SUMMARY

• Over 8 years plus of remarkable and professional experience with storage systems.
• Experience in Administration, Troubleshooting and Configuration of EMC in SAN like VMAX 10k, 20K & 40K, DMX - 4, DMX3, VNX 5500,5300,Clariion CX 4-80,CX3-80, Creating Vpaths, Volume groups, Logical Volumes and File Systems on AIX servers
• Dealt with NetApp Management software’s like On command system manager, DFM, Operations Manager, Protection and Provisioning manager and Snap Manager.
• Maintained EMC Control Center (ECC), SYMCLI, Unisphere Manager, Navisphere Manager, Data Center Fabric Manager, Connectrix Manager, Fabric Manager and Device Manager.
• Installed and configured MirrorView, SnapView, BCV’s using TimeFinder and SRDF at Symmetrix level.
• Experience in IBM DS Storage 4400, 3500 And XIV, San Volume Controller etc.
• Good knowledge about LVM, VIO server, HMC
• Hands on experience in Storage and fabric consolidation - Data migrations and switch migrations.
• Decommissioned of HP EVA server
• Experience with LPARs, Dynamic LPARs and VIOs
• Installation, Administration and configuration of LPAR’s with AIX 5L on p5 servers
• Experience with IBM DB2 and Oracle databases.
• Experience and through understanding on Migration tools, open Replicator, SAN Copy, Open Migrator, Powerpath Migration Enabler.
• Worked on MultiPathing software, EMC PowerpathandVeritas DMP
• Designed, implemented DR solutions using SRDF, MirrorViewandRecoverPoint.
• Proficient with zoning and administration of Cisco, Brocade and McDataSAN Switches.
• Knowledge on Microsoft 2008, 2003, Hyper-V, SUN Solaris, IBM AIX 5.3, HP-UX, Linux &VMware platforms as it relates to disk allocation, managing LUN's, Host Side and HBA configuration.
• Strong technical knowledge and understanding of client's operating environment.
• Good Team player, Effective personal communication skills, learning agility and ability to handle critical situations are plus.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Storage Enterprise Arrays: EMC CLARiiON CX, Symmetrix DMX series, EMC Vmax, EMC VNX

Storage software’s: EMC Control Centre (ECC), EMC Navisphere Manager, Unisphere, Solutions Enabler, Replication Manager, Mirror View, Snap View/Clone, SANCopy, Time Finder, SRDF, Power Path, RecoverPoint, NaviCLI, SnapMirror, Flexclone, NetApp snapshots, Snapdrive, snap manager for exchange/sql,, brocade fabric manager, Connectrix manager, ECC.

Operating systems: windows 2003/2008, UNIX, SUN Solaris v8, 9, 10, IBM AIX v5.3, v4.3.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Florham park, NJ

SAN Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Implementation, administration and maintenance of High end storage arrays like EMC CLARiiON CX600, 700, CX3-40, 3-80, Symmetrix DMX 2000, DMX-3 DMX-4, VMAX, Celerra NS704 in SAN and NAS environments.
• Perform Change Management And Incident Management For Enterprise Storage Systems.
• Coordinate, Communicate, And Execute Maintenance activities, upgrades and patching for management/monitoring tools.
• Provide Support for new systems and projects (working with vendors, other platform support teams) and implement improvement opportunities.
• Provide 24*7 IT Storage operations support in a team on a rotation and on-call basis.
• Assist in developing and maintaining the enterprise Infrastructure Architecture Framework.
• Created and configured RAID groups, storage groups, binding LUN’s, Naming, Resizing, Unbinding LUN’s through Navisphere manager and NaviCLI.
• Installed new Symmetrix DMX 2000 and implemented rule17 for mapping as best practice.
• Installing and troubleshooting Qlogic and Emulex HBA’s to provide SAN access for Host integration.
• Created MetaLUN’s by expanding base LUN’s using striping and concatenation.
• Performed various methods of data migration on CLARiiON using Mirror View/A & SAN copy.
• Installed, configured, tested SAN copy procedure to migrate data from CLARiiON.
• Planning and implementing SRDF in SRDF/A & SRDF/S environments for Disaster Recovery solution.
• Configured the BCV and clone mirror copies of the production data using the Time Finder Business continuity solution for backup and for the testing team to use the production data.
• Configured EMC Control Center for end to end Administration and management of SAN environment.
• Installed EMC Control Center 6.0. Software on Windows-2000 Adv server.
• Discovered CLARiiON environments into ECC for Management and Alerting and tested provisioning from ECC for Tier 3 Platforms.
• Configured VisualSRM to reduce the utilization, availability and Automation problems in a SAN environment.
• Conducted implementation and configuration of Avamar, NetWorker and Data Domain as required
• Reduced overall network bandwidth usage by 1/3rd by migrating to deduplicating backup devices in NetWorker
• Upgraded Brocade switch firmware from 5.3.0 to 6.1.0.
• Lead Project Team member in migrating hosts from Legacy Fabric to Brocade Fabric.
• Installation, configuration and supporting for VERITAS volume manager.
• Restoring the lost files on to the storage array as well as windows & UNIX hosts using VERITAS Netbackup.

Environment: Storage System EMC VMAX, NETAPP, VBLOCK, Brocade Switches, Multipathing Software,NEtBackup,IBM Stoarge-XIV,SVC,Symmetrix DMX 2000, DMX-3, CLARiiON CX 600, 700, CX3-40, CX3-80, 8000,Hitachi, Brocade Silkworm 200E, 5000, 48000, 49000, McData 3232, Cisco 9000, Navisphere Manager, EMC Control Center,, Solution Enabler, Performance Manager, Symmetrix Remote Data Facility (SRDF), TimeFinder, SnapView, Mirror View

Confidential, Durham, NC

System Storage Admin

Responsibilities:

• Allocated storage from a VMAX and DMXarray using Unisphere, and solutions enabler.
• Configured and Carved storage from VNX 5500 ARRAY
• Migrated data from a DMX to VMAXarray using tools such as Robocopy and SRDF.
• Created aggregates/volumes/Qtrees in the NetApp environment and provisioned storage to different teams on their requirements.
• Expertise in implementing Disaster Recovery (DR) strategies utilizing NetApp hardware combined with SnapMirror, SnapRestore, Thin provisioning and Snap Drive technologies.
• Migrated data from CLARiiON to DMX and DMX to VMAX using PPME or PowerPath migration enabler
• Created masking views, storage groups, initiator groups and ports group in a VMAX environment to allocate storage to different OS platforms
• Worked with the EMC customer support to get the ESRS gateway configured in the environment
• Created pools, filesystems and shared NFS and CIFS shares in a Unified environment.
• Added luns to the pools as required by the customer
• Created interconnects, network interfaces in a NAS environment
• Configured the Celerra replicator session at a VDM level for DR purposes
• Provided capacity planning, storage expansion, storage creation and presentation as well as all zoning activities on the Brocade and Cisco Fiber Channel switches.
• Monitored and trouble shot many SAN/NAS related issues, escalate to vendors if needed.
• Performed Host Analysis, document recommendations for any required Upgrades on Host’s for smooth migration.

Environment: EMC VMAX, DMX4, DMX 3, VNX5500,CLARiiON cx3-80, cx4-480, Celerra NS-480, SRDF, PPme,Robocopy, Veritasnetbackup, brocade 48000/3900 fabric switches, brocade fabric manager, Windows 2003/Windows 2008, SUN Solaris 9/10 andRhel 4/5.

Confidential, Thousand Oaks, CA

NAS/SAN Administrator

Responsibilities:

• As a storage admin implemented SAN& NAS Solutions projects from all technical aspect by coordinating with internal client groups.
• Demonstrated and managed NetApp (FAS2000 and FAS3000 series, V series), NetApp Clusters, EMC DMX, Celerra NS 480, and NS 960.
• Monitored and managed storage allocation using NetApp On Command system manager and data fabric manager.
• Deployed and executed Disaster Recovery plan and remote replication using.SnapMirror, Snap Vault and Snap Restore technologies
• Executed NetApp SnapManager with Oracle Database technologies.
• Assigned storage to Celerra fileserver and created filesystems and Configured CIFS and NFS.
• Implemented CIFS Multi protocol and other Celerra features HOMEDIR and Snapsure.
• Created aggregates/volumes/Qtrees in the NetApp environment and provisioned storage to different teamson their requirements.
• Designed and implemented Celerra High availability solutions IP Replication and Celerra SRDF to EMC Clients.
• Migrated data from Windows servers to Celerra using EMCopy, Robocopy, Quest Consolidator to clients and verification using 3rd party tool beyond compare and EMC tools fsscan and fsdisk.
• Performed Migration data from Windows to EMC Celerra and Celerra to Celerra using Celerra replicator and Robocopy.
• Implemented LUN Masking using Solution Enabler and ECC on Symmetrix/DMX arrays.
• Co-ordinate the flare code upgrades on all CX3 and CX4 series.

Environment: Mirror View, SAN Copy, EMC Recover Point, Snap View/Snap View Clone, Replication Manager, SRDF, Time Finder, CelerraSnapsure, Celerra IP, Windows 2000/Windows 2003, SUN Solaris 8/9, IBM, AIX, HP-UX, Linux, .

Confidential, Austin, TX

SAN Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installation, implementation and migration of CLARiiON CX3-80, CX4-960, CX3-40, CX3-20F, CX3-10C and Symmetrix DMX4 into a Storage Area Network.
• We supported Petabytes of EMC storage. Performed lun management, Metaluns, raid groups, storage groups, hypers, and Meta’s.
• Allocated storage from CLARiiON cx3-40, cx3-80, cx4-480, cx4-960 and DMX4, VMAX using Navisphere Manager, ECC, Symcli and SMC
• Performed zoning on the Brocade switches.
• Provisioned storage from Celerra NAS using Celera manager.
• Created virtual data movers and configured CAVA on the Celerra
• Involved in creation of filesystems and allocating shares from Celerra
• Managed NaviCLI and Navisphere Agent on all the hosts in CLARiiON environment.
• Installed master agents and discovered the servers into ECC
• Installed and configured Emulex, Qlogic HBA’s for SAN connectivity on Solaris and windows servers
• Created SRDF sessions to migrate the data from DMX to VMAX
• Involved in documenting the procedure for creation and managing SRDF in the environment
• Created Snap sessions for rollback during any possible data corruptions.
• Performed SANCopy incremental to migrate data between CLARiiON storage systems.
• Configured standard disk groups for BCV operations using TimeFinder.
• Performed firmware upgrade and zoning on Brocade Fiber Channel switches.

Environment: EMC CLARiiON cx3-40, cx3-80, cx4-480, cx4-960, DMX 4, DMX3, VMAX, Celera NS480, Navisphere Manager, NaviCLI, ECC, Symcli, Connectrix Manager, Celera Manager, SnapView, MirrorView, SANCopy, TimeFinder, SRDF, Emulex, Qlogic, Windows 2000/2003, Linux, Solaris 8/9.

Confidential, Champaign, IL

Storage Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Creating RAID groups, binding LUNs, creating Meta LUNs, creating Storage Groups, registering Hosts.
• Installed, configured and administrated Brocade switches. Implement Core-Edge design for Brocade 48000 & 4100.
• Implemented Boot from SAN for Windows Servers.
• Provisioned storage for Windows 2003 & Solaris using CLARiiON (NaviCLI&Navisphere Manager).
• Allocated Storage from EMCSymmetrix using Symcli
• Zoned administration to assign new storage after migration.
• Dealt with symconfigure to perform configuration changes on the DMX/Symmetrix arrays.
• Created/dissolved Meta Volumes, Change device configuration, map/unmap devices to FA ports as and when required.
• Installed and configured PowerPath in UNIX and Windows environment.
• Assigned storage from DMX/Symmetrix & CLARiiON arrays to UNIX & Windows systems using symcli and/or ECC 5.x.
• Installed NaviSphere Agent and NaviCLI on all the hosts in CLARiiON environment.
• Assigned storage from CX700/CX380 using NaviSphere Manager.
• Performed Host Analysis, document recommendations for any required Upgrades on Host’s for smooth migration.
• Zoned administration to do migration and assign new storage after migration.
• Created SANCopy Sessions using Navisphere Manager or scripts to perform migration-using SANCopy.

Environment: EMC Symmetric DMX-3000, DMX3-1500, CLARiiON (CX700, CX-380), Brocade B48000i, Cisco MDS 9000 Series (9509/9216/9216 i), SUN Solaris, UNIX, Red hat Enterprise Linux

Confidential - Macomb, IL

System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the support of SP complex with over 30 servers (p690/670/650, S80) running on AIX 5.1/5.2.
• Primarily responsible for monitoring systems’ performance and troubleshoot system/ network bottlenecks.
• Performed a routine check on nodes’ syslog and errorlogs for system and hardware errors.
• Perform periodic file system GPFS tuning and monitored jobs to enhance system/complex performance.
• Creating Vpaths, Volume groups, Logical Volumes and File Systems on AIX servers
• Configured HMC service agent for automated service call and LPAR monitoring.
• Provided hardware support to the application development team.
• Replaced failed components like Ethernet/ fiber channel adapters, power supplies, and disks etc to avoid down time.
• Ran scripts for LVM configuration change like LV and Filesystem extensions.
• Implemented VIO on P5 595 server on production and test environments, and performed load test to ensure optimum system performance during heavy loads on VIO supplied resources.
• Adding network printers and conducting day-to-day system administration, including backup/recovery in NAS environments.
• Installation, Administration and configuration of LPAR’s with AIX 5L on p5 servers
• Experience of creating and installing standard LPAR and VIO client LPAR using HMC
• Managing the user account creation, locking, deletion of old accounts
• Review Disaster Recovery Documentation for Mission Critical and Business Vital Servers
• Performance Management & Tuning of AIX UNIX Kernel

Environment: Aix version 5.1, 5.2