SUMMARY

• Extensive experience with San and Storage Administration
• Expertise in administration of storage arrays which includes DMX, VMAX, Clariion, VNX and Isilon.
• Extensively worked on Virtual Storage System VPLEX Local cluster .
• Extensively worked on Cisco and Brocade Switches.
• Configured and managed storage environments consisting of VMAX, DMX arrays using Solutions Enabler SYMCLI , Unisphere, Control Center, Symmetrix Management Console SMC and Symmetrix Performance Analyzer SPA .
• Configured and managed Clariion and VNX arrays using EMC UniSphere, NaviSphere, Navi Analyzer, and NaviCLI.
• Configured and Managed VPLEX using VPLEX CLI and VPLEX Management Console.
• Configured and Managed Cisco and Brocade switches using Cisco CLI, Fabric Manager, Brocade CLI and Data Center Fabric Manager DCFM .
• Expertise in working with local and remote replication technologies TimeFinder Clone/Snap/SnapVP, SnapView Snaps/Clones and SRDF/S, SRDF/A.
• Migrated data across different storage systems using VPLEX Extent level, Device Level and Batch migrations , SRDF, Open Replicator, FLM Federated Live Migration , SanCopy, and host based migrations using Open Migrator, PPME, Robocopy, EmCopy, Rsync, and Logical Volume Manager.
• Experience working on FAST, FAST VP VMAX Clariion and FAST Cache.
• Experience working with Isilon SmartConnect, SmartPools, SmartQuotas, SmartLock, SnapshotIQ local Replication and SyncIQ Remote replication .
• Experience in configuring INSIGHT IQ as a standalone virtual appliance in an isilon environment.
• Experience configuring and Managing PowerPath on various Operating Systems.
• Experience working with Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, RedHat Linux, VMWARE vSphere 4.x/5.x and Windows 2003/2008/2012.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Software : SYMCLI, Symmetrix Management Console SMC , Unisphere Manager for VMAX, ECC 6.x, Symmetrix Performance Analyzer SPA , Unisphere Manager for VNX, Navisphere Manager, NaviCLI, NaviSphere Analyzer, VPLEX CLI and VPLEX Management Console, Cisco CLI/Device/Fabric Manager, Brocade CLI, Webtools, TimeFinder, SRDF, Open Replicator, PowerPath, PPME, Open Migrator, Isilon Web Administration, SnapShotIQ and SyncIQ.
• Hardware : DMX-3, DMX-4, VMAX 10K/20K/40K, VNX 5300/5500/5700, CLARiiON CX-4-960, CX-4-480, CX-3-40, VPLEX VS2, Isilon S-series S200 , X-Series X200,X400 , NL-Series 72NL, 108NL , Cisco MDS 9513, 9509 directors and 9222i, 9124, 9216 switches, Brocade DCX/48K directors and 4900,5100,5300 Switches.
• Operating Systems: Solaris 9/10, Windows 2003/2008/2012, HP-UX 11.x, VMware vSphere 4.x, 5.x, AIX 5.x, 6.x, 7.x. and RedHat 5.x/6.x.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Role: Sr. Storage Operations Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for day to day administration of SAN and Storage environment, which includes VMAX 10K/20K, DMX-4, CX-3/CX-4, VNX 5500/5700, VPLEX, Brocade and Cisco switches.
• Provisioned and decommissioned storage to various Open system environment servers from DMX-3/4/VMAX, VNX, CLARiiON, and VPLEX.
• Configured four VMAX-20K arrays in line with EMC best practices, including virtual provisioning and FAST-VP.
• Performed data migrations for 400 plus servers using Open Replicator/SanCopy from DMX-3/4, CX-4 to VMAX.
• Performed extent level, device level and Batch level data migrations using VPLEX.
• Configured VNX 5500/5700 layout from scratch and accordingly planned the migration from CX-3/4.
• Configured VPLEX from scratch extensively worked on Storage Provisioning from VPLEX to various servers.
• Implemented TimeFinder Snaps/Clones and SRDF A/S as local and remote replication solutions for Disaster recovery.
• Day to day SAN zoning on Cisco and Brocade fabrics which includes creating alias and zones.
• Extensively worked with VPLEX, SanCopy and Open Replicator to migrate about nearly 450 servers.
• Planning the outages and implementing the Migration on a weekly basis.
• Working with Solution Architects and business units to plan the migrations.
• Extensively worked on VMAX Auto Provisioning, Virtual Provisioning and FAST VP.
• Planning, Design and Implementation of bin file for VMAX as a part of consolidating the number of DMX's.
• Experience working with Isilon S-series, X-Series, and NL-Series nodes.
• Experience in implementation of SmartConnect and Creating access zones for better utilization of Isilon resources.
• Creating directories and sharing them for Linux and Windows hosts using NFS and SMB protocols.
• Creating file pool policies for data movements across tiers. Configuring data protection and data layout at node pool and file pool policies using SmartPools.
• Experience working with creating snaps and scheduling snapshots using SnapshotIQ for local data protection.
• Experience in creating policies for SyncIQ jobs for remote replication of data between Isilon clusters.

ENVIRONMENT: DMX-3/4, VMAX 10k/20K, CX-3-80, CX-4-480/960, VNX 5500/5700, Isilon S-series, X-Series, NL-Series, Brocade 48k directors and 4900 switches, Cisco 9513, VPLEX Local Cluster , Solaris/AIX/RedHat/vSphere 4.x/5.x and Windows 2003/2008/2012.

Confidential

Role: Sr. Storage Operations Specialist

As a Sr. Storage Operations Specialist, I performed the following tasks:

• Managed all the activities of Trustmark's SAN storage environment: two VMAX frames with SRDF/A replication, one DMX-4 storage frame, one CX600 frame, one CX3-10, one Unified NS-480, one VNX5300 and four Cisco MDS 9513 switches 100TB total disk space installed and 140 SAN ports
• Evaluated EMC product offerings and make recommendations to Trustmark management about which products are an appropriate fit for their environment
• Designed the size and configuration of new thin pools used on newly installed VMAX and Unified NS-480 frames
• Coordinated efforts with vendors to physically install new drives into various storage frames then configured new Raid groups and logical data devices to be used in thin pools
• Created monthly SAN disk and switch port capacity reports for Trustmark management which shows usage trends and predictions.
• Configured the NAS component of new Unified NS-480 system including the layout of new data movers and CIFS
• Designed and implemented the roll out EMC FAST-VP for thin pools on new VMAX and block component of Unified NS-480 frames
• Designed and implemented a new SRDF/Asynchronous replication environment, mirroring data between Trustmark's production and DR data center
• Designed and implemented Celerra replicator environment, mirroring data between production and DR Celerra.
• Installed and configured Data Domain DD690 frames including replication to remote frame at DR data center
• Installed and configured VMware Site Recovery Manager SRM using the EMC SRDF/A adapter
• Performed all necessary server Windows, AIX, ESX remediation upgrades drivers, firmware, patches prior to migrating them to their new storage frames
• Used Power Path Migration Enabler and Open Replicator to migrate data from DMX-4 frame to new VMAX, VNX, and Unified frames successfully migrated 120 servers
• Installed Solutions Enabler, EMC Symmetrix Management Console, Cisco Fabric Manger, and NaviCLI on newly built VM Guest machine to serve as SAN management station
• Use various SYMCLI/NAVCLI commands to create, map, and mask new meta volumes to servers using storage space from the DMX-4, VMAX, CLARiiON, and VNX frames
• Physically run fibre cables o connect various storage frames and servers to the SAN switch fabric
• Used SAN Copy to migrate server data from old CX600 frame to DMX-4 frame and from old CX3-10 to new VNX5300 frame successfully migrated 50 servers
• Installed and configured ESRS Gateway software on newly built VM guest machines to enable EMC to remotely monitor and support all SAN equipment on site
• Installed and configured EMC Ionix Control Center software on newly built VM guest machines. Also installed and configured Storage Scope, Performance Manager SPA , and SMC Software
• Developed EMC best practices document which detailed all SAN provisioning, monitoring, and support activities associated with the Trustmark environment
• Developed DR run plans that detailed all the SAN based testing and recovery scenarios for Trustmark

Trained Trustmark server administrators on EMC best practices SAN activities

ENVIRONMENT: VMAX, DMX-4, CLARiiON, Cisco Switches, Navisphere Manager, Solution Enabler, NAS, Connectrix Manager, Fabric Manager, Solaris ,Windows, HP-UX, IBM AIX servers.

Confidential

Role: San/Storage Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Allocation and Decommissioning of storage to open system environment hosts from storage arrays using ECC, Symcli, NaviCLI and Navisphere Manager
• Involved in planning of SAN topology, migration strategy and growth management at the technical and architect levels.

• Managed multiple Core-Edge topology fabrics in a very large SAN environment with MDS 9513 and McData 140M on each fabric.
• Testing of migration procedures, migrating storage/host from McData fabric to Cisco fabric without downtime to host applications.
• Installation and Configuration of Cisco SAN switches. Configured multiple VSAN environments.
• Documented the EMC storage environment which shows complete design, selection, planning and implementation of Latest SAN upgrade.
• Analyzing of storage issues present in the environment and troubleshooting the issues

• Migrated data from DMX-3000 to DMX-4 using SRDF. Implemented disaster recovery for performance critical hosts using SRDF/A between DMX-4 and DMX-4.
• Migrated data from CX 600/700 to CX-4-960 by using SanCopy.
• Implemented Open Replicator for creating point-in-time copies of data and also for data migration from DMX-3000 to DMX-4.
• Successfully upgraded EMC Control Center from 5.2 to 6.x. Installed and configured ECC infrastructure agents, monitored SAN environment using ECC, configured ECC alerts and set up management policies
• SAN Administration in a storage environment consisting of DMX, Symmetrix, Clariion, Cisco and McData switches.
• Allocation and Decommissioning of storage to open system environment hosts from storage arrays using ECC, Symcli, NaviCLI and Navisphere Manager.
• Maintaining ECC for SAN environment and troubleshooting the same including discovery of new objects Storage Arrays, Switches and Hosts , Configuring alerts and for creating new users to access the storage environment.
• Troubleshooting, and resolving issues like one-path-down, hosts not seeing storage, HBA failures, storage allocations, mapping, masking and zoning.
• Involved in administration of Solaris, HP-UX, IBM AIX and Windows servers related to SAN and volume Manager Users.
• Implemented Legato Networker for backup and recovery on Linux, Windows, UNIX and Solaris.
• Extensively worked on Cisco Switch in creation of VSAN's, Isl's, port channels and assigning domain ids.
• Installed the Veritas volume manager and configured it to manage file system and implemented Host based migrations.
• Maintaining Clariion environment CX-4-960 CX700 and CX600 including Creating Raid groups, binding the LUNs and the Meta LUNs and configuring alerts/templates.

ENVIRONMENT: DMX-3000/DMX-4, CLARiiON CX500/700, CX-4-960, McData ED-140M, Cisco 9513 directors, ECC 6.x, Solution Enabler, Navisphere, Connectrix Manager, Fabric Manager, Device Manager, Open System Servers Solaris, HP-UX,AIX, RedHat Linux, VMware vSphere and Windows .

Confidential

Role: System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Expertise in Windows and UNIX Systems Administration.
• Installed Windows and Solaris on the servers and configured internet and LAN connectives between servers and other resources like printers and scanners.
• Dealt with Installation of the different packages and patches to update the packages on different hosts.
• Installed and Configured Veritas Volume Manager.
• Created the users and groups in the network to assigning privileges to the users to access the resources.
• Performed Backups to tape drives from servers and also performed Restore operation.
• Troubleshoot and resolve the issues related to installation of operating systems, hardware problems, printers/scanners, Internet Connections.
• Managing the disks by creating partitions, new file system for every partition and Mounting the files system to a mount point.
• Implemented Cron jobs for routine and daily jobs and also implemented the AT jobs to schedule a job.
• Worked on Hubs, Cisco and McData Switches and the Cisco routers.
• Supported in the issues related with DNS configuration, FTP and Telnet applications.
• Performed the backups and restoration on Solaris Hosts using ufsdump and ufsrestore commands.
• Performed password recovery for the users, changing the passwords and deleting the existing users.

ENVIRONMENT: AIX 5.3/6.x, Solaris 10, RedHat 5.x, Windows 2000/2003.