SUMMARY

• More than 8+yrs of experience as experience in SAN storage
• Dedicated, hard working individual with good intercommunications skills to work well in both team environments and individual assignments.
• Extensive experience with DMX,VMAX’s configuration, administration and troubleshooting of SAN environment SRDF/S, SRDF/A, SRDF/AR, Time Finder, SAN Copy, Mirror View, Snap View, Open Replicator/PPME, EMC Control Centre, Storage Scope, Performance Manager (WLA), EMC Navisphere Manager, Navisphere Event Monitor, Navisphere Analyzer, Connectrix Manager, Brocade Fabric Manager and Confidential Device/Fabric Manager.
• Experience with configuration and administration of EMC Symmetrix VMAX with FAST VP, DMX and VNX5500 with FAST, Clariion Networked Storage Systems, EMC Connectrix Directors and Dell Compellent.
• Provisioning storage to Windows, Solaris, AIX, Linux, HP - UX and VMware servers.
• Experience with IBM storage and IBM-SVC 4.3.x. Performed storage allocation using GUI & CLI. Created vdisks, hosts, mapped vdisk to the servers, disk migration etc.
• Performed Virtual disk mirroring, Global mirror (asynchronous remote replication), and Metro mirror (synchronous remote replication).
• Leading edge IT experience in delivering exceptional customer satisfaction and overall operations.
• Experience with backup administration using VERITAS Volume manager, BCV’s, Clones and Snapshots.
• Efficiency in installing, configuring and implementing the LVM, and RAID Technologies using like VERITAS volume manager, Solaris volume manager.
• Experience in administration of storage to multiprotocol environments like CIFS and NFS in Netapp SAN/NAS environment.
• Perform NAS operations on Netapp filers FAS3170 ver 7.3.3, FAS3040 7.3.2 FAS960 ver 7.2.x.
• Create flxclone volumes for backup, testing and development purpose and setup snap mirror

TECHNICAL SKILLS

SAN Management Solutions: Symcli, EMC Control Centre, Navisphere Manager, SMC, Compellent Enterprise Manager

Networked Storage: Symmetrix VMAX, DMX 4/3 /2500, Clariion CX 3-80, CX 700/600, IBM XIV, HDS 9960, Dell Compellent.

SAN Connectivity: Brocade Director Switches, Connectrix Manager, Brocade / Confidential Fabric Manager

Replication Software: SRDF, Time Finder, Open Replicator, SAN Copy

Multi-vendor Platforms: Windows / NT, Solaris, HP-UX, IBM AIX

Monitoring / Reporting: Performance Manager, Storage Scope, Navisphere Event Monitor, Navisphere Analyzer

IBM: San Volume Controller 4.3.x.

Volume Manager: VERITAS Volume Manager.

NAS: FAS 3170 Ver 7.3.3, FAS960 ver 7.2 x. NS-480

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, SAN JOSE, CA

SAN STORAGE ADMIN

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Administered a SAN environment comprising of EMC VMAX/VNX/CX and Dell Compellent Arrays.
• Responsible for infrastructure tasks including provisioning storage, connectivity issues, upgrades, and day-to-day issues and audits.
• Implemented Virtual Provisioning from VMAX array to hosts by creating Data devices, thin devices, Thin Pool, binding Thin devices to Pool and masking the Thin devices to the host, using Symcli and Unisphere.
• Performed storage allocation by creating volumes, creating a server with HBA’s and presenting the volumes to the server using Compellent Enterprise Manager.
• Diagnosed and trouble shooted issues related to multipathing drivers, HBA firmware and zoning.
• Troubleshoot the SAN connectivity on different Operating Systems like Windows, VMware ESX, Linux and Solaris.
• Used Open Replicator software to execute data migration from existing DMX4 to VMAX storage arrays and SAN COPY from CX3 to VMAX arrays.
• Performed storage migration from DMX4 to VMAX and Clariion CX3 to VMAX using Open replicator and SRDF.
• Storage Migration in VMware ESX server using VMotion.
• Troubleshooting, and resolving issues like one-path-down, hosts not seeing storage, HBA failures, storage allocations, mapping, masking and zoning on Confidential Switches.
• Created change management tickets and worked with the server admins and DBA's to inform any possible impact on server and database.
• Created tickets and assigned to the system administrators windows/Unix to generate heat report on the server for analysis and for any possible updates and fixes.

Confidential, BEDFORD, MA

SAN STORAGE ADMIN

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Administered and provided support for a large storage environment
• Performed storage allocation on DMX and VMAX using Symcli, SMC. Created tdevs, thin pool and associated tdevs to thin pool. Created storage, port, and initiator groups and added to masking view.
• Analyzed grabs of the servers which were to be migrated and generated Heat report and as per EMC’s standard, recommended the updates which need to done on the server (Powerpath, HBA drivers/firmware, BIOS, Symcli, Sansurfer etc.)
• Managed EMC Clariion storage systems using Unispher/Navisphere Manager and NaviCLI. Created RAID Groups, Meta luns, Storage Groups, added LUN to the storage group. Registered/deregistered host (Engineering mode)
• Added luns to the existing SRDF device groups and performed DR testing.
• Performed zoning operations and backup active zoning set on brocade and Confidential san switches using web tools and CLI. Created zones, HBA/FA/SP aliases,
• And them to the active zone set and activated it.
• Configure HBA, Installing HBA drivers and other HBA management softwares such as Sansurfer and HB Anywhere.
• Experience working with EMC VNX, VMAX and IBM XIV SAN arrays and involved in day to day replication activities using SRDF and BCV.a
• Allocated storage to windows, UNIX and VMware servers.
• Storage allocation from Netapp filers using GUI (filer view, Netapp system manager)
• Created aggregates, volumes, and qtrees and presented to windows, UNIX and VMware servers.
• Performed quota/volume resizing, an aggregates, and disk management in FAS.
• With Netapp Data Motion migrated the Volumes from one aggregate to another aggregate between same and different Tiers within the same Controller.

Confidential, BASKING RIDGE, NJ

SAN STORAGE ADMIN

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Responsible for storage migration, infrastructure tasks including provisioning storage, connectivity issues, upgrades, and day-to-day issues.
• Analyzed the grabs of the servers which were to be migrated and generated Heat report with the grabs and as per EMC’s standard, recommended the updates which need to done on the server (Powerpath, HBA drivers/firmware, BIOS, Symcli, Sansurfer etc.)
• Performed storage migration using open replicator and Open replicator with PPME from Clariion to VMAX and DMX to VMAX . Used hot pull to migrate date for the Wintel, UNIX and VMware servers.
• Created target tdevs using SMC and symcli and associated them to the thin pool. Created storage group, port group, initiator group and added them to masking view.
• Created and activated zones for open replicator. Created open replicator storage group and added source devices and VMAX FA ports.
• With Symsan command forced the VMAX FA ports login to source array and checked the access to the source devices.
• Manually register VMAX FA ports as hosts on CX.
• With Symrcopy created/activated/set ceiling/terminated the session
• Performed storage allocation from Netapp filers using GUI/cli
• Allocated storage to windows, UNIX and VMware servers.
• Worked with clone/snap mirror for backup and data repurposing.
• Performed storage allocation on VNX5500 storage array.

Confidential, INDIANAPOLIS, IN

SAN STORAGE ADMIN

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Provisioning of storage and making configuration changes using Symcli, SMC, Unisphere and Navisphere. Allocate storage to specific servers/applications
• Mostly comprising of UNIX, VMware ESX and Wintel machines.
• Worked with server administrator and DBA’s to gather the requirement for allocation of storage.
• Performed storage allocation on VMAX. Created tdevs, thin pool and associated tdevs to thin pool. Created storage, port, and initiator groups and added to masking view.
• Setup SRDF/AR between Prod and DR site.
• Performed storage migration from Clariion and DMX to VMAX using Open Replicator and Open Replicator with PPME.
• Configured clarion to get alert/email notification from any disk failure and errors.
• Performed/backup active zoning set on brocade and Confidential san switches. Created zones/added to the active zone set and activated.
• Allocation of storage from Netapp filers FAS3170 7.3.3 using GUI (filer view, Netapp system manager) and cli.
• Performed NAS storage operation and aggregates, volumes, qtrees and presented to windows (CIFS), Unix (NFS) and VMware (Mix) servers.
• Administered the quota and volume resizing, extending the aggregates, disk management in FAS and V-series filers .
• Performed zoning on switch, Created luns, initiator groups and presented luns to servers.

Confidential

SAN STORAGE ADMIN

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Maintenance of storage arrays like EMC Clariion CX3-80, CX 700 and Symmetrix VMAX, DMX-4, DMX-3.
• Performed storage allocation on DMX,VMAX. Created tdevs, thin pool and associated tdevs to thin pool. Created storage, port, and initiator groups and added to masking view.
• Reclaimed storage from servers unmasked, write disable, unmapped and dissolves metas.
• Managed Symmetrix using the EMC Control Centre GUI v6.0 and SYMCLI. Performed mapping and masking on Symmetrix arrays using SYMCLI. Created Business Continuance and Disaster Recovery volumes using SRDF solutions.
• Managed EMC Clariion storage systems using Navisphere Manager GUI v6.x and NaviCLI. Created RAID Groups, Storage Groups, LUN binding and register hosts for assigning host to Storage Group and adding LUN’s.
• Diagnosed and trouble shooted issues related to multipathing drivers, HBA firmware and zoning on SVC.
• Worked using Navisphere Analyzer v6.x for analyzing and resolving performance issues for CLARiiON systems.
• Configured and managed Powerpath using Powerpath Administrator GUI for dynamic load balancing and automatic path failover. Managed Qlogic and Emulex HBAs on both Windows and UNIX hosts.
• Created Aggregates, Raid groups, Volumes, Qtrees and administration of Quotas in Netapp FAS6200, FAS 6080/6040 and FAS3200, FAS 3070/3040 v-3070 using Filer view and CLI.
• Administration of CIFS, NFS shares in Netapp NAS filers.
• Administered the quota and volume resizing, extending the aggregates, disk management in FAS and V-series filers .
• Provisioned volume on Netapp Filers by creating Volumes, Qtrees and Quotas.