Summary:

• Non-disruptive Migration of VMware environments to VPLEX using data mobility
• Storage Administrator with Six years of progressive experience in the information technology including six years SAN administration and One year Unix Administration in planning, implementing and supporting essential business applications. Extensive experience in administrating, maintaining and trouble shooting of SAN storage environment having EMC VMAX, DMX, VNX, CLARiiON and other enterprise arrays.
• Well versed using GUI management tools like Symmetrix Management Console SMC , EMC IONIX Control Center ECC , Unisphere and Navisphere.
• Well versed in using command line interface Solutions Enabler SYMCLI and NavisecCLI.
• Experience in implementing Migration solution using Open Replicator, SAN Copy and Host level migrations like Open Migrator, PPME and LVM Mirroring
• Experience in implementing Local replication using Time Finder/clone/snap and Snap view
• Explicit knowledge in Recover Point with array based splitters in VNX environment in both CDP/CRR modes.
• Integrated Recover point with Replication manager for Oracle and SQL databases
• Experience in implementing tiered SAN solutions using FAST and Virtual Provisioning on VMAX and VNX arrays per EMC best practices
• Experience in implementing remote replication using SRDF/S, SRDF/A.
• Experience in VMware deployments in a VPLEX Metro environment
• Experience with SAN performance and reporting tools like SPA/WLA and Storage Scope Manager
• Good knowledge on RAID, SCSI, SAN, NAS and CAS.
• Configuring and managing EMC Power Path for path failover, load balancing and path management.
• Implementing IP replicator for CIFS and NFS shares and configuration of Data Movers as CIFS servers
• Good understanding of installation, configuration and management of CISCO, Brocade and McData switches and maintaining vendor fabrics.
• Experience working on Linux/Solaris/HP/AIX/Windows Operating system platforms.
• Installation, configuration and maintenance of Virtual Machines, ESX Servers, VMware tools using VMware VSphere 4 and Virtual Center
• Experience in with server migration using VMware vMotion and Storage vMotion and ESX Server provisioning
• Experienced in working with various process oriented ticketing tools for Incident Management, Change Management, and Problem Management.
• Knowledgeable in troubleshooting day to day SAN/Storage and host related issues.
• Team player with strong management and excellent communication skills

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Storage Arrays EMC DMX3 DMX4 EMC VMAX EMC CX4-960, 480, NS-G8, NS-480 VNX 7500, 5700 IBM DS4800 IBM DS8100 IBM DS8300 Hitachi USP-V SAN Switches McData 4500 McData 4700 McData 6064 McData 6140 Brocade 48000 Brocade 5300 Brocade 5100 Brocade DCX Director Class 8 GB 384 Port SAN Switches CISCO 9513 Director Class SAN Switches Software SMC, Unisphere, Celerra Manager, Recoverpoint, VPLEX Manager, SYMCLI, SPA Performance analyzer 4.1 Brocade DCFM 103.X EMC Control Center 6.0 EMC Solutions Enabler 7.0 Hi-Command Device Manager HDS Storage Navigator CISCO Fabric / Device Manager EMC Navisphere Operating Systems AIX 5.3 VMware 4.x Windows 2003/08 Solaris 10 HP-UX 11.01

Professional Experience

Confidential

SAN Storage Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Day to Day administration of Symmetrix V-MAX, DMX, CLARiiON and VNX arrays.
• Worked on Configuration and Allocation of storage from DMX/VMAX and CLARiiON storage arrays using SYMCLI/ECC/SMC.
• Involved and performed data migration/consolidation of arrays using SANCopy/ OpenReplicator /PPME/Open migrator.
• Well versed with Recover point implementation in CDP/CRR environment and created consistency groups for Oracle/SQL databases
• Maintaining the ECC infrastructure, troubleshooting day-to-day issues, Configured alerts for management of the entire SAN infrastructure and also dealt with performance issues.
• Actively involved in installation of ECC and discovery and management of all SAN objects including installation of SDM/Symmetrix agents, FCC and host agents.
• Comprehensive knowledge in using Unisphere and NavisecCLI in implementing administration of VNX arrays.
• Experience with data mobility and management of distributed volumes in VPLEX metro.
• Well versed on VNX platform including configuring virtual pools and FAST/VP per EMC best practices using Unisphere manager.
• Experience working on VNX file including configuring CIFS servers and migration of shares using Robocopy.
• Installation and setup of SMAS 7.2 for maintenance and administration of the VMAX
• Involved actively in planning and design sessions migrating Unix/Linux/Windows servers from DMX to VMAX
• Platform using appropriate methodologies using Open Replicator/SRDF/Open Migrator.
• Implemented FAST VP and storage tiering for applications like Oracle Database and SQL server in VMAX.
• Configured FAST VP and Virtual Pools TDAT's and TDEVS and created Auto provisioning groups for mapping and masking using SYMCLI 7.x/ SMC 7.X for creating initiator groups, port groups, storage groups and Masking Views in VMAX Environment.
• Implemented SRDF/A, SRDF/S for production systems including creation of dynamic RA groups, creation of dynamic RDF pairs, enabling SRDF/A for the group of devices.
• Implementing Automating BCV solutions like Time Finder Clones Snaps .
• Extensively worked on SAN related host connectivity for various operating systems including SUN Solaris, HP, AIX, Linux, and Windows.
• Responsible for creating Zones, Zoning and firmware upgrades with switches like Brocade, McData and Cisco.
• Documented process and procedures utilizing best practices including the creation and maintenance of supporting detailed infrastructure diagrams
• Troubleshooting day-to-day performance issues and resolving them using Performance Manager. Comparing the port utilization, IOs and read/writes to the disks using performance manager and analyzing the data for trouble shooting performance issues.

Environment: Symmetrix DMX-3/4, VMAX, VPLEX, Clariion CX4, VNX 5500/5700, Symcli, SMC, SRDF, TimeFinder, Snapview, NavisecCLI, Unisphere, MirrorView, SANCopy, Open Migrator, Powerpath, Solaris, Windows, ESX, Linux.

Confidential

SAN Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Configuring FE Hosts: Installing and configuring hosts like ESX 3.5, ESX 4.0, RHEL 5.3, SLES 10, Win2k3, Win2k8 Clusters MSCS on the setup to test the product's interoperability with these servers
• Administrated and Managed a SAN environment of 2 PetaBytes consisting of DMX 3/3000 /1000, Clariion CX3-80/40, Cisco MDS 9509/9216 using SymCLI, ECC, Navisphere Manager, NaviCLI, Fabric/Device Manager.
• Involved in creating Business Continuity Solutions using SnapView Clones/Snapshots in EMC Clariion arrays and TimeFinder BCV/Clones/Snapshots in EMC DMX arrays.
• Extensively used Open Replicator to migrate from DMX 1000 to DMX3. Configured Created Push/Pull sessions to migrate data, scripted whole process for efficiency.
• Consolidated existing CLARiiON storage by migrating CX3-40 to higher capacity CX3-80 using SAN Copy.
• Worked on Disaster Recovery solutions using MirrorView in CLARiiON SRDF in Symmetrix DMX.
• Configuring the complete setup of VPLEX and METROPLEX including the SNOWHILL SERVER with DAISYCHAINING
• Implement redundant systems, policies, and procedures for disaster recovery and archiving to ensure effective protection and integrity of storage appliances and stored data assets
• Implementation and administration of VMAX, DMX4,DMX3,CX3-40, CX3-80 and CX4-80 arrays with V-Plex
• Experience on configuring Zoning on Cisco Switches using Fabric/Device Manager.
• Used Replication Manager to create point in time replication technologies which included Snapview Clone/Snapshot TimeFinder Clone/Snapshot/BCV .
• Created SRDF devices using SymCLI, device groups and added devices to the device groups. Also worked on disaster recovery operations such as failover, failback and update.
• Installation and Upgradation of firmware, HBA drivers, multi-pathing software and other specific point products related to storage.
• Administered Managed Virtual Machines, ESX Servers using VMware VSphere 3.
• Installed and configured ECC alerts/agents to monitor SAN environment for Symmetrix, CLARiiON, Switches, and Hosts and attached management policies to include Email/Console notifications.
• Responsible for monitoring, troubleshooting and resolving routine issues like one-path-down, hosts not seeing storage, HBA failures, and zoning/masking/storage allocation and performance issues.

Environment: Symmetrix DMX-3, DMX-4, Clariion CX480/700, Celerra 480/960, Symcli, ECC, Unisphere, NavisecCLI, Recover Point, Replication Manager, SRDF, SANCopy, Brocade Web tools, Solaris, Windows.