PROFILE HIGHLIGHTS

• Around 6 years of experience as SAN/NAS Administrator supporting multiple platforms and applications. Linux, Unix, Solaris and Windows Operating Systems experience.
• Extensive knowledge on VBlock 300/700 and Cisco UCS Blade Servers.
• Expertise in administrating Symmetrix Storage systems VMAX and DMX using SMC and ECC.
• Extensive knowledge on management of NetApp storage array and directors including FAS 200/3200 V-Series 3200/6200.
• Good knowledge and basic understanding on CommVault backup Solution.
• Interpreting of storage protocols including ISCSI, Fiber Channel, CIFS, NFS, NDMP protocols and hardware, which uses these protocols.
• End to end implementation and management of EMC enterprise storage arrays including VMAX, DMX 4/3, VNX 5100/5300/5500/5700 VNXe and DMX 3000, CLARiiON CX4 480/960, CX3 80/40 and CX 700, NS-20, NS-80, NS-480 and NS-960.
• Experienced in planning, design and implementation of Storage solutions like SRDF/S/A, Virtual/Thin Provisioning, Consistency Groups, storage migration,
• Expertise in SAN management solutions including EMC Control Center 6.1/6.0/5.2, SYMCLI, SMC and ECC upgrades.
• Expertise in administering CLARiiON arrays using Navisphere Manager 6.x, Access Logix, Snap View Snapshot/clone , SAN Copy, alerts monitoring and Navisphere Analyzer.
• Experience on Cisco MDS 9513/09/06, 9222i, Brocade 5300/5100, VA-40FC SAN switches.
• Experienced in Switch migration and management using Connectrix Manager 10.x/9.x, Cisco Fabric / Device Manager 5.0, Cisco CLI, and Brocade Fabric Manager.
• Effective backup management and disaster recovery administration using Disaster recovery solutions, Replication Manager, EMC TimeFinder family Clone, Snap, BCV's .
• Experienced in implementing FAST VP technology on both Symmetrix and CLARiiON arrays for various demanding enterprise applications.
• Involved in Virtual Migrations using Storage
• Experience in VMware ESXi 4.1/5.0 environment implementation and SRM testing.
• Experience with backup software like Avamar and good understanding about EMC NetWorker Legato NetWorker .
• Experience in Physical to Virtual P2V and Virtual and Virtual conversions by using VMware Converter.
• Evaluated and documented requirements and created new test cases according to the test plan and was responsible to document the test case results.
• Created and executed test cases for a clustered NAS project.
• Excellent Communication, inter-personal and leadership qualities with proven ability to work effectively in a team environment and capable of learning new technologies and adapt to a new environment quickly.

SKILL SET

Storage Arrays Symmetrix VMAX, DMX-4/3, DMX 3000/2000/1000,Fas 3200/6200, V-Series 3200 VNX 5100/5300/5500/5700 and VNXe Series, CLARiiON CX4-960/480/240/120, CX3-80/40/20/10, CX 700/600/500, Celerra NS480

Array Management Solutions SymCLI, NaviCLI, EMC Control Center 6.1/6.0/5.2, Navisphere Manager 6.28/24, Unisphere, Symmetrix Management Console

SAN Connectivity Cisco MDS 9513/09/06, 9222i, Brocade 48K/5300/5100, Mcdata ED140M, 64M

SAN Connectivity Management Connectrix Manager 10.x/9.x, Cisco Fabric / Device Manager 5.0, Cisco CLI, and

Solutions Brocade Fabric Manager

Replication and Migration Solutions SRDF/S/A, TimeFinder Snap, Clone, BCV , Recover point, Open Replicator, OpenMigrator, Snap View Snap Shot, Clone, Mirror , SAN Copy, RoboCopy, PPME, EM Copy, LGDUP, SAHREDUP

Monitoring and Reporting Performance Manager WLA , Storage Scope, Navisphere Alert Monitoring, Navisphere Analyzer, Symmetrix Performance analyzer, STP Navigator

VMware Virtualization ESX 3.5, ESXi, VSphere 3 and 4,Virtual Center Server, P2V, V2V, Storage VMotion, HA, DRS, SRM 2.0, Host Profiles

Operating Environments Solaris 8/9 , Windows NT, 2000/03/08, IBM AIX V6, HP-UX 11i V2/V3 and VMware ESX 4/3.5

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

EMC SAN Administrator

Key Responsibilities:

• Planned and migrated the production CIFS and NFS environment from old NS-20 and NS-80 to NS-960 using Celerra replication manager and EM copy.
• Implemented and configured the NS-960 in a production environment and also configured Recover Point replication between production and DR.
• Implemented and configured multiple CLARiiON environments from initial setup to binding LUNs, creating RAID groups, Meta LUN implementation Striped/Concatenated , installing CLARiiON software's SnapView/Mirror View/SAN Copy/Replication Manager family , enabling the hosts to address the CLARiiON, provisioned and documented them to meet the requirements.
• Migrated the production environment from CX4-420 and CX-80 to NS-960 using both San copy and host based migration PPME migration.
• Migrated and managed the shares from NS-20 and NS-80 to NS-960 using SHAREDUP and LGDUP.
• Deployed old CIFS environment from Physical Data Movers to Virtual Data Movers and also resolved the performance issues.
• Upgraded CAVA Celerra Anti Virus Agent from 4.2.2 to 4.9.3 on the host based CIFS servers.
• Configured and Installed the CEPA Celerra Event Publishing Agent on NS-960 and monitored the working conditions of CAVA on all CIFS serves.
• Created and Executed test cases for a Clustered NAS Project.
• Evaluated and documented requirements and created new test cases according to the test plan and was responsible to document the test case results.
• Managed the CLARiiON, Celerra and Recover Point using Unisphere, and Recover Point devices manager.
• Set up the new tree and user quotas on the NS-960 and managed the quotas using Northern Storage Suite NSS .
• Responsibilities included 24/7 on call Support for troubleshooting routine issues of host not seeing storage, one path down/full path down and antivirus performance related issues.

Confidential

Senior Storage Administrator

Key Responsibilities:

• Configured and supported SAN environment consisting of clarion CX4-480, VNX 5500, DMX 3/4, Symmetrix VMAX, Brocade Fabric 48k, 5100, 4100, 4900, Windows, Hp-Unix, ESX 4.0 servers.
• Created and executed test cases for a clustered NAS project.
• Installed and Upgraded Solutions Enabler 7.2.1, SMC 7.2/SPA 2.1 SMAS on windows 2008 server to the latest.
• Planning and implementing migration of the enterprise storage infrastructure from CLARiiON CX3, DMX-3, to VMAX using Open Replicator.
• Implemented Disaster Recovery through SRDF/A from VMAX-VMAX and provided documentation procedures for future use for SRDF/A using SMC and SYMCLI.
• Planned and migrated the production environment using SAN Copy full copy/incremental from CX4-480 to VNX 5500
• Implemented ECC 6.1 infrastructure upgrade on various sites from UB5 to UB9
• Upgraded Fabric OS on Brocade switches 4100, 5100 from 6.2.2e to 6.3.2a
• Successfully implemented FAST VP for VMAX on HPUX servers and helped in analyzing the performance related issues.
• Planned, designed and implemented the set up for NS 480 Celerra, created interfaces, built new CIFS environment, created varied shares and quotas for varied applications and users.
• Successfully did set up the Remote Replication between VNX 5500, VNX 5300 and tested DR for CIFS environment. Scheduled Snapshots on different file systems to avoid data corruption and enabled data duplication on file systems to conserve space using Unisphere.
• Implemented Recover Point and created Consistency groups for devices and successfully replicated data to the DR site.
• Planned and updated RPA'S to the latest version 3.3.SP2 and comprehensively troubleshooted issues pertaining to VNX 5500, VNX 5300 and Recover Point.
• Migrations of thin devices from manually from one pool to another based on the results from FAST VP.
• Migrated Windows/Hp-Unix servers on CLARiiON4-480 to Symmetrix VMAX using OPEN MIGRATOR, PPME
• Extensive management and documentation of hosts on each site through discovery, agent deployment by installation, upgrade and patching from ECC 6.0 to ECC 6.1 UB5 and then to ECC 6.1 UB9 and troubleshooting host related issues.
• Daily duties Involve Storage allocations/ deallocations from VMAX and also Brocade Switched Zonings and also planning for migrating production from CLARiiON, DMX to VMAX, VNX 5500.
• Coordinated with the storage team for integration of storage systems using Netapp V-Series directors.
• Improved asset utilization performance to provide higher service levels with greater efficiency using StorageScope reporting and Performance Manager/WLA. Proactively resolved the capacity allocation and utilization issues.
• Automated number of jobs during the migration process using scripts in K-Shell and batch.
• Evaluated and documented requirements and created new test cases according to the test plan and was responsible to document the test case results.
• Responsibilities included 24/7 on call Support for troubleshooting routine issues of host not seeing storage, one path down / full path down and performance related issues.

Confidential

VMware and SAN Administrator

Key Responsibilities:

• Administration, troubleshooting and management of a SAN Environment consisting of DMX 1000, Symmetrix 8830,DMX 3, CX 700, 380 and Cisco MDS9506, MDS 9513 using SYMCLI, Navisphere Manager, EMC Control Center.
• Documented and implemented VMware ESX servers for Virtual Infrastructure Consolidation
• Installed VMware ESXi server 4.0 and created virtual machines on ESX Servers. Created standard images and deployed servers from the images.
• Configuration, Administration and Monitoring HA, Fault Tolerance and DRS Clusters in Virtual center Server 3.5 and 4.0.
• Creating and managing Virtual Machines and Templates. Working with snapshots of Virtual Machines
• Extensively used SRDF and to migrate storage from DMX 1000 and Symmetrix 8830 to DMX 3 and completely decommissioned the DMX 1000 storage array.
• Configured VMware HA, VMware DRS and Fault Tolerance in acquiring higher efficiency for VMware Virtual Infrastructure.
• Tested SRDF/A for disaster recovery and maintained DR setup between DMX 3's for selected Tier 1 applications.
• Planned and implemented data migration from CX 700 to CX 3-40 storage systems using SAN Copy.
• Successfully upgraded ECC from 5.2 to 6.0 installed and configured ECC infrastructure agents, monitored SAN environment using ECC.
• Used Time Finder BCVs and Clones for configuring point-in-time mirror copies of production data and provisioned them to secondary host/servers for Data warehousing and Application testing purpose.
• Worked on Creation and Implementation of Clones/Snapshots/Mirror View in CLARiiON CX series with Oracle database.
• Installed, Configured and Migrated SAN Fabric from Cisco MDS 9506 to MDS 9513 and configured port channels and multiple VSAN environments. Configured the Cisco switch for backup SAN network using VSAN with high availability.
• Regular duties included provisioning storage to the new servers from DMX 3, 2000, 1000, 8830, CLARiiON CX 3-80, 3-40, 700 to Windows, Solaris, IBM-AIX and HP UX servers and expansion of existing storage using Meta Device configuration and assisted the System Admins with VERITAS volume Manager.
• Experience in configuration and administration of Backup and Recovery using VERITAS NetBackup 6.X in an environment involving ORACLE, Microsoft Exchange and Microsoft SQL Databases.
• Experience in Installation of the VERITAS NetBackup 6.X on Windows 2000, Windows 2003 servers.
• Experience in monitoring, configuring alerts and managing reports as per the Client requirement using NetBackup Operations Manager NOM .
• Day to day Duties with VERITAS NetBackup include configuring, managing and scheduling frequency based automated backup jobs.
• Used ECC for storage allocation, monitoring alerts and troubleshooting the SAN environment consisting of Symmetrix, CLARiiON, Switches and Hosts.
• Analyzed, monitored and fine-tuned the performance issues in CLARiiON storage systems using EMC Navisphere Analyzer.
• Resource management expertise for performance reporting and workload analysis using Performance Manager. Created automated flexible reporting for storage and host resources using Storage Scope.

Confidential

SAN Administrator

Key Responsibilities:

• Configured, Administered and Managed a SAN Environment of 1000TB, consisting of DMX 3, DMX 3000/1000, CLARiiON CX 3-80, CX 700, Cisco MDS 9509/9506 directors using SYMCLI, Navisphere Manager, Connectrix manager, Fabric/Device Manager and EMC Control Center.
• Designed and implemented disaster recovery for Tier-1 data using EMC SRDF.
• Involved in planning and migration of SAN environment from DMX 1000 to DMX 3000 using SRDF/S and from CLARiiON CX 700 to CX 3-80 using SAN Copy Replication solution.
• Extensively used Open Replicator to migrate from symm 8830 to DMX. Configured/Create push/pull sessions to migrate devices, scripted the whole process for efficiency.
• Utilized Timefinder BCV/Clone/EMCSnap, CLARiiON SnapView snapshot/Clone for multiple point-in-time copies of filesystems/databases for test/backup purposes.
• Responsible for the setup of SAN Fabric comprising of MDS 9506 and 9509 switches and ISL Cisco switches for the migration of fabric with minimum downtime to the host applications.
• Provisioned and Decommissioned storage from DMX 3, DMX 3000/1000 and CLARiiON CX 3-80/CX-700 for Windows/Solaris/IBM AIX hosts using ECC/SYMCLI Navisphere/NaviCLI.
• Involved in the management of Sun Solaris, Windows, and IBM AIX servers. Duties include installation of packages, patches, creating file systems, mounting the file systems persistently, utilization of space and directed data storage for the above-mentioned servers.
• Resource management expertise for performance reporting and workload analysis using Performance Manager. Created automated flexible reporting for storage and host resources using Storage Scope.
• Gathered back-end performance statistics, analyze data, swapped logical volumes to achieve physical volume load balancing using Symmetrix Optimizer. Also used to keep track of changes and move volumes with active data.
• DAY to DAY Responsibilities included storage allocation from DMX 4/3/3000, CX4/380 to Windows, Linux and AIX servers.

Confidential

Test Engineer

Key Responsibilities:

• Tested and evaluated storage products according to client requirements, in Windows and LINUX-based network configurations.
• Install and configure kickstart Red Hat Linux.
• Maintained test systems, ensured technical stuff current on assembly and test procedures, co-designed RAID boxes and other storage systems.
• Assisted vendors with product manufacturing, coordinated temporary contract manufacturing staff.
• Served as Project Leader for manufacturing of large sales orders.
• Authored test procedures, performed testing, documented procedures, revised BOMs.

Confidential

SAN Engineer Tester

Key Responsibilities:

• Completely involved in development and testing of SAN Expansion, migration local/remote strategy, asset and resource management commissioning/decommissioning for the SAN topology.
• Developed and executed regression test procedures, formulated test plans, verified accuracy of user documentation and manuals.
• Worked closely with production team and contract manufacturers to coordinate product design and packaging according to customer requirements.
• Troubleshooting various single path/HBA failures, accomplished migration procedures with data integrity.
• Provided software and hardware support for clients such as CNN, Kodak, and others. Served as final escalation point, supporting customer service team. Carried out service calls.
• Maintained laboratory equipment, performed administration of office network.
• Led team to several Group Performance Awards.