SUMMARY

• 7+ years of experience as Storage administrator in EMC VNX, Symmetrix, Isilon, CLARiiON Arrays, CISCO MDS, Brocade Directors/Switches and Mc - Data switches.
• Good experience in using EMC VNX/VMAX deployment and Implementation.
• Experience in Time Finder BCV/Clone/Snaps, RDF Synchronous/Asynchronous/Cascaded, Open Replicator.
• Knowledge on VPLEX Management, Participated in teh VPLEX migrations.
• Creating teh VPLEX zones to teh arrays, creating storage volumes, exporting storage volumes, creating extents, Virtual Volumes and Data Mobility operations etc.
• Managing teh VPLEX clusters, Monitoring & Batch migrations.
• Expertise in usage of Unisphere, familiar with every operation in teh Unisphere.
• Experience in zoning on different types of switches like CISCO MDS & Brocade etc.
• Configured Isilon SyncIQ for replication and troubleshooting.
• Install, configure and troubleshoot Brocade, Cisco MDS and McData fibre channel fabric switches along with Emulex and QLogic HBAs.
• Strong hands-on experience with EMC solution Enabler, Symmetrix management console (SMC), EMC Control Center (ECC), storage resource management (SRM) & CLARiiON Navisphere Manager.
• Troubleshooting teh servers and teh storage arrays that are not reporting correctly in ViPR SRM
• Experience in storage migrations and replication solutions using Open Replicator & SRDF.
• Experience in zoning through CLI and GUI (DCNM) for CISCO switches.
• Configured teh alert definitions for storage arrays discovered in SRM.
• Good knowledge in managing teh Logical volume manager of LINUX, Solaris, AIX and Veritas volume manager (VXVM).
• Successful 24*7 support with offshore and onsite co-ordination by maintaining SLA.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Storage Hardware: VNX 7600/7500/5700 , VMAX 40k, VMAX 20k and DMX 3 and DMX4, EMC CLARiiON CX4 Series, Isilon NL400, Isilon IQ 36NL, Isilon IQ 72NL, VPLEX, NetApp FAS6080, FAS2040/2020, FAS270.

Storage Software: SYMCLI 6.x/7.x, SMC v7.1, Navisphere Manager 6.x, Unisphere Manager NaviSecCLI, Brocade CLI, Web Tools, Fabric Manager, CISCO CLI, CISCO Device Manager, Fabric Manager, EMC PowerPath, EMC Symmetrix based Time Finder-Mirror/ Clone/ Snap, SRDF/S, SRDF/A, Metro Cluster, ECC, Storage Scope, Performance View, SyncIQ.

SAN Switches and Directors: CISCO MDS switches MDS 9513/9509/9506/9120/9140/9216 me, Brocade FC Directors like 8510 & Departmental Switches like DS 16B2 / DS32B2 / DS4900. McData FC Directors like ED140M/ ED16M ED32M/ E1620 iFCP switches.

EMC Applications: Mirror View, SAN Copy, Snap View, SRDF, Time Finder, EMC Recover Point, Replication Manager, EMC Control Center, InsightIQ, EMC ViPR SRM.

Operating Systems: VMware, Windows 2008/Windows 2003, SUN Solaris, HP-UX, Linux.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, ORLANDO, FL

Sr. SAN Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for zoning designs, Storage allocations from VNX, VMAX through VPLEX and performing data migrations from XIV to VNX through VPLEX Data Mobility operations.
• Configuration and management of Cisco Fabric environment. Task include creation of VSANs, device alias, zones, adding zones to zone set and activating zone set through CLI and Data Center Network Manager (DCNM).
• Configuration and management of CISCO Device manager. Task includes assigning of ports, enabling & disabling of ports and moving ports to respective VSANs.
• Claiming teh storage volumes on VPLEX from teh arrays, Creating teh devices, Extents, Virtual volumes in teh VPLEX environment,
• Configuring teh SRDF/A R1-R2 pairs and starting teh data synchronization across teh Symmetrix VMAX/DMX storages.
• Created and maintained teh SRDF links between teh production & remote locations.
• Involved in Migrations from Symmetrix to Symmetrix using SRDF (host based) and CLARiiON to Symmetrix using Open Replicator (array based).
• Performed thin Provisioning in V-MAX according to teh requirements.
• Performed FAST/FAST VP implementation in a V-MAX array.
• Worked on Pool Rebalancing by adding data devices to thin pools.
• V-MAX FA Port remediation by moving Servers from FA ports that are heavily utilized to less utilized FA ports.
• V-MAX LUN allocation to HP-Unix, AIX, Windows, Solaris, Linux and VMware servers.
• Managing Storage groups, Initiator Groups, Port groups & Masking Views in V-MAX.
• Creating thin pools, Data devices, Binding / Unbinding thin devices in VMAX.
• Configuring teh alert definitions for teh storage arrays that are discovered in SRM.
• Working on SNOW (Service Now) Ticketing Tool for Incident, Change & Request Management.
• Associating/Disassociating respective FAST policies on storage groups as per teh Customer requirements.
• Extending Maximum Subscription Limit on Thin pools by checking teh storage on Thin pool.
• Migrating TDevs from Tier1 to Tier2 through VPLEX.
• Thin Pools monitoring using EMC Storage Resource Management (SRM).
• Creating Meta, TDEV, VDEVs, changing teh RDF capability of devs, changing teh device emulation using symcli "symconfigure".
• Management of Brocade & Mc-Data switches using Web tools & Connectrix Manager.
• Troubleshooting teh servers and arrays that are not reporting correctly in SRM.
• Creating Cases in EMC Power link for technical issues, Hardware failure and driving them to closure.
• Monitoring Storage Array hardware failures through EMC Control center.
• Installing teh solution packs and monitoring teh health of ViPR SRM.
• Used EMC Storage Resource Management (SRM) tool to monitor Storage Area Network infrastructure systems such as VNX 5700/7500, V-MAX, VPLEX, Isilon.
• Monitor and sent performance reports on weekly basis by using Storage Resource Management (SRM).
• Setup Snapshot, SyncIQ for replication on Isilon.
• Creation of Soft & Hard Quotas, setting up advisory limit for shares.
• Created SMB & NFS shares on Islon clusters.

Environment: EMC VPLEX, VNX 5700/5500, VMAX 40k, VMAX 20k, DMX-4, Clariion CX4/CX3, CISCO/BROCADE/Mc Data Switches, Navisphere Manager, Solution Enabler, Unisphere, Fabric Manager, Device Manager, ECC, SRDF, VMWare, Solaris, Windows, HP-UX, IBM, AIX servers, SRM.

Confidential, San Diego, CA

SAN Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Administrative tasks by using SMC, ECC control Center, SRDF, Time Finder Clone Operations, Fabric Connectrix Manager, Brocade 8510 director switches, VMAX, VPLEX, DMX-4, DMX-3, DMX-2, VNX, and CLARiiON.
• VMAX, DMX-4, DMX-3 storage allocations, Mapping, Masking teh storage groups to teh servers, SRDF replications, Time finder Clones.
• Performing Block SAN Storage allocation from VMAX Storages using thin provision & auto provision groups.
• Performed Firmware upgrades & Fine tune of storage system for getting optimal performance.
• Set up MPIO and Power path (Installation & Configuration of Host based multi path software).
• Performed Addition & Decommission of Core & Edge Cisco MDS switches.
• Storage provisioning in various operating environments like HP-Unix, AIX, Solaris, Linux, Windows, ESX servers.
• Created tdevs, thin pool and bind tdevs to thin pool. Created Storage, port, initiator groups and added to masking view in VMAX.
• Storage allocation from DMX-4, DMX-3 frames using solution enabler.
• Performed SRDF/S and SRDF/A R1-R2 pairs and starting teh data synchronization across teh Symmetrix VMAX/DMX Storages.
• Managed Cisco switches 9513 created VSAN, zoning through Fabric Manager & CLI.
• Configured VTL's on Data domain for disk backups.
• Responsible for assigning teh SAN Ports for HP C-7000, VMAX, VNX & VPLEX Storage arrays.
• Configured ISL connections between teh SAN switches.
• Performed teh data migration from DMX to VMAX using open replicator.
• Engaged in firmware & driver upgrades of HBA's (Emulex & Qlogic) on UNIX and Window servers.
• Performed addition of HP C-7000 & Cisco UCS switches to an existing SAN environment.
• Installed and configured PowerPath for AIX/Solaris/HP/Windows Operating Systems to provide teh fault tolerant and good performance by dynamic load balance.
• Also have knowledge related to LVM operation, me.e. creating volume groups, logical volumes, imports & exports during open migration sessions.
• Troubleshooting of LUN that are not visible, me/O Performance issues on server.
• Worked on HPSM (HP Service Manager) Ticketing Tool for Incident, Change & Request Management.
• Performing Health Checks on Storage Arrays and SAN switches on daily basis.
• Creation of zones and zonesets in CISCO MDS switches using DCNM Brocade switches using web tools.

Environment: VMAX, VPLEX, DMX-4, DMX-3, DMX-2, VNX, Clariion, McData, CISCO Switches, Navisphere Manager, Solution Enabler, Unisphere, Connectrix Manager, Fabric Manager, Solaris, Windows, HP-UX, IBM AIX servers.

Confidential, Chicago, IL

SAN Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Implementation, administration and maintenance of high end storage arrays like NetApp FAS6080, FAS2040/2020,FAS270.
• Provisioned and Decommissioned storage from NetApp FAS.
• Implemented Auto provisioning by creating Initiator Groups, Port Groups, Storage Groups, and Masking Views for teh V-MAX system.
• Implemented Virtual Provisioning from VMAX array to hosts by creating Data devices, thin devices, Thin Pool, binding Thin devices to Pool and masking teh Thin devices to teh host, using SMC 7.0.
• Supported Qtrees, creation and exports through NFS.
• Create, configure, and manage CIFS & NFS shares, quotas, groups, and permissions.
• Successfully allocated storage using ECC 6.1, SymCLI 7.0 for Open Systems environment from DMX-3, DMX-4 to Windows, Solaris, AIX and HP-UX servers including creation of Meta devices, Mapping devices to FA ports and Masking as per teh requirement.
• Allocated storage from Symmetrix DMX3, DMX4, V-MAX and Clariion CX4-480, CX4-960.
• Implemented and Configured Business Continuity Solutions using Time finder BCV/Clone/ Snap for Symmetrix DMX.
• Used EMC Grabs and prepared migration scripts to migrate data using Open Migrator, Open Replicator, and SanCopy.
• Upgraded hosts as per teh HEAT report and installed / upgraded and configured Power Path for Solaris and Windows Operating Systems before migrating to teh new storage arrays.
• Migrated TB’s of data using Open Migrator/Open Replicator from DMX-4 to VMAX and SANCopy to migrate data from CX4-120 to CX4-960.
• Created RAID Groups, Thin luns and Meta luns based on teh application requirements using SYMCLI, Navisphere Manager.
• Responsibilities also include registering hosts, creating RAID groups, binding LUNs, and adding luns to Storage groups using Navisphere and NaviCLI for various UNIX and windows hosts.
• Configured and allocated storage for VMware hosts from DMX-3/DMX-4 and Clariion including configuration of port flag settings for FA ports.
• Implemented and tested SRDF/A for selected high performance Tier 1 applications from DMX3 to DMX4 including creation of dynamic RA groups, dynamic RDF pairs and device groups.
• Create/dissolve Meta Volumes, Change device configuration and map/un map devices to FA ports as and when required.
• Based on EMC recommendations, updated required patches (Operating System) and HBA drivers on all systems that are part of teh data migration.
• Configured Zoning on Brocade switches DCX and 48K through Brocade CLI, Web Tools and Cisco MDS 9509 and9513 through Cisco CLI and Cisco Fabric Manger.

Confidential, Kent, OH

SAN Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Daily maintenance and administration of enterprise SAN that included several Symmetrix DMX arrays and CLARiiON connected to several Windows & UNIX servers in teh Data center.
• Responsible for administering storage arrays like NetApp FAS 3270/3170/3070 , FAS3240/3140.
• Configured and allocated storage for production and corporate VMware hosts from DMX-3/DMX-4 using Symcli and CLARiiON CX4-120/CX4-960 using Navisphere Manager.
• Migrated several Solaris servers to DMX-4 from DMX-3 using Open Migrator, LVM and Veritas Volume Manager.
• Configured and Administered Open System SnapVault and SnapRestore for backup and restore operation in Netapp NAS Environment.
• Administer NAS Environment using DataFabric Operations Manager.
• As part of pre-migration activity, involved in running Host Grabs on teh servers and uploaded them on teh HEAT tool to check if any updates are to be made on teh server that has to be migrated. Also checked teh EMC recommended updates to be done on required managed objects using teh ELAB Navigator in Power link website.
• Implemented and configured Business Continuity Solutions Time Finder/Mirror BCV for Symmetrix DMX. Used SRDF/A for setting up Disaster Recovery between DMX-3-to-DMX-4 and enabled consistency on teh Device Groups. Created Dynamic RDF group in order to start with SRDF/A.
• Administration of ECC, monitoring alerts, set data collection policies and alert thresholds, responsible for testing and verifying device configuration recommendation to enhance teh EMC Array performance.
• Configured Zoning on Brocade Silkworm switches DCX, 48K, 12K, 5300, 5100 and 4900 through Brocade CLI, Web Tools and Cisco MDS (Multilayer Data Switches) 9506, 9509, and 9513 through Cisco CLI, Fabric Manager.
• Installing and setting up Cisco MDS switches, creating VSANs, Port-channels and troubleshooting SAN Problems.
• Installed Powerpath 5.3, Navisphere Host Agent, Solutions Enabler 7.1.1, SMC 7.1.1, Replication Manager 5.2.3, ECC 6.0 Master/Host agent on all servers connected to storage.