Storage Administrator Resume
OBJECTIVE:
To pursue a challenging role in the field of Storage Area Network with opportunities for learning in a progressive dynamic team environment.
PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:
- An adept professional with 5+yrs of experience in Storage Administration.
- Wide exposure on EMC Clariion, Symmetrix DMX and Brocade Switches.
- Exploring the EMC V - Max and VNX Storage.
TECHNICAL SKILLS:
Time Finder Mirror Operations
Time Finder Clone Operations
Time Finder Snap Operations
Knowledge on Creating Storage groups and BCV’s
Creation of Device Groups
Create, Establish, Spilt, Restore and Verify BCV’s.
Have theoretical knowledge on the SRDF concepts like
SRDF Link Configurations (UNI, BI, DUAL directions)
SRDF Operations Primary and Secondary.
SRDF/S (Synchronous)
Semi-synchronous
Adaptive Copy, Write Pending
Disk Mode, Domino Mode
SRDF/A (Asynchronous)
SRDF/AR (Automated Replication)
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
Confidential
Storage Administrator
Responsibilities:
- Provide storage administration for EMC Clariion, VNX and EMC Symmetrix-DMX, V-Max Storage frames.
- Monitoring the SAN environment with EMC Control Center and Navisphere Manager.
- Storage Provisioning and Reclamation.
- Working on Incident Managements.
- Creating Meta Luns.
- Lun creation, Mapping and Masking.
- Monitoring and Report generation by ECC.
- Creation of soft and Hard zones.
- Administering and monitoring the SAN Storage environment.
- Monitoring all UNIX servers and storages performance, checking if any hardware, network.
- Performance issues and troubleshooting and fix the issues.
- Create the zoning of servers with storage.
- Remove the hanging zones from fabric.
- Clariion Storage management using Navisphere Manager.
- Creating the Raid group and LUN’s in storages like EMC CX4, CX3 series.
- Creating Meta LUN’s and performing migration of LUN’s.
- Creating Storage groups and assigning LUN’s and Servers.
- Installing the multi path software like EMC Power path.
- Symmetrix storage management using symcli.
- Mapping devices/meta and masking them to servers.
- Reclaiming the unused storage from servers.
- Hands on experience on Local Replications.
- Storage replications through symmir, symclone and symsnap.
- VMAX storage management in provisioning level by using symcli.
- Creating initiator groups, port groups, storage groups and mask view.
- Co-ordination with vendor for hardware replacements.
- Working on ITIL Policies.
- Incident Management
- Problem Management
- Change Management.
- Configuration Management.
Confidential
Storage Administrator
Responsibilities:
- Monitoring of the EMC SAN environment and co-coordinating with the vendor to resolve the issue
- Storage Administration of EMC Clariion and EMC Symmetrix-DMX frames
- Reclaiming the storage space (Clariion and Symmetrix-DMX) from the decommissioned servers.
- Attending Tickets with ITIL Process standards through Incident, Problem and Change Management.
- Day to day jobs include storage allocation, troubleshooting and Reporting on the SAN Environment.
- Hands on experience in providing EMC storage environment like Symmetrix, (DMX 3&4) and EMC Clarion.
- Create RAID Groups, BIND LUNs, and Create Storage Groups using Navisphere Manager.
- Storage Provisioning activities include Lun Creation, Mapping, Masking & Meta lun creation & Meta Lun Reclamation using Navisphere.
- Creating LUN’s, Mapping and Masking on Symmetrix by using SYMCLI.
- Storage provisioning using SYMCLI.
- Collecting logsthrough SYMCLI.
- Collecting SP Collects through Navisphere Manager & and upload to EMC Power link.
- Working with EMC support team to provide Hardware of both system and storage.
- Performing routine health checks and preparing reports on a daily basis.
- Configuring and Troubleshooting Time Finder Replications.
- Assigning Lun’s to production servers and creating devices like BCV, VDEV, Target devices and Save devices.
- Implementation and troubleshooting on Local Replications like Time finder Mirror/Clones/Snaps.
- Expertise in Zoning in Brocade switches by using command line.
- Creating zones, adding members (HBA’s and Storage Ports).
- Working on Navisphere Manager for Clariion Storage Management.
- Creating the Raid groups, Storage groups and Binding LUN’s.
- Creating Storage groups assigning LUN’s and Servers.
- Collecting SP collects.
- HBA Card installation and Power path installation.
- Managing Symmetrix DMX3&4 storage arrays through SYMCLI.
- Mapping and Masking the Devices to Servers HBA’s.
- Adding new switch into Fabric