Summary

Over 8 years of Administration/Implementation/Managerial experience includes EMC Storage / Windows - AD-Exchange / Solaris / HP-UX / AIX / Linux. Experience on EMC DMX/Symmetrix, CLARiiON, Celerra, Brocade, McData, Cisco MDS, EMC Control Center, NaviSphere Manager, PowerPath, TimeFinder Mirror/Clone/Snap, SRDF, SnapView, MirrorView, SANCopy, Open Replicator, Logical Volume Manager, VERITAS Volume Manager, Legato Networker, EDL, Avamar

Technical Skills Summary:

• End-to-end installation, configuration, and management of enterprise storage and SAN environment components
• EMC Symmetrix, Clariion enterprise storage arrays
• Brocade / Cisco Fiber Channel directors and Departmental switches
• Emulex / Qlogic Fiber Channel HBAs Qlogic / Microsoft iSCSI initiators
• EMC Celerra NAS
• Snap View, Mirror View, San Copy.
• SRDF and Time Finder.
• EMC Control Center, EMC Storage Scope, Navisphere Manager, Symcli, Navicli, PowerPath.
• VERITAS Volume Manager/Storage Foundation
• Backup Software's: VERITAS Backup Exec 8.6/9.0/10d, VERITAS Netbackup 5.1, Legato Networker 7.2/7.3/7.4.
• Sound knowledge in Media Rotation strategies, troubleshooting Sun StorageTek tape devices.
• Operating Systems: Windows 2k/2k3, Sun Solaris, AIX, HP-Unix, Linux.
• Expertise in Sun Solaris UNIX, including install, configuration, maintenance and day-to-day administrative activities.
• In-depth knowledge of Active Directory Windows Server 2K/2K3
• Migrations, Installations, Administration In-depth troubleshooting.
• TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, SMTP, WINS, Group policy.
• Good Knowledge on Avamar backups

Software / Hardware Expertise

Operating Systems : Windows 2003/2000/NT/XP, Solaris 8/9, HP-UX 11.x, AIX 5.1, RedHat Linux 2.4.

EMC Software: EMC Control Center 5.x/6.x, Storage Scope, Performance View, Navisphere Manager 6.x, TimeFinder Mirror/Clone/Snap, SRDF, SRDF/AR, Dynamic SRDF, MirrorView/S, MirrorView/A, SnapView Clone/Snap, Access Logix, Volume Logix, PowerPath 3.x/4.x,5.x SANCopy 2.0, ConfigManager, symcli, navicli, Connectrix Manager 7.x/8.x/9.x.

EMC Hardware: EMC Symmetrix V-Max,DMX4/3-2500/3500/950, CLARiiON CX4/3-80,120, CX700, CX600, CX300, FC4700, Brocade B12000, B24000, B48000i, DS4100i, B4100, AP7420, Cisco MDS 9000 Series 9513/9509/9222i/9216i .EMC Celerra NS704G, NS702, NS40, EDL4206.

Others: Legato Networker, VERITAS NetBackup 5.0, StorageTek L1400, L700, L180, Overland Neo 4000. Sun Fire V240,V490,V880,V890,T-200, E250, E220, HP/ Compaq ProLiant DL360/380/580/585, Dell PowerEdge Servers 2550, 2650, HP V, N Class Servers, Sun Workstations Ultra 20/5, Blade 100, SparcStation 5 20, Dell Work Stations, VxVM, LVM, Oracle 9i, VxFS, UFS, NTFS, TCP/IP, NFS.

Education: Bachelor of Sciences MPC, Nagarjuna University, India Technical Certifications

EMCPA - EMC Proven Professional - Technology Foundations

SCSA Sun Certified System Administrator for Solaris 9

Professional Experience

Confidential

Sr Storage Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Day-to-day administration of SAN infrastructure using Symcli, ECC, Fabric Manager, Device Manager, Navisphere and Navicli.
• Provide BAU support in performing Zone Config changes, Mapping of Devices to the respective FA ports and masking of devices to servers and also de-allocation of storage to unmap and unmask devices.
• Storage Provisioning on DMX Creation of Meta's, Mapping of devices to the FE adapters and Lun Masking using SYMCLI as well as on ECC.
• Migrated data from DMX to V-MAX using Open Replicator
• Auto provisioning using symaccess command in V-MAX
• Implementation and administration of EMC TimeFinder BCV/Mirror/Clone using scripts and monitor any errors and assist SA's to troubleshooting.
• Implement SRDF synchronous/asynchronous for Production and COB Sites and trouble shooting.
• Tested Disaster Recovery using SRDF
• Create CIFS and NFS shares using EMC Celerra manager.
• Provided analysis and solutions for server storage configuration and utilization improvements
• Provide support and help perform the COB testing for various application and Database teams.
• Migrated the ECC Infrastructure from 5.2 to 6.1
• Involved in SAN refresh Project to migrate the existing SAN environment from Brocade to Cisco MDS 9513's and also the existing DWDM link between the production and DR sties.
• Designed the Core-Edge topology for new Cisco Fabrics to ensure high availability and redundancy.
• Built Cisco 9513's from the scratch configuring the setup, Upgrade SONOS, Install Licensing, setup user accounts, Security, Install and configure Fabric Manager on SAN Control workstation.
• Performed Inventory of the existing environment in both Prod and DR Sites Devices attached, Ports connected on Brocade, WWN Numbers, FA's Masked
• Identified servers I/O bases on the Storage Scope WLA reports and used the info in carefully planning the SAN Design and allocation the bandwidth to the ports hosts are connected to.
• Attended all the Migration Meetings for Bin Requests and the Migration itself.
• Involved in setting up new ECC Servers with powerful hardware retiring the existing ECC servers.
• Used NaviSphere Analyzer as a tool to get the characteristics like the Read throughput, Write Throughput and the Total IOPS for a specific Lun and took them back to the Management and addressed the re-design of the existing bottlenecks in the performance
• Worked closely with the Windows server teams in the implementation of VMware VMotion and SRM.
• Developed procedures for the allocation of storage to VMware servers on 1TB SATA drives and implemented Meta Lun's to spread across multiple spindles for good throughput and performance.
• Worked with HP c-Class Blade Severs in implementing and testing the Node Port ID Virtualization NPIV and formulated a procedure to merge the inbuilt brocade switches.
• Installation, configuration and driver upgrades of HBA's Emulex Qlogic on Unix and Windows servers.
• Powerpath software installation, configuration and administration using powermt CLI in Unix and powerpath GUI in windows
• Installation and configuration of Host Agents, Master Agent, Connectivity Agent and all relevant agents to support the ECC 5.2SP4/6.1 environment.
• Worked with ECC Storage Scope to build custom reports and understand the current Utilization of storage thereby performing Capacity Planning recommendations to management for procurement of new hardware.
• Implemented ESRS setup for EMC Dial homes thereby replacing the conventional modem Dial home method.
• Implemented Tivoli Alerting for the SAN Infrastructure devices to alert the Command Center and worked closely with Tivoli team to create log adapters and carefully planned out the severity levels carefully to alert, email, call the on-call support in timely fashion.

Confidential

Role: Storage Administrator

• Allocation and De-allocation of storage to UNIX, Linux and windows hosts from Clariion and DMX arrays
• Maintaining and managing day-to-day provisioning requests for over 50 Clariion arrays and 4 DMX around the Globe which constitute to about a little over 2 Peta Bytes.
• Work with the UNIX, Windows and Database teams to deliver service requests around the globe.
• Storage Provisioning on DMX Creation of Meta's, Mapping of devices to the FE adapters and Lun Masking using SYMCLI as well as on ECC.
• Establish fiber channel connections between Host, Switches, DMX and Clariion's and troubleshooting patch panel, cable and port issues on the switch.
• Maintain and administer the SAN copy sessions
• Generate Reports using Storage Scope in ECC.
• Zone administration on Brocade and Cisco Switches.
• Administration of NAS solutions like Celerra Creation of NIS and CIFS shares and administering permissions and the home directories Global users
• Work with windows and UNIX teams to add the shares in auto maps and integrate Permissions in AD and NFS.
• Working with Backups and checking for the health of backups, co-ordinate with Iron Mountain and ensure that the tapes go off-site consistently and to meet with compliance of Audits.
• Worked with Sun STLK L1400 and L700M's and ensuring that the drives are up for scheduled backups and work closely with SUN to isolate issues.
• Involved in Data-Center Migration of 90 servers and 4 Clariion arrays using Mirror View A/sync
• Troubleshoot Performance issues on the servers, HBA failures and LUN trespass issues.
• Developed procedures and published documents on step by step processes of storage provisioning on both Clariion/DMX and processes and to do lists for Brocade zoning changes, Worked with the Server Teams to ensure that the servers have the tested drivers, required PowerPath versions and support them on that front.
• Involved in Preparing the storage Provisioning process to regulate and control the way we present storage and implemented a two day provisioning program and suggested the storage calendar for the server teams and end users to verify the SLA and when the storage will be presented.
• Worked under a strict Global Change Management control and procedures that are compliant with ITIL processes..
• Worked closely with EMC on upgrading the Firmware on the Brocade switches to Fabric OS 5.2
• Design, Installation, Configuration and Administration of ECC 5.2 in Single-Host architecture.
• Deploy Master agent on required UNIX and Windows servers. Deploy FCC agent to discover the switches in SAN. Deploy required application agents in SAN.
• Configuring and administering Legato Networker, troubleshooting failed jobs, perform restores and modifying policies to include new servers and removing decommissioned servers.
• Worked on NDMP backups and configuring drives for NDMP and also responsible for ensuring the performance of backups

Confidential

Storage Administrator

• Creating RAID groups, binding LUNs, creating Meta LUNs, creating Storage Groups, registering Hosts.
• Create Meta Devices, SDR Mapping of STDs and Meta Devices to FA ports.
• Assigning storage devices from target arrays to the Host.
• Execute data migration scripts to copy from Symmetrix devices to DMX and CX700 devices.
• Perform server cleanup by removing the old devices from the VG.
• Migration from Symmetrix 8830/8730 to DMX 2000/3000 and CX700 on Solaris, HP-UX, LINUX and Windows Operating Systems.
• Install, configure and administration of Brocade switches. Implement Core-Edge design for Brocade
• Implement Boot from SAN for Windows Servers. Provision storage for Windows 2003 HP-UX servers using symcli.
• Used Time Finder BCV's for backup operations with NetBackup.
• Perform data migration from Symmetrix 8830 to DMX000 using SRDF.
• Perform Host Analysis, document recommendations for any required Upgrades on Host's for smooth migration.
• Identify Source devices create a Bin Request for CE to create Target devices on DMX2000 prepare From-To-List for CE to create the pairing of R1-R2 devices.
• Zone administration to assign new storage after migration.
• Use symconfigure to perform configuration changes on the DMX/Symmetrix arrays. Create/dissolve Meta Volumes, Change device configuration, map/unmap devices to FA ports as and when required.
• Configure lpfc.conf and sd.conf files in Solaris environment for storage visibility to the servers.
• Install and configure PowerPath in UNIX and Windows environment.
• Assign storage from DMX/Symmetrix CLARiiON arrays to UNIX Windows systems using symcli and/or ECC 5.x
• Install NaviSphere Agent and NaviCLI on all the hosts in CLARiiON environment.
• Assign storage from CX600/CX700 using NaviSphere Manager.
• Perform Host Analysis, document recommendations for any required Upgrades on Host's for smooth migration.
• Zone administration to do migration and assign new storage after migration.
• Create SANCopy Sessions using Navisphere Manager or scripts to perform migration using SANCopy.
• Setup Device groups and Perform Time Finder/Mirror/Clone operations for Backup/Testing purposes.

Confidential

Role: Sr. System Administrator UNIX

• Managing Local Disk Drives, Identify storage configurations, Multihost access, Create disk groups.
• Managing and maintaining volume manager objects.
• Performing upgraded software and operating systems. Performing various tasks on Veritas products: Volume Manager, File System and Clusters. Maintaining NIS, NFS DNS
• Knowledge of fault analysis, performance tuning, and advance troubleshooting Assign user access to servers, applications and maintain accounts. Providing support for UNIX sudden outages, and performance monitoring, correction, and analysis. Work with internal customers to provide solutions and advice relating to storage and server management. Interface with customers, vendors, and internal staff End-to-end trouble ticket handling, troubleshooting, and resolution on escalated issues. Troubleshooting/fault isolation, teamwork, and multitasking Install Patches/Packages. Analyze Problems escalate to appropriate Levels. Act on Day to Day administration tasks by using tools scripts Problem determination and resolution within Expected time frame. Identify and recommend improvements to existing processes.