SUMMARY

• Around 6 years hands - on experience with Storage Area Networks (SAN), Outstanding oral and written communications skills with ability to translate business needs into information technology solutions to fit those needs significant to EMC SAN implementation and administration expertise.
• Extensive experience with EMC VMAX, DMX4/DMX3/DMX2, and VNX, CX3, CX4, Celerra series.
• Hands-on experience and solid understanding of Windows, Linux, HP-UX, Solaris, AIX, SAN, NAS, DAS experience in many facets of information technology, including network analysis and design, data migration, project and IT personnel management, performance, capacity planning, EMC Symmertrix, CLARiiON, and enterprise storage arrays.
• Comprehensive knowledge on VNX platform using Unisphere like implementing administration and managing VNX 5700, 7500.
• Configuration, Implementaing, Administration and Troubleshooting of VMAX, DMX4, DMX-3, DMX-2 using SymCli, and ECC/SMC.
• Excelled in configuring, troubleshooting Clariion CX4, and CX3, CX600/700 using Navisphere Manager, and Navisphere Analyzer.
• Well versed on VNX platform including configuring virtual pools and FAST/VP per EMC best practices using unisphere manager.
• In depth knowledge of provisioning/masking/configuring with EMC Control Center and SMC.
• In VMAX and DMX environment, installing and managing ECC 6.1/SMC.
• Configuring Virtual/Thin provisioning luns and FAST/VP using SMC.
• Implemented FAST VP and storage tiering for applications like Oracle Database 11g, Microsoft SQL server and VMAX.
• Excelled in migrating servers from DMX to VMAX and Clariion to VNX using OpenReplicator/SRDF/Open Migrator/LVM/Sancopy methodologies.
• Comprehensive knowledge of using Snapview Clone/Snapshot and Time Finder Mirror/Clone/Snap implementing Business Continuity Solutions on Clariion, Symmertrix/DMX platforms.
• Knowledge of implementing Business Continuity Solutions on Clariion, Symmertrix/DMX platforms.
• Knowledge of implementing DR solutions using SRDF technologies.
• Implemented SRDF/S for production systems including creation of dynamic RA groups, creation of dynamic RDF pairs, enabling SRDF/A for the group of devices.
• Executed DR exercises for mission critical apps (Oracle) by failing over to the DR site using SRDF/S and SRDF/A meeting RTO and RPO objectives.
• Excelled in implementing SRDF and SANCopy migration technique to transfer bulk data over fiber cable.
• Explicit knowledge in Recover in Recover Point environment in both CDP/CRR modes.
• Comprehensive knowledge of installation and configuring of Cisco switches using Cisco CLI, Fabric Manager, Barcode switches using Barcode CLI and Web Tools.
• Configuring and managing EMC Power Path solution for path failover, load balancing, path management and automatic I/O failure detections.
• Good knowledge of multipathing software like EMC Power Path and Veritas DMP.
• Good experience in administration, design, configuration, monitoring, tuning and troubleshooting of high end disk storage systems such as EMC Symmertrix/DMX, CLARiiON in 24x7 mission critical production environment.
• Experience working on Linux/Solaris/HP/AIX/Windows O.S platforms.
• Knowledge in VMware ESX Server provisioning VM’s.
• Experience in Assisting System Administrator with server migration using VMware storage vMotion.
• Installing and configuring VMware ESX clusters and managing using Virtual Center.
• Smart thinking, strong interpersonal, management and excellent communication skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Storage Arrays: Symmertrix VMAX, DMX-4, DMX-3, DMX-1000/2000, VNX 5500/5700/7500 , CLARiiON CX3-80/CX3-480, CX4-960, Celerra NS80/NS80G.

Storage/SAN Software: ECC, SYMCLI Solutions Enabler, Navisphere Manager, NAvi CLI, Celera Manager, Time Finder/Snap, SRDF/S, SRDF/A, Mirror view and Snap View, San Copy, Open Replicator and Open Migrator, Snapsure, Fabric/device Manager, Web tools and Power path/DMP.

Operating Systems: HP UX 11.x, IBM AIX 5.1/5.2.5.3 , Red hat Linux, VMware, Sun Solaris 8/9/10 and Windows 2000/2003/2008.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Detroit, MI

Storage Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for managing VNX/VMAX/CLARiiON/DMX arrays on daily basis using ECC/SMC/Unisphere Management tools.
• Configured and implemented FAST/VP and Virtual pools (VP) on VNX and VMAX.
• Created storage pools and provisioned block storage on VNX 7500.
• Executed DR exercises for mission critical apps (Oracle) by failing over to the DR site using SRDF/S and SRDF/A meeting RTO and RPO objectives.
• Migrating servers from DMX to VMAX and Clariion to VNX using OpenReplicator/SRDF/Open Migrator/LVM/Sancopy methodologies.
• Created RAID groups and Storage groups, assigned LUNs to Hosts using Unisphere, ECC/SMC and Navisphere.
• Total implementation and installation of ECC 6.1 in the environment
• Experience migration of arrays using host based tools like open migrator/LVM Mirroring on Unix/Linux/Windows platforms.
• Managed and monitored Snap Views snapshots/ clones on CLARiiON CX series Subsystems.
• Created File systems and exported to NFS and CIFS clients using Celerra Manager and Celerra CLI.
• Created hourly, nightly, weekly and monthly snapshots to maintain online backups to recover from accidental deletions.
• Created the Time Finder disk groups, eastablishing and splitting the Business Continuance Volume (BCVs) for different purposes.
• Implemented various Business continuity Recovery Point Objective (RPO) & Recovery Time Objective (RTO) strategies as per the mission critical applications.
• Implemented Business Continuity solutions for ORACLE databases using Time finder clones and Recover Point CDP/CRR.
• Involved in conducting DR exercises for Oracle databases using Recover point CRR product.
• Created SAN Copy push sessions using Navisphere Manager to perform migration from CLARiiON CX4-480 to VNX 7500.
• Managed and installation of EMC Power Path, solutions for path failovers, load balancing, path management and automatic I/O failure detections.
• Collected the Performance Manager Statistics and Storage Scope reports for different requirements.
• Migrated Data from DMX to VMAX using array based (Open Replicator) and host based LVM migration depending on the requirements.
• Installed and configured VMware ESXi in a multi hosts shared storage environment.

ENVIRONMENT: Storage: VMAX, VNX 7500, DMX-3, DMX-2000, Clariion:, CX3-80, CX3-40f, NS80 Fabrics/Switches Windows NT/2000, AIX servers, LINUX, HP and Open VMS Tools: ECC 6.1, Fabric Manager/Device Manager and PPME etc.

Confidential, Southfield, MI

Storage Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Actively involved in pre-migration analysis, making the host eligible for the new storage array.
• Total implementation of ECC 6.1 in the environment.
• Detailed planning and preanalysis of the existing environment for the implementation of the EMC Control Center 6.1 Version.
• Obtained grabs on windows servers and generated HEAT reports before and after the upgrades accordingly.
• Experience in storage provisioning from DMX-3 and NS-960 to different platform OS servers.
• Actively involved in identifying the dead zones in the existing fabric and making changes for the new SAN migration to Cisco’s 9513.
• Involved in generating Storage scope reports from ECC 6.1 for determining the host-capacity utility.
• Implemented and tested Disaster recovery solutions using SRDF which in turn provided time to deal with problems if any during the failover process.
• Implemented and consolidated storage by moving data from Hitachi UPS 1100 to DMX-3 using Open Replicator and Open Migrator.
• Planned and designed SAN in Windows, AIX, Linux and VMWARE environment.
• Implemented SRDF/A for production systems including creation of dynamic RA groups, creation of dynamic RDF pairs, enabling SRDF/A for group of devices. Addition and removal of disks from the device group when needed by disabling SRDF/A and re-enabled the session
• Configured Control Station and Data Movers for NS704G and NS20.
• Upgraded NAS version from 5.5.23 to 5.5.29 with minimum disturbance to the data migration

Environment: Storage: DMX-3, DMX-2000, and Clariion CX300, CX3-80, CX3-40f, NS80

Confidential, Chandler, AZ

Storage Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Supported in the installation and configuration of DMX-2000, DMX-30000, and CX400/600 to support and enterprise environment with multiple operating systems and applications.
• Storage provisioning from DMX 30000 and DMX 2000 to various UNIX servers using ECC and SYMCLI.
• Cleaning the DMX1000 and DMX 2000 i.e. unmasking, unmaping, un-zoning the hosts with different UNIX platforms using ECC and SYMCLI.
• Opportunity working with SQL serving attached to clarion array in snap view and Mirror view.
• Created copies of productions data by configuring clones from the production data using Time Finder Business Continuity used for testing, development and for backups.
• Implemented a core-edge toplogy with the Brocade directors and connected all the storage (DMX-2000, DMX-3000, and Cx400/600) systems to core and host systems to the edge switches which provides a huge connectivity options for future use and reduced lot of man hours to troubleshoot the SAN issues.
• Planned and implemented a disaster recovery solution using SRDF/AR between the two sites (production and DR) located 1200 miles apart.
• Created scripts (mapping and masking) to make use of the BCVs and R2, in case of disaster recovery situation.
• Installed and configured Navisphere Agent, Manager, CLI, and Event Monitor, and implemented storage groups, using Access Logic.
• Creating the Meta luns based on the application requirement.
• Installed and configured ECC 5.2 to simplify and automate tasks such as discovery, planning, monitoring, reporting and storage provisioning for different infrastructures.
• Used EMC Navisphere software to manage monitor and configure the storage capacity for clarion CX400/600.
• Actively involved in planning of SAN Expansion, management at the technical and architecture level and migration strategies.
• Installed and configured EMC Power Path software which provides multiple I/O path capabilities, loiad balancing and automatic path failover, to ensure high availability and support non-disruptive upgrades.
• Converting the STDs to BCvs using “symconfigure”, create and manage device groups and setup the BCVs to doo establish, split and mount volumes on a different server to do the backup operations,.
• Created scripts to do a “tech refresh” on regular basis and also provided the restore procedure from the BCVs to production in case of a corruption/deletion on the production environment.
• Hardware and software installations and configuring the applications, upgrading servers with latest service packs and patches.

Environment: DMX 3000, DMX 2000, DMX 10000 AND Clariion CX400 and CX600, Brocade 12k, 3800/3900 switches.AIX(5.2/5.3), HP-UX(11.00/11.x), Win 2K/2K3. SYMCLI, ECC 5.2, Navisphere Manager, Time Finder/BCV, SRDF/AR, Snap View, Mirror view.

Confidential

System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installed, configured and maintained UNIX and Windows operating systems, including the system software and provided hardware.
• Partitioned and mounted file systems, user administration, add packages, update patches with the latest releases and identified and corrected common problems.
• Performed complete and incremental file system backups and restores in case of disk inconsistencies.
• Patch & backup management using customized UNIX SHELL & Perl scripts and recovery policies.
• Initialized disks, created volumes, created disk groups, added disks to the disk groups, imported and deported volume groups for data migration.
• Maintained daily backups.
• Installed and configured windows XP and 2000 work stations, switches, firewalls and servers.
• Applying, removing or updating user account information.
• Involved in monitoring system security, network traffic, network connections, maintaining the OS environment and adjust system parameters to increase system performance.
• Troubleshooting technical issues related to printers, e-mail, internet connections, operating system and hard ware.
• Configured NFS, NIS and DNS for sharing the file systems and the name resolutions.