SUMMARY

Over 6plus years of expertise in administrating and troubleshooting enterprise storage networks including experience in Network Attached Storage (NAS) & Storage Area Networks (SAN).
Expertise in Cisco Director switches including MDS 9500 and 9100 series, and Brocade DCX & 48000.
Experience in managing and configuring various file systems through network using NAS, SAN methodologies and installed RAID devices and identifying and analyzing technical issues and trouble shooting them.
Installation, Configuration and implementation of NetApp FAS-series and V-series filers.
Upgraded Data OnTAP from older version 7.3 to 8.0 on NetApp filers.
Experience in Firmware Upgrade and Zoning on Switches and Storage Technologies like iSCSI, FC, RAID and Storage Virtualization.
Manage multiple outside vendor relationships for Remote Site Assistance, Setup, Troubleshooting and Custom jobs.
Expertise in allocating storage from NetApp NAS FAS 2000 series, FAS 3000 using NFS, CIFS and iSCSI.
Hands on data compression and deduplication to compress the duplicate data objects.
Working experience on Cisco 9513, 9509 and 9506 switches.
Experience in Replication technologies like Business Copy and Continuous Access.
Experience with Cisco Device Manager, Fabric Manger, Brocade Data Center Fabric Manager and Brocade web tools.
24x7 on Call Support for Troubleshooting.
Expertise with Snapshots, FlexClones, SnapMirror, Snapvault and NetApp management tools like FilerView, NetApp system Manager, Operations Manager.
Problem solving, task prioritization, communication and organization skills.
Able to work in a deadline environment. Can work efficiently in a team and also on individual tasks.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Storage Array: Sun Fire v440/v445/280R/v480/v880/v890 Servers
  NetApp FAS6000, FAS3000, FAS2000, V6000, V3000, V2000
  EMC Clarion CX400, CX-3, CX-4
• SAN Switches: Cisco MDS 9513, 9509, 9506, 9124, 9148 and Brocade 48000, 5100, 5300
• Storage Management Software: EMC Software Product Suite, Navisphere Manager, Navisphere Analyzer
  NetApp FilerView, NetApp CLI, NetApp System Manager, NetApp Operations Manager, Data Fabric Manager, SnapDrive,
• Protocols: TCP/IP, LAN, WAN and Fiber Channel
  NFS, CIFS, iSCSI
• Operating Systems: Sun Solaris 8/9/10, IBM AIX 5.1/5.2/5.3.
  UNIX Administration, Red Hat Linux (RHEL4), Windows 2000 server, Windows XP/NT, Windows Vista, VMware.

PROFESSIONAL EXPRERIENCE

Client: Confidential, Bartlesville, Oklahoma Jan'11 to Till Date
Title: NAS/SAN Operations Engineer

Responsibilities

• Supported and Implemented NetApp in an existing environment of Solaris, VMware, UNIX, and Windows Servers.
• Day to day Storage allocation and management of LUNS from the EMC CLARiiON storage to servers using EMC Navisphere Manager and EMC Symmetrix Storage Arrays using ECC.
• Day to day problem analysis, escalation and resolution on NetApp Filers
• Worked with backup team to process the restore requests on NetApp filers.
• Performed installation & configuring EMC Control Center (ECC) 5.2 and upgraded to ECC6.0.
• Replacing the failed disks on NetApp Filer.
• Setup & Manage Multiprotocol environment as needed by client.
• Expertise in data migrations between V-filers and filers using SnapMirror.
• Expertise in creating aggregates, Volumes and Qtree and export them using NFS and CIFS shares.
• Managing NFS / CIFS / IP SAN Volume, Qtree.
• Expertise in creating snapshots, FlexClones on volumes.
• Implemented SnapMirror as DR solution between filers and Snap Vault as backup solution.
• Creating CIFS shares and managing the permissions of the CIFS Shares and Managing NFS Exports.
• Upgrade disk shelf firmware upgrades on the NetApp Filers FAS6080.
• Worked on designing and implementing bunker and remote replication using NetApp SnapMirror and Snapvault technologies.
• Weekly basis increasing the storage capacity by going through Data Deduplication and data compression.
• Schedule dedublication to occur during off-Peak times in capacity management of storage system.
• Worked on VMware ESX Servers and provided NFS volumes and LUNs to ESX Servers.
• Administer SAN and NAS Environment using Data Fabric Manager Console
• Monitored the health of SAN components, set up alarms and created the logs.
• Create array performance report and capacity planning using Operations Manager and NetApp Management Console.
• 24x7 on Call Support.

Client: Confidential, Houston, TX Sep'10 to Dec'11
Title: NetApp Storage Engineer

Responsibilities

• Installation, Configuration, and Integration of NetApp Filers with the Windows and UNIX environment, experience with CIFS, NFS, and LUN management, Managing Quotas and Permissions, managing disks.
• Maintained and Implemented NetApp storages FAS 3000 and 2000 Series in NAS environment.
• Created Aggregates, Volumes, Qtrees, and Quotas on Filers using DataOntap.
• Implemented in data migrations between the filers using Volume, Qtree SnapMirror.
• Creating CIFS shares and managing the permissions of the CIFS Shares and Managing NFS Exports.
• Expertise in creating, deleting Snapshots, FlexClones on FlexVolumes.
• Implemented SnapMirror as a DR solution and Snapvault as backup solution.
• Replicate Secure data at remote sites with regulations to reduce risks using SnapLock
• Delete and create standard Symmetrix devices, dissolve and create Meta volumes, create data devices, thin pools and thin devices for virtual provisioning as per the business requirement.
• Maintained a healthy NetApp storage by Configuring snapshots using Data OnTap FilerView and Scheduled daily, weekly, monthly backups using Snapshots.
• Handling System Administrator activities of Backup Servers.
• Performed Disk & Shelf firmware upgrades on filers including ESH and AT-FCX modules.
• Troubleshooting FTP, NFS, NIS, related issues.
• Provided Installation Support for Red Hat Linux, Sun Solaris 8&9 and Windows 2003.
• Used Data Fabric Manager (DFM), Filer View and OnTap command line in monitoring, managing, reporting, and provisioning storage to the users.
• Performed Data OnTap 7.0 Data Protection online backup and recovery using SnapMirror, Snapvault.
• Upgrade disk shelf firmware upgrades on the NetApp Filers
• Worked on troubleshooting NFS, SAN, and CIFS issues and fine tune the filers for optimal performance.

Client: Confidential, Austin, TX Dec'08 to Aug'10
Title: Storage Administrator

Responsibilities

• Installed and configured Brocade 48000, 3900 using Brocade web tools and CLI.
• Installed and configured Business Copy for local replication and Continuous Access for remote replication on HP XP arrays.
• Used Brocade web tools and Fabric Manager to configure Zoning on Brocade switches.
• Performed day to day tasks of creating and allocating LUN to the host servers. Created LUSE for storage expansion and allocated them to Windows and LINUX hosts.
• Responsible for Zoning, Masking and Mapping host to the storage array and troubleshooting any connectivity issues.
• Responsible for the planning, coordination and execution of hardware, firmware and software upgrades of arrays, switches and Host Bus Adapters.
• Worked with server team to troubleshoot the HBA failure and load balancing.
• Performed volume migration for improving system performance.
• Involved with planning as to choose the right RAID level for high performance and high availability.

Client: Confidential, Bangalore, India Jun'06 to Nov'08
Title: UNIX System Administrator

Responsibilities

• Installed, maintained, and upgraded UNIX, Linux, and Informix Dynamic Server.
• Planned and implemented hardware upgrades, performed growth analysis and capacity planning.
• Maintained 24x7 operations, responsible for data replication, disaster recovery with numerous utilities to provide backup, importing/exporting data (Perl, Shell, C, ESQL-C).
• Install, maintain, monitor and upgrade Red Hat Linux
• Manage SAN, VMware ESX clusters
• Perform growth analysis and capacity planning, plan and implement hardware upgrades.
• Troubleshooting FTP, NFS, NIS, related issues.
• Obtain performance statistics using Performance Manager (ECC) and NetApp Operations Manager.
• Responsible for enterprise data backup (Netback up).
• Hands on experience in Navisphere Manager, NaviCLI and Fabric Manager.
• Support legacy RADIUS infrastructure.
• Perform application administration (Apache, MySQL, Tomcat).

EDUACTION

• Bachelor of Technology (B. Tech) in Computer Science

CERTIFICATIONS

• Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA)
• NetApp Certified Data Management Administrator (NCDA).