SUMMARY

• Professional expert with 8 years of SAN On - site, off-site, remote engagement with enterprise infrastructure design maintenance and support experience in highly demanding environment.
• Proficient in SAN/Storage and fabric installation, configuration, migration and support of devices such as EMC Symmetrix VMAX20k, 40K, VMAX3, VMAX AF 950FX, DMX, Centera, ECS, Unity, Isilon, PURE Storage, NetApp 7-mode and Cluster mode systems, FAS6000, 8000 series, HP XP 9500, XP9000, HP EVA, HP 3PAR V800, V400 and T400, Hitachi AMS 2000 and AMS1000, 9580V, IBM SVC, Store wise V7000, XIV, DS8K, DS6K, DS5K, and IBM Nseries.
• Netbackup administration, restore, upgrade and performace tunining
• Fiber Switches (CISCO MDS, Brocade, Qlogic), Storage Adapters (Emulex, Qlogic), capacity management with TPC, EMC storage scope, 3PAR Systems Reporter, HP Storage essential, Replication Manager, SRDF 3PAR remote copy, SVC Flash copy, Metor mirror/global mirror, EMC BCV, TSM, Legato and Net backup.
• Established skills in meeting goals within a demanding and challenging atmosphere. Consistently, acknowledged by management for advanced performance, problem resolution, and management skills.
• An immense skill and mastery in disaster data recovery, along with following each occurrence by properly documenting each project and monitoring the progression rate in addition to the success of each accomplished endeavor.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• EMC VMAX AF 950FX, Powermax, VMAX3, VMAX40K, VMAX20K, DMX, EMC VNX, CLARiiON, Centera, ECS, Vblock, XtermIO, Unity, Isilon, EMC Unisphere, Symcli, SRDF, ViPR, SRM, Veritas Netbackp, NetApp 2554, 3160, 6080, 6210, 6250, 8040, NetApp Unified Manager, NetApp snapmirrror, 3PAR V800, V400, T400, HP P9500, HP P9000, EVA, HP Storwize V7000, HDP/HDT/TPVV, DS 8800/8700/6800 , SVC 2145 (SAN Volume Controller), XIV Gen3/Gen2, DS5300/5100, DS4800/4700, HDS USP - V, AMS, 95XX, HDLM, HSSM, HTSM, Cisco MDS 9710 & 9513 family, Brocade, ISL, Trunking, Storage components Emulex & QLogic (HBA, SFP), Multi-Pathing software & MPIO, ITIL, IBM DS8K, DS5K and DS4K Storage Manager, XIV GUI, DSCLI, XCLI, SVC GUI & CLI, HP 3PAR IMC, Hitachi storage navigator, QLogic SANsurfer software, IBM TPC,Unix, AIX, Linux, Windows IBM AIX V7.1, V6.1, V5.3, Solaris 11/10/9, HP-UX 11.X, SUSE Linux 10, RHEL 5, VMWARE, ESX, PURE Storage

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Storage Administrator

Confidential, Dallas, TX

Responsibilities:

• Adminstration, Configuraton and Installation of various storage arrays EMC Powermax, All Flash, VMAX3, 40K, VNX, Unity, Isilon, ECS; NetApp 7-mode, CDOT FAS8000 and IBM 8880.
• Migrate data from EMC VMAX3, All Falsh to Powermax
• Setup DR replication between Production and remote site using Synchronous SRDF.
• Centralize storage management: EMC CloudIQ application installation and configuration.
• Quaterly upgrade code on storage arrays.
• NAS storage administration and troubleshooting. CIFS and NFS share creation, Data migration
• Cisco SAN management. SAN switch migration, Smart Zoning, cleanup, backup configuration, setup automated scheduler jobs, slow drain analysis.
• Centralize SAN management: Cisco DCNM configuration.
• Managing Windows and Linux management hosts.
• Working knowledge of VMware - Storage vmotion, datastore creation, monitoring vm performance, cluster consolidation and finding storage detail.
• Storang communication skills: Conduct weekly meetings with vendors, explain business requirements and impliment into environment. Work with various application teams.
• Strong knowledge of ITIL, change management, incident management and problem management.
• Prepare KB articles, RU reports and SLA reports.

Storage Operation Lead

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Involved in project transition activity, Data Center consolidation and new SAN array setup.
• Key role in NYDFS PII data migration project - migration of (500TB) Solaris, VMware, Physical hosts and NAS shares to encrypted storage.
• Storage allocation to new build and existing UNIX, Windows servers/clusters and VMWare ESX environment using SYMCLI/SMC. Tasks include creation of tdevs, binding tdevs to thin pools, creation of initiator/storage/port groups and creating masking view.
• Implemented SRDF/A on VMAX 20, 40K, VMAX3, VMAX AF 950FX for disaster recovery setup between local and remote datacenters
• Administration, RCM upgrade and troubleshooting of Vblock EMC All Flash 850FX.
• Involved in migrating object base data from EMC Centera to Elastic Clould Storage (ECS).
• Conduct bottleneck evaluation to identify performance issues.
• Performed DR activity for various SAN/NAS based applications.
• Installed Unity array & code upgrade. Provisioned storage from EMC Unity 600, 400 to ESX hosts and other platforms. Setup replication between Unity arrays across the Datacenters.
• NAS share Administration and configuration on EMC Isilon. Upgraded OneFS.
• Troubleshooting routine critical issues including threshold optimization, server throughput, ports availability, meeting zoning requirements, one-path down, enabling the path on source or destination arrays, data not migrated, host not seeing storage and storage management problems
• Configuration and management of Cisco MDS (9513 and 9710) Fabric environment. Tasks include creation of upgrade, device alias, zones, adding zones to zoneset and activating zoneset.
• SAN Switch migration from cisco 9134 to 9148
• Execute FC zoning for development and production hosts.
• NetBackup Administration: Review backup jobs and execute restore jobs, Conduct upgrades and apply patches, Configure Netbackup client, Configure plicies for backup client, Reporting and tuning of Netbackup appliance.
• Administration of NetApp 7-mode 2554, 3160, FAS6000 and Cluster mode FAS8000 systems including creation of file systems, exporting and mounting CIFS/NFS shares.
• Assigned storage to unix and windows servers and configuration of NFS exports and CIFS shares
• Migrating data from NetApp 7-mode system to cluster mode (CDOT) systems using snapmirror
• Monitor IO performance and vlume utilization through NetApp OnCommand Unified Manager.
• Upgrade firmware of Cluster Data Ontap systems
• Setup Metro Cluster and DR setup.
• Prepare client RU and SLA reports.
• Creating SVM and setting up SVM based DR. NetApp CDOT CIFS & NFS allocation.
• Administration of PURE Storage - Allocation, Reclaim, Host group creation, Upgrade firmware.
• PURE storage performance tunnning for SAS application.
• Storag Knowledge of ITIL process - Service Now administration.
• Works with senior peers to develop change management procedures
• Communication - Work effectively with other Infrastructure groups including the Network, Server & Database teams as well as the Application Development teams
• Interview and make recommendations for hiring team members.
• Leading contributor individually and as a team member, providing direction and mentoring to other team members.

Senior Storage Administrator

Confidential, Jacksonville, FL

Responsibilities:

• Designed, implemented, configured, migrated and worked on problem determination of 15 plus storage subsystems which includes HP 3PAR V400, EVA 8400, 6400 & 4400, MSA P2000 G3, HSG-80, Hitachi AMS 500, AMS 1000, HSV360, NSC55, NetApp FAS 2240 which includes 600TB SAN storage and 400 plus hosts.
• Involved in project transition activity, Data Center consolidation and new SAN array setup.
• Numerous times provided assistance with SAN problems to find RCA, backend storage, switch/zoning or fabric, Multipath drivers or hosts HBA or host problem.
• Defining strategy for the system reporter for the reporting purpose.
• Configure and management of performance of the storage using HP performance advisor
• Defining strategy for the CPG and TPVV.
• Defining best practices for the thin provision pool.
• Very good understanding and experience of Nimble Storage administration.
• Best practices for the migration using Adaptive optimization and dynamic Optimization
• Install new softwares like Store Front Remote, Host Explorter and SSMC for easy array administration - value added work to environment.
• Responsible for allocating new storage, maintaining existing arrays, and de-allocating decommissioned hosts, zoning on Brocade SAN Directors Switches, and hardware replacement.
• Assist OS team in data migration, snapshots and replication.
• Setup critical alerts as pro-active measurement and tune the system regularly and host IO balancing for continuous better performance and health.
• Optimizing space by techniques like zero detect and data de-duplication
• Setup Remote copy for data integrity and availability in case of Disaster Recovery.
• Firmware updgradation on V400 as well as on SAN Director switches.
• Meeting with clients and vendors, understand business requirements and provide best technical solution
• Creating Runbooks and KB articles for process standardition.
• Capacity forecast, planning and management.

Senior Storage Administrator

Confidential, Plano, TX

Responsibilities:

• Adminstration of mostly HP XP/P9500, HP EVA and 3PAR T800. IBM DS8800/8300, XIV Gen3/2 and DS5300, DS5100, DS50200, SVC 2145 8 node cluster virtualized with EMC DMX, Hitachi AMS2000, AMS1500, HDS 9580V all included 500TB plus storage and managed 200 plus hosts.
• Configure and management of remote copy/ shadow image (BCV) or true copy or using Universal replicator.
• Maintained mdisks, mdisk groups, I/O groups, vdisks and vdisk migration with normal and image mode, host objects, LUN mapping, falshcopy, maintained SSH keys as well as SVC CLI, SVC master console, setup SVC call home, maintained SVC nodes, SVC licensing with CLI and GUI. Also collected performance statistic, SVC snap to troubleshoot complex problem.
• Configured SVC clusters from scratch, which supported 200 open systems hosts with 500TB Hitachi AMS2000, AMS1000, EMC DMX as backend storage.
• Knowledge on Hitachi Virtualization and Hitachi Dynamic Pool
• Excellent knowledge on USP, VSP, OPEN-V, Shadow Image, True Copy, HORCM Configuration, LUN provisioning.
• Worked with Hitachi dynamic link manager (HDLM) to automatically optimize performance across the available path.
• Configure and perform storage operation on HDS through Storage Nevigator.
• Moved SAN attach DS4000, Hitachi AMS 1000, HDS 9580V and EMC storage array to SVC managed array and served 1500 plus UNIX hosts in production environment.
• Configure and perform storage operations through 3PAR Management console, storatge allocation & deallation of decommissioned hosts
• Responsible for allocating new storage, maintaining existing arrays, and de-allocating decommissioned hosts. Responsibility includes maintaining XIV Gen3, DS8000 and SVC storage, hardware, RAID array site, managing array, rank, extent pools, volume groups copy services with DS8k, also managing DS8k failed hardware replacement and maintaining internal LPAR’s, DA adapters, Disk enclosures and Disk drives, DSCLI and 2107 mgmt console.
• Managed DS5000/DS storage manager, created new array, maintained existing array, host groups, mapping, flash copy, volume copy, upgraded controller, Drive, ESM and EXP firmware and troubleshooting numerous problem also collected support data for complex problem determination.
• Worked with technology refresh project where we replaced IBM DS8300 and XIV Gen2 to replace EMC CLARiiON storage.
• Configured TPC for storage subsystem, fabric and application. Managed snap with EMC control center.
• Worked with IBM software and hardware support as well as IBM engineer to replace failed SVC nodes, UPS, and Master console.

Senior Storage and Systems Administrator

Confidential, Santa Clara, CA

Responsibilities:

• Implemented, configured and maintained redundant IBM SAN with IBM DS4800, DS4500, DS4300, DS6800, DS8300, DS5000, ESS shark 2105, SSA RAID storage in AIX, HP-UX, SUN/Solaris and Microsoft Windows Server environment.
• Setup and administrated IBM SVC cluster, Backend SAN, fabric switches and attached hosts operating system. Responsibility includes daily management as well as planning change management for cluster and master console, POWER6/5 HMC, DS5000/DS8000 Storage manager software, SAN controller, enclosure, Drive and other SAN related component as well as system, service processor and HBA firmware/microcode upgrade for maximum availability to gain scalable performance.
• Involved in implementation of Global mirror for remote site replication.
• Worked on upgrading the firmware on Switches.
• Managed 4GB redundant cisco fabric with cisco 9513 directors and mid-range switches environment which supported 3000 plus open systems hosts for three different sites. Configured Emulex and Qlogic HBA for LINUX and Windows hosts.
• Implemented ISL, trucking and maintained, created and removed zone on regular basis, upgraded EFCM, WebTool GUI, CLI, switch fabric OS and Firmware for better performance. Worked with switch vendor to resolve software and hardware problem.

Senior Storage and Systems Administrator

Confidential, San Jose, CA

Responsibilities:

• Administration of IBM DS4800, EMC Symmetrix DMX 4/3-2500/3500/950.
• Used Open Replicator to Migrate from DMX-3.
• Implementation and administration of EMC TimeFinder (BCV/Mirror/Clone) using scripts and monitor any errors and assist SA’s to troubleshooting.
• Installation, configuration of Storage Area Networks in a heterogeneous environment.
• To Maintain EMC Clariion Storage device by using Navisphere Manager.
• Configuring different Raid Groups assigning different Raid levels in EMC Storage.
• Implementation and Administration of various BCV and DR tools like Timefinder Snap/Clone, SRDF/S, SRDF/A, SRDF Adaptive Copy, Snapview, San Copy.
• Creation and Configuration of LUNs, Meta devices, Thin devices, Data Pools, Save devices.
• Allocating storage to host using Auto-provisioning and Virtual Provisioning.
• Implementation and Configuration of Powerpath for Load balancing and Path failover.
• Administration of IBM SVC, HDS enterprise solutions.
• Using STORAGE NAVIGATOR for creating and configuring ldev, LUSE, LU path.
• Provisioning storage to host by creating and configuring host groups.
• Configuring Performance monitor program to monitor and facilitate tuning on storage system.
• Configuring Server Priority Manager to allocate more I/O’s and Bandwidth to production server for better performance and setting up upper limit and threshold limit for overall better performance.
• Administration of NetApp Arrays FAS 3000 series, FAS 3200 series, 6000 series.
• Performing day to day administration like Snapviews, snapshot maintenance, qtree creation, snap drive, snap lock, sync mirror.
• Configuring and Administrating NetApp disk arrays through CLI and Filer view.
• Creating Aggregates, Fileset, Qtree, snapshots.
• Management of NAS through NFS and CIFS.
• Analyzing the fabric requirement and designing the fabric.
• Configuring ZONES and Zoneset on Brocade and Cisco switches to provide security in Storage Area Network.

SAN Administrator

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Administration of 250TB SAN in Heterogeneous environment which includes IBM and HP.
• Administration of IBM DS8300, HPEVA8000 and HPEVA5000 using IBM SVC.
• Worked on IBM System Storage Management and DSCLI for administration of DS8000.
• Administration of HPEVA8000 and HPEVA5000 using HP StorageWorks Command View.
• Administration of Veritas Netbackup 4.5 and 6.0 for Backup and recovery
• Worked in SAN migration projects using SVC tools
• Administration of multi tier SAN environment which includes IBM DS8000, HPEVA8000 and EVA5000.
• Administration of Hitachi Enterprise Storage Systems -USP-V, 9980V using HDS HiCommand, Storage Navigator and Device/Tuning Manager, HDS TrueCopy.
• Worked on Hitachi Tired Storage Manager for better performance of I/O application.
• Worked on Hitachi Storage Services Manager (HSSM) software for storage resource management (SRM) across heterogeneous storage assets
• Implementation of Business copy volume backup solution using IBM Flash copy.
• Administration and configuration of Brocade Switch environments.
• Configuration of SRDF solution for the remote site replication
• Administration of Netapp FAS3200 / 3100 Storage using V-Filer, Snapmirror,Snapvault
• Configuration of IBM Subsystem device Driver(SDD) for the Host load balancing and failover solution
• Worked on designing Core Edge SAN solutions using Brocade Switches.
• Worked on the Brocade switches SAN such as 48000, 12000, 3900, 4100, 4900, 3800, 2800.
• Worked on designing Core Edge SAN solutions using Brocade Switches.
• Worked on SAN Resource Management Tool (SRM) ONARO SANscreen.
• Provided Unix administration support for HP UNIX and AIX environment