SUMMARY:

• Over 7 years of experience in IT industry including EMC, HP Storage, SAN administration and NAS Network Attached Storage .
• Expertise in storage implementation design, deployment and maintenance of heterogeneous SAN/ NAS environment, including EMC, HP, Cisco and Brocade Enterprise Class Storage equipment
• Experience in administrating, maintaining and troubleshooting of EMC storage like Symmetrix VMAX, DMX-4, EMC Unified VNX 5700/7500, Clariion CX-4 120/240/480series, Celerra NS-120, HP Storage Arrays HP 3PAR P10000 v400, HP EVA 5000/8000, EVA 4400.
• Allocated storage using Auto-provisioning technology of VMAX, implemented storage groups, port groups, initiator groups and masking views using Solutions Enabler SYMCLI , Unisphere for VMAX.
• Implemented Virtual Provisioning from VMAX array to hosts by creating Data devices, Thin devices, Thin Pool, binding Thin devices to Pool and mapping to FA ports and masking the Thin devices to the host, using SMC, SYMCLI, Unisphere for VMAX.
• Successfully allocated storage using ECC, SYMCLI for Open Systems environment from DMX-3, DMX-4 to Windows, Solaris, AIX and HP-UX servers including creation of Meta devices, Mapping devices to FA ports and Masking as per the requirement.
• Allocated storage from CX4 and CX3 model arrays using Navisphere and NaviCLI to AIX, Windows and Linux hosts including creation of Raid groups, binding LUNs, creating storage groups and adding luns to the storage group.
• Experience in creating Common Provisioned Groups CPG , Virtual Volumes VV , creating Hosts Persona, exporting Virtual Volumes to Host, creating Virtual Domains, Domain object and managing Domain objects in HP-3PAR.
• Experience in implementing HP 3PAR Thin Technologies for space management and Autonomic groups VVSet and HOST Set .
• Extensive experience on multi-tier Enterprise Storage systems including but not limiting to Performance analysis Reporting, Provisioning, Fabric installation and migration planning.
• Experience in zoning, provisioning, SAN/ NAS connectivity, configuring thin pools/ devices
• Implemented and tested Disaster Recovery using SRDF/A between DMX-4 and DMX-3 at remote site.
• Implemented and tested SRDF/A for selected high performance Tier 1 applications from DMX3 to DMX4 including creation of dynamic RA groups, dynamic RDF pairs and device groups.
• Used EMC Grabs and prepared migration scripts to migrate servers using Open Migrator, Open Replicator, Mirror View and SanCopy.
• Upgraded hosts as per the EMC HEAT report and installed / upgraded and configured Power Path for AIX, Solaris and Windows Operating Systems before migrating to the new storage array and installed SymCLI software.
• Migrated TB's of data from old storage arrays like DMX-4/3 to new array VMAX using Open Replicator and SANCopy.
• Installed and configured PowerPath for AIX, Solaris, HP and Windows Operating Systems to support the load balancing and failover features among the HBA's on the system.
• Ran Grab utility and used Heat reports to troubleshoot any SAN storage related issues including identifying the software requirements to bring up the server to the current EMC Standards.
• Based on EMC recommendations, updated required patches Operating System and HBA drivers on all systems that are part of the data migration.
• Actively involved in performing day to day operational tasks like storage provisioning and monitoring the health of SAN.
• Troubleshooting critical issues including threshold optimization, server throughput, ports availability, meeting zoning requirements, one-path down, host not seeing storage management problems.
• In-depth understanding of operating systems, servers, and enterprise applications, as well as their compatibility with storage architecture, business goals, and technology strategies
• Proven background in disaster recovery and backup, including data replication at remote locations
• Expertise in supporting and configuring multi-protocols including NFS, CIFS for UNIX and Windows Hosts

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• SAN : EMC Symmetrix VMAX DMX 3/4 EMC VNX 5700/7500 Clariion CX300/ CX340, CX700, CX4-120/240, NS120/480, NS960 FAST/ VP VNX VMax 20K/40K EMC Navisphere/ Unisphere for CX, VNX, VMax , Symmetrix Management Console SMC Ionix Control Center Manager ECC EMC NaviCLI, SymCLI HP 3PAR P10000 v400, HP EVA 5000/8000, 4400.
• NAS: Celerra NS 120/480, VNX 5700
• Switches: CISCO MDS 9509, 9513, 9124, 9222i , CISCO Fabric Manager/DCNM Brocade / McData 4900, DCX, ED-140M ,
• Connectrix Manager/ CMNCE
• Platforms: Windows 2000/2003/XP/7/ Vista / 8/ Server 2008 R2 Linux, AIX HP Solaris VMWare ESX/ ESXi
• 4/5.x vCenter, vSphere, Converter/ Update Manager, HA/ DRS/ FT, vMotion, Guest Console
• Utilities/Other: HP Service Manager HTML, CSS, PHP, Joomla, Wordpress

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

SR. STORAGE ENGINEER

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Implemented Auto provisioning by creating Initiator Groups, Port Groups, Storage Groups, and Masking Views for the V-MAX system.
• Allocated storage to Symmetrix V-MAX, DMX-4, VNX arrays 5700/7500 , Clariion arrays CX3-40, CX4-480, CX4-960.
• Used EMC Grabs and prepared migration scripts to migrate servers using Open Replicator, Mirror View and San Copy.
• Upgraded hosts as per the HEAT report and installed / upgraded and configured Power Path for AIX, Solaris and Windows Operating Systems before migrating to the new storage array and installed SymCLI software.
• Migrated TB's of data using Open Replicator and SAN Copy.
• Implemented and Configured Business Continuity Solutions using Time finder BCV/Clone/ Snap for Symmetrix DMX and V-MAX.
• Configuration/ management of THIN Pools, FAST VP Policies on EMC VMAX 20K, VMAX 40K and CX/DMX arrays
• Implemented Virtual Provisioning from VMAX array to hosts by creating Data devices, Thin devices, Thin Pool, binding Thin devices to Pool and mapping to FA ports and masking the Thin devices to the host, using SMC 7.0, SYMCLI, Unisphere for VMAX.
• Installing 3PAR Inform Management Console, Inform management CLI and Host Explorer, System Reporter.
• Worked on Creating Virtual Volumes, Common Provisioned Groups CPG , creating Hosts, exporting VVs to Host, to create Virtual LUNS.
• Obtained strong knowledge about HP 3PAR Thin Technologies for space management.
• Implementing Dynamic Optimization by moving data between CPG's using both IMC and CLI
• SAN / NAS Administration in a 3PB storage environment consisting of EMC VMAX, DMX-4, VNX, CX, HP 3PAR
• Storage Refresh project, involved in host-based migrations CX, DMX to VMAX
• Expertise in extracting data, relationships R1/R2 , and executing commands replication, cloning, DR, etc to manage SAN/NAS storage on EMC VMAX .
• Working on VSAN, Flex Fabric/UCS, IVR configuration, zoning and troubleshooting in Cisco MDS Enterprise switches
• Expertise in Thin Provisioning on the VNX and VMAX arrays.
• Working on establishing DR procedures as and when applications/ business units' change
• Coordinating with off-shore Storage experts on projects, allocations and vendor escalations as applicable

ENVIRONMENT: SAN: EMC Symmetrix DMX-4, VMAX 20K/40K VNX 5700/7500, Clariion CX 4-120/240/480 Celerra NS-480, NS-960 , HP 3PAR P10000 v400, HP EVA 5000/8000, 4400 Utilities: Unisphere, Solutions Enabler Symcli, Navicli , HP 3PAR Management Console, HP Command View EVA.

Confidential

SR. SYSTEMS ENGINEER ENTERPRISE STORAGE CONSULTANT

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• SAN / NAS Administration in a storage environment consisting of EMC, Netapp, IBM storage arrays and Cisco and Brocade enterprise level switches
• Working on the Data Center Consolidation project, storage refresh, reducing costs, improving performance, accessibility, ensuring performance, reliability, scalability on-demand
• Working on Tier-1, Tier-2 storage, incidents and RFCs with various business units inside the organization
• Experience writing scripts to perform replication SRDF , cloning BCV/Clones , and performing other DR/DA tests to work with over 2PB of data spread across 6 data centers globally
• Involved in multiple critical project, including Storage Consolidation and Datacenter Migration
• Involved in all prep work performed during code upgrades microcode for DMX,VMAX and OE for Cx in conjunction with EMC
• Configuration/ management of THIN Pools, FAST VP Policies on EMC DMX-3/4, VNX and VMAX Systems
• Working on establishing DR procedures as and when applications/ business units' change
• Working on configuration of new switches Cisco MDS 9124, 9513, IBM Blades including licensing, bringing the switches into fabric, VSAN/ LSAN configuration
• Performing Snapshot restore for business critical applications as and when required
• Support Configure multi-protocols including NFS, CIFS for UNIX and Windows Hosts
• Monitor Netapp Systems, configure thresholds, capacity management, using Ops Manager DFM software
• Provision storage on VMs ESX/i hosts working with VMWare vSphere client and vCenter servers

ENVIRONMENT: SAN: EMC VMAX 20K, Unified VNX 5700/7500 , Symmetrix DMX1000/ 2000/3/4 Clariion CX-4 120/240/480 , NS-120,

Confidential

IT / STORAGE ADMINISTRATOR

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Develop and interpret computer information resources providing data security and control, strategic computing, and disaster recovery , organizational goals, policies and procedures.
• Daily maintenance and administration of enterprise SAN that included several Symmetrix V-Max arrays, DMX arrays and CLARiiONs connected to several Windows UNIX servers in the Data center
• Created RAID Groups, bound Luns, and storage groups using Navisphere Manager on CX3-80, CX3- 40 arrays and provisioned storage to Solaris, Linux servers.
• Designed, implemented and managed the Backup and Recovery environment utilizing TimeFinder/Clones.
• Used ECC 6.0 for day-to-day tasks such as discovering, monitoring, reporting, planning and storage provisioning for large, complex physical and virtual infrastructures.
• Performed a detailed Storage Capacity Planning by collecting data using ECC Storage Scope reports to prepare the customer for Tech Refresh projects.
• Followed proper Change Management Procedures, well prepared and submitted all the required documents for all SAN / Storage migration projects.
• Involved in the migration of data using SANCopy from CLARiiON CX 700 to CX-4 and provisioning of data for testing purposes using SnapView/Snapshots Clones data replication.
• Analyze and resolve SAN/ NAS related errors and reported problems. Coordinate fixes with hardware vendors
• Responsible for content management of the Alumni website and its maintenance
• Creating reports by gathering and analyzing data from the R-BASE database using queries
• Generated donor specific data for customization for affiliations and internal procurement

ENVIRONMENT: SAN: EMC Symmetrix DMX-1000 Clariion CX300 Utilities: Navisphere, SMC Switches: Cisco MDS 9506 Utilities: Fabric Manager Other: Joomla, HTML, PHP, CSS, SQL

Confidential

STORAGE ADMINISTRATOR

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Performed functions of a Storage Administrator including Zoning, LUN Masking and LUN Provisioning on Symmetrix and CLARiiON
• Involved in Symmetrix configuration, connecting management server to the Symmetrix through fabric, and initializing the VCMDB
• Consolidated storage and expanded by upgrading from CX 700 to a higher capacity CX3-20 using San Copy.
• Created a complete documentation that includes all the components in the SAN environment, Scripts to control the replication process, BCV setup for backup, disaster recovery procedures.
• Implemented High availability solutions like Mirror View, SAN Copy on CLARiiONs for source and target sites
• Cleaned up the old storage includes deleting SRDF pairs and clone relationships
• Decommissioned storage for open systems by reclaiming the storage after destroying the data, unmounting the file systems, unmasking, unmapping from the FA ports and dissolving the Meta devices using SYMCLI
• Followed proper Change Management Procedures, well prepared and submitted all the required documents for all SAN / Storage migration projects
• Provided documents for operational management, troubleshooting the issues that occur in the SAN environment
• Implemented a core-edge topology with Brocade 3800,3900, 12k, 48k directors and connected all the storage DMX3, DMX-3000, and CX3-20, CX700 systems to core and host systems to the edge switches which provides a huge connectivity options for future use
• Analyze and resolve SAN/ NAS related errors and reported problems. Coordinate fixes with hardware vendors
• Responsible for storage network activities like zoning, provisioning and SAN connectivity
• Implementation of NetApp FAS, EMC Clariion and Symmetrix storage subsystems

ENVIRONMENT: SAN: EMC Symmetrix DMX-3 / 1000 , Clariion CX300 NAS: NetApp FAS R200 Utilities: SMC, Navisphere, FilerView

Confidential

SYSTEMS ENGINEER/ ADMINISTRATOR

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• System Administration for Sun Servers for day-to-day problems, Patches, User Administration, Storage management - Installing, Upgrading and Configuring Sun Solaris on Spark and X86 Platforms.
• Regular disk management like Adding / Replacing Hard Drives and JBODs on existing Servers / Workstations, partitioning according to requirements, creating new file systems or growing existing one using VERITAS Volume Manager.
• Maintained appropriate file and system security, monitoring and controlling system access, changing permission, ownership of files and directories, maintaining passwords, assigning special privileges to selected users and controlling file access, monitoring status of process in order to increase the system efficiency.
• Configured Distributed File Systems and administering NFS Server and NFS Clients and editing Auto-Mounting, Mapping as per System / User requirements.
• Responsible for managing and implementing Data Storage Systems SAN Switches
• Coordinated storage network activities zoning, provisioning and SAN connectivity
• Administration of Fiber channel switches and replacing HBA fiber cards
• Configuration of Storage for Windows/UNIX environment
• Provide operational management, technical maintenance, troubleshooting, and tuning of storage architecture and technologies

ENVIRONMENT: Utilities: Navisphere/ Filerview Concepts: Storage provisioning, san connectivity