SUMMARY

• Having around 8 years of experience as Storage Delivery Specialist, experience in Confidential /Isilon products includes BLOCK & FILE LEVEL (UNIFIED) Confidential storage arrays, SAN (MDS/Cisco Series Enterprise Directors & Departmental Switches ), Isilon, Recover point Appliance (RPA), Vplex,VMAX 3/AFF, VNX, XtremIO & Netapp.
• Experience in administering, migrating & Production support for complete Confidential Products.
• Experience in administering, provisioning, configuration, operations, Migrations, Maintenance & troubleshooting in VMware VSphere for Server Virtualization with Confidential SAN/NAS Storage.
• Architecting SAN Storage using NSDU to design all the SAN storage tasks & San - Copy Migrations.
• Capacity reporting/backing-up configurations like Switch configuration, through shell script.
• Working on the P1 escalations by joining the technical bridge calls and working with customers directly and coordinating with IT support team in resolution activities.
• Providing technical recommendations for Storage environment to the higher management team.
• Highly motivated, innovative and fast learner and can quickly adapt to new environments.
• Working on the P1 escalations by joining the technical bridge calls and working with customers directly and coordinating with IT support team in resolution activities.
• Highly motivated, innovative and fast learner and can quickly adapt to new environments.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: VMware ESX/ESXI, RED HAT LINUX, Windows, Onefs 7.1,7.2 & 8.x.

Storage: Unified VNX Gen1/2, Isilon, Vplex, XtremIO, Recover Point Appliance (RPA), & Symmetrix, Netapp.

Replication: Sync IQ, SnashotIQ,RPA, Celerra/VNX Replicator, Open Replicator, and SRDF.

Tools: Unisphere, Isilon web gui/cli, Naviseccli, XMS GUI, VPLEX, MDS-CLI & Fabric Manager, SRDF, Open Replicator, Sancopy, Celerra Replicator.

Multi-Pathing Software: Power Path, NMP.

Storage Automation: SHELL SCRIPTING,Python.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

EMC Storage Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Managing 5 Production Gen4/Gen5 clusters, 10 Backup clusters, 2 POC clusters which includes node types like X400, S200, S210, X410, N400, N410, A100.
• Managing Gen 6 Production cluster F800, H600 & A200.
• Scheduling the BMC/CMC firmware upgrades for S210, X410 nodes for the Isilon cluster.
• Planning and steps for the Onefs Code upgrade for the all the Iislon clusters.
• Level 3 issues for the Multi-Protocol Shares for the Isilon clusters.
• Finding out the current issues and analyzing and reducing the risk involved and avoiding the outages.
• Pre-planning the Capacity for the syncIQ replications and the snapshots involved for the Isilon cluster.
• Have designed multiple access zones for multiple applications and having the user mapping between the AD user and the Linux users.
• Analyzed and provided the Health check report for the Isilon clusters and have the discussion and the highlighted points to be implemented across the clusters like having the smartconnnect zone to be balanced across the nodes in the cluster based on the number of clients connected, having the /var size to be within <50%,writing the scripts for the daily report for the cluster status to be emailed, analyzing the B/W used for the replication interfaces and moving some nodes from the underutilized and added the nodes to the used replication pools.
• Planned and upgraded InsightIQ successfully for multiple clusters.
• Have successfully done Real DR activity by doing failover from one DC to another DC and then completed successfully failback for the applications.
• Proficient in Cli & Iislon webui.
• Worked on Production Onefs versions like 7.2.1.2, 7.2.0.2, 7.2.1.5,8.x etc and some POC clusters with onefs 8.x.
• Worked on Serv1 issues for the Kerberos and NTLM authentication between Isilon cluster & Microsoft DC's.
• Day-Day operations for provisioning nfs mounts, SMB shares & Multi-Protocol shares in Active Directory environment.
• By pro-active measure rebooting the nodes which are closing to 248.5 days bug.
• Closely looking for the updates available from Support Confidential and planning for the Firmware upgrades and the Onefs upgrades and the IIQ upgrades.
• Planning and analyzing apply the Patches to the staging environment and then apply to Production clusters.
• Pausing the jobs whenever is required like pausing the FSAnalyze job whenever the Medic scan is running during the phase 5, this is the bug in specific onefs version 7.2.x
• Analyzing the performance for the Isilon clusters like FlexProtect job was running during the Business hours and the production shares having high performance issues analyzed the IOPs and paused the Flexprotect job.
• Participated in the Confidential XIO code upgrade to 4.x.
• Worked on the XIO cluster expansion from 2-X Bricks to 4-X Bricks.
• Configured XIO volume snapshots and refresh for the AIX LPAR hosts.
• Operational support as a Resident Engineer for the storage arrays - Isilon, XIO, VNX, VMAX2, Recover point, Cisco-MDS & VNX file.
• Migrated the data from Lower Tier array to T1 array like XIO using Vplex mobility jobs.
• Provided the necessary logs to Confidential support and for the performance issues and handled the P1 issues.
• Configured Isilon NFS, SMB and providing the permissions for the image archival data.
• Integrating Isilon Backup Accelerater A100 nodes with Data Domain using FCPorts connecting to SAN switches.
• Upgraded the IIQ from 3.x to the new IIQ version of 4.x.
• Troubleshooting issues for the client side unable to access the CIFS shares for some files/folders for the share.
• IDI error failure - running the integrity scan job & disabling the snapdelete job and the synciq daemon.
• Disabling the SupportIQ for the cluster and then testing the cluster events through the ESRS gateway.
• Performing the DR drill every quarter for the smb/nfs shares/exports for the connected source/Target cluster using synciq replication.
• Have performed the real Failover and failback process for the production issue and made this successfully.
• Performing the necessary rolling reboots for the 7.x onefs for the 248.5 days bug.
• Applying the patches pro-actively for the counts of smb open files count for each node and avoided the production outage.
• Successfully have done some Gen 4 nodes partial/full decommission using the node eviction process.
• Configured the tiering and created the required filepool policies for the data movement between multiple node pools.
• Configured multiprotocol for various applications - creating local users/groups and creating the user mapping for the users.
• Configuring the missing snapshots for the shares and making the environment more stable.
• Configuring RBAC for the Isilon clusters and creating the sudoer’s file for the root access.

Confidential

Associate Delivery Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Provisioned using Vplex with backend connected VNX 8000 includes Pool Lun creation, assigning Luns to Vplex Storage groups.
• Vplex management using Unisphere and Vplexcli.
• Re-discover storage, Claim Storage Volumes & assign the name, Creating extents, Devices, virtual volumes, Register the host initiators & exporting these to Vplex storage views.
• Created devices with Raid-0, Raid-1, Raid-C, 1:1 Mapping.
• Configured the zones with HOST WWPNS with Front end vplex ports & activating the zone sets.
• Provisioned the storage using the "Provision from storage volume method" for the local cluster.
• Rescan the virtual volumes from ESX host and verifying it with the VPDxxx and creating the data stores.
• Migrated the volumes connected to the host from the VNX array directly into vplex using storage-tool compose command.
• Health check for the VPLEX Cluster, FE & BE connectivity & Storage Volume ITLs & Vplex performance monitors.
• Zoned Vplex Backend ports to VNX arrays.
• Metro configuration on Dual VS2 Vplex Engine on each site.
• Created Distributed devices (mirroring) & provision them to a host for Metro Cluster.
• Handle performance issues, identified the bottle necks from the backend VNX and performed extent mobility to the newly connected Gen2 VNX.
• Trouble shoot & provide the system log files to Confidential Support for further analysis.
• User account management which includes creating different users, assigning them different roles & privileges using XMS GUI for XtremIO.
• Provisioned XIO Lun by creating a volume, Initiator group, map the volume to an initiator group.
• Configured the zones for the host’s initiators and the target X-Brick cluster's WWNs.
• Recommended VMware advanced settings parameters like DiskMaxIOSize for high performance.
• Collected Performance reports for the volumes & initiators for the hosts.
• Analyzed XIO Performance and found issues and have recommended correcting the issues by changing the queue depth.
• Configured Snapshots for the DB Vol’s and Supported for the Data recovery from vSphere.

Confidential

Operations Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Experience primarily as Storage Administration- specializing in Data Storage management, UNIX/Linux and networking for production non-prod, Test and DR environments.
• Hands on experience working on NetApp SAN, NAS and IBM SAN Technologies.
• Design and Implementation of FAS2000, FAS3000 and FAS6000 Filer's.
• Experience in NetApp Filers Quota Management, CIFS shares, NFS exports, Data migrations
• Hands on Experience with NetApp Filers FAS2040, FAS2240, FAS3140, FAS3020, FAS3040, FAS3210, FAS3240, FAS3270, FAS6080, FAS6210, FAS6280 and V-Series Filer's.
• Experience in Aggregate, Volume, Qtree and LUN management,
• Experience in troubleshooting the performance issues on the filers by collecting Core Dump and Perfstats.
• Allocated storage to Windows, Linux and Unix Servers.
• Created Aggregates, Volume, Qtrees, Vlans, Virtual Interfaces, Igroups, VFiler's, CIFS Shares and NFS Exports.
• Created Volume and Qtree Snap mirror Relationships as a part of Disaster Recovery Planning.
• Recovered Lost Storage Data using Snap Restore, Flex Clone, Snapmirror and Snap Vault.
• Analyzing and Troubleshooting Filer, Array and Server Related Issues in The Environment Using Monitoring and Reporting Tools.
• Assisted the Team in Resolving Level 3 Issues in the Environment.
• Created Mdisk Pools, Vdisks and Volumes in San Volume Controller.
• Created Global and Local Mirror Relationships on San Volume Controller for Disaster Recovery.
• Performed Data Migrations using Volume Snapmirror, Qtree Snapmirror.
• Managed Snapshot Retentions and Snapmirror Intervals as a part of Backup Strategy.
• Created Volume and Qtree Level Permissions Based on Customer Request.
• Managed Filers Using Oncommand System Manager, Filer View, Command Line Interface and Provisioning Manager.
• Configured NDMP for Snap Vault and Tape Backup.
• Created VSan, Zones, and Zone sets on Cisco Switches.
• Administered Cisco and Brocade switches.
• Configured Brocade Director Switches, using WWN zoning to create aliases and zones. Created and maintained ISL Trunking, zoning, and integrated all SAN connected hosts.
• Implemented Zoning on Brocade & Cisco fabrics and troubleshooting SAN connectivity issues.
• Managed fabrics using tools Brocade CLI, WebTools, DCFM and also Cisco CLI and Fabric Manager & Device Manager to create zones, zoneset and activated them.
• Installation and configuration of virtual machines in an Enterprise SAN and NAS environment.
• Have worked as team for the Clariion decommission.
• Pre-decom, exported all configuration from Clariion to excel.