SUMMARY

• Over 8 Years of Professional Enterprise level experience supporting EMC storage systems in a SAN infrastructure.
• Expertise in Designing, Implementing and Managing Symmetrix VMAX, DMX-4 and Clariion CX-4 and VNX series storage arrays.
• EMC Proven Associate Professional.
• Experience in planning, designing and implementing SAN based Migrations, High Availability and Disaster Recovery of SAN Storage.
• Hands- on experience with SMC, Solutions enabler, Unisphere Manager, Navisphere Manager, NaviCLI.
• Strong expertise in implementing Thin Provisioning, FAST and FASTVP.
• Configured disaster recovery solution using SRDF/S, SRDF/A, MirrorView/S, MirrorView/A and RecoverPoint.
• Strong expertise in Migrating data to and from EMC Symmetrix V-Max, DMX-4, and Clarion CX series arrays using various tools.
• Strong expertise on block level array based data migration using Open Replicator, SAN Copy, and SRDF.
• Strong expertise on host based data migration using PowerPath Migration Enabler (PPME) and Open Migrator.
• Experience on Monitoring, Managing Alerts and Performance analysis of SAN using EMC Navisphere Analyzer, ECC Performance Manager and SPA (Symmetrix Performance Analyzer).
• Deployed various business continuity solutions using Time finder BCV’s and Time Finder Snap, & SnapView.
• Hands on Expertise with Load balancing and path management software EMC PowerPath.
• Experience in configuration and administration of Cisco, Brocade and McData SAN Switches using Cisco Fabric/Device Manager, Connectrix Manager Data Center Edition.
• Designed & Implemented all levels of RAID configuration, based on application IO and performance requirements.
• Expertise in various operating systems that connect to SAN.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skill. Highly motivated and detail oriented professional coupled with strong analytical skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS
Management Software:
EMC Symmetrix Management Console, Solutions Enabler, EMC Ionix Control Centre 6.1, Unisphere, Navisphere Manager, Recoverpoint Manager, SRDF/A, SRDF/S, MirrorView/A, MirrorView/S, SnapView, TimeFinder BCVs/ Clones/ Snapshots/Mirror, Open Migrator, Connectrix manager, Cisco Fabric Manager, Cisco Device Manager, ECC Storage Scope, EMC Storage Viewer, EMC Performance Manager, Replication Manager, Navisphere Analyzer, Symmetrix Performance Analyzer, Open Replicator, SANCopy, PowerPath, PPME.

Hardware Systems:
Symmetrix VMAX, DMX-4, DMX-3, DMX 3000/2000, Clariion CX4 Series, CX3 Series, CX700/600, Recoverpoint, Cisco MDS 9513/9506/9509/9216/9222i, Brocade DCX, Brocade Silkworm 5000, M4700/M4100, McData ED-140M/64M,32M2,32M, Qlogic qla2310, Qlogic qla 2300, Emulex LP 11k,10k, LP9000 HBA’s. JNI FCE-1063 SBUS HBA’s, Sun Fire 25K, Sun Fire 15K, Sun Fire Servers (4800/3800/V880/480/280), Sun Fire 2900, Sun Enterprise 6500/4500/3500/450/250/420R/220R, Sun V1280, Sun Enterprise 4000/5000.
Operating Systems:
Windows 2008/2003/2000, Solaris 9/10, RHEL, HP-UX, Vmware5.0/4.1/3.5, AIX 5.2/6.1

Trainings and Certifications

• EMC Proven Associate Professional Certification
• Symmetrix Configuration Management
• Symmetrix Business Continuity Management
• Clariion Host Integration and Management

Educational profile : Bachelors in Computer Applications

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, June’09- Till date
Role: Sr. Storage Engineer
Responsibilities:

• Maintain and provide ongoing support for the storage environment, which includes both SAN and Backup/Recovery.
• Created Thin pools, TDAT’s and added TDAT’s to thin pools on different Tiers on VMAX using Solutions Enabler
• Created TDEV’s and bind TDEVs to Thin pools and assigned to hosts using Solutions Enabler by creating Masking views.
• Increase Thin pool space by adding TDAT’s and Re-balancing the pool.
• Performed Zero space reclamation on Thin Luns assigned to ESX Hosts and also after migrating data from Thick to Thin.
• Created Initiator groups, port groups, storage groups and Masking views for Auto-provisioning and recommended various best practices.
• Create FAST VP policies, Tiers and associated Storage groups with FAST VP policies.
• Created Cascaded Initiator groups, port groups, storage groups and Masking views for Auto-provisioning and recommended various best practices for allocating storage to Clustered hosts.
• Migrated data within Symmetrix VMAX in between different Tiers and RAID protections.
• Configured and Implemented SRDF and TimeFinder for the Disaster recovery solution on Symmetrix VMAX.
• Configuring SRDF/S, Creating RA groups, Device groups, R1& R2 pairs, setting the modes of Adaptive/synchronous, Importing and Exporting device groups.
• Migrated data from legacy EMC storage arrays to V-Max using Open replicator hot/cold tool. Migration includes AIX, Windows, Linux, Windows SQL cluster Servers.
• Built various data migration procedures for various hosts with different O/S platforms and Boot mechanisms.
• Documented pre/post data migration procedures of various server OS platforms.
• Installed solutions Enabler 7.2 and assigned gate keepers to the SE server for SRM (Site Recovery Manager) integration with SAN.
• Upgraded Solutions Enabler and Symmetrix Management Console.
• Configured the BCVs of the production data using the Time Finder Business Continuity Solution for backup and for the testing team to use the production data.
• Configure and Implement TimeFinder/Clone and assigned clone copy to test severs.
• Configure and Implement TimeFinder/Snap for quick recovery solutions.
• Storage Provisioning/reclaiming from Clariion using Unisphere and Navisphere Manager, creating raid groups, binding Luns, creating Storage groups.
• Installed PowerPath on the hosts and also Naviagent on the hosts to register itself on the CLARiiON.
• Migrated data/expanded Luns on the clarion internally using LUN migration.
• Installed and enabled SANCopy on CX700 and CX4 using Navisphere Service Taskbar.
• Migrated data from CX700 to CX4-240 using SAN Copy.
• Configured the Clariion email-home and ClarAlerts on CX-4 and CX700.
• Allocating large chunks of storage to ESX servers, so that Guests on that ESX server can share the same LUN presented to the ESX server.
• Reclaiming Storage from ESX servers based on vmhba numbers and host LUN addressing on the storage.
• Implemented best practices for assigning SAN switch ports to storage arrays.
• Configured and managed MirrorView on storage array Clariion CX700 and CX4 using Navisphere Manager.
• Designed and implemented the SAN fabric consolidation.
• Performed switch migration and documentation of pre/post SAN switch migration details.
• Creating and managing IVR Zoning by using Fabric manager.
• Creating zones and other various configurations on Cisco switches using FM and DM.
• Configuration of Zones, Zoneset on Cisco Switches by using Fabric Manager.
• Trouble shooting issues related to various SAN issues and providing the root cause along with recommendations.
• Trouble shoot various hardware issues on Clariion arrays and also installed and configured the DAE\'s on the CLARiiON CX700.
• Analyzed the environment and identify the bottle necks
• Recommended the best practices and standards to the upper management
• Documented all aspect of the projects procedures and methodologies.
• Recommended the processes needed to be changed to meet the industry standards
• Trouble shooting issues related to Storage and providing the root cause along with recommendations.
• Documenting and building run books for day to day activities on the current environment.
• Involved in various critical events and incidents related to SAN environment.
• 24 X 7 availability for SAN Storage support on any type of issues.
• Implemented various change control required for any changes that needs to perform on the SAN.

Environment:Symmetrix VMAX, CLARiiON CX4-240 and CX700, Celerra NS40G, Cisco Switches 9509,9506,9222, Ionix Control Center 6.1, Open Replicator, SRDF/S, Time Finder BCV/Snap, Unisphere, Unisphere Service Manager, Navisphere Manager, Navisphere Service Taskbar, Navisphere Analyzer, SnapView, MirrorView/S, SAN Copy, Replication Manager, PPME, EMC PowerPath, Cisco Fabric Manager, Cisco Device Manager, Windows Exchange servers, Database servers, Windows 2003/W2K/NT, IBM AIX5.3/6.1 , VMware3.5/4.1.

Confidential,June’07- May’09
Columbus, IN
Role: Sr. Storage Administrator
Responsibilities:

• Assigning and configuring EMC Storage to Windows 2003/2000, Sun Solaris, VMware, Red Hat Linux hosts along with installing HBAs, performing host side configurations that include installing various drivers and firmware related to HBAs on the host and as well Power Path software for load balancing.
• Installation, configuration and qualification of new storage arrays including both SAN such as DMX, Clariion arrays.
• Administration of storage devices DMX-3, DMX 1000/2000/3000, CLARiiON CX700, CX3-80.
• Manage Symmetrix storage devices using ECC, storage scope and Symcli.
• Generated various Storage Reports using ECC Storage Scope
• Storage provisioning on Symmetrix by using ECC and SymCli.
• Creating Meta Devices on the EMC Symmetrix using both SymCli and EMC Control Center(ECC)
• Assigning Devices to the Front End Ports on the Symmetrix using both SymCli & ECC (LUN Management & Volume Management)
• Creating and managing BCV devices using Time Finder
• Configured BCV’s using EMC Widesky (Timefinder Host) for existing LUN’s. Performing Split and Establish during Backups. Mounting and unmounting the file systems on the storage nodes for backups.
• Create RAID Groups, bind LUNs, Create Storage Groups, Register Hosts and assign LUNs.
• Created and Configured the Logical Drives on Windows 2003/2000/NT4.0 servers using Windows Disk Manager
• Assigning Switch ports to the storage arrays, tape devices
• Configuring ISL’s between Fibre Switches and adding these switches to appropriate fabrics
• Involved in upgrading the firmware on fibre switches
• Performed zoning and other switch related administration on Brocade switches using Connectrix Manager Data center Edition and Brocade WebTools.
• Configure scheduled backups of switch configuration using Brocade.
• Involved in the migration of 400+ servers and 500+TB of data.
• Migration of data from CLARiiON to CLARiiON or Symmetrix by using SANcopy and host based tools
• Installing the ECC Master & Host Agents on Sun, Intel, Linux hosts
• Updating the various kernel files on Solaris & Linux hosts so that they can see the storage allocated to them
• PowerPath software installation, configuration and administration on UNIX & Windows Servers.
• Troubleshooting and fixing connectivity issue and other storage related issues.
• Performing necessary storage infrastructure maintenance in accordance with EMC and customer\'s change management policies
• Ran EMC Grab Utilities on the hosts and uploaded them to EMC for troubleshooting purposes
• Participation in problem identification and resolution process
• Documentation of all SAN related components and issues.

Environment:Symmetrix DMX, CLARiion, Brocade ED-DCX-B,4100,5000, EMC Control Center, Performance Manager, Storage Scope, Symmetrix Optimizer, Powerpath, Navisphere Manager, Navisphere Analyzer, Solutions Enabler (SYMCLI), Brocade web tools, Connectrix Manager Data center Edition, Windows 2003/W2K/NT, Solaris 8,9,10.

Confidential, June’04 – May’07
Hyderabad, INDIA
Responsibilities:

• Provisioning Storage for Windows/Solaris Host from Clariion CX 700, CX 600 using Navisphere Manager.
• Installed PowerPath (for both automatic load balancing and path failover modes), system updates for the new hosts to make them as part of the infrastructure sharing the SAN environment.
• Depending upon the hosts request, created Meta Luns or allocated additional Luns for additional space and also reclaimed the unused storage to improve the resource availability.
• Non-Disruptively performed host based migration from one raid group to another to overcome performance issues.
• Created and Configured the Logical Drives on Windows 2003/2000/NT4.0 servers using Windows Disk Manager
• Assigning Switch ports to NAS filers and zoning them to Tape drives so that Tapes can back up the Filers.
• Created zones for MCDATA switches ED1040’s and activated zone set using Connectrix manager.
• Zoned new HBA’s whenever there is a failure in the HBA’s of a particular host using Connectrix Manager.
• Dealt with the situations like One-Path Down, trespassed luns, failures in the objects and also upgraded the flare code version using Navisphere service task bar
• Investigated performance of objects, patterns and trends in normal operation mode, as well as in benchmarks and performance tests using Navisphere Analyzer tool and Event Monitor.
• Installation, Administration, Maintenance and trouble shooting of Sun Solaris 9/10 on various servers, performed Package / Patch Installation and System Updates.
• Migrated various Sun & Intel Hosts from One Storage Array to Another Storage Array using Veritas Volume Manager on Sun Servers and Robocopy on Intel Servers
• Generated various Storage Reports using ECC Storage Scope
• Responsible for change management, troubleshooting and resolution of Storage/Server problems (including interface) and for end users support.

Environment: Clariion CX 700,CX 600, Power path, McData ED1040, SAN copy, EMC Navisphere manager, Open systems servers (Solaris/Linux) and Windows.