PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• SAN and Storage Administrator possessing over 6+ years of IT experience on high end storage arrays Confidential Symmetrix V - MAX, DMX-2/3/4, midrange storage arrays like VNX 5500/5700, CX4, CX3, CX series, Brocade DCX/48k and Cisco 9513 and 9509 directors.
• Experienced in Zoning, Mapping, Masking, Meta creation, Device group creation, Continuous Data Protection (TimeFinder, Snapview), Continuous Remote Replication (SRDF, Mirrorview), and Concurrent Local remote Replication (SRDF/AR).
• Migrated hundreds of TB of data, using array based tools Open Replicator, SanCopy and using Host based tools Open Migrator, Logical Volume Manager and PPME.
• Hands-on experience in configuring FAST in V-MAX with Enginuity 5874 and noledge FAST VP in V-MAX with Enginuity 5875.
• Good noledge on Implementing VNX Security in IP Address Filtering, configuring LDAP/AD Security, configuring and auditing autantication with VNX Control Station, using of SSL/TLS Certificates.
• Solid noledge on VNX Block Storage Provisioning and Management, Configuring RAID Groups and LUNs, configuring storage pools and creating thick/thin LUNs, configuring metaLUNs, Virtual LUN Migration, Configuring FAST-VP, Configuring FAST Cache.
• Good noledge SnapView Snapshots/Clone/SnapSure and MirrorView S/A.
• Thorough noledge in VNX Managing Host Access to File Storage, Configuring devices, interfaces, configuring a file system, Exporting an NFS file system, Configuring a CIFS server, Configuring CIFS features (Home Directory, Anti-virus, and File Extension Filtering).
• Experienced in SAN expansion in Brocade and Cisco fabrics and SAN migration between Brocade and Cisco.
• Experience with auto-provisioning in V-MAX and virtual provisioning in DMX-4, V-MAX storage array systems using SYMCLI, Symmetrix Management Console (SMC).
• Expertise in storage provisioning, monitoring, reporting of Confidential Symmetrix (including VMAX) and CLARiiON using ECC/IONIX, SMC and Unisphere.
• Installation and configuration of Brocade DCX/48K directors and 5300/5100/400 switches, zoning using Brocade CLI, WebTools as well as using DCFM.
• Installation and configuration of Cisco 9513/9509, zoning using Cisco CLI and Cisco Fabric Manager.
• Installed and configured Confidential Power Path on Solaris, Windows, HP-UX, AIX platforms.
• Good noledge of disk storage technology, RAID levels, RAID groups, logical volumes and networking including NAS, SAN, iSCSI, Fibre Channel, TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, FCIP, iFCP.
• Experience with connecting Confidential storage arrays to Hosts with Solaris, AIX, Linux, HP-UNIX and Windows.
• Has good noledge on RecoverPoint.
• Experienced in writing the Data Center Audit reports and Performance reports.
• Professional team player with communication, interpersonal and presentation skills.
• Self-motivated, quick learner, willing to learn and adapt to new technologies and third party products.
• Provided On Call Support & day-to-day troubleshooting SAN related issues

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating Systems: SUN Solaris 8/9/10, AIX 5.2/ 5.3/6.X, HP-UX 11.X, Red Hat 4.0/5.x Windows 2003/2008

Storage Systems: Symmetrix V-Max, DMX-2/3/4, CLARiiON VNX, CX4, CX3 series

Networking: SAN, NAS, DAS, NFS, Auto FS, NIS, DNS, LAN, WAN, iSCSI, Fibre Channel, TCP/IP, DHCP, FCIP, iFCP

Programming: Basic shell-scripting, C, C++, Java, C#, VB

SAN Switches: Cisco MDS 9500 Series Multilayer Directors 9513/9509/9506 and departmental switches 9140/9120 Brocade DCX and 48K directors and Brocade 4900/5100/5300 departmental switches.

SAN Software: SYMCLI 6.x/7.x, SMC 6.x/7.x, ECC 6.x, Unisphere and NaviSphere Manager, NaviSecCLI, Brocade CLI, Web Tools, Fabric Manager, Cisco CLI, Cisco Device Manager, Fabric Manager

Business Continuity Solutions: Confidential Symmetrix based TimeFinder Mirror/Clone/Snap, SRDF/S SRDF/A and VNX/CLARiiON SnapView Snapshots/Clones, MirrorView S/A,VPLEX

Data Migration Tools: Open Replicator, Open Migrator/LM, PPME, SanCopy and LVM

Hardware: IBM P series/ Sunfire, HP9000 Series and Intel based X86 servers

Multipath Software: Confidential PowerPath, Veritas DMP, Red Hat MPIO

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Allocated and Provisioned storage from VMAX, DMX-4, DMX-3 arrays to Windows, Linux, Solaris, HP-UX and AIX, VMware servers.
• Performed installation of Solutions Enabler v7.1.1 and SMC 7.1.1 on several UNIX and Windows management servers.
• Performed Auto-provisioning for VMAX by creating, initiator groups, port groups, storage groups and masking views using SMC and Solution Enabler SYMCLI.
• Implemented Virtual Provisioning with Thin Pools providing oversubscription for applications with similar performance requirements from VMAX to hosts.
• Implemented Thin Provisioning from VMAX array to hosts by creating Data devices, Thin devices, Thin Pool, binding Thin devices to Pool and masking the Thin devices to the host, using SMC 7.0.
• Involved in the evaluation of migration methods by discussing with system/database administrators and application owners.
• Installed and configured the Unisphere Agent/CLI on UNIX and Windows Servers.
• Implemented storage provisioning from NS 480 NAS Celerra systems.
• Presented virtual volumes configured independently for each server using VPLEX.
• Moved data between different devices or between different extents, while maintaining I/O access to the data using VPLEX.
• Created file systems using NFS and CIFS protocol and exported them to UNIX clients and shared them to Windows clients respectively.
• Allocated storage to VMware ESX, ESXi server, Windows, HP/AIX/HP servers.
• Configured FAST-VP and FAST Cache in Engu arrays.
• Depending on the customer’s downtime acceptance, migrated data from DMX-3 to V-MAX, IBM FastT arrays to V-MAX using array based Open Replicator with Hot Pull or Cold Pull method
• Migrated Logical volumes between any source and Confidential storage with less disruption and highly automated using host based software OpenMigrator/LM
• Consolidated storage by migrating from CLARiiON CX 700 to higher capacity and improved throughput CLARiiON CX 4-120 using SAN copy
• Implemented data migration of TBs of data using SANCOPY between CLARiiON arrays and between CLARiiON and Symmetrix, IBM FasTt/Shark, HP-EVA Storage arrays
• Migrated data from smaller LUN production data with lower performance SATA drives, low protection level to larger LUN high performance FC drives higher protection level within CLARiiON.
• Performed a detailed Storage Capacity Planning by collecting data using ECC Storage Scope reports to prepare the customer for Tech Refresh projects.
• Created volume groups, logical volumes, imported and exported volume groups during open migration sessions
• Configured Brocade 4100,4900,48k switches using Brocade CLI, Web Tools by creating aliases, zones and configurations
• Implemented and tested SRDF/A for selected high performance Tier 1 applications from DMX4 to V-MAX including creation of dynamic RA groups, dynamic RDF pairs and device groups
• Based on the analysis, implemented a disaster recovery solution between DMX-4 and V-MAX based New York and New Jersey data centres located in same metro area using SRDF/S and SYMCLI
• Implemented Business Continuity solutions for production data using TimeFinder Clone Emulation, Time Finder/Snap on V-MAX.
• Troubleshooting critical issues including threshold optimization, server throughput, ports availability, meeting zoning requirements, one-path down, host not seeing storage management problems.

Environment:Storage Arrays: Confidential Symmetrix V-MAX, DMX-4, DMX-3, CLARiiON CX4-960 and CX 3-80

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Allocated storage using Auto-provisioning feature of VMAX by creating storage groups, port groups, initiator groups and masking views using Symcli 7.X and SMC 7.X.
• Implemented Virtual/Thin Provisioning from V-MAX/DMX-4 to hosts by using Symcli and SMC.
• Used SRDF/A for setting up Disaster Recovery between VMAX to VMAX and enabled consistency at the Device Groups. Created Dynamic RDF groups and RDF devices in order to implement SRDF/A.
• Also worked in disaster recovery operations team to perform the DR exercise to check the data consistency at the remote site using failover, update and failback operations.
• Implemented and Configured Business Continuity Solutions TimeFinder Mirror/Clone/ Snap for Symmetrix DMX and VMAX.
• Implemented various Business Continuity strategies as per the RPO and RTO requirements of mission critical applications.
• Actively involved in the design of the migration methods by discussing with system/database administrators and application owners.
• Migrated terabytes of data from several DMX/CX/IBM arrays to V-MAX using Open Replicator and Open Migrator.
• Worked with Power Path Migration Enabler (PPME) in migrating Windows servers from DMX 4 to VMAX.
• Ran emcgrab and generated heat reports to troubleshoot SAN storage related issues including identifying the software requirements to bring up the server to the current Confidential Standards
• Based on the Confidential support matrix, updated required patches (Operating System) and HBA drivers on all systems dat are part of the data migration.
• Prepared proper Documentation for all the SAN Switches and Storage Systems, prior to data migration by discussing with storage team.
• Extensively worked on creating new and updating the existing storage Documentation.
• Prepared Runbook for migration and disaster recovery procedures.
• Allocated storage to VMware ESX, Linux, Windows, AIX, HP-UX, Solaris servers.
• Provisioned storage from CLARiiON CX4-480/960 for different servers using Navisphere manager.
• Implemented disaster recovery solution MirrorView/A/S for remote replication between CLARiiON CX4-480/960 and CX3-80.
• Implemented thin provisioning on CLARiiON CX4 arrays using Navisphere Manager.
• Setup alerts for monitoring of thin pools usage on both CLARiiON and VMAX and expanded the pools accordingly.
• Administration of NS 480/ NS 704 NAS Celerra systems including creation of file systems, exporting and mounting CIFS/NFS shares and configuring network interfaces.
• Setup and configured new Celerra NS 480 and migrated CIFS/NFS and ISCSI data from old NS 704 to NS 480 using migration tool Celerra Replicator.
• Adding NAS file systems to Net backup policies and monitoring backup status.
• Configured and integrated iSCSI with Confidential Celerra NAS for SQL and Exchange environments.
• Familiar with recently released Unisphere for configuring and managing Celerra NAS systems and CLARiiON arrays.
• Responsible for performing day to day operational tasks like storage provisioning and maintaining high availability as per Confidential best practices.
• Discovered VMAX, DMX, CLARiiON, Switches and Hosts in the ECC Console.
• Administration of ECC, monitoring alerts, set data collection policies and alert thresholds, responsible for testing and verifying device configuration recommendation to enhance Confidential array performance.
• Involved in the installation and configuration of ECC 6.1 and took care of installing the agents for the hosts in the production.
• Installed PowerPath on different servers for load balancing and failover.
• Performed installation of Solutions Enabler 7.1.1 and Symmetrix Management Console version 7.1.1
• Performed Zone administration on the fabric to do migration according to requirements.
• Involved in migrating the SAN environment from old switches to the latest Director Class switches. Migrated the SAN environment from Brocade 48K switches to Cisco MDS 9513 and Cisco 9509 directors.
• Configured Cisco switches by creating VSAN’s, Port Channel, TE ports and zoning.

Confidential

SAN Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for day-to-day administration of Confidential SAN environment, which includes Confidential VNX connected to Windows, AIX, Linux and VMware ESX servers.
• Performed VMotion and Storage vMotion on various VM’s in a VMware ESX server environment.
• Created and exported NFS shares to Solaris and AIX hosts.
• Implemented Virtual Provisioning in VNX using Unisphere.
• Provisioned storage from VNX by registering hosts, Creating Storage Pools (Thin pools and raid groups), Creating LUN, creating Storage Groups, and adding hosts to the storage group using Unisphere.
• Hands on experience on SnapView Snapshots/Clone/SnapSure and MirrorView S/A in VNX.
• Performed daily tasks on NS 80G and NS 480 using Celerra Manager and Unisphere respectively.
• Upgraded Solutions Enabler from v7.0 to v7.2 and SMC from 7.0 to 7.2 as a prerequisite for SPA v2.0 installation.
• Installed SPA v2.0 on a Windows 2003 management server.
• Installed powerpath version 5.5 on Windows 2003 32bit/64bit production servers.
• Installed DPA on various Windows 2003 32bit/64 bit servers.
• Monitoring performance using Performance Manager (WLA), Symmetrix Performance Analyzer (SPA) and was responsible for verifying the SAN connectivity, device configuration and suggest recommendation to enhance the Confidential Array performance.
• Generated various reports on SPA and did a KT of SPA and DPA to the client’s storage team.
• Analyzed various performance charts and reports from the WLA in order to optimize the performance.
• Gained working noledge on RecoverPoint and assisted the client on RPA based data migration from one data center to the other.
• Created Consistency Groups, configured journal volumes and created RecoverPoint session for RPA based data migration.
• Actively involved in the process of installing and setting up DPA for the client’s new data center with Confidential Customer Engineers.
• Identified the server, network requirements for Gateway Client and Policy Manager installation and completed the pre-site check list for ESRS installation.
• Installed and configured power path for Windows operating systems to balance the load and provide good performance and fault tolerant.
• Worked on Brocade 48k director and switches as part of day to day job and also migrated them from one data center to other, reconfigured their IP using Brocade CLI.
• Implemented TimeFinder Clone on DMX arrays and SnapView Clone on CLARiiON arrays.
• Creating the meta luns based on the application requirements using SMC.
• Implemented Thin Provisioning from VMAX array to hosts by creating Data devices, Thin devices, Thin Pool, binding Thin devices to Pool and masking the Thin devices to the host, using SMC 7.0.

Environment: Confidential Symmetrix VMAX, VNX 5300, CLARiiON CX4-480, CX3-40, CX 300, Celerra NS 80G/20/480, Centera Gen4LP, EDL 4106, RecoverPoint 3.2, Brocade 48k Departmental switch, AIX (5.2/5.3),DPA, Win 2k/2k3, Solaris 9/10, VMware ESX 3.5/4.0, ECC 6.x, SYMCLI, SMC, SPA, Unisphere, Navisphere Manager 6.x, Celerra Manager 5.x, TimeFinder Clone, SnapView Snap/Clone, Brocade CLI/Web Tools.

San Administrator

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Allocated and Provisioned storage from VMAX, DMX-4, DMX-3 arrays to Windows, Linux, Solaris, HP-UX and AIX, VMware servers.
• Performed installation of Solutions Enabler v7.1.1 and SMC 7.1.1 on several UNIX and Windows management servers.
• Performed Auto-provisioning for VMAX by creating, initiator groups, port groups, storage groups and masking views using SMC and Solution Enabler SYMCLI.
• Implemented Virtual Provisioning with Thin Pools providing oversubscription for applications with similar performance requirements from VMAX to hosts.
• Implemented Thin Provisioning from VMAX array to hosts by creating Data devices, Thin devices, Thin Pool, binding Thin devices to Pool and masking the Thin devices to the host, using SMC 7.0.
• Involved in the evaluation of migration methods by discussing with system/database administrators and application owners.
• Installed and configured the Unisphere Agent/CLI on UNIX and Windows Servers.
• Implemented storage provisioning from NS 480 NAS Celerra systems.
• Created file systems using NFS and CIFS protocol and exported them to UNIX clients and shared them to Windows clients respectively.
• Allocated storage to VMware ESX, ESXi server, Windows, HP/AIX/HP servers.
• Configured FAST-VP and FAST Cache in Engu arrays.
• Depending on the customer’s downtime acceptance, migrated data from DMX-3 to V-MAX, IBM FastT arrays to V-MAX using array based Open Replicator with Hot Pull or Cold Pull method
• Migrated Logical volumes between any source and Confidential storage with less disruption and highly automated using host based software OpenMigrator/LM
• Consolidated storage by migrating from CLARiiON CX 700 to higher capacity and improved throughput CLARiiON CX 4-120 using SAN copy
• Implemented data migration of TBs of data using SANCOPY between CLARiiON arrays and between CLARiiON and Symmetrix, IBM FasTt/Shark, HP-EVA Storage arrays
• Migrated data from smaller LUN production data with lower performance SATA drives, low protection level to larger LUN high performance FC drives higher protection level within CLARiiON.
• Performed a detailed Storage Capacity Planning by collecting data using ECC Storage Scope reports to prepare the customer for Tech Refresh projects.
• Created volume groups, logical volumes, imported and exported volume groups during open migration sessions
• Configured Brocade 4100,4900,48k switches using Brocade CLI, Web Tools by creating aliases, zones and configurations
• Implemented and tested SRDF/A for selected high performance Tier 1 applications from DMX4 to V-MAX including creation of dynamic RA groups, dynamic RDF pairs and device groups
• Based on the analysis, implemented a disaster recovery solution between DMX-4 and V-MAX based New York and New Jersey data centres located in same metro area using SRDF/S and SYMCLI
• Implemented Business Continuity solutions for production data using TimeFinder Clone Emulation, Time Finder/Snap on V-MAX.
• Troubleshooting critical issues including threshold optimization, server throughput, ports availability, meeting zoning requirements, one-path down, host not seeing storage management problems.

Environment: Storage Arrays: Confidential Symmetrix V-MAX, DMX-4, DMX-3, CLARiiON CX4-960 and CX 3-80

Confidential

Storage Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Performed functions of a Storage Administrator including Zoning, LUN Masking and LUN Provisioning on Symmetrix and CLARiiON.
• Involved in Symmetrix configuration, connecting management server to the Symmetrix through fabric, and initializing the VCMDB.
• Converting the STDs to BCVs using symconfigure, create and manage device groups and setup the BCVs to do establish, split and mount volumes on a different server to do the backup operations
• Consolidated storage and expanded by upgrading from CX 700 to a higher capacity CX3-20 using San Copy.
• Created a complete documentation dat includes all the components in the SAN environment, Scripts to control the replication process, BCV setup for backup, disaster recovery procedures.
• Implemented High availability solutions like MirrorView, SAN Copy on CLARiiONs for source and target sites.
• Followed proper Change Management Procedures, well prepared and submitted all the required documents for all SAN / Storage migration projects.
• Creating the meta Luns based on the application requirements using SYMCLI, Navisphere Manager
• Decommissioned storage for open systems by reclaiming the storage after destroying the data, unmounting the file systems, unmasking, unmapping from the FA ports and dissolving the Meta devices using SYMCLI.
• Cleaned up the old storage includes deleting SRDF pairs and clone relationships
• Provided documents for operational management, troubleshooting the issues dat occur in the SAN environment.
• Implemented host San connectivity (core-edge) using with Brocade 3800, 3900, 12k, 48k directors and connected all the storage (DMX3, DMX-3000, and CX3-20, CX700) systems to core and host systems to the edge switches which provides a huge connectivity options for future use.
• Created copies of production data by configuring clones form the production data using TimeFinder Business Continuity used for testing and development and for backups
• Implemented san migration from a linear (24K) topology to core-edge with 48K and Brocade switches 3800/3900.
• Converted the device personalities as per the requirement (converting STD to BCVs and BCVs to BCV/R1 and setup R1 and R2 etc.).
• Implemented a disaster recovery solution using SRDF/AR between the two sites (production and DR) located geographically apart

Environment: Storage:DMX-3, DMX-3000, CLARiiON CX3-20, CX700

Confidential

Storage Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Day to day jobs include storage allocation, troubleshooting, monitoring and reporting on the SAN Environment using SYMCLI, Navisphere Manager
• Implemented, administered and maintained high end storage arrays Symmetrix DMX 2000, and DMX-3 950 and mid-range Confidential CLARiiON CX-600, CX-700 storage arrays
• Created and configured RAID groups, resized, and bound LUNs through Navisphere manager and NaviCLI on CLARiiON CX-600, CX-700 arrays
• Implemented merging of new Brocade 3900 switches into existing production Brocade 3800 SAN fabric.
• Implemented trunking of ISLs between switches to increase the bandwidth on Brocade 24k switches
• Customized Navisphere Event monitor for the Storage environment and configured automatic storage event notifications to users in the case of failures or status changes on the CLARiiON disk arrays in the storage enterprise.
• Followed Standard Operating Procedures and Working Instruction Documents to ensure same processes were implemented for storage provisioning and troubleshooting.
• Installed Solutions Enabler (SE) on Windows, UNIX systems, managed licenses and discovered Symmetrix arrays.
• Created, expanded, destroyed raid groups using Navisphere Manager.
• Created MetaLuns by expanding base Luns using striping and concatenation using SYMCLI, Navisphere.
• Configured point in time Mirror and Clone copies of the production data using the TimeFinder Business Continuity Solution for backup and for the testing team to use the production data.
• Implemented SRDF/A between DMX3-950 and DMX3-2500 at remote site for Disaster Recovery solution.
• Implemented Mirrorview/A between CX-600 and CX 700 which are at different geographical distant locations.
• Installing and troubleshooting Qlogic and Emulex HBAs including drivers to provide SAN access for Host integration.

Environment: Storage:DMX3-950, DMX-2000, DMX-2500, CLARiiON CX-600, CX-700