Professional Summary:-

• Having 7 years of IT Experience on Storage/Backup, AWS Cloud, Linux Windows Server Technologies.
• Expert in Windows, Linux VMWare Server Management.
• Expertise in planning, designing and managing Storage Area Networks, Network Attached Storage, Disaster Recovery Sites, and Enterprise Backup Recovery based on Business requirements.
• Implementation Experience on EMC CLARiiON, EMC VNX, EMC VMAX, EMC VPLEX, Recover Point, NetApp FAS, Hitachi HUS, EMC Networker and Actifio Products.
• Experience in Upgrading Code Levels of VNX, CLARiiON, EMC VMAX, VPLEX, Recover Point, DATA ONTAP, Cisco/Brocade Switches Firmware, Hitachi HUS Firmware Actifio PAS.
• Strong knowledge in Virtualization of Storage Devices, Tape Libraries, Disk Libraries, SAN Switches and Servers.
• Expert in Administration Management of NetApp EMC Unified Storage Systems Block File .
• EMC ISM Trained Microsoft Certified Systems Administrator.
• Extensive knowledge of Storage Area Networks SAN , Network Attached Storage NAS , Direct Attached Storage DAS , Cisco MDS Brocade SAN Switches, Windows Servers Linux Operating Systems, VMware ESX, EMC Legato Networker, Blade Rack Servers, Blade Enclosures, HP Tape Libraries Symantec Endpoint Protection Manager.
• Good knowledge about ISO ITIL processes.

Skills:-

Professional Experience:-

Confidential

Storage Management

• Installing, Configuring, Monitoring Managing of NetApp FAS 3140, EMC CLARiiON CX4-480, EMC VMAX, EMC VNX 5500/5100, VPLEX Engine, HP EVA MSA P2000 Storage Devices, EMC Celerra NS-G2 NAS Gateway, and Cisco MDS Brocade Switches.
• Good Experience in VPLEX Mobility with Recover Point VMWare SRM.
• Configuration of VPLEX Metro between the sites for Disaster Recovery.
• Upgrading DATA ONTAP FLARE Systems.
• Configuring SAN in FC-AL Switched Fabric Environment.
• In depth Understanding of FC, FCoE iSCSI protocols.
• Assigning Storage space from NetApp, CLARiiON, VNX HP Storage Boxes to Hosts.
• Registering Hosts in the CLARiiON, VNX NetApp Storage Boxes.
• Configuring Zoning on Cisco MDS 9134, Cisco MDS 9148 Brocade SAN Switches.
• Expanding Aggregates, Volumes, LUNs in NetApp Storage.
• Configuration of Qtrees, shares, aggregates, Volumes etc. in NetApp Storage.
• SNAP Mirror configuration for data replication in NetApp Storage devices.
• Managing NetApp Devices using Systems Manager ,Command Line Filer View
• Deep Understanding of Operations Manager for Reporting in NetApp FAS Devices.
• Configuring of ISL between various Cisco Switches Brocade Switches.
• Configuring Brocade Blade Switches in Access gateway mode.
• Configuring Switches to support Port Virtualization Eg: NPIV .
• Managing and Configuring HP Flex Fabric Modules for Blade Servers.
• Understanding different types of Interop modes between heterogeneous switches.
• Configuring HBA, Installing HBA drivers and other HBA Management software such as Sansurfer in the Windows Hosts and Linux Hosts.
• Troubleshooting the SAN connectivity on different Operating Systems Windows Linux.
• Exporting reports from SAN Storage and sending them to the customer on Daily Basis.
• Configuring the NAS Backend Storage with EMC CLARiiON.
• Creating File Systems on EMC Celerra NAS.
• Configuring CIFS shares and NFS mount points on NAS.
• Setting up CIFS Servers on EMC Celerra NAS Gateway.
• Setting up File System Quotas on EMC Celerra NAS Gateway.

Backup Management:-

• Backup management for the environment using EMC Networker Actifio.
• Troubleshooting different types of issues related to backup hardware software.
• Configuring different types of tapes devices disk libraries using Networker Actifio.
• Configuring of LAN Free backups LAN Based backups.
• Creating groups, media pools, schedules, assigning Medias to groups and Creating Virtual tape Libraries in EMC Networker for Backups.
• Configuring of Celerra NAS NetApp NAS backups with NDMP Protocol.
• Configuring of Storage Nodes, Dedicated Storage nodes Dynamic Drive Sharing in EMC Networker Management Console.
• Configuring FTD AFTD devices for disk based backup.
• Good knowledge in implementing VADP Solution for VMware virtual clients.
• Experience in managing different types of HP MSL Libraries, Autoloaders Standalone drives.
• Configuring libraries using FC SCSI.
• Having good knowledge about Network Storage Router concept's in HP MSL Libraries.
• Knowledge on Iron Mountain for Offsite Tape Vaulting.
• Recovering the files based on requests.
• Preparing restoration drills regularly. Following Change process for all the changes as per ISO Standards.

Confidential

Senior Engineer Storage Management

• Installing, Configuring, Monitoring Managing of EMC VNX, CLARiiON HP EVA Storage Boxes.
• Configuring SAN in FC-AL Switched Fabric Environment.
• In depth Understanding of FC, FCoE iSCSI protocols.
• Assigning Storage space from NetApp, CLARiiON, VNX HP Storage Boxes to Hosts.
• Troubleshooting the SAN connectivity on different Operating Systems Windows Linux.
• Exporting reports from SAN Storage and sending them to the customer on Daily Basis.
• Configuring the NAS Backend Storage with EMC CLARiiON.
• Creating File Systems on EMC Celerra NAS.
• Configuring CIFS shares and NFS mount points on NAS.
• Setting up CIFS Servers on EMC Celerra NAS Gateway.
• Setting up File System Quotas on EMC Celerra NAS Gateway.
• Configuring HBA, Installing HBA drivers and other HBA Management software such as Sansurfer in the Windows Hosts and Linux Hosts.
• Backup management for the environment using EMC Networker
• Troubleshooting different types of issues related to backup hardware software.
• Configuring different types of tapes devices disk libraries using Networker
• Configuring of LAN Free backups LAN Based backups.
• Creating groups, media pools, schedules, assigning Medias to groups and Creating Virtual tape Libraries in EMC Networker for Backups.
• Configuring of Celerra NAS
• Configuring FTD AFTD devices for disk based backup.
• Good knowledge in implementing VADP Solution for VMware virtual clients.
• Experience in managing different types of HP MSL Libraries, Autoloaders Standalone drives.
• Configuring libraries using FC SCSI.
• Having good knowledge about Network Storage Router concept's in HP MSL Libraries.

Windows Server Management:

• Installation of Windows Servers Variants, Windows Clients Operating Systems.
• Installation of the Active Directory services in Windows Server 2003, 2008 etc.
• Installing and configuring DNS, DHCP, WINS, and IIS in Windows server 2003 and 2008 Environment.
• Maintaining and troubleshooting Windows Server 2003 2008 Operating Systems Servers.
• Upgrading from Windows 2003 servers to Windows 2008 servers.
• Experience in Windows Failover Clustering.
• Creating User Accounts, Configuring User Profiles, and Groups and maintaining accounts in the active directory.
• Creating all types of trust relationships between the domains and forests.
• Managing various public private DNS Servers and creating of Host records.
• Installation of Exchange Server 2003, Exchange Server 2007 in Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2008 Environment.
• Scheduling System State backups and recovering when needed.
• Hardening Windows Servers.
• Installing, Configuring and troubleshooting IIS 6.0, IIS 7.0 Apache Webservers.
• Responsible for hosting new websites migrating of websites in windows Server 2003 2008 environment.
• Configuration of Windows server 2008 Failover Clusters Windows Server 2003 Clusters.
• Creating and Managing mailboxes, distribution groups, and storage groups in the Exchange Environment.
• Creating Recovery storage Groups for recovering the mailboxes in case of Disaster.

Linux Server Management:

• Installation Administration of Red Hat, Ubuntu Centos Linux Operating Systems.
• Troubleshooting Hardware Software issues in Linux Servers.
• Installing and upgrading software's in Linux Servers using Package Managers RPM, YUM, Tarball, DEB .
• Performance monitoring of Servers.
• Administration of Groups Quotas in Linux.
• Adding Linux servers to Windows Domain using Samba Server.
• Installation, configuration maintenance of Squid Proxy Server.
• Configuring and implementing LINUX Kernel re-compilation.
• Configuring and implementing DHCP, DNS Bind , NTP, SAMBA installation and configuration on different Platforms in heterogeneous Network Environments.
• Configuration of Volumes using Logical Volume Management LVM .
• Disk management with partitioning tools fdisk, sfdisk.
• Ext3 file system management with system utilities.
• Making NTFS files system disks visible in Linux Servers.
• Mounting and unmounting the file systems temporarily permanently in Linux Servers.
• Cluster Configuration for RHEL Servers using Red Hat Cluster Manager.
• Network cards bonding for high availability and load balancing.