Objective:

To work with an organization which can utilize my technical skills and experience in areas of designing, implementing, configuring and supporting SAN and NAS storage infrastructures, with strong experience in EMC products.

Professional Summary:

• Technical specialist with almost 8 years of expertise in configuration, administration, troubleshooting, monitoring, reporting and supporting the SAN infrastructure using SAN Management solutions.
• NetApp Certified Professional NCDA with solid experience on NetApp and EMC storage products including DMX,FAS, CLARiiON and Celerra/VNX Systems.
• Expertise in SAN application solutions including TimeFinder Clones/Snap/BCV, SRDF A/S, Open Replicator, Open Migrator, Replication Manager, SAN Copy, SnapView Snapshots/Clones , MirrorView, RecoverPoint, Solutions Enabler SYMCLI , Navisphere Manager, Unisphere, Symmetrix Management Console SMC , Symmetrix Performance Analyzer SPA , Connectrix Manager, Cisco Fabric / Device Manager, Performance Manager WLA , Storage Scope, OnCommand System Manager, SnapMirror, and Path Management software.
• Hand on experience with EMC Symmetrix, DMX and CLARiiON CX120/480/960,NS 960/480/120,VNX 5300/5500.
• Experience in implementing, administering and maintaining NetApp FAS 6080/6040, FAS 3270/3170/3070,FAS3240/3140,FAS 2040/2020,FAS 270 and Experience in design and implementation of High availability Disaster Recovery Solutions for SAN/NAS Environments.
• Expertise in implementing business continuity solutions using various migration and replication tools like SnapView Snapshot/Clone, SAN Copy, Snapmirror and Snapvault.
• Hands on experience with zoning, storage provisioning, LUN creation, Mapping and Masking.
• Power Path installation and configuration on both Windows and UNIX platforms for failover and load balancing purposes.
• Good knowledge on Win 2K/Win 2K3 networks, Active Directory and TCP/IP protocols.
• Expertise in DNS, DHCP, WINS and Active Directory configuration in Windows based server environments.
• Expertise in end user support over the phone and also remotely using Windows remote desktop, VNC, WebEx, DS view and ILO to connect to the servers.
• Solid experience in identifying and analyzing technical issues and troubleshooting them.
• Worked on Remedy tool Change management, request management and Incident tickets.
• 24X7 Production support on call.
• Versatile team player with good communication and problem solving skills
• Hardware
• Symmetrix VMAX-20k,40k, DMX-3/4, DMX 2000, Clariion CX4-960/480, CX3-80/40, CX 700/500, Celerra NS480/960, VNX5100/5300, VNX 5500, 7500
• NetApp FAS 6080/6040, FAS 3270/3170/3070, FAS 3240/3140, FAS 2040/2020, FAS 270
• Management Software
• EMC Connectrix Manager, DCFM , SymCLI, DATA ONTAP, Unisphere, EMC Control Center, Navisphere Manager, Navicli, Storage
• Replication and Backup softwares:
• SRDF,Snapmirror,Celerrareplicator,Mirrorview,VERITAS Volume Manager, VERITAS File System, VERITAS NetBackup NBU , Symantec Backup Exec, NetApp FilerView. HP OpenView Storage Data Protector

EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Sr.Storage Engineer

Responsibilities

• Configured and managed EMC VNX, VMAX and VPLEX.
• Administered and maintained EMC Symmetrix DMX 3, DMX 4 series, V-Max and EMC CLARiiON 700, CX3-80, CX-4.
• Implemented VPLEX storage migration from the CLARiiON and DMX to VNX and VMAX along with the zoning on Cisco Switch.
• Day-to-day provisioning of the storage from the VNX and VMAX to the VPLEX the migrations and as well from CX-700 and DMX-3/4 depending on the migrations.
• Extensively used Open Replicator to migrate storage from CLARiiON and DMX to VNX/VMAX and completely decommissioned the source storage arrays. For Open replicator, created cold pull sessions to migrate devices by scripting the whole process for efficiency.
• Administered the storage and server in production environments. Created MetaLUN's by expanding base LUN's using striping and concatenation
• Created and Configured RAID Groups, Storage Groups, Binding Luns, Resizing, Unbinding Luns through Navisphere Manager and NaviCLI
• Involved in configuring Symmetrix device groups for Time Finder BCV operations using SYMCLI.
• Installation and Administration of NetApps Storage. Creation of Aggregates, volumes and mapping of LUNs to Windows UNIX hosts.
• Configure volumes for CIFS and NFS in NetApp NAS environment
• Configure Snapshot schedule for volumes or aggregates on NetApp Filers.
• Choose the right RAID level for high performance and high availability on NetApp Filers.
• Configured VIFs and VLANS in Netapp Environment.
• Monitoring and forwarding Syslog messages on NetApp Filers.
• Backup and restore data from Tape Libraries using ndmpcopy, dump, restore in NetApp NAS Environment.
• Refreshed data using Snap Mirror whenever needed using snap mirror and snap shots
• Performed data replication between the datacenters using the SRDF. Performed daily health checks and tested restore from R2 to R1 after establishing SRDF links
• Administration of Fiber channel switches by creating zones and fabric configurations. Configured zoning on FC Switches Cisco using the Fabric Manager, Device Manager
• Monitoring, Capacity planning, performance tuning and maintaining Symmetrix, CLARiiON's using Control Center ECC , Performance Manager, Storage Scope
• Installing and troubleshooting Qlogic and Emulex HBA's to provide SAN access for Host integration.
• Performed various methods of data replication on CLARiiON using Mirror View/A
• Installed, configured tested SAN copy to migrate data from CLARiiON to CLARiiON
• Used EMC Replication Manager for managing point-in-time replication technologies which included TimeFinder clone/snap/mirror , SnapView, and SAN Copy
• Installed and configured the EMC Control Center ECC and SMC to monitor and manage hosts, EMC Clariion and Symmetrix, Brocade and Cisco switches
• Implemented and performed daily backups and incremental using EMC NetWorker 7.6 Monitoring and implementing Disaster backup/recovery using NetWorker NMC. Check point restart using Net Backup restore.
• Performed multiplexed backups, Supported hardware devices such as Tape Drives and VTL Libraries using NMC on EMC Networker
• Troubleshooting issues regarding Emulex and Qlogic HBA's
• Configured EMC Control Center for end to end Administration and Management of SAN environment.
• Involved in generating reports for storage allocation, usage and configuration details using EMC Storage Scope
• Installed and configured VMware vSphere in shared storage environment like, Fibre Channel iSCSI, NFS and CIFS
• Installation, configuration and administration of EMC NetWorker NetBackup on hosts. Responsible for deploying automated Backup and Restoration using NMC 7.6
• Performed virtualization procedures using VMware on the client side systems

Environment: NetApp FAS3170/3140/3070/6080/3020,EMC CLARiiON 700, CX3-80, CX-4, Symmetrix DMX-3, DMX-4, VMware vSphere 4, Navisphere 6.X, NaviCLI, ECC, Symcli, snapview, mirrorview, SAN Copy, powerpath, BCV, SRDF, Zoning, TimeFinder, Brocade 5100, Cisco 9505, 9513 and Cisco MDS 9100 series switches, Fabric Manager, Device Manager, EMC control center, Emulex, Qlogic HBA.

Confidential

Storage Engineer

Responsibilities

• Explored SAN and NAS vendors NETAPP, EMC during the evaluation phase. Managed existing EMC CX700 and NETAPP FAS3000/3100/3200 Filers and involved with purchase of newer EMC CX4-480C Array with EMC RecoverPoint for Disaster recovery for migrating existing SQL and Oracle server onto Fiber channel Storage Area Network SAN .In addition implemented VMware SiteRecovery manager with SNAPMIRROR for ESX servers existing on new NETAPP FAS3140 Filers using iSCSI..
• Installed and Uninstalled NetApp DataFabric Manager on the different systems.
• Refreshed data using SnapMirror, SnapShot whenever needed.
• Installed iSCSI software and SnapDrive 3.0 software .
• Configured Network Appliance SnapVault software for regular backup data stored on NetApp or any other storage platform to Network Appliance enterprise storage and NearStore systems, providing a centralized disk-based backup solution for heterogeneous storage environments.
• Created LUNs and Volumes across a large pool of disks and one or more RAID groups using FlexVol.
• Performed automatic, incremental data replication between systems: synchronous or asynchronous using SnapMirror.
• Deployed Time Finder Business Continuity Solutions by allocating BCV devices, Clones and Snapshots as per the business needs on DMX and Clariion.
• Created Aggregates, Volumes Traditional, FlexVol and FlexClone , Qtrees and Quotas in NetApp FAS 3040 and FAS 3020 using Filerview.
• Troubleshoot NFS, SAN and CIFS issues on NetApp filers and fine tune the filers for optimal performance.
• Monitor, replace, and reconfigure disk drives, FC HBAs Host Bus Adapters , Compact Flash Card, tape drive/libraries.
• Experience in implementing Netapp NAS technology, including configuring shares, CIFS and NFS Administration.
• Created Aggregates, volumes FlexVol , qtrees and Quotas on NetApp Filers. Involved in creating CIFS shares, NFS exports.
• Configuring data storage in NetApp FAS 3170 series filers that run Data ONTAP 7G using CLI and Filer View.
• Provisioned storage to customers using both ISCSI and Fiberchannel provisioning.
• Experience with Cisco fabric manager and CLI to do Zoning for Cisco MDS 9513 switches and Brocade zoning. For M4400 Fabric switches.
• Created and Configured Virtual servers. Migrated servers using Platespin power convert and VMware converter.

Environment: NAS EMC Celerra NS510G/NS700, NetApp, Device management such as fiber channel, disk drives, CLARiiON, DMX 4/3, VMAX, Cisco switches, VMAX, VNX 5700, CLARiiON CX 4-80, FAS 3000/6000, Cisco MDS 9509/9216 directors using SMC, SYMCLI, Unisphere, OnCommand System Manager, Fabric/Device Manager and EMC PowerPath, Recovery point, NetApp filters, EMC documentation.

Confidential

Sr. Storage Ops Specialist

Responsibilities

• Managed the SAN Environment consisting of VMAX, CLARiiON CX 4-80, 3-80, Brocade 5300 directors using SYMCLI, SMC and Unisphere.
• Designing an additional space and carving up the space on the array.
• Expanded LUNs and allocated Storage to Windows and VMware ESX.
• Created Datastores from vSphere
• Administered and managed the SAN Environment consisting of VMAX, DMX 4, 3, 3000/1000, CLARiiON CX 4-80, 3-80, Cisco MDS 9513/9509 directors using SYMCLI, Navisphere Manager, Fabric/Device Manager and EMC Control Center.
• Responsible for storage Migrations from DMX 3 and Symmetrix 1000/3000 to DMX 4 and VMAX using Open Replicator Cold Pull and SRDF and successfully migrated the data and decommissioned the old arrays. Also used Open Migrator Host based replication software to migrate the data online for some of the critical servers which require less downtime.
• Responsibilities included weekly storage capacity reporting, regular meeting with the system administrators and DBA's in scheduling the down time for migration and also monitored the performance of the storage ports on the Remote side during migration process.
• Implemented DR solutions after the migration using SRDF and successful tested them for business divisions.
• Worked with remediation of the servers which migrated from old arrays to the new arrays.
• Responsible for storage allocation using ECC, SymCLI, Navisphere, Unisphere and SMC for the storage environment.
• Configured and Maintained the San environment using Brocade switch and created zones and added to zone sets.
• Successfully installed Symmetrix Management Console SMC , Symmetrix Performance Analyzer SPA and configured VMAX for the thin provisioning.
• Also implemented FAST V2 by creating Storage Groups and FAST V2 policies for different Storagetypes.
• Tested this in the lab environment which at later stage rolled into production.
• Worked with VNX in the lab.

Environment: SAN environment VMAX, DMX , CLARiiON CX 4-80/3-80, Brocade switches, Cisco switches MDS 9513/9509, fabric and device manager, VMware ESX, EMC control center, ECC, SRDF, Symmetrix management console SMC , Symmetrix Performance analyzer SPA , FAST V2.

Confidential

SAN administrator

Responsibilities

• Configuration, maintenance and troubleshooting of more than 20 servers 250 Workstations. Servers included are FTP server, SQL server, IIS server, Exchange Server, Domain server, Print server, VPN server, Linux server, VMware ESX server .
• Installing and administrating of EMC Storage arrays CX 500/600.
• Installation, configuration maintenance of Cisco 2800 router/2960/2950 switches 1240AG Access point for WLAN and Lease line management.
• Performed patch management and installing third party software.
• Installed and configured TSM server and installed TSM agents in most of the workstations.
• Created and modify backup policy creation and Restore Operations.
• Monitored and troubleshooting all the Net backup jobs from the Activity monitor.
• Created RAID RAID 0, 1, 5 and RAID groups on EMC storage arrays.
• Performed addition of new storage space to servers, increasing the existing storage space and maintaining the Fabric's.
• Adding new storage includes creation of new LUN's, storage groups, binding LUN's and making the storage volume available to the server's by zoning the Fabric.
• Created and configured volumes using Solaris volume manager SVM and VERITAS volume manager VxVm .
• Performed Performance monitoring, file system management and performed security audit.
• Maintenance of Data Storage devices for Backup Data Collection like IBM 3590/3480/3490, Fijitsu 3480.
• Prepared Business continuity and DR Process for the company.
• Installation, configuration maintenance of DNS, DHCP, RIS, Active Directory.
• Given Remote support for managing and troubleshooting server using Putty, Telnet, Remote desktop, VNC.
• Created documents for Backup procedures, Schedules, Failures and plan for improvement of backup strategies.

Environment: EMC CLARiiON CX500/600, IBM 3590/3480/3490, Fijitsu 3480, Cisco 2800 router/2960/2950switches/1240AG, TSM, Veritas Volume Manager, SVM, Solaris 8/9, Red-Hat 3.5, Windows 2000/2003 Server.