SUMMARY

• Professional with around 8 years of experience as Open system storage Administrator in Storage Management, Systems Management, Project Management and Disaster Recovery Process in heterogeneous environments.
• Hands on Experience with NetApp Data ONTAP (7 - mode) 6.5.x, 7.x, 8.x, NetApp Clustered Data ONTAP (cDOT ) 8.1.x, 8.2.x, NetApp Snapmirror and Snapvault ( 7-mode and cDOT ).
• Hands on experience in designing and managing the 7mode to CDOT transitions using the 7MTT tool.
• Performed Data ONTAP Data protection online backup and recovery using SnapMirror, SnapVault, Volume Copy, Sync mirror and disaster recovery using Snap Restore.
• Great understanding of RAID concepts and mirroring techniques.
• Experience in configuration and Setup of Storage Virtual Machines (SVMs) on the NetApp cDOT filers for NAS/SAN environments.
• Excellent experience in planning, administration, configuration and troubleshooting of NAS filers such as VNX 7500, VNX 5500, VNX 5600, Celerra in mission critical production environment.
• Hands on Experience in SRDF, Time Finder/BCV, Clones, Snap and Confidential Power Path 4.x/5.x.
• Handsome experience on file based Migration tools such as EMCOPY, Sharedup, lgdup, ntrights, Rsync, Robocopy, and Xcopy.
• Expertise in working with Unisphere, Celerra Manager, Navisphere Manager, Connectrix Manager, Fabric Manager, SYMCLI, NAVICLI and ECC.
• Experience in installing, configuring and administration of Cisco and Brocade switches and fabric manager.
• Hands on Experience with NetApp Filers FAS 2040 and FAS 3140/3170, FAS 3210/3240, FAS 6040, FAS 6240.
• Expertise in monitoring and management of NetApp storage using Operation Manager
• Expertise in Migrating NAS Data from NetApp to VNX/Celerra and VNX/Celerra to NetApp
• Proficient in Administration of Cisco MDS series switches 9513 and 9509.
• Experience with enterprise class storage including SCSI, RAID and Fiber-Channel technologies and the accompanying enterprise class software solutions.
• Hands on experience with zoning, storage provisioning, LUN creation, Mapping and Masking and installing the storage Frames.
• Installed and Configured iSCSI, Fiber Channel, TCP/IP protocols with in SAN/NAS environment.
• Designed and implemented High availability & Disaster Recovery Solutions for SAN/NAS Environments.
• Expertise in planning and implementing business continuity solutions using various migration and replication tools like VNX replicator, SnapView, Snapshot/Clone, SAN Copy, SnapMirror and SnapVault.
• PowerPath installation and configuration on both Windows and UNIX platforms for failover and load balancing purposes.
• Solid experience in identifying and analyzing technical issues and troubleshooting them.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Storage Technologies: NAS, SAN, CAS, DAS, TCP\IP, FCP, iSCSI, NFS & CIFS protocols

Hardware: VNX 7500, VNX 5500, VNX 5600, ISILON, V-MAX, DMX 3-950, 2000,1000, CLARiiON, CX 3-40/20/480/960 , CX 700, CX 600, CX 500, NetApp cDOT, NetApp AS 2040 /3040/3070 , FAS3140, / 3170 /3210 /3240 /6240 , and Cisco 9506, MDS-9134, Brocade Silkworm 4900, DS-5100B and ED-48000, Celerra, Qlogic and Emulex HBAs, Solaris SUN FIRE systems, HP DL 360, 380

Software: Confidential Control Center (ECC), PowerPath, Navisphere, NaviCLI, Celerra Manager, Unisphere, Putty, NetApp Filerview, NetApp CLI, OneFS.

Operating Systems: Windows 2000, Windows Server 2003, Windows XP, UNIX, SUN/Solaris.

Protocols: TCP/IP, DNS, SMTP, IMAP, POP, CIFS, NFS, SSH, NetBIOS

Languages: C, C++, OOPS, Shell Scripting, Database-SQL, Perl.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Parsippany, NJ

Storage Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Performed several File based NAS Migrations from NetApp to VNX and also from Celerra to NetApp.
• Supported NetApp infrastructure working with the NetApp vendor engineers on NetApp OnTap OS Upgrades, incidents, and hardware issues.
• Used Data fabric manager (DFM), Filer view and ONTAP command line, Snap drive in monitoring, managing, reporting and provisioning storage to the users.
• Involved in migration data from NetApp 7 mode to newly configured NetApp cDOT filer.
• Handsome experience in creating Change requests through HP service center and chasing for approval.
• Upgraded ONTAP from 7.3 to 8.0.5 on 20 NetApp systems during various weekend GZ.
• Expertise in Managing and modifying and troubleshooting share permissions & file permissions.
• Created Aggregates, Volumes (FlexVol), Qtrees and Quotas on NetApp Filers and shared them for user access as CIFS shares, NFS exports.
• Implemented business continuity plan through automated failover using snapmirror technology and NetApp clustered hardware.
• Implemented, administered and maintained NetApp FAS6040, FAS6070, FAS6280 series.
• Generated various custom reports from Operations manager to monitor weekly changes on NetApp filer capacity, Volumes, Qtrees, Deduplication, user quotas, home shares, Volume and qtree utilization.
• Performed testing and documentation of NetApp NAS file migrations utilizing 7-Mode Transition Tool(7MTT) from 8.1.3 7 mode to 8.2 cluster mode
• Worked with provisioning team to create VIFs/VServers in Netapp 7-mode and Cluster Mode NetApp Devices.
• Involved in Configuration and build of cDOT filers with Storage Virtual Machines (SVMs) for both SAN and NAS environments.
• Expertise in Administration of Storage to Multiprotocol Environments like CIFS and NFS in NetApp.
• Troubleshoot NFS and CIFS issues on NetApp filers and fine tune the filers for optimal performance.
• Designed and Architected remote replication using NetApp Snap Mirror and SnapVault technologies.
• Creating and configuring of static and dynamic multimode VIFs using CLI or System Manager in cDOT filer.
• Configuring and Administrating NetApp disk arrays through CLI and Filer view.
• Experience in enabling Storage Efficiencies and Deduplication on the cDOT volumes.
• Involved in Administration of VNX 7500, VNX 5500 and NSG8 Celerra systems including creation of file systems, exporting and mounting CIFS/NFS shares and configuring network shares using Celerra manager and Unisphere.
• Performed configuration on VPLEX using VPLEX Management console.
• Configured segments and virtual volumes in the VPLEX environment for replication purposes.
• Implemented Unified storage with VNX created Homogeneous/Heterogeneous Pools, Created RAID protection, assigned Thin LUNs and Traditional LUNs to Pools.
• Performed data analysis using Confidential tools like fsscan, fsreport, fsdiff and newly released FSMA.
• Involved in planning of migrating from NetApp to VNX which consists of 1.5 PB of data spread over 80 different NetApp filers spread across the globe.
• Performed file based Migrations using tools such as EMCOPY, Sharedup, lgdup, ntrights, Rsync.
• Involved in collecting Auto support files and various other system files from NetApp filer for analyzing and planning of migration.
• Experience in configuring storage on ISILON through cli and provided CIFS & NFS access.
• Performed NAS migration from NAS devices (having CIFS/NFS and multi-protocol) to Isilon.
• Successfully installed and maintained VMware ESXi server and created virtual machines.
• Performed Host migration from CX3-120 to VMAX using Open Replicator.
• Provisioned storage space from VMAX using Virtual/Auto provisioning to multi host environments using SymCLI/SMC.
• Configuring devices for SRDF replication, adding them to device groups and maintaining Clone and SRDF replicas for devices on VMAX and DMX2000 systems.
• Planned and performed migration from Multiprotocol Filesystems of old Legacy Celerra NS-G8 with Native security style to NetApp without any post migration issues which requires a lot of effort and accurate planning.
• Created CIFS servers, VDM’s on Physical datamover and also made them available to NFS activity.
• Created batch and shell scripts to automate the copy process without manual monitoring.
• Involved in Qualification of VNX at client location which involves testing of several VNX functionalities.
• Configured FAST/FAST VP and Virtual Pools (TDAT's and TDEVS) and created Auto provisioning groups for mapping and masking using SYMCLI 7.x/ SMC 7.X/Unisphere for creating initiator groups, port groups, storage groups and Masking Views in VMAX Environment.
• Performed NetApp Disk firmware upgrades.
• Experience with SAN Connectivity of Cisco MDS 9513/09/06, 9216, McDATA ED140M, ED64M, ED 32M and Brocade 5300, 48000/3200.
• Configured and installed various QLogic, Emulex model HBA cards, providing server SAN access.
• Participated in Planning and design of new VNX’s which are introduced into client environment.
• Expertise in analyzing and finding owners of orphan shares with no owner info using several tools like fileacl, dsquery, dsget etc.
• Configure and manage Cisco 9500 series switches and created zones and Zone sets, VSAN by using Fabric Manager and troubleshooting.
• Expertise in translating NetApp usermap entries to Ntxmap entries on VNX and implementing group and user quotas on VNX Filesystems.
• Configured VNX replications for several Filesystems on different VNX’s spread across the globe.
• Performed troubleshooting of several post migration issues.

Environment: Confidential VNX 7500, VNX 5500, Celerra NS-G8, Celerra CFS-14, ISILON, NetApp FAS 2020/2050/3020/3140/3170/3240/6030/6080/6240/6280 , NetApp cDOT, FAS 270, Confidential CLARiiON CX500/700,CX 4-120 /480/960 , VMAX 40K, VMAX 50K, Operations manager, Snap Manger, CTA, Unisphere, Celerra Manager, NaviCLI, SnapVault, SnapMirror, SyncMirror, DataFabric Operations Manager.

Confidential, Eagan, MN

NetApp & Storage Administration/Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Performed implementation of SAN/NAS with VMAX/DMX/Clarion/Celerra and
• NetApp Sub-Systems, created Raid Groups and Storage groups, assigned LUNs to Hosts using Navisphere manager 6.x, ECC, NaviCLI and SYMCLI.
• Maintaining VMAX, DMX/Symmetrix and clarion issues for customers.
• Fixing storage administration issues related to VMAX, DMX and CLARiiON configuration in production environment.
• Installed Navisphere Agent/CLI on UNIX & Windows Servers.
• Performed configuration changes with ECC/SYMCLI. Dealt with both open systems (FBA) and Mainframe systems.
• Experience on troubleshooting Symmetrix VMAX/ DMX errors and hardware failures.
• Performed the Data ONTAP upgrades and disk/shelf firmware RLM and SP firmware, IOM ACP upgrades in various client environments referencing NetApp ASUP.
• Involved in Planning and installation and setup of VNX in the environment.
• Installation& Maintenance of Samba, Apache Web Server on Solaris & Linux.
• Installation and Configuration of Raid groups, storage groups and disk mirroring.
• Worked with system administrators to migrate the data from Celerra to NetApp using Robocopy/ Rsync and cp.
• Created aggregates, volumes, qtrees and shared NFS and CIFS shares from NetApp filers.
• Coordinated with the system administrators and network administrators to troubleshoot NAS related issues
• Involved in replicating the primary data which is stored on NetApp system located in main data center using the NetApp SnapMirror software, to the secondary system for disaster recovery.
• Worked on planning of requirements and number of migrations servers required for migration based on capacity, location and network bandwidth available for each site.
• Involved in planning and configuring snapshots schedules on the NetApp volumes in the environment.
• Created hourly, nightly, weekly and monthly snapshots to maintain online backup to recover from accidental deletions, corruptions or modifications of the data.
• Administration of VNX 5500 and NS20 NAS Celerra systems including creation of file systems, exporting and mounting CIFS/NFS shares and configuring network shares using Celerra manager and Unisphere.
• Storage provisioning on CLARiiON and Symmetrix Systems for Windows, Solaris and AIX hosts.
• Took part in configuring new shares to users on VNX and migrating NAS data from a NetApp to VNX which is almost at end of life.
• Involved in Migration of home shares from NetApp to VNX which includes auto home functionality and modifying user login scripts.
• Proposed LUN, RAID Group and Storage Group configuration after evaluating company’s present and anticipated growth.
• Worked on implementing recovery point in the client environment.
• Created BCVs (Business Continuity Volumes) using Confidential TimeFinder on SRDFs to offer workload compression, performing backups, increase productivity, etc.
• Installation and management of SRDF, TimeFinder and creating BCVs as disaster recovery solution.
• Participated in disaster recovery tests which will be done every year for checking business continuity.
• Involved in creation of File systems on the newly allocated disks and assisted the backup team to configure backups using Networker.
• Implemented FAST VP and storage tiring for applications like Oracle Database 11g, on
• Created CIFS shares and configured VNX VDM as CIFS Server for file shares.
• Performed Virtual LUN Migrations using SMC and SYMCLI.
• Configured and Created SAN Copy Sessions using Navisphere Manager to perform migration from Clarion CX 3-80 to VMAX 3000.
• SnapView, Snapshots and SnapView, Clones on Clarion CX Series Sub-Systems were Configured.
• Migrated data from CX4-960 to VNX-5700 using SAN Copy.
• Configured FAST, Virtual Pools and performed Auto provisioning for mapping and masking in VMAX Environment using SYMCLI / SMC.
• Involved in Migration of NFS and CIFS data from Celerra to NetApp filers.
• Configured Navisphere manager for user authentication.
• Implemented RAID-DP protection to prevent data loss in the event of second drive failure without excessive redundancy costs.
• Provided 24/7 on call support for all the SAN and NAS systems

Environment: Confidential Clarion/Symmetrix,Navisphere6.X,NaviCLI, SnapView, recovery point, MirrorView, PowerPath, BCV, SRDF, Zoning, TimeFinder,, McDATA switches/directors, Brocade Directors, Confidential control center, Emulex, Qlogic HBA. FAS 3040, FAS 3070, operations manager

Confidential, Wheeling, IL

Storage Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Implementation, administration and maintenance of high end storage arrays like Confidential CLARiiON CX 600, 700, CX3-40, 3-80, Symmetrix DMX 2000, DMX- 3, Celerra NS704 and NetApp FAS 6040, 3070, NearStore R200 in SAN and NAS Environments.
• Created and Configured RAID Groups, Storage Groups, Binding Luns, Naming, Resizing, Unbinding Luns through Navisphere Manager and NaviCLI.
• Created MetaLUNs by expanding base LUN's using striping and concatenation procedures.
• Provisioned and Decommissioned storage from DMX 3, DMX 2000 to Windows/Solaris/HP-UX hosts by mapping, masking using Solution enabler SYMCLI.
• Involved in installation of new Symmetrix DMX 2000 and implemented rule 17 for mapping as best practice.
• Installing and troubleshooting Qlogic and Emulex HBA’s to provide SAN access for Host Integration.
• Creation and management of CIFS shares and NFS export’s on NetApp filers.
• Actively performed various methods of data migration on the CLARiiON using MirrorView & SAN Copy, providing the customer with practical methods in transferring large amounts of data to remote locations.
• Provided storage for various application productions like Oracle from DMX, VMAX and CLARiiON, storage arrays.
• Executed DR exercises for mission critical apps-Oracle by failing over to the DR site using SRDF/S and SRDF/A meeting RTO and RPO objectives.
• Implemented SRDF/A and SRDF/S for production systems including creation of dynamic RA Groups, creation of dynamic RDF pairs, enabling SRDF/A for the group of devices.
• Created point-in-time copies of data using TimeFinder/Clone and TimeFinder/Snap.
• Implemented FAST VP and storage tiering for applications like Oracle Database 11g, Microsoft SQL server on VMAX.
• Experience in Netapp management console, operations manager and load balancing algorithms.
• Created CIFS shares and configured Celerra VDM as CIFS Server for file shares.
• Performed Virtual LUN Migrations using SMC and SYMCLI.
• Experience in implementing NetApp NAS technology, including configuring shares, CIFS and NFS Administration.
• Periodic audit of storage sub systems, Health monitoring of SAN components. Collect the data for trending.
• Created daily logs, perform capacity planning and monitor Backup storage utilization and performance.
• Configured and Created BCVs (Business Continuity Volumes) using Confidential TimeFinder on SRDFs to offer workload compression, performing backups, increase productivity, etc.
• Implemented SRDF in SRDF/A and SRDF/S environments for Disaster Recovery solution.
• Involved in Configuring the BCV and Clone mirror copies of the production data using the Time Finder Business Continuity Solution for backup and for the testing team to use the production data.
• Provided support for NetApp FAS3240/FAS3270 in High Availability (HA) configurations. Use tools such SnapMirror, SnapVault, and NetApp SnapManager for Virtual Infrastructure.
• Involved in CLARiiON Flare code upgradation from 2.19 to 2.26.
• Monitored, analyzed and fine-tuned the performance issues in CLARiiON using Confidential Navisphere Analyzer and Confidential Event Monitor.
• Installed, Configured tested SAN Copy procedure to migrate data from DMX to CLARiiON and CLARiiON to DMX.
• Problem determination and resolution including troubleshooting and submitting results reports to upper management and root cause analysis.
• Creating and administering aggregates, volumes, qtrees, FlexVols, FlexClones, Snapshots, Space Guarantee etc
• Performed upgrade of Data ONTAP from 6.5.3 to 7.0.1 and 7.0.1 to 7.2
• Create, configure, and manage CIFS & NFS shares, quotas, groups, and permissions.
• Configured and created SnapMirror, SnapReserve, allocating &deallocating shares to UNIX and Windows Clients from the NetApp FAS-3070 filers.(NAS Filers)
• Administered Open System SnapVault and SnapRestore for backup and restore operation in NetApp NAS Environment.
• Administer NAS Environment using DataFabric Operations Manager.
• Review and identify potential performance issues by analyzing storage system statistics.

Environment: Symmetrix DMX 2000, DMX-3, CLARiiON CX 600, 700, CX3-40, CX3-80, NetApp FAS6040, FAS3070, NearStore R200, VTL700, Hitachi 9900v, IBM N5600, Brocade Silkworm 200E, 5000, 48000, 49000, McDATA 3232, Cisco 9000, Navisphere Manager, Confidential Control Center, Storage Scope, Solution Enabler, Performance Manager, Symmetrix Remote Data Facility (SRDF), TimeFinder, SnapView, MirrorView, Data ONTAP 7.2.3, SnapVault, SnapMirror, SnapRestore, SyncMirror, MultiStore, DataFabric Operations Manager, Connectrix Manager, Web tools, Fabric Manager, Powerpath, Veritas Netbackup, Veritas Volume Manager.

Confidential, PA

SAN Admin

Responsibilities:

• Installation, Configuration and Integration of NetApp filers with the Windows and UNIX domains.
• Configured Aggregates, Volumes, Qtrees, Snap mirror, Snapshots & Snap Vault.
• Configured volumes for CIFS / NFS. Upgraded Data ONTAP v6.1 to v7.2.3 via NFS
• Creating volumes and allocating size to file systems using quotas.
• Assigned storage to Windows, Solaris, and LINUX servers by configuring storage groups, assigning LUN’s, registering HBA’s on hosts in CLARiiON environment.
• Managed Confidential CLARiiON CX 700, CX3-80, DMX 2000, DMX 3000, NetApp FAS 3040 SAN upgrades, and re-designs in heterogeneous environments, which include the following operating systems: Windows 2000/2003/MSCS, AIX, Red Hat Enterprise Linux versions 3 & 4 and Solaris.
• Deployed Time Finder Business Continuity Solutions by allocating BCV devices, Clones and Snapshots as per the business needs on DMX and CLARiiON.
• Implemented Virtual Provisioning technique with creation of Thin Devices on DMX using SymCLI.
• Storage Provisioning (Lun Creation, Mapping, and Masking) on CLARiiON/DMX arrays through SymCLI, Navisphere/NaviCLI and ECC tools.
• Successfully allocated Storage for open systems storage environment from CLARiiON, Symmetrix to Windows, Solaris, Linux, IBM-AIX and HP-UX servers.
• Installation and Configuration of Raid groups, storage groups and disk mirroring.
• Storage provisioning on CLARiiON and Symmetrix Systems for Windows, Solaris and AIX hosts.
• Proposed LUN, RAID Group and Storage Group configuration after evaluating company’s present and anticipated growth.
• Created BCVs (Business Continuity Volumes) using Confidential TimeFinder on SRDFs to offer workload compression, performing backups, increase productivity, etc.
• Installation and management of SRDF, TimeFinder and creating BCVs as disaster recovery solution.
• Perform monitor and generate reports using ECC and extract file lever reports using storage scope.
• Participated in Data center migration of Symmetrix DMX 2000 using Open Replicator.
• Storage Provisioning using zoning, LUN masking, mapping and reclamation, Capacity planning, disk layout planning.
• Configured and administered Brocade and McDATA Fiber channel switches.
• Installation, Migration, implementation on NetApp FAS series and NearStore VTL
• Involved in Installation and configuration of Emulex and Qlogic HBA’s for SAN connectivity.
• Replacing the failed disks on NetApp Filer
• Worked on Perl and Shell Scripts.
• Installed and Operated on NearStore VTL 300.
• Worked on Designing and implementing bunker and remote replication using NetApp SnapMirror and SnapVault technologies.
• Administered and Managed Multiple Veritas clusters on different platforms from a single web-based console.
• Planned and implemented High availability & Disaster Recovery of SAN/NAS Storage.

Environment: NetApp FAS 3020 and FAS 3070, NearStore VTL 300, NetCache, Confidential Celerra NS 20,NS 40, CLARiiON CX3-40,DMX 1000, DataOntap7G, Veritas NetBackup, Brocade 5100/5300 and McDATA Switches, Emulex HBA’s, IBM Tape Libraries, Windows 2000/2003,Solaris and Red Hat Linux.

Confidential

Network Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Primary responsibility is to provide software, hardware and networking solutions, Implementing, Supporting & Administration of Windows Server 2000 based network with more than 150 client systems
• Installation of SQL Server 2000, Software packages and Patches
• Configuration of Domain Group and User Account Management with permission assignments, Backup Management
• Troubleshooting the OS / Network related problems, OS problems and hardware related problems including printers
• Solved hardware and software problems over the phone or during the walk-in sessions

Environment: Windows Server 2000, Win XP Professional, Windows 2000 Professional, SQL Server 2000, DNS, ICS