovery test plan in a Recover point environment.
• Provisioned and Decommissioned SAN storagefromDMX 3 4, DMX 3000/1000 and Clariion CX4-240/480/960 for Windows/UNIX hosts using ECC/SYMCLI and Navisphere Manager.
• Installed and configured EMC Control Center ECC alerts/agents to monitor SAN environment for Symmetrix, Clariion, Switches and Hosts.
• Troubleshoot issues with path management in the environment
• Install and configure Powerpath on different servers such as Solaris, windows and Linux
• Encouraged proper communication between support and test group in order to reduce confusion over defects.
• allocated storage to a VMware environment

Confidential

Role: SAN Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Create raid groups and pools in a VNX environment
• Allocated NFS and CIFS shares in a VNX file environment using Unisphere
• Responsible for the setup of SAN Fabric, comprising of MDS 9506/9216 switches for the expansion of fabric with minimum downtime to the host applications.
• Worked with EMC to get the ISILON grid installed.
• Assisted EMC to add more nodes to theISILON.
• Created pools, NFS and CIFS on ISILON environment.
• Installed Avamar agents on servers and discovered the clients in to the environment
• Configure policies in NetBackup and add servers to the NetBackup environment
• Installed NetBackup agents on different servers and configured schedules to back up the environment
• Configuration of Tdats/Tdevs/thin pools in a VMAX environment using SMC and Symcli
• Designed and implemented SAN disaster recovery solutions for Tier-1 storage using SRDF/A.
• Created Open Replicator sessions to migrate storage from EMC DMX 1000 to DMX 4.
• Documented the open replicator cold push sessions procedure for future purposes.
• Configured storage and allocated the file and block storage to different OS from a VNX 5500 array
• .Created consistency groups, Replication sets in a recover point environment
• Replicated data locally using CDP in a Recover point environment
• Configured and scheduled Journal volumes and Bookmarks in a Recover point environment respectively.
• created virtual machines in a VMware environment
• Migrated virtual machines from one server to another server using VMware Vmotion

Environment: EMC DMX3-4/3000/1000 and Clariion CX4-240/480/960 storage arrays, Cisco MDS 9509/9216, SymCLI, EMC Control Centre 5.2/6.0, Navisphere Manager V3.28, Connectrix Manager, Fabric/Device Manager, Storage Scope, Performance Manager, Navisphere Analyzer, Windows and Sun Solaris OS, Avamar, Data domain, VMware, ISILON, Recover Point.

Confidential

Role: SAN Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installed Replication manager and configured server software on windows 2008 server.
• Created and configured Application sets, jobs, schedules in Replication manager
• environment.
• Worked in a POC project for Hitachi Nas platform with Blue arc
• Alloacedldevs from AMS array to blue arc system
• Created filesystems and shared NFS and CIFS share in H-NAS environment
• Documented the environment to compare it with other products
• Configured Snapview Clones in a Replication manager.
• Configured and allocated storage from DMX 2000/3000, Clariion CX3-40,CX3-80,

• Managed Clariion CX3-40, CX3-80 storage array through Navisphere
• ConfiguredSnapview Snapshots, Snapview Clones, SAN Copy MirrorView in a CLARiiON environment.
• Involved in Migration of data from Clariion Storage Arrays CX700, to CX4-240 and CX3-40 using SAN Copy.
• Provision s from Symmetric 3000, DMX 4-950 using SYMCLI.
• Migrated data using Celerra replicator from NS-40 to new Celerra
• Create data interconnects,network interfaces and configure the sessions for Celerra replicator
• Test the Celerracifs data failover and document the procedure for future purposes
• Configure Time Finder andSymmetrixdevice groups for BCV operations.
• Migrate data across the Data Centers using the SRDF functionality.
• Created srdf sessions between 2 arrays migrated the data
• Added new hosts to the SRDF environment as required
• Monitor space utilization space remaining in storage subsystem, Analyzing resolving issues.

Environment: EMC Symmetric 1000/3000, Clariion CX700,CX3-80, DMX 4-950, SymCLI, TimeFinder, SRDF, PowerPath ,Navisphere 6x, Storage Navigator, Snap view, Mirror view, VeritasNetBackup, Fabric Manager, Brocade and Cisco CLI, Replication Manager.

Confidential

Role: Storage Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Managing storage including storage provisioning, performance tuning, adding volumes, assigning ports, data movement, maintenance of severs troubleshooting problems in environment.
• Implemented, administered and maintained EMCClariionCX 700/500 systems.
• Worked with EMC software tools like symCLI, Control Centre, TimeFinder, SRDF, PowerPath and Navisphere Manager.
• Create RAID Groups, Bind LUNs, and Create Storage Groups using Navisphere Manager.
• Took the snapshots using the SnapView functionality of EMCClariion.
• Hands-on experience with EMC Navisphere Manager, EMC Control Center, and Time Finder
• Installed and Configured PowerPath for multiple path access, workload management, path failover capabilities, and volume management for host servers connected to EMC Clariion arrays
• Monitoring performance and capacity of the SAN environment using Storage scope
• Involved in Installation and configuration of Emulex and Qlogic HBAs for SAN connectivity
• Configured and administered Brocade and CiscoFiber channel switches
• Storage Provisioning using zoning, LUN masking, mapping and Capacity planning
• Assigned storage to Windows, UNIX, and LINUX servers by configuring storage groups, assigning LUNs, registering HBAs on Clariion CX3-40 and SymmetrixDMX-2000 arrays
• Setting up and configuringClariion CX 700/500, CX3-40 and Symmetrix DMX 2000
• Allocation and De-allocation of storage to Linux and Windows hosts from EMCClariionCX 700/500 and DMX-3 arrays.
• Played an active role in carrying out various data migrations involving EMCClariion and DMX arrays using SANCopy and SRDF.
• Configuration and administration of EMCPowerPath software for redundant path failover and recovery.
• Installed agents on different Networker clients.
• Scheduled backups and restore as per customer requirements in Networker environment.
• Installed storage nodes and added them in Networkerserver environment.
• Troubleshoot backup issues with Networker and worked with EMC customer support from time to time.
• Planning and configuration of automated backups and restores using VERITASNetbackup 6.5.
• Installed TimeFinder and configured EMCDMX-3 disk groups for BCV operations.

Confidential

Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• As a systems administrator conducted day to day Administration of Sun Solaris servers.
• Conducted daily backups and restored as need basis.
• Remote installations of UNIX os's and applications using Jumpstart.
• Installed different peripheral cards, replaced failed hardware on SUN and Windows systems.
• Populated data for test and development environment using the production data.
• Installed and configured desktop computers with operating systems upgrades and patches DOS, Windows NT, and Windows 2000 .
• Developed Auto-mount configurations for mounting file systems, directories from NFS server.
• Performed General system administration includes NFS, NIS and DNS configuration and their maintenance.
• Integrated of various network related services like NIS, NFS, DNS and Send mail .
• Installed, configured and administered of DNS servers in Solaris environment.
• Administer system/data backups using UNIX native tools, tar, cpio, ufsdump, ufsrestore, Integrated the client network user interface to enterprise network using TCP/ IP.

Environment: SunFire 6800/ 4800 E6500/4500/450/250 and Ultra machines,Solaris 2.8/2.7, 2.6, Windows NT/2000, DNS, Shell Scripts, VXVM 2.5/ 3.x, VXFS 3.x, Web logic