SUMMARY

• 7 years of experience as a Storage administrator supporting multiple platforms and applications.
• Experience in configuring and administering VMAX, DMX 4/3, VNX 5100/5300/5500/5700 , Clariion CX4 480/960 and CX 700, NS - 20/80/480/960 Storage Arrays.
• Good experience in using Confidential Time Finder BCV/Clone/Snaps, SRDF/A, Open Replicator, Mirrorview/ SnapView, SANCopy and Open Migrator.
• Good understanding about VPLEX.
• Expertise in using and implementing teh storage protocols like NFS, CIFS, ISCSI, SCSI etc.
• Install, configure, and troubleshoot Brocade, Cisco MDS and McData fiber channel fabric switches along with Emulex and QLogic HBAs.
• Strong in providing SAN security using Zoning, Masking & Mapping.
• Experience in configuring VMAX, DMX 4/3, VNX 5100/5300/5500/5700 , Clariion CX4 480/960 and CX 700, NS- 20/80/480/960 Storage Arrays.
• Strong hands-on experience with Confidential solution Enabler, Symmetrix management console (SMC), Unisphere, VNX Monitoring tool.
• Expertise with management consoles, Confidential Control Center(ECC), CLARiiON Navisphere Manager/Analyzer/NaviCLI, and Event Manager),
• Knowledge and experience with storage migrations and replication solutions using Open Replicator, SRDF, SANCopy.
• Knowledge on VBlock and Cisco UCS Blade Servers.
• Provided teh SAN and NAS storage to VMware ESX servers in ESX clustered environment.
• Proficient in learning new technologies and quickly adaptable to new environment.
• Excellent analytical problem solving capability, communication, knowledge transfer and interpersonal skills with ability to interact with individuals at all levels.
• Experience in performing storage provisioning on Confidential Clariion and Symmetrix storage arrays.
• Involved in Virtual Migrations using storage.
• Experience in VMware ESXi 4.1/5.0 environment implementation and SRM.
• Good knowledge on Confidential FAST and FAST VP.
• Experience with HP-3PAR F200, F400 storage arrays and day to day administration tasks associated to it.
• 24x7 on Call Support for Troubleshooting.
• Installed VMware ESXi server 4.0 and created virtual machines on ESX Servers. Created standard images and deployed servers from teh images.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Hardware: Confidential Symmetrix VMAX, DMX-3, DMX 3000, DMX 1000, Clariion CX3-40, CX3-80, CX4-480, CX 300/500/700, Brocade DCX, Brocade 48000, Brocade 4900/4100, CISCO MDS 9513, MDS 9506, VNX 5100, VNX 5300, VNX 5500, VNX 5700, VNX 7500, HP P2000 G3 MSA.

Management Software: Solutions Enabler, Symmetrix Management Console, Unisphere, Navisphere Manager, Brocade Connetrix Manager, Brocade Web Tools, Cisco Fabric Manager, Cisco Device Manager,MirrorView/Synchronous/Asynchronous,SnapView,SRDF/Synchronous/Asynchronous, TimeFinder, Confidential Control Center, Symmetrix Performance Analyzer, Storage Scope, SAN Copy, Confidential Recover point- Replication Manager, Open Migrator, Open Replicator, PowerPath Migration Enabler (PPME), Navisphere Analyzer, NaviAgent.

Operating Environments: Windows 2000/2003/2008 , SUN Solaris 8/9/10, AIX 4.3/5.x, VMware 3.5/4.0, HP-UX 11.x, Red hat Linux 4.0, 5.0, 5.x.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Washington, D.C

Storage Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Been part of teh transition team to acquire knowledge and take-over teh services of teh environment from Western Union. Had alot of knowledge transfer, shadowing, reverse shadowing sessions with teh team.
• Storage environment consists of Confidential VNX 5700, 5600, 5100, CX 4-240, 4-120, 500 and HP P2000 G3 MSA storage systems with Cisco mds and HP san switches.
• Performed code upgrades on teh VNX’es and HP P2000 systems in teh environment.
• Performed Confidential SanCopy to migrate 40TB of data off CX 4-240 to VNX 5700.
• Configuring zoning on Cisco mds, nexus and Brocade switches using Cisco Fabric Manager, DCNM and putty.
• Working on Confidential Recover Point to seamlessly replicate and maintain Business for teh critical data in teh environment.
• Performed code upgrade of Recover Point from version 3.5 SP1 P1 to 4.0 SP2 P2.
• Worked on documentation and prepared RunBooks. Documented many RCA’s post trouble-shooting.
• Installation and configuration of new VNX arrays in teh environment.
• Daily tasks include operations and administration. Responsible for handling storage systems distributed across teh globe.
• Performed on-call duties and addressed many p1 issues.

Confidential, NYC

Stroage Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Providing efficient and reliable storage allocation in teh environment typically consisting of Vmax 20k’s, CX3-80’s, HP 3Par; troubleshooting storage related issues and taking appropriate actions.
• Planning and implementing SAN migration from various third party arrays to Confidential VMAX 20k using Open Replicator (Hot Pull). Generating Confidential grabs, reports and migration readiness reports prior to teh migration.
• Setting up teh Brocade 7800's for teh FCIP migration.
• Creating teh LSAN zones and doing teh pre migration prep work.
• Basic hands-on experience on HP 3Par(P7200, V800, T800), Dell Equallogic PS 6000, Xiotech arrays.
• Working on teh Brocade DCX switches using teh GUI Web Tools and even teh Putty for CLI.
• Experience in creating Common Provisioned Groups(CPG), Virtual Volumes(VV), creating Hosts, exporting Virtual Volumes to Host, creating Virtual Domains, Domain object and managing Domain objects inHP-3PAR.
• Worked on teh ESRS IP installation for teh new Confidential equipment in teh environment. monitoring teh alerts.
• Initiating storage replication between sites using SRDF and local replication using Confidential TimeFinder.
• Solutions Enabler Installation, Installation and configuration of Confidential Powerpath Multipathing on all teh hosts prior to teh migration.
• Performed Open migrator for some of teh hosts dealing with Quorum drives and Tempdb drives.
• Worked in collaboration with offshore team to smoothly transition from HP 3par snapshots to Confidential clones.
• Monitoring, analyzing teh performance issues if any, post migration to Confidential Vmax using teh Storage Performance Analyzer.

Confidential, Towson, MD

Storage Technical Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for Storage provision in large storage environment with over 1 - 50 TB of SAN storage requests of Confidential Symmetrix VMAX and DMX &Brocade Enterprise SAN/NAS connectivity switches.
• Used Time Finder (BCVs and Clones) for configuring point-in-time mirror copies of production data and provisioned them to secondary host/servers for Data warehousing and Application testing purpose.
• Hands on experience in teh day to day SAN related tasks, Zoning, Meta Creation, mapping and masking. Creating Raid Groups & Storage groups assigned LUNs to Hosts using SMC, SYMCLI on VMAX.
• Reclamation of Devices/ports for Storage reclamation. Decommissioned old DMX3 from teh environment.
• Implemented Thin provisioning on Symmetrix DMX-4 by creating TDEVs, adding TDATs to thin pool and binding TDEVs to thin pool using Solutions Enabler.
• Worked on 24K and 48K Brocade switches using Web Tools (GUI) and Putty.
• Copy backups were a part of teh routine. Performed on-call duty to troubleshoot teh critical issues raised during teh copy backups.
• Data Migration using HP 3PAR Peer Motion from F/S/T class to V400/V800 and migrated data using MPX200 from old arrays to P10000
• Provisioning storage from Hitachi systems using Hitachi Device manager web GUI (Hitachi command suite 7).
• P2P migration of ESX3,4 to ESX5 hosts upgrades. P2P migrations between VMware ESX and Hyper-V, P2V migrations for server consolidation, V2V migration of virtual machines.
• Worked in teh data center to perform all teh storage related activities which included establishing fiber connections from servers to teh switch, storage arrays to teh switch.
• Been a part of teh many Storage array upgrades and bin file upgrades.
• Involved in teh NAS migrations ( Celerra to Isilon)
• Performed Rootvg migrations from DMX4 to VMAX.
• Configuring teh SRDF/A/S R1-R2 pairs and starting teh data synchronization across teh Symmetrix VMAX/DMX storages.

Confidential, Madison, Wi

Storage Technical Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Administration of storage environment consisting of VMAX, Clariion CX4-480, VNX, Celerra connected to Windows, Solaris and AIX servers via Brocade DCX directors.
• Configured SRDF/S and SRDF/A between two VMAX’s to setup replication.
• Documented work books on VMAX and Clariion in teh environment.
• Created reports of storage arrays VMAX, VNX using unisphere and collected teh Fabric logs.
• Generated Confidential HEAT Reports by uploading Confidential GRABS to check teh compatibility of teh hosts prior to teh Migration. Worked on few projects during teh tenure.

Confidential, Cleveland, OH

Sr. Storage Ops

Responsibilities:

• Daily duties involved Storage allocations from VMAX and also Cisco switched zoning.
• Created initiator group, port group and storage group as a part of storage allocation from Symmetrix VMAX.
• Created Masking View and associated initiator group, port group and storage group to it.
• Created Meta devices, mapped and masked devices to servers using SYMCLI and SMC.
• Implemented Thin provisioning on Symmetrix VMAX by creating TDEVs, adding TDATs to thin pool and binding TDEVs to thin pool using SYMCLI.
• Created alias, zones and added them to active zone set on Cisco fabric using Fabric Manager and Device Manager.
• Zoned new HBAs whenever their is a failure in teh HBAs of a particular host using Fabric Manager.
• Performed some basic storage provisioning on IBM SVC’s.
• Analyzing teh performance of Symmetrix using Symmetrix Performance Analyzer.
• Owns any storage issue that arises in teh enterprise, delegating tasks as appropriate but tracking items to completion.

Confidential, New York

Storage Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Configuring and managing VNX 5300, VNX 7500 series.
• Planning of migrations from Clariion to VNX using SAN COPY.
• Implementing storage provisioning using Unisphere.
• Planned and migrated teh production CIFS and NFS environment from NS-20 and NS-80 to VNX 5300 using Celerra replicator and VNX replicator.
• Deployed CIFS environment from Physical Data Movers to Virtual Data Movers and also resolved performance issues.
• Managed teh file and block level storage and recover point using Unisphere and Recover point device manager.
• Worked with Recover Point-Replication Manager and created Consistency groups for devices and successfully replicated data to teh DR site.
• Planned and updated RPA’S to teh latest version 3.3.SP2 and comprehensively troubleshooted issues pertaining to VNX 5500, VNX 5300 and Recover Point.
• Creating pools, RAID groups for block level storage.
• Creating CIFS, NFS shares for file level storage.
• Implementing Virtual Provisioning, which includes concepts like Thin Lun/Thick Lun, Meta Luns, Lun migration, Lun expansion, % full threshold.
• Expertise in Power path, VNX snap sure, VNX snap view, FAST cache, FAST VP.
• Provided capacity planning, storage expansion, storage creation and presentation as well as all zoning activities on teh Brocade Fiber Channel switches.
• Add switches into current production SAN fabric. Monitor and response to SAN related issues, escalate to vendors if needed.
• Migrated data using Snap view and Mirror View.
• Planning and implementing migration of teh enterprise storage infrastructure from CLARiiON CX3, DMX-3, to VMAX using Open Replicator.
• Provided documentation procedures for future use for SRDF/A using SMC and SYMCLI.
• Documented and implemented VMware ESX servers for Virtual Infrastructure Consolidation.
• Installed VMware ESXi server 4.0 and created virtual machines on ESX Servers. Created standard images and deployed servers from teh images.
• Configuration, Administration and Monitoring HA, Fault Tolerance and DRS Clusters in Virtual center Server 3.5 and 4.0.
• Creating and managing Virtual Machines and Templates. Working with snapshots of Virtual Machines
• Configured VMware HA, VMware DRS and Fault Tolerance in acquiring higher efficiency for VMware Virtual Infrastructure.

Confidential, TX

Storage Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Provisioned storage to Windows, Linux and Solaris servers from Symmetrix DMX-4, DMX-3 storage arrays using Solutions Enabler and Symmetrix Management Console.
• Performed thin provisioning for Symmetrix DMX-4 storage array by creating TDEVs, adding disks to thin pool and binding TDEVs to thin pool.
• Used Navisphere Manager to create Raid groups, Storage groups, Meta LUNs, LUNs and assigned LUNs to teh hosts.
• Implemented SRDF/S replication between two Symmetrix DMX-4 storage arrays.
• Exported device groups and imported device groups on teh stand by Solutions Enabler server.
• Configuring Celerra Replicator on Celerra systems for Local and Remote Replication after creating checkpoints
• Worked on disaster recovery solution using MirrorView/S on Confidential Clariion.
• Configured TimeFinder clone and BCV by using Solution Enabler.
• Implemented data migration from Clariion CX 500 to DMX-4 using Open Replicator during Clariion retirement.
• Created reports using StorageScope and divided storage evenly among teh FA ports on various Symmetrix DMX.
• Pull SP collects of storage processor of a Clariion using Navisphere Manager

Confidential

SAN Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Confidential CLARiiON CX series: Installation, configuration and maintenance.
• Responsible for Clariion CX500, CX700.
• Implemented Snapview Clone and Mirror for some critical applications.
• Allocating Luns to hosts using Navisphere Manager on teh Clariion Array.
• SAN (Brocade, McData and Cisco MDS) design and implementation of all types of fiber channel switches.
• Deployed all types of SAN: Fiber, DAS or ISCSI
• Installation, configuration, and deployment for Dell | Confidential SANs in Windows, Linux, and Solaris environment incl. Confidential layered applications
• Provided installation and support of storage area networks (SAN), Fibre Channel Configuration, Fabric (zoning) & LUN Management, and host attach configuration and setup.