Objective

• To obtain a challenging position in a diverse grouping of SAN NAS within a forward thinking, ambitious organization which shares the same passion for Storage Technology
• Career Summary
• A San Professional having extensive IT industry experience of near 7years with SAN, NAS Administration and disaster recovery experience.
• Storage architect experienced in analysis, architectural design, Capacity planning, Statistical analysis and reports, Governance, standard best-practices, Solution Implementation, Enterprise Application Integration and team Management
• Technical expertise involves production deployments, configuration, administration, maintenance, security, performance tuning and monitoring of Storage infrastructure with a diversified experience in large mission critical data Center environments
• Have visionary foresight into new technologies to analyse enterprise needs, define opportunities and develop optimized solutions.

Professional Experience:

Sr. Storage Engineer

• Configuring HBA Cards using both host and Vendor utilities like elxcfg, lputil, HBAnyware, SANsurfer and SCLI.
• Configuring Zoning and Activating the zone sets. Storage Provisioning through Navisphere Manager, Symcli and ECC.
• Configuring Meta-Luns. Taking Backup of Symmetrix Configuration file and Volume Logix database and restoring the same.
• Configuring Mutlipathing Softwares like EMC Powerpath. Configuring Failover and applying load balancing policies in Powerpath.
• Configuring Reserved LUN Pool, SNAPVIEW Snapshots and Clones, Time- finder Mirror, and Time-finder Snap and Clones.
• Troubleshooting the issues related to RLP and SAVE Devices and monitoring the Utilization of same.
• Coordinating with EMC for Flare Code, Enginutiy Code and DART up gradation.

Sr. Storage Engineer

• Designing Develop solutions to complex applications problems, system administration issues, or Storage concerns
• Supported around 14Petabyte of Storage space.
• Performed migration project from Clarrion / DMX /Hitachi to VMAX, IBM SVC to Clariion/VNX, NetApp to Isilon, Clariion to VNX
• Design, Installed, configured Upgraded the VMAX/VNX/NetApp/Isilon/Equallogic/HPEVA Products
• Worked on Allocating storage space to VMAX/VNX/NetApp/Isilon/Equallogic/HP/IBM/STK.
• Worked on SRDF, Open Replicator, SAN-Copy, Isi Volcopy, robocopy, rsync, Snapmirror, Snapview Technologies.
• Installed, configured upgraded Core/EDGE Switches in Brocade Cisco.
• Migrated between Brocade DCX core to CISCO MDS9710 core, Brocade 4100 edge to CISO 5548 edge CISCO edge to Brocade edge Implemented NPV/NPIV between the switches UCS.
• Worked on DCFM, Connectrix manager, Isilon Insight IQ, EMC ECC, Unisphere, Navisphere, NetApp System Manager Oncommand3.0, symcli, smc, naviseccli, Storage navigator, SanHQ, SanHealth, HP command View/Performance monitor, DS storage manager client/San tricity, DFM, Power vault Storage manager, Oncommand Insight
• Basic Experience in Avamar, Netbackup, Datadomain.
• Provided key technical communication and project oversight between contract vendors and business customers.
• Have done POC on Flash technology EMC Xtreme IO , Netapp EF550, IBM V840, Purestorage.
• Have done POC on FlexPod
• Implemented Dynamic pools Combination of SSD, SAS and SATA Drives for dynamic tearing and FastVP in EMC VMAX VNX, Smartpools in Isilon.
• Have done DR testing
• Create a change management request for any change required on the current environment by following the ITIL process and ensure the overall quality of the project.
• Provide recommendations to improve the storage infrastructure, and address/lead critical issues and root cause analysis
• Maintain fiber cabling documentation, labeling and logical/physical cabling diagrams, along with CMDB detail KEDB details.
• Tata Communications Inc. Chennai, India Nov, 2007 May, 2009

Storage Engineer

• Installed Upgraded the NetApp/HP Products
• Worked on Allocating storage space to NetApp/HP.
• Snap restore
• Sync snap mirroring, planning and implementation
• Skills in MultiStore/vfilers, Qtree, Quotas, Highly availability for filers in active/active mode, CIFS, NFS etc. Troubleshooting in NAS.
• DFM for monitoring
• Creation of policy for the backup Veritas backup .
• Scheduling.
• Checking the availability of media.
• Worked with ADIC IScalar 2000 and MSL 6030 Tape libraries.
• Carried out the following activities: Tool Development
• Defining the goals of the Storage Resource Monitoring tool
• Explored and determined the feasibility of various technologies available to implement the tool.
• Decision making to adopt SMI-S based CIM built monitoring tool development
• Prepared an architectural overview of SMI-S based working environment
• Developed a blue print to build the SMI-S client and Charted out a plan to achieve it.
• Implemented Open Pegasus based CIMOM.
• Implemented Open SLP for SLP based Discovery of SMI-S Providers.
• Registered the SMI-S provider with CIMOM.
• To ascertain the workability of the tool an opensource SMI-S client is used.
• Query the CIMOM using SMI-S client.
• Output is fetched and displayed in a suitable format.
• Dynamic Management information is obtained for SAN fabric and IBM DS 4500 Storage box.