SUMMARY

• Leading edge, IT professional with 7 years of experience in NAS and SAN administration.
• Expertise in using Storage array management suites such as ViPR Controller, Symmetrix Management Console (SMC), Unisphere, Navisphere Manager, as well as command line based storage array managers such as SYMCLI, VplexCLI and NAVISECCLI.
• Experience in Hitachi Tuning manager for identifying the underlyingthe issues in SAN.
• Experience in EMC SAN VMAX, DMX, VNX, CLARiiON, XtremIO, VPlex, Recover Point, Isilon, NetApp(C - Dot & 7-Mode) FAS& V-Series, Hitachi, Cisco MDS Director Switches and Brocade Director Switches.
• Excellent experience in administration and configuration of Brocade, Cisco MDS Switches.
• Experience in planning, design and implementation of SAN replication/migration solutions like SRDF, TimeFinder, Open Replicator, SAN Copy, SnapView (Snapshot/clone), PowerPath PPME, VPlex Data Mobility, Recover Point, SyncIQ and Snap Mirror.
• Actively worked on host based migration tools Open Migrator, EMCopy, Rsync and Robocopy.
• Strong experience on troubleshooting day-to-day SAN/Storage and Host related issues.
• Experienced in performing storage systems checks, monitor and alert failures within external arrays and SAN fabric components in order to identify and rectify potential hardware failures.
• Experience performing performance analysis using Symmetrix Performance Analyzer, Navi Analyzer & Unisphere.
• Knowledge on ViPR SRM.
• Experience with AWS components such as EC2, S3, Elastic IPs, EBS, Security Groups, Route 53, VPC, ElastiCache, Elastic Beanstalk, RDS, and Cloud Formation.
• Prepared proper Documentation for all the SAN Switches and Storage Systems, prior to the data migration by discussing with the storage team.
• Good communication skills and capable of handling multiple projects simultaneously with good mentoring skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Storage Arrays: VMAX-40/20, VNX- 8000/7600/7500/5700 , VPLEX-VS1/VS2, ISILON X/S/NL Series, XtremIO, Recover Point, DMX-4/3/2/1, CLARiiON CX-4/3/700/600, Celerra NS480, Hitachi 9980, 9990, NetApp FAS 3000 and 6000 series.

Management Tools: Unisphere, SymCLI, Isilon OneFS, VPLEX Management Console, RPA Management Console, Symmetrix Management Console, NaviCLI, NavisecCLI, Navisphere Manager, System Manager, Connectrix Manager, Cisco Data Center Network Manager.

SAN Switches: Cisco MDS 9710/9513/9506/9148/9224 Switches and Brocade 48000/24000/4700/5300/ DCX 8510 Switches.Brocade and CISCO Director SAN Switches

Replication Software: SRDF-S/A, TimeFinder (Snap, Clone, BCV), Open Replicator, Open Migrator, EMC Recover Point, VPlex Data Mobility, VNX SAN Copy, Snap View (Snapshots, Clones), PPME, SnapIQ, SyncIQ, Snap Mirror, Snap Vault.

Monitoring/Reporting: Symmetrix Performance Analyzer (SPA), ViPR SRM, Unisphere, Symantec Netbackup Opscentre, Storage Scope, Navisphere Analyzer.

Operating Environments: Linux, Solaris, Windows, IBM AIX, HP-UX 11i V2/V3 and VMware ESX

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential - Richmond, VA

Storage Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Implementation, designing and administration of complex datacenter environment comprised of EMC VMAX, Hitachi, Isilon, Pure Storage and NetApp CDOT NAS systems.
• Responsible for daily maintenance of Cisco Switches
• Provisioned storage for multi-vendor host environments from VMAX, Hitachi, NetApp, Pure Storage using Virtual/Auto Provisioning through SYMCLI.
• Created VSANs, Zones and activated Zone sets using Cisco CLI, Fabric manager/Device manager on Cisco Director switches.
• Creating the RAID groups and Binding the LUNs.
• Supported, managed, and established the design of SAN/NAS storage and Networking resources following best practices and change process.
• Performed POC for the new all flash Pure Storage from the architecture level to synthetic performance tests for a pre-defined set of workloads/applications.
• Prepared the architecture and configured the Pure Storage Arrays (M70, M20) and implemented the installation of all the arrays in the environment.
• Performed POC for NetApp storage integration with AWS (NPS).
• Discovery around NFS shares for data-stores through Virtual Storage Console (VSC).
• Analyzing the performance issues and auditing the health checks for Hitachi, EMC Vmax arrays.
• Monitoring, documenting EMC and Hitachi arrays through OCI for reporting and performance bottlenecks.
• Responsible for creating VMAX performance dashboards using Unisphere to analyze the performance of the storage groups of the individual storage arrays.
• Well experienced in data migration using Array based tools such as FLM, Open Replicator, SRDF and SanCopy.
• Configured zoning using CISCO CLI and Fabric Manger on CISCO Switches.
• Launch EC2 instance architecture to meet high availability application architecture and security parameters.
• Configuring and Networking of Virtual Private Cloud (VPC).
• Develop CloudFormation scripts to automate EC2 instances.
• Worked on Cloud formation templates and deployed AWS resources using it.
• Creating S3 buckets and also managing policies for S3 buckets and Utilized S3 bucket and Glacier for storage and backup on AWS.
• Creating Cloudwatch alerts for instances and using them in Autoscaling launch configurations.
• Worked alongside the development team, building and managing the development tools, including Continuous Integration systems, and automated/manual testing environments.
• Coordinate with the Development, Database Administration, QA, and IT Operations teams to ensure there are no resource conflicts.
• Interacted with client teams to understand client deployment requests

Confidential - Irvine, CA

Sr. Storage Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Implementation, designing and administration of complex datacenter environment comprised of EMC VMAX, VNX (Block/File), XtremIO, VPLEX and NetApp CDOT NAS systems.
• Experience in implementing data migrations using Array based solution (SRDF, Open Replicator) and host based solution
• Hands on experience in implementing Hitachi Universal Replicator.
• Brocade Fabric Configuration and Management.
• Experience designing, installing & configuring ViPR Controller.
• Responsible for daily maintenance of Brocade and Cisco Switches
• Worked with Virtual pools, virtual arrays and virtual data centers to configure auto-provisioning of storage using ViPR controller.
• Management of Brocade SAN switches in dual fabric configuration.
• Configured storage pools, assigns tiers and configures FAST Policy for newly installed VMAX and VNX.
• Involved in the implementation and administration ofSANutilizing products ofEMC, CiscoandBrocade.
• Administration and monitoring of block storage systems VMAX, VNX, XtremIO and VPlex storage systems. Performing allocations & de-allocations following best practices.
• Administered VNX file-based systems including creation of file systems, exporting and mounting CIFS/NFS shares and configuring network shares using Unisphere.
• Performing local and remote replications using RecoverPoint, SRDF, Time Finder, Snap shots and File Replicator.
• Configured and implemented Isilon OneFS clusters for PROD environments using EMC and Isilon best practices.Configured DR solutions on the Isilon Clusters using SyncIQ for replications and migrations.
• Troubleshoot NFS and CIFS issues and fine tune the filers for optimal performance..
• Involve in implementation, configuration and administration of VPLEX local & metro clusters.
• Experience performing encapsulation of existing storage arrays to VPlex and performing migrations to newer storage systems using Data Mobility on VPlex using VPlex Unisphere GUI.
• Experience working on VPlex metro cluster by creating remote/distributed devices as per customers requirement and maintaining consistency using consistency groups.
• Supported, managed, and established the design of SAN/NAS storage and Networking resources following best practices and change process.
• Successfully tested the Disaster Recovery solutions for business divisions, which helped in sparing time for small maintenance issues.
• Performed designing, planning, testing and documentation for 7Mode to CDOT Migrations includes production, development and DR locations.
• Build the fiber and Ethernet patch plan design for CDOT clusters for three DC locations.
• Designed and configured SVM, LIFs, VLAN, and Routing Tables.
• Developed the provisioning and process guidelines for VMAX, VNX, VPlex, XtremIO & NetApp.

Confidential - Raleigh, NC

Senior Storage Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for administering and managing EMC VNX/VMAX using UNISPHERE and SYMCLI for SAN storage, and Hitachi Storage Arrays.
• Implemented new VMAX, VNX and CISCO MDS, Brocade switches to the multiple Data Centers.
• Zoning of host HBA's with FA ports /SP's of Storages by using SAN switches (Cisco and Brocade).
• Installation and configuring Brocade Switch's (FC 3200, 3800)
• Creation of Zones using Brocade and CISCO Switches.
• Responsible for configuring FAST VP policies for VMAX allocations.
• Responsible for provisioning storage for operating systems such as WINDOWS, LINUX, ESX, HP-UX from EMC.
• Provisioning storage from Hitachi arrays.
• Performed De-allocation of SAN storage from VMAX for Windows/Linux/ESX hosts.
• Implemented Virtual Provisioning by creating Thin Pool, adding Data Devices to the thin pool, and binding thin devices to the thin pool.
• Involved in configuring the VPLEX local 4-Engine VPLEX for Storage Virtualization. Completed the backend zoning and masking with tier storage arrays.
• Involved in installing, configuring, administering Vplex metro clusters. Performed allocation tasks.
• Setting up Vplex clusters using Vplexcli and GUI.
• Provide DR solutions for enterprise applications and databases using SRDF, MirrorView and RecoverPoint.
• Used RecoverPoint Manager Application to create Consistency Groups, Add Splitters andperform RecoverPoint Open Replicator copy operations
• Monitoring and optimization of the performance of the EMC Storage systems.
• Responsible for creating VMAX performance dashboards using Unisphere to analyze the performance of the storage groups of the individual storage arrays.
• Experience in implementing data migrations using Array based solution (SRDF, Open Replicator) and host based solution
• Responsible for configuring host informationin DCNM, Unisphere after a CNA card replacement.
• Providing assistance to various infrastructure teams.
• Responsible for ongoing recommendations and best practices, as applicable, for the following areas: Business Continuity, High Availability, Backup, Recovery and Archiving
• Prepared the documents and shared the knowledge within the group to make the environment run efficiently.
• Proficient in everyday jobs like troubleshooting the SAN environment, storage provisioning, monitoring and Reporting.
• Responsible for SAN switch ports and fabric monitoring.
• Responsible for maintaining proper backups of Switch configurations.
• Performed SAN administration, created device alias, zones, zonesets and activating the zonesets in the Cisco MDS switches between different fabrics using Data Center Network Manager (DCNM) and CLI.
• Proactively monitored and collected the system/SAN health reports and involved in taking appropriate actions.

Environment: VMAX, DMX 4, VNX, VPLEX, Clariion, NetApp FAS 6240/6280, Cisco MDS 9509/9513, Windows, HP-UX, Linux, ESX servers

Confidential - Addison, TX

Storage Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Provisioned storage for multi-vendor host environments from VMAX, DMX-4 using Virtual/Auto Provisioning through SYMCLI.
• Created VSANs, Zones and activated Zonesets using Cisco CLI, Fabric manager/Device manager on Cisco 9506 Director switch.
• Creating the RAID groups and Binding the LUNs.
• Provisioned VNX block storage to various operative systems using Unisphere.
• Managed VNX file-based systems including creation of file systems, exporting and mounting CIFS/NFS shares and configuring network shares using Unisphere.
• Creating the Storage groups and associating the hosts with groups on EMC CLARiiON storages.
• Created concurrent CopyOnAccess copy sessions using TimeFinder/Clones for instantaneous access of full volume backups for multiple source volumes.
• Supported multiple service level requirements with a single solution through point-in-time BCVs for backups, online restores, and volume migrations.
• Setup the SAN environment for migration, disaster recovery test procedures for DMX-4 and successfully replicated the storage to the remote site using SRDF solutions (SRDF/S and SRDF/A).
• Provided 24X7 SAN production support on a rotational basis
• Designed SAN patch plans and storage upgrade plans and migration strategies, resulted in minimized impact and downtime for EMC (CLARiiON SAN, NetApp NAS), multi-platform (Solaris, Linux, AIX, Windows) environment.
• Designed complex NAS / SAN Replications and data migration technologies. Designed complex Fibre switches migration from old to new environment.
• Managed assigned project/tasks, ensured timely task executions and maintained customer satisfaction.
• Managed the Network/SAN connection redundancy of all servers using NIC Multipathing, redundant switches, MPIO, redundant SAN switches)
• Used securecopy and robocopy to migrate Data
• Performed necessary data migrations and replication on clarion and DMX

Environment: VMAX, VNX, DMX4, NetApp, Clariion, Cisco MDS 9506, Windows, LINUX, IBM-AIX servers.

Confidential, Des Moines, IA

Storage Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Configured, Administered and Managed a SAN Environment of 1000TB, consisting of DMX - 3, DMX 3000/1000, Clariion CX 3-80, CX 700, Cisco MDS 9509/9506 directors using SYMCLI, Navisphere Manager, Connectrix manager, Fabric/Device Manager and EMC Control Center.
• Provisioned storage to Unix and Windows servers.
• Exported files using Unisphere to Linux machines and windows machines in Celerra NS40 environment using NFS protocol and CIFS protocol.
• Troubleshoot NFS and CIFS issues and fine tune the filers for optimal performance.
• Designed and implemented disaster recovery for Tier-1 data using EMC SRDF.
• Involved in planning and migration of SAN environment from DMX 1000 to DMX 3000 using SRDF/S and from Clariion CX 700 to CX 3-80 using SAN Copy Replication solution.
• Extensively used Open Replicator to migrate from symm 8830 to DMX. Configured/Create push/pull sessions to migrate devices, scripted the whole process for efficiency.
• Utilized Timefinder BCV/Clone/EMCSnap, Clariion SnapView snapshot/Clone for multiple point-in-time copies of file systems/databases for test/backup purposes.
• Resource management expertise for performance reporting and workload analysis using Performance Manager. Created automated flexible reporting for storage and host resources using Storage Scope.

Environment: DMX, Clariion CX/CX-3, Celerra, Cisco MDS 9509/9506, Brocade 4700/4100 FC, Connectrix Manager, Fabric Manager, Device Manager, Core-Edge SAN Fabric, Linux, Solaris, Windows.