SUMMARY

• Over 8 years of experience as Senior Open Systems Storage Professional in Fiber channel SAN, NAS, Backup and as a System administrator
• Experience in administrating, maintaining and troubleshooting heterogeneous environments such as EMC VNX, Symmetrix VMAX, DMX - 4, DMX-3 series, Celerra, Isilon, Clariion and NetApp FAS filers.
• Proficient with several data management and monitoring tools includes ECC, Solutions enabler, SMC, Unisphere for VMAX and VNX, Power Path, Navisphere suite, Celerra manager.
• Expertise in storage technologies like SCSI, FC, RAID and Storage Virtualization.
• Good knowledge on RAID levels and implemented almost all levels.
• Implemented FAST VP on both VMAX and VNX. And Setup QOS on VMAX depending on Client requirements.
• Strong experience in configuring, zoning for Brocade DCX 8510 using CLI/BNA, Fabric/Device Manager for Cisco MDS switches.
• Experience in Monitoring alerts for FC SAN Fabric using Brocade Network Advisor.
• Strong experience in SAN data migration solutions that include EMCOpen Replicator, Recover pointand ClariionSAN Copy, PPME.
• Hands on experience with disaster recovery solution using SRDF, Time Finder for Symmetrix, recover point for VNX.
• Strong experience in backup management and disaster recovery administration using EMC TimeFinder family (Snaps, ClonesandBCVs), Remote replication techniques (SRDF, Mirror viewand SAN Copy).
• Expertise in multi vendor operating systems which includes Solaris, Linux, HP-UNIX, and Windows
• Expert understanding of HBA’s (QLogic, Emulex) FC switch architecture, configuration, and management (zoning, fan-in / fan-out, ISL’s, ICL’s, LUN masking, etc), and relevant multi-pathing/failover device driver technology.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, TN

SAN and Storage Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Administered and managed SAN/NAS environment consisting of Symmetrix VMAX, DMX-4, CLARiiON CX-4/CX-3 and Celerra NS-480, Celerra NX4 connected to Solaris, Linux, VMware and Windows servers.
• Deployed and configured a new 7500 VNX in the environment by coordinating with EMC professional services.
• Designed, planned and created storage pools for both file and block on the new VNX.
• Created Storage Groups, FAST policies in order for hot device reallocation to improve performance on V-MAX
• Experience in Meta creation, mapping, zoning, masking and Data Replication locally and remotely (BCV, SRDF).
• Implemented FAST VP in VMAX with Enguinity code 5875
• Perform capacity planning, forecast future growth/expansion on both server and storage platforms
• Administration of VNX 5700 includes creating CIFS shares, NFS exports and expanding the File systems and setting quota limits as per the business requirements.
• Implementation ofFAST,VirtualandThin ProvisioningonVMAXstorage array
• Migrated Celerra file systems from NS480 to VNX using Celerra replicator.
• Performed LUN Migration within Clariion based on performance considerations.
• Created scripts for daily tasks device creation, mapping, masking and migration tasks.
• Working with EMC in upgrading the Isilon OneFS from 6.5 to 7.0.2.5.
• Experience in implementing data migrations using Array based solution (SRDF, Open Replicator) and host based solution (Open Migrator/LVM mirroring).
• Implemented SRDF/A between two Symmetrix DMX-4 storage arrays in order to provide disaster recovery solution.
• Enabled the Brocade DCX for scalability, high-performance, and cost-effective security and disaster recovery solutions through plug-in blades.
• Accelerated migrations to the Power Systems and AIX platform from Oracle Solaris and HP-UX.
• Migrated Celerra file systems from one pool to another using Celerra replicator in NS20.
• Maintenance and Monitoring ofNetApp storageby Configuring Aggregates, volumes, Luns, Qtrees and snapshots.
• Created Aggregates, volumes (FlexVol), qtrees and Quotas on NetApp Filers.
• Experience in Administration of Storage to Multiprotocol Environments likeCIFS and NFSin NetApp SAN/NAS environment
• Experience in implementing NetApp Snap suite solutions like Snapshots, Snap Mirror, and Snap Vault, Snap Restore for backup, migration and disaster recovery.
• Configuring data storage in NetApp FAS 6200 series filers that run Data ONTAP 8 series using CLI and NetApp Oncommand Suite.
• Adhere and follow Change control protocols to implement off-hour modifications to storage appliances and software, in coordination with the offshore team.

Confidential, Austin, TX

SAN and Storage Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Administered and managed SAN/NAS environment consisting of Symmetrix VMAX, VNX, CLARiiON CX4 and HP EVA6400 connected to Solaris, Linux, VMware and Windows servers.
• Performed Mapping, Masking and storage operations using Solutions Enabler and Symmetrix Management Console.
• Worked withEMCsoftware tools like SymCLI, Control Centre, TimeFinder, SRDF, PowerPath and Navisphere Manager.
• Deployed Unisphere for managing VNX and customized the logs and alerts.
• Auto Provisioning on V-MAX by creating Initiator, Port and Storage groups using Solution Enabler and Symmetrix Management Console.
• Created data devs, thin pools, tdevs, Meta volumes using SMC and Symcli.
• Migrated data using SRDF from Symmetrix DMX-4 to Symmetrix V-MAX.
• Performed LUN Migration without disruption to production in EMC VNX.
• Dealt with situations like LUN trespassing, connectivity issues and failures in SAN environment.
• Configuration and administration ofEMCPowerPathsoftware for redundant path failover, recovery and automatic I/O failure detections.
• Troubleshoot the SAN environment upon failure due to connectivity issues and configuration errors.
• Capacity utilization/Management.

Confidential - Waltham, MA

Storage/System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Implemented SAN/NAS with Symmetrix VMAX, DMX-4, Clariion CX-4 series, Celerra NS-480, Celerra NX4 connected to Solaris, Linux, VMware and Windows servers.
• Created Meta devices and mapped them to FA ports as and when required on Symmetrix arrays.
• Created RAID groups, Meta LUNs, Storage groups and allocating storage to different hosts.
• Storage Provisioning/Reclaiming from CLARiiON using Navisphere Manager.
• Zoning the new servers to the storage arrays on Cisco MDS switches using Cisco Fabric/Device Manager.
• Managed Cisco switches by using Fabric Manager, device manager and command Line.
• Provisioning storage to UNIX, Windows and ESX servers from DMX4/DMX3 arrays using SYMCLI/SMC.
• Installed and configured HBA’s on the servers.
• Migrated data from CX3-80 to CX4-480 using SAN Copy.
• Configured Snapshots schedules on the NetApp volumes in the environment.
• Performed Auto provisioning for VMAX by creating storage groups, initiator groups, port groups and masking views using SMC and SymCLI.
• Documented storage allocation, storage reclamation, replication procedures, pre-migration and post-migration.

Confidential - Austin, TX

Storage/System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Storage Administration in a storage environment consisting of V-MAX, CLARiiON CX4-960 and CX3-40 storage arrays, Brocade DCX switches and Celerra VNX.
• Created Raid groups, Bind LUNs and Creating Storage groups, allocating storage space to Storage groups and connecting Hosts to it using Navisphere.
• Removing of the zones from the active zone set on Cisco MDS switches when there are HBA replacements.
• Established SAN Security using Access Logix, Masking and Zoning.
• Configuring Path failover for dynamic load balancing and Masking the LUNs for providing security to the SAN.
• Setting up the SAN environment for development & testing needs.
• Responsible to handle request tickets and creating change tickets for making changes to the Hardware/Software.
• Dealt with Troubleshooting issues related to Storage, Configuration Errors and Connectivity Issues.

Confidential

Systems/Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Installed, Configured and maintained UNIX and Windows operating systems, including the system software and provided hardware.
• Performed complete and incremental file system backups and restores in case of disk inconsistencies.
• Creating, Resizing, Recovering and Removing the Volumes.
• Maintained daily backups, worked on Operating System updates and Configuration changes.
• Documentation of procedures for day-to-day tasks performed.
• Provided technical assistance to staff, assisting with network access, Printing and application software operation.
• 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, E-mail, Internet connections, Operating system and hardware.
• Installed applications on servers and workstations required by the product development team.