SUMMARY

• EMC Storage professional with 9+ years of experience in SAN solutions in an enterprise environment including high availability systems on Midrange and Enterprise storage Solutions across Utilities, Manufacturing, Telecom and Retail Industry domains.
• Experience in Storage provisioning, monitoring and troubleshooting Symmetrix VMAXs, VMAX3 200K, VNXs, DMX - 3&4, Clarion CX-4 series, VPLEX VS2, Unity, RecoverPoint, SRM, IBM DS4K, IBM XIV, HP Eva and FAS2050 Arrays.
• Expertise in DELL EMC Enterprise solutions which includes all VMAX arrays, VNX series along replication technologies as SRDF, TimeFinder Clones and EMC RecoverPoint Appliance.
• Experience in Zoning and Troubleshooting Brocade & Cisco switches.
• Responsible for performing day to day operational tasks like storage provisioning, maintaining high availability and Business Continuity solutions as per EMC best practices alongside long term capacity planning, forecasting and data growth analysis.
• Experience on configuring physical interfaces and mapping membership on VSAN on CISCO MDS.
• Responsible in configuring Port-Channels across multiple interfaces on multiple VSANs across fabrics and increase higher bandwidth to support UCS PODs.
• Having very high end hands on experience on EMC SAN Business Continuity Solutions including SAN Copy, SRDF/S, SRDF/A, Time Finder (Clones) VNX File-Replication, RecoverPoint.
• Responsible to upgrade independently (without vendor support) firmware/microcode into VNX Unified, RecoverPoint, Unity and Cisco MDS switches.
• Experience in Storage migration using SRDF/A, Open Replicator and Host based migration like Power Path Migration enabler.
• Experience in load balancing of FE based on IOPS, Utilization and heat Map through data collection across all Enterprise backend arrays.
• Experience on Installing Isilon Gen 6, configuring new subnets and migrating all data from old nodes to new ones without any disruption and performance impacts.
• Experience in administering and managing EMC ViPR SRM solution for effective capacity management.
• Experience in working as backup admin in EMC Legato Networker versions 7.6, 8.2 and latest 9.2 in a VTL configured Data Domain and Physical Disk libraries.
• Experience with Power Shell scripting (For automation on monitoring of different class of arrays/switches on a heterogeneous environment)

TECHNICAL SKILLS

SAN Platforms: EMC Symmetrix VMAX (20k/40k/VMAX3), EMC Clarion CX/CX4 series, DMX 3 & 4, EMC VNX series (Gen 1 & Gen 2, Block and Unified both), EMC Unity, EMC VPLEX VS2, EMC RecoverPoint, EMC Data Domain, IBM DS 3400/4700, Storwise v3700, IBM XIV, Dell EqualLogic, NetApp FAS 2050.

Replication: SRDF, TimeFinder Clones, VNX File replication, RecoverPoint alongside integration with SRM.

Firmware OS: Flare Block OE, VNX File OE, Enguinity, Solution Enabler7.6/8.4, GeoSynchrony 5.5/6.0, CISCO Nexus OS, Hypermax for VMAX3

Reporting Tools: ECC, Unisphere, ViPR SRM, SMC, SAN Health Diagnostics

ITSM Tools: BMC Remedy, Service Now, HPSM

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Senior Storage Engineer

Environment: VMAX 20K, VNX 5800, VPLEX VS2, Unity, DD 990, RPA Gen 5, CISCO MDS 9509, EMC Networker 9.2, ViPR SRM, SourceOne 8.1.

Responsibilities:

• Monitor, troubleshoot and administer Tier 1 Data Center at DR location, working with a team of engineers (Network, Mainframe etc.)
• Integration of all LI storage platform devices with EMC ViPR SRM for capacity reporting, space monitoring, utilization trend, performance data gathering and various other features like chargeback analysis & potential savings etc.
• Configured new Port-Channel configurations for VSANs 100 and 200 on both side of fabrics. This allowed total 32 Gigs of bandwidth and match UCS POD configs. On ESX side.
• Completed configuration of 70 TB of Flash Dynamic Pool on Unity Storage and completed migration from traditional Pool along with compression saving 14 TB of space.
• Successfully configured Quota management on EMC Data Domain as we were risking exposure of entire 462 x 2 TB space.
• Performed firmware upgrades for all systems noticeably RecoverPoint, Solutions Enabler which had reached EOPS without causing any impact.
• Successfully completed the DR failover and failbacks for multiple critical applications like OMS,GIS, Cloud Wrapper, Mainframe, SQL etc. with RecoverPoint for the first time in Client operations.
• Mitigated multiple vulnerabilities which deployments of new fixes and firmware patches as DELL EMC Advisory.
• Successfully implemented Long Term DR test copies across multiple applications by configuring hybrid based RecoverPoint replication managed by both VMware SRM & RPA. With this approach, the IAL and Journal spaces getting filled causing disruption on DR is completely avoided.
• 34 TB unutilized storage was proactively identified and reclaimed from VMAX & VNX storages at Herndon earlier in the month of October 2017.Another 30 TB storage was reclaimed end of march 2018 from replica copies of OMS/GIS/NICE applications from RecoverPoint, VPLEX and VNX storage systems.
• Enabled File level deduplication across all File Systems on Garden City VNX hence optimizing capacity utilization and space reduction.
• Flash Storage optimization was implemented with migration of data from traditional to dynamic pool (newly configured with 70 TB) on EMC Unity, resulted in improved compression ratio of 2.5:1 with recovery of 13 TB space and cost savings.
• Physical ESRS Gateways were successfully migrated to virtual last year which provides improved service levels, increased protection of information, reduced risk and improved time to repair.
• VNX2 File & Block OE upgrades to 2 level patches 217 and 231 respectively at Production and DR was successfully completed along with resolving the previous code level bugs. Further all the Drive firmware were upgraded for 9 different TLA parts.
• 65 TB and another 35 TB storage reclamation from ESX farms in Production VCenter which were directly connected to backend (VMAX and VNX) arrays. Another set of 30 TB was presented through VPLEX and Data Mobility migration was performed and those sets of DataStores were released. With this implementation all VMware storage configuration with VPLEX has been 100 % achieved in Production.
• Performed addition of data drives (mix of EFD, SAS & NL-SAS) into high tier pool after identifying unbound drives not used for sparring.
• Addition of 4 x FE Unity Ports zoning with VPLEX on MDS Directors. The additional unused 8 G FE Unity ports will help increasing the IO throughput, balancing and reduce any potential queuing that would cause into higher response times.
• Performed EMC Power path based non-disruptive migration from old VMAX disks to newly provisioned virtual VPLEX volume was successfully performed as a non-disruptive migration for AIX hosts directly attached to backend SAN.
• Performed 45 + TB Storage backend data migration from VMAX to VNX and Unity arrays based on Data Mobility without any downtime and cutover.
• Migration performed for AIX and zLinux data with Open Replication Push migration with minimum downtime.
• Managing and administering Legal Hold data for 500+ user accounts with SourceOne systems and archiving/retrievals with Discovery Manager.
• Reconfigured SourceOne systems with resources additions and completed synchronization of 450+ users to Legal Hold pending since last year in a couple of weeks’ time with effective scripting.

Confidential

Storage Lead Offshore

Environment: IBM DS 3400/5300, Storwise v3700, EMC Clarion CX4 480, Clarion CX3-20, Dell EqualLogic, Brocade 200E, Power Shell Scripting.

Responsibilities:

• Successfully completed transition as transition lead from incumbents (IBM,CSC) across multiple regions NA,EMEA and LATAM and APAC within 2 months’ time.
• Engaged as a Lead and completed successful cut-over to TCS support for NA and EMEA regions.
• Managing and administering a so called legacy infrastructure having more than 1 PB data spanned across 30+ different sites across Europe, NA, and Asia.
• Successfully implemented correct tiering of FC tiered storage for Luxemburg business operations by analyzing and identifying in appropriate mapping of SAN on v3700.
• Automated and integrated monitoring for complete Confidential - SAN heterogeneous environment including IBM, Dell-EqualLogic, EMC and Brocade switches using Windows PowerShell Scripting.
• Implemented automated Scripting based weekly switch backups for all Brocade Configs.

Confidential

Storage & Backup Admin

Environment: EMC Clarrion-CX4 480, Centera, DMX 4, VMAX 20K/40K/200K, VNX 7600/5500, HP EVA, 3Par EMC Data Domain, Scalar Physical Tape Library.

Responsibilities:

• Administering and managing data (SAN & Backup) of more than 5 PBs spread across multiple sites like Dubai, Khazna, Meydan, Sharjah etc. across UAE)
• Collaborated with senior management, subject matter experts, and IT teams to define business requirements
• Transformed business requirements into functional and nonfunctional requirements.
• Successfully Handled migration of storage and backup data alongside vendor.
• Performed storage based Hot Push open replicator across product technology from VMAX 20K to VNX 7500.
• Handled SRDF based migration from VMAX 20K to 200K.
• Performed Firmware upgrades for CISCO SAN Switches without vendor connect.
• Mitigated long pending performance issues on Production Solaris hosts running on application like CRM, Siebel etc. by identifying default HBA queue depth value causing IO congestion and in turn impacting the throughput.
• Executed quarterly Differential Clone refresh for the production set of HP UX hosts into Dev servers.
• Troubleshooting, managing storage paths through EMC Powerpath and upgrading the same on the host layer.
• Experienced in performing Storage Mapping, Performance Tuning and Identifying Bottlenecks of sources, mappings, targets and sessions.
• Performed data migration from Tier 1 Storage Pool to Tier 2 after analysis data usage and performance for over a year, hence affecting saving cost of 450K $ which was wasted on EFD,FC disks.
• Managed, configured and administered backups for multiered host environment and Archival backups. Configured SAN based storage nodes for faster data backups and restoration.
• Configured, created media tapes for daily, weekly, monthly and archive media pools.
• Performed weekly Virtual media recycling and clean up for daily, weekly, monthly data pools within VTL configured Data Domain.
• Performed data cloning and Clean up on data (retention expired) through Perl based scripting from Data Domain (nearing 100% utilization) to Physical Scaler tape libraries.
• Provided L1 support for executing Tera Data Script for running backup on NetBackup appliance.

Confidential

Storage Admin

Environment: EMC VMAX 20K/40K, HP EVA, Celerra VG8, Brocade DCX, DS 5300, IBM DS 4k, XIV, CISCO MDS 9148.

Responsibilities:

• Managing and Administering 4 PB+ SAN data across 2 major CSC data centres in Newark, NJ and Norwich, CT.
• Provisioning SAN allocations for muti-tiered OS platform majorly HP UX Clusters, Windows.
• Each SAN allocation is integrated with a Clone (R1 Copy), 1 x R2 Remote Copy and R2 Clone on the remote copy. R2 copy is considered as the Gold Copy and remains untouchable.
• Configured Composite groups for 2 VMAX 20K arrays at same location to improve the ease of manageability and administering LUNS across 2 arrays.
• Performed periodic clone refresh across arrays data Luns based on composite groups configured on managed hosts.
• Configured new SRDF/A groups within the existing RA ports and performed Establish on Disk Mode copy of transfer.
• Performed SRDF Move pair operational mode for new Lun assignment in Production without impacting the existing RDF group.
• Troubleshooting, managing storage paths through EMC Powerpath and upgrading the same on the host layer.
• Data Cleaning: Implemented right clean-up process to clean data as per system requirements and decommissioned hosts.
• Assisted vendor on performing SRDF based migration from VMAX 20k to 40k.