SUMMARY

• EMC proven professional Associate with 8 years of experience in SAN/Storage/NAS/CAS Administration
• Experience in day - to-day BAU storage provisioning, reclamation of storage for decommissioned hosts, and troubleshooting EMC Symmetrix VMAX3/VMAX2, XIO (Xtrem e IO), VNX/Unity, Pure for Block storage solutions, and Experience in administration of EMC Isilon for File storage solutions using CLI and GUI tools
• Extensive experience in Storage Area Networks and virtual storage technologies including EMC-VMAX, VMAX3, SRDF, VNX, Isilon, Xtreme IO, ECS, Netap- ONTAP(Cluster), OCI, PURESTORAGE, VMWare Vsphere 6.0
• Deploy, configure and manage new SAN architecture. Storage to new-builds/existing servers/RAC clusters/ESX nodes/Hyper-V of various host OS flavors (AIX, Solaris, Linux, VMWare ESX nodes and Windows) from Dell EMC enterprise storage arrays EMC VMAX, VMAX3, VNX/Unity and XtremeIO (XIO) arrays
• Experienced in configuring and administering SAN Fabric Switches/directors using both CLI and DCNM for Cisco MDS and using Brocade web tools, BNA and CLI.
• Experience in implementation of disaster recovery solutions using EMC SRDF/A, SRDF/S on EMC VMAX arrays and Mirror View/A on VNX and Unity arrays. Extensive experience with developing Business Continuity solutions for mid-level to enterprise level organizations.
• Experience in implementing EMC Business Continuity Solutions using Clones/Snapvx for local replication copy for backups etc.
• Experience in Dell EMC Isilon arrays to configure NFS exports, SMB shares, Setting up replication using syncIQ and Setting up point-in-time snapshots using snapshot IQ.
• Familiar with Dell EMC ECS (Elastic Cloud Storage) for Object storage solutions for S3 and CAS protocols. Created namespaces, buckets, users, and Configured Replication between VDCs
• Installed and configured VMware ESX, ESXi, within vSphere 6 environments with Virtual Center management, VMotion and VMware Data Recovery.
• Proficient in SAN related host connectivity for various Operating systems, Solaris/Linux/AIX/Windows operating systems
• Prepared and documented Standard Operating procedures for Storage/NAS and SAN related tasks.
• Worked on various Pri-1, Pri-2 issues related to SAN/NAS and storage issues and coordinated with vendors for any hardware replacements and code upgrades.
• Worked with application teams, platform teams to resolve performance issues or various issues related to storage.
• Experienced with ITSM tools such as ServiceNow, Remedy for incident, service requests and problem management
• Familiar with Ansible, Python for configuration and automation of BAU storage tasks
• Experience in virtualizing servers and storage in enterprise level environments
• Design, Implementation and Management of Vblock system 300,500 & 700 platform encompassing VMware vSphere Virtualization, Cisco UCS computing system, EMC VNX/VMAX/Xtremeio storage and Cisco Nexus networking
• Knowledge of business impact of current and emerging storage architectures (FC, iSCSI, NAS, OSD, SAN)
• Strong knowledge of digital transformation to a Cloud Native architecture, On-Prem, Public Cloud, Provisioning Automation, and Containers
• Knowledge of VMWare, Local Area Networking, Ethernet, TCP/IP and general networking
• Manage all system monitoring and support resources to maintain 24/7/365 operation of all system.
• Resolves configuration/ product problems as they arise.
• Provides supervision and guidance to technical and configuration teams.
• Works with the Product Owners to inform various stakeholders about any problems with the current solutions being implemented.
• Strong decision making and critical thinking capabilities.
• Possesses sound analytical problem-solving and documentation skills.
• Manage multiple priorities and continuously look to prioritize individual scope.
• Comfortable working with minimal supervision and possesses excellent interpersonal skills and teaming skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Storage Arrays: Dell EMC Symmetrix V-MAX/VMAX3, XtremeIO, VNX/Unity, Pure Arrays, Confidential XIV and SVC for Block Storage, Isilon,Netapp for File Storage, ECS for Object Storage

SAN Switches: Brocade and Cisco MDS switches/directors

SAN: Storage Software EMC SYMCLI, Unisphere for VMAX, VNX, SRDF/A, Time Finder BCV/Clone/snapvx, XMS GUI, Isilon one FS GUI/CLI, ECS GUI, Brocade CLI, Web tools, Brocade BNA, Fabric/Device Manager.

Operating Systems: AIX, and Windows, RedHat Linux

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Responsibilities:

• Supported multi-Petabyte storage environment consists of complex or hybrid storage infrastructure for providing block, file, and object storage solutions for various critical and non-critical applications.
• Storage allocation to new build and existing UNIX, Linux, Windows servers/clusters and VMWare ESX environment using auto provisioning on VMAX using SYMCLI/Unisphere.
• Implemented DR solutions for EMC VMAX/VMAX3 arrays using SRDF/A and SRDF/S for tier-1 applications.
• Worked on BAU tasks to allocate storage to new/existing servers from XtremeIO using XMS console by creating new volumes, creating hosts/clusters, mapping new volumes to the hosts and configured/enabled snapshot policies
• Configured NFS exports, SMB shares and Setting up replication using syncIQ and Setting up point-in-time snapshots using OneFS GUI for Dell EMC Isilon.
• Worked on Confidential XIV and SVC for day to day provisioning, reclamation, configured local replication and remote replication for DR.
• Familiar with ITSM tools to manage incidents, changes and service requests and problem related tasks.
• Configuration and management of Cisco Fabric environment using DCNM, CLI. Tasks include creation of device alias, zones, adding zones to zoneset and activating zoneset.
• Storage reclamation from decommissioned servers including san port reclamations.
• Reclaimed storage and san ports for the decommissioned hosts by ensuring host HBAs not logged into SAN. Deleting masking views, storage groups, initiator groups, and unbinding tdevs and deleting tdevs.
• Configuration and management of Cisco Fabric environment. Tasks include creation of device alias, zones, adding zones to zoneset and activating zoneset.
• Created the VSANS and added the interfaces, created the device-aliases zones and added the zones to zonesets and activated the zonesets using CLI fabric and device manager for MDS cisco switches
• Created aliases, zone and added newly created zones to existing active configuration and enabled it by using CLI and web tools for brocade switches/directors.
• Review and analyze performance of SAN switches, ports, storage arrays using OCI (OnCommandInsight).
• Troubleshooting routine critical issues including connectivity issues, 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.
• NetApp Power down activities, Lift & Shift activities, GSLB Activities, 3 tier GSLB fail over and fail back activities.
• Planning, designing and deployment of netapp cdot high availability cluster solutions in the enterprise storage environments
• Define the standards to Configure the cdot cluster such as svms, network interfaces, volumes, vaults, schedules etc
• Relocated netapp production cluster array to new data center during the data center migration. Responsible for planning, coordination, and implementation of all the storage tasks.
• Installed and configured VMware ESX, ESXi, within vSphere 6 environments with Virtual Center management, VMotion and VMware Data Recovery.
• Developed python scripts for daily BAU provisioning and reclamation tasks.
• Familiar with ansible for configuration management and drift monitoring.

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Storage Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Administration of SAN/NAS storage environment consisting of EMC VMAX, VNX, XtremeIO for Block storage and EMC Isilon for File level storage solutions.
• Storage allocation to new build and existing UNIX, Linux, Windows servers/clusters and VMWare ESX environment using auto provisioning on VMax using SYMCLI/Unisphere.
• Implemented DR solutions for EMC VMAX using SRDF/A, and for XtremeIO using RecoverPoint.
• Worked on BAU tasks to allocate storage to new/existing servers from XtremeIO using XMS GUI by creating new volumes, creating hosts/clusters, mapping new volumes to the hosts, creating consistent groups for replication and implementation of remote replication etc.
• Configuration and management of Cisco Fabric environment using DCNM, CLI. Tasks include creation of device alias, zones, adding zones to zoneset and activating zoneset.
• Created the VSANS and added the interfaces, created the device-aliases zones and added the zones to zonesets and activated the zonesets using CLI fabric and device manager for MDS cisco switches
• Created aliases, zone and added newly created zones to existing active configuration and enabled it by using CLI and web tools for brocade switches/directors.
• Reclaimed storage and san ports for the decommissioned hosts by ensuring host HBAs not logged into SAN. Deleting masking views, storage groups, initiator groups, and unbinding tdevs and deleting tdevs.
• Also removed/deleted zones for the decommissioned hosts and deleted device aliases
• Supported multiple quarterly DR tests and remediated numerous DR configuration issues
• Troubleshooting routine critical issues including connectivity issues, 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.

Environment: VMAX 20K, 40K and VMAX3-250F, VNX2, XtremeIO, EMC Isilon OneFS 7.1.1.4, 7.1.1.6, XtremeIO XMS 3.0.3, SYMCLI 8.4, Cisco MDS 9513, Unisphere/Symcli, VMware VSphere 5.5, Cisco MDS, Brocade DCX SAN RecoverPoint.

Confidential, Bloomington, IL

Responsibilities:

• Support of 24x7 Mission Critical Production environment, EMC Enterprise storage arrays VMAX/VMAX3, and VNX storage arrays.
• Administering of enterprise SAN environment consisting of EMC VMAX-3, VMAX-2/1, VNX, Cisco, and Brocade Switches connected to several Windows, UNIX, and ESX clusters multiple data centers.
• Storage Provisioned using Auto-provisioning groups of VMAX. Implemented storage groups, port groups, and initiator groups and masking views using SymCLI.
• 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.
• Experienced with Implementing and Administrating THIN Provisioning & performing LUN expansions in VNX.
• Experience in creating thin pools/RAID groups, binding LUNs, storage groups, and registering hosts as per customer requirements on VNX block.
• Implementing and Maintaining FAST Cache and FAST VP in VNX and Configuring and managing Network for Block and File in VNX.
• Implemented Virtual Provisioning in VNX using Unisphere and implemented FAST VP.
• 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.
• Storage Provisioned to Production and DR Cluster servers from Symmetrix DMX and VMAX arrays in Single and multi-hop replication environment by implementing SRDF/S, SRDF/A, Time Finder Clone/Snap technologies.
• 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.

Environment: VMAX 40K, VNX 7500, Solution Enabler (SYMCLI 8.4), Unisphere, SRDF, CISCO MDS9513, 9509, Brocade DCX-4S/8S Data Center Network Manager (DCNM), Cisco Fabric Manager, Device Manager, Brocade CLI/Web tools/BNA.