Summary:

• 6 Years of IT Industry experience including over 5 Years in SAN, NAS, Backup and Disaster recovery.
• Proficient in EMC storage systems like CLARiiON, Symmetrix DMX4, DM3,VNX,V-MAX, and Celerra and EMC software such as DMX4, DM3,VNX,V-MAX, Control Center, Navisphere Manager, Unisphere, Connectrix Manager, Visual SAN and Visual SRM.
• Experience in administering, maintaining and troubleshooting of diverse array of equipment including EMC NS120/480/960, CX4-120/480/960, NetApp Filers FAS 6080/6040, FAS 3270/3170/3070,FAS3240/3140,FAS 2040/2020,FAS 270
• Expertise in allocating storage from NetApp NAS FAS 3000 series, FAS 6000 series filers, managing volumes, Qtrees and Quotas.
• Expertise in NetApp DATA ONTAP 7.2.3, Snap Mirror replication, storage planning, and data management, disaster recovery planning best practices and testing.
• Managed EMC Storage arrays using EMC SYMCLI and NAVICLI.
• Hands on experience with EMC and NetApp management tools like Navisphere, Unisphere, ECC, SMC, Snapview Snapshot/clone, Mirror View, Filerview, Snapmirror, SnapVault and PowerPath.
• Hands on experience in the data migration in array based like SRDF, SANCopy and Open Replicator and Host based like Open Migrator, Unix native tools.
• Extensive knowledge on implementing EMC NAS and NetApp products.
• Expertise in implementing business continuity solutions using various migration and replication tools like SnapView Snapshot/Clone, SAN Copy, Snapmirror and Snapvault.
• Hands on experience with zoning, storage provisioning, LUN creation, Mapping and Masking.
• Hands on experience with installing ECC, deploying master agent and pushing application agents.
• PowerPath installation and configuration on both Windows and UNIX platforms for failover and load balancing purposes.
• Good knowledge on Win 2K/Win 2K3 networks, Active Directory and TCP/IP protocols.
• Solid experience in identifying and analyzing technical issues and troubleshooting them.
• 24X7 Production support on call.
• Versatile team player with good communication and problem solving skills

Technology:
Operating Systems:
Windows XP/Vista, Windows Server 2003 and Solaris 10/9/8, Red Hat Linux 5, SuSe Linux 10 and
DATA ONTAP.

Networking:
LAN, SAN and NAS Management using Cisco Switches and Directors over FC and IP

Hardware :
NetApp ONTAP 8.1/8.0/7.3/7.2.5/7.1.2.1/6.5, FAS270c,FAS3020c/3050c/6030c/6070c/3170c/3240c, R200,FAS920c/940c/960c/980c/2020/2050/3140/3170/3150
EMC SymmetrixVNX5700/5500,V-MAX,DMX 1000, 2000, 3000, DMX-3; EMC CLARiiON CX3-20, CX3-40, CX3-80, CX600, CX700, CX200 ;EMC Celerra NS500, NS704.

Software:
Data ONTAP7.2/7.3/8.0.7/8.1,DART5.6/6.0,OM3.7/3.8/4.0, On command, Filer view,EMC Control Center , Navisphere Manager, Unisphere, SnapMirror, SnapVault, SyncMirror, SnapDrive, SnapManager, DataFabric Operations Manager, Filerview, Solutions Enabler, NaviCLI, SymCLI, MirrorView, SnapView, SAN Copy, SRDF, Storage Scope, PowerPath , Fabric Manager, Device Manager, Celerra Manager, Celerra Replicator.

CERTIFICATIONS & TRAININGS:

• NetApp Data ONTAP 8.0.7 Administration.
• EMC Clariion Management and Host Integration.
• EMC Control Center training
• Netapp Operations Manager 4.0
• Netapp High Availability.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
Confidential, Dallas,TX Sep 2011- Till date
Sr. Storage Administrator
Responsibilities:

• Administration and maintenance of high end storage arrays like NetApp FAS6080/6040,FAS3270/3170/3070,FAS3240/3140,FAS2040/2020,FAS270,EMC Celerra NS120/480/960 and Clariion CX 120/480 and 960.
• Actively participate in the planning and implementation of storage and backup solutions.
• Worked on SanCopy for data mobility or data migration between the Clariion’s.
• Worked on Snapmirror to transfer data across filers at volume and QTrees level.
• Experienced in maintaining NetApp systems including MetroCluster, active/active, and stand alone systems. Responsible for configuration management, provisioning, backup/recovery, hardware/software upgrades, training of other administrators, and ensuring high availability and integrity of critical data
• Worked on Data ONTAP for managing the filer and for efficient utilization of the storage.
• Storage Provisioning on Clariion and Symmetrix.
• Responsible to manage Symmetrix, Clariion environments for the day-to-day operations.
• Administer the storage and server production environments. Day-to-day disk allocation and using Unisphere, Symcli, Control Center and NaviSphere tools from the Symmetrix and Clariion storage units.
• NAS Netapp Filers quota Management, Near store Administration, NFS exports, Data migration Administration.
• Managing NFS exports and CIFS shares.
• Creating volumes and allocating size to file systems using quotas.
• Created Snapshot/Snapmirror on daily basis.
• Created Aggregates/Volumes and QTrees.
• Created CIFS, NFS, QTrees for Windows and Unix environment.
• Created quotas and permissions.
• Created metas, storage group, device group, port group, masking view on VMAX.
• Worked with NetApp to upgrade the Data Ontap version on the filers.
• Migrated data from EMC to NetApp filers and vice versa.
• Migrated NFS data from standalone servers to NetApp Filers.
• Configuration and Administration of SRDF.
• Done Snapshots using Data Ontap, Filer View®, Data Fabric®.
• Created aggregate, Add disks to the aggregate, Destroyed the aggregate using Data Ontap.
• Increasing the Volume storage space as per the requirement.
• Maintaining Storage units using Mapping, Masking and Zoning.
• LUNS and allocating storage capacity to servers.
• Administration of Fiber channel switches by creating zones and fabric configurations.
• Mounting and managing Luns and HBA configuration.
• Configured zoning on FC Switches (Cisco) using the Fabric Manager, Device Manager.
• Creating disk volumes, Storage groups and installed RAID controllers configured raid 0,1 and 5
• Problem determination and resolution including troubleshooting and submitting results reports to upper management and root cause analysis.

Confidential, San Francisco, CA Sep 2010 – July 2011
Sr. Storage Administrator
Responsibilities:
NetApp &; EMC Storage Administration:

• Managed and administered CLARiiON CX 600, 700, 3-40, 3-80, DMX 2000, 3000, DMX 3, FAS 3070, 6040.
• Bringing up new NetApp filers this includes configuring creating Aggregates, Volumes, QTrees, configuring CIFS, NFS and providing the access to different projects and troubleshooting.
• Installed and Configured NetApp Filers FAS-3020, FAS-3050C.
• Extensive NetApp Data ONTAP experience including CIFS, NFS and Snapshots, Flexvol, SnapMirror, SnapDrive, SnapVault and Near Store solutions.
• Designed remote replication and helped disaster recovery solutions to ensure data availability using SnapMirror, MetroCluster.
• Worked and gained solid understanding in Data ONTAP software such as SnapDrive, SnapLock, SnapManager, SnapMirror, SnapRestore, FlexCache, FlexClone, LockVault, MetroCluster, MultiStore, etc.,
• Performed hard and soft zoning on switches.
• Performed ONTAP upgrades before and during cutovers to bring filers up to the approved speculations.
• Performed ECC upgrade and applied update bundles.
• Performed Migration of data from CX500 to CLARIION CX3-40, using SANCopy.
• Installation, Configuration and integration of NetApp filers with the Windows and UNIX environment, experience with CIFS, NFS, LUN management.
• Support Ontap upgrades; export Qtrees, creation and exports through NFS.
• Created Qtrees in user volume.
• Created and expanded volumes when required.
• Managing Quotas and permissions, managing disks.
• Managed and configured Navisphere Manager, Unisphere,Snapview/Snapshot, Clones, EMC Networker, SanCopy, Mirroview Filers and also performed sanitization of Switches.
• Created and managed Business Continuity Volumes (BCVs).
• Worked with various RAID levels including RAID 3, 5, 5+1 in EMC products, RAID 4 and DP in NetApp products.
• Responsible for managing and binding LUNs, installing HBA and installing Fiber Channel HBA on host.
• Involved in troubleshooting various issues on both DMX and CLARiiON boxes.
• Implemented SyncMirror, active­active controller configuration, and MetroCluster to ensure rapid recovery of data and continuous data availability in the enterprise.
• Installed Veritas Netbackup software on master and media server
• Maintained and Managed Veritas Netbackup and Veritas Volume Manager (VxVm&; VxFs).
• Managing and monitoring EMC VMAX Storage arrays using EMC Control Center and Solutions Enabler (SYMCLI).
• Created Meta-heads and LUNs using “symconfigure” command.
• Creating File systems using VERITAS Volume Manager V5.0 and Logical Volume Manager.
• Installed and configured PowerPath for load balancing.
• Used ECC for mapping the SDR devices and configuring Meta devices.
• Configuration and maintenance of SRDF/A for disaster recovery applications.
• Used SymCLI for LUN masking.
• Assisted in Upgrading Data ONTAP as a process of flexvols migration.
• Involved in the implementation of NetApp NAS technology and configuring shares, CIFS and NFS Administration.

Confidential, Walden, NY July 2010 - Aug 2010
NAS Administrator
Responsibilities:

• Actively participated in Project transition activities.
• Configuration, administration and monitoring of the EMC Celerra environment using EMC Celerra Manager.
• Playing a vital role in handling incidents which we receive through BMC Remedy tool and closing it with in SLA.
• Creating and expanding volume when required.
• Interacting with the client daily to discuss about the ongoing issues and the steps to be taken to resolve the same.
• Worked with flexible volumes.
• Worked on NetApp SnapMirror for data replication and migrating volumes.
• Experience with creating aggregates and managing disks as and when required for new projects.
• Interacting with NetApp to fix the hardware failure.
• Using DFM to generate reports and to check the server status.
• Preparing plan for change request and implementing it in the scheduled time.
• Creating lun and mapping it to the igroup using snapdrive.
• Configured CIFS in the filer.
• Involved effectively in managing the snapshots
• Created Volumes, Luns using Filerview and console.
• Configuring snapmirror relationship between filers whenever required.
• Performed DATA OnTap upgrade.
• Copied data from filer to filer using snapmirror and ndmp.
• Involved in generating capacity report in a monthly basis.

Confidential, India Nov 2007 – Apr 2010
Client: Atmos Energy,TX
NetApp Administrator
Responsibilities:

• Played a responsible role in troubleshooting problems logged by the client users in day-to-day operations of the business and providing complete technical support for the client.
• Performed daily activities and checks on the NetApp FAS3020 and FAS3070 Filers.
• Resolved issues if any in the filers.
• Performed filer failover activity successfully in production twice.
• Involved in day to day call handling through a RDBMS package called REMEDY in Service Level Agreements.
• Created boot Lun for the servers using image.
• Created Volumes, Luns from console.
• Administered Luns and snapshots using Snapdrive.
• Restored Luns in case of any corruption using lun clone.
• Configured snapmirror.
• Data movement from filer to filer using Snapmirror (planning)
• Configured snapmanager for SQL for taking database snapshots.
• Worked with the offshore storage team to ensure that volume configuration are as per standards
• Configured scripts for taking the snapshots on the server and also fix them if there are any issues with the current one.
• Configured scripts for taking the snapshots on the server and also fix them if there are any issues with the current one.
• Used DFM to collect Reports.
• Prepared Capacity report on monthly basis.
• Created implementation plan for planned and unplanned infrastructure changes and implemented successfully.
• Upgraded the firmware whenever required.
• Interacted with the Onsite team if their involvement is required.
• Involved in maintaining DR setup.
• Interface with NetApp for escalations.

Confidential Aug 2006 to Aug 2007
HP, Bangalore, India
System Administrator
Job Profile:

• Maintaining user accounts, trouble shooting their issues.
• Configuration devices and formatting disks as per the requirement.
• Configuring rsh and Ssh to automate file transfer between servers.
• Performing Backups by using ufsdump, ufsrestore tar and dd.
• Configuring NFS and giving permissions by using net groups and troubleshooting.
• Adding users to Samba and troubleshooting.
• Mounting Sun and Windows servers and maintaining the inventory.
• Installation &; configuration of Solaris operating system as needed by Using Custom Jumpstart
• Add, modify, and delete user/group accounts and set up a user’s work environment and fulfill user’s needs.
• Managing and maintaining a Microsoft Windows Server 2000, XP Environment.
• Managing users. Computers &; Groups.
• Performing OS Image with the help of Ghost software for quick installation.
• Adding computers to Domain and trouble shooting.
• Configuring Local Printers and Network Printers, Scanners.
• Installing and configuring devices.
• Managing and Maintaining Access Resources.

Educational Qualification
Bachelors of Technology, Confidential , India.