Summary:

• Over 5 Years SAN experience with UNIX systems administration. Expertise in Sun, HP, AIX, Linux, Intel Servers, Storage Solutions, SAN, NAS in architecting, Managing, configuring, troubleshooting. Systems Integration, Systems Administration, Installation, Configuration and Support of Solaris, HP UNIX and Red Hat Enterprise platforms.
• Progressive experience in latest technologies such as SAN, NAS, EMC Clariion, EMC Symmetrix, Hitachi Storage, Netapp FAS, Brocade, Cisco, McData, Veritas Volume manager, HA Cluster, VMWARE.
• Automating Solaris and HPUX deployments using Jumpstart and Ignite technologies.
• Configure, maintain & troubleshoot Name Services like DNS, NIS & NIS+. Experienced in identifying & stopping unnecessary services and reduce security risks and enabling NFS, Automounter and Network Services.
• Excellent Communication, Interpersonal & Documentation Skills. Good Team player. Willing to understand requirements of the Business areas involved in the project & prepared game plans satisfying their requirements.
• Installation, configuration and administration of Veritas Netbackup master and clients on SUN/HP-UX servers.
• Documented SOP’s (Standard operating Procedures), Technical documentation, User Guides and best practices manual for my clients.
• Storage provisioning on host side using Logical Volume Manager (LVM) and Veritas Volume manager (VXVM).
• Hands on experience in Solaris, HP, and Redhat Linux platforms as it’s relates to disk allocation, managing luns and hba installation and configuration.
• Wrote shell scripts in various languages like Bourne shell and AWK to provide storage inventory per host, total available & used storage on the array.
• NetApp NAS / SAN technologies and creating NFS/CIFS shares on the NAS and provisioning luns using ISCSI and FC.
• Advised UNIX administrators on setting up persistent binding and other configuration files on Solaris hosts. Verify HBA firmware and driver compatibility using EMC compatibility matrix.

Technical Skills

Operating Systems - Red Hat Enterprise LINUX 5.0, Solaris 10, Solaris 9; HP-UX 10x/11x, Windows 2000, Windows Advanced Server, Windows XP
Storage Management - EMC Navisphere Management Suite (Snap View, Mirror View, San Copy), Data OnTap Filer View, Brocade Fabric Manager, GUI and Command Line Interface (CLI).
High availability & software - Veritas Volume Manager (VXVM), HP Logical Volume Manager (LVM), Red Hat Enterprise Logical Volume Manager (LVM), Online Solstice Disk suite , Sun Volume Manager (SVM)
Network & Storage Protocols - ISCSI, FCP, TCPIP, FTP, NFS, NIS, DNS, SSH, ARP, RARP, HTTP, DHCP
Server Virtualization - Solaris 10 Zones & Containers
Applications & Servers – Apache Web Server, Solaris Jumpstart, HP Ignite UX
Programming / Scripting: UNIX Bourne Shell & AWK

Professional Experience

Confidential,Pleasanton, CA (Apr 2008- till date)
As System & Storage Administrator I have managed & implemented various projects related systems & infrastructure servers. Tasks included UNIX Administration in Solaris operating environment, Sun Server consolidation, & day-to-day administration of existing systems. Responsible for providing Maintenance & Support of Application servers in development environment on Midrange, Work group & Entry level servers & Workstations in a heterogeneous UNIX environment. This was primarily in Sun Solaris Platform with utilization of Veritas Application Administration using tools - Veritas Volume Manager
Environment: EMC Symmetrix DMX2000, CLARIION CX3-40, CX3-80, CX700, NetApp FAS 2040, Hitachi AMS2000 Series, EMC Celerra, EMC Navisphere 6.x, Navi CLI, Storage Navigator, Time Finder , SRDF, Snapview, Mirrorview, Hitachi Shadowimage, Veritas Volume Manager, Sun Solaris 9/10, HP-UX 11x, Brocade 48000 and MCData3016s.

Responsibilities:

• Operational SAN analysis and recommendations for naming conventions, cabling, physical design, redundancy, HBAs, multipathing, availability, capacity planning, performance management, business continuity, LUN sizing, stripe sizing, disk & RAID settings, Asset Management tools, storage management tools, change control, financial considerations storage on demand, integration strategies, data migration strategies, acceptance & test plans, Brocade 48000 and MCData3016s, EMC Clariion CX3-80 Emulex, Powerpath, Veritas DMP.
• Managing UNIX Infrastructure, HDS USP and EMC storage involving maintenance of the servers and troubleshooting problems in the environment.
• Managing NAS Storage products
• Maintained and Administered the Hitachi storages using Storage Navigator Software.
• Architect and provision Storage by extending, Creating, Deleting, shrinking Volumes. Develop, manage, and forecast capacity and storage requirements based on business needs.
• Trouble shooting the issues ranging from Solaris, Linux and SAN environments.
• Designed and lead the process of converting Solstice Disk Suite objects to Veritas Volume Manager Objects on 100+ servers as a part of standardization across the whole environment.
• Maintained the SAN Fabric using Management software EFCM.
• Installed Veritas Volume manager in various servers like Sun and Redhat Linux 5.0.
• Implemented backups
• Working with Logical Volume Manager and online JFS for creating of volume groups /Logical volumes and Filesystems in Linux environment. Experience in creating and maintaining of ZFS pools and filesystems.
• Full cycle coordination of Storage requests such as fulfillment with all involved parties within Storage array, custodian of vendor software license keys, Inventory. Allocation & Capacity tracking, advise management of SAN issues, Generate monthly charge-back report, Maintain fabric connectivity and port documentation.
• Administering, maintaining and troubleshooting EMC arrays like DMX2000,HDS AMS2000, HDS AMS 2100 CX3-40, CX3-80 and CX700. Provisioned storage according to business requirements.
• Modification of Backup Storage Infrastructure design for Sun 4500, SunFire 6800 using UFSdump, CPIO and dd.
• Worked on various director and departmental switches like Brocade 48000, Cisco MDS 9124 and 9120. Performed zoning at FC switch level and LUN masking at server levels
• Creating volumes, LUNs and implementing different RAID levels on the same creating storage groups and assigning LUNs and mapping them with different hosts.
• Implemented path failover and load balancing using VERITAS DMP and Power path.
• Day to Day administration of the Fibre Channel Fabric Environment configures switches, zoning, in-band monitoring, with Connectrix Manager, Element Managers for Cisco, Brocade and McData.
• Experience of using Shadow copy, SRDF and other replication tools.
• Automation Installation of operating systems on SUN Solaris using Custom Jumpstart, HP-UX using Ignite for business requirements.
• Installed and Maintained Solaris 10 global zones giving users access for developing different applications.

Confidential, Mt Laurel, NJ (Jan 2007 - Mar 2008)
As SAN Administrator I am responsible for providing support & solutions in a heterogeneous environment exclusively in the field of UNIX Administration Responsibilities include architecting a robust UNIX environment across Sun Systems & Storage Administration
Environment: EMC Clariion CX 600, HDS AMS 2100, CX 700, Symmetrix DMX 2000, EMC NAS 3100, Celerra Manager, ECC 5.2, Navisphere Manager, Storage scope, SYM CLI, Veritas NetBackup, Brocade Switches, Snapview clone, AIX, SUN Solaris, Veritas NetBackup, Powerpath.

Responsibilities:

• Managing UNIX Infrastructure and EMC storage involving maintenance of the servers and troubleshooting problems in the environment.
• Remote storage replication for disaster recovery and business continuity with SANcopy. Integration of Netapp NAS 3100, CLARiiON, HDS AMS, NDMP Backups.
• Create Standard Operating Procedures for SAN infrastructure. Document critical processes Licenses, and procedures to ensure consistency and quality, MS Office skills (Word, Excel, Power Point, and auditing. Assessment and Gap analysis for the shortcomings of the SAN infrastructure and creation of plans and procedure Interact with vendor support staff to troubleshoot problems. Periodically work outside of normal business hours to fulfill production and project needs, including 7 X 24 on-call supports on a rotating basis.
• Working with VERITAS Volume Manager for creating volumes and filesystems for various applications and databases.
• Working with Logical Volume Manager and online JFS for creating of volume groups /Logical volumes and Filesystems in HP-UX environment.
• SAN design, testing by simulating HBA, FC Switch, Cable, FA failure, Clariion fibre adapter (FA) sharing provided by the Connector to enable multiple hosts.
• Analyzing and reporting regarding the performance of the servers using HP Open View Performance Management tool.
• Creating recovery tapes in HP-UX environment using make recovery.
• Creation of Backup data lists, scheduling and monitoring the backup using HP Data protector.
• Administer, maintain and manage EMC Clarion arrays like creating volumes, LUNs and implementing different RAID levels on the same.
• Assign storage according to business requirements. Perform capacity planning on SAN and switch fabric (Brocade).Performed zoning at Brocade switch level and LUN masking at server levels.
• Planning, installation, configuration, and administration of storage related services like creating volumes, LUNs and implementing different RAID levels on the same
• Implemented path failover and load balancing using EMC Power path.
• Performed Backups like snapview, Mirrorview on Clariion for applications like Oracle databases and Logs.
• Implemented Full SANcopy replications from Different storage systems like Clariion and Symmetrix to backup important applications like Raptor and AXIS.
• Configured & created snapshots of clones of LUNs using EMC Snap View.
• Analyze existing and emerging SAN technologies for appropriateness, fit, and functionality within the current technologies and strategic plan. Interface with vendors to assess their competency and ongoing support abilities.
• Providing technical support to Oracle database team to install Oracle RAC on SUN systems. Provides technical guidance, advice, and work direction to technical analysts.

Confidential,India (June 2005 - Dec 2006)
As System Administrator I have managed & implemented various projects related systems & infrastructure servers Tasks included Unix Administration in Solaris operating environment, Sun Server consolidation, & day-to-day administration of existing systems.
Environment: Solaris, HP UNIX, Solstice Disk Suite, Logical Volume Manager (LVM), Veritas Cluster, UNIX Bourne Shell, AWK and EMC Power Path.
Responsibilities:

• Installing operating systems Solaris, HP UNIX according to business requirements. Planning and implementing the configuration changes to the servers adhering with ITIL change management process.
• Regularly applying patches both for SUN and HP systems. Coordinating with OEMs for support related issues.
• Incident Management & Change Management.
• Implemented path failover & load balancing using EMC Power path.
• Upgraded hosts running Solaris 6/7 to Solaris 8 Current Kernel Patch revision using Live upgrade.
• Work with incidents & work requests.
• Performs root cause analysis of technical issues.
• Disk & File system management through Solstice Disk Suite & Logical Volume Manager (LVM).
• Configuration & administering of NFS environment.
• Configuration & administration of NIS, NFS & DNS environment.
• Managing file systems & disk management using Solstice Disk suite.
• Installing & configuring of Veritas Cluster HA for NFS.
• Administering the software packages & patches on servers.
• Writing Shell scripts for system maintenance, backup & file management.
• Integrated the NIS & NFS with Auto mount for logging users anywhere in the Domain.
• Managing disk space & system resources.

Confidential, INDIA (June 2004- May 2005)
As Systems and Storage Engineer I have managed & implemented various projects related systems & infrastructure servers.
Environment: Sun Solaris, HP-UX, Jumpstart automation, Ignite Automation, EMC, Logical Volume Manager and Veritas Volume Manager.
Responsibilities:

• Configured Jumpstart severs, created custom rules, profiles & sysconfig configuration files.
• Build Golden system with company specific configuration, patch levels, OS security & applications.
• Created Solaris 9 Flash archive images & installed them using Jumpstart infrastructure
• Used jumpstart server to automate Solaris 9 installs over the network.
• Used ignite sever to automate HPUX 11.2 install over the network.
• Created root mirrors on Sun Solaris servers manually after OS install using Solaris Volume Manager.
• Created root mirrors on HP Unix servers manually after OS install using LVM & Mirror UX
• Created snapshot copies of root disk on Solaris using ufsdump/ufsrestore
• Created & supported LVM volume groups, logical volumes.
• Created & supported VXVM disk groups & logical volumes.
• Configured NFS server, NFS clients & AuotFS.
• Created & supported NIS server, NIS slave & NIS clients.
• Created & configured DHCP server.

Confidential,India (Dec 2003- May 2004)
As Systems Engineer I have assisted in various projects related systems & infrastructure servers.
Environment: Sun Sparc Enterprise Server, Solstice Disk Suite and Sun StorEdge Disk Arrays.
Responsibilities:

• Support & Maintenance on Sun Solaris, Linux & Backup Tools.
• Setting up of networks involving SUN Workstations, Servers & Communication Products.
• Installation, Configuration & Administration of Solaris 2.6 on Sun Sparc Enterprise Server.
• Installation, Configuration & Administration of RAID File systems using Solstice Disk Suite.
• Installation & Configuration of Sun StorEdge Disk Arrays & Sun StorEdge Array Controllers.
• Configuring & Administration of NFS, NIS, Network Printers Servers & Automounts
• Installation of Oracle 7 Database Server & Connectivity to the Java Based ERP in the Sun Solaris Server
• Planning of Backup, Crash Recovery & Data management
• Setting up & Administration of DNS servers in Solaris.
• System Administration using Solstice Disk, Admin & Backup Suites
• Taking backup with Tar, CPIO, UFS dump, UFS restore.
• Integration of Windows Networking to the Sun Solaris Networking on TCP/IP.

Education and Certification

Bachelor of Engineering - Electronics & Communications
EMC Information Storage and Management