SUMMARY

• 7 years of extensive experience in storage administration and trouble - shooting in a large data center environment.
• Experience in Storage infrastructure and technologies (e.g. storage arrays, switches/directors, fiber cables, Hosts and Host based multi-path software)
• Knowledge on VCE VBLOCK 300’s and 700’s ( EX,FX,GX,HX and CX,MX) types.
• Experience in configuring EMC Clariion CX 3/4, Celerra, Centera and VNX 5100,5300,5700 & 7500, DMX 3/4 & VMAX 10k,20k and 40k storage arrays
• Experience with Confidential storage systems and worked on FS 8600, FS8610, NX 3500, NX 3600, NX 3610 series.
• Hands on experience with clustering the systems from scratch and updating to latest builds and Service pack upgrades..
• Experience as SAN Storage Administrator and System Administrator supporting and testing multiple platforms and applications.
• Experience with NETAPP FAS series with Data ONTAP technologies and Confidential COMPELLENT storage arrays.
• Expertise in Storage/network protocols and connectivity: FC, NAS, DAS, ISCSI, CIFS, NFS.
• Experience with UNIX/LINUX and Windows 2003/2008 Server operating systems.
• Experience with VMware environment and DR projects.
• Experience in Testing Enterprise level Storage systems and its peripherals.
• Attended various training courses at EMC training sites to enhance existing skills and acquire new skills.
• Experience in Installations, Upgrades and configured backups/Storages of on MS WINDOWS 2003, 2008R2,2012 & LINUX,UNIX servers.
• Exposure to AIX, SOLARIS Unix flavours.
• Install and Configure backup/archive client on all supported operating systems.
• Implemented Net backup Operations manager to monitor backups and provide reports for auditing purposes.
• Good understanding of EMC DATADOMAIN & AVAMAR backup technologies.
• Experience with EMC migration and replication technologies as OPEN REPLICATOR, SRDF S/A/, TIMEFINDER, OPEN MIGRATOR, ROBOCOPY, FLM, PPME, SANCOPY, EMCOPY and RECOVERPOINT 3.X and 4.X with SRM.
• Experience in PERL and SHELL scripting.
• Evaluation of documentation requirements, created test cases, responsible to the documentation of the test case results.
• Expertise with provisioning storage to databases like Oracle,MS Exchange,SQL & SAP and checking them.
• Expertise in NAS ISILON V6.5.1 onwards.
• Good knowledge on Linux LOGICAL VOLUME MANAGER and VERTIAS VOLUME MANAGER.
• Extensive experience in troubleshooting issues in maintenance and performance of server and storage areas.
• Hands on experience in SAN and NAS migrations such as SAN to NAS migrations, thin to thin migrations, thick to thick migrations, Windows to NAS migrations, SAN storage consolidation.
• Experience in VMware ESXI 4.X/5.X, VMworkstation, Vsphereclient, Virtual box environment implementation and testing on VMware VCenter SRM 5.5.
• Strong interpersonal and communications skills, ability to work in team as well as independently with minimal supervision.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating systems: SUN SOLARIS, RHEL, MAC OS, Windows 7/2003/SE/vista/2009/98/200r2/2012 servers.

SAN switches and directors: Cisco, MDS switches, MDS 900 family, Brocade FC directors like12000B and Departmental switches like DS 16 B2/DS32B2/DS4900.McData FC directors like ED140M/ED16M D32M/E1620 iFCP switches, Confidential switches.

Storage tools: EMC Navisphere, Unisphere, SYMCLI, NavisecCLI, ECC, Cisco UCS manager, EMC IONIX UIM/P. Vsphere, VCenter, USC Manager, Fabric Manager, Confidential Compellent manager, Data collector tools, NAS IDU,Fabric manager,Connectrix manager & Brocade manager.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Washington DC

SAN Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Administration of EMC storage arrays as VNX 5300,5500,7500 / DMX 3,4 and VMAX 10k,20k and 40k storage arrays.
• Provisioning, storage allocation and de allocation activities including creating new zones on brocade and cisco mds fabric.
• Implemented and configured multiple CLARiiON CX-3,CX-4 Storage environments from initial setup to binding LUNs, creating RAID group, installing CLARiiON storage array software’s, enabling the host address the EMC CLARiiON storage array, provisioned and documented them to meet the requirements.
• Implementation of Logical Volume Management on HP-UX 11.11, 11.23, 11.31 servers.
• Using Brocade CLI for administration of fabric and switch related problems, hands on on FabOS.
• New allocations of CIFS/NFS and block storage to new hosts
• Executing physical lift and shift of servers as part of migration to new data center and port enabling and zoning activities in new data center floor.
• Enabling new permissions to hosts mounting NFS and troubleshooting new problems after move of the servers to new data center.
• Very good understanding of VMware VMs and Solaris zones,LDOMs.
• Cabling of new servers in data center and executing troubleshooting for new hardware related issues.
• Careful monitoring of day to day storage activities and troubleshooting new problems
• Storage provisioning to Linux,Solaris, Windows and ESXi farms.
• Helping Atos to separate two networks MHE/MHF.
• Working on host grabs for different versions of LINUX, WINDOWS and generating Heat reports to calculate storage capacity and helping capacity planning team..
• Enabling zoning and storage fabric ports prior and post migrations and validating them
• Experienced in Brocade and Cisco MDS fabric.
• Mounting of CIFS shares and NFS exports on Solaris, RHEL,CentOS and Windows 2008 R2 servers.
• New host storage provisioning and de allocations of retired servers associated to EMC VNX,DMX,VMAX, Celerra and Clariion storage arrays.
• Working in data center environment helping other teams to lift and shift of servers to new data centers.

Confidential, Crawford, NJ

Storage Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Day to Day administration of Symmetrix V-MAX, DMX, CLARiiON,VNX and NAS ISILON arrays.
• Worked on Configuration and Allocation of storage from DMX/VMAX and CLARiiON storage arrays using SYMCLI/ECC/SMC.
• Involved and performed data migration/consolidation of arrays using SANCopy/OpenReplicator/PPME/Open migrator.
• Supported Network attached storage devices such as EMC ISILON on various One FS versions
• Installation, connecting and configuring of Isilon nodes(S series, X series and NL series) with support to topologies such as SYNCIQ, SMARTPOOLS, SMARTCONNECT,SNAPSHOT IQ & SMART QUOTAS.
• Connecting and assigning ACLs and UNIX permissions to windows,linux clients using SMB and NFS exports.
• Constant monitoring and administration of ISILON clusters using Isilon web administration and Command line interface.
• Configured both Manual and scheduled replications, snapshot via event and job management by monitoring them as well.
• Successfully performed Rolling,Simultaneous,Firmware updates and integrated with 3rd party for AV scan,and initiated them with policies and reports.
• Performed SYNC IQ performance tasks by monitoring them .
• Well versed with troubleshooting and connecting the cluster to Microsoft AD, LDAP, NIS and IACP.
• Creation of reports for replications and notifications for careful monitoring.
• Well versed with Recover point implementation in CDP/CRR environment and created consistency groups for Oracle/SQL databases
• Maintaining the ECC infrastructure, troubleshooting day-to-day issues, Configured alerts for management of the entire SAN infrastructure and also dealt with performance issues.
• Actively involved in installation of ECC and discovery and management of all SAN objects including installation of SDM/Symmetrix agents, FCC and host agents.
• Comprehensive knowledge in using Unisphere and NavisecCLI in implementing administration of VNX arrays.
• Experience with data mobility and management of distributed volumes in VPLEX metro.
• Well versed on VNX platform including configuring virtual pools and FAST/VP per EMC best practices using Unisphere manager.
• Configured FAST VP and Virtual Pools(TDAT’s and TDEVS) and created Auto provisioning groups for mapping and masking using SYMCLI 7.x/ SMC 7.X for creating initiator groups, port groups, storage groups and Masking Views in VMAX Environment.
• Good solid understanding on EMC Avamar and DD technologies.
• Implemented EMC RECOVERPOINT configuration between two different VNX’s at remote sites.
• Implemented SRDF/A, SRDF/S for production systems including creation of dynamic RA groups, creation of dynamic RDF pairs, enabling SRDF/A for the group of devices.
• Implementing Automating BCV solutions like Time Finder (Clones & Snaps).
• Monitoring and managing alerts inVNXusing Unisphere manager. Performing software installations using Unisphere Service manager
• Assigned storage to ESX farm fromVNX7500 storage pool.
• Migrated data from NS-960 toVNX7500 using SANCopy. Regularly solving upcoming ticket via HP Service manager and Alarm Point, on call 24*7 rotations and coordinating between on site and off shore team.
• Administered VMware Infrastructure (130+ ESX Hosts, 3,000+ Virtual Servers).
• Organized existing AD objects to assist with day to day administration (Organizational Units (OU), groups, departments, users, servers, PCs, laptops, printers etc.)
• Created performance summary report to rapidly observe activity on the LUNS using Navi Analyzer
• Working on documentation required for the Storage Team by getting all the host information from Symmetrix, VNX, Clariion and Celerra.
• Successfully configured a EMC Recover point from primary to secondary data centers and constantly monitored the alerts.
• Performed Virtual Provisioning on CX4-960, VNX-5700, VMAX-20k, DMX-4 arrays using SYMCLI/SMC and Unisphere Manager.
• Performed zoning,implementations and troubleshooting on Cisco MDS & Brocade fabric series.
• Worked on creation and extension of file systems and giving access to windows by creating CIFS shares and UNIX servers by creating NFS exports from VNX and also from Celerra manager.
• Experience creating CIFS Server using VNX Data mover and migrated files from windows servers to VNX using Robocopy.

Confidential, Austin, TX

Storage Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Installations and testing of Confidential storages with latest builds and Service pack upgrades to new builds.
• Hands on experience with Confidential series of storages such as FS 8600, FS8610,NX 3600,NX 3610, NX 3500 .
• Managing the Storage sub systems using Confidential Fluidfs manager, Modular disk manager, Compellent enterprise manager, Storage center manager,NAS initial deployment utility tool, worked on zoning with the FS series storages and Confidential switches, Em data collector tools.
• Worked on Smartpools, syncIQ and smart connect technologies of EMC .
• Executed migrations on Virtualized clients and successfully did SRM testing.
• Proficient with CIFS and NFS technologies and worked on LDAP and NIS servers.
• Hands on experience with IO tools such as IO monkey,Iometer, Diskercise and many testing tools
• Testing on various platforms such as NFS,NFSv2,NFSv3,NFSv3 on RHEL,SUSE,SUN SOLARIS Linux platforms.
• Tested and executed replications, NDMP backups, Snapshots, creations of Clones volumes, quotas on the volumes, scheduled and manual replications and maintaining the data on the CIFS shares and NFS exports.
• Worked on various Confidential switches and executed zoning concepts on FS series storages.
• Collected logs and diagnostics to file bugs in the testing environment of storages.
• Used various tools such as SNMP traps, VMworkstation, Vsphere client, VMware ESXI servers to maintain different versions of windows and Linux clients.
• Expertise in Perl and shell scripting.
• Hands on experience with ISCSI and FC network topologies in Confidential environment.
• Worked on Windows 2008R2, Windows 2012 servers and various other Windows platforms.
• Performed tests in various AD domains and managed Active directories by creating users, groups and assigning permissions to various users and maintaining the storages with users and groups assigned.
• Created and managed Microsoft Active Directory (AD) Organizational Units (OU), objects, policies, users and groups.
• Changing Domains for the client machines and assigning dedicated client machines to each domain and maintaining them.
• Worked on Kerberos security levels for NFS exports and hands on experience with Kerberos protocols.
• Networking maintenance and executing tasks assigned with best efforts successfully.
• Successfully executed all the storage backups by using COMMVAULT, BACKUPEXEC services.
• Tested on Huge replications and hands on experience with the storage hardware.
• Responsible for all the testing in Confidential storages and test case results.
• Evaluation of documentation requirements, created test groups.
• Worked and built 2node, 4node,8node clusters and maintained them with great efficiency.
• Hands on experience with Confidential power edge servers.
• Responsible for test case results.
• Experience in all NAS storage systems of Confidential .

Confidential, Oakbrook, IL

SAN Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Worked in a large storage environment comprising of EMC DMX/Symmetrix, EMC VNX EMC Clarion, Cisco & McData Enterprise SAN connectivity switches.
• Implementation and Maintenance of storage for more than 200 servers.
• Monitoring and performing Daily Health Check on Symmetrix devices, SRDF Replication, Clone Pairs, Local Replication Suite's
• Clariion Storage and Replication Management.
• Storage Provisioning for DMX-4, DMX-3 storage array using SYMCLI and Storage provisioning for V-Max storage array using Symmetrix management console (SMC).
• Implemented the VNX 5300 SAN storage and administration
• Implementing Auto-Provisioning: creating Initiator group, Port group and Storage group including Masking in V-Max using SMC & SYMCLI.
• Implementation of FAST-VP, FAST on VMAX/VNX.
• Day to Day administrative tasks on EMC VNX 5300 SAN
• Implementing Thin-provisioning: creating thin devices, creating and managing thin pools and applying FAST policy, creating data devices VMAX 8-engine Array.
• Storage Allocation, Mapping and Masking of DMX-3,DMX-4 devices using SYMCLI
• Configuring CISCO and BROCADE switches, creating zonesets, building new zones and vsans and establishing link between the storage array and servers.
• Managing CISCO Switches using CISCO FABRIC MANAGER,DEVICE MANAGER
• Installed and configured EMC SANCopy for data migration from CX 400 to CX3-40 for Windows and HPUX operating system.
• Establishing LUN migrations on CX-3 and CX-4.
• Establishing SRDF replications initiating with creating devices, creating raid groups, Consistency groups and checking the safe and complete track writes.
• Planning and implementation of clarion replication technology using EMC RECOVERPOINT, starting with creating luns of same size on both local and remote devices, establishing splitters, creating journal volumes and updating splitters with correct info.
• Daily storage provisioning and management of HPUX servers with identifying new LUNS attached to the storage, installing special files on the luns, running disk layout, creating physical volumes, creating volume groups, creating logical volumes, creating mount points and extending mount points
• Managing and daily administration of SYMANTEC NETBACK UP.