Summary of Experience:

• 7 years of proven IT experience including infrastructure administration on SAN EMC Symmetrix,Clarion and Celerra, IBM SVC, IBM DS series XIV arrays , SRM tools such as EMC ECC, IBM TSM, Netapp SANScreen and Operating Systems administration like IBM AIX, SUN, HP UNIX, Linux, Windows and virtual servers VMware's ESX 4.0
• Extensive experience in designing and implementation of Disaster Recovery solution using EMC SRDF and IBM Global and Metro Mirror.
• Extensive experience in designing and implementation of third mirror backup solution using EMC Timefinder BCV mirror and IBM Flashcopy solution.
• Experience in administration of EMC Symmetrix, , DMX3 and VMAX using ECC and SYMCLI Solutions enabler
• Experience in administration of IBM Storage arrays such as IBM DS series, XIV series and SVC.
• Excellent experience in Microsoft, Solaris, and HP, AIX, and Linux platforms as it relates to disk allocation, managing LUN's and HBA configuration
• Expertise in host load balancing and fail over recovery using EMC Powerpath, Microsoft MPIO, Veritas DMP.
• Installed configured ECC 6.0 Dual-Host Infrastructure , deploy Master Agent, Push Application Agents FCC, Symmetrix Agent, SDM Agent etc
• Experience in implementing Business Continuity Solutions using SnapView Clone/SnapShot at CLARiiON level and TimeFinder Mirror/Clone/Snap at the Symmetrix/DMX level.
• Experience in Administration of NAS Environment using EMC Celerra and Netapps appliances.
• Experience in Netapps filers , Near store , R150 , FAS series Filers Administration , ON Tap upgrades , QTree and quota Management, NFS, CIFS support, Snap mirror, Snap shots Administration.
• Experience in administration of EMC Clarions CX-3-80, and CX-4-960using Navishpere Manager.
• Implemented Boot from SAN for Windows, Sun Servers using Emulex and Qlogic HBA's
• Experience in configuration and Administration of Storage Virtualization such as IBM SVC and EMC.
• Experience in configuration of Backups over SAN.
• Experience in Configuration of Director switch and Core-Edge switches environment using MCdata/Brocade and Cisco switches.
• Experience in managing LVM and File systems, SRC and Paging space management.
• Experience in Veritas File System, Veritas Volume Manager, Veritas Cluster Server.
• Maintain and support Virtualization Infrastructure using VMware ESX Server, Virtual Server 2005, High Availability, thereby easing business continuity plans.
• Skilled in replacement/repair/upgrade of software, hardware and firmware.
• Knowledge on EMC Centera,Vplex ,Cisco UCS.
• Experience in Problem ticket management as well Change ticket Management.
• Extensive experience on Enterprise SAN architecture and System administration on heterogeneous environment with EMC, IBM, Brocade/Mcdata and Cisco.

Work Summary

Confidential

Sr.SAN Administrator

• Responsible for administration of SAN environment at 134 datacenters for EMC VMAX, DMX, IBM DS8300, 5k, 4k, SVC, EMC VNX, Clariion storage arrays across United States.
• SAN administration responsibilities include SAN Connectivity, Storage allocation, Zoning, SAN trouble shooting and Fabric Management
• Bash scripting to automate the monitoring of all the storage array's.
• Configured fabric and storage in order to perform vMotion from IBM to EMC for VM environment
• Operational maintenance of DS8300 tasks and decommissioning the storage.
• Planning, layout and execution of migration of Celerra from NS3-80 to NS-960.
• Configured and tested SolarWinds and Nimbus for SAN monitoring across all 134 datacenters.
• Upgrading firmware on Ds5100/5300 storage and necessary remediation for optimal performance.
• Configured DE-duplication polices on Falconstor VTL.
• Designed the replication strategies using Falconstor VTL.
• Install TSM clients 6.3 and backup the Windows and Unix clients running different applications.
• Backup the SQL and oracle databases using TSM for databases.
• Worked on remediating TSM misses and failed backups
• Worked in racking of VMAX and VNX at corporate datacenter.
• Operational maintenance of Replication Manager for Microsoft Exchange environment.

Current Environment : EMC VMAX ,DMX,DS8300,DS5k/4k,CX960/380,VNX,Celerra NS960,Cisco/Brocade Fabric, IBM P series, VMware Vphere, Cisco UCS ,Nimbus ,SolarWinds.

Confidential

Sr.SAN Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Design and Implementation of IBM SAN using SAN Volume Controller SVC .
• Worked on implementation of 4 node SVC configuration, assigned IP address from the front panel.
• Performed setup of SSPC, installed SVC software on it and configured the SVC nodes into cluster.
• Migrating storage from EMC DMX 1000 to IBM using SVC by Image Mode process.
• Configured IBM DS 5020/3400 storage arrays, activated the premium features, assigned IP address, carved LUNS and mapped them to SVC.
• Configured Brocade B40 and B24 fabrics and assigned new IP addresses, activated the licenses for all the ports.
• Fiber and Ethernet cabling between rooms in the datacenter.
• Performed zoning using Brocade fabric between SVC, Host and Storage array.
• Created Mdisks , Vdisks and mapped them to AIX and VMware ESX servers.
• Used TSM Flash Copy Manager for Oracle databases and other applications.
• Configured and zoned the fabric for remote replication between production and disaster recovery sites.
• Worked on setup of Global Mirror and Metro mirror using SVC for disaster recovery.
• Installed ESXserver 4.0 on IBM system x3950, configured IP addresses, created datastores, added new VM's for Redhat and Windows 2008 servers and migrated VM's across datastores.
• Performed cluster redundancy on VMware ESX server's using SVC.
• Worked on AIX servers using HMC to get WWN's for VIO's and LPAR's.
• Performed configuration file backups for SVC's .
• Performed Brocade SAN fabric Management and backup of the zone configurations.

Environment: SSPC 3550M3 , SVC X3550M2 , DS5020/3400, EMC DMX 1000 , IBM X3950 /Power 720 , TSM Flashcopy Manager,AIX , Redhat , Windows Server 2008 , HMC , LPARS ,VIO's, Brocade B40/B24,VMware Vsphere/View and Thin App

Confidential

Sr.Storage / System Admin

• Responsible for administration of SAN environment at multiple datacenters using EMC VMAX storage arrays.
• Performed migrations from 3par to V-Max array using Open Migrator, Open replicator and rsync for Linux, Solaris and Windows hosts.
• SAN administration responsibilities include SAN Connectivity, Storage allocation using Virtual Provisioning, Zoning , SAN trouble shooting and Fabric Management.
• Installed, configured and administrated Power Path software on UNIX, Linux Windows Servers.
• Generated EMC grabs and analyzed grabs using HEAT tool.
• Implementation of EMC TimeFinder Mirror for UNIX and Windows environments for Backup.
• Implemented SRDF/A solution for the client, RDF replication using SRDF/A to the DR site.
• Performed Cisco SAN fabric Management and backup of the zone configurations.
• Generated EMC Storage Scope reports to identify and reclaim unused storage on the server.

Environment: V-Max, 3-Par, Cisco MDS, Brocade, VMware, EMC Control Center 6.1, Redhat, Solaris, Oracle ASM RAC.

Confidential

Sr. Systems SAN Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Implementation and Administration of SAN and NAS environments using EMC Clarion, Symmetrix , Celerra, IBM and Netapp storage arrays.
• Performed migrations from the CX, DMX to V-Max
• Performed Migrations from Clarion to XIV array with inbuilt XIV migration tool.
• Performed Replication on EMC Celerra NS-960 and replicated file systems from one data center to another data center using Celerra Manager.
• Used migration tools like PPME, Open Replicator, Open Migrator, Replication Manager, Recoverpoint, sancopy for migration.
• Implemented SRDF/A solution for the client, RDF replication using SRDF/A to the DR site
• Creation of Logical volumes LVM for Linux operating systems and Solaris Operating Systems.
• Net apps filers installation, on tap upgrades, snap mirror and quota, qtrees Administration
• Support Ontap upgrades export Qtrees, creation and exports through NFS.
• Holding the responsibilities of SAN connectivity, Zoning and Storage Provisioning on Production and Non-Production environments using EMC and IBM Hardware and Software tools.
• Performed LUN Migration within Clarion CX3-80 and migrated above 100TB storage.
• Expertise using EMC Symmetrix Solution Enabler Symcli and Symmetrix Management Console SMC for Storage Provisioning and Array configuration and Administration.
• Expertise in managing storage arrays and generated reports using EMC Control Center.
• Implemented site to site DR plan using EMC SRDF/A, Adaptive Copy and TimeFinder/Clone.
• Implemented SAN Copy from One Clarion to another using EMC Navisphere Manager.
• Expertise in implementation of Multipath environment using EMC Power Path.
• Configuration and Implementation of EMC Replication Manager for Windows VM Ware environment.
• Configuration and Administration of SAN Fabric such as CISCO MDS family, Brocade switches.
• Installation, configuration and driver upgrades of HBA's Emulex Qlogic on UNIX and Windows servers
• Expertise on switch port designing and patching using EMC Device Manager.

Environment : EMC Clarion CX3-80/CX4-80/CX700, Symmetrix DMX3/4, VMAX, Celerra NS80/NS80G/NS480/NS960, IBM XIV, Cisco MDS 9 series, Brocade 48K Directors, Windows/Solaris/HP-Unix/Linux/IBM Z's servers.

Confidential

Sr.SAN Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Worked in Planning, designing and Implementation of new SAN infrastructure environment for the Data center consolidation project
• Support 700TByte Storage Environment
• Implementation of Multi tier storage environment using EMC VMAX, DMX3, DMX1000, Clarion CX-3-80,, IBM DS8000, DS4000/5000 storage arrays.
• SAN administration responsibilities includes SAN Connectivity, Storage allocation, Zoning, Timefinder Scripting, Performance tuning and SAN trouble shooting.
• Storage allocation/reclamation - Created Initiator groups, port groups, storage groups and Masking views for Auto-provisioning and recommended various best practices.
• Implement Business continuity environment for the 24 7 Critical Applications using EMC BCV Time Finder and IBM Flashcopy utility.
• Configuration and implementation of Solutions Enabler SYMCLI for managing Storage allocation, Timefinder and SRDF activities.
• Configured new host systems by installing the Emulex drivers for the HBA's, Microsoft iSCSI initiators, PowerPath and ECC agents and made them part of the existing SAN environment
• Design and Implementation of Real time Site to Site DR solution using EMC SRDF.
• Implementation of Multipath environment for hosts using EMC Power Path and IBM SDD.
• Administration of Clarion storage arrays using EMC Navisphere.
• Managing EMC DMX Storage arrays using EMC Control Center and Solutions Enabler SYMCLI .
• Configuration and Management of DS8000 storage using DSCLI and IBM system Storage DS8000 tool and IBM ESS Specialist.
• Worked on the migration of Storage between different storage arrays using virtualization and TDMF tools such as IBM SVC.

Environnent: EMC DMX3/DMX2000/DMX3000/DMX1000, Clarion CX-3-80/CX700, IBM DS4K/5K,DS8000, Mcdata Switches i10k, 6140 Directors/ES4700/ES3232,Brocade 48K and Cisco 9 series, IBM AIX 5.3.

Confidential

Role: Sr.SAN Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for administering of SAN environment in data center which contain data in EMC Symmetrix DMX2000/3000, CLARiiON CX500/CX3-20 connected to 70 UNIX and 50 Windows servers.
• Day-to-day administration of SAN infrastructure using Symmetrix Management Console, Symcli, Navisphere and NaviCLI.
• Provisioned Storage for the Symmetrix DMX storage arrays using Symmetrix Management Console / Solutions Enabler which included tasks like Mapping and Masking.
• Created RAID Groups, BIND LUNs and Created Storage Groups using Navisphere Manager.
• Installed Navisphere Agent/CLI on UNIX Windows Servers.
• Administered Brocade and McData Fabric using Brocade web tools.
• Performed Zoning and LUN Masking using Connectrix Manager and Symcli
• Installed, configured and upgraded the drivers of HBA's Emulex Qlogic on UNIX and Windows servers.
• Installed, configured and administrated Power Path software on UNIX Windows Servers.
• Tailored Navisphere Event Monitoring templates and configured automatic storage event notifications to users in the case of an event trigger actuated by a chance or a failure on the EMC CLARiiON disk arrays in the storage enterprise.
• Performed Data Migration from Symmetrix DMX2000 to Symmetrix DMX3000 using SRDF, CLARiiON CX500 to Symmetrix DMX3000 using SANCopy.
• Documented the Migration Procedure from one storage array to another and discuss it with System Admins.
• Documented, troubleshooted analyzed the performance and escalated the issues with vendor.
• Followed proper Change management and preparation of technical documentation of all SAN related projects.

Environment: Symmetrix Management Console, Symcli, Navisphere Manager, NaviCLI, Symmetrix DMX2000/3000, CLARiiON CX3-20,CX700 and SANCopy, Brocade, Windows 2000/2003, Red Hat Linux versions 3 4 and Solaris