SUMMARY

• Overall 10 years of IT experience in EMC Enterprise SAN Storage Arrays including HDS VSP/EMC DMX/VMAX Symmetrix, Clariion, Celerra, VNX and VPLEX.
• Experienced with configuration and administration of EMC VPLEX, Symmetrix VMAX/DMX, Clariion, VNX and Celerra products.
• In depth experience with storage provisioning tools: SMC, SYMCLI, NaviCLI, Unisphere, Power Path and EMC Control Center.
• Experienced with configuration, administration and troubleshooting of SAN environments using SRDF/S, SRDF/A, TimeFinder, EMC Control Center, Storage Scope, Performance Manager (WLA), EMC Navisphere Manager, Unisphere and Cisco Device/Fabric Manager.
• Experience performing data migrations using Power path Migration Enabler (PPME with Host Copy and Open Replicator) and also Extensive Experience on Open Replicator to migrate data from DMX to DMX, DMX to VMAX and Clariion to DMX etc. Configured, Created, push and pull sessions to migrate devices.
• Thorough understanding of the concepts of zoning, presentation, disk grouping, disk leveling, LUN presentation, SAN performance analysis and tuning, wide - area data replication, storage connectivity troubleshooting, FAST VP (implementation and management).
• Configured VMAX Virtual Pools according to best practices. Implemented FAST VP on the new VMAX array and document best practices. Created FAST Virtual pools, TIERS and policies.
• Configuring, implementing and administering SAN fabric and multi-pathing technologies (Qlogic switches/HBAs, Veritas DMP, MPIO, EMC PowerPath).

TECHNICAL SKILLS

EMC Hardware: Symmetrix VMAX/DMX, VNX, Clariion, Isilon

NetApp Hardware: FAS2040, FAS3270, FAS 6000, and FAS 8000 series

Hitachi Hardware: HDS VSP and G1000Fabric Hardware Cisco MDS / Brocade

Management Software: Solutions Enabler (Symcli), EMC Time Finder, SRDF/S, SRDF/A, EMC Open Replicator, Open Migrator, Unisphere, Mirror View/A, SyncIQ, Device Manager, Fabric Manager 5.0, EMC Control Center, PowerPath, Robocopy, NetApp On Command System Manager, Management Console, Operational Manager.

Operating system Environment: AIX, HP-UX, SUN Solaris and Linux, Windows Operating system with cluster environment

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, RICHMOND, VA

Enterprise Storage Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Administration of multi-vendor storage environment (EMC/HDS), Day-to-day administrative tasks like storage provisioning and troubleshooting SAN related issues.
• Responsible for planning, designing, and analyzing the organization’s storage infrastructure according to best practices, while ensuring high levels of data quality and availability.
• Storage provisioning, managing and deploying LUNS using the SYMCLI, Unisphere Manager. Allocate storage to specific servers/applications mostly comprising of Windows, Hyper-V and Wintel machines.
• Worked on Virtual provisioning, creating thin devices and configuring RAID protection levels for thin pools.
• Configured Asynchronous SRDF, disaster recovery test procedures and successfully replicated the storage to the remote site using SRDF solutions (SRDF/S and SRDF/A).
• Govern the storage environment to ensure compliance to defined standards and Responsible for bulk build installations and configuring the Storage quarterly buy products including new hardware and capacity upgrades.
• Responsible for the software installation to support the Storage environment.
• Involved in NetApp OCI tool design and configuration with NetApp engineers and deployed into Capital One environment and managing the performance statistics in 3 major Data centers.
• Worked on NAS environments Isilon, NetApp cluster builds and capacity upgrades.
• Installed NetApp clusters for BAU and also planned and installed NetApp cluster for keystone securities and GIS software products as per the customer requirements.
• Designed and deployed the NAS migration tool Data Dynamics StorageX for U&O drives migration from Isilon to NetApp Clusters.
• Installed NetApp WFA tool for SAS server’s team to provision the storage for themselves and designed the template for customer volume creation and snapshot creation and deletion.
• Worked on VCE RCM upgrades for Storage products VNX, VMAX, Cisco MDS hardware and software.
• Experienced with migrating the non-prod servers from VMAX to Hitachi VSP by using Hitachi encapsulation.
• Supported the NAS data migration projects from 7-mode filers to NetApp clusters.
• Worked with Commvault backup team to prepare and design the VADP backup for the VMware environment.
• My other duties were the weekly shifts of 24x7 on-call duty and the cooperative queue management of trouble calls using a trouble-ticket system.

Confidential, NJ

Enterprise Storage Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Performed Storage provisioning from Symmetrix VMAX arrays to various hosts like Solaris, Linux Windows and VMware.
• Experienced with configuration, administration and troubleshooting of SAN environments using SRDF/S, SRDF/A, TimeFinder, EMC Control Center, Storage Scope, Performance Manager (WLA), EMC Navisphere Manager, Unisphere and Cisco Device/Fabric Manager.
• Experience performing data migrations using Power path Migration Enabler (PPME with Host Copy and Open Replicator) and also Extensive Experience on Open Replicator to migrate data from DMX to DMX, DMX to VMAX and Clariion to DMX etc. Configured, Created, push and pull sessions to migrate devices.
• Configured VMAX Virtual Pools according to best practices. Implemented FAST VP on the new VMAX array and document best practices. Created FAST Virtual pools, TIERS and policies.

Confidential, IL

Enterprise Storage Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Implemented SAN with Clariion CXSeries, created Raid Groups and Storage groups, assigned LUNs to Hosts using Navisphere manager.
• Monitoring &troubleshooting hardware & software issues.
• Designing and Implementation of SAN Storage solutions in WINDOWS & UNIX Environments.
• Create SAN Copy Sessions using Navisphere Manager to perform migration.
• Configured Snapview Snapshots and Snapview Clones on CLARiiON CX Series Sub-Systems.
• Involved in choosing best practices for storage systems like implementing data protection type 0f logical volumes.
• Implemented and managed switches/directors. Managed switches with vendor specific GUI. Most of the 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

System Admin

Responsibilities:

• System Administration for academic NFS/Email Linux Servers (5,000+ accounts)
• Installed power path software on Solaris, HP, and Linux servers and customizing the machines to the network patches & packages on both workstation and servers.
• Installed and configured HBA drivers for SUN, Windows, HP, and AIX servers.