SUMMARY

• Storage Administrator with eight years of progressive experience in the information technology including six years SAN administration and one year Unix Administration in planning, implementing and supporting essential business applications. Extensive experience in administrating, maintaining and trouble shooting of SAN storage environment having EMC VMAX, DMX, VNX, CLARiiON and other enterprise arrays.
• Well versed using GUI management tools like Symmetrix Management Console (SMC), EMC IONIX Control Center (ECC), Unisphere and Navisphere.
• Well versed in using command line interface Solutions Enabler (SYMCLI) and NavisecCLI.
• Experience in implementing Migration solution using Open Replicator, SANCopy and Host level migrations like Open Migrator, PPME and LVM Mirroring
• Experience in implementing Local replication using Time Finder/clone/snap and Snapview
• Excelled in implementing remote replications SRDF and MirrorView for Bulk data
• Explicit knowledge in Recover Point with array based splitters in VNX environment in both CDP/CRR modes.
• Integrated Recover point with Replication manager for Oracle and SQL databases
• Experience in implementing tiered SAN solutions using FAST and Virtual Provisioning on VMAX and VNX arrays per EMC best practices
• Experience in implementing remote replication using SRDF/S, SRDF/A.
• Non - disruptive Migration of VMware environments to VPLEX using data mobility
• Experience in VMware deployments in a VPLEX Metro environment
• Experience with SAN performance and reporting tools like SPA/WLA and Storage Scope Manager
• Deployment and configuration of Prosphere and collection of SAN performance reports using SMI-S providers
• Configuring and managing EMC Power Path for path failover, load balancing and path management.
• Implementing IP replicator for CIFS and NFS shares and configuration of DataMovers as CIFS servers
• Good understanding of installation, configuration and management of CISCO, Brocade and McData switches and maintaining vendor fabrics.
• Experience working on VNX file including configuring CIFS servers and migration of shares using Robocopy.
• Experience working on Linux/Solaris/HP/AIX/Windows Operating system platforms.
• Installation, configuration and maintenance of Virtual Machines, ESX Servers, VMware tools using VMware VSphere 4 and Virtual Center
• Experience in with server migration using VMware vMotion and Storage vMotion and ESX Server provisioning
• Knowledgeable in troubleshooting day to day SAN/Storage and host related issues.
• Team player with strong management and excellent communication skills

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating System: AIX, Solaris 9/10, ESX, Red Hat Enterprise LINUX, Windows 2000/2003/2008

Storage Hardware: Symmetrix DMX-3/DMX-4, VMAX, VMAXe, CLARiiON CX700/CX3-40/CX3-80/CX4 Celerra NS480/NS960, VNX 5300/5500/5700/7500

Storage Management: ECC, SMC, SYMCLI, NAVICLI, SRDF/A/S, TimeFinder/Clone, MirrorView, SnapviewSanCopy, Open Replicator, Open Migrator, PPME, Recover Point, Replication Manager, Prosphere, Power Path, Brocade CLI/Web Tools, Cisco CLI/Fabric Manager/Device Manager.

Scripting: Shell Script (Bash, Ksh), C, Java, Html.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Austin, TX

Sr Storage Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Day to Day administration of Symmetrix V-MAX, DMX, CLARiiON and VNX arrays.
• Worked on Configuration and Allocation of storage from DMX/VMAX and CLARiiON storage arrays using SYMCLI/ECC/SMC.
• Involved and performed data migration/consolidation of arrays using SANCopy/OpenReplicator/PPME/Open migrator.
• Well versed with Recover point implementation in CDP/CRR environment and created consistency groups for Oracle/SQL databases
• Maintaining the ECC infrastructure, troubleshooting day-to-day issues, Configured alerts for management of the entire SAN infrastructure and also dealt with performance issues.
• Actively involved in installation of ECC and discovery and management of all SAN objects including installation of SDM/Symmetrix agents, FCC and host agents.
• Comprehensive knowledge in using Unisphere and NavisecCLI in implementing administration of VNX arrays.
• Experience with data mobility and management of distributed volumes in VPLEX metro.
• Well versed on VNX platform including configuring virtual pools and FAST/VP per EMC best practices using Unisphere manager.
• Experience working on VNX file including configuring CIFS servers and migration of shares using Robocopy.
• Installation and setup of SMAS 7.2 for maintenance and administration of the VMAX
• Involved actively in planning and design sessions migrating Unix/Linux/Windows servers from DMX to VMAX
• Platform using appropriate methodologies using Open Replicator/SRDF/Open Migrator.
• Implemented FAST VP and storage tiering for applications like Oracle Database and SQL server in VMAX.
• Configured FAST VP and Virtual Pools(TDAT’s and TDEVS) and created Auto provisioning groups for mapping and masking using SYMCLI 7.x/ SMC 7.X for creating initiator groups, port groups, storage groups and Masking Views in VMAX Environment.
• Implemented SRDF/A, SRDF/S for production systems including creation of dynamic RA groups, creation of dynamic RDF pairs, enabling SRDF/A for the group of devices.
• Implemented Business Continuity solutions for ORACLE databases using Recover Point CRR.
• Implementing Automating BCV solutions like Time Finder (Clones & Snaps) using Replication Manager.
• Extensively worked on SAN related host connectivity for various operating systems including SUN Solaris, HP, AIX, Linux, and Windows.
• Responsible for creating Zones, Zoning and firmware upgrades with switches like Brocade, McData and Cisco.
• Documented process and procedures utilizing best practices including the creation and maintenance of supporting detailed infrastructure diagrams
• Troubleshooting day-to-day performance issues and resolving them using Performance Manager. Comparing the port utilization, IOs and read/writes to the disks using performance manager and analyzing the data for trouble shooting performance issues.

Environment: Symmetrix DMX-3/4, VMAX, VPLEX, Clariion CX4, VNX 5500/5700, Symcli, SMC, SRDF, TimeFinder, Snapview, NavisecCLI, Unisphere, MirrorView, SANCopy, Open Migrator, Powerpath, Solaris, Windows, ESX, Linux.

Confidential

Sr. Storage Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Configured and managed a SAN environment incorporating DMX-2, DMX-3, DMX-4, Clariion CX600, CX700, using EMC Control Center, Navisphere Manager, Connectrix Manager and Webtools.
• Performed Snap view, TimeFinder, SRDF, MirrorView, BCV, and LUN Expansion Operations.
• Installation & configuration of Solutions Enabler for SYMCLI.
• Recover Point implementation/configuration for performing replication of data to and from remote sites.
• Made copies of production data by configuring BCV and clone using Time Finder Business Continuity, which was used by testing team.
• Implemented and tested Disaster recovery solutions using SRDF which in turn provided time to deal with problems if any during the failover process.
• Implemented and consolidated storage by moving data from Hitachi UPS 1100 to DMX-3 using Open Replicator and Open Migrator.
• Worked with the VP of Managed Storage Operations for the Data Migration from old HDS SAN to the new EMC Symmetrix DMX-4 Network
• Created CIFS servers in the VDM, joined to the Windows domains and created local groups on it.
• Deployed various agents and also discovered DMX, CLARiiON, Brocade switches and Windows / Solaris hosts in the ECC infrastructure.
• Configured Snapview Snapshots and Snapview Clones on CLARiiON CX Series Sub-Systems.
• Migrated the data from the host side using AIX lvm.
• Created File systems and exported to NFS and CIFS clients using Celerra Manager and Celerra CLI.
• Monitored performance, located bottlenecks and improved host based performance using Performance Manager.
• Performed virtualization of Powerpath and VMware Technologies.

Environment: Symmetrix DMX-3, DMX-4, Clariion CX480/700, Celerra 480/960, Symcli, ECC, Unisphere, NavisecCLI, Recover Point, Replication Manager, SRDF, SANCopy, Brocade Webtools, Solaris, Windows

Confidential, PA

Storage Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Administrated and Managed a SAN environment of 2 PetaBytes consisting of DMX 3/3000/1000, Clariion CX3-80/40, Cisco MDS 9509/9216 using SymCLI, ECC, Navisphere Manager, NaviCLI, Fabric/Device Manager.
• Involved in creating Business Continuity Solutions using SnapView Clones/Snapshots in EMC Clariion arrays and TimeFinder BCV/Clones/Snapshots in EMC DMX arrays.
• Extensively used Open Replicator to migrate from DMX 1000 to DMX3. Configured & Created Push/Pull sessions to migrate data, scripted whole process for efficiency.
• Consolidated existing CLARiiON storage by migrating CX3-40 to higher capacity CX3-80 using SAN Copy.
• Worked on Disaster Recovery solutions using MirrorView in CLARiiON & SRDF in Symmetrix DMX.
• Experience on configuring Zoning on Cisco Switches using Fabric/Device Manager.
• Used Replication Manager to create point in time replication technologies which included Snapview (Clone/Snapshot) & TimeFinder (Clone/Snapshot/BCV).
• Created SRDF devices using SymCLI, device groups and added devices to the device groups. Also worked on disaster recovery operations such as failover, failback and update.
• Installation and upgradation of firmware, HBA drivers, multi-pathing software and other specific point products related to storage.
• Administered & Managed Virtual Machines, ESX Servers using VMware VSphere 3.
• Installed and configured ECC alerts/agents to monitor SAN environment for Symmetrix, CLARiiON, Switches, and Hosts and attached management policies to include Email/Console notifications.
• Responsible for monitoring, troubleshooting and resolving routine issues like one-path-down, hosts not seeing storage, HBA failures, and zoning/masking/storage allocation and performance issues.

Environment: Symmetrix DMX-3, DMX-4, Clariion CX480/700, Celerra 480/960, Symcli, ECC, Unisphere, NavisecCLI, Recover Point, Replication Manager, SRDF, SANCopy, Brocade Web tools, Solaris, Windows.

Confidential

System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Performed complete and incremental file system backups and restores in case of disk inconsistencies.
• Patch & backup management using customized UNIX Shell & Perl scripts and recovery policies.
• Initialized disks, created volumes, created disk groups, added disks to the disk groups, imported and deported volume groups for data migration.
• Applying operating system updates and configuration changes.
• Documented routine Operating procedures for Solaris, Linux and Windows.
• Involved in monitoring system security, network traffic, network connections, maintaining the OS environment and adjust system parameters to increase system performance.
• Troubleshooting technical issues related to printers, internet connections, operating system and hardware.
• Configured NFS, NIS and DNS for sharing the file systems and the name resolutions.
• Overall UNIX (Sun Solaris) System Administration and NFS and Auto FS file system administration.
• Written Various Shell scripts to automate system administration tasks.
• System performance tuning, capacity management and troubleshooting any reported problems.