Summery

• Experienced in SAN Integration, SAN Implementation, SAN/NAS Troubleshooting, Performance Analysis and Disaster Recovery
• Extensive experience in implementation, administration and maintenance of EMC CLARiiON VMAX,VNX,DMX storage arrays
• Extensive experience in EMC SAN technologies and provisioning of LUNs on CLARiiON platform using Navisphere, Unisphere manager
• Experience in disaster recovery configuration using Mirrorview, Sancopy, SRDF and NetApp Snapmirror
• Proof of Concept performed in IBM XIV.
• Experience in Application consistent technologies such as Hitachi Replication Manager, NetApp Snapmanager products
• Experienced in NetApp NAS and SAN technologies and creating NFS/CIFS shares on NAS and provisioning LUNs using ISCSI and FC
• Extensive experience in Systems Integration, Systems Administration, Installation, Configuration and Support on different UNIX platforms like Sun Solaris, HP UNIX, AIX and Red Hat Enterprise platforms
• Extensive Experience in configuring the Networker Master Servers, storage Nodes, server.
• Allocate and Configure EMC SAN Storage and NetApps for Various Projects.
• Effective communication skills, team building skills, ability to work effectively with minimal supervision and good analytical and problem solving skills.
• Experienced in Configuration and troubleshooting NFS and NIS environment
• Bourne shell script writing to customize any customer specific application requirement and to automate administrator tasks
• Experienced in storage provisioning on host side using Logical Volume Manager LVM and VERITAS Volume manager VxVM
• Team player with excellent technical and communication skills

TECHNICAL SUMMARY

• Operating Systems Red Hat Enterprise LINUX 5.0, Solaris 8/9/10, HP-UX 10.x/11.x, Windows Server 2003/2008, Windows XP
• Storage Management - EMC Navisphere Management Suite SnapView, MirrorView, San Copy , Data OnTap FilerView, Brocade Fabric Manager, EMC PowerPath
• High availability software - Volume Volume Manager VXVM , HP Logical Volume Manager LVM , Red Hat Enterprise Logical Volume Manager LVM , Solstice Disk Suite , Sun Volume Manager SVM
• Network and Storage Protocols: ISCSI, FCP, TCPIP, FTP, NFS, NIS, DNS, SSH, ARP, RARP, HTTP, DHCP
• Applications Servers Apache Web Server, Solaris Jumpstart, HP Ignite UX
• Programming/Scripting: UNIX Bourne Shell and AWK, PL/SQL, C, HTML

Hardware Technology Server, Storage, Network

• HP9000 N/L/RP RISC Servers
• Sun Ultra Enterprise M8000, E450, Sun Fire 6800/4800/280R/220R/V880, Sun Blade 1000
• Intel X86 and AMD x64 based high end lower end servers and PC's from Dell, IBM, HP and SUN
• EMC Clarion CX Series , Netapp FAS 2020,VMAX,VNX,ISILON
• Cisco and Brocade SAN Switches, Emulex, JNI and LSI HBA's

Confidential

Storage engineer

• Worked with the storage team to document the storage allocation procedure in a EMC Clariion environment
• Created pools and allocated storage from a CX4-480 environment using unisphere
• Migrated data from cx-480 to Vnx using mirrorview and PPME
• Worked with EMC to get VNX 5500 installed in the environment
• Configured VNX file for NAS and VNX block for SAN
• Configured and allocated storage from Vmax environment
• Configured auto provisiong and created tdats, tdevs, thin pools in a vmax environment
• Installed and configured replication manager agents on different server platforms for automatic and consistent clones in the environment
• Integrated recover point with replication manager to take bookmarks
• Configured journal volumes, consistency groups and replication sets in recoverpoint environment
• Documented the zoning configuration on the switches
• Created change requests in the environment and documented the changes as per the customer request
• Ran EMC grabs on the hosts and documented the compatibility of the servers with emc storage
• Documented the environment and worked with the system admins to analyze and document the failures in the backup environment
• Configured networker agents on windows and Solaris servers
• Configure the saveset for the client on network server as per customer requirements
• Working with different application groups to create schedules and understand the backup SLA per application
• Troubleshoot tape and disk backup issues and open tickets with EMC as required
• Configuring data storage in NetApp FAS series filers that run Data ONTAP 7G using CLI and Filer View.
• Created Aggregates, volumes FlexVol , qtrees and Quotas on NetApp Filers
• Troubleshooting the issues related to various snap manager products like SMO, SME within the environment.
• Documented and created run-books for the customer
• Followed the process of software customers and worked on change management.
• Created tickets and worked with customers to fulfill the service as per the SLAs
• Followed the SLAs and process for the backup failures as well.

Confidential

Storage Engineer

• Clariion CX- Installed configured and implemented CX600, CX700 hardware and software across both UNIX and Windows. Created Raid groups, storage groups and bind luns in Navisphere and NaviCLI. Registered new hosts.
• DMX Symmetrix: Created metas, mapping and masking with SymCLI and SMC. Extensive experience on configuring storage devices on Unix machines primarily on Sun Solaris, Red Hat Linux and HP-UX Machines.
• Installed and configured EMC PowerPath. Ensured all devices were appropriately configured with the right policies and failover capabilities.
• Designed and maintained remote replication and disaster recovery solutions to ensure 24/7 data availability using SRDF/A, SRDF/S for Symmetrix/DMX, SANCopy and MirrorView for Clariion.
• Using TimeFinder configured point-in-time BCV mirror copies/clones of production data, provisioned them to backup hosts and provided concurrent access local storage replication solutions.
• Troubleshoot performance issues on disks connected to Symmetrix and Clariion. Used tools like Navisphere Analyzer, ECC Performance Manager WLA , HEAT reports to analyze performance issues.
• Zoning and Fabric Monitoring using Brocade Web Tools for Brocade Switches.
• Troubleshoot host-based connectivity issues related to EMC software PowerPath, Navisphere, ECC client software and third-party HBA's Emulex and Qlogic .
• Migrated tera bytes of data from decommissioned storage frames to new ones by creating initiators, storage groups and masking views in our environment. Created FAST TIERS policies, associated Storage groups to FAST Policies.
• Used SPA to monitor Symmetrix performance issues.
• Implemented and maintained zoning, performed firmware upgrades, and integrated all SAN connected hosts on Brocade Directors using Fabric Manager and Cisco MDS switches using Fabric manger.
• Created Standard Operating Procedure documents, Run books for EMC Symmetrix V-Max's Virtual Provisioning VP , SRDF S/A , HP Blade Servers and Timefinder Mirror/Clone.
• Used tools like Navisphere Analyzer, SPA, ECC Performance Manager, HEAT reports to analyze performance issues.
• Migrated data from clariion to clariion using PPME and open replicator
• Ran emc grabs on the servers and created heat reports in powerlink to analyze the environment
• Allocated luns from DMX 4 environment using ecc and symcli
• Planned, Commissioned and Configured new VMAX and deployed all the agents for ECC administrators.
• Used Open Replicator software to execute data migration from existing DMX to new VMAX storage arrays and Clariion to VMAX arrays.
• Configured incremental sancopy session and migrated about 20TB of data
• Worked with EMC to co-ordinate the firmware upgrade on the arrays
• Configure recoverpoint CRR in the environment
• Add storage to the journal volumes in the EMC recoverpoint environment as required
• Conducted the DR Tests based on the client requirements by restoring the data to alternate locations and testing the application
• Configure Aggregates, volumes and qtrees in a NetApp environment.
• Allocated cifs and NFS shares from a NetApp Array
• Configured NDMP backups in a NetApp environment.
• Performed the Performance Tunings for total Environment using the EMC Recommendations

Confidential

Storage Administrator

• Clariion CX- Installed configured and implemented CX600, CX700 hardware and software across both UNIX and Windows. Created Raid groups, storage groups and bind luns in Navisphere and NaviCLI. Registered new hosts.
• DMX Symmetrix: Created metas, mapping and masking with SymCLI and SMC. Extensive experience on configuring storage devices on Unix machines primarily on Sun Solaris, Red Hat Linux and HP-UX Machines.
• Installed and configured EMC PowerPath. Ensured all devices were appropriately configured with the right policies and failover capabilities.
• Designed and maintained remote replication and disaster recovery solutions to ensure 24/7 data availability using SRDF/A, SRDF/S for Symmetrix/DMX, SANCopy and MirrorView for Clariion.
• Using TimeFinder configured point-in-time BCV mirror copies/clones of production data, provisioned them to backup hosts and provided concurrent access local storage replication solutions.
• Troubleshoot performance issues on disks connected to Symmetrix and Clariion. Used tools like Navisphere Analyzer, ECC Performance Manager WLA , HEAT reports to analyze performance issues.
• Zoning and Fabric Monitoring using Brocade Web Tools for Brocade Switches.
• Troubleshoot host-based connectivity issues related to EMC software PowerPath, Navisphere, ECC client software and third-party HBA's Emulex and Qlogic .
• Migrated tera bytes of data from decommissioned storage frames to new ones.

Confidential

System Administrator

• Installing Window 2003 active directory and supporting. Troubleshoot any problems that arises in the network from Cisco devices to Windows servers.
• Configuring Cisco content switches and troubleshooting. Installing VMware for disaster recovery test purposes.
• Support all levels of escalation issues.
• Monitor Network infrastructure for any problems in the network that may arises using Network Instruments Observer to log network traffic and capture packets and then analyze it to resolve issues.
• Recommend resolution to resolve network issues and improve network performance. Configuring internet issues such as DNS, TCP/IP, and ACL. Administering Exchange 2003 and Windows Active Directory and Novell file and print servers.
• Designed the physical server to virtual server migration deployment. This included the design of the VMware ESX servers, using Netapps for NAS, IP-SAN to implement ESX HA and DRS.
• Design LAN/WAN infrastructure using Cisco routers, switches, and firewall.
• Install, configure, troubleshoot, and support Cisco and Foundry LAN/VLAN switches.
• Install and configured Windows 2003 Active Directory Cluster using EMC Autostart. Installed, configured, troubleshoot, and support Legato/EMC Networker
• Participate and support migration of Toshiba phone system to Cisco VOIP phone system.