OBJECTIVE:

• To work with an organization which can utilize my technical skills and experience in areas of designing, implementing, configuring and supporting SAN and NAS storage infrastructures, with strong experience in IBM, EMC products.

SUMMARY

• A Senior open Systems Storage professional having more than 9.0 Years of IT Industry experience including in SAN, NAS, Backup and Disaster recovery.
• Expertise in multi - vendor operating systems which includes Solaris, Linux, AIX and WINDOWS.
• Hands on experience with EMC Symmetrix, DMX, VNX, VMAX and Clarion, NetAPP.
• Hands on experience with StorageScope FLR and Solutions Enabler 6.0.
• Hands on experience with Unisphere Manager, ECC, Navisphere Manager, NaviCLI, SYMCLI, Time Finder, SRDF and Business continuity.
• Experience with Brocade Fabric Manager and Web tools.
• Deployed various business continuity solutions using BCV’s.
• Experience with installing, supporting, and maintaining high-end servers.
• Experience in adding, removing, or updating user account information, resetting passwords .
• Great understanding of RAID concepts and mirroring techniques.
• Experience in installing, configuring and administration of Cisco and Brocade switches and fabric management.
• Experience with enterprise class storage including SCSI, RAID and Fiber-Channel technologies and the accompanying enterprise class software solutions.
• Hands on experience with zoning, storage provisioning, LUN creation, Mapping and Masking and installing the storage Frames.
• Installed and Configured iSCSI, Fiber Channel, TCP/IP protocols with in SAN/NAS environment.
• SDDPCM, SDDSM, MPIO, Power path installation and configuration on both Windows and UNIX platforms for failover and load balancing purposes.
• Solid experience in identifying and analyzing technical issues and troubleshooting them
• IBM Entry to Enterprise Storage all models XIV/V700 / DS 8000 experience
• IBM N series and NetApp Storages, Creating Aggregates, Volumes, Luns and Qtrees, Quotas, Snap Vault and snapshots and Snap Mirroring and restored files from Snapshots.
• Utilized NetApp Storage Administration using System Manager, FilerView, Management Console, Operations Manager, SSH, RSH.
• Monitor NetApp Systems; configure thresholds, capacity management, using Operations Manager (DFM) software.
• Performed NetApp OS patch and upgrades.
• Implemented NetApp SAN and NAS configurations.
• Troubleshooting netapp issues from snapshots, volume, performance issues.
• Automation of netapp environment to create batch jobs using Perl. E.g.: Email reports for snapmirror failed jobs, failed disks, scanning message logs.
• Provisioning work for netapp NAS and SAN environments.
• Demonstrated experience in NetApp Snapshot, SnapVault and Snap Mirror.
• Created and Configured RAID Groups, Storage Groups, Binding LUNs, Naming, Resizing.
• IBM Virtualization products Tivoli Productivity Centre(TPC), SVC, SSPC
• UNIX flavor experience such as IBM AIX 5.2, 5.3.6.1,7.1
• SUN Solaris 9, 10 and installation, configuration administration, maintenance
• IBM Power series entry to enterprise Servers p5, p6 550, 570, 590 and p7-780.
• Virtualization IBM AIX VIOS and VIOC installation administration
• IBM AIX LPAR, management consoles HMC
• Wintel environment experience Installation, configuration and maintenance
• Excellent Hardware troubleshooting and Hardware up-gradation and Solutions provider.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Tools: & Management Software: EMC DCFM, SymCLI, DATA ONTAP,Unisphere Celerra Manager,EMC Control Center,, Navisphere Manager, Navicli Storage Scope, Time Finder, SAN Copy, SRDF, Power Path, Mirror View. EMC Solution enabler, Unisphere, SMC, Navisphere Veritas net backup, volume managerTivoli Storage manager, Tivoli productivity centerIBM DS 8000 Storage manager

Networking: Brocade Switches, SAN directors.Cisco switches.

Storages: EMC Symmetrix/DMX, CLARiiON CX/FC/VMAX series, VNX, Celerra NAS DevicesNetApp FAS Series, IBM DS Series, Brocade, McData, Cisco MDS Switches.

Servers Hardware: IBM XIV,V7000, 8000 IBM Virtualization devices SVC, TPC and SSPC IBM N-series; IBM P7,P6 -780,590,550,570

SUN SPARC HW: Network Appliance FAS 6000 series, FAS 3070, FAS 3040, FAS3020, FAS980 and FAS270; IBM NS 3040/5600

Protocols: ISCSI, FCOE, FC, FCIP, CIFS, DHCP, WINS, DNS, HTTP, FTP, TCP/IP and NFS.

Operating Systems: IBM AIX 5.2, 5.3,6.1,7.1 SUN Solaris 8,9,10, VIOS 2.2,2.4/ LINUX Windows 95/NT 4.0/2000/2003/2008 server /2012 R2

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Lake County, California

Sr. Storage Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Performed implementation of SAN/NAS with VMAX/DMX/Clarion/Celerra/VNX, created Raid Groups and Storage groups, assigned LUNs to Hosts using Navisphere manager 6.x, ECC, NaviCLI and SYMCLI.
• Maintaining VMAX, DMX/Symmetrix and clarion issues for customers.
• Fixing storage administration issues related to VMAX, DMX, Clariion, Celerra and VNX configuration in production environment.
• Installed NaviSphere Agent/CLI on UNIX & Windows Servers.
• Performed configuration changes with ECC/SYMCLI. Dealt with both open systems (FBA) and Mainframe systems.
• Configuration and management of VNX arrays using Unisphere Manager. Assigned storage to unix and windows servers and configuration of NFS exports and CIFS shares using Unisphere manager
• Involved in Installation and Configuration of NAS device EMC Celerra Ns960/120 and VNX 5500/5700.
• Monitored, analyzed and fine-tuned the performance issues in Clariion/Celerra using EMC Navisphere Analyzer and EMC Unisphere.
• Project managed the consolidation of data from old EMC Celerra and Windows based fileservers onto NetApp filers.
• Used Storage Resource Management (SRM) tools to monitor Storage Area Network infrastructure systems such as CX 480/960, NS120/960 and VNX 5300/5500.
• Experience on troubleshooting Symmetrix VMAX/ DMX errors and hardware failures.
• Implemented and managed switches/directors. Managed switches with vendor specific GUI.
• Installation and Configuration of Raid groups, storage groups and disk mirroring.
• Storage provisioning on Clariion and Symmetrix Systems for Windows, Solaris and AIX hosts.
• Proposed LUN, RAID Group and Storage Group configuration after evaluating company’s present and anticipated growth.
• Created BCVs (Business Continuity Volumes) using EMC Timefinder on SRDFs to offer workload compression, performing backups, increase productivity, etc.
• Installation and management of SRDF, Timefinder and creating BCVs as disaster recovery solution.
• Implemented FAST VP and storage tiring for applications like Oracle.
• Created CIFS shares and configured VNX VDM as CIFS Server for file shares.
• Involved in creation of File systems on the newly allocated disks and assisted the backup team to configure backups using Networker.
• Configured FAST, Virtual Pools and performed Auto provisioning for mapping and masking in VMAX Environment using SYMCLI / SMC.
• Created Aggregates, Volumes, Luns and Qtrees, Quotas, Snap Vault and snapshots and Snap Mirroring and restored files from Snapshots.
• Configured NFS / CIFS on NetApp NAS Filer servers.
• Responsible for the network in general including switches, routers, firewalls, systems (windows mostly) backup/restore.
• Involved in installation of Netappfiler in the environment.
• Coordinated with the system administrators and network administrators to troubleshoot NAS related issues.
• Configured navisphere manager for user authentication.
• Experience in IBM XIV, DS 8000, V7000, IBM N-Series (NetApp filers) Storages.
• Experience in storage administration like Creating RAID groups, mapping LUNs, LUN Masking, Host, Host group and Integrating Hosts like Windows and AIX, Solaris etc.
• Excellent problem solving and troubleshooting skills
• Compatibility check with storages and Servers, OS's as per best practice recommendations.
• Configuring Zoning and activating the zone sets.
• Maintained and supported 1500+ servers.
• Provided 24/7 on call support for all the SAN and NAS systems

Environment: EMC CLARiiON700, CX3-80, CX-4, Symmetrix DMX-3, DMX-4,VMAX, Navisphere 6.X,NaviCLI,ECC, Symcli, SAN Copy, power path, BCV, SRDF, Zoning, TimeFinder,, Brocade 5100, Cisco 9505, 9513 and Cisco MDS 9100 series switches, Fabric Manager, Device Manager, EMC control center, Emulex, Qlogic HBA. DS 8000 / XIV series storages, IBM Tivoli Productivity Centre(TPC) IBM N- (Net app filers) series storages, NetApp FAS3170//3020, Data ONTAP 7.2.3,8.0 Network Appliance FAS 6000 series, FAS 3070, FAS 3040, FAS3020, FAS980 and FAS270; IBM NS5600, FAS 3270/3170/3070 , FAS3240/3140,FAS 2040/2020,FAS 270.

Confidential, CT

Sr. Storage Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for HBA connectivity, Configuring HBA’s, Zoning switches and allocating storage to SAN mostly EMC CLARiiON and Symmetrix and NAS with NetApp and EMC Celerra
• Provisioned storage from CLARiiON using Navisphere 6.X, NaviCli, and zone and tweak the conf files on hosts
• Maintained a healthy NetApp storage by Configuring qtree, volume, aggregates and using Data ONTAP, FilerView®.
• Created snapshots of luns using the Snapview functionality of CLARiiON
• Involved in data migration from CLARiiON to CLARiiON using SANCOPY
• Monitored the performance of the Symmetrix using the Work Load analyzer
• Installed Timefinder and configured Symmetrix Device groups for BCV operations
• Installation & configuration of EMC Control Center (ECC)&Navisphere suite
• Performed firmware upgrade on Cisco and Brocade switches
• Ran EMC grab utility on various operating systems and analyzed and monitored the behavior of the servers.
• Created and administered Celerra volumes, slices
• Configured Celerra Replicator on Celerra systems for Local and Remote Replication after creating checkpoints
• Zone switches, map volumes to FA ports, LUN masking
• Administered and managed switches/directors. Managed switches with vendor specific GUI
• Created, managed and configured snapmirror sessions on NetApp filers
• Fabric Zoning for Cisco MDS and Brocade Silkworm Switches.
• Responsible for installation, configuration and administration of Emulex and Qlogic HBA cards.
• Installation, configuration and administration of EMC NetWorker NetBackup on hosts. Responsible for deploying automated Backup and Restoration using NMC 7.6
• Experience in IBM XIV, DS 8000, DS6000, IBM N-Series (NetApp filers) Storages.
• Implementation, administration and maintenance of high end storage arrays like NetApp FAS6080/6040,FAS 3270/3170/3070 , FAS3240/3140,FAS2040/2020,FAS270,EMC Celerra NS120/480/960 and Clarion CX 120/480 and 960.,
• Created and Configured RAID Groups, Storage Groups, Binding Luns, Naming, Resizing.
• Provisioned and Decommissioned storage from NetApp FAS and EMC Celerra.
• Installed new NetApp and EMC and implemented best practices.
• Perform various methods of data migration from NetApp to EMC and EMC to NetApp and providing the customer with practical methods in transferring large amounts of data to remote locations.
• Upgraded ONTAP from 7.3 to 8.0 on 200 NetApp systems during various weekend GZ.
• Create, configure, and manage CIFS & NFS shares, quotas, groups, and permissions.
• Configuring SnapMirror, SnapReserve, allocating & deallocating shares to UNIX and Windows Clients from NetApp storage systems.
• Administer NAS Environment using DataFabric Operations Manager.
• Configured the replications using snapmirror on NetApp.
• Administered and Managed Multiple NetWorker Servers on different platforms for Problem analysis, troubleshooting, capacity planning and monitoring the Backup environment.

Environment: EMC CLARiiON, Symmetrix DMX-1000, 2000, Celerra NS501G, NS700 EMC NetWorker 7.6, Brocade 3850/3800, Brocade 24k, McData DS32M2/DS16M2, McData 6140, Emulex and Q-logic HBA’s.DS 8000/6000. Network Appliance FAS 6000 series, FAS 3070, FAS 3040, FAS3020, FAS980 and FAS270; IBM NS5600IBM

Confidential - NJ

Storage Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Administered and maintained EMC Symmetrix DMX-2000, DMX-3000, CLARiiON 600 and Celerra NS.
• Assigning storage to hosts, by configuring storage groups, adding LUNs and hosts to the storage groups in the CLARiiON environment using Navisphere Suite
• Storage provisioning to hosts by mapping devices, and performing LUN masking in the Symmetrix/DMX environment using SymCli and ECC
• Managing SRDF in SRDF/A environments for Disaster Recovery solution
• Used Open Replicator for DMXSymmetrixto create remote point-in-time copies, for high-speed data mobility, remote vaulting and migration
• Installed EMC Control Center software on Servers and configured them with Master agents and host agents as well storage agent for Symmetrix
• Monitoring and generating reports using ECC 6.X
• Created and managed raid groups, storage groups, Meta volumes, LUN binding along with performance management and monitoring. (CLARiiON)
• Configured Snapview Snapshots and Snapview Clones on CLARiiON CX Series Sub-Systems
• Created SAN Copy Sessions using Navisphere Manager to perform migration
• Maintained Enterprise Business Continuity/DR data centers by implementing Synchronous and Asynchronous replication using EMC Mirror View
• Involved in Setup of NAS device, EMC Celerra NS
• Troubleshoot NFS, CIFS issues on the EMC Celerra and fine tuned the file server for optimal performance
• Responsible for routine health-check of the SAN/NAS including configuration, documentation, maintenance
• Bringing up new NetApp filers this includes configuring creating Aggregates, Volumes, Qtree, configuring CIFS, NFS and providing the access to different projects and troubleshooting.
• Involved in Installation and Configuration of NAS device EMC Celerra NS501G, NS700.
• Configured Celerra Replicator on Celerra Systems for Local and Remote replication.
• Created Aggregates, Volumes (Traditional, FlexVol and FlexClone), Qtrees and Quotas in NetApp FAS 3040 and FAS 3020 using Filerview.
• Troubleshoot NFS, SAN and CIFS issues on NetApp filers and fine tune the filers for optimal performance.
• Experience in implementing Netapp NAS technology, including configuring shares, CIFS and NFS Administration.
• Configuring the RLM and e0M ports for remote administration.
• Configuring, Administering Snapshots copies and restoring lost files.
• Experience in IBM DS 8000, DS6000, DS4000, IBM N-Series and NetApp Storages.
• Monitoring performance and capacity of the SAN & NAS environment
• Configured and administered Fiber Channel Switches like Brocade, McData and Cisco MDS
• Creating, adding and deleting aliases, zones, and activating zonesets on CISCO switches
• Installed PowerPath software, configured and administrated on UNIX & Windows Servers

Environment: EMC Symmetrix DMX-2000, DMX-3000, CLARiiON 400, Celerra NS600, Legato Networker, NFS, NIS, DNS, Shell Scripts, Emulex HBAs, Qlogic HBAs, Brocade, McData and Cisco switches, QLogic 9600/9202,PowerPath.,IBM DS 6000/5000/4000/ ESS, NetApp FAS 3040 and FAS 3020.

Confidential

UNIX Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installing and configuring AIX.
• Volume group, Logical volume creation, Creating and files systems (JFS, JFS2).
• Planning a periodical performance and space monitoring routine to estimate future requirements in terms of hardware and database reorganization.
• RDAC/MPIO/SDD/SDDPCM software installation and configuration and MPIO upgradation troubleshooting.
• Device management, updating the device drivers, firmware and troubleshooting device problems.
• Backup Management, taking system backup (mksysb), non-rootvg backup and file systems backups, schedules and restores.
• Implementation of LPAR ‘s with HMC
• AIX TL/ML/SP/OS up gradation and migration
• Solaris OS installation & administration and maintenance of servers
• Users creations, file/directory permission,users,group administration, file systems
• Disk configurations, TCP/IP concepts and Patch, File systems maintenances
• LP Administration/RAID Levels
• Installing software /Solstice Disk Suite Mirroring
• Modify user information Exposure to vi editor
• Backup and restore using tar, cpio, dd, ufsdump, ufsrestore, backup etc
• Troubleshooting of hardware and Solaris related problems
• Disk space management using disk Suite.
• Building up VIO partitions, creating virtual devices, virtual Ethernet, virtual SCSI devices at client and servers side
• Managing LVM (creating the VGs and LVs) create partitions, partition profiles, and system profiles, activate partitions, and schedule operations for partitions.

Confidential

Wintel Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Primary responsibility is to provide software, hardware and networking solutions, Implementing, Supporting & Administration of Windows Server 2000 based network with more than 150 client systems
• Installation of SQL Server 2000, Software packages and Patches
• Installation Configuration and Maintenance of Windows 2003 server
• Configured the Windows Professional Clients to join the Domain.
• Implemented DHCP, WINS and DNS Servers
• Created User profiles that reflect the user role/ Providing Network Printing Support.
• Configuring of RAID 0, RAID1,Windows NT PDC & BDC domain models
• Configuration of Domain Group and User Account Management with permission assignments, Backup Management
• Troubleshooting the OS / Network related problems, OS problems and hardware related problems including printers
• Identify, troubleshoot and correct LAN network and desktop operating systems
• Software implementation of security patches to avoid virus attacks
• Solved hardware and software problems over the phone or during the walk-in sessions

Environment: Windows Server 2000, Win XP Professional, Windows 2000 Professional, DNS.ADS.