Summary:

• More than 7 years of extensive knowledge on storage area networks SAN , Network Attached Storage NAS , data centers, and Disaster Recovery, Business Continuity, Tiered storage management.
• Experience with troubleshooting issues like path failures, storage not seen, performance issues using EMC Power Path, Performance Manager, Symmetrix Performance Analyzer, Navi-Analyzer.
• Experience with configuration of FAST Fully Automated Storage Tiering Thin provisioning on Symmetrix VNX Storage Arrays
• Good knowledge and understanding on Storage Virtualization technology especially EMC VPLEX
• Experience in managing EMC Symmetrix DMX / VMAX, Clariion, VNX / VNX 2, NetApp Storage Filers, IBM Storage Arrays-XIV.
• Familiar with implementing FC, FCOE, SCSI, iSCSI, FCIP technologies in enterprise environment for daily administrative tasks and implementing disaster recovery solutions.
• Experience with Switch Migration, Switch expansion on Multilayer switches including Brocade, 8510 / DCX /48K/6510/5100/3900 FC switch, Cisco MDS 9513/09.
• Expertise in Meta creation, Mapping, Zoning, Masking, disk group management, and Data Replication SRDF . Experience in System administration storage provisioning through Unisphere and CLI / SYMCLI.
• Experience working with Core Edge as well as Full / Partial Mesh Topology
• In Depth experience of FA Ports, FA port mapping Thin Provisioning, Thick Provisioning, FAST VP, Zoning, RAID Level implementation,
• Expertise in SAN replication technologies such as Symmetrix SRDF/S, SRDF/A, CLARiiON Snap view, Mirror view, San Copy and RecoverPoint.
• Extensively worked on Array based and Host based migrations like Open Replicator, PowerPath Migration Enabler San Copy for Symmetrix and CLARiiON
• Expertise in creating and applying FAST VP policies to storage groups to increase performance and decrease I/O latency
• Expertise in storage provisioning, monitoring, reporting of EMC Symmetrix arrays including VMAX using SYMCLI/SMC and CLARiiON using Navisphere respectively.
• Good experience on NetApp on Command Insight for monitoring and reporting of storage infrastructure.
• Having good knowledge on run book and documentation
• Dedicated, hardworking individual with good intercommunication skills to work well in both team environments and individual assignments.

Skills:

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Worked in maintenance and administration of SAN Arrays which include EMC V-MAX, DMX-4, VNX, CLARiiON CX 4-960 , and VPLEX.
• Performed daily administrative tasks like storage allocation using thin provisioning, automated provisioning to Windows, UNIX, Sun Solaris and ESX servers in clustered environment and standalone environments.
• Configured VNX arrays for Block implemented FAST-VP across the storage pools and configured Recover Point replication between VNX arrays.
• Worked on EMC storage virtualization technology and allocated storage for local Vplex config for all types of OS platforms including san boot for cisco UCS and AIX LPAR clients through heterogeneous storage arrays.
• Assisted in Capacity planning on the VMAX Arrays as well as the switches and directors.
• Monitoring performance and adjusting loads accordingly on the FA Ports utilization.
• Troubleshoot issues for any performance related incidents especially on Enterprise storage arrays- EMC VMAX. Performed VLUN migration to move data between thin pools onVmax arrays.
• Worked in maintenance and administration NAS Arrays which include NetApp FAS6000, FAS3200.
• Provision or expand the NetApp Flex volumes, creating Flex clones for the secondary environment, deleting snapshots on the volumes.
• Performed storage allocation through NetApp fillers for both files and block storage through cluster mode. Created NFSv4 exports, CIFS for UNIX and window systems respectively.
• Provision or expand the NetApp Flex volumes, deleting snapshots on the volumes.
• Performed DR test using through storage replication tools EMC SRDF, RecoverPoint and NetApp Snap mirror.
• Documentation of design guide for allocation storage and other tasks for EMC VMAX, VNX, EMC Vplex and NetApp Cluster mode storage arrays.
• Performed storage Migrations from Symmetrix DMX-4/3/2000, CLARiiON CX 4/3-80 to Symmetrix V-MAX through EMC Vplex, host based migration, VMware, Open Replicator and SAN Copy.
• Implemented DR solution between VMAX storage arrays for business continuity, and disaster recovery using SRDF/A.
• Performed tasks related to host Multi-pathing and hardware redundancy best practices for online data migrations and online SAN migrations.
• Provision storage based on standardized procedure and participated in the execution of the business continuance.
• Worked on Decommission of storage arrays during various SAN consolidation projects.
• San storage tasks for any server decommissions from the data center
• Day to day tasks for managing SAN storage requests queue for various internal customers /projects for existing and new builds systems.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Administration and maintaining of EMC Symmetrix VMAX, DMX-4/3 , CLARiiON CX4-480/960 and Celerra NS4-960
• Managed storage allocation for CLARiiON CX3-80, CX4-960 storage arrays using Navisphere
• Performed thin provisioning for Symmetrix VMAX storage array by creating TDEVs, adding TDATs to thin pool and binding TDEVs to thin pool
• Used Navisphere Manager to create Raid groups, Storage groups, Meta LUNs, LUNs and assigned LUNs to the hosts
• Administered and maintenance of NetApp FAS 3250/2040 Filers
• Created alias, zones and added them to active zone set on Cisco fabric using Fabric Manager and Device Manager
• Worked on switch migration, replaced old McDATA with Brocade switches.
• Management of Brocade departmental switches 3900/4100/4900 and directors DCX switches using Brocade CLI, Web Tools by creating aliases, zones and configurations
• Zoned new HBAs whenever there is a failure in the HBAs of a particular host using Fabric Manager.
• Implemented SRDF/A replication between two Symmetrix DMX-4 storage arrays
• Worked on disaster recovery solution using MirrorView/S on EMC CLARiiON
• Implemented data migration from CLARiiON CX 500 to DMX-4 using Open Replicator during CLARiiON retirement.
• Analyzed the performance of Symmetrix using Symmetrix Performance Analyzer
• Supported critical production environments on 24x7 basis and documented technical specifications for the project handled
• Troubleshooting issues like path issues or host unable to access the storage
• Implemented a disaster recovery solution using SRDF/A between the two sites production and DR located geographically apart
• Implemented High availability solutions like MirrorView, SAN Copy on Clarions for source CX3-80 and target CX4-240

Confidential

• Configured, Administered and Managed a SAN environment of consisting of DMX 3/2000/800, CLARiiON CX 3/700/500, Brocade switches and directors using SYMCLI, Navisphere Manager, DCFM and EMC Control Centre.
• Installed configured the Solutions Enabler to manage EMC Symmetrix DMX arrays using SYMCLI.
• Installed and configured ECC alerts/agents to monitor SAN environment for Symmetrix, CLARiiON, Switches and Hosts.
• Managed Cisco MDS 9506, Brocade 48k, 4100, and 3900 using Cisco CLI, Fabric Manager and Brocade CLI.
• Hands on experience on the daily SAN management activities, zones and aliases, build Raid Groups, bind LUN's, and mask LUN's to hosts and occasional Fabric merging.
• Monitor the storage systems proactively for the disk allocations, FA port assignments and prepare the documents related to the SAN environment.
• Installed and configured EMC PowerPath for multiple I/O path capabilities, load balancing and automatic path failover to ensure high availability.
• Responsible for all the SAN related hardware activities in the Data Center include break fix, drive replacements.
• Planned and implementing data migration from older EMC Symmetrix to newer/replacement EMC VMAX to improve performance capacity management.
• Assisted in troubleshooting SAN issues such as initial storage configuration, drivers, paths and storage failures and storage performance.

Confidential

• Responsible to manage EMC Symmetrix and EMC CLARiiON Storage Arrays for the day-to-day operations.
• Working with vendors for hardware break fix includes drive replacements, storage array hardware failures and SFP replacements
• Involved in various data migration projects from CLARiiON CX600 to CX 3-40 using SAN Copy
• Trouble-shoot/fixes for storage issues with Windows/ UNIX teams for issues from weekend changes in storage environment.
• Creation of backup data lists, scheduling the backups with Veritas Netbackup.
• Performing daily operational tasks like storage provisioning, maintaining availability and necessary storage infrastructure maintenance.
• Day to day disk allocation and management of LUNS from the EMC CLARiiON storage to servers using EMC Navisphere Manager and EMC Symmetrix Storage Arrays using ECC.
• Configured and administered Fiber Channel Switches Brocade and cisco
• Installed PowerPath for load balancing.
• Troubleshooting the SAN connectivity on different operating systems like Windows, HP-UX and Solaris.