SUMMARY

• Over 7+ years of experience in SAN, NAS infrastructures, Disk arrays, san fabrics, Performance Troubleshooting, Data Migration, Disaster Recovery Planning and Technical Documentation.
• Extensive experience in using command - line interface, Powershell, Data ONTAP Toolkit to deploy large scale environments.
• Specializes in different Enterprise and Modular storage arrays including HDS/Hitachi Enterprise Storage USPV/VM, HDS VSP, HDS Modular AMS storage, arrays, HDS HNAS, HP P9500, EMC CLARIION CX series, Dell arrays (Fibre Channel and ISCSI).
• Re-architecture of datacenter to the Microsoft Private Cloud model, leveraging system center Virtual Manager with App Controller and operations Manager Integration and integration with HP 3PAR and left hand storage integration.
• Experience in using VERITAS Volume manager. Creating new file systems, mounting file systems and un-mounting file systems.
• Disk mirroring and RAID implementation using VERITAS Volume Manager and Solaris Volume Manager.
• Installed VERITAS Volume Manager and Power path on Red hat Linux servers.
• Expertise in implementing and working with NetApp solutions and applications like Snapshots, SnapMirror, SnapManager, Snap Drive, SnapVault, DFM/Operations Manager, System Manager.
• Expertise in performing SAN functions such as capacity planning, SAN migration, refreshes and providing detailed reports identifying current and future growth trends in the company's SAN environment for UNIX/Linux, Windows and VMware.
• Expertise in setting up DFM/Operation Manager, configuring event alerts, generating performance reports
• Expertise in using troubleshooting SAN and NAS environments using tools such as Perfstat, nSanity, Wireshark, Packet Trace captures and Performance Advisor
• Extensive experience managing Production, Development, QA and DR storage environments.
• Experience in performing Storage System Checks, Monitoring and Alerting failures in NetApp Storage Systems and other SAN Fabric components in order to avoid any potential Hardware failure.
• Good knowledge and understanding of Clustered Data ONTAP (C-Mode) concepts.
• Experience in allocating NAS (NFS and CIFS) shares from NetApp Filers and EMC Celerra.
• Excellent written, communication and organizational skills and have demonstrated ability to perform individually and to work well within a team environment.
• Hands on experience using tools such as Navisphere Manager, SymCLI, Maintenance and Monitoring of Celerra, DMX Storage Systems
• Experience in EMC Management tools including EMC Solutions enabler, SMC, Navisphere Manager, Unisphere, NaviCLI and EMC Control Center.
• Experience in implementing Business Continuity Solutions including Time Finder (Clones/Snap) and Mirror View.
• Experience in installation and configuration of EMC Powerpath to provide multipath I/O, Work load balancing and path failover.
• Good organizational, interpersonal, written and verbal communication skills.
• Proficient in maintaining and designing client specific SLA's and tools for Key performance Indicators.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Storage Administration: SAN, NAS for Physical and VM hosts, Capacity Planning, Storage Forecasts, Data Migration, Data ONTAP 8.x 7-mode, CDOT, ONTAP Installs and Upgrades, SnapManager for SQL/Oracle, ATLs, VTLs, Snap Drive, Flex Clones, SnapMirror, SnapVault, Disaster Recovery Procedures, Faulty Disk Replacements, Non-Disruptive Shelf Adds, Storage Decommissions, Datacenter Move Support, Run Books, Best Practices Documentation, Configuring Event Alerts, Generating Performance Reports, Solutions Enabler(Symcli), EMC Control Center, Navisphere Manager, NaviCLI, Unisphere, Storage Scope, EMC Symmetrix management Console (SMC), EMC Control Center 5.2/6.0/6.1, Hitachi Storage Navigator, CIFS/NFS, DFM/Operations Manager, Performance Advisor, Perfstat, nSanity, Thin Provisioning, OnCommand System manager, Data ONTAP Toolkit, Snap Restore,NetApp Management Console, Open Replicator, SRDF, SnapView, MirrorView, VERITAS NetBackup, De-duplication, HP Data protector, HP 3Par.

Storage Arrays: NetApp - FAS 2000, 3000 and 6000 series, EMC - Symmetrix, VMAX 20K, DMX 3, DMX 4 and CLARIION, DCX, CX3, CX4, EMC Recoverpoint, Hitachi (HDS) USP V and AMS series Hitachi HNAS, VSP, USPVP, AMS 2000

Operating Systems: Windows 95/98/NT/2K/XP/7/8, Windows 2003/2008 Server, LINUX, UNIX, PERL, Bash.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Phoenix AZ

Storage Administrator

Environment: EMC VNX, CX 4-480, DMX 4, NS960, SRDF, Brocade 3200, 2800 Switches, NetApp FAS 6210, 6080, 3240 Filers, HNAS, Snap Mirror, AIX, VERITAS volume manager 5.0, Tivoli Productivity Center, DCX, Linux, Solaris, Windows, EMC Recover Point, On Command System Manager, Data ONTAP 8 7-mode, SnapManager for SQL/Oracle, Data Fabric Manager/Operations Manager, HP Data Protector, OnCommand System Manager, SnapMirror, SnapVault, FlexClone, Cisco switches, 5-6PB of storage environment, IBM SVC/ DS8300

Responsibilities:

• Allocate storage from EMC Vmax and VNX.
• Configured backup agent to perform centralized backup library usingTSM & HPData protector, send tapes to off-site.
• Allocate and configure storage from Vmax.
• Installed and configured Emulex LPFC, EMC Power path, Navisphere, Veritas Volume Manager, Veritas Cluster Server, Veritas volume replicator, Veritas Net Backup in heterogeneous environment.
• Disk mirroring and RAID implementation using VERITAS Volume Manager and SVM.
• Redesign and upgrade the current backup environment, including hardware refresh and Netbackup upgrade to current levels.
• Migration of the HP EVA storage data to the new HP 3PAR platform.
• Configure thin pools, Tdats, Tdevs to allocate storage to different platforms.
• Migrate data from an old CX 500 to VNX environment using host based migration such as PPME.
• Configured local backups in a VnX environment using SnapView snapshots.
• Troubleshoot networking and SP issues with EMC.
• Work with EMC residents to troubleshoot performance issues in the environment.
• Maintain Storage Area Network (SAN) and Network Attached Storage (NAS) environments.
• Create and export NFS shares to Solaris and AIX hosts.
• Installation, configuration, management, firmware upgrades and fabric merge planning and design of SAN switches from Cisco (Cisco MDS95xx Director Class, MDS 91xx), Brocade (DCX Director Class, 5x00 series, and many other series), HP Storage Works SAN switches.
• Enterprise and Mid-range SAN Storage design/setup/implementation and management of Storage (Hitachi/HDS USPV, HDS AMS, HDS HNAS, EMC CLARIION, HP EVA Storage).
• Migrated the data between the EMC Arrays using VERITAS Volume Manager.
• Perform Non-Disruptive ONTAP Upgrades.
• IBM SVC and DS8300 firmware upgrades. Cisco MDS Implementation, zoning, trouble shooting and firmware upgrades.
• DCX
• Daily administration of TSM (Tivoli Storage Manager) and IBM 3590 Tape Library at all BCBSM locations, 15 locations, 25 TSM servers.
• Rack and stack, Installation, configuration and Maintenance of NetApp filers.
• Coordinated with Delivery Leads and Customers and provisioned storage as needed.
• Work with LOB to resolve storage space issues. Some including, mismatch of storage between Production and DR filers, working with LOB to delete older files, Resizing Aggr, Volumes, LUNs to allocate more space.
• Responsible for day-to-day storage provisioning on NetApp systems in Production, Test and Development environments.
• Installed and configured DFM server/Operations Manager from scratch on Unix box
• Storage & Server performance tuning, performance monitoring and health checkup using performance manager.
• Manage, implement and test Disaster Recovery scenarios and document the process for different applications
• Performed necessary storage infrastructure maintenance as required.
• Configure NetApp Filers in SAN (FC and ISCSI) and NAS (CIFS and NFS) environments.
• Creating, managing Snap Mirror sessions for Disaster Recovery and migration purposes.
• Assigned disk ownership, created and managed aggregates, Flexible Volumes, QTrees and RAID-DPs.
• Creation and allocation of LUNs from the NetApp filers to the SAN attached hosts such as Windows, UNIX and Solaris.
• Created, managed and monitored Aggregates/ Volumes/ QTrees and LUNs as per the requirements of the customers.
• Configured, managed and monitored soft and hard quotas as per the requirements.
• Installed and worked with the system admins on Snap Drive and Snap Manager for NetApp Filers environment.
• Managed and monitored NetApp Filers for NAS environments as well.
• Installed and worked with the system admins on Snap Drive and Snap Manager for NetApp Filers environment.
• Have exposure to various tools and technologies such as VERITAS Volume Manager, VERITAS Netback Up, RAID technology and Admin tool.
• Created the users and groups in the network to assigning privileges to the users to access the resources.
• Performed Backups to tape drives from servers and also performed Restore operation.
• Involved in monitoring and troubleshooting issues such as HBA failure, unable to discover LUNs after provisioning storage, path failures, FA performance issues, improper zoning, mapping and masking.
• Managed and monitored Snap Mirror for both data migration and DR purposes
• Analyze and troubleshoot any issues with the Snap Mirror sessions.
• Created run books and procedural documents for different environments.
• Creating and growing File system by using VERITAS Volume Manager and Solaris volume manager and CFS file systems.
• Creating File system by using VERITAS Volume Manager and Solaris volume manager and LVM.

Confidential, Clearwater, FL

Sr. SAN Storage Administrator

Environment: Symmetrix V-MAX, CLARIION CX3-80, CX4, DMX3/4, VNX, CISCO MDS 9124E, 9509, 9513, 9222I, Windows 2003/2008, UNIX, AIX, Redhat LINUX, VERITAS volume manager, Symmetrix management console, Unisphere, SPA (Symmetrix performance analyzer), VERITAS volume manager, Navisphere manager, Storage scope, Power path v5.3 & v5.5, Dell Compellent multipath manager, SymCLI & power path migration enabler.

Responsibilities:

• Remediated more than 500 servers and upgraded necessary SAN software.
• Configure backup agent for backup management using HP Data protector schedule sending tapes to off-site.
• Migrated more than 800 servers (more than 600 TB) using PPME (Power path migration enabler) from DMX-3/4 & CLARIION to VMAX, which involved windows 2003 & 2008 clusters & UNIX servers.
• Installed and upgraded VERITAS Volume Manager, VERITAS File Systems on some of the infrastructure servers. Responsible for creating user accounts and groups.
• Responsible for day-to-day systems administration tasks in Solaris and Linux. Creating and growing File system by using VERITAS Volume Manager and Solaris volume manager and CFS file systems.
• Involved in Upgrading VERITAS Volume Manager from 4.0 to 5.0.
• Provisioned storage from DMX 3/4, VMAX, CLARIION & VNX to ESX, UNIX, Windows 2003/2008 standalones and cluster servers.
• Hands-on experience on VNX arrays by provisioning storage to servers.
• Created RAID groups on VNX storage arrays.
• Provisioned disk and maintained storage arrays using Unisphere (created LUN’s, storage groups, and registered hosts), SMC (symmetrix management console), ECC, and Navisphere & SymCli.
• Planned & scheduled migrations by scheduling meeting with the LOB (line of business) and server owners for the entire project.
• Reclaimed old disks from all the servers (DMX, CLARIION, VNX, and VMAX & DELL COMPELLENT ARRAYS) that have been migrated.
• Created Data devices for thin pools on VMAX.
• Created and re-balanced thin pools on VMAX.
• Used storage scope to generate reports.
• Used SPA (symmetrix performance analyzer), ECC performance manager to monitor performance.
• Fabric SAN switches setup and management including fabric directors, Core Edge fabric setup, ISCSI, SAN setup, zoning on Fabric switches, Fibre channel HBA configuration and installation, Brocade Director DCX, RAID and storage systems.
• Trained offshore team by doing a complete knowledge transfer on VMAX, CLARIION, and VNX & DMX.
• Used VERITAS Volume Manager with Storage Administrator.
• Implemented Time Finder Clone and Snap.
• Maintained storage arrays using ECC control center.
• Created complete documentation to the customer for storage allocation on VNX and VMAX storage arrays.
• Submitted zoning for new hosts to existing VMAX and VNX storage arrays.
• Involved in troubleshooting the issues during the migrations and boot from SAN hosts.
• Trained client’s storage team onsite and planned the whole migration project.
• Submitted zoning templates to the network team.
• Created scripts for migrations, allocations & reclaims at the client site.
• Created Data stores and RDM’s on ESX servers.
• Installed and configured Symmetric management console, symmetrix performance analyzer, solutions enabler on management server to manage the symmetrix V-MAX.
• Allocated disks to all servers for all platforms (Windows, Linux, and UNIX & Solaris).
• Used storage scope to generate storage reports of servers using scripts.
• Troubleshooting all the issues while migrating servers, remediation, allocation & reclaims.
• Created storage groups, Initiator groups and Port groups and masked devices in VMAX.
• Performed all day-to-day activities creating tickets for all the activities in the environment.

Confidential, PA

Storage System Administrator

Environment: NetApp FAS 6000 and 3000 series Storage Systems, DFM Operations Manager, Performance Advisor, Brocade switches, UNIX, Windows, Snap Manager for SQL, Snap Drive, Snap Mirror, Stats pack, On Command System Manager, SAN, NAS, CIFS, NFS, Data ONTAP 8.x-7 mode.

Responsibilities:

• Installation, configuration and maintenance of NetApp Filers FAS 6000, FAS 3000 filers.
• Proactively determine business requirements, understand critical success factors, timelines and current infrastructure to successfully position projects and deliverables.
• Installed and configured HP Data Protector for the management of auto online and offline Backups of servers and monitoring the backup logs for verifying backups and backup medias.
• Installed and upgraded VERITAS Volume Manager and VERITAS file systems on some of the infrastructure servers.
• Proactively determine business requirements, understand critical success factors, timelines and current infrastructure to successfully position projects and deliverables.
• Contribute to the improvement and enhancement of NetApp consulting best practices
• Used FlexClone technology for cloning data from Production to Development and QA environments.
• Projects involved multivendor Enterprise and Modular storage arrays including HDS, HP, StorageTek, EMC, HNAS/NAS, Multi-vendor fabric switches including Brocade switches and Brocade DCX directors, Cisco MDS 9500 and Nexus NX-OS, HP Fabric, HP Enterprise and midrange storage, SAN remediation, SAN Storage refresh projects, data migration, HP Blades, Virtual Connect FlexFabric, HP SIM, VMware vSphere I&C, Business Continuity architectural design and Implementation, SAN Storage integration with VMware and build and support of Oracle Solaris and Linux.
• Planning and administering major portions of the implementation and engineering efforts including Designing/architecting major components, Task Management, Client Deliverables, Communication with Clients and management.
• Configured Storage Systems including Aggregates, Volume creation, Volume resizing, Raid Groups, QTrees and Quotas.
• Used FlexClone technology for cloning data from Production to Development and QA environments.
• Ran PerfStat, PerfMon and other reports using Performance Advisor on filers to capture performance data for performance monitoring and health checkups.
• Worked with customers to find the RTO and RPO requirements suitable for their needs and configured snap shots for backups and DR using Snap Drive and Snap Manager for SQL
• Monitored customer request queue, assured proper work flow of implementation of storage systems from conception through completion.
• Configured Auto supports, DFM Alerts, Performance Monitoring using Performance Advisor
• Configured Thin Provisioning for optimum storage utilization and kept track of storage space to monitor over subscription.
• Configured thresholds, capacity management using DFM/Operations Manager software.
• Maintained run-books and procedural documents of the storage environment for Knowledge transfer among team members.
• Determining and driving strategy decisions, process changes, and business initiatives.
• Performed tasks necessary to fulfill service level agreements with end-users regarding storage allocations, limitations, security, and availability.
• Planning, preparation and implementation of Data ONTAP and firmware upgrades.
• Created the users and groups in the network to assigning privileges to the users to access the resources. Performed Backups to tape drives from servers and also performed Restore operation.

Confidential

SAN Administrator

Environment: EMC V-MAX, DMX-4/DMX-3, DS8300, IBM SVC, VNX, CX3-80, CX500/700,Cisco MDS 9513 and McData 6400 Enterprise Director, SYMCLI, ECC6.1, SMC, Unisphere Manager, Navisphere Manager/CLI, VNX, Time Finder, Snap View, Mirror View, SAN Copy, Open Replicator, Cisco CLI/Fabric Manager and EMC Power Path, Celerra Manager and DATA Ontap, AIX, Solaris, Windows 2008/2003/2000 and Linux.

Responsibilities:

• SAN Administration of a complex multi peta byte storage environment consists of EMC Symmetrix VMAX/DMX4, Clariion arrays and IBM SVC storage arrays including file system configuration in AIX, Solaris and Linux servers/clusters.
• Storage allocation to new build and existing UNIX, Windows servers/clusters and VMWare ESX environment using auto provisioning on V-max using SYMCLI/SMC.
• Provisioning storage to UNIX, Windows and ESX servers from DMX4/DMX3 arrays using SYMCLI/SMC
• Configuration and management of Cisco Fabric environment. Tasks include creation of device alias, zones, adding zones to zone set and activating zone set.
• Implemented thin provisioning from VMAX to UNIX (AIX, Solaris and Linux) and Windows2003/2008 (clusters) servers, and VMware ESX Servers.
• Configuration and management of VNX arrays using Unisphere Manager. Assigned storage to Unix and windows servers and configuration of NFS exports and CIFS shares using Unisphere manager
• Implemented SRDF/A on V-Max/DMX for disaster recovery setup between local and remote datacenters
• Created scripts for daily tasks device creation, mapping, masking and migration tasks.
• Troubleshooting routine critical issues including threshold optimization, server throughput, ports availability, meeting zoning requirements, one-path down, enabling the path on source or destination arrays, data not migrated, host not seeing storage and storage management problems.
• Administration of FAS6000 systems including creation of file systems, exporting and mounting CIFS/NFS shares using Filer View
• Configuration of file systems on AIX, Solaris and Linux servers/clusters using AIX native volume manager, VERITAS volume manager
• Migrated Unix and windows servers using Open replicator and SRDF (array based) and Open Migrator/LVM Mirroring (Host based) to migrate the data from DMX-3/DMX-4 to V-Max storage systems
• Migrated data successfully from CX600/CX700 to CX4-240 using Mirror View/S and SAN Copy and CX600/CX700 to DMX-3 to DMX-4 using Open Replicator /Open Migrator.
• Installed and configured Power Path for AIX / Solaris /HP and Windows Operating Systems to support the load balancing and failover features among the HBAs on the system and also installed Symcli software.

Confidential

Storage Test Engineer

Environment: Data ONTAP 6.x, 7.x, CLARIION CX series, NetApp 3040 and 3070, FAS 2020, FAS960c.

Responsibilities:

• Maintained a healthy NetApp storage by Configuring vFiler, qtree, volume, aggregates and snapshots usingData ONTAP, Filer View, and Data Fabric when required.
• Created Aggregates and Volumes in NetApp FAS 960c, FAS2020 and FAS3040 usingFiler View.
• Implementation and support for a SAN/NAS network, based on a NetApp FAS 960c, FAS2020 and FAS3040.
• Provided capacity planning, storage expansion, storage creation and presentation as well as all zoning activities on the Brocade Fiber Channel switches.
• Add switches into current production SAN fabric. Monitor and response to SAN related issues, escalate to vendors if needed.
• Migrated 30TB of Storage using Snap View and Mirror View.
• Extensively Worked on SYMCLI to implement and Setup the SAN environment for disaster recovery test procedures.
• Deployed and executing Disaster Recovery plan using Snap Mirror Replication, snap restore.
• Migrated the data between NetApp Filers FAS3040 and FAS 3070 using Snap Mirror.
• Hands on Experience with Veritas NetBackup.
• Designing, architecting and implementing bunker and remote replication using NetApp.
• Extensively worked on Snap Mirror and Snap Vaulttechnologies.