SUMMARY

• A storage professional with 7 years of experience in SAN/NAS Administration.
• Very good command on planning, design and implementation of Remote Replication Solutions such as SRDF/S, SRDF/A and TimeFinder (BCV/Clone/Snap) Local Replication Solution in Symmetrix Environments..
• Actively Participated in Tech Refresh Projects and performed Array based, Host Based storage migrations using Open Replicator, San Copy, SRDF - DM, Open Migrator and Powerpath Migrations Enabler.
• Specialist in Storage Migrations using VPLEX Data Mobility as a migration method.
• Good at End to End Administration of VPLEX VS2 Hardware.
• Provisioned Virtual Volumes from Vplex after performing Host Encapsulation on Vplex.
• Good at administration of Recover Point Appliances, Migrated and replicated TBs of Data to DR sites using RecoverPoint CRR.
• Configured Consistency Groups with appropriate Policies and replicated storage to a Remote site using Recover Point Cluster.
• Specialist in Managing and Administration of VMAX 10/20/40k, DMX-3, DMX-4, VNX, CLARiiON CX4-480/960, Recover Point Appliances and VPLEX.
• Implemented FAST (Fully Automated Storage Tiering) and Virtual Provisioning on Symmetrix and CLARiiON.
• Expertise in provisioning, masking and configuring Storage with ECC and SMC-CLI/Unisphere.
• Hands on experience with Data ONTAP, ECC, Navishpere Manager, SYMCLI, Navi Analyzer and NaviSecCli.
• Good understanding about storage virtualization from the CLARiiON, VNX, DMX and VMAX arrays to the VPLEX.
• Performed troubleshooting steps on technical issues like Fabric Switches and Storage performance degradations.
• Hands on experience with Cisco MDS 9513/09/06, 9216, and Brocade 5300, 4800/3200 and DCX Director Class.
• Familiar with the installation of Solutions Enabler, SMC-SPA and Unisphere for VMAX to Manage DMX, VMAX environments.
• Installed and configured Cisco switches using CiscoCLI & Fabric Manager and Brocade switches using BrocadeCLI.
• Experienced in configuring VNX 7500 and FASTCACHE /FAST VP using Unisphere.
• Very good knowledge on Raid and Storage Backend Architecture.
• Proven experience in maintaining NetApp FAS 6080/6040, FAS 3270/3170/3070 , FAS3240/3140, FAS 2040/2020, FAS 270.
• Experienced in NetApp DataMotion, QOS and Deduplication.
• Expertise in Administration of Storage to Multiprotocol Environments like CIFS and NFS inNetApp.
• Designed and implemented High availability & Disaster Recovery Solutions for SAN/NAS Environments.
• Very much familiar with Aggregates, Volumes, Luns on ONTAP 7-modeand Vservers and SVM onC- DOT.
• Experience in Installation, configuration and troubleshooting of VERITAS Volume Manager (VxVm & VxFs), VERITAS Netbackup 6.5.
• Experienced in setting up Netapp infrastructure from configuration through provisioning along with switch zoning.
• Very good knowledge in NetApp technologies like Deduplication and Thin Provisioning.
• Performed zoning, mapping and created initiator groups.
• Configured NFS, CIFS and also did CIFS shares management.
• Very good in managing NetApp via Operation manager or CLI.
• Managing Vservers, LIFS, and QOS policies.
• Experience with Netapp Snapsuite solutions like Snapshots, SnapMirror, SnapVault, SnapRestore for backup, migration and disaster recovery.
• Good communication and presentation skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Platforms/Operating Systems: Solaris 8/9/10, RedHat EL 4/5, Windows NT/ 2000/2003/2008

Storage hardware: EMC-Symmetrix VMAX 40K/ 20K/10K/DMX-4/DMX-3/DMX-2, VNX 7500, 5700, 5500, 5300, VNXe, VPLEX VS1/VS2, CLARiiON CX600/CX700/CX3-40/CX3-80/CX4-480. NetApp- FAS 6200 series, FAS 3270/3170/3070 , FAS 3240/3140, FAS 2040/2020.

SAN Switches: Brocade 00 / 00, Cisco MDS 9509, 9506, 9513 and 9216.

Technologies: SAN, NAS, CAS, DAS, TCP\IP, FCP, iSCSI, NFS & CIFS protocols.

Applications: EMC Prosphere, Unisphere for VPLEX, VNX and VMAX, Symmetrix Management Console (SMC) for DMX, Navisphere Manager, Navi analyzer, NaviSecCLI, VERITAS volume manager, solution enabler V7.1.1, Cisco fabric manager/CLI, Brocade fabric manager/CLI, Oncommand Core package, Oncommand unified manager, ECC 6.1, SymCLI, ONTAP 7.2/7.3/8.0.7/8.1/8.2 (clustered mode ), MirrorView, SnapView, SAN Copy, Celerra Manager, Celerra Replicator, SRDF-S/A/DM, Open Replicator, Open Migrator, TimeFinder, SnapMirror, SnapVault, SyncMirror, FlexShare, VMware ESX 5.0, Unisphere for Recoverpoint and VERITAS NetBackup.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Nashville, TN

Sr. Storage Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Performed various duties which included supporting the Enterprise storage arrays, storage provisioning, maintenance and diagnosis.
• Installed and Managed NetApp FAS 3200, 6200 series on Clustermode.
• Planning and carrying out migrations from 7-Mode to Clustered ONTAP under time constraints.
• Architecture and implementation of OnCommand Unified Manager, Performance Manager, Insight installations.
• Implemented advanced configurations of clustered and 7-mode systems.
• Upgraded Data ONTAP from 7.3.4 to 7.3.6 in order to remediate newly discovered bugs.
• Worked with provisioning team to create Aggregates, Volumes, Vserver, LIF, Qtrees and Quotas using FilerView and CLI.
• Worked with provisioning team to create LUN's on Fiber Channel SAN and presented them to the hosts.
• Designed and Architected remote replication using NetApp Snap Mirror and SnapVault technologies.
• Worked with provisioning team to create, configure, and manage CIFS & NFS shares, quotas, groups, and permissions
• Worked with change and problem management tools.
• Migrated data from EMC NAS array to NetApp array and decommissioned old EMC NAS devices.
• Created new scripts for daily routine Tasks and Reports.
• Worked on Open System SnapVault and SnapRestore for backup and restore operation in NetApp NAS Environment.
• Worked with provisioning team to create VIFs/VServers in NetApp 7-mode and Cluster Mode NetApp Devices.
• Supported the storage which included SYMMETRIX, CLARiiON, and VNX.
• Worked on Administration of VPLEX VS2 Hardware and Recoverpoint 4.0 GEN5 Hardware.
• Configured and allocated storage on EMC Symmetrix VMAX 40k, 20K, 10K, DMX-4, VNX 7500,5700,5500,5300, and Clariion CX4 arrays using SYMCLI, Unisphere for VNX and VMAX.
• Actively Participated in Tech Refresh Projects and performed Array based, Host Based storage migrations using Open Replicator Hot-Pull, San Copy, SRDF-DM, Open Migrator and Powerpath Migrations Enabler.
• Provisioned storage to VPLEX Backend from Heterogeneous Storage Arrays.
• Performed VPLEX Data Mobility Migrations by Encapsulating Hosts on to VPLEX.
• Worked With Distributed Devices in VPLEX Metro Environments.
• Performed End to End Administration of VPLEX VS2 Hardware.
• Provisioned Virtual Volumes from VPLEX after performing Host Encapsulation on VPLEX.
• Performed administration of Recover Point Appliances, Migrated and replicated TBs of Data to DR sites using using RecoverPoint CRR.
• Configured Consistency Groups with appropriate Policies and replicated storage to a Remote site using Recover Point Cluster.
• Worked on Recoverpoint-EX/SE and CL. Worked on Recoverpoint Replications using Symmetrix Splitter.
• Identified Performance Bottle Necks using UNISPHERE for VMAX Performance Analyzer.
• Performed analysis of STP/BTP Files and Symmetrix Performance Data using Unisphere for VMAX Performance analyzer Offline Viewer.
• Worked on strategies for performance and capacity improvement along with the optimization in customer storage, network and virtualized environment.
• Execute FC zoning for development and production storage volumes.
• Responsible for planning and execution of storage installation.
• Worked with the application developers to determine the storage requirements.
• Implement Fabric Zoning using CLI on Enterprise Cisco MDS Switches.
• Configured Snapview Snapshots, Snapview Clones and MirrorView S/A in VNX Series.
• HBA drivers and firmware installation and upgrade on UNIX & Windows Servers.
• Installing and troubleshooting Qlogic and Emulex HBA’s
• Worked with the clients in creating the customized backup schedules specific to the clients data protection needs by implementing SnapMirror, snapshot and backup using SnapRestore.
• Experienced Netapp management console, operations manager and load balancing algorithms.
• Configured different types of RAID Groups.
• Very good experience with ECC, EMC Navisphere, Unisphere, NaviCLI and SymCLI.
• Exposure to the configuration of the quotas, snapshots and remote copy (DR facilities), user mapping of EMC Celera / VNX file level.
• Performed regular BCV and clone backup of the Standard devices using SYMCLI.
• Configured a raw 4 engine VMAX array, designed and accomplished SRDF set-up across VMAX arrays and migrated data from thin to thin devices and also materialized Disaster Recovery through SRDF/S.
• Experience with Solutions Enabler v7.1.1 and Unisphere for VMAX.
• Extensive knowledge in Auto-provisioning for VMAX - creating and managing the initiator groups, port groups, storage groups and masking views.

Environment: CLARiiON, VNX, VMAX, VPLEX, Recover Point, Snapmirror, SnapRestore, SymCLI, Navisphere, Unisphere, NaviCLI, Cisco MDS switches, NetApp 3000/6000 series, Qtrees, NFS/CIFS, FlexVols, FlexClones, snapmirror, ONTAP 7.3,8.2, 7MTT, snapvault, VMWare, cmode8.2.

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Sr. Storage Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Administration of EMC VMAX, DMX, RecoverPoint, VPLEX, EMC Celerra and VNXSystems.
• Provisioned storage from VMAX using Virtual Provisioning and Auto Provisioning.
• Worked on FAST-DP and FAST-VP in VMAX to Achieve Benefits of intelligent Storage Tiering.
• Provided daily reports on capacity ofVNXarrays and also monitored performance usingVNXMonitoring and Reporting GUI tool
• Configured and managed EMC VNX 5700, VMAX- 20k/40k.
• Day to Day responsibilities include block and file storage provisioning fromVNXunified array, performance monitoring and capacity reporting, code upgrades, zoning and replication setup.
• Provided best practices in the configuration of EMC VMAX series,VNXSeries storage systems, Cisco MDX, Brocade DCX Series switches, VMWare ESX.
• Experience in creating Virtual Pools on VMAX andVNXSystems.
• Hands on experience in administering, troubleshooting and configuring DMX-4, DMX-3, CLARiiON/Celerra using SymCLI, ECC/SMC, Navisphere Manager/Unisphere, and Navisphere Analyzer.
• Performed duties like Migration, replication for Disaster Recovery by using RecoverPoint 4.0 withVNXand VMAX Splitters.
• Installed and configured VPLEX Metro with VMAX-20K, VMAX-40K andVNX-5700 systems.
• Used Unisphere performance analyzer and ECC to monitor the VMAX environment.
• Experience in using Time Finder, Clone BCV, SnapShot BCV for Symmetrix DMX/VMAX storage.
• Very good at creating and managing NFS and CIFS forVNXenvironment.
• Experience in performing Thin Provisioning from VMAX to Windows 2003/2008 servers, Linux and VMware ESX Servers.
• Day to day duties included documenting reports on capacity of VNX storage arrays.
• Experience in monitoring the performance using VNX monitoring and reporting GUI tool.
• Provided all the necessary procedures and the best practices for host connectivity on VPLEX, RecoverPoint and Replication Manager.
• Implemented, administered and maintained storage arrays like NetApp FAS 6040/6070, FAS 3070/3170/3270 , FAS 3140/3240, FAS 2020/2040, FAS 250/270, Celerra NS -120/480/960 and CLARiion CX and VNX 5100/5300.
• Ensured the data availability all the time using the Snapmirror and Metrocluster by designing remote replication and helping disaster recovery solutions.
• Experience in creating and managing the aggregates, volumes, snapshots, snapviews, FlexVols etc.
• Implemented, administered and maintained Netapp FAS6040, FAS6070, FAS6280 series.
• Migrated data using management tools snapmirror (QSM and VSM).
• Experience in creating RAID groups and aggregates on FAS6040/FAS6070/FAS6280.
• Configured and Administered Open System SnapVault and SnapRestore for backup and restore operation in Netapp NAS Environment.
• Collected and analyzed performance data using perf advisor from VMWare supported storage systems.
• Experience on replication and backup management using VERITAS netbakup 6.5.
• Provided 24/7 assistance on both SAN/NAS environments.

Environment: VNX, VMAX, Celerra, Unisphere performance analyzer, Timefinder, SRDF-S and A Windows2000/2003, FAS 6070/6040/6280/3270/2040/270 , VMWare, veritas netbackup, snap mirror, FlexVols, SnapVault, RAID groups

Confidential, Rochester, NY

Sr. Storage Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Worked on Navisphere Manager, configured storage pools, storage groups, LUNmigrationand Meta LUN expansion on CLARiiON arrays.
• Experienced in managing CIFS servers and shares for NetApp FAS 2020, FAS 3020, FAS 6030, FAS6080 and FAS 270 Series Storages.
• Created NFS file systems and implemented NFS export to various clients with required permissions.
• Managed storage provisioning onNASfilers for CIFS, NFS using CLI and GUI.
• Expertise in creating Aggregates, volumes, Qtrees and assigning quotas.
• Experience in allocating the cisco ports for different according to the bandwidth requirements.
• Performed duties like supporting the NetApp infrastructure and worked on ONTAP OS upgrades and hardware issues.
• Used Snapmirror and Netapp clustered hardware to implement the business continuity plan.
• Experience in creating TDEV/TGT/VDEV for host volume groups.
• Performed zoning, mapping and masking the LUN’s.
• Strong understanding of RAID groups and its configuration and implementation.
• Performed duties like allocation and expansion of Storage spaces in Clariion, DMX and VMAX arrays.
• Experience with the management of network interfaces, link aggregation interfaces, link failover interfaces and VLAN interfaces.
• Performed storage provisioning fromVMAXto servers using thin provisioning.
• Strong base on Remote Replication technologies such as Synchronous SRDF and Asynchronous SRDF etc.
• Worked on Replication Manager to check consistency and to create Application Sets and Job Schedules.
• Installed and configured EMC Celerra NS700, NS501G.
• Troubleshooting all the file systems like NFS, CIFS, SAN issues on Netapp filers.
• Configured Powerpath for Load balancing, failover and recovery.
• Administered SnapVault and SnapRestore for backup and restore operations inNetapp NAS Environment.
• Successfully performed NAS migration from Celerra to Isilon using Robocopy.
• Performed duties like creating storage pools, thin provisioning, cloning and managing VNX5300 storage array using Unisphere.
• Ensured fault tolerant performance by implementing DR Test Failover and Failback.
• Implemented FAST and FAST VP on pools and assigned policies according to the requirements.
• Performed various duties like creating and managing device groups and setting up the BCV’s for backup.
• Very good at troubleshooting the issues related to the migration with Powerpath.
• Migrated data from DMX to VMAX using the Solutions Enabler SYMCLI.
• Experience in migration of NFS/CIFS from Celerra to NetApp robocopy/rsync.
• Experience in creating, implementing and maintaining hourly, nightly, weekly and monthly snapshots to maintain online backup to recover from accidental deletions, corruptions or modifications of the data.
• Created RAID Groups, Aggregates, volumes (Traditional, FlexVol, FlexClone), Qtrees and Quotas using NetApp OnCommand System Manager and CLI.
• Involved in replicating the primary data which is stored on NetApp system located in main data center using the NetApp SnapMirror software, to the secondary system for disaster recovery.
• Experience in Installation, configuration and troubleshooting of VERITAS Volume Manager (VxVm & VxFs), VERITAS Netbackup 6.5.
• Created LUNs and Volumes across a large pool of disks and one or more RAID groups using FlexVol.
• Upgraded the filers from ONTAP 7.0 to ONTAP 7.2 as a process of FlexVols migration.

Environment: Navisphere Manager, FAS 2020/3020/6080 , Celerra NS700, Unisphere, DMX, Snapmirror, SnapVault, SnapRestore, Solutions Enabler SYMCLI, Powerpath, Cisco switches, VERITAS volume manager, VERITAS NetBackup, ONTAP7.0/7.2, NetApp robocopy, NetApp rsync, NetApp CLI, snapmirror, FlexVol, FlexClone.

Confidential, Salt Lake City, UT

Storage Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Daily duties included the operation support functions for all enterprise storage arrays including storage reclamation functions, storage optimization and tuning activities.
• ConfiguredClariionarrays to send SNMP trap notifications to ZenOSS Management host on specific severity conditions.
• Maintained HA redundant architecture using the path redundancy and multiple fabrics.
• Responsibilities included using CLI and GUI to monitor, provision the storage to DMX andClariionenvironment.
• Involved in the planning for migrations of DMX andClariion storage arrays to new Datacenter.
• Performed duties like allocating storage from Clariion and using FAST VP for the provisioning.
• Installed and maintained CLARiiON CX3-40, CX3-80 and CX3-700.
• Analyzed the performances of CLARiiON using Navisphere and DMX using ECC performance manager.
• Designed failovers for Disaster Recovery and also the necessary zone changes.
• Administered Symmetrix DMX and Clariion arrays using ECC/SMC/Sym-Cli
• Implemented Disaster Recovery solution using SRDF/A to support a bunch of applications running on different servers.
• Configuring QOS in CLARiiON to achieve high performance for Database exchange and Backup.

Environment: DMX, CLARiiON CX3-40, CX3-80, CX3-700, Navisphere, Unisphere.

Confidential

Storage Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Experience in Migration of data from NFS standalone servers to the NetApp filers FAS3000 series.
• Configured, maintained and implemented open system SnapVault and SnapRestore for backup and restore operation in NetApp NAS environment.
• Used Snapshot technology to provide point in time images of aggregates and volumes.
• Experience in remote replication technologies using NetApp Snapmirror and SnapVault.
• Configured Vfilers, Qtrees, Volumes, aggregates and Snapshots using Data ONTAP FilerView, DataFabric.
• Performed the Data ONTAP upgrades and disk/shelf firmware RLM and SP firmware, IOM ACP upgrades in various client environments referencing NetApp ASUP.
• Monitored and managed NetApp Filers using Operation Manager.
• Implemented device mapping and LUN masking on Symmetrix using SymCLI as well as EMC control center.
• Performed SRDF and Timefinder backup of standard devices.
• Migrated the CX700 storage arrays to CX3-80, using SanCopy.
• Provided 24/7 assistance to the CLARiiON storage arrays and Netapp filers.

Environment: NetApp FAS3000 series, ClariiON CX700/CX3-80, SanCopy, SymCLI, SRDF, Timefinder, Snapmirror, SnapVault, Qtrees, Vfilers, Data ONTAP, RLM & SP firmware, DataFabric, FilerView.

Confidential

Storage Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Worked with EMC Symmetrix DMX-3, CLARiiON 600 and Celerra NS- 120.
• Monitored performance and capacity of the SAN/NAS environment.
• Configured MPIO on host for Multipathing and created snapshots for backup using Autosnap manager.
• Installed and worked on ECC 6.1/SMC in distributed environment managing DMX-3, DMX-4 and CLARiiON environment.
• Experience in troubleshooting and resolving diversified Operating Environment Problems and in administering NAS Celerra systems NS480 and NS82 using Celerra manager/CLI.
• Implemented Mirrorview on Clariion array CX3-40 for disaster recovery that protects most critical data in the event of outage.
• Configured Snapshots and Clones on CLARiiON CX series storage arrays.
• Performed the troubleshooting of NFS, CIFS issues on the EMC Celerra and fine-tuned the file server for optimal performance.
• Created and managed Raid groups, LUN’s, volumes, LUN binding.
• Managed and monitored the performance of CLARiiON arrays.
• Troubleshoot NFS, SAN and CIFS issues on NetApp filers and fine tune the filers for optimal performance.

Environment: Windows 2000, NT server, Solaris 5, DMX-3, DMX-4, CLARiiON 600, Celerra NS-120/480, Brocade 5000.