SUMMARY

• Over 7 years of IT experience in the areas of Systems, SAN and Storage technologies with emphasis on Hitachi VSP, EMC VMAX, NetApp OnTAP8.1, Cisco and Brocade Switches.
• Excellent experience in administration, configuration, troubleshooting of high - end disk storage systems in 24x7 mission critical production environment.
• Having Knowledge on Hitachi RaidComm, Symcli and RAID Levels.
• Expertise in Storage Virtualization (HTsM and IBM SVC) and RAID levels.
• Skilled in Disaster Recovery operations by using HUR, TrueCopy, ShadowImage, NetApp Snapmirror, EMC SRDF and TimeFinder.
• Planned and performed Microcode Upgrade on SAN and Storage Devices.
• Proficient in installation, configuration and administration of Brocade Switches.
• Expertise with Hitachi Command Suite, Storage Navigator, CCI, EMC Unisphere, Symcli, ECC, Cisco Fabric Manager, Brocade DCFM and BNA.
• Proficient on planning to fix the open hardware and software issues in SAN Environment.
• Implemented storage refresh project by migrate the data to VSP through HTsM and experienced in decommission of SAN and Storage devices.
• Expertise in Storage base (HTsM/SVC) and Host base (vMotion, LVM) migrations.
• Performance and utilization monitoring by using HTnM, SMC and NetApp OnCommand.
• Installation and configuration of HDLM, EMC PowerPath, NetApp DSM, MPIO and on servers for Path Failover and Load Balancing.
• Excellent experience on Zoning (Local, TI and IVR/LSAN), SAN management and administrating using Brocade DCFM and BNA.
• Enough knowledge on Disk based backups, VTL, physical tape libraries and NetBackup.
• Excellent experience in Windows, AIX, ESX, Solaris and UNIX platforms as it relates to disk allocation, managing LUN's and HBA configuration.
• Analyses of downstream and provide recommendations to improve the Storage infrastructure and address/lead critical issues and Root Cause Analysis (RCA).
• Expertise in maintaining documentation and reclaim capacity from business lying unused and managing the capacity reports
• Perform necessary storage infrastructure maintenance in accordance with Change management policies.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Storage Technologies: SAN, NAS, and TCP\IP, FCP, iSCSI, NFS & CIFS protocols

Hardware: Storage (Enterprise) Hitachi VSP, IBM DS8k, SVC, EMC VMAX and DMX., Storage (Midrange) HP EVA 4400, 6400, IBM DS6000, EMC CLARiiON CX3-20., NetApp FAS6040, FAS6080, FAS3020,FAS3240, FC Switches Brocade DCX/DCX 4S, 48K, Cisco MDS 9506 and MC DATA M-series., HBA QLogic QLE 2562/2560/2462/2460 & Emulex LPe 12000/11000/1000 and SFP etc

Storage Management Tools: EMC Unisphere, Navisphere, Symcli, Hitachi Command Suit, Hitachi Storage Navigator, NetApp Filer view and NetApp System Manager, NetApp Operation Manager, Brocade DCFM, Brocade Network Adviser, IBM XIV GUI, IBM SVC GUI/CLI, Brocade DCFM, SAN Health, Netbackup Management Console, SSH and Sanscreen.

Operating Systems: Windows 2000, Windows Server 2003, Windows XP, UNIX, SUN/Solaris.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Portsmouth, NH

Senior Storage Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Infrastructure Fabric and Storage support.
• Implementation and managed data storage such as Hitachi VSP, EMC VMAX, SVC and NetApp.
• Performing Decommission activities for the hardware end servers
• Implemented storage refresh project by migrate the data to VSP through HTsM and experienced in decommission of SAN and Storage devices.
• Implemented data replication solutions by using Hitachi ShadowImage, TrueCopy, NetApp Snap Vault and Snapmirror replications.
• Expertise in Dynamic Provisioning, Dynamic Tiering, ShadowImage, COW, HUR and TrueCopy.
• Expertise FAST VP, Auto-Provisioning, mapping and masking and created initiator groups, port groups, storage groups and Masking Views in VMAX Environment.
• Expertise in configuration of mdisks, mdiskgrp, vdisk, FC and MM in IBM SVC
• Managing and Administered Brocade DCX switches using BNA.
• Configuration Local, TI and LSAN Zonings in switches using Brocade BNA.
• Performed Firmware upgrades on the DCX switches and DATA ONTAP upgrade.
• Performed Switch migrations from McData to DCX and Hardware maintenance.
• Administration of NetApp filers in CIFS & NFS environment.
• Data Migration by using Snap Mirror between the NetApp filers.
• Configuring snap mirror, Snap vault relationship for the volumes whenever required.
• Created Aggregates, Volumes, Qtrees, CIFS, NFS, Quotas, and LUNs.
• Involved on Migration activities such as P2P and P2V for Wintel, ESX and AIX (LPAR, VIO).
• Troubleshooting Zoning issues, routine critical issues including ports availability, meeting zoning requirements, one-path down, enabling the path on source or destination arrays
• Proficient in Capacity planning and update the weekly reports such as work orders.

Confidential, Phoenix

Storage Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Remote support of Hitachi VSP, EMC VMAX, IBM DS, Brocade and Cisco MDS Switches.
• Provisioning storage space to new build servers and existing hosts for space growth.
• Performed the decommission activities for the end of hardware.
• Coordinating with the facilities team for the cabling for new builds and cabling SFP issues.
• Manage issues related to Brocade silkworm 4100 series & Brocade DCX Scalable fabric directors within SAN.
• Configuration Local & LSAN Zonings in switches using Brocade DCFM management servers.
• Performed the Switch firmware upgrades and switch integration activities
• Involved in SAN Switch Migrations and Power activities in the data center.
• Configuration of storage provisioning on VMAX, IBM DS, Hitachi Storage Navigator
• Working through HP service manager & service centre ticketing tools.
• Involving in Preventive power maintenance activities Hardware replacements in Data centers.
• Coordinating with storage vendors for hardware replacements.
• Involving in Migration activities such as vMotion and LVM for ESX and AIX (LPAR, VIO).
• Handled zone clean up and storage reclamation activities.
• Carrying out scheduled tasks and planned outages.

Confidential

Systems and Storage Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Administration of Windows, VMware servers and Midrange Storage environment.
• Allocating Storage using SYMCLI for Open Systems environment from DMX-3,DMX-4 to Solaris servers including creating Meta Devices, Mapping Devices to FA Ports and Masking as per the requirement.
• Very good exposure in creating LSAN Zones and managing them.
• Having very good exposure in creating thin pools, adding data devices to thin pools and monitoring thin pools.
• Having good exposure in thin provisioning in DMX.
• Allocating Storage from CX 320, CX 380 arrays using Navisphere to Solaris and Windows hosts including creating Raid Groups, binding Luns, creating storage groups and adding luns to the storage group.
• Mapping and Masking the devices as per the application requirement.
• Storage Provisioning using SYMCLI.
• Involved in administration and provisioning of storage in CLARiiON systems using Navisphere Manager. Involved in checking and configuring the visibility of the assigned luns from the host side.
• Creating Raid Groups, Storage Groups and Meta LUNS depending on the requirements.
• Configuring different RAID Technologies.
• LUN Provisioning Using Navisphere Manager.
• Experience in Configuration, troubleshooting, and administration of SAN Environment using Navisphere Manager.
• Configuring, Monitoring and managing SAN switches.
• P2V migration of physical server using VMware Converter including troubleshooting and completing by less traditional methods when P2V fails