SUMMARY

• A SAN professional with over 11+ years of experience in Information Technology industry including experience in enterprise storage management.
• Having 8+ years of experience as Storage Area Network(SAN) Administrator / Engineer on EMC storage products including VMAX, DMX, VNX & CLARiiON, EMC Isilon, VPLEX, XtremIO, and Netapp FAS3070, FAS6070, IBM V7000, Hitachi VSP, Confidential 3PAR.
• Experience in management of storage environment consisting of Symmetrix VMAX 20K/40K, VMAX 3, DMX - 4, DMX 3, Clariion CX600/700, CX3-40/80, Cisco MDS 9509, 9513 and Brocade 4900, M4700. 48K Director Class.
• Hands on experience in using SYMCLI, Navisphere Manager, Unisphere Manager, SMC, Solutions Enabler, EMC Control Center.
• Involved in Binding LUNs, Creating Storage Groups on different series of CLARiiON arrays.
• Experience in using Open Replicator to migrate from Clariion, DMX to VMAX. Configured, Created, push and pull sessions to migrate devices.
• Involved in implementing Clustering, Zoning, and Masking.
• Presenting san storage to virtual machines using ISCSI.
• Presenting CSV’s to the host clusters in virtual environment.
• Configuring data storage in Netapp FAS series Filers that run Data ONTAP 7G.
• Performed storage array End of life migrations using PPME.
• Providing Recover point protection to devices in production environment as per requirement.
• Experience in EMC SRDF/A, Recoverpoint, Mirror view, Snap view, SAN Copy and Power path.
• Experience in EMC Isilon(SmartConnect,SmartFail, SmartPools/Zones, SyncIQ, SmartQuota, SnapshotIQ, SmartLock, InsightIQ), VPLEX, XtremIO and Netapp.
• Experience in SAN Migrations using PPME, Open Replicator andKnowledge on NAS migrations using Robocopy, EMC Rainfinity.
• Installation and configuration of Virtual Environments like VMware VSphere 5 and Confidential Hyper-v.
• Excellent hand-on experience with Vmware vSphere ESXi, vCenter.
• Excellent knowledge of Vmware vMotion, Storage vMotion, High Availability, DRS and Site Recovery Manager (SRM).
• Monitor health of VMs operating in various datacenters.
• Manage replications and VM movements between datacenters.
• Excellent skills in analyzing, designing, implementing and system integration.
• Established customer relationships through weekly/monthly Storage Planning & Management meetings, upcoming scheduled SAN/NAS projects and daily activities.
• Self starting individual with good intercommunication skills combined with the ability to work collaboratively and as well as an individual to achieve management goals. Process orientated with a strong attention to detail.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: Windows,Sun Solaris 9, LINUX

Virtualization: VMWare, Hyper-v

Storage Arrays: EMC- VMAX, VNX, Clariion, DMX, ISILON, VPLEX, XtremIO, Netapp, Hitachi VSP, Confidential 3Par.

Storage Tools: EMC Navisphere Manager, Unisphere Manager, ECC, SMC, SymCLI, SRDF, Timefinder Mirror/Clone/Snap Mirrorview/Snapview, Sancopy, PPME, Recover Point

Switches: Brocade & Cisco

Fabric Management: Soft zoning, Hard zoning, FC SAN topologies, Inter switch link’s, Multi-pathing (Redundant Fabrics), Webtools Connectrix Manager, Brocade Fabric Manager, Brocade CLI.

Database: SQL Server, Oracle

Programming Languages: C,C++,Java

Protocols: TCP/IP, NIS+, NIS, NFS, CIFS, DNS, DHCP, SCSI, ISCSI, FCP, IFCP, FCIP

Scripting Languages: Perl, Shell, Java script

Backup Tools: Avamar, Symantec Netbackup

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Redmond,WA

Storage Administrator (Team Lead)

Responsibilities:

• Support mid and high range, enterprise SAN (Storage Area Network) for mission critical applications .
• Have hands-on experience on EMC Symmetrix DMX,VMAX,CLARiiON,VNX, XtremIO,Isilon.
• Provisioning storage from Hitachi VSP.
• Configuring Zoning, Device Mapping and Masking for multiple hosts and storages.
• Installing compatible Multipath Software like Power path.
• Installed and configured Control Center.
• Configuring data storage in Netapp FAS series.
• Assigning &/allocating LUNs to Servers from Clariion CX-600, CX-700, CX 3-40, CX 3-80 Boxes using Navisphere.
• Storage provisioning and administration of EMC DMX and VMAX arrays using Unisphere Manager/SMC and SymCLI.
• Knowledge of NFS and CIFS share creation using Isilon GUI.
• Knowledge on SyncIQ, SnapshotIQ, Smart Quota, SmartConnect, Subnets and pool configuration.
• Knowledge of OneFS 7.1 and good understanding of Isilon S,X and NL series and hardware architecture Infini-band switch connectivity, node connectivity, I/O flow and load balancing between nodes.
• Configured anonymous file sharing to connect clients to the cluster via SMB/NFS for windows operating environment using SmartConnect.
• Presenting san storage to virtual machines using ISCSI.
• Presenting CSV’s to the host clusters in virtual environment.
• Installing HBA Drivers on the servers and resolving the issues related to SAN.
• Implementing FAST policies on storage groups.
• Involved in PPME (Host based) migrations for standalone and clustered servers.
• Performed storage array End of life migrations using PPME.
• Involved in growing striped lun with protection using BCV.
• Involved in VLUN migrations in VMAX for pool balancing.
• Providing Recover point protection to devices in production environment as per requirement.
• Monitoring and analyzing I/O performance of the servers from the Storage end
• Troubleshooting the Brocade and Cisco Switches problems
• Troubleshooting the SAN problems
• Troubleshooting storage issues related to clusters.
• Installed and configured PowerPath on various operating systems to support the load balancing and failover features among the HBAs on the system.
• Involved In configuring Zones to the hosts.
• Configured and implemented a standardized SRDF/AR group for disaster recovery.
• Worked in disaster recovery operations team to perform the DR exercise to check the data consistency at the remote site using failover, update and failback operations.
• Creating the RAID Groups and binding LUNs on EMC CLARiiON Storage systems.
• Creating the storage groups and carving the LUNs on EMC CLARiiON arrays.
• Configure LUNs, LUNs Provisioning, and LUN Masking on EMC CLARiiON storage systems by using Access Logix.
• Responsible for performing day to day operational tasks like storage provisioning and maintaining high availability as per EMC best practices.
• Generated health reports periodically for the entire SAN/Storage environments.
• Experience in EMC Clariion/VNX Administration by Using Navisphere/Unisphere Manager.
• Installed Navisphere Agent/CLI on Solaris & Windows Servers.
• Troubleshooting of multi-Pathing issues.
• Troubleshooting on Connectivity issues by co-ordinating with sites team.
• Removing of unused LUNs from servers as part of decommission of servers.
• Providing 24/7 support.

Environment: EMC VMAX-20K,DMX-4, DMX1000/pdf/DMX3000.pdf VNX,ISILON, XtremIO,VPLEX, Netapp FAS 6070,CLARiiON CX-600/700, CX3-40, CX3-80,FAST, SRDF/A, Recoverpoint, PPME, ISCSI, Hitachi VSP, Brocade, CISCO Windows, SYMCLI, Unisphere Manager for VMAX, Navisphere Manager, Brocade CMCNE and Webtools, CISCO using Fabric Manager, Device Manager and DCNM.

Confidential

Storage Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Support mid and high range, enterprise SAN (Storage Area Network) for mission critical applications
• Have hands-on experience on EMC Symmetrix DMX,VMAX and EMC CLARiiON, VNX.
• Opening SR’s with vendor for resolving the hardware related issues.
• Co-ordinating with vendor for resolving the issues related to performance.
• Co-ordinating with sites team in providing access to vendor team for hardware replacements and troubleshooting issues.
• Configuring Zoning, Device Mapping, and Device Masking for multiple hosts and storages.
• Installing compatible Multipath Software like Power path.
• Assigning &/allocating LUNs to Servers from Clariion CX-600, CX-700, CX 3-40, CX 3-80 Boxes using Navisphere.
• Storage provisioning and administration of EMC DMX and VMAX arrays using SMC or SymCLI.
• Presenting File shares to from Netapp 3070.
• Presenting shared storage through ISCSI to virtual machines which will be clustered
• Installing HBA Drivers on the servers and resolving the issues related to SAN.
• Monitoring and analyzing I/O performance of the servers from the Storage end
• Involved in co-ordinating with EMC support team for EOL migrations using Open migrator.
• Troubleshooting the SAN problems
• Installed and configured PowerPath on various operating systems to support the load balancing and failover features among the HBAs on the system.
• Involved In configuring Zones to the hosts.
• Configured and implemented a standardized SRDF/AR group for disaster recovery.
• Creating the Device groups and populating the proper devices and export those groups to the remote side to use in case of a disaster.
• Worked in disaster recovery operations team to perform the DR exercise to check the data consistency at the remote site using failover, update and failback operations.
• Configure a Host integration to access the EMC CLARiiON storage array by using Navisphere manager 6.x.
• Creating the RAID Groups and binding LUNs on EMC CLARiiON Storage Systems.
• Creating the storage groups and carving the LUNs on EMC CLARiiON.
• Configure LUNs, LUNs Provisioning, and LUN Masking on EMC CLARiiON storage systems by using Access Logix.
• Responsible for performing day to day operational tasks like storage provisioning and maintaining high availability as per EMC best practices.
• Generated health reports periodically for the entire SAN/Storage environments.
• Experience in EMC Clariion Administration by Using Navisphere Manager.
• Monitoring EMC Clariion arrays performance by using Navisphere Analyzer.
• Installed Navisphere Agent/CLI on Solaris & Windows Servers.
• Troubleshooting of multi-Pathing issues.
• Troubleshooting on Connectivity issues.
• Removing of unused LUNs from servers.
• Excellent hand-on experience with Vmware vSphere ESXi, vCenter.
• Excellent knowledge of Vmware vMotion, Storage vMotion, High Availability, DRS and Site Recovery Manager (SRM).
• Monitor health of VMs operating in various datacenters.
• Manage replications and VM movements between datacenters.
• Providing 24/7 support

Environment: EMC DMX1000/pdf/DMX3000.pdfCLARiiON CX-600/700, CX3-40, CX3-80,DMX-2,VMAX, Netapp 3070, Brocade 48k, Solaris, Linux, Windows,Vmware Vsphere 5, SYMCLI, ECC 6.0, Navisphere Manager, Brocade CLI and Webtools.

Confidential

System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Administrating user accounts in windows NT 5.0 SERVER
• Administration of ISA proxy servers and proxy firewall clients.
• Configuring and maintaining DNS, DHCP servers
• Performance tuning, trouble shooting the event logs.
• To create users on request in the domain
• Rectifying all type of Network problems
• Upgrading the service packs, software’s, account packages
• Diagnosed different type of software problems
• To Monitor Health Condition and implement recommendations
• Troubleshot hardware problem’s
• Monitoring Disk Activity, logs, Checking for free space and removed temporary Core files
• Installation of Sql server 2000 database.
• Restoring the database in Sql server 2000.
• Troubleshooting the installation problems of various software’s on Windows 2000/2003 & XP systems.

Environment: Windows 2000/2003, XP, Sql server 2000