SUMMARY

• Overall 11+ years of experience in Information Technology including Storage, Backup and System Administration.
• Hands on experience in administration of NetApp, EMC and Hitachi storage arrays.
• Implementation and maintenance of NetappFAS 8000,6000,3000,2000 series filers.
• Expertise with Snapshots, SnapMirror, Snapvault and NetApp management tools like FilerView, NetApp system Manager andOperations Manager.
• Configuring and managing Aggregate, Volumes, Qtree and LUNmanagement.
• Experience in DC DR activities with Snap Mirror replication.Troubleshooting CIFS and NFSaccess issues.
• Implementing and Migrating Storage from 7 - Mode to C-Mode NetApp Arrays using 7 Mode Transition Tool.
• Extensively worked on data migrationsprojects involving multiple Data Center consolidations, Tech Refresh, SAN Migrations and Service Migrations for heterogeneous storage infrastructure.
• Expert in various migration methods like Open Replicator, SRDF, Fabric cable moves and Host based.
• Good exposure on EMC SRDF solutions using SYMCLI.
• Skilled in supporting EMC Clarion, DMX, VMAX, VNX Series, XtremIOand Hitachi VSP environments.
• Expertise in performing storage provision and storage reclaim from EMC Storage Arrays, Hitachi and NetApp filers.
• Meticulous knowledgein latest EMC latest technologies like FAST, SLOand Thin Provisioning.
• Having thorough knowledge in Disaster Recovery Planning, implementation and testing for EMC and NetApp.
• Experienced in Fabric Management technologies for CISCO, BROCADE, and McDATA. Hands on experience in zoning using DCNM, Brocade Web Tools and ConnectrixManager.
• Troubleshoot and resolve the Storage related issues generated in the production, Development and testing environments.
• Knowledge on Non-Disruptive Migration and Powerpath Migration Enabler.
• Experienced in Provisioning new storage as per requests to Unix, Windows and Esxi environments from VNX/VMAX/XtremIO using ViPR CONTROLLER.
• Experienced in using ViPR SRM is to perform Capacity and Performance Monitoring of both the SAN and NAS environments.
• Designed Architectural diagrams based up on the client requirements for their application hosting in the AWS Cloud Environments.
• Experienced in creating AWS computing instance Services like EC2 and Amazon Elastic Load Balancing in AWS Cloud.
• Experienced in managing a AWS Storage services like S3, EBS and Amazon Cloud Front
• Implemented popular networking services like Amazon Virtual Private Cloud(VPC) for the private cloud in the public cloud.
• Experienced in installation, administration and support of Windows 2003/2008 servers.
• Experienced in deployment and support of Active Directory, Application servers, LAN and WAN.
• Design and Implementation of SAN & NAS Storage in UNIX&Windows.
• Experienced on Symantec Backup and Data Protector Backup Software.
• Experienced on HP Auto Loader Library and Tape Drives3/4 devices.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Storage Systems: NetappAFF 808EX, FAS 8000,6000,3000&2000 filers,VMAX 850F All-Flash, VMAX 100K, VMAX 400K,DMX, VMAX 20K, VMAX 40K, CLARiiON CX-Series, VNX, VPLEX, XtremIO, and Hitachi VSP/USPV.

SAN Switches: CISCO MDS9513, 9509, BrocadeDCX-4S/8S&3850 FC switches andMcdata Enterprise Director Switches.

SAN ManagementTools: Filer view, NetApp System Manager, WFA, Solution Enabler (SymCLI),Unisphere, ViPR controller, ViPR SRM, Symmetrix Performance Analyzer, Navisphere Manager,ECC, DCNM,Brocade Web Tools,Brocade CLI, Connectrix Manager, CISCO Device Manger and Fabric Manager.

Operating Systems: Windows and UNIX

Disaster: Recovery TechnologiesEMC,SRDFSolutions,SnapMirror,SnapVault,SyncMirror,RecoverPoint, TimeFinder Clone, TimeFinder Snap,and Hitachi Truecopy

Ticketing Tools: GSD, Service Desk, ITSR and GSR.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Storage Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Installed and configured 2 node MetroCluster of AFF8080EX controllers.
• Configured Interfaces, Storage Virtual Machines and Protocols as required.
• Created Mirrored aggregates and Local aggregates as per the design document.
• Configured InterCluster LIFs and Setup snap mirror between production and DR filers for Disaster Recovery.
• Created Volumes, Qtrees and customized export policies as per the requirement.
• Created and configured CIFS Shares, NFS Mounts, Quotas, Groups and Permissions on NetApp NAS.
• Supporting day-to-day activities related to NAS. Health checks on NAS Filers and trouble shoot issues,
• Involved in hardware break fixing, coordinated with vendor support and end users for maintenance.
• General filer administration related to aggregates, volumes, Qtrees and quotas.
• Provisioned storage using EMC ViPR tool, configured virtual arrays, created virtual pools and registered new hosts on EMC ViPR.
• Assisted in design, deployment and configuration of ViPR Controller in a VPLEX Metro environment consisting of various EMC Arrays.
• Involved in initial configuration of newly installed EMC VMAX All Flash Arrays and VPLEX which includes backend zoning with VMAX arrays and discovering VMAXs on VPLEX.
• Performed day-to-day storage administration tasks on VMAX, VPLEX, XtremIO, NetApp Filers, Hitachi and IBM XIV storage controllers.
• Implemented Virtual Provisioning on VMAX by creating data devices, thin devices, thin pool creation, binding thin devices to the pool, associating SGs to FAST VP policies using the SYMCLI.
• Implemented VMAX Auto Provisioning to assign storage from VMAX arrays which includes creating initiator groups, port groups, storage groups and masking views.
• Configured Remote adapters, RDFG groups setting up remote replication for migration and disaster recovery purposes using SRDF.
• Performed Fabric zoning to meet the storage requirements of various user groups and applications including VMWare ESXi, Windows, Linux, AIX and HP-UX servers.
• Worked on ViPR SRM for capacity planning and scheduling customized reports.
• Experience with SRM in analyzing performance from Host, Switch and Array Perspective.
• Prepared migration scripts to migrate data using Open Replicator and SRDF by analyzing EMC Grabs.

Environment:NetAppAFF8080EX MetroCluster, cDOT Clusters, 7-Mode systems, FAS8040, 6000 series filers, Hitachi VSP, IBM-XIV, ViPR Controller, UCSD, VMAX 850F, VMAX 400K, VMAX 100K, VMAX 40K, VMAX 10K, VNX, XTREMIO, VPLEX METRO, VPLEX LOCAL, DMX-3/4, CLARiiON CX-Series, Solution Enabler (SYMCLI), Unisphere, RecoverPoint, SRDF, ViPR SRM, Open Replicator, SPA, FilerView, NetApp Operations Manager, System Manager, SnapMirror, SnapVault, Storage Navigator, Shadow Image/TrueCopy, HUR, HCS, CISCO MDS-9710, 9513, Brocade DCX-4S/8S, Data Center Network Manager (DCNM), Cisco Fabric Manager, Device Manager and Brocade CLI/Web tools/DCFM.

Confidential

Senior Storage Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Support 24x7 Mission Critical Production environments which include high end enterprise storage arrays.
• Administering of enterprise SAN environment consisting of NetApp 8000 and 6000 Seriesfilers, EMC VMAX, VMAX3,XTREM IO, DMX-4/DMX-3 arrays, and CLARiiON CX series arrays, VNX, Cisco, Brocade, and McData Switches connected to several Windows & UNIX Servers in multiple data centers.
• Supporting day-to- day activities related to NAS. Health checks on NAS Filers, trouble shootissues, co-ordinate with vendor support and end users for maintenance.
• Strong expertise in NetApp Filers, Data ONTAP and protocols such as CIFS, NFS,ISCSI,FCP, creation of Aggregates,Volumes,QTrees, Volumes to the Host and Disk Shelf Firmware Up-gradation.
• Qtree creation, assigning quotas and exporting file system using NFS and CIFS.
• Creating shares, snapshot scheduling and restoration. SnapMirror implementation and maintenance.
• Management of Aggregates, Volumes, Qtrees, Quotas for regular disk provisioning.
• Setup CIFS and NFS configurations. Disk Shelf addition to NetApp FAS Storages.
• Adding space to the vol/qtrees according to requirements. Creating LUN’s, resizing Volumes and volume maintenance.
• Setting up Replication, Scheduling and Modifying replication schedules and Disaster recovery using Snap restore, Replication.
• Hands on experience in DatacentreSAN migrations using concurrent/cascade SRDF, Host based mirrors and Fabric cable move methods.
• Performed data migrations from SymmetrixDMX to XTREM IO using Host based methods.
• Storage Provisioned using Auto-provisioning groups of VMAX. Implemented storage groups, port groups, and initiator groups and masking views using SymCLI.
• Experienced in administering VNX and XTREM IO using Unisphere. Build and Operation support for EMC VPLEX, VNX and Xtrem IO.
• Implemented Virtual Provisioning on VMAX array by creating thin devices, binding thin devices to Pool, mapping thin devices to FA ports and masking thin devices to Hosts.
• Storage Provisioned to Production and DR Cluster servers from symmetrix DMX and VMAX arrays in Single and multihop replication environment by implementing SRDF/S, SRDF/A, Time Finder Clone/Snap technologies.
• Experience in creating RAID groups, binding LUNs, storage groups, and registering hosts as per customer requirements on VNX block.
• Daily tasks include storage allocation by creating Meta devices, setting devices attributes, mapping / masking using SymCLI and zoning using CISCO Fabric Manager, Brocade Web Tools, and Connectrix Manager.
• Allocation of storage via VPLEX which included claiming the storage LUNs from backend VMAX, creating extent, local or distributed device and virtual volume, creating storage view to make storage visible to the host.
• Performed allocations/de-allocations of storage using EMC ViPR tool, created virtual pools/virtual arrays, registered new hosts on EMC ViPR.
• Experienced in performing storage systems checks, monitor and alert failures within external arrays and SAN fabric components in order to identify and rectify potential hardware failures.
• Day to day operations involves handling of various hardware issues like Drive failures, DIMMs, Power supplies failures and other hardware failures.
• Handling of various performance issues and production incidents. Supporting disaster recovery failover, failback and role swap activities.
• Worked on NetApp SAN build activities like Lun management Lun creation, igroup creation, mapping luns to igroups.
• Experienced in Amazon EC2 setting up instances, virtual private cloud (VPCs), and security groups.
• Launching Amazon EC2 Cloud Instances using Amazon Images (Linux/ Ubuntu) and Configuring launched instances with respect to specific applications.
• Experienced in Amazon EC2 setting up instances, virtual private cloud (VPCs), and security groups which acted as virtual firewalls that controlled the traffic allowed to reach one or more AWS EC2 instances.
• Setting up databases in AWS using RDS, storage using S3 bucket and configuring instance backups to S3 bucket.
• Expertise in LUN Management through ISCSI on Windows and UNIX environment.
• Experienced on securing files/folders with NTFS permissions and UFS
• Experienced in Implementation of RAID Systems under Windows 2003 and 2008.
• Experienced in supporting Storage and Networking on both Windows and Unix Servers.

Environment: NetApp FAS 8000, FAS 6000 series filers, Filer view, NetApp Operations Manager, WFA (OnCommand Workflow Automation), SnapMirror, SnpVault, SyncMirror, OCI, DMX-3/4, VMAX 20K, VMAX 40K, VMAX 100K, VMAX 400K, XTREMIO, VPLEX,Solution Enabler (SYMCLI), Unisphere, SRDF, ViPR, ViPR SRM, Open Replicator, SPA, USP1100/600/100, CISCO MDS9513, 9509, Brocade DCX-4S /8S & 3850 Data Center Network Manager (DCNM), Cisco Fabric Manager, Device Manager, Brocade CLI/Web tools/DCFM, Connectrix Manager.

Confidential, IN

Storage Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for installing, configuring, and maintaining Brocade FC Switches, creating soft zoning.
• Responsible for provision of day to day support and administration of a production mission critical infrastructure environment.
• Interacting with client on daily basis and coordinating SAN provisioning on EMC and NetApp arrays.
• Installation of HBA Drivers and EMC power path software in the hosts.
• Install NaviSphere Agent and NaviCLI on all the hosts in CLARiiON environment.
• Space allocation, Space reclamation, using Navishphere Storage Administration.
• SAN administration, brocade zoning, managing LUNs, volumes and installing FC HBA on host, installing HBA driver and troubleshooting storage issues
• Reclaiming the storage space from the decommissioned servers
• Monitoring the SAN environment with EMC Control Center and Navisphere Manager.
• Monitoring of the EMC SAN environment and co-coordinating with the vendor to resolve the issue
• Co-coordinating with vendor(EMC) for hardware replacements
• SAN administration and troubleshooting storage issues.
• Installation and Configuration of HP & IBM Servers with RAID and SCSI Controllers.
• Installations and working experience on Windows 2000 /2003/XP, Active Directory, Domain Controllers, DNS Servers, DHCP Servers, Application Servers, Proxy Servers, File Servers and Print Servers.

Confidential

IT Support Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Administration of Storage Lab environment of HP STSD division.
• Installation of HBA Drivers and EMC power path software in the hosts.
• Perform storage allocations, reclaims and soft zoning. Trouble shoot issues related to storage.
• Installation, configuration and Administration of various hardware devices in SAN environment.
• Installation, configuration and Administration of Windows and UNIX operating systems.
• Installation, configuration and administration of Network devices.
• Providing hands and eye support for Network switches and routers.
• Providing IT management and support for HP ISO, SDST division ensuring smooth workflow full network uptime.
• Managing PC COE client environment and installation of applications using Application Integration Manager.

Confidential

System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Deployed and administered a Windows 2000 and 2003 domains with active directory. Supported all phases of Windows 2003 deployment including Planning, design and implementation.
• Designed and deployed DHCP and DNS on Windows 2003 domains. Created and managed DFS trees on Windows 2003 servers.
• Assigning access permissions for Shared resources on the Network using DFS tree. Defined and implemented group policies on specific user groups.
• Effective virus mechanism by using Macafee 8.0 Enterprize and EPO Server
• Security Patch Management - Periodical Installations of OS & Application Level Critical Updates, Service packs, Security Patches on Servers and Workstations as per the Checklist.
• Troubleshooting & maintenance of servers, printers, LAN/WAN connections network devices, installations of new hardware & updated applications
• Definition and execution of Backup and Restoration procedures for System data and user data stored on the servers using Symantec Backup with Autoloader.
• Leased Lines Management, Vendor Management, Asset & IMAC Management, Virus Management, Backup Management and Call reports management.
• Supported several client operating systems such as Windows 9x, Windows NT, Windows 2000 professional and Windows XP professional. Installation and configuration of network and local printers.