SUMMARY

• 8+ years of experience in IT and 6 years of experience as SAN & NAS Storage administrator in EMC VNX, Symmetrix, Clariion Arrays, VNX, NetApp FAS and DataONTAP 7.x, CISCO MDS,, Brocade Directors/Switches.
• Good experience in using EMC VNX/VMAX deployment and Implementation. Experience in Time Finder BCV/Clone/Snaps, SRDF/A, Open Replicator, Mirrorview/ SnapView, SANCopy and Open Migrator.
• Experience in Administration of Storage to Multiprotocol Environments like CIFS and NFS in NetApp SAN/NAS environment.
• Very strong experience on Setup the NetApp filers, creating and managing Aggregates, Volumes, qtrees, snapshots.
• Good experience in using the NetApp snapmirror for the data migration activities.
• Expertise in using and implementing the storage protocols like SAN, NAS, NFS, CIFS, ISCSI, SCSI, NDMP, etc.
• Install, configure, and troubleshoot Brocade, Cisco MDS and McData fibre channel fabric switches along with Emulex and QLogic HBAs.
• Strong hands - on experience with EMC solution Enabler, Symmetrix management consol (SMC),
• EMC Control Center(ECC), CLARiiON Navisphere Manager/Analyzer/Navicli, and Event Manager),
• NetApp command line, NetApp filer view, NetApp Management Console, NetApp Onaro, Netapp
• Good Knowledge on VBlock components and setup
• Data fabric manager, HP commands view, Sun common array manger.
• Knowledge and experience with storage migrations and replication solutions using OpenReplicater, SRDF, SANCopy.
• 24x7 on Call Support for Troubleshooting.
• Good experience in Unix System Administration with IBM AIX, SUN SOLARIS
• (5.10/5.9/5.8 ), Redhat Linux and VMware ESXi 4.0/3.5
• Good knowledge in managing the Logical volume manager of LINUX, Solaris, AIX and Veritas volume manager (VXVM).
• Sound knowledge in user administration and access control of the UNIX operating system Environment.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Storage Hardware: Symmetrix VMAX,VNX, VMAX-SE and DMX 3 and DMX4, DMX 1000/2000 /3000 Array Series, EMC CLARiiON CX4 / CX3 / CX series (CX4-480, CX3- 40/CX3-40fCX3-40c/CX3-80, CX500, CX600, CX700, Cellerra NAS (NSX Series -NS80, NS480)NetApp FAS 6280, HP Eva 6000,8000, IBM DS8000, DS4800 and DS4500

Storage Software: DataOntap, SnapMirror, SnapShot, SnapRestore, SyncMirror,SnapVault, OSSVSnapManager, FlexClone, MetroCluster, ECC, Storage Scope, Performance View, Navisphere Manager, PowerPath, SANCopy, Symcli, Navicl

SAN Switches and Directors: Cisco MDS switches MDS 9513/9509/9506/9120/9140/9216 iBrocade. FC Directors like 12000B & Departmental Switches like DS 16B2 / DS32B2 / DS4900. McData FC Directors like ED140M/ ED16M ED32M/ E1620 iFCP switches.

Operating Systems: VMware, Windows 2008/Windows 2003, SUN Solaris, HP-UX, Linux.

EMC Applications: MirrorView, SAN Copy, Snap View, SRDF, Time Finder, CelerraSnapSure, EMC Recover Point, Replication Manager, EMC Control Center.

NetApp Applications: NetApp SnapMirror, Flexvol, Snapshot, Netapp Filer view, NetApp CLI Netapp DFM, Netapp Management console, Netapp SAN screen.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Herndon, VA

Technical Consultant - SAN Storage

Responsibilities:

• Administrative duties using EMC Navisphere, EMC control center, SRDF, Timefinder, Connectrix manager in a storage area which consists of EMC Symmetrix DMX, Clariion CX series sub systems networked through McData Switches, FC SAN, Giga Ethernet to 150+ HPUX, 250+ Solaris, 200+ Wintel Servers.
• Storage area consisting of EMC DMX 2, DMX-3, DMX-4, EMC Centera, HDS networked through CISCO Fabrics to 100+ Wintel Servers, 200+ Sun Solaris Servers and VMWare Blade servers administration.
• Creating the Change requests for new builds and changes in storage infrastructure.
• Implemented the VNX 5300 SAN storage and administration.
• Deployed, provisionedthe shared NFS storage for ESX servers and Virtual machines. configured the ESX serversto use the sharedluns for ESXHigh availability and Vmotion.
• Experience in configuring the ISCSI initiator in ESX server, provision the Iscsi luns to ESX server.
• Managed major colo evacuation and migration as it pertained to storage
• Up gradation of EMC Control Center software from V5.2 to V6.1.
• Provisioned storage to Windows, Linux and Solaris servers from Symmetrix DMX-4, DMX-3 storage arrays using Solutions Enabler and Symmetrix Management Console.
• Managed storage allocation for Clariion CX3-80 storage array using Navisphere Manager.
• Performed thin provisioning for Symmetrix DMX-4 storage array by creating TDEVs, adding TDATs to thin pool and binding TDEVs to thin pool.
• Day to Day administrative tasks on EMC VNX 5300 SAN
• Created devices. Meta devices allocated them to hosts using Solutions Enabler.
• Used Navisphere Manager to create Raid groups, Storage groups, Meta LUNs, LUNs and assigned LUNs to the hosts.
• Created alias, zones and added them to active zone set on Cisco fabric using Fabric Manager and Device Manager.
• Zoned new HBAs whenever there is a failure in the HBAs of a particular host using Fabric Manager.
• Implemented SRDF/S replication between two Symmetrix DMX-4 storage arrays.
• Exported device groups and imported device groups on the stand by Solutions Enabler server.
• Worked on disaster recovery solution using MirrorView/S on EMC Clariion.
• Configured TimeFinder clone and BCV by using Solution Enabler.
• Implemented data migration from Clariion CX 500 to DMX-4 using Open Replicator during Clariion retirement.
• Performed storage migration from Symmetrix DMX 1000 to DMX-4 storage array using host based software PPME.
• Firmware up gradation planning and implementation on CISCO Core Directors and Edge Switches.
• Working with SRDF numbers and consistency groups with Solutions Enabler environment.
• Creating and implementing Disk groups, Device groups, and Composite groups using SymCLI.
• SAN Tape switches migration from CISCO - 9216 to 9124.
• Server virtualization by downsizing the number of CISCO Edge switches from 10 to 6.
• Providing Brocade access gateway configuration on Solaris servers.
• Providing administrative support for EMC NAS Celerra.
• Performed Data migration using SAN Copy software for CLARiiON storage systems.
• Installed Emulex HBA drivers, NaviAgent, NaviCLI and EMC Powerpath 5.1 on hosts.
• Worked on Navisphere Analyzer to resolve several issues related to the CLARiiON

Confidential, Atlanta GA

Technical Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Installation of EMC Symmetrix solutions enabler and SMC on management server
• Managing the Storage sub systems using EMC Control Center, Hitachi Storage Navigator, SYMCLI and CISCO Fabric Manager
• Proficient in EMC hardware and software, especially VMAX, DMX, ECC, ESRS
• Performing host remediation, upgrade of PowerPath and HBA BIOS/Drivers, OS includes HP-UX, Windows, Redhat
• Performing host based migrations using Powerpath Migration Enabler (PPME) from DMX-3 to VMAX, OS includes Winodws/RedHat, native LVM migration with HP-UX
• Executing VM migrations using Vmotion and handling of Vswaps and snapLUNs
• Configuring Celerra Replicator on Celerra systems for Local and Remote Replication after creating checkpoints
• Recoverpoint replication sync with CISCO SANTap switch based splitter
• Administrating DMX-3 and VMAX with the help of ECC, SMC and CLI
• Managing SAN fabric with CISCO fabric manager and device manager
• Creating Raid Groups & Storage groups assigned LUNs to Hosts using SMC, SYMCLI on VMAX
• Creating and exporting NFS and CIFS shares from EMC Celerra
• Performing regular EMC system administrator activities
• Configuration and Administrationof Dynamic SRDF
• Testing of SRDF failover-failback procedure for disaster recover planning
• Assisting with implementation and upgrade services for Celerra NS480 and NS960
• Assisting with implementation and upgrade services for ECC
• Assisting with implementation and upgrade services CISCO MDS switches - 9513, 9509, 9216i
• Planning migration strategies, DR plans with SAN and NAS data
• Performed ECC agent installations on hosts and ECC server
• Participated in ONTAP code upgrades, RLM/SP upgrades of NetApp filers.
• Implemented SnapMirror and SnapShot creation, SnapRestore solutions for migration and Backup purposes.
• Fabric configuration monitoring using NetApp SANscreen tool for checking the connections and verifying the devices.
• Administration of VERITAS volume mangaer volumes in all types of raid levels like raid 0, 1, 5, 1+0, 0+1 and resizing of volumes.

Confidential

Senior Backup & Storage Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Performing daily operational tasks like monitoring 150 windows servers and storage provisioning by maintaining data availability for the Clients.
• Analyzing and performing proactive measures and providing recommendations to the Client/Customer to improve storage operations.
• Active participation during the configuration and performance tuning of storage infrastructure.
• Participation in the business continuance and disaster recovery plans as required by Client/customer.
• Actively participate during the design and operational phases of the disaster recovery process.
• Performs regular storage infrastructure maintenance such as updating drives, firmware and necessary data migration.
• Effectively troubleshooting issues at software and hardware level.
• Attending weekly issue meetings, change meetings, and emergency calls with managers, clients/customer.
• Quality Analyst in implementation of GDF - LEAN model within IBM.

Confidential

Associate Infrastructure Management Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Monitor various aspects of server like health; file systems, logs using tools like BMC patrol, Tivoli, and Net view.
• Assisting customers and end users with hardware, software application & network connectivity issues.
• Installing various applications, performing OS tuning and configuring IP networking parameters.
• Actively participated in migration from Windows 2000 to 2003 server and application updates.
• Troubleshooting of file system issues with remote servers via telnet and putty.
• Performed tape and library management of daily, monthly and incremental backups.
• Participated in installation of Tivoli Management Framework.
• Creation of profiles, profile manager, task configuration and execution with ITM 5.1 package.
• Configuration of Active Directory, EventPro, Outlook to desktops and laptops and mapping them to host server.