SUMMARY

• 5+ years of experience in Storage area Network (SAN) and Network Attached storage(NAS) Administration, Installation & Integration.
• Experienced wif enterprise class storage including NetApp filers, EMC DMX Symmetrix, Clariion CX Series, ECC, NAS Celerra.
• Experience in Configuring data storage in NetApp FAS series filers dat run Data ONTAP 8.0 7 - Mode and lower using CLI and FilerView.
• Worked extensively on a wide range of EMC Suit of products including Powerpath, Solutions Enabler, ECC, Navisphere, Symcli, Navicli, Celerra Manager.
• Creating aggregates, volumes on NetAPP filers and vfilers, configuring NFS exports, CIFS shares and working wif Snapshot, SnapRestore, SnapVault, SnapMirror, Snap Drive, and VolCopy using Data ONTAP.
• Experience on Performance Monitoring of DMX and Clariions using Performance Manager and Navisphere Analyzer.
• Storage provisioning and de-commissioning on EMC CLARiiON, DMX and performing local & remote replications and migrating data using SnapView, MirrorView, SANCopy, SRDF, TimeFinder and Open Replicator.
• Worked on Brocade Director Switches. Used Webtools, Fabric manager and command line utilities to manage the switches.
• Experience in management, installations and performance enhancements of EMC Celerra line of products.
• Good noledge of various backup solutions software’s like Veritas NetBackup, IBM Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) and Legato Networker.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Storage Devices: NetApp Filers(6000 series, 3070, 3020, 2020, 3300), EMC Clariion CX (300,500,600), CX- 3(40, 80), Symmetrix 8000, DMX 2 (200/3000), DMX 3, DMX4.

Operating Systems: Linux (Red Hat ES-4, 5, SUSE), Sun Solaris (8/9/10), VMware ESX 3.0, 4.0, Windows (NT, 2003).

Hardware: NetApp Filers, VTL’s, IBM Blade Servers, Cisco switches and directors, Brocade/McData Switches.

Software’s: Data ONTAP, Filer View, NaviSphere Manager, Solutions Enabler, SnapView, SANCopy, MirrorView, Powerpath, SRDF, TimeFinder, SnapDrive, SnapLock, SyncMirror, SnapVault, VolCopy, FlashCopy, MetroMirror, GlobalCopy, Global Mirror, WebTools, Fabric Manager, DCFM, Connectrix Manager, NaviSphere Analyzer.

Shells/Scripts: Bourn shell, Korn shell, C shell, Perl.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Buffalo, NY

Storage Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Administered all aspects of an advanced storage area network.
• Configured storage on Netapp FAS series and IBM N-Series filers dat run Data ONTAP 8.0 7-Mode and 7.3 using CLI and FilerView.
• Day-to-day tasks involved SAN administration; Configuring Aggregates, Volumes, Qtrees, VFiler, Snapshots, VMs, ESX hosts, Expand volumes, NFS Shares, Operating System Administration, Configuration of mail systems, System Installation, fundamentals of security, installing third party software, etc.
• Performed Filer Installations, Upgraded Data Ontap and firmware on filers, RLM/SP, FC Switches and also installed and upgraded Operations Manager and OnCommand, DFM plugins and other hardware upgrades.
• Provided installation, support, and maintenance of servers and other computer systems.
• Experienced in Racking and Stacking. Installed new equipment in the Data Center racks and cabled them.
• Performed SNMP configurations, Setup FC Switches in IBM Blade Centers, Zoning on Fabric Manager.
• Efficiently Performed weekly/monthly SAN Health checks.
• Created Datastores, Virtual Machines in Virtual Center, Migrated VMs across Datastores, Adding ESX servers in the environment.
• Worked on Autosupports (ASUP) wif the Support team on a regular basis.
• Worked on De-Duplication based on the client requirement.
• Troubleshoot FC Switches, Disk Failures, Quota Exceeded, cannot login to FC switches in Blade Centers, Onsite diagnostics and replacement of hardware components.
• Planned and co-ordinate utilization, and performed growth analysis and capacity planning of SAN.
• Implemented/maintained monitoring and trending for all deployed servers and services.
• Assisted in planning for and responding to service outages and other problems (SLA’s). Also involved in Test planning and Execution.
• Proficient in scripting or light programming.
• Provided leadership and mentoring to other System Administrators.
• Documented the NetApp Storage Configurations and procedures on the internal Wiki.
• Supported a 24x7 staffing model wif on-call shifts dat included weekends and Holidays.
• Other duties as assigned.

Environment: NetApp Filers, IBM N Series Filers, IBM Blade Centers, Qlogic HBAs, Cisco Director switches, Red Hat Linux, VMware ESX

Confidential, Tampa, FL

SAN Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Performed storage provisioning in mutli-vendored, tiered network storage through EMC control center, EMC CLI, Clariion Navisphere.
• NetApp - Configuring data storage in NetApp FAS series and IBM N-Series filers dat run Data ONTAP 7G using CLI and FilerView. Configurations including VFiler, Qtrees, Volumes, Aggregates and Snapshots. Expand volumes.
• DMX Symmetrix- Created metas, mapping and masking wif Symcli and ECC. Installed and configured HBA drivers, upgraded HBA Firmware. Extensive experience on configuring storage devices on Unix machines primarily on Sun Solaris, Red Hat Linux and HP-UX Machines.
• Clariion CX- Installed, configured and implemented CX380, CX700 hardware and software across both UNIX and Windows. Created Raid groups, storage groups and bind luns in Navisphere and NaviCLI. Registered new hosts and presenting LUNs to servers.
• NAS Celerra- Create and export NFS/CIFS File Shares using Celerra manager.
• Installed and configured EMC Powerpath. Ensured all devices were appropriately configured wif the right policies and failover capabilities.
• Performed configuration and zoning on SAN fabric switches using Connectrix Manager (McData Switches) and Brocade Fabric Manager (Brocade switches).
• Troubleshoot host-based connectivity issues related to EMC software (PowerPath, Navisphere, ECC client software and third-party HBA's (Emulex and Qlogic.).
• Configuring, creating, disabling, enabling and validating Alerts.
• Implemented and configured remote data replication for disaster recovery using SRDF/A for Symmetrix DMX.
• Migrated tera bytes of data from decommissioned storage frames to new ones.
• Involved in checking & configuring the visibility of the assigned LUN from the host side.
• Analyzed Brocade SAN health reports.

Environment: NetApp Filers, DMX Symmetrix, Clariion CX Series, Celerra, Navisphere, ECC, StorageScope, Performance Manager, Time Finder, SRDF, Power Path, Shell, NAS Celerra, Qlogic HBAs, Brocade Director switches, Sun Solaris, Red Hat Linux, VMware ESX, HP-UX, AIX, Windows 2003, Veritas VxVM, VCS.

Confidential

NAS/SAN Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installation, administration, integration of NetApp Filers (FAS 2000/3000/6000 ) in UNIX and Windows environment.
• Data ONTAP Administration dat involves good understanding of native Snapshots, SnapMirror, FilerView.
• Updating disk, disk shelf firmware for the purpose of updating DATA Ontap version for 6.5 to 7.2.
• Creation of aggregates, volumes and qtrees on the filers and enabling quotas on the created volumes.
• Configuring NFS exports and CIFS shares for the UNIX and windows clients NetApp accessibility.
• Creation of vFilers and assigning resources to them and concerned wif migration of vFilers between filers.
• Creation of luns and configuring iSCSI initiators for SAN based storage requirements on NetApp storage box.
• Involved in management and configuration of enterprise SAN wif Clariion CX 300/500/700 storage arrays, Symmetrix DMX 1000, McData switches and Brocade switches.
• Registering hosts, binding luns, creating storage groups and providing accessible storage to the hosts using NaviSphere Manage on CLARiiON CX 400/500 environment.
• Manage, configure and allocate storage for Symmetrix DMX 1000 storage systems using EMC Control Center and Solution Enabler SYMCLI.
• Configured and Troubleshooting Emulex HBA connected to the hosts in the SAN environment.
• Implemented zoning on Brocade switches in the SAN Fabric and merging new switches to the existing fabric.
• Closely worked wif the disaster recovery team of CLARiiON dat mainly focused on MirrorView and SnapClones.

Environment: NetApp, CLARiiON CX400, 500, 700, 3-80, Symmetrix, DMX 1000, 2000, Brocade Switches, McData Switches, Data Ontap, NaviSphere, Solaris 8, AIX 5.0, Windows 2003.