SUMMARY:

• Over 7+ years of total IT experience and 6+ years of relevantexperience in EMC Enterprise SAN Storage Arrays including DMX/VMAX Symmetrix, Clariion and VNX and Hitachi.
• Experience in IBM SAN Storage Arrays XIV and V7000, provisioning and reclaims and data migration VMAX to XIV.
• Experience in Storage infrastructure that includes EMC Symmetrix VMAX, DMX, Isilon, CLARiiON CX4, VNX.
• Experience in Storage allocation and de - allocation on EMC DMX and VMAX
• Experience in OpenReplicator, Power Path Migration Enabler(PPME), Solutions Enabler( Symcli), San Copy, Time Finder, ECC, Symmetrix Performance Analyzer(SPA), Navisphere Analyzer, SRDF/S, SRDF/A, Mirror view, Snap view and Power path.
• Experience performing data migrations using Power path Migration Enabler (PPME wif Host Copy and Open Replicator) and also Extensive Experience on Open Replicator to migrate data from DMX to DMX, DMX to VMAX, Configured, Created, push and pull sessions to migrate devices.
• Extensively Worked on Symcli to implement concurrent SRDF and successfully replicated teh storage to teh remote site using SRDF solutions (SRDF/S and SRDF/A).
• Experience in Supporting DR test, during Data Center DR test, SRDF failover/failback.
• Implemented FAST VP on teh new VMAX array and document best practices. Created FAST Virtual pools, TIERS and policies. Implementation of Fully Automated Storage Tiering (FAST) for Virtual Pools (FASTVP).
• Hands on experience in administering CIFS and NFS in VNX
• Experinced wif setting up Smart pools and Smart Quotas in isilon.
• Extensively worked wif Brocade,McData and Cisco SAN switches and creating zones for improving SAN security and Configured Zoning on Cisco switches through Device Manager and Fabric Manager.
• Experience in Solaris and noledge of Microsoft, AIX, and Linux platforms as it relates to disk allocation, managing LUN's and HBA configuration.
• Experienced in performing storage systems checks, monitor and alert failures wifin external arrays and SAN fabric components in order to identify and rectify potential hardware failures. Familiar wif SANscreen and EMC Control Center.
• Experience in administration, maintaining and troubleshooting EMC Symmetrix V-MAX/DMX arrays, VNX arrays using various storage management tools such as EMC SYMCLI, Symmetrix Management Console (SMC), Unisphere, IBM SVC.
• Experience in preparation of reports depending on teh management requirements using Storage Scope.
• Preparation of operational procedures and technical documentation of all SAN related projects and follow proper changes in SAN management

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Storage Arrays: Symmetrix XTREAMIO,VMAX,VNX,DMX-4,DMX-3,DMX-2,DMX,Centera, CLARiiO CX4-960/480/240,CX700,AX4-5, Isilon, IBM SVC,BM-XIV,V7000.

SAN Switches: Brocade Director Switches, McData and CISCO MDS

SAN Software: Emulex/Qlogic HBA drivers, Navisphere Manager, SYMCLI, Brocade CLI, Web Tools, Fabric Manager, Cisco Device Manager, Fabric Manager, VPLEX

Business Continuity Solutions: EMC Symmetrix based Time Finder-Mirror/ Clone/ Snap, SRDF/S, SRDF/A, SRDF/AR EMC CLARiiON based Mirror View/A/S, Snap View Clone/Snapshot

Migration Tools: EMC Symmetrix Open Replicator,Sancopy,PPME, Robocopy

Operating Systems: AIX5.3/6.1, Solaris 8/9/10, HP-UNIX 11/11i, Linux and Windows 2k/2k3/2k8.

Hardware: Emulex HBA’s / QLogic /SUN Fire/ HP9000 Series and IBM P Series.

Volume Manager: AIX/HP/Linux Logical Volume Manager, SUN Volume Manager and VERITAS Volume Manager.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Piscataway, NJ

Environment: EMC VMAX, DMX-3/DMX-4, Clariion,XtremIO, SYMCLI 7.x,Open Replicator,EMC Power Path, AIX 5.3, Solaris, HP-UX, Windows 2003/2008, IBM XIV.

Responsibilities

• Perform daily provisioning configuration changes using Symcli, SMC, and Navisphere. Allocate storage to specific servers/applications mostly comprising of Unix, and Wintel machines.
• Implementation of Symmetrix V-max Thin Provisioning, FAST VP, Virtualization and Auto provisioning, Used thin devices (tdevs), virtualization and Auto provisioning features on teh VMAX by creating initiators, storage groups and masking views.
• Implemented Virtual Provisioning from VMAX array to hosts by creating Data devices, thin devices, Thin Pool, binding Thin devices to Pool and masking teh Thin devices to teh host.
• Analyzing Grabs and Heat Reports for Pre-migration. Used elab navigator to check end-to-end software compatibility for san components.
• Responsible for Migrating Windows from various Symmetrix DMX boxes to VMAX using Open Replicator and VMAX to VMAX Migration and VMAX to IBM XIV.
• Implemented, designed FAST for Virtual Pools (FASTVP) to automate teh allocation and relocation of application data across different performance tiers based on teh changes in application performance requirements. Created FAST Policies, TIERS, associated storage groups wif different policies and monitored performance using SPA .
• Used EMC's Open Replicator software, execute data migration from existing DMX to new VMAX storage arrays. Extensive Implementation of Open Replicator (Hot Pull and Hot Push) for Migrations.
• Experience in Storage allocation and de-allocation on EMC DMX, VMAX, XTREMIO,IBM-XIV.
• Experience wif Connectrix Manager and CIisco Data Center Network Manager,Creating Zones and deleting Zones and assigning,blocking and unblocking ports on request ports.
• Experinced wif settting up Smart pools and Smart Quotas in Isilon.
• Managed CIFS and NFS in Isilon 8 node cluster.
• Creating NFS and CIFS shares in VNX and Isilon.
• Installed insightIQ instances and manged them for performance monitoring of Isilon clusters
• Managed different jobs that run on Isilon cluster for better cluster performance and to keep cluster healthy and running
• Migrated TB’s of data from DMX to VMAX and VMAX to VAMX using Open Replicator.
• Zoned and Provisioned storage from XTREAMIO for teh hosts as per request.
• Extensively Worked on Symcli to implement concurrent SRDF and successfully replicated teh storage to teh remote site using SRDF solutions (SRDF/S and SRDF/A).
• Investigate performance issues on Symmetrix using Symmetrix Performance Manager analyzed .btp files and Navipshere Analyzer .nar files.
• Used SPA to investigate and analyze performance issues on VMAX.
• Configured Zoning on Cisco switches through Device Manager and Fabric Manager.
• Allocation and deallocation of storage and Binding/Unbinding, Resizing, Decommissioning LUN’s through symcli as part of weekly operations.

Confidential, NJ

Storage Administrator -Consultant

Environment: EMC VMAX, DMX-4/DMX-3,Brocade DCX, 48K, 12K, 4900, SYMCLI 7.x, Clariion CX4-120/240/480/960, CX3-40, NS 704/NS 480SMC 7.0, Navisphere Manager6.x, EMC Power Path, AIX 5.3, Solaris 8/9, HP-UX 11.me, Windows 2000/2003 and RedHat ES3/ES4 Linux.

Responsibilities:

• Implemented Auto provisioning by creating Initiator Groups, Port Groups, Storage Groups, and Masking Views for teh V-MAX system.
• Allocated storage from VMAX, DMX4, V-MAX, VNX and ClariionCX3-40, CX4-480, CX4-960.
• Experienced in implementing FAST-VP in VMAX, VMAX and FAST in VNX and Clariion arrays running wif FLARE 30 and also configuring Fast Cache on VNX and CX4.
• Hands on experience in administering CIFS and NFS in VNX
• Used EMC Grabs and prepared migration scripts to migrate data using Open Migrator, Open Replicator. Migrated data from DMX to VMAX and from hitachi to VMAX and XIV to VMAX
• Upgraded hosts as per teh HEAT report and installed / upgraded and configured Power Path for AIX, Solaris and Windows Operating Systems before migrating to teh new storage arrays.
• Open Migrator/Open Replicator from DMX-4 to VMAX and SANCopy to migrate data from CX4-120 to CX4-960.
• Created RAID Groups, Thin luns and Meta luns based on teh application requirements using SYMCLI, Navisphere Manager.
• Implemented Virtual Provisioning in CLARiiON CX-4using Navisphere Manager 6.x and created thin luns.
• Responsibilities also include registering hosts, creating RAID groups, binding LUNs, and adding luns to Storage groups using Navisphere and NaviCLI for various UNIX and windows hosts.
• Configured Zoning on Cisco switches MDS 9513.

Confidential, NJ

Storage Administrator- Consultant

Environment:, EMC Clariion/Symmetrix, Navisphere, NaviCLI, Networker, SnapView, MirrorView, Powerpath, BCV, SRDF, Zoning, TimeFinder, McData switches/directors, Brocade Directors, EMC control center, Emulex, Qlogic HBA, Microsoft Windows, Linux, AIX servers.

Responsibilities:

• Implemented SAN wif CLARiiON CXSeries, created Raid Groups and Storage groups, assigned LUNs to Hosts using Navisphere manager, ECC and NaviCLI.
• Monitoring &troubleshooting hardware & software issues.
• Designing and Implementation of SAN & NAS Storage solutions in WINDOWS & UNIX Environments.
• Installed and configured teh NaviSphere Agent/CLI on UNIX and Windows Servers.
• Create SANCopy Sessions using NaviSphere Manager to perform migration.
• Configured Snapview Snapshots and Snapview Clones on CLARiiON CX Series Sub-Systems.
• Performed configuration changes wif SYMCLI.
• Involved in choosing best practices for storage systems like implementing data protection type of logical volumes.
• Done SRDF for Disaster recovery and has tested restore from R2 to R1 after establishing SRDF links.
• Implemented and managed switches/directors. Managed switches wif vendor specific GUI. Most of teh switches configured are EMC connectrix family. Knowledge of Connectrix manager and Fabric manager.
• Data growth analysis and storage resource forecasting also comes under my responsibilities.

Confidential

Storage Administrator- Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Experience in Clariion, DMX, ECC support, Storage provisioning and decommission support
• Experience Wif Connectrix Manager and data Fabric manager, Zoning, LUN allocation, Storage allocation to Host groups.
• Installed and support Navisphere MGT software for storage allocation
• Experience in Binding Luns, Naming, and resizing, Unbinding Luns through Navisphere.
• Experience in creating zones and zone sets and fabric configuration
• Installed and maintained Clarion CX 700,500 3-20, 3-80 and LUN masking and Zoning and Hosts configurations.
• Network Appliance Data ONTAP running on NetApp FAS6000 in fail over configuration.
• Creating Filesystems, CIFS shares and NFS Exports
• Fabric Manager, Connectrix Manager Administration for Zoning
• Work Flow ticketing systems, Change management, incident management and Break fix issues follow up and support Supervise network monitoring standards, security, Health checks, resource utilization and stability.
• Installed and configured Secure ssh software to provide secure login, shell and data transfer wif teh support of ssh1, ssh2, telnet, and serial connections.

Confidential

System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for day-to-day System Administration on Sun Solaris servers.
• Monitoring system resources, logs, disk usage, scheduling backups and restore.
• Installing operating systems, patches, hardware, vendor software packages, system
• customization and documentation of all departmental UNIX, PC-based workstations and
• Terminal.
• General system administration including NFS, NIS and DNS Active Directory configurations
• and maintenance.
• Worked closely wif DBAs to ensure optimal performance of databases, and maintain
• development applications and databases.
• Assembling teh systems and installing operating system and application software.
• Designing computer displays to accomplish goals using flowcharts and diagrams.
• Installing Operating Systems and Application
• InstalledSolarisand Linux and created user logins, administered teh system performance and monitoring user activities
• Installed VERITAS volume manager and implemented various RAID levels, logical volume creation, mirroring and file systems.
• Management and support of internal DNS, and NIS servers.
• Maintaining system securities.