SUMMARY

• Certified EMC Consultant with 6 years of IT Experience in Storage, SAN and NAS Administration.
• Experience in administering, maintaining and troubleshooting EMC Storage Arrays Symmetrix VMAX - 40K/20K/10K, DMX-4, DMX-3, VPLEX Metro/Local, Clariion CX-4 and VNX-1/-2 series.
• Proficient with Cisco Enterprise Directors MDS 9513/9509/9506 and departmental switches like 9120/9124/9134/9148 using CLI and Fabric Manager. Hands on experience with installation and configuration of Brocade DCX/48k enterprise directors and 4100/4900/5100/5300 departmental switches using CLI and Web tools.
• Experience in Auto-provisioning by creating views, initiator groups, port groups and storage groups in VMAX using SYMCLI, Symmetrix Management Console (SMC) and Unisphere Manager.
• Experience in Virtual provisioning in V-MAX-40K/20K/10K, DMX-4 storage arrays by creating thin pools, data devices, thin devices using SYMCLI, Symmetrix Management Console (SMC).
• Experience in implementing FAST VP in VMAX using SYMCLI and Symmetrix Management Console (SMC) to optimize application performance and TCO.
• Experience in implementing Storage Pools, FAST VP and FAST CACHE in VNX.
• Expertise in storage provisioning, monitoring, reporting of EMC Symmetrix arrays using SYMCLI/SMC/Unisphere Manager, Clariion arrays using Navisphere and VNX arrays using Unisphere.
• Provisioned storage from Symmetrix, VPLEX, Clariion and VNX to various operating systems.
• Reclaimed storage from Symmetrix, Clariion and VNX.
• Good experience in day to day NAS related tasks, creating logical devices, virtual devices, FSNs, interfaces, File Systems, CIFS servers, sharing CIFS, exporting NFS, creating and implementing quotas.
• Experience in implementing Business Continuity solutions using Time Finder Clones/Snaps, VP-Snaps for Symmetrix arrays and Snap View Clones/Snaps for Clariion and VNX arrays, VNX Snapshots for VNX.
• Experienced in implementing disaster recovery solutions SRDF/S and SRDF/A, for Symmetrix and MirrorView/S, MirrorView/A for Clariion and VNX.
• Experience in implementing data migrations using Array based tools VPLEX Data Mobility, SRDF, Open Replicator, Federated Live Migration (FLM), SanCopy and host based tools Open Migrator/LVM mirroring, PowerPath Migration Enabler (PPME).
• Hands on experience in using PPME host copy, migrating to and from a device managed by PowerPath.
• Hands-on experience with EMC Unisphere for managing and configuring VNX.
• Experience in SAN expansion and SAN migration from old switches to director class switches.
• Good working knowledge on SAN management to support all kinds of operating systems - Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, Linux, Windows and VMware ESX/ESXi servers.
• Experience in configuring and managing Brocade switches using CLI, DCFM and Web Tools and Cisco switches using both CLI and Fabric Manager.
• Experience in installing, configuring and managing EMC Power Path solution for path failover, load balancing, path management and automatic I/O failure detections.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Storage Arrays: VNX-1/-2 series Clariion CX 4-960/480/240 Symmetrix VMAX-40K/20K/10K, DMX-4 and DMX-3 VPLEX VS2.

NAS Systems: NS-480/960 and VNX-1/-2 series

SAN Switches: Brocade 4100, 4900, 5100, 5300, 48k, DCX. CISCO MDS 9124, 9134, 9148, 9222i, 9506, 9509, 9513.

SAN Software: SYMCLI, SMC, Unisphere Manager, ECC, NaviSecCLI, Navisphere Manager, Unisphere Manager, Brocade CLI, Web Tools, DCFM, Cisco CLI, Cisco Device Manager, Fabric Manager, Emulex/Qlogic HBA drivers, VNX Replicator, VMWare VMotion/Storage VMotion.

Business Continuity Solutions: Symmetrix based Time Finder BCV/Clone/Snap, VP-Snaps, SRDF /S /A, Clariion/VNX based SnapView Clone/Snapshot, VNX Snapshots, SnapSure, MirrorView /A /S and Replicator.

Data Migration: Array based SRDF, Open Replicator, FLM, SanCopy, and host based Open Migrator, PPME and LVM, VMWare Storage VMotion.

Operating Systems: AIX 6.x/7.x, Solaris 10/11, HP-UX 11i, RedHat ES5/ES6, VMWARE vSphere 4.x/5.x, and Windows 2k3/2k8/2k12.

Hardware: Confidential and HP servers

Volume Manager: Windows Disk Manager, AIX/HP/Linux Logical Volume Manager and Veritas Volume Manager.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Princeton, NJ

Sr. Storage/SAN Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Performed initial installation and configuration for two Local VPLEX with VS2 Engines.
• Performed zoning between BE ports of VPLEX and the FE ports of VMAX-40K/20K and VNX based on EMC best practices.
• Provisioned storage to VPLEX clusters from VMAX-40K/20K and VNX using SYMCLI and Unisphere.
• Created Meta volumes and logging volumes in each cluster.
• Encapsulated VMAX-40K/20K and VNX LUNs to VPLEX Local by claiming storage volumes and creating an extent, a device and a virtual volume for each storage volume.
• Performed zoning between FE ports of VPLEX and the host initiators based on EMC best practices.
• Provisioned storage from VPLEX to several hosts by creating storage views and adding initiators, virtual volumes and VPLEX FE ports.
• Migrated hundreds of servers from 2 VMAX-20Ks and a VNX to VMAX-40K which are behind VPLEX, using VPLEX Data Mobility with minimum impact to applications.
• Migrated servers from 2 VMAX-20Ks to 40K using Open Replicator hot pull/push.
• Migrated hundreds of Virtual Machines from old VMAX-20Ks to 40K by provisioning storage from VMAX-40K, creating new data stores and doing Storage VMotion.
• Used Open Migrator to migrate the misaligned windows servers from VMAX-20K to VMAX-40K.
• Reclaimed storage from old VMAX-20Ks and VNX for the migrated servers using SYMCLI and Unisphere Manager.
• Implemented SRDF/A for the migrated servers between new VMAX-40K and DR VMAX-20Ks by creating dynamic RA groups, dynamic RDF pairs, enabling SRDF/A for the group of devices.
• Helped customer in designing run books for Open replicator, Open migrator and VPLEX Data Mobility.
• Implemented required zoning in both Brocade and Cisco fabrics using Brocade CLI, Cisco CLI and Cisco Fabric Manager.
• Troubleshooting to resolve any issues during storage migration and validating with Server Admin.
• Collecting required information from several teams for documenting and planning storage migrations.
• Coordinating with several teams like Server Admins, Database and Applications during the storage migrations.
• Documenting storage migration for every server in detail including the process, scripts and status etc.
• Allocated storage using Auto-provisioning for Symmetrix VMAX-40K/20K by creating views, initiator groups, port groups and storage groups using SYMCLI 7.x and Unisphere.
• Implemented Virtual Provisioning on VMAX-40K/20K by creating thin devices, data devices, thin pools, binding thin devices to pool.
• Implemented FAST VP in VMAX-40K for the migrated servers by creating storage tiers, Tiering policies and storage groups using SYMCLI.
• Provisioned storage from VNX 5500/5700 for different servers using Unisphere Manager by creating RAID pools/groups, LUNS, Storage Groups.
• Allocated and Provisioned storage from VMAX-40K/20K and VNX arrays to Solaris, HP-UX, Linux, AIX, Windows and ESX clusters.
• Configured Recover Point for EMC VNX arrays.
• Configured Recover Point Local and Remote Replication between VNX arrays.
• Performed server remediation prior to migration by collecting “emcgrab” from servers and generated reports using HEAT, EMC support matrix and Elab Advisor.
• Migrated storage from EMC Symmetrix VMAX arrays to Hitachi VSP arrays using Open Replicator Hot Push.
• Responsible for troubleshooting compatibility, performance issues during migration and day to day issues including server throughput, ports availability, zoning requirements, one-path down, enabling the path on source or destination arrays, host not seeing storage and storage management problems.

Environment: VPLEX Local VS2, VMAX-40K/20K, VNX 5500/5700, DMX1000/pdf/DMX3000.pdfHitachi VSP, G1000, SymCLI 7.x / Unisphere Manager, HP-UX, AIX, Solaris, Linux, VMWARE vSphere and Windows, HP Service Manager, Time Finder, SRDF/A, Brocade 48k, Cisco MDS 9513 Cisco CLI/Fabric Manager, Open Replicator, Open Migrator and PPME.

Confidential, NORRISTOWN, PA

Sr. Storage/SAN Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Assisted in initial installation and configuration of VPLEX Metro with VS2 Engines and Witness.
• Performed zoning between BE ports of VPLEX and the FE ports of VMAX-40K/20K, DMX and VNX based on EMC best practices.
• Provisioned storage to VPLEX cluster from VMAX, DMX and VNX using SYMCLI and Unisphere.
• Created Meta volumes and logging volumes in each cluster.
• Encapsulated VMAX, DMX and VNX LUNs to VPLEX Metro by claiming storage volumes and creating an extent, a device and a virtual volume for each storage volume.
• Performed zoning between FE ports of VPLEX and the host initiators based on EMC best practices.
• Provisioned storage from VPLEX to several hosts by creating storage views and adding initiators, virtual volumes and VPLEX FE ports.
• Created distributed volumes by creating RAID-1 mirrored devices between both the clusters.
• Created consistency groups for distributed volumes and set rules for winning cluster in case of link failure.
• Enabled remote access to some virtual volumes and provisioned to hosts at the remote cluster.
• Migrated the servers from DMX to VMAX and from Clariion to VNX that are behind the VPLEX using mobility central with no impact to applications.
• Moved online Virtual Machines between local and remote clusters for load balancing.
• Helped the customer designing run books for Open replicator, Open migrator and VPLEX.
• Used open migrator to migrate the misaligned windows servers from DMX to VMAX.
• Migrated Terabytes of data from DMX to VMAX using open replicator hot pull.
• Reclaiming SAN storage from Symmetrix V-MAX, DMX-4, DMX-3, and DMX 3000 using SYMCLI 7.x and from Clariion CX4-120, 240, 480, 960, CX3-80 using Navisphere Manager and from VNX 5300, 5500, 5700 and 7500 using Unisphere Manager.
• Reclaiming NAS storage from EMC VNX Unified Storage Systems and EMC Celerra Unified Storage Systems like NS-120, 480, 960.
• Storage reclaims were performed in 2 phases by not readying, unmasking and unmapping LUNs in phase 1 and unbinding from pools, dissolving, deleting LUNs and removing zoning in phase 2.
• Removing zoning between server and storage array after storage reclamation in case of Full Server Decommissions and Data Migrations.
• Implementing required zoning in both Brocade and Cisco fabrics using Brocade CLI, Cisco CLI and Cisco Fabric Manager.
• Validating and Troubleshooting with the SA to resolve any issues after storage reclaim.
• Collecting required information from customers and performing several validations before reclaiming storage.
• Working with several teams like System Admins, Database and Applications to coordinate the storage reclaims.
• Documenting every storage reclaim in detail including the process, scripts and status etc.
• Submitting Change Requests prior to reclaiming storage from online and Production servers.
• Tracking and Reporting the status of storage reclaims for all servers using Bank specific automated tools.
• Provisioning storage from Symmetrix VMAX-40K/20K/10K, DMX-3, DMX-4 using SYMCLI 7.x, and SMC 7.x and from Clariion CX4-960, CX3-80 using Navisphere Manager, NaviSec CLI and from VNX 5500, 5700 using Unisphere Manager.
• Allocated storage using Auto-provisioning for Symmetrix VMAX-40K/20K/10K by creating views, initiator groups, port groups and storage groups using SMC 7.x and SYMCLI 7.x.
• Implemented Virtual Provisioning on VMAX-40K/20K/10K and DMX-4 by creating thin devices, data devices, thin pools, binding thin devices to pool.
• Implemented FAST DP in VMAX and, FAST VP in VMAX, VMAXe by creating storage tiers, Tiering policies and storage groups using SYMCLI and Symmetrix Management Console.
• Provisioned storage from VNX 5500/5700 for different servers using Unisphere Manager by creating RAID pools/groups, LUNS, Storage Groups.
• Administration of VNX 5500/5700 and NS 480/ NS 704 NAS Celerra systems including creation of file systems, exporting/sharing and mounting CIFS/NFS shares and configuring network interfaces using Unisphere and Celerra Manager.
• Created CIFS servers, CIFS shares, managed CIFS Files permissions and Share permissions.
• Created Virtual Data Movers (VDMs) on Physical Data Movers on VNX 5500/5700.
• Allocated and Provisioned storage from VMAX-40K/20K/10K, DMX-4, DMX-3 and VNX arrays to Solaris, HP-UX, Linux, AIX, Windows, VMware and also for all kinds of cluster servers.
• Configured Cisco switches by creating VSAN’s, Port Channel and TE ports.
• Extensively worked on SAN related host connectivity for various operating systems.

Environment: VPLEX Metro, VMAX-40K/20K/10K, DMX 3000, DMX-3, DMX-4, VNX 5300/ 5500/5700/7500, DMX1000/pdf/DMX3000.pdf NS-120/480/960, IBM SVC, NS40G/80G, SymCLI 7.x / SMC7.x, HP-UX, AIX, Solaris, Linux, VMWARE vSphere and Windows, ECC 6.1, Unisphere Manager, Navisphere Manager, TimeFinder, SRDF, SAN Copy, Brocade 48k, Cisco MDS 9513 Cisco CLI/Fabric Manager, Open Replicator, PPME.

Confidential, Austin, TX

Sr. Storage Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Initialization and configuration of different storage components like VNX, VMAXe and VMAX according to customer requirements.
• Initialization and configuration of different SAN Switch components like Cisco MDS 9500s and Cisco 3560s.
• Physical Cabling of all components including VNX, VMAXe, CX4, MDS etc. accordingly.
• Verifying health and status of the physical components to ensure there are no damaged components.
• Obtaining and registering licenses for different components like EMC Powerpath, Cisco MDS, VMAXe, etc.
• Configuring DNS and NTP for VNX, VMAX, VMAXe, MDS.
• Zoning Cisco MDS switches.
• Configuring storage by creating Raid groups, storage pools and creating LUNs according to customer needs & specifications.
• Provisioning storage from VNX, VMAX to ESX Blades, AMP servers, Celerra.
• Implementing FAST VP, FAST CACHE in VNX using NaviSecCLI and Unisphere.
• Troubleshooting and resolving any issues within VNX, VMAXe, VMAX, MDS Switches and Powerpath.
• Administration of VNX 5500/5700/7500 systems including creation of file systems, exporting/sharing and mounting CIFS/NFS shares and configuring network interfaces using Unisphere.
• Upgrading or Downgrading software code levels for different components of Vblock like VNX, VMAXe, VMAX, Cisco MDS 9500s, Powerpath, etc. to bring all the components to VCE certified matrix code level.
• Expanding available storage by adding more DAEs.
• Creating a Virtual Machine for storage management and installing several management tools like NAvi CLI, Unisphere, USM, SYMCLI, SMC, Powerpath ELMS, Cisco DCNM or Fabric Manager, ESRS client
• Setup alerts for monitoring of thin pools usage on VNX, VMAX and Clariion and expanded the pools accordingly.

Confidential, Columbus, GA

Sr. Storage Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Migration of 70 TB of data from Clariion CX3-80 to CX-4-960 using storage VMotion
• Migration of NAS from EMC Celerra NS-500G to NS-4-480 using Celerra Replicator V2.0
• Migration of 4 Node SQL cluster from CX3-80 to CX-4-960 using SQL mirroring
• Provisioning of storage from CX3-80 and CX-4-960 by creating RAID groups, Storage Pools
• Provisioning of storage from CX-4-960 Block to File and creating file systems, CIFS shares on NS-4-480.
• Zoning and configuration of Brocade 4100 and 4024 switches
• Knowledge transfer to client on migration, storage management and performance monitoring best practices
• Documenting the Procedures for Storage Management and Performance Monitoring.

Environment: CX-4-960, Clariion CX3-80, NS-480, Celerra NS-500G, SnapView snapshots, clones, Celerra Replicator V2.0, Brocade 4100/ 4024, Brocade CLI/Web Tools, Cisco MDS 9513/9124, Cisco CLI/Fabric Manager, Power Path 5.5, VMware vSphere 5.

Confidential, St. Paul, MN 

Storage Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Migrating 37 TB from DMX-4 to VMAX using SRDF Data Migration including creation of dynamic RA groups, creation of dynamic RDF pairs, enabling SRDF for the group of devices. Addition and removal of devices from the device group when needed.
• Provisioning storage from Symmetrix VMAXe, DMX-4 using SYMCLI 7.x, and SMC 7.x.
• Allocated storage using Auto-provisioning for Symmetrix VMAXe by creating views, initiator groups, port groups and storage groups using SMC 7.x and SYMCLI 7.x.
• Implemented Virtual Provisioning on VMAXe by creating thin devices, data devices, thin pools, binding thin devices to pool.
• Implemented FAST VP in VMAXe by creating storage tiers, tiering policies and storage groups using SYMCLI and SMC.
• Created Time Finder clones for R2 devices in VMAXe and allocated them to hosts for testing purposes.
• Configured Gate Keeper devices and masked them to Management Server.
• Involved in configuring SMC for VMAXe, Solutions Enabler version upgrade for DMX-4 to support the Data Migration.
• Enabling licenses for VMAXe using SYMCLI and SMC.
• Preparing complete documentation for SRDF Data Migration from Symmetrix DMX-4 to VMAXe.
• Configured Brocade 4100, 4900, DCX switches using Brocade CLI, Web Tools by creating aliases, zones and configurations.
• Configured Cisco switches by creating VSAN’s, Port Channel, TE ports using Cisco CLI, Fabric Manager.
• Reclaiming R2 clones storage allocated to several hosts by unmasking, unmapping, dissolving metas and deleting devices to add them to un-configured storage, once the cutover is completed.
• Performed server remediation prior to migration by collecting “emcgrab” from servers and generated reports using Host Environment Analysis Tool (HEAT), EMC support matrix and Elab Advisor.
• Responsible for troubleshooting compatibility, performance issues during migration and day to day issues including server throughput, ports availability, zoning requirements, one-path down, enabling the path on source or destination arrays, host not seeing storage and storage management problems.

Environment: Symmetrix VMAX, DMX-4, SymCLI 7.3/7.1, SMC7.x, AIX, Solaris, Linux, VMWARE ESX, vSphere and Windows, ECC 6.1, SRDF S/A/AR, Time Finder/Mirror, Clone, Snaps, Brocade 48k/ 4100, Brocade CLI/Web Tools, Cisco MDS 9513/9124, Cisco CLI/Fabric Manager, Power Path 5.5.