SUMMARY

• 8+ years of excellent experience as Storage Engineer and Administrator.
• Excellent experience in administration, configuration, troubleshooting of disk storage systems such as EMC VMAX, VMAX3, Symmetrix/DMX, CLARiiON, VNX, Isilon IBM SVC, IBM XIV, Storage systems in 24x7 mission critical production environment.
• Good experience in installation, configuration and administration of Brocade, Cisco and McData Switches and fabric management.
• Experience with SYMCLI, NAVICLI, NaviSphere Manager and Connectrix Manager
• Experience in implementing Business Continuity Solutions using Clone/SnapShot at CLARiiON level and TimeFinder Mirror/Clone/Snap and SRDF, RoboCopy and SAN Copy
• Expertise in Integration of storage on different databases like SQL & ORACLE.
• Installation & configuration of PowerPath on UNIX and Windows servers for Path Failover and Load Balancing.
• Good experience with NAS device EMC cellera NS960, Isilon
• Good experience in Microsoft, VMware and AIX platforms as it relates to disk allocation, managing LUN's and HBA configuration.
• Implementation and design, applying EMC best practices, troubleshooting and update RUN books for various EMC products include VMAX3, VPLEX, VNX.
• Brocade Switch Migrations in different fabrics
• Worked on Data mobility and batch migrations from VMAX to VNX using VPLEX.
• Experience with ticketing tools such as Teamtrack, HPSM, SCCD and ISM
• Analyzing and Handling Hardware problems/failures like Memory, Disk’s, CPU’s, SCSI interfaces
• Prepared operation support Documents using visio.
• Thorough understanding of hardware and cabling in Data centers
• Experience in handling incidents and problem tickets and documenting the root cause analysis and reporting. Implemented the changes in production environment.
• Very keen and enthusiastic, constant desire to learn. Self starter with drive, initiative and a positive attitude. Able to meet very stringent deadlines and always deliver results even under pressure.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating System: Windows, Unix, Vmware

High end disk systems: EMC - Symmetrix DMX, Clariion, VMAX, VNXIsilon, VPlex

SAN switches: McData, Brocade & CISCO

SAN Management software: SYMCli, Navisphere, Unisphere, NaviCli, MirrorviewTimeFinder, SRDF, Robocopy & PowerPath.

NAS platform: EMC celerra, VNX, Isilon

Archiving: EMC centera

Programming: C, SQL

Office Skills: MS visio, project

Ticketing Tools: HPSM, Teamtrack, ISM, SCCD

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Arizona

Storage Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Daily monitoring on EMC Clariion, Symmetrix, VMAX, DMX, Cellera NS80, NS960, VNX, Isilon.
• Allocated storage from Clariion, Symmetrix, VMAX3, VMAX2, VNX, Isilon.
• Migrated Storage from Clariion to VNX and DMX to VMAX using Host based migrations such as PPME, VMotion and Unix native tools for Data-at-rest Encryption Project
• Migrated RDM luns using EMC SAN Copy migrations from Clariion to VNX
• Run cables and plug them into switches, arrays etc.
• Installed and configured new VNX arrays in all the remote sites for Migrations
• Monitor Capacity and Performance for all the inventory using Vipr SRM
• Worked with EMC Engineer on Isilon Cluster upgrades
• Created Pools, Filesystems, qtrees and configured replication on VNX.
• Create smart quotas, smart pools, CIFS and NFS shares on Isilon.
• Setup replication between DMX, VMAX to VMAX using SRDF A/S.
• Participated in several Disaster Recovery Tests and had successful results.
• Implemented FAST VP on VMAX arrays
• Performed VLUN migration on both VMAX and VNX arrays.
• Assisted VMware admin’s during VM migrations in the environment
• Performed Code upgrades on all EMC Products.
• Troubleshoot NAS issues on Celerra and VNX, Isilon.
• Troubleshoot SAN issues on Clariion, DMX and VMAX.
• Configured and Administered Brocade 48K, DCX, 8510 switches.
• Performed Brocade switch migrations and Fabric Merge’s in different fabrics using CMCNE.
• Installed Brocade SAN switches 6520’s and upgraded the FOS from v6.4.1 to v7.4.1
• Performed zoning from CMCNE and CLI on brocade switches
• Performed Fabric Merges and switch migrations on Brocade switches.
• Successfully Decommissioned older arrays such as Clariion, DMX, Celerra after the migration
• Created documentation for Provisioning, zoning and replication procedures.
• Provide 24x7 Oncall technical supports to maintain SLA also for break fix and upgrades.
• Experience working with change management and incident management ticketing tools

Confidential

Storage Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Daily monitoring on EMC Clariion, Symmetrix, VMAX, Cellera NS80, NS960, VNX, Isilon.
• Worked on Vmax such as creating port groups, initiator groups, storage groups, masking views etc. Also allocated storage to different platforms.
• Installation, Configuration and integration of VNX5500/5700 with the Windows and UNIX environment, experience with CIFS, NFS, LUN management, Managing Quotas and permissions, managing disks.
• Migrated Storage from Clariion to VNX and DMX to VMAX using Host based migrations such as PPME, VMotion and Unix native tools.
• Worked with EMC Eingineer on Isilon Cluster upgrades
• Created Pools, Filesystems, qtrees and configured replication on VNX.
• Create smartquotas, smartpools, cifs and nfs shares on Isilon.
• Configured and Administered Netapp 3240 filers.
• Configured and Administered VNX and NS960’s.
• Implemented FAST VP on VMAX arrays
• Performed VLUN migration on both VMAX and VNX arrays.
• Assisted VMware admin’s during VM migrations in the environment
• Performed Code upgrades on all EMC Products.
• Troubleshoot NAS issues on Celerra and VNX, Isilon.
• Troubleshoot SAN issues on Clariion, DMX and VMAX.
• Configured and Administered Brocade 48K, DCX and McData switches.
• Performed remote replication on CLARiiON arrays using Mirrorview technology.
• Performed remote replication on Symmetrix arrays using SRDF.
• Created and Implemented FAST on VMAX Arrays.
• Generate Capacity and Performance reports using ECC, Prosphere
• Allocated Storage from IBM SVC, XIV to multiple Operating Systems
• Successfully Decommissioned older arrays such as Clariion, DMX, Celerra after the migration
• Performed several DR Tests.
• Provide 24x7 Oncall technical supports to maintain SLA also for break fix and upgrades.
• Experience working with change management and incident management ticketing tools (ISM, SCCD)

Confidential

Storage Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Daily monitoring on EMC Clariion, Symmetrix, VMAX, Cellera NS80, NS960, VNX
• Allocated storage from Clariion, Symmetrix, VMAX, VMAX3, VNX
• Planned and Performed Migrations from DMX to VMAX using PPME and native AIX tools
• Installation, Configuration and Integration of EMC VNX with the Windows and UNIX environment
• Experience with CIFS, NFS, LUN management, Managing Quotas and permissions, managing disks.
• Migrated 15000 CIFS (Home Directories) from Celerra to Netapp 3240 Filers using emcopy and robocopy.
• Configured and Administered VNX and NS960’s.
• Assisted VMware admins during VM migrations in the environment
• Performed Code upgrades on most of the EMC Arrays.
• Troubleshoot NAS issues on Celerra, VNX, Isilon
• Troubleshoot SAN issues on Clariion, DMX, VMAX and VMAX3.
• Configured and Administered Brocade 48K, DCX and McData switches.
• Performed remote replication on CLARiiON arrays using Mirrorview technology.
• Performed remote replication on Symmetrix arrys using SRDF.
• Implemented FAST on VMAX Arrays.
• Generate Capacity and Performance reports using ECC and Storage scope.
• Successfully Decommissioned older arrays such as Clariion, DMX, Celerra after the migration
• Performed several DR Tests.
• Provide 24x7 Oncall technical supports to maintain SLA also for break fix and upgrades.
• Experience working with change management and incident management ticketing tools (HPSM, Teamtrack, ISM, SCCD)

Confidential

Storage Adminstrator

Responsibilities:

• Performed Storage provisioning from Symmetrix and CLARiiON arrays to various hosts like Solaris, Linux and Windows based on the requirement.
• Perform daily other storage administration activities such as capacity planning, coordinate plan and break/fix maintenance, perform code upgrades, and adhere to documented storage best practices.
• Installed PowerPath 5.5 software, configured and administrated on Windows Servers.
• Planned and designed the whole process of migration using PPME.
• Migrated data from Clariion CX-340 to CX-960 using PPME in complicated clusteredmenvironment
• Configured and Administered Brocade switches
• On CLARiiON arrays created RAID groups, Luns and expanded Luns using the Metalun feature using the Navisphere Manager Using SymCLI and EMC Control center 6.0 managed and monitored the Symmetrix environment.
• On Clariion arrays, added luns to Reserved Lun pool for usage by the Snapshots. Created snapshots of various luns with existing data, using the Snap View snapshots and presented the snapshots to different hosts
• Performed Cabling for switches between arrays and servers.
• Troubleshoot connectivity, configuration problems related to installation, zoning and allocation of SAN storage.
• Troubleshoot during migration in clustered environment.
• Troubleshoot hardware issues.
• Worked with Backup team in taking daily backups using Symantec Netbackup
• Trained some storage methods and process of migration.
• Prepared technical documentation and developed run book for SAN process.
• Successfully Decommissioned older arrays such as Clariion, DMX, Celerra after the migration
• Documented step by step procedure starting from installation to the whole process of ppme migration, problems faced and troubleshooting techniques.
• Prepared an elaborated document on usage of navisphere and unisphere for clariion.
• Working experience on ticketing tools such as Clarity, Remedy.