Summary

• Over 6 years of experience in SAN storage administration.
• Expertise in analysis, planning, configuring, administrating and maintaining Storage systems EMC VMAX/ DMX/VNX/CLARiiON/Dell/NetApp
• Good experience in using EMC VNX/VMAX deployment and Implementation.
• Experience in Time Finder BCV/Clone/Snaps, SRDF/A, Open Replicator, Mirrorview/SnapView, SANCopy and Open Migrator, Recover point.
• Install, configure, and troubleshoot Brocade, Cisco MDS and fibre channel fabric switches along with Emulex and QLogic HBAs.
• Strong hands-on experience with EMC solutions Enabler, Symmetrix management console SMC , SYMCLI.
• Ancillary skills in Symmetrix V-max arrays: virtual provisioning, virtual LUN migration, Auto provisioning groups and SRDF enhancements.
• Experienced in implementing FAST VP technology on both Symmetrix and CLARiiON arrays for various demanding enterprise applications.
• Expertise in using and implementing the storage protocols like SAN, NAS, NFS, CIFS, ISCSI, SCSI, NDMP, etc.
• Installation configuration of Power Path on Windows servers for Path Failover and Load balancing.
• Excellent command over Storage Filer administration, implementation and support with NetApp FAS filers.
• Extensive Experience on Storage provisioning, LUN creation, Zoning, Mapping and Masking.
• Expertise in troubleshooting routine critical issues including threshold optimization, server throughput, ports availability, meeting zoning requirements, one-path down, host not seeing storage and storage management problems.
• Hands on Experience with NetApp Filers FAS 3020 and FAS 3070 and FAS 6000 series.
• Expertise in installing, Configuring Administering NetApp FAS 6070, FAS 3040, FAS 3140 series.
• Hands on experience in NAS and SAN data migrations such as NAS to NAS migrations, Windows to NAS migrations, SAN Storage Consolidation, thin to thin migrations, thick to thick migrations.
• Expertise in providing end-to-end SAN storage infrastructure support administration, provisioning, decommissioning, troubleshooting, data migration.
• Experience with VDI View 4.5/4.0 Desktop virtualization deployment.
• Strong Interpersonal and communication skills, ability to work in a team as well as independently with minimal supervision.
• Experience in Installations, upgrades and configured backups/ restores of TSM Server on MS Windows Server 2003, IBM AIX.

Technical skills

• Operating systems: Windows 8, 2012, window 2008, windows7/2003 SE/Vista/XP/2000, RHEL, Ubuntu, Mac OSX.
• SAN Switches and Directors: Cisco MDS switches MDS 9000 family, Brocade FC Directors like 12000B Departmental Switches like DS 16B2/DS32B2/DS4900.McData FC Directors like ED140M/ ED16M D32M/ E1620 iFCP switches.
• Storage tools: EMC Navisphere, Unisphere, SMC, SymCLI Solutions Enabler , Net App FilerView, NetApp System Manager, Operations Manager, NetApp Management console, IBM Tivoli Storage Manager 5.2/5.3/5.4/5.5.
• VMware Virtualization: ESX 4.0, ESXi 5.0, 5.1, 5.1 U1, VSphere 4, 5, 5.1, 5.1 U1, Virtual Center Server, Storage VMotion.

Professional Experience

Confidential

• Managing the Storage SAN Infrastructure including EMC VMAX, DMX and CX4 Series, VNX and CISCO SAN Switches.
• Ensure continued Connectivity of servers to SAN storage array. Installation and configuration of power path on Windows Servers for path failover and Load balancing.
• Install, configure and implement EMC software and components including new releases and applicable patch releases.
• Worked on Integrated End to End NAS Solutions.
• Configuring and Managing the Dell Storage systems using Dell FluidFS manager, Equallogic Group Manager, Modular disk manager, Compellent enterprise manager, Storage center manager, NAS initial deployment utility tool
• Hands on experience installing, configuring administering Network services like DHCP and DNS services.
• Solid experience with Dell series of storages such as PS6500, PS6000, PS6110 and Dell servers FS 7600, FS7610, R610, R710.
• Worked on backup and restore large data using management tools like NDMP Backup Exec, CV SIMPANA, NetBackup and NetVault.
• Worked on Data Deduplication, Compression, Data Reduction and Rehydration of data using Equallogic Group manager.
• Performed Replications, NDMP backups, Snapshots, creations of Clones volumes, quotas on the volumes, scheduled and manual replications and maintaining the data on the CIFS shares and NFS exports.
• Managed SAN storage including the setup of aggregates, logical volumes and presentation to windows and Unix/Linux hosts.
• Storage level migration of hosts between Dell Storage systems and EMC Storage systems and vice-versa.
• Planning Implementation of SAN Switch migrations from EMC Departmental Series to Dell Force 10 switches and vice-versa.
• Troubleshoot and diagnose storage related issues.
• Performing host based migrations using Powerpath Migration Enabler PPME from VNX to Dell Equallogic.
• Monitored and conducted performance analysis of the FluidFS system with Dell SAN HQ capacity monitoring tool to determine the bottlenecks of the storage provisioning.
• Performed installation of VMware ESXi 5.0, vCenter 5.0 on Dell servers, created virtual machines and assigned them to colleagues upon request.

Confidential

• Administrating DMX-4 and VMAX with the help of ECC, SMC and SYMCLI.
• Managing the Storage sub systems using EMC Control Center, SYMCLI and CISCO Fabric Manager
• Storage Provisioning using zoning, LUN masking and reclamation, Capacity planning, disk layout planning
• Planned and updated RPA'S to the latest version 3.3.SP2 and comprehensively troubleshoot issues pertaining to VNX 5500, VNX 5300 and Recover Point.
• Performing host-based migrations using Powerpath Migration Enabler PPME from DMX-3 to VMAX, OS includes windows.
• Adding new storage includes creation of new LUN's, storage groups, binding LUN's and making the storage volume available to the server's by zoning the Fabric.
• Worked on host based and array based technologies like Open Replicator, PPME and VMware VMotion to migrate data between EMC/NetApp arrays and between EMC arrays.
• Performed CISCO fabric upgrade within the environment, and also performed the ports migrations to the new fabric.
• Migrated CIFS Shares between EMC and NetApp using Robocopy.
• Created Aggregates, Flex Volumes, Flex Clones, Qtrees, LUNS, Snapshots and applied quotas as per the requirement.
• Created Aggregates, Volumes, LUNS, Qtrees on NetApp filers and performed volume allocations using NFS, CIFS and iSCSI environment.
• Configured the SnapManager for Exchange, SnapDrive for windows and performed the SnapDrive upgrade.
• Worked closely with the Windows team to configure the Active directory and to add the new filers to the local DNS servers.
• Performed various Disk Firmware, Shelf Firmware, RLM/SP Firmware and ONTAP Upgrades on NetApp filers. Collected the upgrade advisors using My ASUP Tool.
• Created vFilers, added volumes to the vfiler, created DR vFilers and also did vFiler D.R testing.
• Analyzed performance issues of CIFS, NFS for the customers, collected the perfstat against the filers and analyzed the RC of the issue.
• Experience in using Celerra Manager to provision storage from Celerra NAS.
• Performed migrations from Celerra to VNX using Celerra replicator.
• Provisioned and implemented the setup of VPLEX in the environment.
• Successfully established the connectivity between VPLEX and the servers present in the environment and dealt with the issues present in it.
• Successfully implemented FAST VP for VMAX and helped analyzing the performance related issues.
• Migration of thin devices from manually from one pool to another based on the results from FAST VP.
• Monitoring backups, perform system restores and setting up TSM policies for backups and restores.
• TSM log monitoring, storage space monitoring, scratch tapes monitoring etc.

Confidential

• Configured, deployed and maintained several storage arrays and Fabric switches in SAN environment
• Plan, coordinate and upgrade the firmware on storage arrays and SAN switches, perform zoning updates on SAN switches and also troubleshoot and resolve complex issues that are related to the storage infrastructure like switch/ host based discovery, zoning.
• Allocated, managed, and deployed storage from CLARiiON, Symmetrix using EMC Navisphere and SYMCLI.
• Configured FAST VP on Symmetrix by defining Symmetrix tiers, FAST policies and Storage groups.
• Managed SAN storage including the setup of aggregates, logical volumes and presentation to windows and Unix/Linux hosts.
• Implemented and configured the NS-960 in a production environment and also configured Recover Point replication between production and DR
• Performed SAN Remediation activities for servers which includes HBA Firmware and Driver upgrades, HBA Replacements, Zoning and LUN Masking to support HBA Replacements, PowerPath Upgrades
• Managed the CLARiiON, Celerra and Recover Point using Unisphere, and Recover Point devices manager
• Implemented in data migrations between NetApp filers using Volume, Qtree SnapMirror.
• Created Aggregates, Volumes, Qtrees and Quotas on Filers using Data ONTAP.
• Worked with Data ONTAP 6.5 Filer Administration and upgrades to 7.x.
• Expertise in creating, deleting Snapshots, FlexClones on FlexVolumes.
• Obtain performance statistics using Performance Manager ECC and NetApp Operations manager.
• Pulled capacity based reports using ECC Storage Scope for both EMC and NetApp arrays
• Creation of Mirror copy using EMC Navisphere GUI , creation of disk groups, associating disks and Business continuity volumes with disk groups, split and synchronization operations, querying disk groups.
• Install, configure, test, and implement EMC software and components, including new releases and applicable patch releases.
• Experience in using Celerra Manager to provision storage from Celerra NAS Implemented SRDF/S replication between two Symmetrix DMX-4 storage arrays.
• Creation, Management and Configuration of Virtual Machines, Clone and Templates.
• Day-to-Day TSM maintenance. Fixing Library related issues.
• Checkup, error logs checkup, Administrative schedules, Client backup schedules etc.
• Registration of new TSM clients and troubleshooting old TSM client issues.

Confidential

• Creating LUN creation, LUN masking, LUN mapping. Creating, mapping, and masking thin devices to hosts, thin file systems on windows.
• Creating and implementing Disk groups, Device groups, and Composite groups using SymCLI.
• Experience in solving Troubleshooting issues with different Virtualization technologies.
• Creating, adding and deleting aliases, zones, and activating zone sets on CISCO switches.
• Permission the shares as per source.
• Providing SAN security using Zoning, Masking Mapping.
• Installing, configuring administering Network services like DHCP and DNS services.
• Configuration of Storage for Windows/UNIX environment
• Configure and adding fibre ports in a SAN switch Responsible for Zoning hosts in the SAN using EMC tools
• Configuration, Management, Troubleshooting of Network devices Routers, Switches .
• Install, configure, test, and implement EMC software and components, including new releases and applicable patch releases.
• Analyze and resolve EMC SAN related errors and reported problems. Coordinate fixes with hardware vendors and customers.
• Storage Network Activities like Zoning, Provisioning and other administrative Task
• Involved in documenting the test requirements, developing, implementing and executing test plans, test scripts, test reports for the virtualization features
• Involved in manual and automated execution of functional, regression, scalability, smoke, stress test

Confidential

• Configuration, maintenance and troubleshooting of more than 50 servers 150 Workstations. Servers included are FTP server, SQL server, IIS server, Exchange Server, Domain server, Print server, VPN server, Linux server, and VMware ESX server .
• Installing and administrating of EMC Storage arrays.
• Implementation and maintenance of SMTP, DHCP, NFS, NIS, NIS , LDAP, DNS, SAMBA, SQUID, Postfix, Sendmail, FTP, Remote Access, Security Management and Security trouble shooting skills
• Configured Networking Concepts DNS, NIS, NFS and DHCP, troubleshooting network problems such as TCP/IP, providing support for users in solving their problems.
• Implementation of numerous VMware ESX virtual machines.
• Network troubleshooting using ndd, traceroute, netstat, ifconfig and snoop.
• Configuration of networking using TCP/IP protocol.
• Configuring DNS, DHCP, NIS, NFS in Red Hat Linux 6.0 other Network Services, Linux kernel, memory upgrades and swaps area.
• Configured NIC Bonding on the servers, created File systems, extended the Logical Volume space as per the business requirements.
• Given Remote support for managing and troubleshooting server using Putty, Telnet, Remote desktop, VNC.
• Monitored and troubleshooting all the Net backup jobs from the Activity monitor.
• Created RAID RAID 0, 1, 5 and RAID groups on EMC