SUMMARY:

• A technology leader with 4+ years of IT experience including 3 years of Strong experience in Storage (SAN/NAS) Maintenance and Administration.
• Operation Management: Managed Data center Consist of EMC, NetApp, Brocade and Cisco Devices.
• Experience in Administration of Storage to Multiprotocol Environments like FC, iSCSI, CIFS and NFS
• Conducted data analytics for all SAN and NAS platforms.
• Experience on Cisco and Brocade switch Zoning Changes.
• Good experience in Performance and capacity management
• Perform Analysis, Planning, Designing and Implementation of Storage & Backup Solutions.
• Data Management: Backup and Recovery, VTL, De - Duplication, NAS and SAN Technologies.
• Experience in EMC Design and Testing according to DO-160/ML 461 standard

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Storage: NetApp FAS series 00/ 00 / 6200/ 8000. EMC Storage - VNX, ISiLON, XtremIO. Fabric Switches and Directors - Mcdata, Brocade and Cisco

Tools: NetApp Storage Software - Oncommand System Manager, OCUM, Filer View, DFM, VMAX,XIO,VPLEX,POWERPATH Command Line interface, Snap Manager/Drive. EMC Storage software - Unisphere, Control Center, Connectrix Manager, Isilon Manager, Switches Software - Fabric Manager, Device Manager, DCFM.

Other Technologies: Server Management - Windows and Unix, Virtualization - Hyper-V and Vmware

ITIL Ticketing Tools: BMC Remedy and Service Now

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Storage Administrator

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Aggregate Management - Creating & managing the aggregate with best raid configuration.
• Volume Management - Creating & managing volumes like increasing, decreasing the space and enabling volume options to meet customer requirements.
• Qtree management - Creating & managing qtree for users and group
• Quota management - Setting & modifying the quotas to limit the end storage access based on the project requirement.
• LUN - Creating LUNs on filer and presenting those LUNs to Windows and UNIX boxes through either ISCIS or FCP.
• CIFS & NFS - Creating CIFS Shares and NFS Exports on filer’s volume/qtree and mapping or mounting to provide file access for Windows clients and NFS to UNIX machines.
• Snapshot management - Creating & Scheduling snapshot on volumes for immediate data recovery.
• Performing Snap restore for volume and files based on client request.
• Pro-actively monitoring the alerts for all Filers and run reports using DFM/Operation Manage
• Generate Capacity report and health check of all Netapp Filers and following up Now support cases with Netapp
• Configuring a Vfiler, managing and Migration of Vfilers.
• Managing igroups and configuring LUN for UNIX and windows hosts.
• Physical Storage Management: Assigning Disk Ownership, aggregate, RAID-DP, Disk Scrubbing, Disk Zeroing etc.
• Creating and managing the users, groups and roles in Netapp Storage.
• VIF & LIF management for 7 mode & Cluster mode.
• Participated in Disruptive and Non-disruptive upgrades such as Data ONTAP and other firmware upgrades.
• Configuring De-duplication for the volumes for effective space utilization.
• Managing takeover and giveback for Active/Active Configuration whenever required by the vendor.
• Troubleshooting snap vault failed relations, reporting and administration
• Creating LUNs of target host and initiator using iSCSI protocol and mapping to the igroups
• Configuring and managing VLAN’s.
• Moving data between the volumes and filers using vol copy.
• Creating a snaplock aggregate and snaplock volume as per customer requirement.
• Installation of Ontap Cluster mode configurations along with few Ontap 7-mode configurations from scratch every month including configuring network, server and application stack ensuring end to end optimized performance.
• Created vServers & vServer root aggregates as per client requirement in (Name, Protocol, Language, IP settings…) & configured (NFS, CIFS, iSCSI and FCP/FCOE) protocols on cluster nodes.
• Storage Provisioning and designing the aggregates with respect to different applications, requirements and utilization.
• Disk configuration for cluster mode volume aggregates & data aggregates.
• Creating the policies & rules on cluster node filer volumes/qtrees.
• Creating 10G LAN connectivity for cluster
• Successfully upgraded the DATA ONTAP Version 8.2 P2 on all cluster nodes.
• Implemented Backup solution in Cluster Mode to customer.
• Implemented Load sharing on vserver root volumes in C-Mode.
• Created Flex volumes for load sharing SnapMirror relationships and granting access to source volumes for NFS clients and CIFS Shares.
• Creating and managing policies and rules on cluster node filer Volume/Qtrees.
• Configured unified manager, WFA (OnCommand Workflow Automation), and operations manager required for Cluster Mode administration with respect to provisioning, monitoring and checking performance on the file systems.
• Troubleshooting CIFS and NFS performance issues for all environments like vm, wts etc.
• Updating enhanced features, utilities, and tools to have better performance on the cluster.
• Upgrading ONTAP software on cluster mode to latest when released and had Bug fixes.
• Worked on port dedication, interface configuration, VLAN Tagging, Net Interface LIF, Routing groups, Route configurations.
• NFS and CIFS setup, authentications and administration.
• Transition from 7-mode to cluster mode using 7- Mode Transition Tool for 7-Mode to C-mode Migrations which includes Planning, Prechecks, Patching Networks, Snap Creator volumes, cutover of SID’s etc.

Storage Administrator

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• NET APPS filers FAS 3050, FAS 3070, FAS 2050 and FAS 940 Installation and support
• LUN mapping/creation on Netapp devices, F/C Switch Configuration management.
• Monitoring and Replication Strategies (Snapshot, SnapMirror).
• NET APPS filers FAS 3050, FAS 3070, FAS 2050 and FAS 940 Installation and support
• LUN mapping/creation on Netapp devices, F/C Switch Configuration management.
• Monitoring and Replication Strategies (Snapshot, SnapMirror).
• Managing Windows Server 2000/2003
• Maintaining the Domain controllers like Active directory DNS and DHCP servers.
• Creating and managing user accounts groups in Active Directory
• Managing Printers (Local, Network, Internet)
• Providing remote and physical support for the users on all issues.
• Installation and Configuration of Exchange Server
• Antivirus security and Junk Mail filtering
• Administration of Windows 2000 Servers.
• Managing Active directory, DNS and DHCP services
• Installation and configuration of all Multimedia software's.
• Technical support for windows Lab infrastructure.