Lead Consultant Resume
SUMMARY
- Design, Implement and Manage Data Storage Systems & SAN Switches(Brocade and Cisco) including EMC VMAX10K/20K,VMAX3,VNX,DMX, Clariion, EMC XtreamIO, Hitachi and NetApp. Managed 200+ PB of Storage Managed different flavors of Storage Systems like EMC, NetApp and Hitachi.
- Implementation, architecture, and design engineering of EMC Symmetrix DMX, VMAX, VNX, Clariion, including local and remote replication (Replicator, TimeFinder, SRDF, RecoverPoint),
- Migration planning and design using SANCopy, Open Replicator, SRDF, RecoverPoint, EMCPowerPath MigrationEnabler, HDS Volume Migration and HDS Mobility.
- Data Migration from VNX / VMAX to VMAX3 using Open Replicator.
- Configuring and managing VMAX3 SnapVX.
- Performed data mobility migrations from DMX to VMAX, old VMAX to New Vmax from within the VPLEX.
- Configured and allocated storage to the VDI build servers from XtremIO and PureStorage all flash arrays
- Best practice design and layout of Symmetrix, VMax, VNX, CX, NS and RP.
- Business Continuity solution architecture ensuring clients’ RPOs and RTOs are met, including bandwidth analysis for remote replication sizing and solution validation.
- Provides the following custom services: EMC Symmetrix and CX/VNX performance analysis, SAN Assessment, Transition and Training, Remediation planning.
- Hands on experience in installation, configuration and trouble shooting of Net backup on UNIX and Wintel platforms.
- Manage VMWARE vSphere 4.1 & 5.X environments.
- Install & configureVMwarevSphere suite of products ESX & ESXi.
- Creating Virtual Machine Templates, Cloning Virtual Machines and datastore management.
- Writing scripts for automating the tasks usingShell scripts, Perl, Sed & Awk.
TECHNICAL SKILLS
Hardware: Symmetrix VMAX10K/20K,VMAX3, DMX - 3/4, DMX800/1000/2000/3000, Unified VNX series, Clariion CX4 series,CX3 series, CX series, VPLEX, EMC XtreamIO, Celerra NS Series, Hitachi USP / USPV / USPVM, VSP & VSPG1000, Netapp FAS980c, FAS6030, Netapp FAS3070A & FAS6240, Brocade departmental and Director level switches, CISCO MDS Series, FCIP switches, FCoE Switches, CISCO Network switches Catalyst series, D-link switches.
Management Software: Unisphere Manager for VNX, Unisphere for VMAX, SMC, ECC, Prosphere, Solutions Enabler 6.x/7.x/8.0, Navisphere Manager, Celerra Manager, Powerpath, Storage Navigator Modular 2, Oncommand system manager,CISCO Fabric Manager / Device Manager.
Replication & Migration software: SRDF,TimeFinder,SnapVX, Recoverpoint, Celerra Replicator, SanCopy, Open Replicator, Powerpath Migration enabler.
Tools: Symmetrix Performance Analyzer (SPA), Workload Analyzer, STPNavigator, Performance Manager,Vcenter, Vpshere, Perl programming.Operating Systems: VMWARE ESX, vsphere, Sun Solaris 8/9/10, RHEL, Windows 2000, 2003, XP, 8
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Confidential
Lead Consultant
Responsibilities:
- Implementation, architecture, and design engineering of EMC Symmetrix DMX, VMAX, VNX, Clariion, XtremIO including local and remote replication (Replicator, TimeFinder, SRDF, RecoverPoint).
- Implementation, architecture, and design engineering of EMC Symmetrix VMAX3.
- Configuring and managing VMAX3 SnapVX.
- Configuring the VSANs zones and zonesets in CISCO MDS switches using command line.
- Performed firmware upgrades and zoning on Brocade Fiber Channel switches.
- Performed day to day storage allocations and reclaims as requested by the server team.
- Migration planning and design using SANCopy, Open Replicator, SRDF, RecoverPoint, EMCPowerPath MigrationEnabler.
- Analyzed the data, configured FAST VP tier policies on VMAX and VNX
- Performance analysis and improvement of existing VMAX/VNX/Clariion/Netapp filers.
- Planning and coordination on VMAX/VNX/Clariion/Celerra code upgrades.
- Configuring the zones and zonesets in CISCO MDS switche/Broacde using command line/GUI tools.
- Clean-up and audit of existing SAN infrastructure, mapped port utilization and distribution, removed unused zones from the active zoneset, standardized aliases, disabled unused ports, and removed FC cabling.
- Performed firmware upgrades and zoning on Brocade Fiber Channel switches.
- Configured BCV s and Clones using Time finder tool in DMX 4 for data backup and testing environments
- Monitor storage performance and utilization identify problems and recommend /implement solutions
- Managed storage allocation for Clariion storage array using Navisphere Manager.
- Creating raid groups binding luns creating Metaluns creating storage groups and registering hosts.
- Performed data migration from Clariion CX4 480 240 to DMX using SAN Copy.
- Generated Configuration reports for both Array and servers for future Capacity planning and made design recommendations based on Raid Type, Hot spares and numbers of drives per Application.
- Created Aggregates Volumes and QTrees on NetApp arrays
- Allocated CIFS shares and NFS mounts from NetApp Arrays to windows Active Directory accounts and UNIX servers respectively
- Migrated the NFS data from standalone servers to NetApp filers and documented the implementation architecture for future reference
- NetApp to DMX data migration using OR and Host level LVM.
- Documented and architected the snapmirror and snapshot utilities of NetApp for Disaster Recovery.
- Provided noledge transfers, design sessions and first-level onsite support.
- Manage VMWARE vSphere 4.1 & 5.X environments.
- Install & configureVMwarevSphere suite of products ESX & ESXi.
- Creating Virtual Machine Templates, Cloning Virtual Machines and datastore management.
- Hands on experience in installation, configuration and trouble shooting of Netbackup on UNIX and wintel platforms.
- Good Knowledge on configuring and performing NDMP Backup
- Setting up and troubleshooting features like HA/FT/DRS with EVC for the Virtual Machines for business continuity.
- Writing scripts for automating the tasks usingShell scripts, Perl, Sed & Awk.
Confidential
Storage Lead
Responsibilities:
- Storage Provisioning to Solaris and Windows hosts from Symmetrix DMX using ECC / SYMCLI.
- Making BCV / Clone Copies for Backup and Reports Server.
- Managing and administration of EMC CLARiiON systems CX500/700.
- Creation of CIFS and NFS Shares on EMC Celerra.
- Extending of File systems on EMC Celerra.
- NetApp V-Filer 6080 management (NAS Storage)
- Creating volumes and qtrees in NetApp storage.
- NFS / CIFS shares and and enabling quotas.
- Creating and configuring snapshots.
- Snapmirror configuration and DR activities.
- Scheduling reports using NetApp operations manager.
- SAN migration from USP to Hitachi Thunder 9580.
- Creating LUNs/RAID groups/Host groups/Storage ports/LUN Security/LUN Expansion using Storage Navigator and Storage Navigator modular.
- Creating mirror copies and striping using VERITAS storage foundation 5.0
- SAN Switches administration and code upgrades.
- Netapp filer 940/570/3020 management (NAS Storage)
- Creating volumes, qtrees in NetApp storage using FilerView software.
- Creating and configuring snapshots.
- Creating volumes and qtrees in NetApp storage.
- NFS / CIFS shares and and enabling quotas.
- Snapmirror configuration and DR activities.
- Scheduling reports using NetApp operations manager.
Confidential
IT Analyst, System administrator
Responsibilities:
- Storage provisioning to Windows/Solaris servers from Symmetrix 8830 through ECC.
- Making BCV Copies for Backup and Reports Server.
- Administrator of Asynchronous DR Site by using EMC SRDF/A.
- Installation & Configuration of OS (Solaris & HP-UX)
- Directly involved in installing, configuring, troubleshooting, performance monitoring & performance tuning of all mission critical SUN & HP servers.
- Participating in a team of engineers in SUN/HP servers of wide range & ensuring an average uptime of 99%.
- Implementing Online-Offline, Weekly-Monthly Backup Strategies for respective modules.
- Dynamic Reconfiguration of Domains in Sun Fire 15K.
- Managing File systems using HP LVM / VERITAS volume manager.
- Implementing Online-Offline, Weekly-Monthly Backup Strategies for respective modules.
- VERITAS cluster management.
- Designing network monitoring tools using perl and management tools with shell scripting.
- Implementing iptables/ipfilters rules over the night (automation).
- Working with autosys (job scheduler).
- Working with perforce for software maintains and version control.
- Network trouble shooting with tcpdump / ethereal and tools designed with Perl.
- Distributed database implementation and space management for storing rules.