SUMMARY

• Over 8 years of IT experience in the areas of Systems, SAN and Storage technologies with emphasis on EMC VMAX, EMC VPLEX, Clariion, NetApp OnTAP8.1 (7 - mode and cluster mode), Brocade and Cisco SAN Switches.
• Excellent experience in administration, configuration, troubleshooting of high-end disk storage systems in 24x7 mission critical production environment.
• Expertise in Multiple vendors Storage administration such as EMC and Netapp.
• Configured and administered Fiber Channel Switches (Cisco) and Zoning.
• SAN Switch administration using CLI, Brocade Web tools and Cisco Fabric manager.
• Extensive knowledge of NAS and SAN storage, including managing major migrations and deployments, maintenance, and troubleshooting solutions.
• Excellent on planning for to fix the open hardware and software issues on storage environment Administration of Storage Arrays and Fabric Switches.
• Expertise in maintaining documentation during storage allocation to hosts, replication of data, migration of data, zone and port allocation information.
• Excellent on planning for to fix the open hardware and software issues on storage environment
• Involved in daily tasks like Storage provisioning and SAN monitoring.
• Excellent customer management/resolution, problem solving and debugging skills with good verbal/written Communications and presentation skills
• Problem solving, task prioritization, communication and organization skills.
• Able to work in a deadline environment. Can work efficiently in a team and also on individual tasks.
• Expertise in LUN Management - Creating, formatting and mapping to target.
• Good Experience in Multipathing and LUN management.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Hardware: VMAX-20k, DMX-3/4, DMX 2000, Clariion CX4-960/480, CX3-80/40, CX 700/500, Celerra NS480/960, VNX 5100/5300, VNX 5500, 7500, EMC Centera; Network Appliance FAS 6000 series, FAS 2000\3000\6000 series, FAS 3240, FAS6240, FAS3140 and FAS3270; IBM NS5600, Hitachi 9900v, McData 3232, Brocade Silkworm (200E, 3800, 5000, 12000, 24000, 48000, 49000, DS-16B, DS-16B2), Cisco MDS 9216 switches, and, Storage Tek series.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential - Spring, TX

Sr Storage Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Analyze current environment and gather requirementworking with EMC and NetApp.
• Assisted with Cisco network configuration for Cisco Port-Channels, V and NetApp If-Groups.
• Migrated data and workloads from NetApp 7-Mode 7.3, 8.1 and 8.2 nodes to NetApp CDOT 8.3 clusters.
• Configuring CIFS servers on EMC NAS and creating cifs shares.
• Configuring NFS servers and support of multi-protocol environments.
• Data migrations between multi-vendor systems. Hands on experience in performing DR related tests and changes.
• Managed 5500\5700 and legacy Celera systems.
• Data migration completed using VMware Storage vMotion, RoboCopy or NetApp 7MTT tool where applicable.
• Worked with CommVault engineers to provision CIFS-based Media Agent mount-points from new CDOT systems.
• Managing EMC Clariion storage arrays CX3,CX4,VNX and Configure and installing Cisco MDS Switches and doing migrations from old Switch to New Switch.
• Managing day to day netapp and EMC VNX file services environment. Creating filesystems and LUN allocations.
• EMC checkpoints and replication management
• Managing NetApp FAS3240, FAS 8080 storage arrays for file and replicating data using snap mirror.
• Managing E-series E5488,E54600,E5400,E5560.
• Managing storage on and V6250, V7000.
• Working with vendors for hardware and software upgrades.Monitoring the storage critical Events using DFM.
• Extensively working on cDOT Administration.
• Data Migration from 7-Mode to cDOT using ndmpcopy and Snapmirror(8.2).
• ONTAP Upgrades for 7-Mode and cDOT Storage Systems.
• Configuring and scheduling new Snapmirror relationship by peering up source and destination Vservers.
• Working on Capacity Management to bring the aggregates/volumes/Qtrees under threshold.
• Performed upgrades on disk firmware, shelf firmware, SP/RLM Firmware activities
• Involved in hardware replacements(MB, DIMM, CF Card, NVRAM, SAS Cards etc..) with the help of Area Ops.
• Managing in DATA ONTAP upgrades(7-MODE & cDOT).
• Upgrading Firmware & NVSRAM File for E-Series Storage Systems.
• Troubleshooting Performance issues in the complex environment. Setting up and troubleshooting NFS, CIFS, and SAN (FC and ISCSI) Environment.
• LUN creation Masking and Mapping. Provisioning of LUNs (FC and ISCSI) in a distributed server environment.
• Performing Deduplication on the volumes (Backup Environment)

Confidential - Houston, TX

Storage Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Analyzing hardware issues on Storage and SAN, coordinating with Venders to get it fix.
• Implementation and managed data storage such as EMC VMAX, VPLEX, HP XP, IBM and NetApp.
• Managed around 16PB of Storage from different flavors of Enterprise Storage Systems.
• Performed SAN Fabric Segregation, Zoning, Modifying configuration, and Firmware upgrades on Cisco MDS.
• Administration of NetApp filers in CIFS & NFS environment and NDMP backup.
• Expertise in allocating storage from NetApp NAS FAS 3000 series, FAS 6000 series filers, managing volumes, Qtrees and Quotas.
• Perform day to day NAS operations at client site. Participate in project meeting, integrating legacy environments to strategic datacenters and business requirements gathering.
• Testing and Integrating vendor software, best practices in configuring new filers across various datacenters.
• Handle NAS Projects requiring NAS Solutions for user and application Data.
• Providedesigns as per business requirements (Netapp and VNX).
• Lead the effort from design, procurement, configuration, installation, QA and release for provisioning. Provide L2/L3 support for Netapp and EMC NAS devices.
• Perform daily system health checkouts, Monitoring, capacity management, forecasting and performance analysis.Clustered Data ONTAP 8.2.X offers the additional option of a single-node cluster configuration. This is intended for smaller locations that replicate to a larger data center.
• NetApp OnCommand System Manager, OnCommand Unified Manager, OnCommand Workflow Automation, and other NetApp applications are available for management, configuration, and monitoring of clustered Data ONTAP systems.
• Cluster-interconnect are a private, dedicated, redundant network used for communication between the cluster nodes and for DataMotion data migration within the cluster.
• Each cluster can have one or multiple SVMs, allowing the cluster to host isolated independent workloads and applications.
• In clustered Data ONTAP 8.2, Infinite Volumes can coexist with standard SVMs and support both NFS and SMB client access.
• To migrate data fron 7-mode to cDOT, we can use 7-mode transition tool, snapmirror.Simplify, automate, and increase productivity while lowering IT costs. Clustered Data Ontap license keys are node locked.
• Involved Zoning, Storage provision and configuring Multipath and Server decommission projects. Managed assorted issues on Storage and SAN environment like port errors and hardware fails.
• Administration of NetApp filers in CIFS & NFS environment and NDMP backup.
• Involved large storage environment consisting of VMAX, DMX, VNX, Vplex, NetApp and Cisco MDS Enterprise directors,planning, commissioning and configuring of a new VMAX, VNX and NetApp storage arrays.
• Experience in DMX and VMAX with the new VMAX systems using VPLEX and SRDF.
• Performed encapsulation on VPLEX for existing storage arrays and migrated data to new arrays through device mobility.
• Created Port Channels. VSANs, Zones and Zonesets on Cisco Fabric.
• Migrated data from Clarion to VNX using SAN Copy
• Created Time Finder/Clones and Time Finder/Snaps from production LUNs for backup and testing
• Experience in Implementing FAST policy.
• Participate in the planning and execution of Disaster Recovery exercises.
• Diagnose and resolve complex problems involving software, servers, storage arrays, directors and switches.
• Conducting the performance tuning, capacity planning and troubleshooting in the event of system slowness and disasters.
• Collect EMC Grab reports, SP Collect and upload to emc ftp sites and work with EMC support.
• Experience in encapsulation and migration of LUNs from DMX to VMAX with Enginuity code 5876 using VPLEX, Older Production VMAX array to a new VMAX using VPLEX.
• Migrations using VPLEX (VS1, VS2), Local/Metro configurations.
• Implemented VPLEX Local for managing data mobility and access within the data center
• Experience in setup and installation of VPLEX metro solution for high performance and availability.
• Created distributed devices, rule sets in VPLEX metro configuration to migrate data between datacenters and for global visibility on the devices for remote access.
• RecoverPoint implementation/configuration for performing replication of data to and from remote sites.
• Experienced in automating the RecoverPoint procedures with Replication Manager Environment.
• Configured and implemented EMC RecoverPoint replication between an EMC Symmetrix VMAX for different hosts.
• Created local and remote copies using RecoverPoint.
• Patch-planning and Zoning on Brocade Switches.
• Vendor coordination in case of any hardware failures or new hardware procurement.
• Supporting the production environment and participating in the scheduled on-call process.

Confidential - Harrisburg, PA

Storage Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Created Aggregates, Volumes, Qtrees, Luns and assigning to Filer and Upgraded the disc firmware and shelve firmware on NetApp Filer.
• Assist NetApp professional services to configure new NetApp filers from scratch
• LUN Management - Creating, formatting and mapping to target
• Configured shares and provided access to clients using NFS and CIFS. Set up disaster recovery solution
• Extensively worked on NAS filers, setup, aggregate creation, volumes, Qtree both NFS and CIFS
• Worked on creating NAS shares, qtree and assign to the client to map the shares.
• Netapp 8.0 Cluster mode setup and training. DFM and On command setup and maintenance.
• Increased size on Aggregates, Volumes, Luns
• Performed a Local Full SAN Copy of Clarrion LUN and made it visible to other host
• Storage configuration, monitoring and analyzing event, alert logs and taking appropriate actions, trouble shooting skills in storage environment and problem solving
• Hands on experience on ONTAP 7.x with excellent understanding of Netapp data protection technologies like snapshot, snapmirror and snap vault
• Experience with: Dedupe, Thin Provision, Snap Mirror, SnapManager for SQL,
• Good Understanding of Ethernet protocols
• Analyze and resolve escalated problems within targets and prepare root cause analysis
• Extensively worked on Replication using Snapmirror, Snap vault
• Configured Dedupe on volumes and extensively worked on Ops Manager for montiroing and Reporting
• Worked on NetAppSnap manager
• IBM DS8000, DS6000 and DS4000 series, SVC with 4 node cluster, IBM XIV, DSCLI. Creating/managing SVC nodes, hosts and IO groups, Mdisk. Lun allocation, Deallocation, WWPN Maintenance, solving problem tickets related to zoning, allocation and WWPN etc.

Confidential

SAN Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Analyzing hardware issues on Storage and SAN, coordinating with Venders to get it fix.
• Involved Zoning, Storage provision and configuring Multipath and Server decommission projects.
• Good hands on zoning and LSAN zoning and Port Allocation by using DCFM.
• Recommended and implemented various best practices on hosts, storage arrays and SAN switches
• Created run books for zoning, storage allocation, data migration, and switch migration.
• Involved Configuration and Implementation of data replication solutions.
• Managed assorted issues on Storage and SAN environment like port errors and hardware fails.
• Good hands on zoning and LSAN zoning and Port Allocation.
• Recommended and implemented various best practices on hosts, storage arrays and SAN switches
• Created run books for zoning, storage allocation, data migration, and switch migration.
• Created documentations for daily activities on Symmetrix VMAX, andNetApp.
• . Experience in creating and provisioning thin and thick luns.
• Collected the LUN details of the servers- drive letters, capacity, and HBA information for Encapsulation of LUNs into VPLEX.
• Extensive knowledge on Thin provisioning, good understanding of benefits, risks, and how to effectively design and manage a thin provisioned storage environment.
• Provided subject matter expertise and represented as the highest level of technical escalation for enterprise storage technologies.
• Good knowledge and hands on experience on FAST VP /Implementation. Worked on VLUN migration based on the client requirements/performance considerations.
• Configure NFS and CIFS on VNX File and Isilon.
• Installing and configuring the Brocade switches and upgrading the code, updating the licenses.
• Troubleshoot storage issues working closely with the System Administrators and product vendors to obtain a long-term resolution.
• Troubleshooting complex Storage problems and determining root cause.
• Participate in application and server consolidation efforts.
• Analyze storage performance, collect performance reports and prepare summary reports.

Confidential

System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Involved in installing, configuring and troubleshooting Windows 95, 98, NT workstation/server 4.0 and Windows 95, 98 PCs in a network of over 2000 computers and phone support.
• Installed, configured, and troubleshot associated local and network applications Including software and other development tools.
• Supported browsers such as Netscape navigator and internet explorer.
• Supported MS Exchange, MS Outlook and MS Office.
• Created new and modifying previous group policies and user profiles for NT domain users for implementing security features on NT workstations.
• Installed Windows on servers and configured internet and LAN connectives between servers.
• Performed password recovery for the users, changed passwords and deleted the existing users.
• Performed backups to tape drives from servers and also performed restore operation.
• Troubleshot and resolved the issues related to installation of operating systems, hardware problems, printers and scanners and internet connections.
• Managed the disks by creating partitions, new file system for every partition and Mounting the file system to a mount point.

Confidential

Jr System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for helping integrate the Windows server and desktop environments with the Unix server and desktop environments
• Contributed to the design, testing, and roll out of new company system developed in house to replace failing 3rd party hardware solution
• Contributed to the design, testing, and roll out of workstations
• Primary system administrator providing support to groups including accounting, tools, HR, & security.