SUMMARY

• Senior Storage Administrator possessing more than 8 years of IT experience particularly specializing in EMC Storage, NetApp Storage and IBM Storage.
• Ability to learn new technologies, responsibilities in a short term and can manage a team with teh best support.
• Hands on experience on EMC Storage arrays VPLEX, Recover Point, XtremIO, VMAX, DMX - 4, DMX-3, DMX-2 Series, Vblock, Isilon, VNX, CLARiiON CX-960, CX-480, CX 300/500/700 CX-3, CX-4,
• Hands on experience on NetApp FAS Filers
• Hands on experience on IBM N-Series,XIV, Flash and SVC arrays.
• Proven experience in using SYMCLI, Symmetrix Management Console (SMC), Navisphere Manager and EMC Control Center (ECC), ViPR SRM.
• Experienced with Auto Provisioning in VMAX using SYMCLI and Symmetrix Management Console (SMC) and Virtual Provisioning for effective utilization of storage by teh host as per needed basis.
• Using Navisphere Manager configured storage pools, storage groups, Meta LUN expansion and LUN Migration on CLARiiON arrays.
• Good Knowledge and experience on EMC FAST and FAST VP.
• Experienced in implementing Time Finder operations like Mirror/Clone/Snap for Symmetrix and SnapView/Clone and SnapView/Snapshot for CLARiiON to provide a copy of production for decision making and testing for new upgrades.
• Hands on experience in implementing Disaster Recovery Solutions using SRDF/S, SRDF/A, SRDF/AR and SRDF/Adaptive Copy for Symmetrix and MirrorView/S and MirrorView/A for CLARiiON and Snapmirror on NetApp Filer level.
• Implemented Array based and Host based migrations like Open Replicator, Open Migrator and SAN Copy.
• Experience on managing teh EMC Celerra NS80/NS80G/NS120/NS42G/NSX NAS storage using Celerra Manager andCelerra CLI.
• Experienced in Maintaining and monitoring NetApp storage by configuring Aggregates, Volumes, Qtree’s and Snapshots using Command line.
• Experienced with Confidential Enterprise Director Switches like MDS 9710/9513/9509/9506, Departmental Switches like MDS 9140/9120 and Brocade Director Switches like DCX, 48K, 24K, 12K, Departmental Switches like 5300, 5100, 4900, 3900.
• Experienced in managing Confidential switches using Confidential CLI, Fabric Manager, Device Manager and Brocade Switches using CLI and Webtools.
• Hands on experience in Zoning, Creating teh devices, Meta Creation, Binding teh devices, Mapping and Masking.
• Ran Grab Utility and used HEAT reports to troubleshoot any SAN storage related issues including identifying teh software requirements to bring up teh server to teh current EMC standards.
• Experienced in managing VMware ESX 5.0 and 5.5 hosts like Storage Vmotion, Building new VM’s, Creating snap’s for teh VM’s, deploying VM’s through OVA File and deletion of VM’s.
• Good working noledge on SAN management to support all kinds of Operating systems like SUN Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, Linux, Windows and ESX servers.
• Good working noledge on Shell Scripting. Can understand current scripts and modify them as required.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Storage Arrays: EMC Recover Point, VPLEX, XtremIO (Single Brick, Dual Brick and Fully Loaded), Symmetrix (VMAX-40K,VMAX-10K,VMAX-3,DMX-4/3/2), VNX, CLARiiON (CX-4/3 Series, CX-700/600/500), NetApp Data ONTAP 7-mode, NetApp Data ONTAP 8.3 CDOT, FAS 6220,6240, 8040, IBM SVC, IBM N-Series 6240, 7950-T.

Storage Software & Tools: SYMCLI 6.x/7.3.1.0, SMC 7.1/7.3.0.6, Navisphere Manager 6.x, ECC 5.2/6.x, EMC Celerra Manager 5.6, Fabric Manager 5.0 (4C), Device Manager 5.0 (4C), Unisphere 6.x, Symmetrix Performance Analyzer (SPA), ViPR SRM, NetApp Data OnTap Command line.

Languages: Shell Scripting.

Switches: Confidential MDS 9710/9513/9509/ 0/9120, Brocade DCX/48K/24K/12K/ 5300/5100/4900/3900.

Operating Systems: Sun Solaris 8/9/10, IBM AIX, HP-UX, Windows 2000/2003/2008/2012, Linux, VMware.

Data Protection: Time Finder Mirror/Clone/Snap, SnapView Clone/Snapshot and Snapmirrors on NetApp NAS Filers

Migration Methods: Data Mobility, Powerpath Migration Enabler, Open Replicator, Open Migrator, SanCopy, SRDF S/A/AR/Adaptive Copy, MirrorView S/A, and Snapmirror on NetApp Filers, Logical Volume Mirroring.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Sr. SAN/Storage and VMware Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Designed VPLEX and teh connectivity to MDS 9710 Switches and also teh back end array XtremIO for teh new infrastructure.
• Designed and architected new Recover Point replication with VPLEX.
• Configured and Installed XtremIO for VDI desktops and Exchange Application.
• Migration Plan Activities also designed by collecting grabs and performed Remediation on teh servers as per teh EMC support Matrix for each and every server involved in migration.
• Installed, Configured VPLEX Local in Production and Pre-Production
• Installed, Configured Recover Point in Production and DR Site and replicated production data through Recover Point over IP.
• Installed and Configured MDS 9710 SAN Switches. Migrated hosts from old MDS .
• Allocated Storage for more than 9 Petabytes using VPLEXCLI, SYMCLI, Navisphere Manager, and NetApp Data ONTAP Command line from Storage arrays like VPLEX,VMAX, DMX, Vblock, VNX, Isilon and NetApp.
• Reclaimed storage from decommissioned servers using SYMCLI, Navisphere Manager, Masters (Bank Automated Tool for allocating storage), SVC CLI and NetApp Data ONTAP Command line.
• Allocated storage using Auto Provisioning technology of VMAX and implemented initiator groups, port groups, storage groups and masking views using SymCLI 7.0.
• Implemented Virtual Provisioning in VMAX array to hosts by creating data devices, thin devices, binding devices to teh pool using Symmetrix Management Console and SymCLI.
• Implemented Virtual LUN Migration on VMAX (moving data from SATA drives to FC or EFD) for better performance.
• Identified performance issue root causes and real time monitoring using Symmetrix Performance Analyzer (SPA).
• Implemented Virtual Provisioning in VPLEX array to hosts by claiming volumes, creating extents, devices, and virtual volumes using VplexCLI and GUI.
• Upgraded code on Recover Point Appliances from 4.1SP1 to 4.1SP2
• Upgraded code on XtremIO Arrays from 4.0.1 to 4.0.2-80
• Upgrade XMS servers for XtremIO.
• Migrated several windows, AIX servers from DMX to VMAX using Open Replicator and SRDF.
• Migrated several windows servers from VMAX to XtremIO using Open Replicator and PPME.
• Migrated AIX and Linux hosts from VMAX to XtremIO using Host based migration LVM Mirroring and Open Replicator.
• Migrated several windows servers using Powerpath Migration Enabler.
• Experience in installing, configuring and administering Isilon.
• Experience in installing, configuring and administering NetApp filers in C-mode for file level.
• Maintained and monitored NetApp storage by configuring Aggregates, Volumes, Qtree’s and Snapshots using Command line.
• Implemented multiprotocol environments like NFS and CIFS in NetApp NAS environment.
• Experience in creating file systems, exporting to Unix servers and creation of CIF Shares and multiprotocol file systems.
• Implemented Snapmirror and SnapRestore solutions on NetApp Filers for migrations and backup purposes.
• Migrated more than 300TB of data from Celerra to NetApp using host based technologies like Robocopy for NTFS style volumes and rsync for unix style volumes.
• Upgraded Data ONTAP from 8.0 to 8.2.3P6.
• Converted NetApp nodes from 7-mode to C-mode.
• Hosted NetApp Knowledge transfer sessions to rest of teh team members.
• Created documentations on NetApp NAS Storage Allocations, Reclaims and Migration procedures.
• Managed Confidential fabrics 9710,9513,9509 using Confidential CLI, Fabric Manager and Device Manager and Brocade switches using Brocade CLI.
• Installed and Configured DCNM on a VM Server.
• Upgraded code on MDS switches from 5.2 to 6.2.3 and IBM Blade Centers from 4.0 to 5.0.
• Provide Fiber Channel ports to teh Data Center team to run teh cables between storage array, switches and servers.
• Implemented Business Continuity Solutions for production servers using Time Finder BCV/Clones.
• Implemented and tested SRDF/A from production site to DR site including creation of Dynamic RDF pairs, dynamic RA groups and device groups.
• Implemented ViPR SRM with EMC experts.
• Ran EMC Grabs on Unix servers and EMC reports on Windows servers and validated against support matrix as part of teh data migration.
• Remediate hosts as per teh EMC HEAT report and install power path for AIX and Windows operating systems prior to teh data migrations to teh new storage arrays.
• Provided storage to various production Oracle Real application Clusters from VMAX, DMX and CLARiiON storage arrays.
• Installed and configured Power Path for Windows operating systems to provide fault tolerance and load balancing.
• Got an opportunity to learn IBM SVC, XIV array.
• Planning, design and implementation of VMware Infrastructure environment
• Build out new ESXi hostson bare metal machines and configuration into Virtual Center Server.
• Build out Virtual Windows Servers and Linux Virtual Servers using Templates.
• Creation of Templates for Windows and Linux VM deployment and periodic template update.
• Involved in Storage Refresh project,created plan and method of deployment and Storage vMotion Virtual Servers from old SAN Array to New SAN array successfully.
• Configured Physical RDM disk for Exchange and SCCM servers.
• Designed and implemented fully automated DRS and HA clusters withSAN storage.
• Experience in Migration VMs from Standard switch to Distributed Switch.
• Experience in Distributed switch configuration.
• Host patches and VMware tools upgrade using VsphereUpdate Manger.
• Created and Managed Resource Pool for Virtual Machines.
• Experienced in Troubleshooting DRS and HA issues.
• FC-SAN Data store add to teh ESXi hosts and configuration into Datastore Clusters.
• SAN LUN removal from hosts in Datastore Cluster.
• Experience in supporting Virtual Desktop environment with Citrix integrated.
• Built AIX servers through NIM Server.
• Experienced in discovering SAN Storage on AIX and Linux hosts.
• Created Volume Groups, File systems and configure ASM disks for oracle.
• Configured Network Adapters for Private VLAN use.
• Mounted NFS Mounts on servers and updated them in /etc/fstab on AIX and /etc/filesystem on Linux.
• Created Unix Users and groups on AIX and Linux Servers.
• Collected SOS reports on linux servers for troubleshooting.
• Provided 24/7 supports to work on various storage and network issues, emergency allocations, reclaims etc.
• Communicated with team members, clients, manages, server administrators, database administrators etc. to accomplish projects and goals.

Environment: EMC VPLEX, Recover Point, XtremIO, Symmetrix VMAX, DMX-4, DMX-3, CX-4 Series, CX-3 Series, NetApp Data ONTAP 7-mode, NetApp Data ONTAP C-mode, Confidential MDS Switches - 9710,9513, 9509, Symcli-7.x/6.x, SMC, Navisphere Manager, Confidential CLI, Fabric Manager, Device Manager, Time Finder BCV/Clone, SRDF-A/S, Operating Systems - AIX 5.1/5.2/5.3, Solaris 8.9/10, HP-UX 11/11i, Windows 2k/2k3/2k8, ESX 5.0,5.5 and 6.0.

Confidential, Milpitas, CA

Sr. SAN/Storage and VMware Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Allocated more than 40TB of storage from VMAX, DMX3, DMX4 and CLARiiON.
• Implemented Virtual Provisioning in VMAX array to hosts by creating data devices, thin devices, binding devices to teh pool using Unisphere Manager, Symmetrix Management Console and SymCLI.
• Implemented and tested SRDF/A from production site to DR site including creation of Dynamic RDF pairs, dynamic RA groups and device groups.
• Managed Confidential MDS switches and using Confidential CLI, Fabric Manager and Device Manager.
• Allocated storage to various operating systems like Solaris, AIX, Windows and ESX hosts.
• Has good noledge and working experience on NetApp Data ONTAP 7-mode storage.
• Created Aggregates, Volumes, Qtree’s on NetApp Filers using command line.
• Implemented NFS and CIFS security on NetApp filers across teh enterprise.
• Installing, configuring, patching and managing Windows Servers
• Define new users and security group in Active Directory.
• VM deployment using templates.
• Snapshot creation and Deletion.
• Troubleshooting server performance issues and monitoring.
• Experience in package creation and deployment using SCCM.

Environment: EMC VMAX, DMX-4, DMX-3, CLARiiON CX-4, CX-3 Series, NetApp Data ONTAP 7-mode, MDS Confidential Switch - 9513, Symcli-7.x, ECC-6.0, SMC, Unisphere Manager, Confidential CLI, Fabric Manager, Device Manager, Time Finder BCV/Clone, SRDF-A, Operating Systems - AIX 5.1/5.2/5.3, Solaris 8.9/10, Windows 2k/2k3/2k8.

Confidential, Bothell

Sr. SAN/Storage Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Administration of Clariion CX-700, CX3-80 storage array through Navisphere.
• Create Raid Groups, Storage Groups & bind Luns on Clariion Storage Arrays.
• Configure Snapview snapshots, Snapview clones and SAN Copy.
• Provision storage from Symmetrix DMX 2000/3000 array to hosts using SymcliSymCLI.
• Implemented and tested SRDF/A from production site to DR site including creation of Dynamic RDF pairs, dynamic RA groups and device groups.
• Perform Zoning on Confidential and Brocade director class switches with Fabric Manager.
• Creating File systems, CIFS Shares and exports on NAS Celerra.
• Troubleshoot issues on SAN environments.

Environment: EMC DMX-4, DMX-3, CLARiiON CX-4, CX-3 Series, MDS Confidential Switch - 9513, Symcli-6.x, ECC-6.0, SMC, Unisphere Manager, Confidential CLI, Fabric Manager, Device Manager, Time Finder BCV/Clone, SRDF-A, Operating Systems - AIX 5.1/5.2/5.3, Solaris 8.9/10, Windows 2k/2k3/2k8.

Confidential, Florida

Storage Administrator

Responsibilities:

• SAN and storage administration in a storage environment of 6 PB consisting of VMAX, DMX-4, DMX-3, CLARiiON CX4-480, CX3-80, Confidential MDS 9513.
• Administration of several Symmetrix VMAX, DMX and CLARiiON arrays connected to several Windows, AIX and HP-UX servers.
• Day-to-day responsibilities which includes configuration and allocation of storage from VMAX, DMX and CLARiiON storage arrays using SymCLI, SMC, Navisphere Manager and ECC.
• Expertise in implementation of VMAX Auto provisioning groups for mapping and masking using SymCLI 7.x and made use of Symmetrix Management Console (SMC) 7.x for creating initiator groups, port groups, storage groups and masking views.
• Expertise in Reclaiming teh storage from VMAX, DMX and CLARiiON storage arrays when teh servers are decommissioned.
• Got an opportunity to learn and work on NetApp ONTAP 7-mode.
• Hands on experience on creating Aggregates, Volumes, Qtree’s, Snapshots and providing permissions to NFS and CIFS shares.
• Created Snapmirror setup for migrating data and DR sites and backup purposes.
• Administration of NAS Celerra systems including creating of file systems, extending teh file systems, exporting and mounting CIFS shares, NFS shares, Replications and configuring network interfaces using teh Celerra Manager, Celerra CLI and Unisphere.
• Creation of Device and FC Aliases, zones, zone sets and activating teh zone sets using Fabric Manager.
• Migrated TB’s of data from old storage arrays like DMX-3, DMX-4 to VMAX using Open Replicator and Open Migrator.
• Implemented and tested Disaster Recovery using MirrorView S/A between CX3-80 and CX4-480 at teh remote site.
• Used EMC grabs and prepared migration scripts to migrate servers using Open Replicator, Open Migrator and SanCopy.
• Migrated TB’s of data to CX4-480 using San Copy.
• Configuration and allocation of storage for production and corporate VMware hosts from DMX and CLARiiON including configuration of specific port settings for FA ports.
• Documentation and Knowledge transfer for Storage allocation, Zoning, Reclaiming teh storage, file system creation/expansion and exporting and mounting CIFS/NFS Shares.
• Perform troubleshooting and resolving issues like path failures, storage not visible to teh host and monitored performance using Performance analyzer in SAN environment to teh management satisfaction.

Environment: EMC Symmetrix VMAX, DMX-4, DMX-3, CLARiiON CX4-480, CX3-80/40, Confidential MDS 9513, Confidential CLI, EMC Celerra (NAS) NS80/NS80G/NS42G/NS120/NSX, SymCLI 7.3.1.0, SMC 7.3.1.0, Navisphere Manager 5.6, Fabric Manager 5.0, Device Manager 5.0, Celerra Manager 5.6, Unisphere 6.x, ECC 5.3/6.x, SPA 2.2.3.3, SRDF A, SanCopy, Open Replicator, Open Migrator, Operating Systems - AIX 5.1/5.2/5.3, HP-UX 11/11i, Windows 2k/2k3/2k8.

Confidential

SAN/System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for day-to-day administration of EMC SAN environment, which includes Symmetrix DMX-4, DMX-3, CLARiiON CX3-80, CX-700 connected to 360 AIX, Solaris and windows servers.
• Installed, configured and maintained UNIX/Linux operating systems, system software, and provided hardware, backup and recovery, system monitoring, application and security support. Additional responsibilities include system availability and performance management and capacity planning assistance.
• Day-to-day work involved troubleshooting, maintaining groups, user accounts and also daily backups on Windows servers.
• Involved in monitoring system security, network traffic, network connections, maintaining teh OS environment and adjust system parameters to increase system performance.
• Participated in planning of firmware upgrades and patches.
• Keeping servers up to date by upgrading them with teh latest versions of operating systems and service packs and also protecting from viruses by upgrading antivirus frequently.
• Allocated storage from Symmetrix DMX- 4/3/2, CLARiiON CX-3 Series, CLARiiON 700/600 to Windows and Unix hosts.
• Created Meta devices, implemented device Mapping and masking using SYMCLI.
• Creating Raid groups, binding LUN’s, creating Meta LUN’s, creating storage groups, registering hosts and zoning.
• Monitored SAN fabric and EMC storage array configuration using EMC Control Center to ensure optimal performance and capacity levels for storage and switch ports.
• Migrated data from CX-700 to CX3-80 using MirrorView and SanCopy.
• Configured and managed Brocade fabric’s 48k, 5300, 4800 using Brocade CLI and Webtools.
• Based on teh EMC requirement, updated Patches and drivers on Windows operating systems.
• Configured teh Time Finder BCV Mirror and Clone copies for teh production data for back up and testing purposes.
• Analyzed existing servers hardware and software version levels to ensure dat they are compatible and up-to-date using EMC HEAT reports and E-Lab Navigator.
• Performed installation and configuring EMC Control Center (ECC) 5.2 and upgraded to ECC 6.0.
• Choose teh right RAID level for high performance and high availability.
• Configured SnapView Snapshots SnapView Clones on CLARiiON CX3 series sub systems.
• Migrated teh data LUN’s within teh CLARiiON for load balancing teh raid group on teh array.

Environment: ECM Symmetrix DMX2000/DMX-2, DMX-4, DMX-3, CLARiiON CX-700/600, CX-3 Series, Brocade 48k/ 5300/4800/3800, ECC, Navisphere Manager, PowerPath, Windows 2003/2000/NT, AIX-5.3, Solaris 5.1/ 7, HP-UX, Oracle database, Oracle applications.