Summary:

• 7.5 years of experience in IT and 6 years of experience as SAN & NAS Storage administrator in EMC Symmetrix , Clariion Arrays, , NetApp FAS and DataONTAP 7.x, CISCO MDS, , Brocade Directors/Switches.
• Good experience in using EMC Time Finder BCV/Clone/Snaps, SRDF/A, Open Replicator, Mirrorview/ SnapView, SANCopy and Open Migrator.
• Experience in Administration of Storage to Multiprotocol Environments like CIFS and NFS in

NetApp SAN/NAS environment.

• Very strong experience on Setup the NetApp filers, creating and managing Aggregates, Volumes, qtrees, snapshots.
• Good experience in using the NetApp snapmirror for the data migration activities.
• Expertise in using and implementing the storage protocols like SAN, NAS, NFS, CIFS, ISCSI, SCSI,

NDMP, etc.

• Install, configure, and troubleshoot Brocade, Cisco MDS and McData fibre channel fabric switches along with Emulex and QLogic HBAs.
• Strong hands-on experience with EMC solution Enabler, Symmetrix management console (SMC).
• EMC Control Center(ECC), CLARiiON Navisphere Manager/Analyzer/Navicli, and Event Manager),
• NetApp command line, NetApp filer view, NetApp Management Console, NetApp Onaro, Netapp
• Data fabric manager, HP command view, Sun common array manger.
• Knowledge and experience with storage migrations and replication solutions using OpenReplicater, SRDF, SANCopy.
• 24x7 on Call Support for Troubleshooting.
• Good experience in Unix System Administration with IBM AIX (6.1, 5.x, 4.x) SUN SOLARIS (5.10/5.9/5.8), Redhat Linux.Good knowledge in managing the Logical volume manager of LINUX, Solaris, AIX and Veritas volume manager (VXVM).
• Sound knowledge in user administration and access control of the UNIX operating system

Environment.

• Provided the SAN and NAS storage to VMware ESX servers in ESX clustered

environment.

Technical Skills

Storage Hardware: Symmetrix VMAX, VMAX-SE and DMX 3 and DMX4, DMX 1000/2000 /3000
Array Series, EMC CLARiiON CX4 / CX3 / CX series (CX4-480, CX3- 40/CX3-40f,
CX3-40c/CX3-80, CX500, CX600, CX700,Celerra NAS (NSX Series -NS80, NS480),
NetApp FAS 6280, FAS6080, FAS3070, FAS V-3070,FAS V-6080, FAS 2020, FAS900 series
FAS640c, HP Eva 6000,8000, IBM DS8000, DS4800 and DS4500

Storage Software: DataOntap, SnapMirror, SnapShot, SnapRestore, SyncMirror,SnapVault, OSSV,
SnapManager, FlexClone, MetroCluster, ECC, Storage Scope, Performance
View, Navisphere Manager, PowerPath, SANCopy, Symcli, Navicl

SAN Switches and Directors: Cisco MDS switches MDS 9513/9509/9506/9120/9140/9216i,
Brocade. FC Directors like 12000B & Departmental Switches like DS
16B2 / DS32B2 / DS4900. McData FC Directors like ED140M/ ED16M
ED32M/ E1620 iFCP switches.

Operating Systems: IBM AIX ,Windows 2000/Windows 2003, SUN Solaris, HP-UX, Linux.

EMC Applications: MirrorView, SAN Copy, Snap View, SRDF, Time Finder, Celerra,
SnapSure, EMC Recover Point, Replication Manager, EMC Control
Center.

NetApp Applications: NetApp SnapMirror, Flexvol, Snapshot, Netapp Filer view, NetApp CLI
Netapp DFM, Netapp Management console, Netapp SAN screen.

CERTIFICATIONS AND TRAININGS

• certified datacenter administrator (NCDA).
• Data ONTAP 7.2.3 Administration.

Education

• Bachelor of Technology in Information Technology

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential,Jacksonville, FL DEC 2011 – Present

Storage Engineer
Responsibilities:

• Administration and maintaining of EMC Symmetrix DMX-3, Clariion CX-4 480, EMC Celerra NS80G, EMC Centera.
• Managed and SAN storage provision for heterogeneous operating environments like Linux, AIX, Windows, VMware-ESX operating systems.
• Configuring the VSANs and zones and zonesets in CISCO MDS switches using Fabric manager enabling and changing the port config using CISCO device manger/fabric mangers.
• Expanding Lun dynamically using protected expansion.
• Configuring the the SRDF/A R1-R2 pairs and starting the data synchronization across the Symmetrix DMX storages.
• I did most of the day to day management like provison of storage, decom of storage, zoning of hosts.
• Managing SAN and NAS using UNISPHERE.
• Created the storage groups and the LUNs on EMC Clariion storage systems using UNISPHERE.
• Hands on experience on EMC VNX build, implementation
• Exposure to Configuring the RAID Groups and LUNs – GUI & CLI – VNX
• Worked extensively in integration of EMC VNX SAN & NAS, control station, data mover Storage Array into the USER / AD environment
• Included in configuring the quotas, User mapping, snapshot and remote copy (DR facilities) of EMC Celerra / VNX NAS server
• Administered the storage and server in production environments. Created MetaLUN’s by expanding base LUN’s using striping
• Created and Configured RAID Groups, Storage Groups, Binding Luns, Resizing, Unbinding Luns through Navisphere Manager and NaviCLI
• Involved in configuring Symmetrix device groups for Timefinder BCV operations using SYMCLI
• Management of SRDF, Timefinder and creating BCVs as disaster recovery solution
• Performed data replication between the datacenters using the SRDF. Performed daily health checks and tested restore from R2 to R1 after establishing SRDF links
• Migrated the production environment from CX4-420 and CX-80 to NS-960 using San copy.
• Installation, configuration and upgrade of Powerpath from 3.x to4.x on windows systems.
• Design, Installation, Configuration and Administration of ECC and SMC for SAN management.
• Supported Cisco MDS and Brocade using Connectrix and Fabric/Device Manager.
• Working with servers team to configure and patched servers.
• Worked with backup groups to setup backup environment with TSM.
• Configuration and maintenance of SRDF/A for disaster recovery applications.
• Planned and implemented data migration from CX 700 to VNX storage systems using SAN Copy.
• Planned and executed numerous data storage migrations using Open Replicator, Mirror View, SAN Copy tools.
• Symmetrix Device Masking using SYMCLI and SMC.
• Responsible for checking Clariion performance using performance detail.
• Did Lun masking for vmware-ESX migrations.
• 24x7 on Call Support for Troubleshooting.
• Preparing documents.

Environment: EMC Symmetrix DMX , Clariion CX 4,VNX, Windows, AIX, Linux, Cisco MDS 9509 switches, Emulex, Qlogic HBA, Celerra NS-80.

Confidential,DEC 2010 – Nov 2011
Storage Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Administration and maintaining of EMC Symmetrix VMAX, DMX-4, DMX-3, DMX1000/2000, Clariion CX-4, CX-3, CX500/600/700, Netapp FAS 6080,3070 filers.
• Managed and SAN and NAS storage provision for heterogeneous operating environments like Solaris, Linux, HPUX, AIX, Windows, VMware-ESX operating systems.
• Responsible for patching plan creation and connected the SAN storage, SAN switches and servers with Fiber optic cables.
• Configuring the VSANs and zones and zonesets in CISCO MDS switches using command line and enabling , changing the port config using CISCO device manger/fabric mangers.
• Responsible for Storage provision in large storage environment with over 1 - 50 TB of SAN storage requests of EMC Symmtrix VMAX and DMX,, NetApp, and Cisco &Brocade Enterprise SAN/NAS connectivity switches.
• Managing the storage space reservations and preparing the run rates for both SAN and NAS.
• Configuring the the SRDF/A R1-R2 pairs and starting the data synchronization across the Symmetrix VMAX/DMX storages.
• Created/administered and maintained the SRDF links between the production and remote locations
• Installation, configuration and driver upgrades of HBA\'s (Emulex & Qlogic) on UNIX and Windows servers
• Creating the standard ,meta, TDEV, VDEVs, changing the RDF capbility of devs, c changing the device emulation using symcli "symconfigure".
• Preparing the old Symmetrix storages migrations and decommissions, gathering the information about connected hosts, Applications, Sym Devices, connected FA/SAs, RA/RFs, VCM database etc.
• Created Aggregates, Raid groups,Volumes,Qtrees and administration of Quotas in NetApp FAS 6080/6040 and FAS 3070/3040 v-3070 using Filerview and CLI.
• Administration of CIFS, NFS shares in NetApp NAS filers.
• Administered the quota and volume resizing , extending the aggregates , disk management in FAS and V-series filers
• Participated in ONTAP code upgrades, RLM/SP upgrades of NetApp filers.
• Created and mapped the NetApp SAN FC LUNs and iSCSI LUNs to heterogeneous host environment.
• Implemented SnapMirror and SnapShot creation, SnapRestore solutions for migration and Backup purposes.
• Fabric configuration monitoring using NetApp SANscreen tool for checking the connections and verifying the devices.
• Administration of VERITAS volume manager volumes in all types of raid levels like raid 0, 1, 5, 1+0, 0+1 and resizing of volumes.
• Creating the Change requests for new builds and changes in storage infrastructure.
• Deployed, provisionedthe shared NFS storage for ESX servers and Virtual machines.
• configured the ESX serversto use the sharedluns for ESXHighavailability and Vmotion.
• Experience in configuring the ISCSI initiator in ESX server, provision the Iscsi luns to ESX server.
• Experience in creating and administrating the ESX data stores for virtual machines storage environment.
• Used RecoverPoint for data protection and for continuous remote replication.

Environment: NetApp FAS 6080,3070,V-6080/3070 EMC Symmetrix DMX 2000/3000 , Clariion CX 3
series, HP EVA 6000/8000 , Data ONTAP 7.x, Solaris, Windows, AIX, Linux, Veritas NetBackup 5.0,
Legato Networker, McData ED140, Brocade 4900 and Cisco MDS 9513,9509,9216 switches, Emulex,
Qlogic HBA, Celerra NS-80.

Confidential,DC Jan 2009 – Nov 2010
SAN Storage Admin

Responsibilities:

• Configuring and Managing Clariion CX Storage arrays using Navisphere Manager.
• Created the storage groups and carving the LUNs on EMC Clariion storage systems.
• Host to LUN mapping, load balancing and Failover activities via Powerpath and Navisphere tools.
• Registering/De-Registering the HBAs with Storage Processors (SPs).
• Zoned on Brocade and Mcdata fabrics using DCFM
• Implemented dual-path and dual-fabric switches for highest availability solutions.
• Analyzed and troubleshoot the faulty HBA cards on AIX and windows.
• Hands-on experience with EMC Navisphere Agent, EMC Control Center, NaviCLI, SymCLI, Snapview, Mirrorview.
• Created Snapview clones on Clariion cx-3-80 when needed
• Performed Storage level migration of EMC DMX-3000 to IBM DS 8000
• Initiated various data replication and data migration operations on DS 8000 as per requirement.
• Perform necessary data migrations and replication on clarion and DMX
• Managed hosts with Qlogic HBAs as well as IBM storage frames.
• Implemented SRDF/A Replication between Symmetrix devices.
• Supported and Implemented NetApp SAN/NAS in an existing environment of Solaris, VMware, AIX, and Windows systems.
• Created and configured CIFS Shares, NFS Mounts, Quotas, Groups and Permissions on NetApp NAS.
• Storage provision from HP Storage Arrays EVA 6000,8000 and XP 1024 using HP command view GUI.
• Firmware upgrade for Brocade switches using CLI and Web Interface. Also configured multipathing software (Power Path).

Environment CLARiiON CX4 series, NetApp 3020, 3040 and 3070, DataONTAP 7.x, Symmetrix DMX
2000/3000, HP EVA/XP, Celerra NS40, NS40i, NS80, : IBM DS8300, DS4800 FastT, DS4500, DS8300,
EMC Power path, Legato Networker, Brocade 3850, 4100, Silkworm 200E, B16 and MPR R18.. IBM P
series servers, Windows 2000/2003, VMware ESX, AIX.

Confidential,CT FEB 2007 – DEC 2008
System Storage Admin

Responsibilities:

• Maintained a healthy NetApp storage by Configuring vfiler, qtree, volume, aggregates and snapshots using Data ONTAP, FilerView®, and DataFabric® when required.
• Created Aggregates and Volumes in NetApp FAS 960c, FAS2020 and FAS3040 using Filerview.
• Implementation and support for a SAN/NAS network, based on a NetApp FAS 960c, FAS2020 and FAS3040.
• Provided capacity planning, storage expansion, storage creation and presentation as well as all zoning activities on the Brocade Fiber Channel switches.
• Add switches into current production SAN fabric. Monitor and response to SAN related issues, escalate to vendors if needed.
• Configured and Implemented SRDF/A using Replication Manager.
• Migrated 30TB of Storage using Snap view and Mirror View.
• Configured Time Finder Clone / Snap and BCV’s using SYMCLI and EMC Control Centre (ECC).
• Symmetrix Device Masking using SYMCLI and ECC.
• Deployed and executing Disaster Recovery plan using snapmirror Replication, snap restore.
• Migration between NetApp Filers FAS3040 and FAS 3070 using Snapmirror.
• Hands on Experience with Veritas NetBackup.
• Designing, architecting, and implementing bunker and remote replication using NetApp

SnapMirror and SnapVault technologies.

Environment: CLARiiON CX series, NetApp 3040 and 3070, FAS 2020, FAS960c DataONTAP 6.x ,7.x.

Confidential,RI Apr 2006 – Jan 2007
NAS Admin

Responsibilities:

• Configured Snapshot scheduled for volumes and aggregates in NetApp filers.
• Creating and administering aggregates, volumes, Qtrees, Flexvol, Snapshots.
• Performed data replication using Snap Mirror between FAS series filers.
• Performed data Migration from NetApp filers using SnapMirror.
• Served as SAN Administrator for all Network Appliance filers, EMC DMX and CLARiions.
• Performed Storage Allocation on DMX 2000, 3000 and Clariion CX 3-40, 3-80.
• Performed DataOntap Upgrades from 6.5.x to 7G which included disruptive and non-

disruptive implementations.

• Worked on remote replication and disaster recovery solutions to ensure data availability using SnapMirror, MetroCluster.
• Worked on Data Replication using SRDF and MirrorView on EMC DMXs and Clariion CXs.
• Scheduled daily, weekly, monthly backups using SnapShot.
• Worked on Zoning, Firmware Upgrading, and Trouble shooting in Brocade and Cisco MDS switches.
• Implemented NetApp technology within customer’s business and IT strategy requirements.
• Worked on RHLinux and Solaris servers on LUN visibility issues.
• 24x7 on Call Support for Troubleshooting.

Confidential,INDIA ­­May 2005 – Mar 2006
AIX Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installed and managed several IBM RS/6000 AIX systems which include disk management, user management, network management, performance management, test and development projects

running on AIX 5X,4.x.

• Software and Hardware upgrades of AIX systems installed and worked on various Volume managers.
• Maintenance of the WebSphere servers on different UNIX platforms and setting up the development and testing and staging environment for the ongoing application development.
• Attended weekly change management meeting and suggested various changes.
• Implemented all changes by following change management rules.
• Strong Shell programming for application management, performance and security monitoring including their maintenance. NFS and DNS management.
• Coordinated with DBAs, users, developers and vendors.
• Implemented Crontab, Shell Scripts for automatic back -up.
• Involved in user, package and patch management and administration.
• Support for all the internal terminal nodes.

Environment: : IBM RS/6000 – p650, IBM AIX 4.3.3, 5.X