SUMMARY

• More than 7 + years of experience in SAN and UNIX Administration.
• Worked on SAN environments consisting of VPLEX, VMAX, Recover Point, xtremIO, DMX, VNX, CLARION, Celerra, Brocade and Cisco MDS Enterprise Directors and Departmental Switches.
• Comprehensive knowledge using Replication Manager, Snapview Clone/Snapshot and Time Finder Mirror/Clone/Snap implementing Business Continuity Solutions on Unified, Symmetrix platforms.
• Comprehensive knowledge on VNX platform using Unisphere like implementing administration and managing VNX 5700, 7500.
• Well versed on VNX platform including configuring CIFS/NFS/virtual pools and FAST/VP per EMC best practices using unisphere manager
• Configuration, Implementing, Administration and Troubleshooting of VMAX, DMX using SymCli, and ECC/SMC/Unisphere.
• Configuring Virtual/Thin Provisioning luns and created and assigned FAST VP policies using SMC on VMAX.
• Implemented FAST VP and storage tiering for applications like Oracle Database 11g, Microsoft SQL server and VMAX
• Configuring and managing virtual volumes in Vplex, good understanding of Vplex architecture including high availability solutions and Distributed volumes management in metro environment.
• Excelled in migrating servers from DMX to VMAX using OpenReplicator/SRDF/Open Migrator/LVM methodologies.
• Installed and Maintained the ProSphere infrastructure, troubleshooting day - to-day issues, alerts for management of the entire SAN infrastructure and also dealt with performance issues.
• Knowledge of implementing DR solutions using SRDF technologies.
• Implemented SRDF/S for production systems including creation of dynamic RA groups, creation of dynamic RDF pairs, enabling SRDF/A for the group of devices.
• Executed DR exercises for mission critical apps (Oracle) by failing over to the DR site using SRDF/S and SRDF/A meeting RTO and RPO objectives.
• Excelled in implementing SRDF and SANCopy migration technique to transfer bulk data over fiber cable.
• Explicit knowledge in Recover Point environment in both CDP/CRR modes.
• Experience with WLA/SPA doing performance analysis of the Arrays.
• Comprehensive knowledge of installation and configuring of Cisco switches using CiscoCLI, Fabric Manager, and Brocades witches using BrocadeCLI and Web Tools.
• Configuring and managing EMC Power Path solution for path failover, load balancing, path management and automatic I/O failure detections.
• Good knowledge of multipathing software like EMC Power Path and Veritas DMP.
• Experience working on Linux/Solaris/HP/AIX/Windows O.S platforms.
• Experience in Assisting System Administrator with server migration using VMware storage vMotion.
• Installing and configuring VMware ESX clusters and managing using Virtual Center.
• Smart thinking, strong interpersonal, management and excellent communication skills.
• Proficient in learning new technologies and quickly adaptable to new environment.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Storage Arrays: VMAX, VNX, VPLEX, DMX, VNX, CLARiiON, xtremIO, Recover Point

SAN Switches: Brocade 48k/12k / 00, 3900, 3800 and Cisco MDS 9513, 9509, 9140 and 9120

Storage Software: EMC Control Center (ECC) 5.x/6.x, EMC Navisphere Manager, NaviCLI, SymCLI, Symmetrix Management Console, SRDF, SRDF/A, TimeFinder/Clone, Mirrorview/SnapView, ProSphere, Celerra Manager, Celerra Replicator, SanCopy, Open Replicator, Open Migrator, Recover point.

Fabric Management: Soft zoning (WWN zoning), hard zoning (port zoning), Fibre Channel SAN Topologies, Inter-switch Links, Multi pathing (redundant fabrics), Aliasing, Brocade Fabric Manager, Brocade CLI, EMC Control Center, Web tools, Cisco CLI, Fabric/Device Manager and PowerPath/DMP.

Hardware: IBM P series, SUN SunFire, HP9000 series, Qlogic and Emulex HBAs.

Operating Systems: IBM AIX 5.1/5.2/5.3, HPUX 11.x, Sun Solaris 8/9/10 and Windows 2000/2003/XP, Redhat ES3 and ES4

Volume Manager: HP Logical Volume Manager, Veritas Volume Manager, Veritas File Systems.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Raleigh, NC

SAN Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for managing VNX/VMAX/VPLEX/RecoverPoint/xtremIO platforms on daily basis using SMC/Unisphere/SRM/Pro Sphere management tools.
• Performed migrations using VPLEX data mobility and Experience in performing encapsulation for VPLEX.
• Created storage pools and provisioned block storage on VNX7500/VMAX Arrays following EMC Best Practices.
• Experience working on xtremIO for high performance applications.
• Configured and implemented FAST/VP and Virtual Pools (VP) on VNX and VMAX.
• Created thin pools for thin provisioning the storage from VMAX arrays.
• Implementer Recover Point CDP/CRR for mission critical applications.
• Created the TimeFinder clone/snap sessions for implementing Business Continuance Solutions on symmetrix arrays for different purposes.
• Actively involved in planning and design sessions migrating Unix/Linux/Windows servers from DMX/VMAX to
• VMAX platform using appropriate methodologies using OpenReplicator/SRDF/Open Migrator/PPME/Vmware Storage Vmotion depending on the requirements.
• Implemented SRDF/A and SRDF/S for production systems including creation of dynamic RA groups, creation of dynamic RDF pairs, enabling SRDF/A for the group of devices.
• Installed and Maintained the SRM/ProSphere infrastructure, troubleshooting day-to-day issues, alerts for management of the entire SAN infrastructure and also dealt with performance issues.
• Implemented array level backups on VNX using SnapView clone/Snap, SnapSure Snapshots, and DR solutions using MirrorView and IP Replicator.
• Created CIFS servers on VNX File and migrated non-emc array CIFS to VNX using EmCopy/Robocopy.
• Well-versed on CIFS/NFS including configuration of VDM and DR solutions for file using IP Replicator.
• Implemented various Business continuity Recovery Point Objective (RPO) & Recovery Time Objective (RTO) strategies as per the mission critical applications
• Created SANCopy sessions using Unisphere to perform data migrations from legacy to VNX 7500.
• Managed EMC PowerPath solution for path failovers, load balancing, path management and automatic I/O failure detections
• Worked with problem/ticket management and resolution.
• Installed and configured VMware ESXi in a multi hosts shared storage environment.
• Performed VMWare datastore migratioins using StorageVmotion.
• Documented technical specs and network diagrams for the projects worked.
• Worked with EMC customer support to troubleshoot issues in the environment

Environment: VPLEX,VMAX, Recover Point, VNX 7500, CLARiiON, DMX, ECC, SMC, Unisphere, Navisphere 6.X, SYMCLI, SnapView, PowerPath, SRDF, Brocade Switches, Emulex, QLogic HBAs, StorageScope, Performance Manager, TimeFinder, SANCopy, OpenReplicator, VMware

Confidential, PA

Sr. SAN Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Administering and maintenance of Symmetrix V-MAX and CLARiiON arrays connected to several Solaris and Windows Servers
• Supported migration project from DMX-3 arrays to VMAX arrays.
• Involved in day to day administration of SAN arrays that included VMAX, DMX-3. DMX-2, DMX-2000, Clariion, Celerra arrays and managing Brocade and Cisco Fabrics.
• Configured SRDF/A replication between the VMAX arrays.
• Setup SRDF/A monitoring using automated monitoring and recovery tool SYMRECOVER.
• Setup SRDF/AR replication between VMAX and DMX arrays.
• Experience implementing Recover point solutions in CDP and CRR environment.
• Created conssitecy groups for Oracle/Sql Servers/SAP applications in CRR for DR solutions.
• Well-versed on Recoverpoint using VMAX/VNX/VPLEX Splitters.
• Migration of VMAX-1 to VMAX 20k using SRDF. Implemented cascaded SRDF as part of the migrations to avoid DR exposure
• Involved in a two hop migration of Windows and Unix servers from NetApp in Austin DC to VMAX in Memphis DC via a Loaner VMAX in Austin.
• Host level migrations and SRDF were used to accomplish this.
• Extensive knowledge transfer on several VMAX functionalties and using management tools SMC,SPA and SYMCLI.
• Performance analysis of the Symmetrix arrays using SPA and troubleshooting several acute performance issues.
• Conducted workshops with different customer groups Unix, Windows and SAN teams to discuss troubleshooting scenarios on dealing with various performance issues.
• Planning and setup of Replication Manager Environment for SAP/Oracle applications on VMAX arrays.
• Installed RM 5.4.1 and its various components in a secured environment.
• Implemented TF clone copies for mission critical SAP applications in RM.
• Setup RM to work withSAP BrBackup functionality. Implemented SAP BrBackup compliant RM jobs for critical
• SAP applications, took care of different pieces involved in the flow between RM, TF cloning process, Brbackup utility and TSM backup to tape.
• Implemented remote clones at DR site across SRDF/A link using RM
• Managing, Monitoring and troubleshooting Replication Manager environment
• Executed DR tests using SRDF and remote clones.
• Involved in a mission critical SAP refresh project, designing and supporting with SRDF and TF clones work involved during different parts of the project.
• Write detailed documentation/procedures for various tasks involved with VMAX, SRDF, TF, Replication Manager and troubleshooting performance issues.
• Installation, Configuration and management of Unispshere for VMAX

Environment: EMC VMAX, DMX-4/DMX-3, CX4-960, Cisco MDS, Brocade 48k, SYMCLI, ECC 6.1, Navisphere Manager/CLI, SRDF, Time Finder, Snapview, Mirror View, SANCopy, Open Migrator, Open Replicator, Brocade Web Tools/CLI/Fabric Manager, Cisco CLI/Fabric Manager, EMC Powerpath, Solaris 8/9/10, HP-UX, AIX, Windows 2000/2003, VMware ESX and Linux

Confidential, NJ

Sr. SAN Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Hands on experience in implementing storage migration using Open Replicator from DMX -4, DMX -3 to Clariion CX 600/700’s.
• Configuring and allocating storage on EMC DMX-4, DMX-3, DMX 3000’s, and CX 600/700’s.
• Configured and implemented Data Center Migration for over 400 terabytes of data without single problem.
• Creating new devices and configure them for the type of role they want to perform using symconfigure.
• Zoning, Device Mapping, Device Masking under multiple host configurations and storage frames.
• Solid experience with SYMCLI and ECC.
• Creating multiple Device Groups depending the application and requirements of the environment, and Data Replication (BCV, SRDF).
• Storage provisioning and administration of EMC Symmetrix and Clariion arrays using Symcli, Navisphere and ECC 6.0.
• Installed and configured Cisco MDS 9513 enterprise director switches. Managed Cisco switches using CLI and Fabric manager.
• Implemented IVR on Cisco switches to share the devices between two VSAN for the data migration.
• Day-to-day administration of Cisco switches using Cisco CLI and Cisco Fabric Manager.
• Troubleshooting and administration of SAN environment consisting of Brocade and Cisco switches.
• Implemented data migrations from DMX3000/DMX1000 to DMX3 and DMX-3 to DMX-4 using Array based (Open Replicator/ SRDF) and host based (Open Migrator, LVM mirror) migration methods.
• Responsible to setup the Zones between the hosts, old (DMX3000) and new (DMX3).
• Designed, configured and implemented a standardized SRDF/AR group for disaster recovery.
• Creating the Device groups and populating the proper devices and export those groups to the remote side to use in case of a disaster.
• Actively involved in a consistent data replication for a machine critical application with oracle database from DMX-3 to DMX-3 using SRDF/A with TimeFinder/Consistent Groups Technology.
• Installed and configured the new Brocade 48K switches into the existing environment to support the Data migration.
• Involved in the installation and configuration of ECC 6.0 and taken care of installing the agents for the hosts in the production.
• Responsible for performing day to day operational tasks like storage provisioning and maintaining high availability as per EMC best practices.
• Generated health reports periodically for the entire SAN/Storage environments.
• Created volume groups, logical volumes, imported and exported volume groups during open migration sessions.
• Grouped physical disks into logical volumes dynamically sized and resized volumes to fit in the application.
• Worked in a team to Migrate data from CLARiiON to DMX3 using open replicator.
• Hands on Experience in EMC Clariion Administration by Using Navisphere Manager.
• Document, Troubleshooting, performance analysis, and issue escalation (EMC Grab) with vendor.
• Monitoring EMC CLARiiON arrays performance by using Navisphere Analyzer.
• Installed Navisphere Agent/CLI on AIX / HP, Solaris & Windows Servers.

Environment: EMC Symmetrix, DMX-4, DMX-3, DMX3000CLARiiON CX-600/700 CX3-80,Cisco MDS 09, Brocade 48k, HP UNIX, AIX, Solaris, Linux, Windows, SYMCLI, ECC 6.0, Navisphere Manager, Time Finder & SRDF/A, Cisco CLI and Cisco Fabric Manager, Brocade CLI and Web tools.