SUMMARY

• Experienced Storage Engineer and Backup Engineer, eager to challenge tasks and possess the enthusiasm to work independently on multiple tasks and show strong desire to succeed and commitment to continuous skill development that helps build confidence and high - level motivation to achieve desire results.
• 8+ years of Experience as Storage Engineer in planning, design, implementation and administration of VMware, NAS and SAN, Disk arrays, Backup infrastructure in Heterogeneous Environment.
• Extensive experience in Migrations and setting up a new environment as per the client requirement.
• Expertise knowledge in VMware technology.
• Strong experience in installation, configuration and management of Brocade and Cisco fabric switches and director class chassis.
• Expertise in administration of EMC VNX, VMAX, VMAX3, CX-4, HP Storage Arrays, HITACHI Storage arrays, Dell Storage arrays and VMware SRM 5.x with SRA (EMC) and Stretched Cluster with EMC Vplex VS1/VS2.
• Experience in Design, administrating, maintaining and troubleshooting HP 3PAR, EVA, XP Arrays.
• Extensive knowledge of NAS Storage, including managing major migrations and deployments, maintenance and troubleshooting solutions.
• Documenting monthly reports and updating technology specific documents.
• Installation, Configuration, administration and troubleshooting of Virtualization Environment using VMware ESX6.x/5.x Virtual Center
• Installing & Configuring Backup Clients
• Configuring Backup integration likeOracle, SAP, DB2, SQL.
• Media Management & Tape Rotation.
• Prioritizing tasks with proper POA within the given time as per the customer SLA.
• Ability to handle multiple issues & coordination as per the customer requirement.
• Ability to learn and adapt new technologies, self-motivated to work independently.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

EMC Storage: Clariion, VNX Series File & Block, VMAX VMX 3, XtremIO, VPLEX, VBLOCK 5400, 7500, Isilon

HP Storage: HP EVA, HP XP, HP 3PAR

Hitachi Storage: AMS Series, VSP, USP

Dell Storage: Dell EqualLogic, Dell Compellent

Netapp Storage: 7 Mode

IBM Storage: IBM V7000 Series

Brocade Switch’s / Directors: Cisco Switch’s / Directors, Cisco UCS Switch’s

SAN & NAS management tools: Navisphere, Unisphere, Sym CLI, EMC CTA, EMC SRM Suite, ViPR, ECC, Netapp OCUM & CLI, HP SSMC, HP 3PAR AO & DO, HITACHI Command Suite & Unified management, IBM management Console, Dell Storage Center, Enterprise Manager.

Replications: EMC SRDF Synchronous and Asynchronous, EMC Snap Shot, Clones, HP 3PAR Remote Replications, Hitachi Universal Replicator.

Migrations: Storage Internal Migrations, SAN Copy Migrations, EMC CTA Archiving & Migration (CIFS & NFS), HP 3PAR Online Import, Hitachi Universal Replicator

Switch Monitoring tools: Brocade - Connectrix Manger CM CNE, DCFM, Web Tools and CLI Cisco - DCNM, Fabric Manager

Firmware upgrades: EMC Array’s, HP Array’s, and Brocade Switch’s

Operating Systems: Windows Server 2007, 2012, Linux RHEL, SUSE, Data Ontap

Backup Technology: Commvault.

Virtualization Technology: VMware VSphere 6.X

Cloud Technology: Open Stack Cloud, EMC ECS, EMC ECS Configuration

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Texas

Storage Services Advisor

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for day-to-day provisioning of storage on VMAX,VMAX3, VNX, Configure Server Initiator in EMC VNX 5700 for Storage Group and managed EMC VNX 5700, EMC Recover Point and EMC Brocade switches VNX, HP 3PARusing SYMCLI, SMC, Unisphere, SSMC, 3PAR CLI etc.
• Responsible for migrating Windows and Linux servers using PPME from old VMAX to new VMAX and also from Clariion to VMAX.
• Experience in working with Vblock Series like 5400, 7500 series.
• Implementation of Vblock as per the client requirement.
• Managing VMware servers and ESXi hosts by using Vblock.
• Administration and managing the Cisco UCS Switch’s by using EMC VBlock.
• Managing VMAX and VNX series arrays in VCE.
• Managed VMAX3/VNX/VMX Unisphere management tool, storage thin pools and provisioned block storage on VMAX 10k/20k/40k
• Setting up the physical storage infrastructure of the ViPR virtual data center and configures the physical storage into two types of virtual resources: virtual arrays and virtual pools.
• Adding physical storage resources into ViPR such as arrays, ports, pools, switches, and networks.
• Creating virtual pools and defining the storage capabilities and assigning physical storage pools to virtual pools.
• Creating virtual arrays in order to partition storage into discrete pods of compute, network, and storage resources to control file system/volume/object pathing through SAN/IP networks.
• Configures Access Control Lists (ACLs) for virtual arrays and virtual pools to control which tenants may use them.
• Manages the ViPR virtual data center resources that tenants do not manage.
• Retrieves ViPR virtual data center status and health information.
• Retrieves bulk event and statistical records for the ViPR virtual data center.
• Generating Capacity and Utilization reports by using ViPR.
• VNX Block Storage Provisioning and Management including Raid Groups and Traditional LUNS, Pools and thin LUNs, LUN Migration, FAST VP, FAST Cache, Storage groups, Host Initiator registration.
• Configuring and Engineering new VNX array’s and Switch’s.
• Performed migration of existing from VNX to VMAX & Clariion to VNX.
• Experience in CTA Archiving and Migration of data.
• Experience in Migrating data from VNX to VNX2 using CTA Migration.
• Experience in migrating both CIFS Shares and NFS Exports.
• Implementation of CTA on EMC VNX Array’s.
• Experience in Deploying the CTA Virtual Edition in VM environment.
• Configuring CIFS service account in for CTA.
• Experience in Creating Policies and Rules in EMC CTA as per the requirement.
• Performed Firmware upgrades on CTA.
• Preformed migration from existing HP EVA to HP 3PAR Storage.
• Planning & Implementation of Recover Point appliance between the sites for the DR Purpose.
• Implementing disaster solution for VNX and VMAX arrays to a remote VMAX, VNX array using recover point.
• Creating target volumes on VMAX and journals at both sites and provisioning storage to RPAs.
• Involved in Designing, Installation and configuration of vSphere 6.x ESXi servers, involved in troubleshooting of VMs, ESX/ESXi servers, vCenter server, vSphere 4.0./5.5/5.8/6. x Configured Fault Tolerance (FT) for business critical servers.
• Perform data migrations from EMC VNX to 3PAR Storserv 7000 as required and defined by HP's migration best practices.
• Planned and build the 3PAR environment - adaptive optimization and Dynamic Optimization with three tiers on HP 3PAR and also balanced the entire HP 3PAR arrays.
• Performance tuning HP 3PAR environment using System Reporter - virtual volumes, CPG and rebalanced 3PAR storage, Managed port balance and node balance.
• Configured the zones with HOST WWPNS with Front end vplex ports & activating the zone sets.
• Successfully upgraded HP 3PAR OS from 3.1.3 MU1 to 3.2.1 MU1 on 7000 Series Storage Array.
• Provide Oracle backup and restore solutions using3PARvirtual copy (snapshot) features.
• Experience in NAS Administration on Celerra/VNX NAS Platform, involving CIFS/NFS/iSCSI protocols, Multiprotocol environment, Celerra NAS Replication using Unisphere.
• Extensively performed file system creation and file system export for both Windows and UNIX clients using Celerra CLI and Celerra manager and managing the filesystem quotas.
• Provisioning block storage from VNX by registering hosts, Creating Storage Pools/Raid groups, creating Storage Groups, and adding hosts to the storage group using Unisphere.
• Working SAN migration project by performing migration between different Arrays using SAN copy.
• Replicating the data from one VNX to the other between the data centers put up in different locations using Recover Point.
• Worked on migration project Sanity refresh using HP-Peer motion tool that involved moving data from HP-EVA 2000/3000 and HP-3par T400 to HP-10800 or V800.
• Designed and implemented best practices of disaster recovery using HP 3PAR Remote copy technology between two datacenter that includes nine HP 3PAR V400 storage frame to replicate 50TB Oracle database to maintain reliability in a VMware vsphere environment.
• Best practices documentation and knowledge transfer to each team member to support the environment.
• Creating PPTs, Visio, Step by step documents of Peer Motion, AO/DO, Fabric Zoning, Aliases naming convention and shared the knowledge with team by arranging technical Coaching.
• Evaluated current storage environment that includes HP 3PAR, HP EVA, HP XP’s array, EMC Array’s, Cisco and Brocade fabric as well as VMware vsphere LINUX and Windows supporting Oracle database and SAP applications in two datacenter. Recommended storage perspective configuration and architecture changes to meet the SLA with fabric and storage environment to achieve optimum performance.
• Experience with Brocade & Cisco fabric manager, zoning, and storage allocation.
• Experience with Connectrix Manager and data Fabric manager, Zoning, Lun allocation, Storage allocation to storage groups.
• Designed and implemented disaster recovery using HP 3PAR Remote copy technology between two datacenter that includes nine HP 3PAR storage frame.Created Best practices documentation and knowledge transfer to each team member to support the environment.
• Installed and configured 3PAR system reporter software to manage aggregated performance and capacity usage data for HP3PAR Series
• Experience in EMC VMAX replications.
• Replicating the data from VMAX to other between data centers using SRDF replication.
• Experience in Upgrading Firmwares in EMC array’s & HP 3PAR models.
• Experience in Brocade Switch firmware upgrades.
• Worked on Hitachi Storage Remote replications.
• Generating Weekly and Monthly Capacity, Utilization reports.
• Managing around 4000 RHEL and Windows OS installed server’s.
• Experience in managing File System in RHEL OS servers.
• Experience in SAN space allocation and mounting the file system.
• Worked on Performance issues in both RHEL and Windows OS.
• Experience in Installing & Configuring Backup Clients
• Configuring Backup integration of Oracle, SAP, DB2 and SQL.
• Media Management & Tape Rotation.
• Copy Physical medias to Physical medias
• Managing the DP this includes monitoring, troubleshooting, supporting, maintaining, configuring, administering.
• Restore as per the requests like SQL, Exchange Server, Oracle, and File system backups.
• Daily reporting to Client about current Status of Servers and Backup Status details
• Backup Policy Creation as per business requirement.
• Troubleshooting the problem with backup and restoration.
• Daily backup failure analysis and fixes
• CreatingBackup and Restore policies
• Bouncing and Restarting Backup Services
• Experience in preparing High Level Design (HLD) document for new projects and Low Level Design (LLD) for internal reviews.
• Performing smooth Transition of new account/projects to Steady State.
• Conducting training for new joiners and Knowledge transfer sessions to other team members.
• Attending Customer Cal’s and Internal Cal’s (Bridge Call’s) as per the schedule and providing updates for related issues.

Confidential

Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Working in extremely challenging 24*7 environment managing Customer’s production support tasks.
• Performing Health checks for all SAN Storage and SAN Networking Devices.
• Using modified IBM MAXIMO ticketing tool for getting incident and task tickets.
• Generating Reports on all SAN storage / Fabric units
• End to End Storage Engineering, administration, configuration, management and troubleshooting high end disk storage systems such as EMC Symmetrix/DMX, Clariion, HP 3PAR Storage systems.
• Working in heterogeneous environment supporting the Clients.
• Having hands on experience in generating monthly Capacity reports.
• Provisioned storage of Clariion CX class Series using Unisphere management tool.
• Performed several Firmware upgrades periodically.
• Expanding the existing File system, Volumes, pools in both EMC & NETAPP.
• Dealing with all issues related to LUN, Volume, File systems and LUN Management in EMC, NetApp and HP.
• Day in / Day out job includes provisioning monitoring and Reporting of the Environment.
• Installed, managed and analyzed problems on EMC Clariion, Symmetrix DMX, VNX.
• Expert knowledge in SYMMETRIX Environment.
• Having experience on HP 3 PAR site to site replication.
• Troubleshoot and resolve several fabric Switch related issues.
• Good knowledge in Symmetrix SRDF Synchronous and Asynchronous replication technology.
• Experience in implementing Business Continuity Solutions like Time Finder Mirror/Clone
• Managing EMC Power path, Snap View, Snapshot, Snap clone, Mirror View with using Unisphere.
• Hands-on experience in Creating RAID Groups, bind LUNs, and Create Storage Groups using Unisphere Manager.
• Configuring and Managing RAID Levels.
• Hand's on experience in Raid Group migration.
• Zoning and monitoring the Brocade and CISCO Fabric.
• SAN administration, brocade zoning, managing LUNs, installing FC HBA on host, installing HBA driver and troubleshooting storage issues.
• Firmware upgrading and downgrading and taking configuration backup, Restoration process.
• Installed and Administered EMC Power Path software and CLI Multipathing and fabric path load balancing.
• Strong experience with Replication / Snaps / Mirroring.
• Planning the server/switch port connections on Brocade switches.
• Generating weekly and monthly reports.
• Generating Monthly Capacity reports.
• Conducting training for new joiners and Knowledge transfer sessions to other team members.
• Architecture, Installation and Configuration of vSphere 6.x / 5.x environment.
• Installing and configuring ESX/ESXi Servers.
• Creating and Managing Virtual Machines and Templates.
• Installing VMware Tools for Virtual machines.
• Migrating VM’s through VMotion, cold migration and Storage Vmotion.
• Installation of VMware tools for virtual machines.
• Converting P2V and V2V using VMware converter.
• Performing Snapshots and Cloning.
• Creating templates and deploying through templates.
• Assigning LUNs to ESXi hosts and creating Datastores.
• Creation of templates from VMs and Creation of VMs from templates.
• Configuring Virtual switch settings and policies.
• Performing Updates Using Update Manager for ESX/ESXi Hosts and Cluster Level.
• Raising case with product vendors in case of faults found in server hardware.

Confidential

Storage Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Worked in very high pace 24*7 environments for handling the Customer’s production support environment.
• Performing Health checks for all Devices and Switch’s.
• End to End Storage Provisioning, administration, configuration, troubleshooting of high end disk storage systems such as EMC Symmetrix / DMX, Clariion Storage systems.
• Working in heterogeneous environment supporting the Clients.
• Provisioned storage of Clariion CX Series using Navisphere.
• Dealing with all issues related to LUN and LUN Management.
• Day to day jobs include provisioning monitoring and Reporting of the Environment.
• Expert knowledge in SYMMETRIX Environment.
• Assisting Customers in Switch related issues.
• Hands-on experience in Creating RAID Groups, bind LUNs, and Create Storage Groups using Unisphere Manager.
• Configuring and Managing RAID Levels.
• Zoning and monitoring the Brocade Fabric.
• SAN administration, brocade zoning, managing LUNs.
• Planning the server/switch port connections on Brocade switches.
• Generating weekly and monthly reports.