SUMMARY

• Over 9 years of experience in Multi - tier Enterprise Storage systems design, installation, migration, virtualization, management, monitoring, Performance analysis&Reporting, Disaster Recovery solutions and Fabric installation and migration.
• Extensive experience wif configuration, administration and troubleshooting of SAN environment using EMC Control Center, Unisphere form VMAX, Storage Scope, Performance Manager(WLA), Solutions Enabler, SYMCLI, SMC, EMC Unisphere and Navisphere Manager, Navisphere Event Monitor and analyzer, EMC Connectrix Manager, Tivoli Productivity Center, DS Storage Manager, DSGUI, DSCLI, Brocade Fabric Manager and Cisco Device/Fabric Manager, Connectrix Manager.
• Performed day-to-day operations like installing, configuring, provisioning and administering of EMC Symmetrix VMAX, DMX, VNX, Clariion, FAST VP, FAST Cache, Networked Attached Storage Systems, EMC Connectrix Manager, DS4000/DS5000/DS8000, XIV, Easy Tier & SVC Storage virtualization environment and Hitachi data systems like AMS, USP, US-VM, VSP and hitachi dynamic tiering. This includes storage provisioning, problem diagnostics/resolution, storage request processing, and continuity of business functions as it relates to teh SAN environment.
• Experienced in planning, design and implementation of SAN solutions like SRDF/S, SRDF/A, TimeFinder, Open Replicator (cold & hot), SAN Copy, SnapView (Snapshot/clone), Recover Point, PowerPath Migration Enabler, Flash Copy, Volume Copy, Remote/Metro mirror, Global Copy/Mirror, Hitachi True Copy, ShadowImage, Thin Image snapshot, Hitachi Universal Replicator in USPV/VM and VSP storages across teh Datacenters
• Worked wif various Storage provisioning tools including EMC Control Center, SMC/Unisphere, Navisphere/unisphere, Symcli, IBM Storage manager on different servers running different Applications, Proficient wif shell scripting (Bourne and Korn) for automation of provisioning
• Familiarity wif various Operating systems like AIX, Linux, Solaris and Win2K in SAN as well as ESX hosts.
• Co-ordinated wif server admins to manage servers running wifout performance issue by working wif different teams.
• Successfully handled multiple datacenter implementation projects simultaneously by integration on multiple vendor SAN storages and handling their replication and migration configurations. Worked on different storage solution implementation plans in association wif other technical team leads.
• Performed Fabric Migration, Merging of various fabrics, Zoning, Modifying configuration, upgrades and experience in identifying fabric issues, SAN connectivity and provides resolution
• Extensively worked on Brocade Director Switches, McData and Cisco MDS switches running 4/8/16 Gbps. Proficient in using Brocade Fabric Manager, CLI and Cisco Fabric Manager to manage, monitor and configure switches in a SAN.
• Experience on Virtual Storage Area Network (VSAN), InterVSAN Routing, ZoneSets, Zones, Port Security, Registered State Change Notification (RSCN), Fabric Device Management Interface (FDMI), Fibre Channel over TCP/IP (FCIP).
• Experienced in Backup and recovery administration using TSM, NetBackup, BCV, Clones, Snapshots, Metro Mirrors, Global Copy/Mirrors.
• Very keen and enthusiastic, constant desire to learn, Self-starter wif drive, initiative and a positive attitude. Able to meet very stringent deadlines and always deliver results, even under pressure.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Storage Arrays: Symmetrix DMX 1000/2000/3000, DMX-4 VMAX20K, VAMX40K,VMAX-3, VMAX SE, VPLEX, XtremIO, VNX 5500, VNX 5700, VNX 7500, CX400/CX500/CX600/CX700/CX3-40/CX3-80, IBM DS3000, DS4000, DS5000, DS6000, DS8100 / DS8300 / DS8700 / DS8800, XIV, SVC Hitachi USP-V, VSP, HCS 7

NAS: Celerra NSeries/NSX, Celerra Manager, Netapp, FAS2500, FAS 5000, FAS6000, FAS6000, FAS 8000

SAN Switches: Brocade 48k/12k/4900/4100, 3900, 3800, 8510 and Cisco MDS 9513, 9509, 9140 & 9120, Mc-data

Fabric Management: Soft zoning (WWN zoning), hard zoning (port zoning), Fibre Channel SAN Topologies, Inter-switch Links, Multi-pathing (redundant fabrics), Aliasing, Brocade Fabric Manager, Brocade CLI, EMC Connectrix manager, Webtools, Cisco CLI, Fabric/Device Manager, and SDD/SDDPCM

SAN Management: EMC Control Center, Symmetrix manager, Unisphere for VMAX, Storage Scope&Performance Manager, Navisphere, Unisphere, Power Path, IBM TPC, PowerPath Migration Enabler.

Migration Tools: Open Migrator, Open Replicator, SAN Copy, SRDF, Time Finder (Mirror, Clone & Snap), Flash Copy, Volume Copy, True Copy, Hitachi Thin Image snapshot software, Hitachi Universal Replicator

Operating Systems: IBM AIX 5.3/6.1/7.1, HPUX 11.x, Sun Solaris 8/9/10 and Windows 2000/2003/XP, RHEL 4, 5, 6 and ESX 3.5, 4.x & 5.0, VIOS, ESX 4, ESXi 5

Volume Manager: Logical Volume Management, Veritas Volume Management.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Woonsocket, RI

Sr. Storage Administrator

Environment: EMC Symmetrix DMX-3, DMX-4, VMAX20k, 40k, VMAX-3, CLARiiON, VNX5700, VNX7500, EMC Control Center, Centerra Console, Celerra NS80/NSX Series, SYMCLI, Unisphere for symmetrix family and VNX Frames, Navisphere Manager for Clariion family, SRDF, TimeFinder, Emulex, Qlogic, cisco MDS switches, PowerPath 5.3, IBM DS Storage 8700/DS8800 and SAN Volume Controller, XIV, Hitachi USP-VM, VSP, NetApp FAS-3000/6000 Series Filer, Snap Mirror, Snap Vault, ontap 7/8, Cisco MDS 09, Brocade 48k and McData switches, VSAN

Responsibilities:

• Day-to-day operational support of teh SAN environment which includes storage provisioning, problem diagnostics/resolution, storage request processing in EMC/IBM/HItachi storage frames
• Provisioning and reclamation of LUNS from EMC DMX/VMAX/VPLEX Frames using symcli and GUI. Provisioned storage from IBM DS8100/8300, XIV also in SVC on which XIV and DS8000 arrays are in backend and performed allocation and reclamation on Hitachi Arrays
• Configured, synchronized and activated DR / Backup (SNAPs / Clones) / SRDF(S/A) and Global mirror Maintenance.
• Port provisioning and Fiber pulls for HBA Controllers-utilizing both copper and fiber technologies wif QLogic and Emulex HBA’s.
• Supported different storages of Information Center to host master console GUI by Performance Data Collection Utility for EMC/IBM/Hitachi Arrays and CLI tool for gathering performance statistics from teh DS8000 series and DS6000 storage devices.
• Implemented DR solutions between EMC, SVC virtualization using SRDF/Global Mirroring and between VNX arrays using Recover Point (using CDP and CRR technologies).
• Configured Meta-data and logging volumes in vplex and performed migration of meta-data and logging volumes from legacy storage to new vmax3 and xtremIO Storage Volumes
• Involved in configuring and testing SRDF, SNAP / SNAPVX, Cones
• VPlex encapsulation which includes claiming source devices creating extents, devices and virtual volumes e point before Zoning VPlex front end ports to host and backend ports to source and target arrays
• Also Worked on different migration techniques like Flash Copy, Global mirror, Metro mirror to perform migrations in IBM Storage (XIV, DS8700, DS8800, DS5000)
• Capacity planning for adding disks into EMC boxes.
• Involved in Testing environments for upgrading and configuring database which involves restoring clones and snaps.
• Hard and Soft Zoning / Enabling connectivity for server HBA's to SAN storage on Brocade and Cisco switches and removing and deleting zones and configuring VSAN for SRDF
• Designing and Deploying custom SAN storage configurations and McData/ Brocade and Cisco MDS 9000 series switches.
• Writing/commenting shell scripts (sh, csh, Perl) to automate day-to-day System Administration tasks.
• Implemented various business continuous strategies by understanding and managing RTO/RPO requirements from storage side.
• Configured Snapmirror between two filers to migrate storage between two celerra frames
• Interface wif service providers and vendors such as Cisco, Brocade and EMC to perform needed systems support. EMC Unisphere.
• Coordinate wif data center facilities to verify cabinet space, fiber and copper patch panel port available as well as proper power capacity, whole cabinet unit Crating and uncrating, and moving storage frames between data centers
• Configuring data storage in EMC VMAX, EMC DMX using CLI and EMC Control Center and configured EMC CX series using CLI and UniSphere Manager dat run AIX 6.1
• Performed FAST Cache, FAST VP in tiered environment for reducing cost by maximizes utilization of Flash Drive capacity for high IOPS workloads on enginuity 77

Confidential, Missouri

Storage Designer

Environment: EMC Symmetrix DMX/VMAX, CLARiiON, VNX, EMC Control Center, Centerra Console, Celerra NS40/NSX Series, SYMCLI, Unisphere for symmetrix family, Navisphere Manager for Clariion family, SRDF, TimeFinder, PowerPath 5.3, IBM DS Storage 8700/DS8800 and SAN Volume Controller, XIV, Hitachi USP-VM, VSP, NetApp FAS-3000/6000 Series Filer, Snap Mirror, Snap Vault, ontap 7/8, Cisco MDS 09, Brocade 48k and McData switches

Responsibilities:

• LUN creation including metas, mapping, masking, zoning, aliasing and presentation using Emc Control Center, SYMCLI, SMC, Unisphere, SVC GUI 6.3/6.4, XGUI and HCS7
• Pro-efficient in managing VMAX, DMX, SVC, DS8000 and Netapp using command line interface and Oncommand Insight.
• Worked wif project managers by designing teh environment for new servers by performing provisioning, and by working wif server admins to ensure dat server can see LUNS wif no issues.
• Worked wif hands/eyes team to make sure cabling is completed and troubleshooting on cabling issues and resolved by following best practice of environment
• Installation, configuration of EMC Vmax, Hitachi VSP/US-VM and IBM SVC, XIV and support by troubleshooting.
• Supported and worked wif server team to resolve issues regarding san luns on AIX 6.1/7.1, LINUX, Windows Servers
• Monitor San disks, Storage Arrays, Switches, cache utilization using Performance Manager, SYMCLI and EMC Control Center and Hitachi Command Suite and Storage Navigator.
• Created and maintained ISL Trunking, zoning, performed firmware upgrades, and integrated all SAN connected hosts.
• Administering teh Data Collection Policies of teh Management Objects discovered in ECC. Managing teh alerts and notifications.
• Established Specific goals fordisaster recovery, including teh recovery point objective (RPO) by restoring data after disaster.
• Create and export NFS-CIFS File Shares using Netapp and Celerra manager. Configured CIFS server on Celerra Virtual data mover and created CIFS shares. Configure Data Movers for Ether Channel Trunking, Safe Network and tested Data Mover failover.
• Created monthly reports for all teh SAN equipment using teh storage scope.
• Installation of Qlogic/Emulex HBAs in teh SUN servers which run MS SQL 2008R2 for load balancing and failover and configuration of SDDPCM.
• Tuned teh Qlogic hba config file based on teh best practices recommended by EMC and hba vendors.
• Managed Storage Connectivity for Solaris systems - Software/Hardware used in connecting to SAN fabric, development of scripts to populate sd.conf and verify DMP connectivity etc.
• Replaced failed drives by working wif emc & hitachi and performed boot disk operations through Veritas/Logical volume manager.
• Coordinated wif project manager and Server team to manage and migrate storage from old arrays to new array wifout any down time of application and keep environment up and running
• Created a complete documentation dat includes all teh components in teh SAN environment, operational history, Scripts to control teh replication process, BCV setup for backup, disaster recovery procedures.

Confidential, CO

Sr. Storage Administrator

Environment: VNX-7500, VMAX, DMX 3/4, CX3/4, IBM Enterprise Storage Server, IBM DS4000, IBM DS6000, IBM DS8100/8300, IBM SAN Volume Controller, IBM Total Storage Productivity Center (formerly IBM Multiple Device Manager) XIV, RSM EMC Control Center 6.1, ECC Performance Manager, Netapp FAS 6210, AIX 5.3/6.1, VIOS 1.3.X, 2.2.X, RHEL 4/5, VMWARE ESX 4.0, ESX 4.1, ESXi 5.0, WIN 2K3/WIN 2K8, SVC, Cisco and Brocade switches, RDAC, MPIO, SDD, SDDPCM, HACMP cluster

Responsibilities:

• Resolved issues on SAN, and adapter connectivity issues for all IBM storages by Implementing and maintaining data replication for both SAN and NAS storage to meet requirements
• Added support for different storages of DS8000 Information Center to teh host master console GUI by Performance Data Collection Utility, a CLI tool for gathering performance statistics from teh DS8000 series and DS6000 storage devices.
• Day to day responsibilities include SAN provisioning from VMAX, VNX, DMX, Clariion, Zoning and De-zoning, reclaiming teh space from teh decommissioned servers and assisting teh SAs.
• Replicated data to migrate over 80TB by using SRDF, SanCopy of data off CX500, CX700, CX-3-40 and CX4-120 on to VMAX / VNX
• Performed different tasks like data migration, asynchronous and synchronous mirroring, and intuitive GUI wif dramatic efficiencies in capacity, power, and space.
• Worked on thick-to-thin data migration, to reclaim allocated space
• Full management of SAN environment composed of IBM DS4000 storage subsystems and 4 node IBM SAN Volume Controller cluster. SAN TEMPhas more than 200 terabytes of data.
• Involved in configuration of NetApps FAS systems including qtree, volume, aggregates and Snapshots.
• Configured SAN storage to allocate storage for hosts wif different version of Multi-Pathing drivers which are compatible in teh environment.
• Supported other teams (AIX, VMWARE, LVM) for installing and configuring VM’s on different blades, regarding teh SAN issues and resolved issues
• Expertise in resolving issues on adapter (QLOGIC / EMULEX)
• Provided on-call rotating pager support for teh corporate SAN and NAS environments.
• Fabric Migration involved from Cisco 9509 switches to Cisco MDS 9513s. Assisted teh SA wif teh storage configuration after teh fabric migration.
• Planned, coordinated and upgraded components of teh SAN as needed wif software, hardware and microcode upgrades.
• Performance evaluation of VMAX using ECC Performance Manager. Detailed reports about teh production servers including I/O per sec, response time and Hit% are calculated.
• Implemented thin provisioning and FAST (Fully Automated Storage Tiering) and FAST VP on teh VMAX to improve teh performance and provisioned storage to teh hosts using teh Auto provisioning groups.
• Worked in teh weekly shifts of 24x7 on-call duty and teh cooperative queue management of trouble calls using a trouble-ticket system.
• Monitoring Storage infrastructure and managing incidents to meet service levels.

Confidential, Austin, TX

SAN/NAS RTS

Environment: IBM DS6000/8000, Tivoli Storage Productivity Center (TPC), GEN2 XIV, EMC VNX-5700, VMAX/VMAXSE, DMX4, CX3-80, SVC, EMC Control Center, Brocade & Cisco SAN.

Responsibilities:

• Ability to work wif multiple projects/issues simultaneously by following documented process mentioned in ibm best practice documents on emc and ibm storage devices
• Worked wif project managers by identifying process improvement and worked wif hands & eyes team regarding cabling issues servers and storage arrays in a co-located environment
• Worked wif project managers and server administrators simultaneously for delivering servers to customer on time wif no pathing issues.
• Supporting problem and change tickets for client storage support operations for work involving problem determination.
• Implementation of changes to hardware, software, applications or network systems using TPC, and application team wif no interruption to teh applications by working according to teh maintenance window timings, depending teh application preference
• Allocated teh luns from VMAX/DMX and SVC/DS8000/XIV according to requirement of teh applications owner.
• Unmapping / Reclaiming unused storage devices by monitoring teh disks using tivoli productivity center, depending whether storage from DS8000/SVC and EMC DMX and Clariion
• De-allocated SVC/DS8000 luns from server by going through iops by running reports from TPC
• Coordinated wif like vios team to solve issues by making applications / environment up and running by checking paths.
• Work to standardize repeatable tasks and steps across multiple accounts wifin a pod while providing coaching and mentoring to teh junior team members.
• Created SOP’s and documents for team to follow process for de-allocations and decommissions for future reference.
• Actively participated in team meetings and huddle led by dispatchers and architect to meet new challenges and working in new environment. Also by going through different troubleshooting techniques.

Confidential, Malvern, PA

Storage Administrator

Environment: EMC Symmetrix VMAX, DMX-4, DMX-3, DMX3000,CLARiiON CX-600/700 CX3-80,CX4-480, VNX 5500/5300, Celerra NS-700, 960, IBM DS8700 / DS8800, IBM XIV, Netapp FAS 6210, Data ONTAP 7, IBM Flash Copy, SYMCLI, ECC 6.0, NaviSphere Manager, Unisphere Manager, NAS-Celerra Manager, Time Finder & SRDF/A, PowerPath 5.1, 5.3, PPME, Recovery Point, Brocade Director switches

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for architecture, configuration, layout, performance tuning of storage infrastructure of EMC Symmetrix VMAX / DMX, EMC CLARiiON VNX / CX, IBM DS8700 / DS 8800, IBM XIV, Netapp FAS 6210.
• Performs necessary storage infrastructure maintenance in accordance wif EMC and change management policies by generating heat reports.
• Performed Data migration from different third party appliances to Hitachi Data Systems - USP-V machines and also migrated data from Hitachi to third party storages.
• Troubleshoot performance issues on disks connected to Symmetrix, CLARiiON, DS8000 and XIV.
• Configured and installed different IBM p6-series and p5-series 595, 590, 570, 550 and RS 6000 machines for production and test environments.
• Configured Celerra Replicator for remote replication of CIFS/NFS shares.
• Performed & Implementation of EMC TimeFinder, SRDF, Open Migrator, Open Replicator, Mirrorview, Recover Point and PowerPoint Migration Enabler
• Eliminated application downtime by from planned server maintenance using different migration techniques like vMotion for migrating running virtual machines between hosts
• Installed HBAs and configured driver, firmware on Wintel and UNIX based servers. Tuned teh hba config file based on teh best practices recommended by EMC and HBA vendors.
• Configured Brocade Director Switches, using WWN zoning to create aliases and zones. Created and maintained ISL Trunking, zoning, performed firmware upgrades, and integrated all SAN connected hosts.
• Enabled non-disruptive data migrations by implementing Power Path Migration Enabler (PPME)
• Identified, resolved configuration, problems wif HBA drivers, and cabling. Upgraded firmware wifout disrupting teh fabric.
• Responsible for network backup integrity and recovery coordination along wif Disaster Recovery

Confidential

SAN Administrator

Environment: EMC DMX Symmetrix, EMC Celerra, Emulex, Qlogic HBAs, Brocade and Cisco Switches, Performance Manager, Symmetrix Remote Data Facility (SRDF), TimeFinder, Fabric Manager, Web tools.

Responsibilities:

• Daily maintenance and administration of enterprise SAN dat included several Celerra and CLARiiON connected to several Windows & AIX servers in teh Data center.
• Implemented and configured high availability and disaster recovery using SnapMirror and Flashcopy
• Performed various troubleshooting issues related EMC CLARiiON, Symmetrix, IBM DS 8300.
• Migration of data from EMC DMX 960 to IBM DS 3500
• Performed data migrations on EMC Celerra.
• Involved in administration and provisioning of storage in DS8300 storage using DSCLI dat included creating RAID sets, presenting LUNs to servers.
• Involved in checking & configuring teh visibility of teh assigned LUN from teh host side.
• Administered a tiered storage infrastructure consisting of CLARiiON disk arrays.
• Extensive experience on configuring storage devices on UNIX machines primarily on AIX, Red Hat Linux and HP-UX Machines.
• Involved in storage resource forecasting and data growth
• Identifying stranded and underutilized storage assets through storage scope Analysis and reclaim storage
• Performed disk part alignments for windows, VMware servers for better performance.
• Troubleshooting, and resolving issues like one-path-down, hosts not seeing storage, HBA failures, storage allocations, mapping, masking and zoning.
• 1000 and provisioning of data for testing purposes using Snapview/Snapshots & Clones data replication.
• Involved in creation of SRDF pairs R1 and R2 for data replication using SYMCLI.

Confidential

System / Storage Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Administered all AIX / UNIX servers, TCP/IP networking, EMC SAN connectivity from UNIX servers and IBM Connectivity from AIX servers
• Configured servers wif mirroring, RAID configuration, using Logical Volume Management and. Monitored and tuned teh systems to achieve optimum level of performance.
• Involved in management and configuration of enterprise SAN wif CLARiiON CX 300/500/700 storage arrays, Symmetrix DMX 1000, Brocade switches.
• Manage, configure and allocate storage for Symmetrix DMX 1000 storage systems using EMC Control Center and Solution Enabler SYMCLI.
• Managed and allocated storage for DS3000 storage using Storage manager
• Involved in teh migration of data using SAN Copy from CLARiiON CX 600 to Symmetrix DMX.