SUMMARY:

• Overall 12 years of experience in Information Technology including SAN design, planning, administration, Sr.System administration backup and archiving,
• Held positions including SAN administrator, Backup Administrator.
• Worked as storage and Backup Architect.
• Expertise in multi vendor operating systems which includes Solaris, Linux, HP - UX, and Windows, VMware ESX and Cisco UCS servers
• Extensive experience on Multi tier Enterprise Storage systems design, installation, migration, virtualization, management, monitoring, Performance analysis & Reporting, Disaster Recovery solutions and Fabric installation and migration.
• Strong experience with Business Continuity Solutions using SnapView Clone/Snapshot, SANcopy at CLARiiON level and
• Experiencing in configuring cloning and SRDF for VMAX 40K and DMX for QA refresh activities and disaster recovery.
• Worked on Archiving of data using Arkivio for the effective usage of storage
• Worked on Thin pools and thin provisioning and also on FAST on VMAX.
• Storage provisioning on EMC CLARiiON and Symmetrix.
• Worked on EMC VNX 5500 and VNX 5300.
• Worked on VCE VBLOCK
• Worked on VMAX40K and VMAX20K using SYMCLI and EMC Unishphere.
• Worked on Data domains DD 860, DD 670 and DD 660.
• Worked on Hitachi Data system (HDS) storage arrays.
• Managing mutli-site, automated, business continuity solutions using EMC SRDF/Timefinder
• Installation, configuration and maintenance of Storage Area Networks in a heterogeneous environment using VMAX20K, VMAX40K, VNX 5300, VNX 5500, VBLOCK,EMC CLARiiON CX3 FC4700, CX300, CX400, CX500, CX600, CX700 and Symmetrix 800,DMX 1000,DMX 2000.
• Experience in various NetApp Storage Appliances, which includes V3160, FS825, FS840, FS940, and FS960, FAS3020.
• Created volumes and qtrees on net appliances and assigned disk quotas.
• Worked on Cloud Solutions Using Amazon AWS and Microsoft Azure.
• Worked on migrating the storage from Netapp to Microsoft Azure with Storsimple as the Cloud gateway.
• Worked on the taking the backups to the cloud with Amazon AWS and Riverbed Whitewater as the cloud gateway.
• Worked on the Amazon VTL POC using netbackup
• Worked on Panzura Backup usecase POC using netbackup
• Worked on Amazon cloud gateway POC for the backup use case using netbackup
• Created virtual servers on Onstor NAS gateways and created volumes and qtrees and assigned disk quotas.
• Migrated the data from one virtual server to another on the virtual servers for a NAS gateway.
• Involved in the SAN switch Migration from 5K to 48K. and 12 K to 48K
• Worked on LSI Engenio and Onstor storage arrays.
• Moved the volumes from one virtual server to another virtual server.
• Involved in creating the virtual servers on the Onstor NAS gateways.
• Strong experience in Administering VMAX, VNX, VBLOCK, Clarion, Symmetrix and Celerra using EMC Unisphere and Control Center.
• Configure and troubleshoot fabric switches Brocade and McData switches.
• Storage and Host integration for ESX, Windows, Linux, Solaris, HP-UX, AIXservers
• Generated Reports using Unisphere, ECC, and EMC Navishphere.
• Involved in running the fiber cables from the tape libraries and hosts to the Brocade 48K switch via patch panels in the datacenter.
• Excellent experience with SYMCLI, Navisphere Manager, NAVICLI and Connextrix Manager.
• Configured and managed Multipathing software like EMC Powerpath.
• Good exposure to Network Storage Solutions like DAS, NAS and SAN.
• Worked with the Quantum for the installation of additional drives in Quantum scalar i2000.
• Experience in setting up and administrating VERITAS/Symantec Netbackup including NDMP.
• Worked on creating the new storage units and configuring the new drives for the nas gateways on the VERITAS netbackup on quantum scalar i2000 library.
• Experienced in configuring and managing EMC PowerPath solution for path failover, load balancing, path management and automatic I/O failure detections.
• Design and implementation of Disaster Recovery Technologies of SRDF and SANCopy.
• Planning, designing and implementing Disaster recovery strategies using products like Veritas Netbackup.
• Design, plan, Implement server/storage Consolidation /Migration
• Adept at mapping client’s requirements, solutions & troubleshooting.
• Good ability to work in team environment. Good interpersonal skills.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Excellent in troubleshooting & root cause analysis.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Languages: C, C++, PL/1SQL Plus, PL/SQL

HardWare: Cisco UCS Servers/ Blades, Sun Fire V880, models, Sun Enterprise 6800, 6500, 5500, 4500, 3500, SFV210, SunUltra450, IBM 335 X series and Compaq servers, HPUX 9000 LClass, NClass Servers, Cisco catalyst 6000/4200 series switches with GB modules and Fiber modules.

Domain Expertise & Solutions: Semiconductors, Property & Causality Insurance, Healthcare, Banking, Mortgage, Financial

Tools and Packages: SQL Server Management studio, Toad, Microsoft Visual Studio,

ChangeManagement Tools: Remedy, ServiceNow, Service Center, ClearQuest

Microsoft Tools: Visio, WordExcel, Powerpoint

SAN/NAS: CX300, CX500, CX600, CX700, DMX3000, DMX1000, DMX800, VMAX, VBLOCK, VNX 5500, VNX 5300, DD 860, DD670 and DD 660.Engenio, Onstor, Brocade 48K, 24K, 12K,5K, 3900 and 3800, Cisco MDS 9000, HDS, NetApp V3160, FS840 through FS960 and FAS3020 series.

Operating Systems: HP-UX 9, 10, 11.x, Solaris 8,9 & 10, Linux, VMware ESX, DOS, RHEL 3.0 & 4.0, Windows 2000/XP/NT/Vista

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Milpitas, CA

Storage & Backup Architect

Responsibilities:

• Worked on the storage design and planning for the VNX 5500 and VNX 5300.
• Implemented VNX 5500 at 3 different locations Singapore, Israel and Belgium.
• Implemented VNX 5300 at Germany from the scratch.
• Worked on designing and architectural diagrams for all the implementations.
• Worked on building a strategy and design and planning the migration projects.
• Created CIFS servers and CIFS shares for different file systems on VNX 5500 and VNX 5300.
• Implemented VMAX40K and VCE VBLOCK and responsible for administering and maintaining VMAX and VBLOCK.
• Implemented VNX replication from one location to other location using VNX replicator as a part of Disaster recovery.
• Created different clones for SAP and Oracle Database QA Refresh activities and backups.
• Implemented flash backup for critical databases for improved performance
• Implemented thin pools and FAST on VMAX40K
• Worked on storage provisioning using EMC Unishphere on VNX 5500 to solaris, UNIX and Linux machines.
• Worked on storage provisioning on VNX 5500 and VNX 5300 for VMware ESX clusters and Cisco UCS clusters.
• Worked on creation of thin pools and allocation of thin LUNS on VNX 5500 and VNX 5300 using EMC Unishphere.
• Worked on Cloud Solutions Using Amazon AWS and Microsoft Azure.
• Worked on migrating the storage from Netapp to Microsoft Azure with Storsimple as the Cloud gateway.
• Worked on the taking the backups to the cloud with Amazon AWS and Riverbed Whitewater as the cloud gateway.
• Worked on the Amazon VTL POC .
• Worked on Archiving of data that are not accessed for more than a year using ARKIVIO.
• Worked on FAST (Fully Automated storage tiering) on VNX 5500 and VNX 5300.
• Worked on VERITAS netbackup 7.1 on solaris and windows servers.
• Worked on initial configuration and implementation of Data Domain.
• Worked on DD 860, DD670 and DD 660’s.
• Worked on upgrades of the datadomain operating systems to the latest version.
• Implemented the OST/DDboost for the datadomains.
• Implemented Storage Life cycle policies (SLP’s) on netbackup by using Datadomain for backing up first copy onto the Datadomain and second copy onto the physical tapes.
• Configured the VTL’s on the datadomain.
• Worked on the POC of Gridiron systems (gridiron Turbo charger 1100) which is basically for the boosting of SAN to improve the performance of the applications and databases.
• Worked on the HDS storage arrays for allocation of the storage.
• Worked on Netapps storage provisioning.
• Created volumes and quotas and allocated space for different filesystems.
• Worked on the upgrade of the netapps ONTAP.
• Worked on storage provisioning on EMC Vmax storage array.
• Responsible for administration of storage devices such as EMC CLARiiON CX500 &700,
• Used Navisphere Manager to create Raid Groups, Storage Groups, Meta LUNs and LUNs.
• Experience with NFS and CIFS shares.
• Migrated the data from one server to another servers using RSYNC on the NAS gateways.
• Involved in migrating the hosts and servers from old brocade 5k and 12k to new Brocade 48K.
• Managed Brocade Fabric switches using webtools and CLI.
• Configured Zones on Brocade switches by creating the aliases according to the standards.
• Responsible to handle remedy request tickets.
• Storage provisioning (LUN creation, Masking, Mapping) on Clariion arrays.
• Involved in doing the SAN connections from different hosts and Patch panels to the Brocade 48K switch.
• Provided Support and administer assistance within the SAN environments.
• Performed the basic trouble shooting techniques and problem resolution to identify the HBA or driver software.
• Configured soft/hard zoning in brocade core/edge switches.
• Involved in monthly backup validations each month to make sure no backups are missed and perform monthly test restores.
• Backups, restores, disaster recovery ( VERITAS Netbackup, )
• Developed backup and recovery procedures including off-site backups, administration and installation of VERITAS Netbackup servers, and tuning and maintenance of tape devices and libraries

Confidential, Milpitas, CA

Storage & Backup Architect

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for administration of storage devices such as EMC CLARiiON CX500 &700,
• Worked on Engenio and Onstor storage arrays.
• Involved in running the fiber cables from the tape libraries and hosts to the Brocade 48K switch via patch panels in the datacenter.
• Involved in labeling the FC cables with the LSI standards and documenting them so that it will be easy for trouble shooting in the datacenter.
• Used Navisphere Manager to create Raid Groups, Storage Groups, Meta LUNs and LUNs.
• Worked on SANtricity to manage Engenio and Onstor Storage arrays.
• Configured Mirror View and Snapview Snapshots in Clariion Environment.
• Configured SAN copy for Migration of Luns.
• Worked on upgrading the EverON operating System from 3.3.3.8 to 3.3.3.15 on Onstor NAS servers.
• Worked on upgrading NAS servers from 4.0.2.10 to 4.0.2.13 and then to 4.0.2.15
• Created virtual servers on Onstor NAS gateways and created volumes and qtrees and assigned disk quotas.
• Migrated the data from one virtual server to another on the virtual servers for a NAS gateway.
• Involved in the SAN switch Migration from 5K to 48K.
• Involved in the SAN switch migration from 12K to 48K.
• Worked on the decommissioning of sun Storage Tek Libraries and moved all the backup policies/data to quantum scalar i2K libraries.
• Involved in the above decommission starting from the estimate phase till the implementation phase alone.
• Worked on LSI Engenio and Onstor storage arrays.
• Involved in the initial setup and configuration new engenios storage array.
• Involved in the initial setup and configuration of the new NAS onstor gateways
• Moved the volumes from one virtual server to another virtual server.
• Involved in creating the virtual servers on the Onstor NAS gateways.
• Involved in the decommissioning of storageTek libraries.
• Experience with NFS and CIFS shares.
• Migrated the data from one server to another servers using RSYNC on the NAS gateways.
• Involved in migrating the hosts and servers from old brocade 5k and 12k to new Brocade 48K.
• Managed Brocade and Cisco Fabric switches using Data Center Fabric Manager and CLI.
• Implemented Core-Edge design using Brocade 48000 fabric switches.
• Generated Reports using EMC Navishphere, SANtricity and shell scripts.
• Configured Zones on Brocade switches by creating the aliases according to the standards.
• Installed and configuration of Emulex and Qlogic HBAs.
• Responsible to handle remedy request tickets.
• Storage provisioning (LUN creation, Masking, Mapping) on Clariion arrays.
• Created virtual servers on Onstor NAS gateways and created volumes and qtress on that.
• Storage provisioning by creating volumes and volume groups on Engenio and Onstor storage arrays.
• Used Navisphere Manager and SANtricity for storage Provisioning.
• Involved in doing the SAN connections from different hosts and Patch panels to the Brocade 48K switch.
• Provided Support and administer assistance within the SAN environments.
• Disk allocation using NAVICLI and EMC Navishphere.
• Performed the basic trouble shooting techniques and problem resolution to identify the HBA or driver software.
• Storage provisioning using SANtricity and NAVICLI.
• Involved in SAN migration project to migrate the data across the storage arrays.
• Raid group and Storage group configurations by implementing different RAID levels on EMC Clarrions storage subsystems
• Configured soft/hard zoning in brocade core/edge switches.
• Involved in monthly backup validations each month to make sure no backups are missed and perform monthly test restores.
• Configured Snapshot backups and restored for VM’s.
• Installation of VERITAS Maintenance Patches and Rollout Patches in Production Servers.
• Installed VERITAS Netbackup client/server backup software.
• Worked with the Quantum for the installation of additional drives in Quantum scalar i2000 .
• Configured the additional drives on Veritas netbackup and mapped them to different gateways.
• Created zones for additional drives with Quantum library and configured them on veritas netbackup
• Managed approximately 300TB data on SAN and NAS environments
• Backups, restores, disaster recovery ( VERITAS Netbackup, )
• Developed backup and recovery procedures including off-site backups, administration and installation of VERITAS Netbackup servers, and tuning and maintenance of tape devices and libraries

Platform: Solaris 10, 9, 8, RHEL 9, ECC Navishphere, SANtricity, Veritas Netbackup 6.5,

Hardware: CX300, CX500,CX 700, Engenio,Onstor,NetApps, Brocade 5k,12k &48K, Switches, Quantum i2k, Storage Tek, NAS, CIFS.

Confidential, LA, CA

Sr Storage & Backup Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Responsible to handle remedy request tickets.
• Responsible for administration of storage devices such as CLARiiON CX500 &700, DMX 1000 and McData, Brocade switches.
• Used Navisphere Manager to create Raid Groups, Storage Groups, Meta LUNs and LUNs.
• Configured Mirror View and Snapview Snapshots in Clariion Environment.
• Configured SAN copy for Migration of Luns.
• Managed Brocade and Cisco Fabric switches.
• McData, Brocade and Cisco switch management using Connectrix manager and Fabric Manager.
• Worked on Hitachi Storage arrays (HDS).
• Implemented Core-Edge design using Brocade 4800 and 4100 fabric switches.
• Generated Reports using ECC, EMC Navishphere and shell scripts.
• Configured Zones on Brocade, MCData and Cisco switches.
• Installed and configuration of Emulex and Qlogic HBAs.
• Configured Persistent Binding on Solaris Hosts by modifying sd.conf and lpfc.conf.
• Installed and Configured PowerPath on UNIX, Solaris and Windows servers.
• Storage provisioning (LUN creation, Masking, Mapping) on Clariion/DMX arrays.
• Used Symcli, Navisphere Manager and ECC for storage Provisioning.
• Configured the Fibre Channel components/features into a production SAN.
• Provided Support and administer assistance within the SAN environments.
• Managing SAN using EMC Control center(ECC 5.2) .
• Configuration and Administration of Timefinder BCV/snap.
• Configuration and Administration of SRDF/A.
• Disk allocation using SYMCLI and ECC.
• Performed the basic trouble shooting techniques and problem resolution to identify the HBA or driver software.
• Configured LAN free backup using EMC clarions and VMware and VCB.
• Installed Leadville Patches and SAN foundation kit.
• Storage provisioning using solutions Enabler (SYMCLI) and NAVICLI.
• Involved in SAN migration project to migrate the data across the storage arrays EMC DMX2 to DMX3.
• Raid group and Storage group configurations by implementing different RAID levels on EMC Clarrions and Symmetrix storage subsystems
• Configured soft/hard zoning in brocade core/edge switches.
• Configured Snapshot backups and restored for VM’s.
• Configured LUNS to boot from SAN for SUN and windows servers.
• Installed VERITAS Netbackup client/server backup software
• Managed approximately 1 peta byte data on SAN and NAS environments
• Backups, restores, disaster recovery (Legato, VERITAS Netbackup, )
• Developed backup and recovery procedures including off-site backups, administration and installation of VERITAS Netbackup servers, and tuning and maintenance of tape devices and libraries

Platform: Solaris 10, 9, 8, RHEL 9, EMC Control Center, Veritas Netbackup,VM.

Hardware: CX300, CX500,CX 700, DMX-1000,DMX-4, Cisco Switches, Brocade switches

Confidential, SFO, CA

Responsibilities:

• Managed approximately 300TB data on SAN and NAS environments
• Configured zoning on primary and secondary fabrics
• Monitoring the backup jobs on HP Dataprotector Manager
• Installed clients on DP Manager and scheduled backups
• Responsible to prepare backup failure report
• Swapping the LTO-3 tapes on EML & ESL tape libraries.
• Experience in various NetApp Storage Appliances, which includes FS825, FS840, FS940, and FS960.
• Created volumes and qtrees on net appliances and assigned disk quotas.
• Generated Reports using ECC, EMC Navishphere.
• Responsible to handle remedy request tickets
• Created Qtrees and CIFS shares on NetApp Appliance using FilerView
• Upgraded DataOntap firm ware on NetApp Appliance
• Configured HBA’s on production servers using Emulex cards
• Managed HBA’s using HBA Anywhere
• Managed the resource across 50 hosts under VMware environment
• Responsible for Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) for various procedures

Confidential, Hartford CT

Responsibilities:

• Migrated 50 TB data from Old Symmetrix environment to new DMX environment
• Managed approximately 100TB data on SAN and NAS environments
• Migrated data using Various tools like Open Migrator, Open Replicator, SRDF and LVM migrations
• Mapping and masking of various symmetrix devices as per the business requirement
• Setup Automount for the NetApp NFS file shares and worked on CIFS
• Added new disk shelf’s to the newly upgraded FAS2050 NetApp head
• Deployed Time Finder Business Continuity Solutions by allocating BCV devices as per the business needs
• Implemented various Business Continuity RPO and RTO strategies as per the mission critical applications
• Monitoring data transfer rate between Production and DR sites using Cienna GUI tool
• Installed and configured primary and secondary domains on two different Brocade 48k fabric environment.
• Generated Reports using ECC, EMC Navishphere and shell scripts.
• Administration and management of Brocade fabrics using SAN fabric Manager
• Configured various HBA’s on Productons servers using QLogic, Emulex, JNI HBA cards.
• Managed HBA’s using san Surfer and HBA anywhere.
• Administration experience of VMware enterprise servers
• Managed the resource across 40 hosts under VMware environment
• Configured zoning on primary and secondary fabrics
• Performed various DR exercises using GBCV on RDF Symmetrix devices
• Analyze network & system response and determines tuning recommendations to improve performance
• Manage effective issue identification and resolution process; serve as the focal point for customer-servicing infrastructure-related issue / crisis resolution-Scheduled rotational on-call assignment-Provide project management oversight to customer-servicing infrastructure implementation projects.

Confidential, MA

Responsibilities:

• Creating LUNS and allocating storage capacity to the DB servers in the event of emergency disk requirements
• Created Volumes and Qtrees on NetApp Appliances and assigned disk quotas
• Configured and Installed NDMP backups with Legato Networker and Spectra Logic libraries
• Setup Automount for the NetApp NFS file shares and worked on CIFS
• Upgraded NetApp filer heads from FAS 840 to FAS 960 to ONTAP 6.x
• Added new disk shelf’s to the newly upgraded FAS960 NetApp head.
• Experience in various NetApp Storage Appliances, which includes FS825, FS840, FS940, and FS960.
• Created volumes and qtrees on net appliances and assigned disk quotas.
• Implementing Disaster recovery process and writing Standard Operating Procedures
• Administration of Fiber channel switches and replacing HBA fiber cards
• Mapping and masking of various Symmetrix devices as per the business requirement
• Managed HBA’s using san Surfer and HBA anywhere
• Configured zoning on primary and secondary fabrics
• Managing VMware hosts & resources under VMware Beta environment

Title: 

Platform: Solaris 8, 9, Redhat 7.x, 8 and 9, ADIC VTL Pathlight VX, EMC

Clarion, FS840 and FS960, VMware

Hardware: Symmetrix 8830, Symmetrix 8530, DMX 1000, Brocade 12K, Cisco, ADIC Pathlight VX

Confidential, Maryland

Responsibilities:

• Managed approximately 300TB data on SAN and NAS environments
• Configured zoning on primary and secondary fabrics
• Monitoring the backup jobs on HP Data protector Manager
• Installed clients on DP Manager and scheduled backups
• Responsible to prepare backup failure report
• Experience in various NetApp Storage Appliances, which includes FS825, FS840, FS940.
• Created volumes and qtrees on net appliances and assigned disk quotas.
• Generated Reports using ECC, EMC Navishphere.
• Responsible to handle remedy request tickets
• Created Qtrees and CIFS shares on NetApp Appliance using FilerView
• Upgraded DataOntap firm ware on NetApp Appliance
• Configured HBA’s on production servers using Emulex cards
• Managed HBA’s using HBA Anywhere
• Managed the resource across 50 hosts under VMware environment
• Responsible for Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) for various procedures