SUMMARY

• System/Storage administrator possessing over 8+ years of IT experience particularly specializing in EMC Storage VNX, Symmetrix VMAX, CLARiiON CX4 - Series.
• Extensive experience in Management of EMC Symmetrix, EMC Clariion through SYMCLI and Navisphere Manager
• Performing Health Checks on Storage boxes (EMC VMAX, XtremIO, Clariion, DATADOMAIN, VNX & CISCO Switches).
• Extensive experience on Storage Provisioning, LUN creation.
• Storage Provisioning from VMAX to different servers like ESX, Linux & Windows.
• Allocation and deallocation on VNX(family 1 and 2) to various Operating systems
• Performed the VNX 1 and 2 family OE upgrades.
• Provisioned storage from Symmetrix, CLARiiON to various Operating system hosts and used Auto Provisioning to assign storage from VMAX array.
• Implemented Virtual Provisioning from VMAX array to host by creating Data devices, Thin devices, Thin Pool, binding Thin devices to Pool and masking the Thin devices to the host, using SMC.
• Performing Lun expansions & Lun migrations in VNX, VMAX Clariion and implementing, administrating Thin provisioning in VNX & VMAX.
• Basic L1 tasks on VPLEX, like monitoring the storage array, claiming storage from backend storage VMAX or VNX .
• Experience in Zoning and unzoning on Cisco Switches through Fabric Manager, DCNM, CLI.
• Knowledge on C7000 switches integrating to fabric switches.
• Port reserve, port reclaim, port blocking and unblocking on Cisco switches.
• Proven experience in using SYMCLI, Symmetrix Management Console (SMC) and Navisphere Manager.
• Management of Arrays, Switches and Servers in a SAN environment using ECC Management console.
• Experience working on large Data Center with corporate Data Center Experience and demonstrated record of success in managing multiple storage projects.
• Share Creations on EMC ISILON boxes.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Storage Arrays: VMAX, VNX-5700, VNX-7500, CLARiiON CX4-Series, Hitachi, Datadomain,VPLEX

SAN Switches: CISCO Enterprise Switches MDS 9513/9509/9506.

Isilon: NL400, X200,X400, Isilon IQ 36NL, Isilon IQ 72NL &Isilon IQ 108NL

Migration Tools: ROBOCOPY,EMCOPY

SAN Software: SYMCLI 6.x/7.x, SMC v7.1, Navisphere Manager 6.x, Unisphere Manager, DCNM, Cisco CLI, Cisco Device Manager, Fabric Manager.

Operating Systems: Solaris 8/9/10, Windows 2k/2k3/2K8, HP-UNIX 11i, Linux, AIX5.3/6.0, Red Hat and VMware ESX/ESXi Servers.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Florida, Orlando

Sr. SAN Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Storage Provisioning from VMAX to different servers like ESX, Linux & Windows.
• Manage local user accounts/roles/authentication/authorization on Symmetrix VMA
• Allocation and deallocation on VNX (family 1 and 2) to various Operating systems
• Configure Snapshots/ Create Clones, SANCopy Full and Incremental Sessions.
• Setup Snapshot, SyncIQ, for replication on Isilon
• Monitored cluster environment using InsightIQ
• Creation of Soft and Hard Quotas, setting up advisory limit for shares
• Created SMB and NFS shares on Isilon clusters
• Provided on call support for migration project
• Robocopy for CIFS and NFS data migration from array to array non-disruptively.
• Host based EMCOPY for CIFS and SMB data migration from NetApp to ISILON
• Health check on Isilon cluster nodes and monitoring jobs.
• Restore the file from snapshots as per end user or customer requirements.
• Performance monitoring for SMB, CIFS and NFS mounts points and shares.
• Performed the VNX 1 and 2 family OE upgrades.
• Decommission of unused LUNs as per the requirement from Clients.
• Create & Dissolve Meta devices as per the client requirement using with SYMCLI.
• Performing zoning/unzoning activities on CISCO MDS 9513 Switches.
• Knowledge on C7000 switches integrating to fabric switches.
• Port reserve and port reclaim on Cisco switches
• Port blocking and unblocking on Cisco switches
• Administering and monitoring the EMC SAN Storage environment.
• Performing Health Checks on Storage boxes(EMC VMAX, XtremIO, Clariion, DATADOMAIN, VNX & CISCO Switches)
• Supporting to SAN/Storage remote infrastructure and Co-coordinating with vendor EMC (for VMAX, Cisco, DataDomain,VNX) for hardware replacements and node down issues and SFP replacements other Break/Fix issues.
• Monitor and send performance reports as per client requirement.
• Troubleshooting of LUN missing, Server I/O Performance issues, Switch port errors.
• Basic Troubleshooting of SRDF like SRDF session drop & cleanup.
• Working on HPSM (HP Service Manager) Tool for Incident & Change Management.
• Working on Incident Management if we do not have a direct solution and checking with the vendor to provide and come up with the resolution in a specific time frame.

Confidential, Texas, Plano

Sr. SAN Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Storage Provisioning from VMAX to different servers like ESX, Linux & Windows.
• Storage provisioning on Hitachi VSP using Solutions Enabler 7.5 and Hitachi device manager Decommission of unused LUNs as per the requirement from Clients.
• Create & Dissolve Meta devices as per the client requirement using with SYMCLI.
• Good exposure on Implementing SRDF and Time Finder.
• Performing zoning and unzoning activities on CISCO Switches.
• Administering and monitoring the EMC SAN Storage environment.
• Share Creations on EMC ISILON boxes.
• Set up and management of the EMC VNX Arrays and Clariion series arrays.
• Configure devices, Meta devices using Symmetrix Management Console.
• Create TDEV, Data Devices & Thin pool using SMC (Symmetrix Management Console)
• Used EMC Symmetrix Management Console (SMC), ECC and SYMCLI to monitor and control the Symmetrix arrays.
• Managed Cisco switches 9513 created VSAN, zoning through Fabric Manager & CLI
• Configured and managed Zones using Fiber Channel Cisco CLI/DCNM.
• Updating storage utilization report on monthly basis using ECC Storage scope.
• Provided Tier 1 and Tier 2 support for EMC Storage System, performed Root Cause Analysis, identified all of the data elements associated with specific problems, analyzed different server logs including database and application servers.
• Performed Firmware upgrades and Fine tune of storage system for optimal performance.
• Troubleshoot server and storage related issues like LUN discovery and hardware failures.
• Responsible for reviewing problem trends and proactively taking actions to identify problems and remove errors for a department or business unit.

Confidential, Georgia, Atlanta

SAN Administrator

Responsibilities:

• As a part of Storage Administrator managing and maintaining all EMC Storage Infrastructure which includes allocating storage space, trouble shooting, monitoring and reporting.
• Daily Health Checks on storage boxes and switches.
• Storage provisioning and decommissioning using SYMCLI.
• Deploying all Time Finder Business Continuity Solutions by allocating BCV devices as per the business needs.
• Experience in Time finder/Clone and Time finder/Mirror.
• Configuring and managing all SRDF Administration.
• Knowledge on SRDF/S and SRDF/A technologies.
• Experience in configuration, troubleshooting and administration of SAN Environment using Navisphere Manager.
• Monitoring and troubleshooting various EMC-Clariion series.
• LUN creation, Mapping and Masking.
• Creating Meta Volumes according to the client specifications.
• Experience in Snap view/Snapshot; Snap View/clone and Mirror view.
• Experience in Fabric switches administration, troubleshooting.
• Zoning of Servers with Storage Devices on Brocade Switch.
• Removing LUN’s. Involved in projects like orphan LUN & hanging zone removal.
• Trouble shooting issues like path failure, LUN unavailability.
• Configured and managing CX/CX3 series clarion boxes with different flavors of Operating systems.
• Capturing and reporting of Monthly Storage Metrics.
• Manage all SAN related activities through Problem and Change management tool.
• Providing end to end Technical Support for SAN environments (EMC) using multiple platforms (various flavors of UNIX, Windows)

Confidential

System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Hands on experience in the system installation, configuring and OS administration.
• Implementing and administered LVM, Veritas volume manager and Disk suite.
• Installation, configuration and trouble shooting of SUN enterprise servers, workstations and storage systems.
• User Account management using admintool.
• Disk mirroring and RAID implementation using solstice Disc Suite.
• Performing Health Checks on Storage boxes(EMC VMAX, Clariion, DATADOMAIN, CISCO Switches).
• Performed manual storage array report and send to customer as requested.
• Manual audit of incidents and changes to avoid the manual errors such as policy and process violation.
• Day to day incident and change reports sending to management to maintain the database for various incidents.
• Vendor follow up for the basic trouble shooting such as switch port failure
• Providing the switch logs to vendor as suggested
• Break fix issue resolving, like disk failures, SPS with the help of Vendor.