SUMMARY

• Confidential Consultant with over 8 years of IT experience
• Experienced in Implementation and administration of EMC, Netapps, IBM Products.
• Experienced in CISCO and Brocade SAN fabric Design, implementation and administration
• Experienced in host environment analysis, design and implementation for Inter and Intra Datacenter migration projects.
• Experienced in Disaster Recovery Setups and exercises. Experienced in root cause analysis of Performance Problems.
• Resource planning, Strategies development, Troubleshooting, Analysis, Reporting and Capacity Management.
• Excellent communication skills and team player.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Storage Arrays: VPLEX, EMC Symmetrix VMAX, DMX-4/3/2 , VNX 5300,5500,5700,7500 , CLARiiON CX-4/3 Series, CX-700/600/500 , Netapps FAS 2000, 3000, 6000, 8000 Series , EMC ISILON, IBM XIV and SVC.
• Switches: Cisco MDS 9506, 9509, 9513, and 9710, Brocade DCX 8510-8, DCX 8510-4, DCX, DCX-4S, 48000, 24000, 12000.
• Replication Technologies: RecoverPoint, Open Replicator, Open Migrator, VPLEX Local, Metro Geo, SanCopy, SRDF S/A/AR/Adaptive Copy, Timefinder, MirrorView S/A, SANCopy, SnapMirror.
• Storage Software Tools: Solutions Enabler, Unisphere, Navisphere, NaviCLI, Netapps CLI, OnCommand, XIV GUI, SVC CLI and GUI , CISCO CLI, DM, DCNM, Brocade CLI, DCFM
• Operating Systems: Linux, SunSolaris, Windows and AIX.

EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Environment: VPLEX Local/Geo, VMAX, VNX, DMX-4, DMX-3, Recover Point, IBM XIV, CISCO 9513, 9710, DCNM, Device Manager, DCFM, Netapps FAS Series, EMC ISILON, Time Finder BCV/Clone, SRDF-A, Operating Systems AIX,

Solaris, Windows.

Responsibilities:

• Implemented Virtual Provisioning and FASTVP in VMAX array.
• Utilized EMC VPLEX Local with RecoverPoint usage for intra datacenter migrations.
• Implemented VPLEX Geo for inter datacenter replications across asynchronous distances.
• Participated in fabric refresh including implementation of Core-Edge Topology with CISCO 9710 switches.
• Performed allocations from VMAX including Creating tdevs, forming Meta devices, binding tdevs to pool and creating masking views.
• Used CISCO CLI, DCNM and DCFM to create and active zones in both CISCO and Brocade fabrics.
• Using SVCCLI and SVCGUI administration including create mdisks, mdiskgroups, vdisks, host creation, mapping and vdisk migrations.
• Perform storage allocations from IBM XIV and data migration from IBM XIV to VMAX.
• Performed Storage allocation and administration in both 7 Mode and cluster mode Netapps environments including creating aggregates, FLEX volumes, qtrees, creating NFS Shares, CIFS shares and snap mirror implementation.
• Performed storage allocation from EMC ISILON using OneFS GUI . Implemented local replication using snapshots and remote replication using SyncIQ.
• Data migrations from DMX3/DMX4 to VMAX using Array based SRDF/Open Replicator .
• Plan and Implement data migration from DMX to VMAX to improve performance and provide additional capacity/free space for growth of application.
• Installed and configured PowerPath for AIX / Solaris /HP / Linux and Windows Operating Systems and installed symcli software
• Setup and Perform troubleshooting, monitoring and Reporting of the NAS and SAN environments.
• Provided direct technical support for the coordination and implementation of releases, upgrades or changes to the Windows server environments.
• Troubleshooting routine critical issues including threshold optimization, server throughput, ports availability, meeting zoning requirements, one-path down, host not seeing storage and storage management problems.
• Made copies of production data by configuring clones using Time Finder Business Continuity, which was used by testing team.

Confidential

Environment: DMX-4, DMX-3, CX3-80/40, Brocade DCX, 48k, SymCLI 7.3.1.0, SMC 7.3.1.0, Navisphere Manager 5.6, Celerra Manager 5.6, ECC 5.3/6.x, SPA 2.2.3.3, SRDF, SanCopy, Open Replicator, Open Migrator, Operating Systems AIX 5.1/5.2/5.3, HP-UX 11/11i, Windows 2k/2k3/2k8.

Responsibilities:

• Involved in the planning and designing of the Data migration methodology including the analysis of the host environment along with the Solution Architect.
• As an Implementation specialist, responsible to do the data migration from DMX3 to DMX4.
• As a part of the data migration, responsible to stage the initial environment including the creating Meta devices, converting the device personalities and setting different attributes based on the requirement.
• Prepared the Migration procedures in consulting with the systems administrators, Database administrators and business owners.
• Implemented the data migrations from DMX3 to DMX4, VMAX using all Array based SRDF and non-array based LVM mirror .
• Responsible to setup the Zones between the hosts, old DMX3 and new DMX4 Symmetrix using Brocade Webtools/CLI and DCFM
• After the data migration, implemented the remote replication across the geographically separated DMX4s using SRDF/AR.
• Creating the Device groups and populating the proper devices and export those groups to the remote side to use in case of a disaster.
• Involved in a consistent data replication for a machine critical application with oracle database from DMX4 to DMX4 using SRDF/AR with TimeFinder/Consistent Groups Technology.
• Prepared the configuration and Troubleshooting guides to maintain/run the environment smooth.
• Transferred the Knowledge to the customer personal responsible to maintain the environment.
• Completed migration using Open replicator and open migrator from DMX and CX arrays to VMAX arrays.
• Worked with the team in setting up migration schedule and details.
• Support the storage team with migration issues.
• Managed Brocade 48k,/DCX Switches directors using Webtools/DCNM and Brocade CLi.
• Generate reports and conduct reclaim and clean up procedures
• Created change tickets using in house software and follow procedures on approvals and closures.

Confidential

Environment: EMC Symmetrix 3000, DMX3/4 CLARiiON CX700, CX3-80, SymCLI, TimeFinder, SRDF, PowerPath , Navisphere, Storage Navigator, Snap view, Mirror view, Veritas NetBackup, Fabric manager, Cisco

Responsibilities:

• Administering SAN environment comprising of Symmetrix/DMX, CLARiiON, McData Fabric, NaviSphere, Connectrix Manager, PowerPath.
• Storage provisioning/reclaiming from Symmetrix using SymCLI, Creating Meta Devices, SDR Mapping of Standard and Meta Devices to FA ports, Zoning and Device Masking/Volume Logix.
• Create and manage RAID Groups, Storage Groups, Meta Volumes and LUN Binding on CLARiiON Arrays.
• Generated Storage Reports using ECC Storage Scope for Management.
• Hands on Experience in Logical Volume Manager.
• Performing maintenance work on upgrading Firmware, troubleshooting path failures and device failures.
• Installed PowerPath software, configured and administrated on UNIX Windows Servers.
• Responsible for managing the storage environment consisting of DMX3000/DMX-3/DMX-4, Clariion CX-600, CX-700, CX 3-40, CX 3-80 using Navisphere, Solution enabler, SMC ECC.
• Involved in implementation of SAN fabric expansion of Cisco 9140 to Cisco 9509 Directors managed them with Cisco CLI.
• Veritas File system and Veritas Volume Manager were used to configure the RAID 1 and RAID 5 Storage Systems.
• Created copies of production data by configuring clones from the production data using Time Finder Business Continuity used for testing, development and for backups.
• Identify unused storage using Storage scope reporting and actively resolved the capacity allocation issues.
• Zoning of new server HBAs and storage ports using ECC and removed hanging zones from the active configuration as referred by SAN health report.
• Used ECC, Symcli, and Navisphere Manager to provision the storage on EMC Symmetrix and Clariion arrays.
• Involved in upgrading Clariion CX600/CX700 to a more powerful and higher capacity Clariion CX 3-40, Fiber channel storage systems using SAN copy remote replication solutions.
• Used EMC Recover Point for data protection by creating the local copies and remote copies of the data using the utility and administered the environment.
• Involved in implementation of Real time Site to Site DR solution using EMC SRDF.
• Managed SAN directors, Zone, map and mask LUN from arrays to servers while maintaining a highly available redundant architecture leveraging multiple fabrics and path redundancy.
• Day to day jobs includes maintaining the ECC infrastructure, storage allocation, troubleshooting, monitoring and Reporting on the SAN Environment.
• Manage daily work to meet Service Level Agreements SLA's and timelines.
• Coordinate and work with third party vendors and service providers for resolution of problems and trouble tickets.
• Worked on Cisco SAN Switch Management including port allocation, Zoning and ISL trunking of switches in SAN Fabric Environment.