SUMMARY

• Around 7.5 years of extensive experience on multi - tier Enterprise Storage Systems Design, Migration, Installation, Management, Performance Analysis, Monitoring & Reporting.
• Experience in the configuration and troubleshooting of EMC VMAX/DMX, VNX, CLARiiON and NetApp.
• Involvement in 2 data center migrations namely DMX3 to VMAX, Cx 480 to VNX 7500, Celerra to VNX 5300, Celerra - Isilon.
• Strong experience in provisioning and decommissioning of Symmetrix DMX 4 and Clariion CX 4-240 / CX 3-80 / 3-40/ 700.
• Implementation, Configuration and maintenance of VPLEX metro cluster.
• Experience in planning, design and implementation of SAN solutions like SRDF/S, SRDF/A, TimeFinder (BCV/Clone/Snap), Open Replicator, SAN Copy, SnapView (Snapshot/clone), Recover Point 4.0, PowerPath Migration Enabler.
• Experience with Masking, Mapping, Virtual Provisioning and Auto provisioning Virtual LUN migration (V-MAX) on EMC Symmetrix arrays using SYMCLI, ECC and SMC.
• Installation and configuration of Cisco MDS 9513/09/06, 9216, Brocade ED-48000B and DS-4100B directors/switches using Web Tools, Command Line Interface (CLI), Connectrix Manager.
• Configured and maintained segments and virtual volumes in theVPLEXenvironment for replication purposes.
• Experience in Storage infrastructure that included NetApp FAS series (3000's, 6000's and 8000's) in Clustered High Availability (HA) configurations across multiple sites.
• Upgraded Shelf and Disk Firmware on NetApp FAS series, Upgraded Data ONTAP on NetApp Filers.
• Experience with Installation, Migration, and implementation on NetApp FAS series.
• Have a good exposure on UNIX (Solaris 10) and Windows operating system.
• Experience in UNIX, LINUX, Solaris, HP-UX, AIX and Windows servers using EMC and NetApp Products.
• Participation in project planning phase for new initiatives, upgrades, migrations and re-architecture.
• Implementation and configuration of Powerpath for Load balancing and Path failover for both windows and VMware (ESX hosts).
• Experience in implementing Business Continuity solutions using SnapView Snaps/Clones on VNX/CLARiiON and VNX Snapshots on VNX using Unisphere Manager/Navisphere and NaviSecCLI
• Experience with Celerra/VNX SnapSure (CheckPoints) and Celerra /VNX Replicator.
• Knowledge on clustered Data ONTAP and successfully completed c-DOT training.
• Experience in working with Symmetrix command line interface (Symcli).
• Administration and maintenance of servers running Windows 2000, Windows 2003 and Windows 2008 server editions.
• Have ability to work as a team balanced with ability to work alone and a positive attitude.
• Installation and maintenance IIS 6.0/7.0 web servers and SQL server 2008 in production environment.
• Experience in Disaster Recovery planning and execution and comprehensive expertise in integration, project management and problem solving.

WORK EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Agawam, MA

Sr. Storage Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Configured and managed EMC VNX, VMAX andVPLEX.
• Configured Vplex VS2 Hardware with Heterogeneous Backend Storage.
• Worked in a Data Center Tech refresh project which involved migrating Terabytes of data using VPLEX VS2 Hardware.
• Migrations using Data Mobility with VPLEX were performed and administered the whole process.
• Storage Encapsulation for Open System Hosts and Migrations with Zero down Time were performed.
• Provisioned Virtual Volumes from Claimed Backend Storage in Vplex.
• Implemented Unified storage with VNX created Homogeneous/Heterogeneous Pools, Created RAID protection, assigned Thin LUNs and Traditional LUNs to Pools.
• Configured the VNX environment with FAST Cache and FAST VP.
• Configured Snap view Snapshots, Snap view Clones and MirrorView S/A in VNX Series.
• Configured Initiator groups, Port groups, Storage groups and Masking views to allocate storage in a VMAX environment.
• Created Open Replicator Sessions using SMC to perform migration from CLARiiON CX 3-80 to VMAX.
• Performed configuration changes with ECC / SYMCLI.
• Involved in choosing best practices for storage systems like implementing data protection type of logical volumes.
• Configured Vplex using the Vplex management console.
• Configured segments and virtual volumes in theVPLEXenvironment for replication purposes.
• Assisted EMC in installation of 2 engineVPLEXin the datacenter.
• Configured Cisco 9500 series switches and managed them by creating zones and Zone sets, and configured VSAN using Fabric Manager.
• Zoned VNX and VMAX storage to VPLEX metro and performed storage encapsulation.
• Implemented and configured VPLEX metro cluster and also performed LUN encapsulation behind the VPLEX.
• Installed PowerPath, configured and administrated on UNIX & Windows Servers.
• Configured Host Based connectivity (both Fabric and Direct Attach) for Windows and UNIX Hosts.
• Configured Fiber Switches with ISLs between them and adding these switches to relevant fabrics.
• Performed backup/Recovery and also reviewed them to ensure that it got successfully stored.
• HBA drivers and firmware installation and upgrading them on UNIX & Windows Servers was performed.
• Performed creation of VPLEX Distributed devices and Consistency Groups, performed storage allocation to different hosts from VMAX 40K.
• Successfully installed and maintained VMware ESXi server and created virtual machines.
• Monitoring, reporting and presenting key infrastructure performance metrics for technologies in scope to IT leadership was performed.
• Followed the change management to perform any changes relating to the environment and documented the environment.
• Installed and Configured NetApp Filers FAS 6240 and 8040.
• Promote emerging technologies that address business needs.
• Identify technical opportunities and needs for new and existing business and technical models and processes.
• Testing and certifying the newer ONTAP versions 8.X and implementing them on Production environments.
• Coordinate with NetApp on the newer updates for different FAS systems, certified in the lab and be included in the upgrade and build process for newer installations.
• Deploy and manage the Netapp FAS filers running onONTAP8 7-mode & cluster mode.
• Installed C-DOT 8.2.1 on FAS 8000 series filers.
• Replaced IOM modules, Power supplies, Disks and installed NIC cards.
• Involved in implementing OnCommand Unified manager and Performance manager.
• Restored data on both 7-mode and C-DOT.
• Created CIFS shares, Junction paths, NFS mounts on C-DOT.
• Configured snapshot and volume efficiency policies on C-DOT.
• Created data VServer’s and set up DP mirror relations and clustered peer relationships.
• C-DOT management through shell and OnCommand System manager.
• Knowledge on configuring cluster management LIF’s, data LIF’s and port configurations.

Environment: EMC Control Center, SYMCLI, Symmetric Management Console, TimeFinder, SRDF, C-DOT, ONTAP 8.7, Unisphere manager, Isilon, PowerPath v5.1, MirrorView, SnapView, SAN Copy, Zoning, Replication Manager, Cisco and brocade fabric switches, Microsoft Windows servers, NetApp FAS 6240 and 8040, EMC CX3-40, CX 700, CX-600, NaviCLI, Navisphere Manager, Vplex.

Confidential, Erie, PA

Sr. SAN/Storage Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Managed an environment of 3 VMAX-20K's, 3 VMAX-40K's, 10 DMX-4, NS-480, VNX, Isilon, 12 Cisco 9513 directors, 12 Brocade 48K directors, X and NL seriesIsilonclusters.
• Day to day storage allocation using Auto-provisioning of VMAX-40K/20K, by creating storage groups, port groups, initiator groups and masking views using SymCLI 7.X and SMC 7.X.
• Implemented Virtual/Thin Provisioning by creating data drives, thin devices and thin pools from VMAX20K/40K.
• Implemented FAST-VP with four different policies on VMAX 20K's, FAST cache on VNX and Data compression for LUNs were implemented as well.
• Migrated data using Open Replicator, Open Migrator, PPME, Storage vMotion and LVM from DMX-4's, CX, IBM/HDS storage arrays to VMAX-20K.
• Implemented SRDF/A for more than 80 applications across 6 VMAX's which includes creating RDF groups, RDF devices, setting device groups, monitoring using sym recover and enabling consistency as well as created gold copy from R2 devices.
• Installed and configured Cisco 9513 directors including creating VSAN's, TE ports, Port Channels, and migrated SAN fabric from Brocade 48K to Cisco 9513.
• Worked as a part of disaster recovery operations team to perform the DR exercise to check the data consistency at the remote site using failover, update and failback operations.
• Symmetrix DMX and VMAX were configured and implemented using Business Continuity Solutions TimeFinder Mirror/Clone/Snap.
• 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.
• Generated heat reports by running emcgrabs and to create host remediation report to identifying the software requirements to bring up the server to the current EMC Standards.
• Based on the EMC support matrix, patches that are required were updated (Operating System) and HBA drivers on all systems that are part of the data migration.
• Allocated storage to VMware ESX, Linux and Windows servers along with clusters from DMX, VMAX, CX and VNX arrays.
• Provisioned storage from VNX 5700 and CLARiiON CX4-480/960 storage arrays for different servers using Unisphere and Navisphere manager by creating RAID groups/Storage pools, LUNS, Storage Groups.
• Registered arrays for DATA collection, data collection policies were set. Performance thresholds, configured alerts, generated reports using Symmetrix Performance Analyzer were done.
• Alerts were setup for monitoring thin pools usage on both VNX and VMAX and expanded the pools accordingly.
• Implemented RecoverPoint setup across VNX arrays through FC connection and created DR setup using asynchronous replication for essential servers that will allow Testing Copies, Failover and Production Recovery
• Prepared a RecoverPoint 4.0 GUI based Runbook for customer practice and future reference
• Planned and executed the process of moving all NFS exported File Systems mounted on physical data mover to virtual data mover as recommended EMC best practices
• Performed asynchronous VDM and file system replication using VNX Replicator tool and successfully tested the DR plan through Switchover option
• Designed and deployed new Gen-2 VNX 5800 unified array, configured block and file part of it and also involved in rack and stack process of the array
• Configured VNX arrays to send SNMP trap notifications to ZenOSS Management host on specific severity conditions
• Regularly reported capacity of VNX arrays and monitored performance using VNX Monitoring and Reporting GUI tool
• Day to Day responsibilities include block and file storage provisioning from VNX unified array, performance monitoring and capacity reporting, code upgrades, zoning, replication setup
• Discovered VMAX, DMX, CLARiiON, Switches and Hosts in the ECC Console.
• Administrated ECC, monitored alerts, data collection policies and alert thresholds were set, responsible for testing and verifying device configuration recommendation to enhance EMC array performance.
• Installed and configured ECC 6.1 as a team and took care of installing the agents for the hosts in the production.
• Installed PowerPath on different servers for load balancing and failover.
• Performed Zone administration on the fabric to do migration according to requirements.
• Connected Filers to fiber Channel Network, Ethernet network, Remote management card, third-party SCSI tape backup devices.
• Used Operations Manager for managing and monitoring SnapMirror and volume capacities.
• Configured and administered backup and restore operation using SnapVault and SnapRestore inNetappNAS Environment.
• Upgraded ONTAP from 7.3.6 to 8.1.
• Worked on a datacenter migration project to migrate 30 filers, over 500TB of data.
• Worked on capacity planning, performance analysis for the procurement of new filers.
• Used snapmirror to copy data between the filers for migration.
• Created runbooks and documentation of storage plans, ONTAP upgrades and data migration.
• Coordinated with Business unit and SA's for downtimes and cut over of new shares.
• Migrated data from 32bit aggregate to 64bit aggregate using QSM and NDMP.
• Involved in enabling the access to a LUN on the storage appliance using or isci protocol.
• Involved in troubleshooting permissions, capacity, backup, performance issues on the filers.
• Creating and administering aggregates, volumes, Qtrees, Flexvol, Snapshots.
• Upgraded DFM from 3.8.1 to 4.0.1

Environment: VMAX-20K/40K, DMX-4,5700, CLARiiON CX4-480/960, NS 480,IsilonX and NL Brocade 48K, Cisco UCS, Cisco MDS 9513, SYMCLI 7.x/6.x, SMC 7.x, ECC 6.1, Unisphere, Navisphere Manager, SRDF/A, TimeFinder Mirror/Clone/Snap, MirrorView/A, Open Replicator, Open Migrator, PPME, Celerra Replicator, Brocade Web Tools/ CLI, Cisco CLI/ Fabric Manager, Celerra Manager/CLI, Celerra Replicator, PowerPath, VMWARE 4.x/5.x, Windows 2003/2008 and RedHat ES4.x/ES5.x.

Confidential, Cheyenne, WY

SAN Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Day-to-day administration of SAN infrastructure DMX/CLARiiON/Celerra using ECC6.0/6.1, SMC, SymCLI and Navisphere was performed.
• Migrated storage using native AIX LVM mirroring and open migrator from DMX-3 to DMX-4 platform.
• Configured Celerra with CIFS share.
• Designed and implemented failovers for Disaster recovery and also planned for necessary zone changes.
• Installation and configuration of Host Agents, Master Agent, Connectivity Agent and all relevant agents to support the ECC environment.
• Involved in Planning and Migration of 150 servers from DMX to DMX-4.
• Implemented and administered EMC Time Finder (BCV/Mirror/Clone) for UNIX and windows servers.
• Created RAID Groups, bind LUNs, storage groups were created, registered Hosts and assigned LUNs to the hosts in CLARiiON environment.
• Performed extensive performance analysis to achieve maximum data throughput rates on DMX Arrays with different LUN layouts in the existing environment.
• Detailed documentation of the implementation procedures was written.
• Installed and configured Cisco MDS 9509/9506 and Brocade 5000/4900.
• Administrated NS-480/VG-8 andNS series systems including creation of file systems, exporting/sharing and mounting CIFS/NFS shares and configuring network interfaces and also implemented tree quotas.
• Created CIFS servers, CIFS shares, managed CIFS Files permissions and Share permissions.
• Configured NTP, FTP and SFTP on VG-8 gateways.
• Migrated data from NS-480 to VG-8 gateway using Celerra Replicator and also migrated data using EMC Copy and RSYNC from NS-480 CIFS/NFS data toIsiloncluster.
• Adding NAS file systems to Net backup policies and monitoring backup status was performed.
• Installed and configured Zoned Brocade using Fabric Manager.
• Created Aliases, Zones, Zoneset using Fabric and Device Manager.
• Involved in the assessment of storage and backup environment.
• Provided strategic architecture and created tactical solutions for Storage and backup environments..
• Involved in designing and planning the future Storage environment.
• Created IT standards as they apply to the storage environment and presented those standards to management and business.
• Installed and Managed NetApp FAS 3200 and 6200 series.
• Upgraded Data ONTAP from 7.3.4 to 7.3.6
• Created Aggregates, Volumes, Qtrees and Quotas in NetApp FAS 3240 using Filer view.
• Created LUN's on Fibre Channel SAN and presented them to the hosts.
• Architecting and remote replication using NetApp SnapMirror and Snap Vault technologies.
• Create, configure, and manage CIFS & NFS shares, quotas, groups, and permissions
• Worked with change and problem management tools.
• Migrated Data from EMC NAS array to NetApp array.
• Scripting for daily routine administrative tasks.
• Configured and Administered Open System SnapVault and SnapRestore for backup and restore operation in Netapp NAS Environment.
• Configured VIFs and VLANS in Netapp Environment

Environment: EMC DMX, CLARiiON CX700, CX3-80, SymCLI, ECC, Time Finder, Power Path, Navisphere 6x, Storage Navigator, FAS 3200, 6200 Snap view, Data ONTAP, Mirror view, VERITAS Net Backup, Fabric manager, NetApp Snapmirror, Brocade and Cisco CLI.

Confidential, Burlingame, CA

SAN Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Administered the EMC storage environment comprising of DMX, CLARiiON, Cisco and Brocade switches, IBM-AIX, Linux and Windows hosts.
• Installed and configured Open Replicator for extensive data migration from DMX-4/3 to VMAX.
• Consolidated the existing storage environment by migrating CLARiiON CX 600/700 to CX4 960 using SAN Copy solution.
• Planned and implemented point in time copies using SnapView Clone/Snapshot tool in CLARiiON array for backup and restore purposes.
• Upgraded EMC Control Center (ECC) from 5.2 version to 6.0 version.
• Planned, Installed and Configured Cisco MDS 9506 with VSAN's and Port Channels.
• Analyzed existing environment Health check from Data gathering using emcgrabs, Heat reports, SAN summary and cross checked them with EMC Support matrix.
• Fixed all necessary recommendations and the sanity check of SAN environment was completed.
• Planned and Implemented Fabric Migration involving Brocade switches to Cisco MDS 9513 in the event of fabric consolidation.
• From the initial setup, implemented and configured multiple CLARiiON environments including the creation of RAID groups, bind LUNs, Meta LUN implementation (striped/ concatenated).
• Installed CLARiiON software (SnapView/MirrorView/SAN Copy), registered host and provisioned storage.
• Maintained and configuring vfiler, qtree, volume, aggregates and snapshots using DataOntap, FilerView, DataFabric when required.
• Configured NetApp environment with VIFs and VLANS.
• Created and managed VServers, LIFs, Aggregates and Volumes.
• Configured Open System SnapVault and SnapRestore for backup and restore operation and administered inNetappNAS Environment.

Environment: VMAX, DMX-3/4, CX 4-480, CX 600/700, FAS 3020, FAS 3070, Cisco MDS 9513, Brocade DS-200B, Fabric Manager, Connectrix Manager, Device Manager, Windows and Linux servers.

Confidential

Server Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installed and configured IIS 6.0/7.0.
• Maintained and configured virtual servers using VMware.
• Performed a Clustering installation involving two SQL servers.
• Configured Load Balancing between Web servers and managed it successfully.
• Deployed products based on client’s needs and error handling.
• Managed Physical servers, monitored Error and Event logs and troubleshot failures or alerts relating to web servers.
• Wrote automation scripts to complete routine jobs faster.
• Created and administered new virtual machines that are needed for the test environment.
• Worked as a team to deploy the products developed for banking purpose, attended regular change related meetings.
• Installed, configured and managed SharePoint and IIS on newly deployed windows servers.
• Disabled/enabled services according to the received requests and during installation of new products.
• WebSphere administration and troubleshot connectivity issues with Database.
• Documented and trained new joinees on the company products and helped the development team in identifying the error in installing the products developed for the production environment.
• Understood my Manager’s needs and worked on to deliver it as and when required.
• Understood my Manager’s needs and worked on to deliver it as and when required.
• Administered NetApp filers 3020 and 3040 and configured Brocade switches.
• Worked on Netapp Operation manager.
• Managed Netapp storage arrays via Netapp Operation manager or CLI.

Environment: IIS 5.0/6.0/7.0, SharePoint 2007 on Windows 2003/2008, Vmware, NetApp filers 3020 and 3040.

Confidential

System Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Installed and configured IIS 6.0/7.0 and SharePoint 2007.
• Maintained and monitored the web server and SharePoint logs.
• Created, Edited and Deleted new Websites and sub sites using ASP.net scripts.
• Performed Customer related change requests such as adding MIME Types.
• Worked on with EMC Navisphere Storage tool and have Hands-on experience in troubleshooting storage related issues.
• Created and Deleted LUNs, Raid groups and Storage groups.
• Configured a new switch and connected it to the existing fabric to satisfy the slots requirement.
• Planned and configured the Search server in a server farm.
• Created and administered the internal websites used for sharing company related documents.
• Managed company public websites by securing them using Third party provided certificates.
• Hands-on experience migrating Windows 2003 servers to Windows 2008 server version.
• Hands-on experience installing SQL server 2005 in windows server environment.
• Raised and followed up change management requests before going ahead with environment changes.
• Troubleshot queries according to their severity and never failed in a deadline.
• Performed the up gradation of Service Packs and Hot fixes.

Environment: IIS 5.0/6.0/7.0, SharePoint 2007 on Windows 2003/2008, LINUX, EMC NaviSphere, CX 400, CX 600, CX 3-40.