Professional Summary:

• 7 years of progressive experience in IT industries, hands-on experience with Network Attached Storage NAS Storage Area Networks SAN .
• Built and managed FC, FCOE, FCIP, TCP/IP architectures to support enterprise applications for performance, high availability and disaster recovery.
• Experience in administration and configuration of EMC enterprise and mid-market solutions - VMAX, DMX, VNX, Clariion, Celerra, Isilon, VPLEX, RecoverPoint, Replication Manager, SRM, ECC, Avamar.
• Managed EMC infrastructure using tools and softwares Unisphere, SMC, Navisphere, Solutions Enabler, Time Finder Clones, Snaps, SnapView Snapshots, Clones, FAST-VP, SAN Copy, SRDF, MirrorView, Open Replicator, Open Migrator, PPME.
• Configured and administered NetApp solutions FAS-Series, V-Series, OnCommand System Manger, Unified Manager, Performance Manager, My AutoSupport, SnapMirror, SnapVault, Snap Manager.
• Configured and managed Cisco MDS 9500 Series, and Brocade DCX Series Directors, SAN Switches using tools Cisco Fabric Manager, DCNM, Brocade Network Advisor, WebTools.
• In depth understanding of virtualization technologies VMWARE and integrating storage technologies using VAAI, VASA and VSI technologies.
• Experience in architecting storage for enterprise applications like Oracle, SQL Server, Exchange, SharePoint, VDI to provide performance, scalability and high availability.
• Administered backup and recovery solutions, for enterprise applications, and enabled point in time recovery solutions using EMC RecoverPoint CDP and CRR technologies.
• Installed and configured multi-pathing softwares EMC PowerPath, Unix Native Multipathing, and Clustering solutions MSCS, Veritas Clustering, Native Clustering technologies.
• Involved in datacenter migrations - Cross platform storage migrations, switch migrations and application migrations.
• Created utilization reports and trending reports for capacity planning using ECC and SRM.
• Configured monitoring and alerting of datacenter infrastructure in Solarwinds, Nagios and Splunk.
• Ability to learn and adapt to new technologies, good team player in dynamic work group environments and also self-motivated to work independently with excellent communication skills.

Infrastructure Overview:

Professional Exp rience:

Confidential

Position: SAN/NAS Administrator

• Migrated Servers from DMX800 to XP24000 using open Replicator and PPME host copy.
• Migrated Servers from CX700 to CX3-80 using SanCopy Full and incremental , Open Migrator.
• Ran Grabs and created remediation reports for AIX, HP-UX, Linux, Windows and VMware Servers.
• Implemented Thin/Virtual provisioning in VMAX using tdevs, datadevs and thin pools.
• Day-to-Day storage allocation and administration of DMX and VMAX systems.
• Used Unisphere to implement Thin/virtual provisioning in Clariions and create Fast Cache to improve performance of CX4 systems.
• Designed and created Raid Groups, Storage Groups, Thin Devs, Thick Devs, Thin Pools using Unisphere and navisphere Manager.
• Registered Hosts, discovered storage and created application sets, jobs, schedules to create replicas on Symmetrix for various servers.
• Quarterly Performance analysis on symmetrix and Clariion using Performance Manager, Symmetrix Performance Analyzer and Navisphere Analyzer.
• Allocated cisco ports for different servers based on the bandwidth requirements and performed analysis on the performance of cisco switches.
• Designed and Implemented SRDF/A solution between DMX4-DMX4 and VMAX- VMAX which includes the creation of dynamic RA groups, creation of rdf devices, enabling SRDF/A for the group of devices. Made copies of production data by configuring TimeFinder BCVs.
• Created LDAP authentication for Symmetrix, Clariion and Cisco.
• Cleaned up orphans luns in Symmetrix and VMAX.
• Monitored EMC CLARiiON arrays performance by using Navisphere Analyzer.

Environment: NetApp FAS 3020, 3040, 3070, EMC CLARiiON CX3/CX4, Symmetrix DMX4000, VMAX, SymCLI, NaviCLI, Navisphere Manager, Fabric Manager, SRDF, SnapView, MirrorView, SAN Copy, Qlogic HBAs, Brocade switches.

Confidential

Position: System Administrator

• Planned and configured the Open replicator migration between DMX-3 and DMX-4.
• A statistical analysis on the performance and capacity of DMX3 was done using SymCLI in order to plan for better utilization of space and resources in DMX4.
• Converted concatenated meta's to striped meta's for improving performance on raid 1 devices.
• Configured and allocated storage Mapping and Masking on DMX4.
• Created the OR session files for all the servers to be migrated.
• Created Device groups for clones and snaps and implemented a DR solution using snap and clones.
• Created CIFS, NFS Qtrees for Windows and UNIX environment, used Data ONTAP to manage Filer to utilize the storage.
• Experience in NetApp Filer Volume, Qtrees and Quota Management, NFS exports and Data migration Administration.
• Configure and manage SnapMirror for Disaster recovery in a NetApp environment.
• Installed, configured and managed Windows and Linux servers on the VM's.
• Worked with VMware Admins to upgrade VMware infrastructure to VSphere.
• Migrated Data using SnapMirror and NDMP.

Environment: Symmetrix, V-MAX, DMX3-24, CLARiiON CX700, CX4-240, NetApp FAS 6000 Series, FAS 3000 Series, FAS 2000 Series, VMware Vsphere, Brocade48k, DCX-B.

Confidential

Position: SAN Administrator

• Configured and allocated storage on EMC DMX-3, DMX-4, DMX 3000's/2000's and CX 600/700's.
• Created multiple Device Groups depending the application and requirements of the environment, and Data Replication BCV, SRDF .
• Used migration techniques like Array based i.e. SRDF/Open replicator to migrate the data from Old S DMX 3000/DMX 2000 to DMX-4/DMX-3 storage systems in UNIX, Windows, Linux and AIX environment for online/offline data migration.
• Implemented Business Continuance features like EMC Time Finder in Symmetrix/DMX arrays.
• Analyzed and maintained performance data to ensure optimal usage of the storage resources available.
• Create scripts using navicli commands to perform SanCopy migration from CLARiiON CX700/600 to CX3-80.
• Monitored EMC CLARiiON arrays performance by using Navisphere Analyzer.
• Troubleshooted issues with the FCIP tunnels between fabrics on brocade 7500 routers.
• Migrated data between CX3-80 and DMX-4 using Open Replicator
• Created Raid groups, storage groups and bound the Clariion luns to the hosts using navisphere manager and navicli.
• Created larger luns metas to support the application needs using SYMCLI.
• Planned and configured File systems with CIFS and NFS protocol and implementation in multiprotocol environment.
• Extensively worked on file system creation and file system export fort both Windows and UNIX clients using Celerra CLI and Celerra manager and managed the file system quotas.
• Configured CIFS servers and VDM's for Windows only environment.

Environment: Symmetrix DMX-3000, VNX, Clariion CX3-80, CX3-20, CX3-10c, CX700, CX300, CX500, Maintained NetApp FAS 270, 960 and 3040 series, Brocade 5300 and 4800.

Confidential

Position: SAN Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Configuring and allocating storage on EMC V-MAX, DMX-4, DMX-3, DMX 3000's, and CX 600/700's.
• Created Storage groups, Port groups, Initiator groups and masking views for allocating storage on V-MAX using symmetrix management console.
• Created thin pools, thin devices and data devices on V-MAX to provide the advantage of thin provisioning to the customers.
• Created dynamic cache partitioning on V-MAX storage arrays.
• Creating multiple Device Groups depending the application and requirements of the environment, and Data Replication BCV, SRDF .
• Storage provisioning and administration of EMC Symmetrix and Clariion arrays using Symcli, Navisphere.
• Installed and configured Cisco MDS 9513 enterprise director switches. Managed Cisco switches using CLI and Fabric manager.
• Troubleshooting and administration of SAN environment consisting of Brocade and Cisco switches.
• Installed and configured PowerPath on various operating systems to support the load balancing and failover features among the HBAs on the system.
• Implemented data migrations from DMX3000/DMX1000 to DMX3 and DMX-3 to DMX-4 using Array based Open Replicator/ SRDF .
• Responsible to setup the Zones between the hosts, old DMX3000 and new DMX3 .
• Designed, configured and implemented a standardized SRDF/AR group for disaster recovery.
• Actively involved in a consistent data replication for a machine critical application with oracle database from DMX-3 to DMX-3 using SRDF/A with TimeFinder/Consistent Groups Technology.
• Responsible for performing day to day operational tasks like storage provisioning and maintaining high availability as per EMC best practices.
• Generated health reports periodically for the entire SAN/Storage environments.
• Created volume groups, logical volumes, imported and exported volume groups during open migration sessions. Grouped physical disks into logical volumes dynamically sized and resized volumes to fit in the application.
• Worked in a team to Migrate data from CLARiiON to DMX3 using open replicator.
• Hands on Experience in EMC Clariion Administration by Using Navisphere Manager.
• Monitoring EMC CLARiiON arrays performance by using Navisphere Analyzer.
• Implemented CDP protection for the exchange Luns.
• Created consistency groups for the production volumes using recover point.

Environment: EMC Symmetrix, VMAX, DMX-4, DMX-3, DMX3000, CLARiiON CX-600/700 CX3-80, Cisco MDS 9513 / 9509, Brocade 48k, HP UNIX, AIX, Solaris, Linux, Navisphere Manager, Time Finder SRDF/A, Cisco CLI and Cisco Fabric Manager, Brocade CLI

Confidential

Position: Storage Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Project involves working as SAN storage administrator for EMC storage arrays DMX-2/DMX-3, Clariion CX-500/700, with Brocade 48k Enterprise directors.
• Servers were SAN-attached through Brocade switches to EMC Clariion and Symmetrix/DMX storage.
• Migrated Data successfully from DMX-2 to DMX-3 using SRDF, Open Replicator and Open Migrator Production data 2.5 Tbytes was replicated over ten miles to the new data center using SRDF/S.
• Involved in consistent data replication from DMX-3 to DMX-3 using SRDF/A Technology.
• Planning and Implementation of migration from multiple CX-600 to CX-700, using SanCopy.
• End-to-end storage provisioning for hosts using EMC tools ECC, SAN Manager, and Navisphere on Clariion and Symmetrix storage.
• Successfully allocated Storage using Symcli, Navisphere and Navicli for open systems storage environment from Clariion, Symmetrix to Windows, Solaris, HP-UX, AIX and Linux servers.
• Made copies of production data by configuring BCV and clone using Time Finder Business Continuity, which was used by testing team.
• Create RAID Groups, BIND LUNs, and Create Storage Groups using Navisphere Manager.
• Troubleshooting day-to-day performance issues and resolving them using Navianalyzer and Performance Manager. Identified unused storage using Storage scope reporting and actively resolved the capacity allocation issues.

Environment: EMC DMX-3/DMX-2, CLARiiON CX-600/500/700, Brocade 48k/12K/3900, ECC, Symcli, Navisphere, Brocade CLI and Fabric Manager, AIX, Solaris, HP, Linux and Windows.

Confidential

Position: SAN Storage Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Infrastructure consists of SUN Enterprise-class servers running Solaris 8 Solaris 9, Veritas Volume Manager, Cluster Server, EMC DMX1000/2000, Symmetrix 8830/8730, CLARiiON CX600, SAN-attached storage, Brocade.
• Provision DMX and CLARiiON storage through Brocade to SUN and HP-UX hosts using EMULEX HBA's.
• As a storage administrator, took care of the day-to-day storage provisions from both Symmetrix and Clariions.
• Created Raid groups, storage groups and bound the Clariion luns to the hosts.
• Created larger luns metas to support the application needs using SYMCLI.
• Converting the STDs to BCVs using symconfigure, create and manage device groups by establish, split and setup the BCVs for the backup operations.
• Periodic data refresh on the test environment from the production using TimeFinder Technology.
• Restoring the data from the BCVs in case of a corruption/deletion on the production environment.
• Monitor and reporting the health of the Fabrics.
• Generating reports for SAN and storage system usage also collects the history for future capacity planning.
• Responsible for providing user support which included systems set up, hardware/software installation, configuration and general maintenance.
• Day-to-day administration of SAN and storage infrastructure using SymCLI, Navisphere.

Environment: EMC DMX1000/2000, Symmetrix 8830/8730, CLARiiON CX600, Brocade 12K/3900, HP-UX, Windows, Symcli, TimeFinder, Navisphere manager, PowerPath.