SUMMARY

• Over all Professional 7+ years of experience in design, implementation and management of storage infrastructure, utilizing best practices and documented processes to maintain highly available and high - performance storage environment in both block and file level storage systems.
• Extensive experience in the areas of HP Storage, Hitachi Storage, EMC Storage, NetApp Storage on Linux, Unix and Windows operating systems.
• Created CIFS and NFS shares on HNAS 4080 and Troubleshoot NTP skew/ time drift issue in HNAS.
• Configuration of the CCI server for the HORCM files.
• Performed troubleshoot Hitachi System center operations manager.
• Storage Provisioning on Hitachi USP arrays through Storage Navigator.
• Storage Provisioning on Hitachi HUSVM arrays through Storage Navigator 2.
• Configuration of the CCI server for the HORCM files.
• Migrated data from mac server to HDI using Rsync.
• Migrated data between HUS150 to HDI.
• Configuring and Troubleshooting FAS3200 Series NetApp Filers.
• Monitoring and Administration of FAS3240/FAS3270 Filers.
• Decommissioned NetApp Filer (FAS3140).
• Upgraded Ontap, from - 7.3.4P6 to 8.0.2P4, 8.0.1 to 8.0.3P2, 8.0.2.P5 to 8.1.1 and 8.1.1 to 8.1.2P1
• Extensive experience in replication technologies such as Sync IQ, Snapshot IQ for the management of replication of data for a disaster recovery(DR) site.
• Expertise in EMC ISILON One FS 8.0 in file cloning, tracking and re-writing the shadow file.
• Immense knowledge on complete EMC ISILON architecture which includes S,X,HD and SD series to maintain high performance, high density and high availability of the storage environment.
• Worked on creating SMB shares and NFS mounts on ISILON using ONE-FS and CLI..
• Worked on CIFS/NFS and multi-protocol migration from NetApp to ISILON cluster by using ISILON Vol copy.
• Hands-on experience to Analyze performance of the ISILON Cluster using INSIGHT-IQ.
• Hands-on experience on AWS gateway protocols.
• Team member in installing and configuring of cloud array for CIFS using AWS S3.
• Worked on creating cloud pools in a cloud storage account using EMC ECS.
• Experience with Storage provisioning, Qtree, SNAP Shot, SNAP mirror, SNAP restore, VOL copy, SNAP manager.
• Creation of CIFS shares, NFS exports and configuration of user mapping in Data Ontap environment on NetApp Filers..
• Experienced in Zoning, Mapping, Masking, Meta creation, Device group creation, Continuous Data Protection (TimeFinder, Snapview), continuous remote replication (SRDF, Mirrorview), and concurrent local remote Replication (SRDF/AR).
• Good knowledge of disk storage technology, RAID levels, RAID groups, logical volumes and networking including NAS, SAN, ISCSI, Fiber Channel, TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, FCIP, IFCP.
• Experience on SAS controllers by communicating with SATA drives.
• Hands-on experience on Qlogic 2700,2690,2670 Fibre Channel (FC) single, dual and quad-port adapters in enterprise data centers.
• Worked on clustered data ONTAP for the scalability, flexibility and transparency of the cluster.
• Configured and Deployed, various file solutions like EMC ISILON One FS 8.0/7.2, VNX, VMAX, Net-app FAS 8040, 6280, 6070/6030, 6040, 3270/3170, 2220, 2040.
• Experience in deploying, Administering, troubleshooting Brocade DCX-4S, DCX 8510-4
• Worked on CISCO MDS 9513, 9500, 9000 multi layer director class switches.
• Experience with System managerData ONTAP 8.3, ON Command Core package, On command unified manger 6.x and Filer view.
• Managed and Administered VNX for Block and File storage using Unisphere.
• Ability to manage VMAX using Unisphere and SYMCLI and perform storage provisioning.
• Maintaining SRDF connections to send through the remote configuration arrays using SRDF links.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Storage Array: Hitachi: Hitachi HUS VM, VSP, G1000, G800, Hitachi USP V, HUS 150, 130, AMS 2500, AMS 2300 & AMS 2100, HNAS 3100. NetApp: FAS 8040,6280, 6240, 6230,6040, 3270, 3240, 3220, 3170, 3140, 2240, 2220, 2040. EMC VMAX, XtremeIO, VNX-5700, EMC ISILON.

SAN Switches: Cisco MDS 9513, 9509, 9506, 9124, 9148 and Brocade 48000, 5100, 5300,8510

Storage Management Software: NetApp 7-mode, CDOT, FAS filers, On Command Core Package (5.1, 5.2 and 5.2.1), On Command System Manager (3.0 and 2.0), Snap Mirror, Site Recovery Manager, SRA, ESX, Flex Clone, SNAP manager. One-FS, Unisphere, Navisphere, Time finder, Brocade CLI, Brocade Fabric Manager, Brocade web tools, Cisco CLI, Cisco Fabric Manager, Cisco Device Manager.

Protocols: TCP/IP, LAN, WAN and Fiber Channel, SMB 3.0,2.0,1.0, NFS

Operating Systems: Sun Solaris 8/9/10, IBM AIX 5.1/5.2/5.3, Windows 2k/2k3/2k8/XPHP-UX 10.x/11.x, UNIX.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Buffalo, NY

Storage Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Created CIFS and NFS shares on HNAS 4080 and Troubleshoot NTP skew/ time drift issue in HNAS.
• Managed and administered Hitachi VSP G1000, VSP, USPV and HUSVM storage frames.
• Performed storage provisioning on Hitachi G1000, VSP and HUSVM using HCS 8 Storage navigator 2.
• Configured and managed HDP Pools on G1000 and VSP Storage arrays.
• Virtualized EMC and HUS150 Arrays to Hitachi G1000 and VSP using Universal Volume manager.
• Virtualized EMC and HUS150 Arrays to Hitachi G1000 and VSP using Universal Volume manager.
• Migrated data from mac server to HDI using Rsync.
• Migrated data between HUS150 to HDI.
• Performed replication using HUR, TC and shadow image.
• Performed troubleshoot Hitachi System center operations manager.
• Team member in Interfacing with assigned Hitachi Data Systems storage engineers to manage the implementation of all additional storage infrastructure and storage services.
• Storage Provisioning on Hitachi USP arrays through Storage Navigator.
• Storage Provisioning on Hitachi HUSVM arrays through Storage Navigator 2.
• Performed fabric upgrades to V3.0.1.
• Solved many HNAS permission issues.
• Configuration of the CCI server for the HORCM files.
• Virtualized AMS 2500 to Hitachi VSP Using Universal Volume Manager and migrated data using HTSM.
• Configured Hitachi Dynamic Provisioning Pools on AMS 2500 and AMS2100.
• Implementation, administration and maintenance of high end storage arrays like NetApp FAS6080/6040, FAS 3270/3170/3070 , FAS3240/3140, FAS2040/2020, FAS270, EMC Celerra NS120/480/960, VNX5300/5500 and Clariion CX 120/480 and 960.
• Configuring and Troubleshooting FAS3200 Series NetApp Filers.
• Monitoring and Administration of FAS3240/FAS3270 Filers.
• Decommissioned NetApp Filer (FAS3140).
• Created aggregates/volumes/Qtrees in a NetApp environment.
• Upgraded ONTAP from 7.3 to 8.0 on 200 NetApp systems during various weekend GZ.
• Supported Qtrees, creation and exports through NFS
• Creating LUNs, Zones and iGroups to connect initiator with target.
• Restored single files, directories, LUNs and volumes from snapshot backup using Snap Restore.
• Upgraded Ontap, from - 7.3.4P6 to 8.0.2P4, 8.0.1 to 8.0.3P2, 8.0.2.P5 to 8.1.1 and 8.1.1 to 8.1.2P1
• Configuring SnapMirror, SnapReserve, allocating & deallocating shares to UNIX and Windows Clients from NetApp storage systems.
• Configured and Administered Open System SnapVault and SnapRestore for backup and restore operation in Netapp NAS Environment.
• Administer NAS Environment using DataFabric Operations Manager.
• Configured the replications using SnapMirror on NetApp and Celerra on EMC Celerra and VNX
• Assisted the Team in Resolving Level 3 Issues in the Environment Configuring windows ISCSI Boot LUN for the environment.
• Configuration of LUNs assigned by the storage administrators, and managed Volumes using LogicalVolume Manager (LVM) on Linux. Created ZFS file system in Solaris 10 using Zpool and ZFS and created Veritas file systems 5.0, RAID 0, 1, 5 volumes

ENVIRONMENT: Hitachi: Hitachi HUS VM, VSP, G1000, G800, Hitachi USP V, HUS 150, 130, AMS 2500, AMS 2300 & AMS 2100, HNAS 3100, FAS6080/6040, FAS 3270/3170/3070 , FAS3240/3140, FAS2040/2020, FAS270, EMC Celerra NS120/480/960, VNX5300/5500 and Clariion CX 120/480 and 960.

Confidential, Jackson, MS

Storage Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Proficient in using EMC Management software's such as SRM, Unisphere, Navisphere Manager and Navisphere CLI for storage provisioning to servers and setting up connectivity and managing the storage environment.
• Managed Brocade 48000 using Brocade CLI, Web tools and Cisco 9513 and 9509 using Cisco CLI, Device Manager and Fabric Manager Tools.
• Creating and Managing Virtual Machines and Templates.
• Monitoring of Virtual Machine's & ESX servers (CPU, Memory, Disk and Network Utilization) for Security.
• Moving VM's from one LUN to another LUN using Storage V-Motion.
• Knowledge of protocols such as NFS and CIFS, FC, and ISCSI.
• Good knowledge of disk storage technology, RAID levels, RAID groups, logical volumes and networking which including NAS, SAN, ISCSI, Fiber Channel, TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, FCIP, IFCP.
• Provided day to day support of the Net backup environment.
• Team member in day to day Support of EMC disk arrays and worked with EMC support to troubleshoot and resolve any hardware issues.
• Worked on ISILON shares and CIFS management, creating, troubleshooting for the development and production of VMWARE and LINUX hosts.
• Worked on multi-protocol migration from NetApp to ISILON cluster by using ISILON OneFS7.2vol copy.
• Managed Virtualization Lab environment using VMware Server.
• Configured and administered Fiber Channel Switches (Brocade and Cisco) and performed zoning using Connectrix Manager.
• Team member in installing and configuring of cloud array for CIFS using AWS S3.
• Worked on creating cloud pools in a cloud storage account using EMC ECS.
• Hands-on experience on AWS gateway protocols.
• Experience in replicating storage using SYNC IQ for a file based replication in ISILON OneFS 8.0.
• Worked on replication technologies such as File-clone, SNAPSHOT IQ for the flexible and easy management of the replicated data to the disaster recovery site(DR) in ISILON OneFS 7.2.
• Migrated NetApp filers from 7 mode to Clustered Data ONTAP (C mode).
• Strong experience in SAN data migration solutions that include EMC OpenReplicator, SRDF, Replication manager and VNX SAN Copy.
• Worked on VNX RecoverPoint Multi-Site Replication to provide data protection across multiple sites.
• Create RAID Groups, Bind LUNs, and created Storage Groups using Navisphere Manager and Unisphere.
• Implemented VMware ESX server to provide multiple virtual hardware platforms while keeping hardware costs and energy consumption down.
• Creating smart quotas for the monitoring and enforces of administrators-defined storage limits.
• Created smart connect to specify the connection balancing configuration strategy.
• Worked on creating and maintaining smart pools for the optimization of space performance and cost.
• Team member in creating smart locks for the data protection at accidental, premature and deletion.
• Installed and configured Brocade 48K switches and was involved from the starting stage of fabric migration from Brocade 12K/3900 switches to Brocade 48K.
• Implemented a core-edge topology of Brocade 48k connecting the large environment.

ENVIRONMENT: Brocade 12K/3900 switches, Brocade 48K switches, Data ONTAP,EMC ISILON OneFS 8.0/7.2, Cisco 9513, Cisco 9509, SRM, cloud array, cloud pool, AWS gateway protocols, Unisphere, Navisphere Manager and Navisphere CLI, Cisco CLI, NAS, SAN, ISCSI, Fiber Channel, TCP/IP, VNX 5700, DNS, DHCP, FCIP, IFCP, ESX.

Confidential, Cincinnati, OH

Storage Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Administered daily upkeep of Sun Solaris & HP systems and Local and Wide Area Networks LAN/WAN along-with providing technical support 24/7 to the end users and related troubleshooting.
• Configured volumes for CIFS / NFS and upgraded Data ONTAP v7.2.3 to v7.3.7 via NFS.
• Worked on EMCISILON S-Series for high performance NAS storage and high IOPS using a single cluster.
• Worked on EMC ISILON HD-Series for high density and data protection.
• Team member in Providing expert level support for a VMware ESX environment with over 50 hosts on Cisco UCS hardware.
• Worked on configuring Aggregates, Volumes, Qtrees, Sync mirror Snap mirror, Snapshots & Snap Vault.
• Worked on analyzing the performance of ISILON cluster using INSIGHT-IQ.
• Team member in adding and deleting of nodes in ISILON cluster.
• Worked on day-to-day cluster maintenance and creating/deletion of nodes in the cluster using EMC ISILON OneFS 7.2.
• Maintaining of Net-App FAS 8040,6280, 6240, 6230,6040, 3270, 2240 filers.
• Migrated Net-App filers from 7mode to Clustered Data on Tap.
• Storage provisioning on VMAX using Unisphere and SymCLI.
• Worked on Open Replicator software to execute data migration from existing CX-700/DMX to new VMAX storage arrays.
• Expertise in Implemented FAST, Virtual and Thin Provisioning on VMAX storage array.
• Performed Zone administration on the fabric to do migration according to requirements.
• Monitoring, troubleshooting and resolving routine issues such as one-path-down, hosts unable to see storage, HBA failures, and zoning/masking/storage allocation and performance issues to ensure business continuity.
• Assisted onsite engineers in making configuration changes, installing new software packages, performing upgrades, installation and array initialization.
• Storage EMC Symmetrix DMX3/4, VMAX10K/20K, VNX5300/5700, ISILON X200, S200,NL200, Celerra, Clariion, HDS VSP G1000, Net-App FAS Series.
• Hands on experience on Replication Software EMC Time finder, SRDF, EMC ISILON Sync IQ, EMC Celerra replicator V2.
• Managing HP Storage works (XP10K/12K/24K) VSP, VSPG1000, Net-App, EMC VMAX 20K, VNX IBM SVC, Cisco MDS Switches and Brocade Fiber Channel Switches.

ENVIRONMENT: EMC ISILON OneFS 7.2, EMC VMAX10K/20K, VNX5300/5700, ISILON X200, Celerra, VNX, Net-App (7-Mode) FAS series, CISCO MDS Switches, Cisco UCS, VMware ESX,VMAX10K/20K, VNX5300/5700, EMC ISILON X200, XP10K/12K/24K) VSP, VSPG1000.

Confidential, Bellevue, WA

Storage Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Configured Snap mirror and Snap Vault relationships among the different filers using Netapp.
• Worked on Verifying that the hosts have necessary disk space, pre-requisite software installed, network access and communication between hosts works as required.
• Working on Applications and services that are to be stopped or disabled and user accounts are set up as required in the Installation Guide.
• Provide validated production filer name(s) and Vfiler name(s).
• Actively involved in updating the Host remediation reports by uploading the grabs onto the Heat utility to meet the latest support matrix for the servers that are planned for Migrations.
• Team member in migrating data at disk level from DMX-3, HP XP's to EMC VMAX Storage and from HP EVA 8000 to EMC Clariion CX4-960 using Open Replicator, Open Migrator and PPME Host Copy.
• Installed ECC 6.1 UB7, Performance Manager, Storage Scope, ECC Java Console and applied appropriate patches required to update them. Also installed Master/Host Agent, WLA, Clariion, SMI-S, FCC, VMware and Symm/SDM Agent.
• Installation and Configuration of Raid groups, storage groups and disk mirroring.
• Team member in Planning and implementing DR solution overEMC VMAX SRDF/Time finder, Sync IQ and its policy’s for robust Disaster Recovery solution(DRS).
• Hands-on Data migration planning and implementation by thorough analysis of customer infrastructure and project deliverables.
• Worked on, Level-2 Storage which involves a detailed analysis of an Array and Host related problems using CAP, Triage, SPQ tools etc.
• Knowledge of protocols such as NFS and CIFS, FC, and ISCSI in Netapp.

ENVIRONMENT: EMC VMAX SRDF, DMX-3, HP XP's, HP EVA 8000 to EMC Clariion CX4-960, ECC 6.1 UB7, NFS, CIFS, FC, ISCSI.

Confidential, Phoenix, AZ

Storage Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Worked on Ensuring effective memory management by appropriately creating volume groups, associating physical & logical volumes to the volume groups, and creating suitable file systems.
• Designing and Building Storage for a new Oracle Database Bulk build orders.
• Installation and configuration of Hi-Track monitoring software.
• Created and configured RAID groups, resizing, binding LUN's through Navisphere manager and Navi CLI.
• Scheduled and monitored daily and weekly process on each server.
• Configured and administered Fiber Channel Switches (Brocade and Cisco) and performed zoning using Connectrix Manager.
• Coordinated with System Administration team that constituted Distributed System Operations.
• Provision power, space and cables for FAS 3270 and FAS 3240.
• Setting up Volume and Qtree Security settings.
• Setup and manage single and multimode VIF’s, IP spaces, etc.

ENVIRONMENT: FAS 3270 and FAS 3240, Navi CLI, VIF, IP Spaces.

Confidential

Storage Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Application Rollout and deployment
• VMware (ESX, Workstation)
• GPMC (Desktop application deployment, Share folder permissions)
• Alert Monitoring (SCOM/ Virtual Centre)

ENVIRONMENT: VMware.