PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

• Skilled professional with 8 years of experience in IT Industry with emphasis on Storage, Network and System Administration.
• Expertise extends across all facets of Netapp storage domain, Data ONTAP 6.X, 7.X, 8.X including Design, Installation, Upgrading and configuration of Netapp filers. Troubleshooting and upgrading existing systems.
• Experience in MultiStore, Performance Manager, Data Fabric Manager, Snapshot, Snapvault and NetApp Disaster Recovery solutions using SnapMirror and Snap Vault
• Experience in Backup solutions, which include NetApp OSSV, NetApp NDMP, Veritas Netbackup 5.0, 6.5.2, 6.5.5.
• End to end implementation and management of Enterprise storage environment components NETAPP FAS 2000, 3000, 6000, 900, 200 series, Near store R200, EMC - DMX 3/2000, 1000, 800, Symmetrix 8830 Clariion CX700, CX600, CX500, CX300, CX340, CX 380, Cisco MDS 9506, 9509, 9513, 9216 McData ED140M, ED64M, DS-16/32B Brocade ED-12000, ED-7500B, ED-48000B.
• Experience in Windows Administration, Solaris Administration, and Veritas Volume Manager/File systems.
• Experience in EMC Control Center, Symcli, SRDF/S, Navisphere Manager, SnapView, Mirrorview, SANCopy, Timefinder BCV/Clones, Brocade Fabric Manager/Device Manager, Connectrix Manager, Power Path, Navisphere Analyzer, Event Monitor, StorageScope, Performance Manager WLA .

SKILLS:

• Hardware: NetApp FAS series FAS270c, FAS980c, FAS2040c, FAS3020c, FAS3040c, FAS6040c, Near Store R200, EMC DMX 3000, DMX 4, CX700/CX3-40, MDS9506/9509, Brocade 7500, 48000 series.
• Application: Veritas Volume Manager, Data ONTAP 6.x, 7.x, 8.x Snapshot, Snapmirror, Snapvault, Syncmirror, Flexshare, Flexclone, Multistore, A-SIS, Operations Manager, Performance Manager, Snapdrive, Snap Manager, FCP Host Utility kit, EMC Control Center ECC 6.1, SYMCLI, PowerPath, NaviSphere, SnapView, SANCopy, CLARAlert, StorageScope, Workload Analyzer, Connectrix Manager 9.7.2, 9.7.4, Fabric Manager.
• Operating System: Solaris 7/8/9, Windows NT/2000/2003, Enterprise Red Hat Linux.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Sr. Storage Engineer

• Identify technical opportunities and needs for new and existing business and technical models and processes
• Promote emerging technologies that address business needs
• Continually align the Engineering Services to current and future needs of Business Units through world class Service Management practices and High-Value Service Improvement actives.
• Testing and certifying the newer ONTAP versions 8.X and implementing them on Production environments.
• Install, configure and maintain enterprise class storage array systems
• Performance tuning tier1 frames with EMC software's like SPA and ECC performance analyzer
• Architect, plan and implement new storage migration projects
• Switch zoning using Data center fabric manager
• Implement and maintain disaster recovery and high availability projects in storage environment
• Provide Level 4 production support to all storage systems
• Upgraded Data ONTAP from DOT 7.3.6p5 to DOT 8.02p6 with minimal disturbance to support ASIS application.
• Testing, Certifying and upgrading the new versions of RLM 3.1p1 , Shelf Firmware's ESH4 Firmware 14, 20, AT-FCX 37,38 , Disk Firmware's
• Certifying new NetApp controllers FAS3210, FAS3240 and FAS6210 for NAS deployment for greater connectivity, better scalability, improved performance and native onboard 10GbE and SAS ports
• Coordinate with NetApp on the newer updates for different FAS systems, certified in the lab and be included in the upgrade and build process for newer installations.
• Implemented NetApp NFS Export Management NFS NetGroup Management Tools to enable administrators to create amend Exports Netgroups using graphical interface, which removes the need to manually edit text files, it will check the syntax check, make backups and perform basic validation of updates
• Migrated 500Terabytes of data during data center migration from lower end storage arrays FAS270c, FAS960c to robust arrays FAS3040c, and FAS3020c using snapmirror technology.
• Troubleshooting the performance issues with CIFS, NFS.
• Enabled CIFS/NFS protocol, created volumes/qtrees/quotas and respective shares with proper permissions and presented them to windows and unix servers.
• Involved in architecture planning and deployment, installing, configuring, job management, scheduling, performance analysis, capacity trending and planning, policy review and analysis, critical data recovery, NDMP NAS backup, recovery testing and verification.
• Configured NetApp Storage Network that includes NetApp Filers setup, quota administration, snapshots backup and restore, OS and Firmware upgrade, failed disk replacement, cluster design, NDMP backup, network configuration, NFS,CIFS administration, disaster recovery fail-over and fail-back between sites.

Confidential

Sr. Storage Administrator

• Actively involved in Manage, Monitor, Troubleshoot and Report on an extra large Storage Area Network environment with total raw storage capacity of 1 petabyte.
• Installed setup and configured FAS 2000/3000 clustered filers with multiprotocol configuration and Monitoring of the NetApp filers in Active directory domain.
• Added supported shelves to existing NAS filer series with Multipath High Availability enabled, Raid Controller cards, 4 port NIC cards, Dual port FC cards. Configuring volumes with striping, mirroring, and Striping with parity and hot spares. Planning for redundancies and performance using Mirroring and dual parity technology.
• Migrated 500Terabytes of data during data center migration from lower end storage arrays FAS270c, FAS960c to robust arrays FAS3040c, and FAS3020c using snapmirror technology.
• Upgraded Data Ontap from DOT 7.2.5.1 to DOT 7.3.2 with minimal disturbance to support ASIS application.
• Upgraded Disk firmware, Shelf firmware, and System firmware on all NAS arrays non-disruptively.
• Work with customers, Sales engineers and Professional service engineers to solve technical issues involving installation, configuration and trouble-shooting of Network Appliance storage devices and the proprietary Data ONTAP.
• Enabled CIFS/NFS protocol, created volumes/qtrees/quotas and respective shares with proper permissions and presented them to windows and unix servers.
• Enabled Mutlistore license, created vfilers allowing CIFS/NFS protocol and migrated data from file servers, which has users home directories, application directories and roaming profiles to them.
• Provisioning Block based storage from NETAPP/FAS 3000/6000 series to Windows, Solaris and Linux servers using Filer view and CLI.
• Installed Snapdrive, FCP host utility kit, DSM ONTAP MPIO on Windows 2003 servers to have Microsoft Exchange application running on NetApp blocked based storage.
• Installed SnapManager for Exchange to perform backup and restore with verification on Exchange luns from host side.
• Configured Quantum Library tape drives and presented them to filers to backup volumes, qtrees, and luns using NDMP protocol.
• Identified and resolved various performance issues related to storage using Operations Manager, DFM performance Manager, sysstat, netstat, ifstat, WLA, NaviAnalyzer, iostats, SAR reports.
• Extensively used Brocade 48000, 7500 and McData switches for san provisioning.
• Basic understanding in vMotion and SvMotion.

Confidential

Sr. Storage Admin

• Support, projects and administration of multiple terabytes of Netapp Storage that includes hardware NetApp FAS 6000 series, FAS 3000 series, FAS 270 and R200 and software Snap Drive, Snap Manager for Exchange, Snap Manager for SQL, Snapmirror, Snap vault, Data Fabric Manager and Performance Manager.
• Configured NetApp Storage Network that includes NetApp Filers setup, quota administration, snapshots backup and restore, OS and Firmware upgrade, failed disk replacement, cluster design, NDMP backup, network configuration, NFS,CIFS administration, disaster recovery fail-over and fail-back between sites.
• Provisioning Luns to Open Systems Servers, HBA Installation, drivers and firmware upgrade, edit system and configuration files of the host, zoning within switched fabric fiber channel SAN, host connectivity.
• Administration of Global Backup and Restore that include VERITAS Netbackup, snap restore, snap vault restore and NetApp R200 Filers.
• Involved in architecture planning and deployment, installing, configuring, job management, scheduling, performance analysis, capacity trending and planning, policy review and analysis, critical data recovery, NDMP NAS backup, recovery testing and verification.
• Plan and implement assigned projects, change management, on-call support, and hotline bridge participation.
• Configured and implemented ECC 5.2 servers on new Data Center
• Performed troubleshooting in varios areas of Host disk access issues such as HBA driver, firmware, persistent-binding, sd.conf, lpfc.conf
• Provisioning from NetApp to open systems and troubleshooting NetApp Snap issues
• Configuring and implementing VCS NetBackup 5.1 servers
• Providing instruction and support to the team how ECC 5.2 and NetBackup VCS Clustering works
• Creating meta devices and allocating SYMM devices thru LUN Masking and LUN Mapping on DMX 2000 and DMX1000
• Implementing Core-Edge SAN topology and performing Fibre Zoning
• Heavily participating Data Center Migration from multiple sites to one site

Confidential

NetApp Engineer

• Responsible for the administration of 20 NETAPP and 3 Near store appliances and Enterprise Backup in a medium environment 100 Solaris, 30 HPUX and 20 AIX, 5 Red Hat servers
• Successfully completed implementation of Disaster Recovery using SnapMirror technology for the Unix and Network Appliance servers Installed, Configured and Maintained NetApp filers, including regular backups, troubleshooting and storage allocation. Configuration of FAS 800 series filers and involved in the setup of the filer in a mixed mode domain. Upgraded Data Ontap from to DOT 6.3 to DOT 6.5 with minimum disturbance to the data migration.
• Providing complete integrated support online through Remote Administration for Backup and Recovery of Windows NT, 2000 and 2003 servers, Solaris 7/8/9, RedHat Linux 7.0/8.0/9.0, Oracle 8i/9i database, SQL 7.0/2000, Microsoft Exchange 5.5/2000/2003, Lotus Notes6.0, SAN and NAS servers.
• Administer, configure, troubleshoot, and manage all backup hardware software including disaster recovery for NetApp filer environment.
• Disaster recovery - Analyze environmental and equipment configurations for critical corporate resources recommend disaster avoidance measures and improved backup capabilities.
• Allocating Symm devices thru LUN Masking and LUN Mapping on Symmetrix 8830 and 8530
• Allocating and managing Clariion disks on CX700, CX500
• Creating volume, file system and exporting the data mover with Celerra File Server Manager on NS600
• Zoning the Fibre switch and managing zone sets with Connectrix Manager
• Creating a TimeFinder, SRDF device group, SAN Copy and Performing operation
• Adding, managing and troubleshooting the PowerPath
• Monitoring and analyzing Symmetrix Performance with Workload Analyzer
• Reporting storage capacity using StorageScope
• Troubleshooting and Monitoring the notifications with ECC
• Provisioning and Planning the Storage capacity and Storage migration on Production, Dev and QA environment
• Architect Disaster Recovery

Confidential

Storage Admin

• Installing NAS Filers F900 series, Raid Controller cards, configuring volumes with striping, mirroring, and Striping with parity and hot spares. Planning for redundancies and performance using Mirroring and dual parity technology.
• Setup and configured FAS 960c clustered filer with multiprotocol configuration and Monitoring of the NetApp filers of the domain. Upgraded Data Ontap from DOT 6.5 to DOT 7.0.2 with minimal disturbance.
• Installed, Configured and implemented Sun StorEdge 5320c on Windows XP and 2000 using shared file storage. Involved in setting up file replication for the Sun StorEdge 5320c.
• Dealt with Migration of user data from NetApp FAS 960c to the Sun StorEdge 5320c. Constant Monitoring of Sun StorEdge 5320c and the NetApp filers using AutoSupport feature.
• Work with customers, Sales engineers and Professional service engineers to solve technical issues involving installation, configuration and trouble-shooting of Network Appliance storage devices and the proprietary Data ONTAP.Design and help with the implementation of NetApp filers in the Storage domain.
• Provide Support for Disaster Recovery issues in the environment by using NetApp technologies like Snap Mirror.
• Installed, commissioned, planned and configured the new DMX 3000, 1000 for high performance requirements and Clariion CX3-40/CX700 and incorporated it with current SAN infrastructure.
• Consolidated existing storage by migrating from Symmetrix 8830, 3930 to a higher capacity and faster performance DMX 3000 storage systems using SRDF/S.
• Allocated storage from DMX/Clariion to Windows and Solaris hosts configured logical and Meta devices, using ECC/Navisphere and SymCLI/Navicli.
• Responsible for Storage allocation using ECC, Symcli, Navisphere and Navicli for open systems storage environment
• Performance monitoring and tuning for high end CIFS and NFS related issues using performance tools like perfstat, sysstat,
• Expertise in reading packet traces for the network related issues to isolate problems in customer's environment.