SUMMARY

• Extensive experience in System Administration, Storage area networks (SAN), Backup and Disaster recovery in a heterogeneous environment.
• Experience in administration, implementation and support for EMC Symmetrix DMX & VMAX, Clariion, VNX, Isilon, VPLEX and XtremIO in SAN/NAS environments along with hands on HDS USP, USP - V & VSP, IBM DS 8000, IBM SVC arrays.
• Extensive experience in working with ViPR Controller in day to day allocations, migrations and resolving issues.
• Ability to design, implement maintain storage fabrics and perform day - to-day operations like zoning, storage provisioning, LUN creation, Mapping and Masking, VPLEX Provisioning, create Service Requests, gathering Performance Data, RCA, EMC GRABs.
• Extensive experience in storage provisioning like VMAX Auto provisioning, Storage tiering (FAST) and also using Hitachi Command Suite, HDS Storage Navigator, Unisphere.
• Extensive experience in Storage & Fabric Migrations on multi-platform arrays using PPME (Power Path Migration Enabler), LVM Migration on Linux/AIX/HP-UX, VxVM (Veritas) Migration on Windows/Unix platforms, EMC Open Replicator, SAN Copy.
• Experience in administration of Cisco, Brocade and McData switches and fabric/path management using Cli and GUI.
• Experience in installation and configuration of PowerPath/ME, DMP, VEA, Emulex HBAnywhere, ODM filesets on UNIX/Windows platforms for failover, path management, load balancing and migration purposes.
• Ability to perform Unisphere, VMAX and VPLEX code upgrades and apply patches.
• Installation and configuration of VMAX, VPLEX and XtremIO bricks.
• Performed business continuity solutions using various tools like SnapView Snapshot/Clone, MirrorView S/A, Timefinder Mirror/Clone/Snap & SRDF S/A.
• Hands on experience with EMC Navisphere, ECC, ProSphere, SRM Suite, SMC, Unisphere, Solutions enabler (SymCLI).
• Experience in managing and administering disk volumes using LVM, Veritas Volume Manager (VxVM) in Windows & UNIX environments.
• Experience in configuring RecoverPoint CDP/CRR modes and using ClARiiON and fabric based splitters
• Experience in installing and configuring VMWare ESX clusters and managing using Virtual Center and migrating using storage vMotion.
• Worked on Remedy tool Change management, request management and Incident tickets, attend Focus and WAR rooms whenever issue rises, 24x7 Production support on call.
• Solid experience in identifying and analyzing technical issues and troubleshooting them.
• Excellent Communication skills and a quick learner.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating System: AIX 5.x/6.x/7.x, Solaris 9/10/11, HP-UX 10.x/11.x, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, SUSE Linux 10/11, Windows 2000/2003/2008/2012

Storage Hardware: VPLEX VS1/VS2/VS6, Symmetrix VMAX 1/2/3, DMX-2/DMX-3/DMX-4, Celerra, Clariion CX/NS series, VNX, Isilon, XtremIO

Storage Management: ECC 5.2/6.0/6.1,SMC,SYMCLI 6.x/7.x/8.x, XMS, EMC Access Logix, Navisphere Manager/NAVICLI, SRDF, SRDF/A, TimeFinder/Clone, Mirror View/Snapview, SanCopy, EMC Recover Point, ViPR Controller, BrocadeCLI/WebTools, Cisco CLI/Fabric Manager/Device Manager, PowerPath/DMP, Replication Manager,SRDF, Prosphere, SRM suite

Software: Veritas Volume Manager (VxVM), Logical Volume Manager (LVM), Sun Volume Manager (SVM), Solstice Disk Suite, Veritas NetBackup.

Migration Methodologies: OpenReplicator, OpenMigrator, PPME, VPLEX Data Mobility, Veritas Migration, LVM (HP-UX/Linux/Solaris), Storage vMotion

Programming / Scripting: Shell Script (Bash, Ksh, Sed), C, Java, Html, JavaScript

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Bentonville, AR

Sr. Implementation Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Day-to-day administration of SAN infrastructure using Symcli, SMC, Cisco Fabric Manager, Cisco Device Manager, Brocade Network Advisor, VplexCli, Unisphere, XMS.
• Configured, managed and monitored a SAN storage infrastructure that comprised of EMC DMX, VMAX, XtremIO storage arrays and Hitachi USP/USP-V/VSP arrays
• Configured and managed Cisco and Brocade fabric environment along with Path Management and Zoning.
• Performed extensive Storage and Fabric Migrations of 3+ PB storage & 25+ arrays from EMC/Hitachi/IBM to EMC VMAX using PPME, Vplex DM, VxVM (Windows/Linux) and LVM migration Methods on clustered/non-clustered hosts.
• Performed Storage Migrations of around 8 PB from VMAX/XtremIO/SVC to XtremIO.
• Performed VPLEX/VMAX/XtremIO Code Upgrades as per EMC recommended procedures.
• Configuration of the VPLEX/VMAX/XtremIO in the customer environment in ViPR Controller.
• Deployed VMAX3 and VPLEX VS6 in the lab environment.
• Allocation of LUN’s to the ESX/regular hosts and migrations of LUN’s to the newer XtremIO arrays using ViPR Controller.
• Worked with the ViPR engineering team to resolve bug fixes in ViPR code and suggested improvements/safeguards to include in the future versions to prevent DU/DL.
• Modified the ViPR database to make it consistent with the changes made outside of ViPR.
• Scheduled the scripts to run at scheduled intervals and on demand to check the ViPR database for inconsistencies related to the storage environment.
• Created storage volumes/extents/devices/virtual volumes, registering Initiators, creating storage views, creating distributed devices in VPLEX Local and Metro config.
• Install & Upgrade Powerpath/ME, HDLM, HBAnyware on Windows, SUSE Linux, AIX and HP-UX Operating Systems to in corporate load balancing and path failover.
• Planned and designed storage solution models that were deployed in remote locations for specific business application requirements and budget constraints.
• Installed and configured VMware vSphere 5/6 Infrastructure, supported the performance and redundancy of the VMware ESXi hosts and Datastores.
• Performed Storage allocations on DMX, VMAX, HDS USP/USP-V and XtremIO Arrays.
• Created NFS/CIFS file shares in NetApp, Isilon and VNX.
• Created zoning between EMC/HDS arrays and Hosts on Brocade/Cisco switches.
• Worked on BMC Remedy Ticketing System to create Change requests for Migrations, Array Upgrades and troubleshooting issues.
• Performance monitoring of the environment which includes EMC DMX, VMAX, VNX, VPLEX, Isilon, XtremIO and HDS USP, USP-V and generate performance reports as per customer needs.
• Troubleshooting SAN issues such as low performance, Connectivity issues and Multipathing configuration on a Day-to-Day basis.
• Checking compatibility of Host Servers by collecting EMC GRABs (UNIX), EMC Reports (Windows) by generating Migration Readiness, SAN Summary and Interoperability reports and validate against EMC Simple Support Matrix (ESSM).
• Created Excel and Shell scripts to ease and to automate parts of data collection and migration processes.
• Created Disruptive/Non-disruptive migration procedures based on the Business owner and Application/Database owner requirements
• Documented the environment and procedures for daily operations by maintaining log files.

Confidential

Software Engineer (Quality Assurance)

Responsibilities:

• Used Jmeter tool to test the load and performance testing of Mobile Location Protocols and automate part of the testing process
• Created test cases for Manual testing for Mobile Location Protocols using equivalence partitioning
• Manual and automated testing of DSExpert client features
• Manual testing of DSExpert client, DXMON and DXAGENT installations on Windows, Linux and Solaris machines natively and remotely