SUMMARY

• EMC Powermax, VMAX AF 950FX, VMAX3, VMAX40K, VMAX20K, Unity, Isilon, ECS, VNX, CLARiiON, Centera, Vblock, XtermIO
• EMC Unisphere, Symcli, SRDF, ViPR, SRM, Veritas Netbackp, NetApp 2554, 3160, 6080, 6210, 6250, 8040, NetApp Unified Manager
• NetApp snapmirrror, CDOT; 3PAR V800, V400, T400, HP P9500, HP P9000, EVA, HP Storwize V7000,HDP/TPVV, DS 8800/8700/6800
• SVC 2145 (SAN Volume Controller), XIV, Gen3 /Gen2, DS5300/5100, DS4800/4700, CSM, HDS USP - V, AMS, 95XX, HSSM
• Cisco MDS 9710 & 9513 family, DCNM, Brocade, ISL, Trunking, Storage components Emulex & QLogic (HBA, SFP)
• Multi-Pathing software & MPIO, ITIL, IBM DS8K, DS5K and DS4K Storage Manager, XIV GUI, DSCLI, XCLI, SVC GUI & CLI
• HP 3PAR IMC, Hitachi storage navigator, QLogic SANsurfer software, IBM TPC,Unix, AIX, Windows IBM AIX V7.1, V6.1
• Solaris 11/10/9, HP-UX 11.X, SUSE Linux, RHEL, Networking, Database, VMWARE, ESX, PURE Storage

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Storage Engineer

Confidential, Wayne, PA

Responsibilities:

• Adminstration, Configuraton and Installation of various storage arrays EMC Powermax, All Flash, VMAX3, 40K, VNX, Unity, Isilon, ECS; NetApp 7-mode, CDOT FAS8000, ONTAP 9 and IBM 8880; PURE storage.
• Data Center Consolidation.
• Migrate Windows, Vmware, Linux and Solaris hosts data from EMC VMAX3, EMC All Falsh to Powermax (Storage based as well as Host based migration)
• Create Initiator groups, Port groups, storage groups and Masking view to allocate new storage.
• Decommission legacy EMC storage arrays.
• Design Business Continuity (BC) infrastructure. Setup DR replication between Production and remote site using Synchronous SRDF.
• Centralize storage management: EMC ESRS and CloudIQ application configuration. Capacity management and performance troubleshooting.
• Quaterly upgrade code on storage arrays.
• NAS File System configuration, NFS and CIFS share creation; Set quota, snapshots on VNX5700, VNX7600 and Isilon 8.x
• EMC Isilon Administration and configuration. Setup SyncIQ, performance analysis and troubleshooting via InsighIQ. Working with SnapshotIQ, SmartDedupe, SmartConnect.
• CloudPool configuration and setup ECS as archival object storage from Isilon.
• Private cloud configuration using EMC ECS and retrieve object data through AWS S3 browser.
• Working knowledge of Cloud Storage services - AWS S3, Storage Gateways, EFS, EBS, Glaciar.
• Experience with VMware and AWS services (EC2, S3, EBS, EFS, VPC, IAM).
• EMC Unity All Flash array configuration and administration of block, NFS exports, CIFS share.
• Configure Unity SAN Copy pull for data migration.
• NetApp CDOT installation, configuration, and migration from 7-mode to Cluster Data Ontap.
• Setup NetApp qos as per application requirement.
• Create NetApp SVM and configure intracluster and intercluster lifs.
• Upgrade NetApp OS - ONTAP 9.x. Snapmirror setup for DR setup.
• NAS storage administration and troubleshooting. CIFS and NFS share creation.
• Cisco SAN management. SAN switch migration, Smart Zoning, cleanup, backup configuration, setup automated scheduler jobs, slow drain analysis.
• Centralize SAN management: Cisco DCNM configuration and upgrade.
• Managing Windows and Linux management hosts.
• Cisco MDS and Brocade DCX switch administration, configuration and troubleshooting: create zones, device aliases, npiv/npv.
• Hands-on knowledge of VMware - Storage vmotion, datastore creation, VM creation, monitoring vm performance, cluster consolidation and finding storage detail.
• Storang communication skills: Conduct weekly meetings with vendors, explain business requirements and impliment into environment. Work with various application teams.
• Manage Sev1 and Sev2 call. On-call availability as per schedule.

Storage Administrator

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Architect and configure Data Storage Infrastructure environment depending on application utilization.
• Administrate, maintain and troubleshoot storage products Powermax, VMAX All Flash, VMAX3, VMAX2, VNX 5500/5700, Unity, XtremeIO, Isilon, ECS, eNAS, HP 3PAR, and IBM Flash storage products.
• Participate in Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery plan.
• Implement migrations using SRDF Sync, SRDF ASync and SRDF STAR.
• Configure an active local replication or point in time snap according to application requirement.
• Work on storage products using RAID knowledge, Storage Tiering & Storage Architecture concepts.
• Assign and configure Storage of VMAX and VNX (Block & File) using SYMCLI and Unisphere.
• Create Host, Storage and Port Groups to manage a single application with Masking Views.
• Create NFS/CIFS NAS shares and allocate to appropriate platform.
• Create, assign and reclaim LUNs when required.
• Working with AIX, Solaris, HP-UX, Linux and Windows Operating Systems to support load balancing (using PowerPath) and failover features.
• Design and configure storage in VMware, Oracle and SQL environments.
• Very good understanding of Networking.
• Cisco and Brocade SAN Switches configuration, administration and migration.
• Analyze port utilization for maximum usage. Upgrade cisco DCNM server.
• Upgrade SAN switches and automate regular tasks.
• Performance analysis on SAN and NAS environment
• Check for Bottlenecks in the case of latency.
• Analyze root causes for all issues.
• Monitor/Analyze performance using SPA, Performance Manager, Unisphere, SRM, CloudIQ, Cisco DCNM, Brocade Network Advisor.
• Troubleshoot performance issue on storage arrays.
• Generate reports to review storage environment.
• Collect and review Logs\Heat maps when required.
• Strong knowledge of ITIL, change management, incident management and problem management.
• Prepare KB articles, RU reports and SLA reports