PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Over 11+ years of experience in Storage Area networks (SAN) and System Administration.
• Decisive, action oriented and result focus professional offering around 10 years of experience in Netapp, EMC VNX and Isilon, Data Domain and Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) System administration technologies.
• Experienced on non - EMC storage platforms like NetApp FAS series and TSM.
• Well experienced in deploying a new Netapp, Isilon, VNX and Data Domain solutions.
• Experienced in EMC Symmetrix VMAX, DMX3/4, Isilon, VNX,and CLARiiON CX4/CX3 arrays
• Well experienced in implementing Virtual Provisioning for effective utilization of storage by the host on an as per needed basis, as a Storage Admin got hands on experience in storage allocation, mapping, masking, creating Metas and device group creations and SAN zoning.
• Involved in design and Implementation of new Netapp and Data domain arrays for operations purpose.
• Excellent experience in AIX, Windows and Linux platforms as it relates to disk allocation, managing LUN's and HBA configuration.
• 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.
• Experienced in System Administration that includes Linux, IBM AIX and Windows server versions
• Experience with virtualization using VMware ESXi 5.0 & 5.1 servers & vCenter server.
• Develop strategies for migration efforts between different storage platforms using various tool including Vice Versa, Robocopy, Snapmirror.
• Extensive knowledge of storage area networks (SAN), local area networks (LAN), data warehouses/centers, and disaster recovery.
• Worked at various customer locations in US and have successfully enhanced customer experience with the cluster mode as well as resolved their datacentre design issues and its value to their business which resulted in a satisfied customer and extended business with NetApp.
• Offers outstanding talent in system administrator, ITIL, resource loading, team building, customer relationship, and conducting status meetings and customer reviews.
• Driven by new challenges and desire to be successful in all endeavors. Immensely enjoy all aspects of complex Data Center projects.
• Excellent experience in administration and configuration of Brocade switches.
• Domain experience in System Administration, Data Center, SAP, Oracle, Domino, SQL environments.
• Very good at preparing the documents and share the knowledge within the group to make the environment run smooth. Excellent team building, project implementation, analytical, interpersonal and communication skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

High End Disk Systems: Symmetrix V-MAX, DMX-4, DMX-3, DMX-2, CelerraNS704/NS480/NS40G/NS80G,VNX 5300, 5700, VG2, VG8, Isilon NL400, XtremIO, IBM XIV, NetApp FAS series and V-series CLARiiON CX500, CX600, CX700, CX3 series, CX4-series, Data domain DD880,890 and DD 990.

Switches: Brocade - DCX, DCX-4S,48k/24K,4900,4100Cisco - 9513/9509/9506,9148,9124,9222i

SAN/Storage Management: Unisphere for V-Max and VNX, Celerra Manager 5.x, Navisphere Manager, BrocadeCLI, Open Replicator, SnapView Clone/Snapshot, SanCopy, MirrorView, Open Migrator, Isilon GUI/CLI, Snapmirror,Snapvault.

Operating systems: AIX 5.2/5.3/6.1/7.1, Solaris 8/9/10/11, Redhat ES3/ES4 Linux, HP 11/11i and Windows 2k/2k3/2k8/2012, VMware ESX/ESXi Server 3.x/4.x/5.x.

Hardware: IBM P series / SUN SunFire / HP9000 series, Qlogic and Emulex HBAs.

Backup & Tape Library: Veritas Netbackup Enterprise V 4.5/5.1/6.0 and Storage Tek L700, IBM 3584, 3592.

Volume Manager: AIX/HP/Linux Logical Volume Manager, SUN Volume Manger and VERITAS Volume Manager

Tools: Tools built on Shell Scripts, VBScripts, Putty, Netapp SanScreen, Netapp Operation Manager.

CRM/Ticketing systems: Remedy ARS, HP Service Desk, BMC

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Schaumburg, IL

Sr. Storage Administrator

Responsibilities

• Plan & Redesign the whole Netapp, EMC Storage/Backup Environment
• Developed Standard Operating procedure, conducted Training sessions to the offshore
• Configured Netapp tools like Performance Advisor, Oncommand Balance, Oncommand Insight for the whole Netapp environment
• Configuration of Network interface for the new installed netapp devices including VLAN, IFgrps etc..
• Implementation and management of EMC SRDF, Snapmirror, Snapvault & Snapshots etc..
• Plan, Design and Execute Migrations from the legacy Netapp array to 6240/6280 Netapp Arrays using, Robocopy, snapmirror technologies
• Provide storage administration including Provisioning, zoning, Decommissioning, Migration on the following storage vendor products including EMC, Netapp
• Isilon Management & Configuration of OneFS Filesystems, shares etc.
• Management of ACL’s on Isilon
• Performed filesystem migration between Isilon & Netapp
• Plan, Design and Execute Migrations from the legacy Netapp array to 6240/6280 Netapp Arrays using, Robocopy,snapmirror technologies.
• Define and operate procedures for converged infrastructure management platforms including vSphere
• Enterprise, Cisco UCS Manager, EMC VNX, VMAX.
• Define and create EMC Virtual LUN and storage tiering.
• Understanding of Nexus Products like Nexus 1000v, N3k, Nexus5k, and MDS Switches
• Configure and troubleshoot VCE Vblock converged infrastructure which includes EMC VMAX,
• Installation and Implementation of new Data domain, Netapp FAS and V-series systems.
• VNX, VNXe storage and MDS Switches.
• Performed filesystem migration between Isilon & Netapp.
• Good Exposure on Netapp Cluster ONTAP (CDOT) Cluster Management.
• Configuring NetApp FAS and V-Series (All Models) with various Disk shelves
• Involved in data/host migration support for Celerra NS600, NetApp.
• Provided support for data migration from Celerra NS600 to FAS 3020/3040.
• Strong Knowledge of EMC Isilon.
• Operational support and Management of Isilon.
• Very good understanding of Isilon and NetApp hardware architecture and its different tools from various vendors EMC Isilon - SmartConnect, Smart Fail, SmartPools/Zones, SyncIQ, SmartQuota, SnapShotIQ, SmartLock, InsightIQ and NetApp - SnapMirror, SnapVault, Oncommand Manager, FilerView.
• Used Operations Manager for performance monitoring & troubleshooting.
• Worked with Operations Manager/Filer View for FAS-3020/3040/6000/8000 Administration/configuration, LUN creation, NFS/CIFS share creation, exports, Qtrees Exports, Quota allocation/management.
• Maintaining storage infrastructure for NetApp FAS series(3000\'s, 6000\'s,2000\’s) and V-series 8000’s in Clustered Highly Availability (HA) configuration.
• Configured Snap Vault on NetApp filer for disk based backup & NDMP for Tape Backup.
• Configured Snap Mirror on NetApp filer for Data Replication to remote/local sites
• LUN carving on different disk groups with different RAID configuration.
• Provided daily support and maintenance for the systems hardware (involving FC HDD failures, FA Adapters. Backend Adapters & Switch SFP failure) & applications.
• Net apps filers installation, Ontap upgrades, snap mirror and quota, Qtrees Administration
• Created and configured CIFS Shares, NFS Mounts, Quotas, Groups and Permissions on NetApp NAS.
• VSCAN and Fpolicy configuration and management.Configuring Vfilers and providing storage from Vfilers
• ISCSI LUN configuration and management. Updating storage utilization report on Monthly basis.
• Administration of VNX 5500 systems including creation of file systems, exporting and mounting CIFS/NFS shares and configuring network shares using Celerra manager and Unisphere.
• Storage Provisioning through EMC CLI, command line interface.
• SAN switch Zoning, Allocated and Provisioned storage from VMAX, VNX, DMX-4, DMX-3 arrays to Windows, Solaris, HP-UX, LINUX and AIX servers.
• Storage devices monitoring and control.Responsible for creation of LUN’s, for block and file level on VNX using NaviCLI and Unisphere.
• Worked on creation and extension of file systems and giving access to windows by creating CIFS shares and UNIX servers by using NFS exports from VNX Brocade SAN Switches management.
• Incident Management.Onsite/Customer status reporting and meeting.
• Causal Analysis Review Meetings, Decision Analysis Review Meetings, Oracle database recovery through tape, Oracle hot backup for storage replication.
• LUN provisioning through Ontapp Filer View GUI and Command Line
• Netapp snapshot and syncmirror operations.Working knowledge of BMC Remedy incident management system.

Confidential, Los Angeles, CA

Sr Storage Administrator

Responsibilities

• Documentation on projects / objects up to date, detail oriented.
• Provisioned with Symmetrix (DMX and VMAX), Clariion and NetApp platforms.
• Provisioned storage from DMX and Clariion to NetApp filers.
• Provisioned storage to AIX, windows, Linux hosts.
• Provisioned datastores to Vmware.
• Completed DMX Server Removal/Capacity Reclamation - totaling to ~7.0 TB savings and provided step by step procedure of the same.
• Worked on HBAnyware. Worked closely with NT admins and Network engineers to determine SAN fiber patching needs for the HP blade chassis enclosures
• Windows 2008 R2 Failover clustering installation. Installed host utility kit, snapdrive 6.3.1R1, snapmanager for SQL 5.0R1, SQL server backup compatibility and created luns on snapdrive and provided the step by step of the same.
• Provided support for storage tool upgrades.
• Upgraded operations manager from 4.0.2 to 5.0.2,Installed ECC agents on IBM LPARs
• Provisioned for on-going 2012 Projects and Life-Cycle, technologies include NetApp Filer, EMC Clariion, Symmetrix (VMAX/DMX), Cisco MDS.
• Assisted in cleanup on existing Storage Area Network (SAN) environment, including removing old hosts and legacy entries.
• Upgrades and migrations of internal storage tools (ECC, FM Server, SMC, NetApp OnCommand/System Manager/Operations Manager).

Confidential, Texas

Backup/Storage Administrator

Responsibilities

• Perform daily provisioning configuration changes using SYMCLI & SMC, Allocate storage to specific servers/applications mostly comprising of UNIX, VMware ESX and Wintel machines.
• Implementing VMAX, DMX, Virtual provisioning, SMC, agent monitoring, reporting, Open replicator and SRDF.
• Extensive experience in performing storage administration tasks including Mapping, Masking, Virtual Provisioning, Auto provisioning (V-MAX), Virtual LUN migration (V-MAX) on EMC VMAX using SYMCLI
• Experienced in performing day-to-day operation on NetApp FAS series arrays in Clustered mode or 7-mode
• Administrating and managing the NAS volumes on NetApp.
• Managing, Monitoring, tracking file system usage, storage usage and available capacity and resolving day to day issues on Celerra NS 480 in production environment.
• Familiar with Dart OS and Celerra Manager 5.x.
• Sound technical knowledge of SAN switches directors and routers from Brocade, McData & Cisco.
• Plan & implement SAN fabric switch upgrades, migration, Cisco MDS, fabric manager.
• Migration of Netapp Physical filer to Vfilers
• Gained working knowledge on RecoverPoint and assisted the client on RPA based data migration from one data center to the other.
• Created Consistency Groups, configured journal volumes and created RecoverPoint session for RPA based data migration.
• Created initiator group, port group and storage group as a part of storage allocation from Symmetrix VMAX.
• Created Masking View and associated initiator group, port group and storage group to it.
• Created Meta devices, mapped and masked devices to servers using SYMCLI and SMC
• 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 SMC 7.0. & SYMCLI.
• Implemented SRDF for selected high performance Tier 1 applications from VMAX to VMAX including creation of dynamic RA groups, dynamic RDF pairs and device groups.
• Involved in choosing best practices for storage systems like implementing data protection type of logical volumes.
• Configured Zoning on Cisco switches through Device Manager and Fabric Manager.
• Administration of Cisco UCS 5100 chassis/B200 M2, B230 M2, B440 M2and HP Blades C7000 environment. Very good knowledge in troubleshooting.
• Configured the 6120 fabric interconnects. Managed Core-Edge Cisco MDS (9513) fabric using Fabric Manager. Responsibilities involved, managing port allocations, zoning, unzoning, replacing failed hardware like SFPs and cables, troubleshooting link issues and monitoring health of the fabric.
• Managed Core-Edge Cisco MDS (9513) fabric using Fabric Manager. Responsibilities involved, managing port allocations, zoning, unzoning, replacing failed hardware like SFPs and cables, troubleshooting link issues and monitoring health of the fabric.
• Migration planning of TSM servers. Installation, Implementing, Up-gradation and Administration (Deployment) of Tivoli Storage Manager 5.4/5.5 on Windows and UNIX platforms.
• TSM server upgrades from Version 5 to Version 6. Integration of Data domain with TSM.
• Define and Check TSM operations like Collocation, Migration, Reclamation and Expiration.
• Audit Volumes for restoration, Destroy and change status, Audit Library for any Mismatches found in TSM Inventory and Library Inventory
• Defining scripts using SQL Statements for daily reports and working on as per Priority.
• Conducted implementation and configuration of TSM and Data Domain as required.
• Administered and documented Data Protection health checks for TSM in mixed Data Domain, Tape and disk storage environments.
• Gave intensive support for TSM/Data Domain customer with severe capacity issues and assisted in remediation of associated backup issues.
• Upgraded Data domain OS versions to the latest code levels.
• Disk shelf installations when there is a requirement of additional capacity.
• Interactions through emails/conferences for sending optional Reports and Documentations.
• Analyze and resolve escalated problems within target. Participate in the Recovery of Application when required.
• Good Work Exposure on Protocols like CIFS, NFS, ISCSI, FCP.
• Building, installing, supporting and Administration of Windows 2000, 2003, 2008 R2.
• User administration by controlling the system processes, patch and packages administration along with Tape backup and restore for file systems in SAN space.
• Involved in installation and configuration of Windows operating system, diagnosed technical issues involving Windows 2000, NT, Macintosh, MS Office applications and hardware related issues for troubleshooting and ensuring proper network connectivity and better system performance.
• Technical assistance and involvement in the development research projects by implementing acceptance-testing procedures.
• Maintenance of hardware’s and software’s manufactured for a wide variety of applications.
• Analyzed existing infrastructure and proposed feasible system/ software upgrades with potential incompatibilities identified.
• Configured the e-mail servers to make the electronic mail capabilities of the server operational at peak performance at all times.
• Oversee the network connectivity, implementation, and integration and troubleshooting for printers, scanners and Laser Jet format plotters.
• Assessment of the requirements and proposed the purchase of new network equipment’s that included switched, routers, servers, workstations and backup equipment.