SUMMARY:

• Storage Administrator with about 8 years of experience in EMC SAN, NAS and UNIX Administration.
• Administrating, maintaining and troubleshooting of EMC storage arrays like Symmetrix, VMAX, VNX, DMX-2/3/4, CLARiiON CX-4/CX-3/CX/NS Series, VPLEXand NetApp and HitachiSystems.
• Demonstrated expertise in day to day SAN related tasks, alias creation, Zoning configurations and Storage related tasks like Meta creation, mapping and masking.
• Expertise in storage provisioning, monitoring, reporting of EMC Symmetrix including DMX and VMAX and CLARiiON using SYMCLI, Navisphere, Unisphere , SMC respectively.
• Experience in using Time Finder/Clone, SRDF, SRDF/A, Open Replicator, Open Migrator, MirrorView Sync/ Async, SnapView, SANCopy.
• Experience in installation and configurationof Brocade 48k/24k enterprise directors and 4900/4100/3900/3800 departmental switches.
• Experience with Configuration and Management of EMC Celerra NS 480/704/40G/80G series NAS storage using Celerra Manager and Celerra CLI.
• Experience with NetApp Data Protection features like Snapshot, SnapRestore, SnapMirror, SnapVault and SnapLock.
• Installed and configured PowerPath, NetApp DSM and Veritas DMP for AIX, Solaris, HP-UX, Linux and Windows Operating Systems to support the load balancing and failover features among the HBA's on the system.
• Experience in SAN related host connectivity for various Operating systems like Solaris, Linux, HP-UX, AIX, Windows and VMware.
• Well versed with Centera.
• Worked on VMware ESX 5.xInstallation and virtual machines setup using Virtual Infrastructure client.
• Experience in evaluating and architecting SAN policies and procedures to help customers improve their existing SAN infrastructure.
• Possesses hands on expertise in troubleshooting day to day SAN/Storage and host related issues quickly.
• Good communication skills and capable of handling multiple projects simultaneously with good mentoring skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

SENIOR STORAGE SPECIALIST

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Allocation with Auto-provisioning by creating views, initiator groups, port groups and storage groups on VPLEX, VNX, VMAX using SMC 7.1.1 and Solution Enabler SYMCLI 7.1.1.
• Configured RecoverPoint Replication between two sites with CRR Configuration for Vmware.
• Configuration and maintaining RecoverPoint Consistency Groups and replication sets.
• Managing Pools, RAID Groups, Storage Groups, SanCopy and SnapView Sessions using Unisphere and NavisecCLI.
• Creating thin LUNs, binding them to pools and monitoring thin pools on VMAX system.
• Creating Initiator groups, Storage groups, port groups and Masking Views on VMAX using Unisphere and SYMCLI.
• Allocation in VPLEX environment and migration of VMWare ESX servers on Clariion.
• Configuration of Consistency Groups on VPLEX Metro and day-day administration.
• Zoning with VMAX, Vmware, and VPLEX on Cisco MDS Switches.
• Creating pools on VMAX, VNX-5500 and creating SnapView Snapshots and Clones.
• Created Aggregates, Raid groups, Volumes, Qtrees and administration of Quotas in NetApp FAS 3020/3050 using FilerView and CLI.
• Create Aggregates/Volumes/Qtress/Quotas and export NFS shares to Solaris and AIX hosts from NetApp 3020, 3050 FAS filers.
• Administer and maintenance of NetApp FAS 3020,3240,3050 filers using FilerView and CLI
• Provide support for NetApp filers and associated product suites like SnapDrive, SnapMirror, Microsoft ISCSI Initiator etc.
• Creating Meta's on Clariion and Symmetrix systems and allocating them to the hosts.
• Creating NFS and CIFS shares and exporting them using Celerra Manager and CLI.
• Configured and Managed HBA aliases, zoning and zonesets using Device Manager and Fabric Manager on Cisco MDS 9513 switches.
• Host migration from CX3-120 to VMAX using Open Replicator.
• Managing devices using Multipathing software like EMC PowerPath.
• Upgrading HBA BIOS on Emulex and Qlogic HBA's.
• Time Finder Clone/BCV and Snap operations.
• Setting up replication on Centera.
• Migration from old to new Centera, Performance monitoring.
• Troubleshooting storage nodes on Centera.

Confidential

STORAGE ADMINISTRATOR

ENVIRONMENT: VMAX 40k, DMX-4, Cisco 9222i, EMCopy, rsync, VMware Vshpere, View Client, CommVault.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Involved in Host Based Migration of data from one CLARiiON box to other CLARiiON box with Help of Robocopy.
• Administration of SAN environment consists of Brocade DCX Director connected to VMAX and CLARiiON.
• Implemented thin provisioning from VMAX, DMX-4 to Windows2003/2008 clusters servers, Linux and VMware ESX Servers 3.5/4.0 .
• Implemented Data Devs, Thin Pools, TDevs, Meta LUNs using SMC and SymCLI.
• Created Storage Groups, FAST policies in order for hot device reallocation to improve performance on V-MAX.
• Created dynamic cache partitions for time sensitive applications on V-MAX.
• Migration Data using Open Repilcator from DMX-4 to VMAX.
• Implemented Disaster recovery setup between VMAX and DMX-4 using SRDF/Asynchronous.
• VSAN creation, Port Channel Creation and Zoning of Cisco Fabrics.
• Configuring hosts to replicate data, using Replication Manager, between Symmetrix, CLARiiON, Tape Library.
• Troubleshooting day-day issues for storage and backup environment.
• Document implementation and configuration of all SAN appliances along with challenges faced during the initial implementation/configuration process.
• Provide Knowledge Transfer on SAN appliances implemented and assist Operations in resolving Day-Day issues.
• Knowledge Transfer of SAN Appliances to Operations teams and also make sure they are upto speed in managing the technologies.
• EMC Best Practice implementation and knowledge transfer on Storage fabric operations.

Confidential

SR. STORAGE CONSULTANT

ENVIRONMENT: Symmetrix VMAX, CLARiiON, Navisphere, SYMCLI/ECC, Celerra, NetApp, Cisco MDS9000, NaviCLI, SnapView Snapshots, Clone, RoboCopy/Rsync, cp

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Create RAID Groups, BIND LUNs, and Create Storage Groups using Navisphere Manager and assign them to servers.
• Created Clones for a tech refresh and daily backup and mount the clones on a different set of servers.
• Implemented Mirror view/S CLARiiON array CX3-40 for disaster recovery that protects most critical data in the event of outrage.
• Implemented a disaster recovery solution using SRDF/A to support a bunch of application running on different servers.
• Maintaining replica's using SYMCLI and symrdf commands to sync and split the devices.
• Configured and implemented Dynamic SRDF groups/parings by converting Static Standard devices to Dynamic devices using Solutions Enabler.
• Hands on experience in configuration and administration of Time Finder/BCV/Clone and snap for local replication.
• Installed and configured EMCControlCenter 5.1.1 on Windows 2000/2003 servers to manage storage and SAN configuration.
• Configured and implemented core-edge MDS Cisco directors 9509, 9506 and 9120, 9140 switches to configure a multi-tier SAN environment.
• Hands on experience in creating all kinds of zones and zone sets with proper aliases.
• Setup the ECC to provide the errors and alerts from SAN environment. And also generate the reports to see trend analysis.
• Very good knowledge in Identifying and resolving several SAN cable and configuration issues.
• Provide documents for operational management, troubleshooting the issues that occur in the SAN environment.

Confidential

STORAGE CONSULTANT

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Allocation/De-allocation of storage on Clariion Series and Symmetrix storage arrays.
• Created SnapView and TimeFinder Snap/Clone copies for backup and testing.
• Configuration of RDFG groups, Device and Composite Groups between source and target storage systems.
• Preparing Method of Procedure documents for migration of hosts from DMX Storage systems.
• Configuration of SRDF Sync, Adaptive Copy, Snap/Mirror and Snap/Clones BCVs for data protection and disaster recovery.
• Storage Allocation and de-allocation with SYMCLI and ECC.
• Configuration and troubleshooting Fiber switches CISCO MDS Series and McData Director Series with new zones and zonesets.
• Host Level Migration, Switch level Migration of Storage systems.
• Hands on experience in creating all kinds of zones and zone sets with proper aliases.
• Setup the ECC to provide the errors and alerts from SAN environment. And also generate the reports to see trend analysis.
• Very good knowledge in Identifying and resolving several SAN cable and configuration issues.
• Provide documents for operational management, troubleshooting the issues that occur in the SAN environment.

Confidential

SYSTEMS ENGINEER

Responsibilities:

• Performed HP SUN hardware/OS installations, upgrades, patch installation troubleshooting. Installed and configured ARC servers for backup and recovery.
• Creation of users, cron jobs and setup of new applications on servers.
• Installed peripherals such as Printers, Tape devices, Plotters and Disks.
• Configured various Hubs, Switches, Routers other LAN related equipment.
• Setup and adding of new servers/clients to NIS yp domain.
• Provided Helpdesk support for Level-2 Desktop supports for the production system.
• Installed and upgraded SUN Solaris 2.x based systems.
• Rebuilt kernel for shared memory and tcp keep idle time parameters.
• Troubleshooting of LAN WAN network environment.
• New disks addition, formatting, partitioning and disk space allocation.
• Monitored system performance, tuning, system security and crash recovery issues.
• Designed and implemented heterogeneous network LAN-WAN having Unix/WIN NT servers which included Cisco routers, Motorola modem, Umodem, Multitech modem, Intel servers and printers.