SUMMARY

• I have about 7 years of experience in Storage Administration and have undertaken several roles that included Planning, Designing and architecting storage solutions on SAN and NAS technologies.
• I have been able to gain expertise in several heterogeneous environments including NetApp, EMC Data Domain etc. through hands on experience.
• Expertise inNetApp DATA ONTAPSnap Mirror between x - 86 and Non x-86 systems, with experience in storage planning, data management, disaster recovery best practices and testing.
• Expertise on EMC Symmetrix DMX and VMAX storage arrays administration, maintenance and troubleshooting.
• Experience in Host and Array based replication technologies by EMC such as SRDF, VPLEX and RPDR.
• Hands on experience in various complex Migration projects across storage platforms performing Host Based Migrations, and setting up Tape Libraries, Host connectivity etc.
• Strong experience with management tools includes SYMCLI, and CLARiiON Navisphere.
• Extensive Backup Management experience on EMC Networker and Veritas Netbackup suits.
• Expertise with the installation and maintenance of Backup software (Networker) for UNIX, Windows. Linux systems.
• Experience in Problem, Incident and Change management processes for storage and backup across platforms. Undertaken projects to implement the defined process while with TCS.
• Experience in Knowledge management and runbook creation for storage hardware infrastructure to hand over to support.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Database Systems: Ms SQL, Oracle, good understanding of RDBMS concepts.

Operating Systems: WindowsXP, Vista, NT, HP- UX, AIX and Solaris

ITSM Tools: Remedy, HP Service Manager, SNOW.

Other management: PuTTY, WinSCP, Citrix, XManager Recovery

Languages: C/C++,Visual Basic, Perl & PL/SQL.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Tampa

Storage/SAN Admin

Responsibilities:

• Maintenance and Monitoring of NetApp storage by Configuring Aggregates, volume, Qtree and snapshots.
• Administration of Storage to Multiprotocol Environments like CIFS and NFS in NetApp SAN/NAS environment.
• Managing Snap Mirror and Snap Vault backup in Netapp.
• Implement thin provisioning from VMAX to UNIX (AIX, Solaris and Linux) Windows2003/2008 (clusters) servers, and VMware ESX Servers using SYMCLI, Unisphere and SMC.
• Responsible for OS upgrades, Snapmirror configuration, volume provisioning, Site to Site replication and enablement of automation for Disaster Recovery.
• Prioritize and maintain adherence to strict change management guidelines in conducting storage configurations.
• Implementation of industry best practice storage solution in line with business requirement. This includes engagement with customer to gather requirements like existing architecture and future vision strategy.
• Create/update/maintain all storage related documentation and diagrams of the storage hardware infrastructure. This includes operational run books, detailed server/switch/LUN topology.
• Actively Participate in Tech Refresh Projects and perform Array based, Host Based storage migrations using Hot-Pull, San Copy, SRDF-DM, Open Replicator and Powerpath Migrations Enabler. Work on CIFS shares Security, NFS Exports, VIFS Management.
• Establish productive and efficient business relationship with all vendors for support and procurement.

Confidential, Tampa

Storage/SAN Admin

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for monitoring and resolving issues like zoning/masking/storage allocation, HBA failures, and performance issues.
• Performing regular health checks of Symmetrix arrays in the environment.
• Creation of Meta LUNs or allocating additional LUNs for additional storage depending upon the host’s request created and decommissioning unused storage to improve resources availability, based on Thin Provisioning.
• Configuring and managing snapshots on a daily basis on Netapp boxes.
• Change requests management for Backup requirements and proactive reduction of redundancies.
• Monitor, Reinitiate and Trouble shoot on backup failure jobs using Networker.
• Reporting and analyzing Daily /Monthly backup success rates.
• Configuring different RAID groups and LUN allocations to storage groups using Navisphere Manager as specific to business needs.
• One time implementation project included:
• Migrating NFS data from standalone servers to NetApp Filers.
• Implementation and Deployment of Complete Redundant Solution through cluster Storage Using Netapp Filers
• Creation, disks addition and decommissioning aggregate using Data Ontap.
• Creating volumes, quotas and space allocation for different file systems.

Confidential

Storage Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for Symmetrix, ClaRiion and Celerra systems, monitoring regular updates and reporting vulnerability if any.
• Maintenance and management of the Datacenter Storage environment (Symmetrix DMX-3, Switches and Routers).
• Coordination with EMC to resolve hardware failures in case any.
• Mapping, masking the devices to the FA ports on Symmetrix.
• Sync-Split for BCVs for RDF1/2 devices.
• Performing Networker Upgrade on Backup Clients.
• Extensive backup management through Networker Legato.
• Responsible for recovery of requested data through XManager.
• Supervision of STAR SRDF configuration across sites.
• Implemented SRDF/A for production systems including creation of dynamic RDF groups, creation of dynamic RDF pairs, enabling SRDF/A for the group of devices.
• Performed SRDF Failover /Failback /Update.
• Responsible for external audits of Backup DR drills with onsite vendors.
• Supervision of Tape loads and tagging in HP Tape Library.

Confidential

Storage Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Netapp Storage Administration for Confidential corp through Netapp CLI (DATA ONTAP 7.3), Operations Manager/DFM.
• Performing Robocopy and ndmpcopy on request for Windows based systems.
• Maintaining and managing Snapvaults and Snapmirror for Tier 1 storage environment.
• Creation and maintenance of Volume, LUN and Aggregates, perform health monitoring of the systems in terms of threshold limits and analysis of trends.
• Handling L2 and L3 Incidents, Change Requests and Work Orders related to storage and backup.
• Perform Restore on critical Virtual Machines, Exchange systems and storage log systems on request.
• Creating DFS Namespace and links between several systems clusters to enable file sharing on organization level while maintaining server anonymity.
• Performing Volume Migration between Aggregates/Filers and Volume Close-off cases.
• Provisioning Thin Flexclones LUNs and Flexvols on NetApp systems through NetApp VSC.
• Maintenance of Netbackup VTL systems. Monitoring of daily backups and confirming the batch job run status.