SUMMARY

• Over 9+ years of IT Industry experience including 8+ Years extensive experience on multi - tier Enterprise Storage Systems Design, Installation, Migration, Management, Monitoring, Performance Analysis & Reporting.
• Expertise in NetApp - Storage Systems (7 Mode, cDOT, Cluster).
• Extensive experience with design, configuration and administration of EMC Symmetrix VNX, VMAX/DMX CLARiiON, Netapp, Celerra, VNX, Unity,and ISILON.
• Experience in Backup Solution tolls with backup and restoration of
• Good Understanding on NFS/CIFS/SMB protocols. Expert on netapp and EMC NAS.
• EMC Isilon (OneFS), SmartConnect, SyncIQ, SnapshotIQ, SmartPools, SmartQuotas and InsightIQ
• NAS expertise - configuration, CIFS & NFS, SnapManager products, Snapshots, SnapMirror, OSSV, Protection Manager, OnCommand Software and De-duplication).
• Expertise in performance monitoring and performance tuning.
• Worked extensively on a wide range of EMC Suite of products including Power Path, Solutions Enabler SYMCLI, Time Finder, SRDF/S/A, Open Replicator, Mirror View, EMC Control Center, Navisphere, Unisphere, Smart Connect and Celerra Manager.
• Experienced in migrating data from Celerra to VNX using Celerra V2 replicator/Robocopy for CIFS and NFS data migration from array to array non-disruptively.
• Excellent experience in performing database migration to new storage arrays based on PowerPath Migration Enabler with both Host copy and Open Replicator.
• Experienced in migrating data from Symmetrix DMX to VMAX and CLARiiON to VMAX using both Hot-pull/push and Cold push/pull technology.
• Migrated hundreds of TB of data, using array based tools Open Replicator, SanCopy and using Host based tools Open Migrator and PPME.
• Configure Isilon Clusters and adding to Active Directory and delegate permissions to object to Load balance the Isilon clusters.
• Work on Day to Day NAS allocation (NFS, CIFS and SMB) for UNIX and Windows hosts.
• Hands on Experience with NetApp Filers FAS 2040 and FAS 3240/3270, FAS 3210/3210, FAS 6040, FAS 6240.
• Data Migrations from EMC VNX to ISILON and NetApp to VNX.
• Extensive experience on Storage provisioning LUN creation, Masking, Zoning.
• Experience in installing, configuring and administration of Cisco and Brocade switches and fabric management.
• Proficient in using Cisco Fabric Manager and Brocade WebTools /CLI.Experience and involvement in Installation, configuration and administration of PowerPath on UNIX and Windows servers for Path Failover and Load Balancing.
• Experience in administration of Brocade, Cisco MDS and McData Switches.
• Strong system administration skills on UNIX, Linux.
• Experience in Install and Configure Backup Clients in Networker, Avamar, CA ARCserve Backup
• Monitor and manage Backup Clients in Data Domain, Avamar, CA ARCserve Backup

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Storage: Symmetrix DMX / VMAX, CLARiiON CX Series, VNX, Unity NetApp Filers. 7 - mode and cluster mode.
• Backup: CA ARCserve Backup 16.5, Networker 8.2.2, Avamar-M1200, DataDomain-7200
• SAN Management Solutions: SymCLI, EMC Control Center, Navisphere Manager, EMC SMC, Data ONTAP, Replication Manager, Recover Point, Unisphere Manager, SPA, Performance manager, OneFS, SmartConnect.
• SAN Connectivity: Brocade DCX, 5100, 4800,48000,7500, HBA s Emulex, Qlogic, Brocade Cli & Web Tools, Cisco Switches.
• Replication Software: Open Replicator, Open Migratory, SRDF, Time Finder SAN Copy, Mirror View, SnapMirror, Snap View and V-Motion
• Multivendor Platforms: Solaris, VMware, Windows NT/2000/2003, UNIX, HP-UX, IBM AIX.
• Monitoring/Reporting: Performance Manager, Storage Scope, Navisphere Event Monitor and Navisphere Analyzer.
• FAST: FAST and FAST CACHE on CLARiiON, VNX and VMAX

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Newark, CA

EMC Storage Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Administer and maintain day-to-day operational support, implementations and periodic hardware and software maintenance. HW/OS installs/upgrades. Performance analysis, tuning and management.
• Configured and maintained FAS2240, FAS2552, FAS3220, FAS 6080 &FAS8040 Systems.
• Tested Clusterd Ontap CDOT POC in the lad environment.
• Configured and managed storage on EMC XtremIO, VPLEX v2, VNX 5700, VNX 5400, Pure Storage.
• Involved in Data center move that includes moving of EMC gear VNX 5700, VNX 5400, VPLEX, XtremIO,
• Experienced in Implementation and configuration of VIPR Controller and VIPR SRM 3.7.
• Involved in design and configuration of ViPR Controller to provision storage in a VPLEX environment consisting of XtremIO, VNX and Isilon arrays.
• Maintained a healthy NetApp storage by creating Qtrees, Volumes, Aggregates and Snapshots using Data ONTAP Filer View, Data Fabric Manager, Oncommand System Manager.
• Setup the Filers & vfilers as per client’s standards.
• Experience in implementing NetApp NAS technology, including configuring shares, CIFS and NFS administration.
• Perform daily management activities of Storage Provisioning both NAS & SAN.
• Performance monitoring and reporting of both storage and SAN environments.
• Perform Capacity planning and managed daily provisioning requirements such as Creating LUNs, Zones and iGroups to connect initiator with target.
• Created Volumes and File Shared with specified access control.
• Configure Snapshot schedule for volumes and set up backup recovery by utilizing tools such as Snapshots, Snap Restore.
• Restored single files, directories, LUNs and volumes from snapshot backup using Snap Restore.
• Implemented Data Fabric Manager for Administration and Monitoring tasks, Adding, Deleting the Filers to the DFM.
• Provision and migrate to multiple customer facing EMC Unity 600, unified VNX arrays
• Responsible for performing daily operational tasks, like storage provisioning and maintaining remediation.
• Created Zones, storage groups and assigned the LUNs to the host servers based on the client requirements on VNX

Confidential, Montvale, NJ

EMC Resident Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Administer and maintain day-to-day operational support, implementations and periodic hardware and software maintenance.
• Administration of VNX 7500, 8000, NS480 Celerra unified system including creation of file systems, exporting and mounting CIFS/NFS shares and configuring network interfaces. Performed VDM/CIFS replication, failover, switchover activities.
• Performed Day to Day operations like Allocations, Reclamations, setup replications, lun expansion, migrations, switch errors troubleshooting/ maintenance.
• Involved in the migration of NS480 to VNX 7500 array using Celerra V2 replicator; data mover pre-migration checks, creating Virtual data mover and data mover failovers and cleanup of the Celerra box to be decommissioned.
• Day to day request/support includes snapshots, SMB/CIFS, NFS, Quotas.
• Supported VNX/Netapp and Celerra environments for file and block
• Sound knowledge on SmartConnect zones/pools, Smart pools, Windows Active directory permissions.
• Production support for Code upgrade and migration projects for issues.
• Handle DR and migration related activities
• Array config extracts for all VNX storage arrays and upload into Share point
• Generated VNX Capacity Dashboard report and VNX performance Dashboard Report.

Confidential, Glendale, CA

System/Storage Admin

Responsibilities:

• Configured and maintained FAS2240, FAS2552, FAS3220, FAS 6080 &FAS8040 Systems.
• Tested Clusterd Ontap CDOT POC in the lad environment.
• Maintained a healthy NetApp storage by creating Qtrees, Volumes, Aggregates and
• Snapshots using Data ONTAP Filer View, Data Fabric Manager, Oncommand System Manager.
• Setup the Filers & vfilers as per client’s standards.
• Experience in implementing NetApp NAS technology, including configuring sharesCIFS and NFS administration.
• Responsible for daily management activities of Storage Provisioning both NAS & SAN, Performance monitoring and reporting of both storage and SAN environments.
• Perform Capacity planning and managed daily provisioning requirements such as Creating LUNs, Zones and iGroups to connect initiator with target.
• Created Volumes and File Shared with specified access control.
• Configure Snapshot schedule for volumes and set up backup recovery by utilizing tools such as Snapshots, Snap Restore.
• Restored single files, directories, LUNs and volumes from snapshot backup using Snap Restore.
• Implemented Data Fabric Manager for Administration and Monitoring tasks, Adding, Deleting the Filers to the DFM.
• Created Zones, storage groups and assigned the LUNs to the host servers based on the client requirements.
• Installed EMC Unisphere server Manager (USM) and upgrade the Flare version
• Created and Configured RAID Groups, Storage Groups, Binding Luns, Naming, Resizing.
• Cleared log files and updated ESM Firmware on Windows nodes and UNIX nodes.
• Involved into backup image and restore from Dell render nodes.
• Environment: FAS2252, FAS3220, FAS6080, FAS8040, Clustered Data Ontap CDOT, Data Ontap 8.0.3, 8.1.2, 8.1.2P2, Snapmirror, ESXi 4.1, Windows, Solaris v8, 9, 10.

Confidential, MA

NetApp Storage Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Manage SAN and NAS storage environment. Performed Day to Day operations, troubleshooting, migrations, consolidations and leading storage projects.
• Managed SAN and NAS vendors NETAPP, EMC during the evaluation phase. Managed existing EMC CX700, VNX5500, 5700 and NETAPP FAS 3000/3100/3200 Filers and involved with procurement and installation of newer EMC CX4-480C Array with EMC Recover Point for Disaster recovery for migrating existing SQL and Oracle server onto Fiber channel Storage Area Network (SAN).
• Configured and administered VNX/Isilon and Netapp filers.
• Create CIFS, NFS shares and Luns on VNX using Unisphere.
• Migrated around 100TB of storage from Netapp 3240 filer to VNX 5700.
• Create virtual datamovers on VNX and trouble shooted several issues.
• Adding New Isilon clusters to domain and configuring them. Part of the team in migrating shares from VNX to Isilon using Robocopy, Filecopy and Secure Copy.
• Installed and Uninstalled NetApp Data Fabric Manager on the different systems.
• Refreshed data using SnapMirror, SnapShot whenever needed.
• Configured Network Appliance Snap Vault software for regular backup data stored on NetApp or any other storage platform to Network Appliance enterprise storage and NearStore systems, providing a centralized disk-based backup solution for heterogeneous storage environments.

Confidential, PA

Storage Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Administer a SAN/NAS environment comprising of EMC Celerra/VNX and Netapp Arrays.
• Used Open Replicator/Open Migrator/PPME for migration of data.
• Installed and configured ECC infrastructure agents, monitored SAN environment using ECC, configured ECC alerts and set up management policies
• Planned and Implemented migration of data from Symmetrix DMX to VMAX thin devices using SRDF/S.
• Involved in creating, configuring and managing Netapp aggregates, volumes, qtree, quotas, Snapshots, CIFS Shares and NFS exports on the filers, provisioning of storage allocations, Space & quota management, capacity management, data migrations, performance analysis and management
• Involved in creation and maintenance of checkpoints and replications for data backup and recovery. Recovery of corrupted/backup data from NFS and CIFS file systems from the checkpoints.
• Configured Brocade Core Edge Fabrics, 7500 routers using FCIP,EX-Ports, Circuits, FCIPTunnel.
• Handling day to day NAS storage requests allocating storage to Unix and Windows Hosts
• Involved in the migration of NS480 to VNX 5500 array using Celerra V2 replicator; data mover pre-migration checks, creating Virtual data mover and data mover failovers and cleanup of the Celerra box to be decommissioned.

Confidential, NY

Storage Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Implementation, administration and maintenance of high end storage arrays like NetApp FAS6080/6040,FAS 3270/3170/3070 ,FAS3240/3140,FAS2040/2020,FAS270,EMC Celerra NS120/480/960,VNX5300/5500 and Clariion CX 120/480 and 960.,
• Created and Configured RAID Groups, Storage Groups, Binding Luns, Naming, Resizing.
• Provisioned and Decommissioned storage from NetApp FAS and EMC Celerra..
• Installed new NetApp and EMC and implemented best practices.
• Perform various methods of data migration from NetApp to EMC and EMC to NetApp and providing the customer with practical methods in transferring large amounts of data to remote locations.
• Upgraded ONTAP from 7.3 to 8.0 on 200 NetApp systems during various weekeend GZ.
• Supported Qtrees, creation and exports through NFS
• Creating and administering aggregates, volumes, Qtrees, FlexVols, FlexClones, Snapshots, Space Guarantee etc
• Create, configure, and manage CIFS & NFS shares, quotas, groups, and permissions.
• Configuring SnapMirror, SnapReserve, allocating & deallocating shares to UNIX and Windows Clients from NetApp storage systems.