SUMMARY

• Expertise in EMC Symmetrix VMAX, DMX3/4, VNX, CLARiiON CX 4 - 120/240/480/960
• Experienced in NAS storage systems such as Celerra NSX, NS 4-120/240/480/960 , VNX-Unified 5300/5500/5700/7500 , and VNX-File 5300/5500/5700/7500 .
• Expertise in using various Symmetrix softwares such as SRDF, Open Replicator, Timefinder Clone/Snapshot/Mirror, Federated Live Migration.
• Expertise in using various VNX softwares such as SnapView, SnapSure, SAN Copy, RecoverPoint/SE both remote and local, VNX Replicator, VNX MirrorView.
• Highly experienced in doing Storage Provisioning, Virtual Provisioning, Zoning, Mapping and Masking.
• Experienced in creating SRDF, replication plans and utilization reports.
• Skilled in administering Storage Area Networks with (Clariion and Symetrix) using control center, Navisphere Manager, Unisphere, Powerpath, NaviSec CLI, Symmetrix Management Console (SMC), Symmetrix Performance Analyzer (SPA) and Solutions Enabler.
• Experienced in installing and managing Fabric manager, Connectrix Manager, Cisco Data Center Network Manager - SAN, Device Manager and web tools.
• Expertise in using EMC Networker and EMC Avamar.
• Have Overview of Vblock 300/700, Netapps SAN Storage.
• Strong in providing SAN security using Zoning, Masking & Mapping.
• Part of many disaster recovery exercises with the implementation of backup technologies such as Symmetrix DMX3/4, VMAX (SRDF), CLARiiON (Mirror View).
• Proficient in configuring SAN Fabrics with switches like Brocade, McData, Cisco
• Excellent experience with Storage Navigator, Fabric Manager, Device Manager, Solutions Enabler SYMCLI, SMC, Command View and Connectrix Manager.
• Excellent understanding of application layer technologies, infrastructure, core technologies (servers, network, storage)
• Experience in Design, configuration, optimization, architecture and administration of Sun, HP-UX, Linux, Windows, AIX o/s and hardware.
• Installation and Configurations of Inter Switch Links(ISL) between Cisco MDS 9513, 9515, 9506, Brocade 48K Fibre Channel switches
• Redesigned and implementation of switched fabrics ISL’s and making sure they are load balanced and redundant.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, GA

Storage Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Install and Manage EMC Symmetix family DMX 3, 4, VMAX, VNX7500, CLARiiON CX 4-120, CX3-80, in heterogeneous environments, which include the following operating systems: Windows 2000/2003/MSCS, Suse Enterprise Linux versions 3 & 4 and Sun Solaris 9/10.
• Assisted in the process development and implementation of a large data centre migration from DMX 3 to VMAX using Open Replicator over a 13 week period.
• Participated actively in migration activities. Both host based migrations (Open Migrator) and Storage array based migration (using SRDF).
• Worked on EMC SAN/NAS storage management, storage provisioning, creation of LUNs, File systems, Volumes, SAN Copy, SnapView, RecoverPoint/SE.
• Applying Solution enablers of all the EMC storage products.
• Host integration, Brocade/McData/Cisco switch installation, configuration, upgrades, zoning and maintenance, PowerPath Administration.
• SAN/NAS microcode upgrades, enablers installation and configuration
• Managed Core-Edge Cisco MDS (9513) fabric using Fabric Manager. Responsibilities involved, managing port allocations, zoning, unzoning, replacing failed hardware like SFPs and cables, troubleshooting link issues and monitoring health of the fabric.
• Working with the hardware vendor regarding hardware issues and troubleshoot them for resolution.
• Implementation and administration of EMC Celerra environment with CIFS, NFS and Multiprotocol FS.
• Worked with network team to set up devices (LACP) on Celerra, interfaces based on physical connect
• Providing administrative support for EMC NAS Celerra and Netapps NAS devices
• Troubleshooting issues related to performance, connectivity and link loss.
• Monitor alerts from install base and respond accordingly to report and resolve the issues.
• Developing strategies, policies and best practices through participation in management meetings and other direct contributions.
• Worked with the team in developing standard naming conventions, best practices and processes.
• Preparing, maintaining and submitting activity and progress reports and time recording and management reports in accordance with EMC's published procedures;
• Supporting Project Managers and Program Managers in the design and development of the technical content defined in the Statement of Work and designing, installing, customizing and integrating the appropriate solution.
• Redesigned and implementation of switched fabrics ISL’s and making sure they are load balanced and redundant.

Environment: EMC Symmetix family DMX 3, 4, VMAX, VNX7500, CLARiiON CX 4-120, CX3-80, Open Replicator, SAN Copy, SnapView, RecoverPoint/SE, PowerPath, EMC Celerra with CIFS, NIFS, Cisco MDS (9513), SAN/NAS Micro upgrades.

Confidential

Storage Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Administration and maintenance of enterprise storage arrays like EMC CLARiiON CX 4-120/240/480/960 , Symmetrix VMAX, and DMX3/4.
• Created and configured RAID groups, storage groups, binding LUN’s, Naming, Resizing, and Unbinding LUN’s through Navisphere manager and NaviCLI.
• Performed mapping and masking on Symmetrix arrays DMX-3 using SYMCLI.
• Hands on experience on Symmetrix virtual provisioning using Solutions enabler.
• Extensive hands on experience with Clarions CX 4-120/240/480/960 using Unisphere.
• Expertise in SRDF and Time Finder
• Local replications using TF/snapshots and TF/clones.
• Strong Understanding of storage replication and virtualization technologies
• Worked on EMC Networker and Avamar.
• Managing large heterogeneous SAN fabric comprising Enterprise class Cisco 9513 and Brocade 48K switches managed using Connectrix Manager 10.4.5 and CLI.
• Day to day based Storage Provisioning to Windows and UNIX hosts as required
• Regular environment check and maintenance with current releases of firmware and operating systems
• Working on ISL and ICL’s in a Brocade Switch.
• Capacity planning and calculating storage using Storage Scope.
• Heavy on Multipath software like Power Path and MPIO.
• Proven ability to resolve technical problems, analyze performance and make recommendations to improve current performance.
• Experience in providing operational and disaster recovery support for all storage platforms; document environments, edit/create best practices in regards to storage; provide after hours support as needed.
• Provide assistance and guidance to System Administrator's in regards to attaching hosts to the SAN
• Experience with FAST on Symmetrix VMAX, CLARiiON and VNX.

Environment: EMC VMAX, Symmetrix/DMX, EMC Clarion CX 4-120/240/480/960 , EMC Control Center v6.1, EMC Navisphere Manager v6.x,Unisphere, EMC Time finder/Clone,TimeFinder/Snapshot, SYMCLI, EMC Power Path v6.0, Both SRDF/S and SRDF/A, SnapView, disaster recovery planning theory and best practices and testing.

Confidential, MN

SAN Administrator

Responsibilities:

• My contribution to this Account was mainly to do daily storage related operations, designing, capacity planning and troubleshoot.
• Part of the above phase also constitutes planning, coordinating and implanting migrations involving DMX3/4 using replication methodologies like Open Replicator, VMware Vmotion and SRDF
• Strong working experience on EMC DMX3/4, CLARiiON.
• Solid experience on Replication technologies like TimeFinder/SRDF and technologies like Snapshot, snap clone and mirror clone.
• Day-to day tasks on storage provisioning and troubleshoot.
• Experience on DMX-3/4 and CLARiiON CX3-80,CX700
• Host based experience on, UNIX, LINUX, Solaris, Open VMS and Windows.
• Managed SAN with Brocade 48K and Cisco MDS 9216i/9500 Series.
• Creation of zones, aliases, checking ISL, trunk etc.
• Setup and use of ECC, Navisphere Manager, Snap view/Snapshot, Clones, SanCopy, and Sanitization of Switches
• Experience working in mid to large scale storage environments of 7-8 PB+.
• Expertise in the designing, implementing, and performance monitoring of all SAN disk using both SYMCLI and EMC Control Center (ECC).
• Create, modify zoning and zone sets. Add/Remove zones from zone set.
• Experience with SAN Switching Fabrics / protocols: Cisco, Fiber Channel, Fiber Channel over Internet Protocol (FCIP), iSCSI, FICON
• Strong working experience on Cisco MDS 9216i
• Installation of SANs, SAN-based arrays, multi-ported arrays, mid-size to large storage arrays

Environment: CLARiiON CX700,CX3-40,Symmetrix DMX2000,DMX3000, Brocade 4800,5000, Cisco MDS 9216, SYMCLI, Navisphere Manager, EMC Control Center Mirror View/A,SAN copy, SnapMirror, Fabric Manager, Connectrix manager.

Confidential

SAN Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Design, Implementation & Administration of EMC Symmetrix, DMX in Linux, Solaris and Windows Server environment.
• Worked on SRDF/S setup and management using Solutions Enabler.
• Good understanding of open replicator and its features in data migration.
• Supported and managed 10 different Symmetrix class arrays (DMX3000, DMX 800), Clariion arrays approximately 50+ (CX300, CX700).
• Created point-in-time copies of LUN’s using SnapView, Snapshots and Clones.
• Create Raid Groups / Thin pools, LUNs on Fiber Channel and iSCSI SAN and present them to hosts.
• Configure volumes for CIFS and NFS in NAS environment
• Choose the right RAID level for high performance and high availability.
• Responsible for routine health-check of the SAN including configuration, documentation, maintenance and upgrades.
• Exporting, sharing the volumes using NFS & CIFS protocols
• Monitoring performance and capacity of the SAN & NAS environment.
• SAN Fabric Architecture design, migration and maintenance using SAN Manager, Fabric Manager and Web tools.
• Performing maintenance work by upgrading Firmware, troubleshooting path failures and device failures.
• Configure backup systems or create a backup solution (Flash Copy, Volume Copy).
• Analyze logs (SP event log, Symaudit log and switch support logs) and troubleshoot issues.
• Worked on UNIX platform.
• Configured and integrated various Storage Arrays into existing production SAN fabric and prepared them for host allocations.
• Zoned hosts and storage on Brocade fabric by adding zones to active zoneset and activating (CLI and EFCM).
• Execute tests, troubleshoot failures and review reports on results.
• Configuration and Management of PowerPath

Environment: EMC CLARiiON, DMX 3000, DMX 800,Brocade 48K,24K,12K,3900,3800; CX300,700; SymCLI 5.x, 6.x;EMC Control Centre, PowerPath.