SUMMARY

• Over 8 years of experience as a Storage Administrator with hands - on experience in installation, configuration and deployment of SAN.
• Installation, configuration and maintenance of Storage Area Networks in a heterogeneous environments with Hitachi VSP, USP-V, USP, Hitachi 9980, 9990 and AMS 2000 family.
• Familiar with HNAS 3000 Series of NAS arrays.
• Experience with Hitachi Command Suite, Hitachi Storage Navigator Management Suites.
• Familiar with HP Storage Essentials, HP Performance Advisor.
• Familiar with Cisco and Brocade Director switches including MDS 9100 and 9500 and DCX 8510.
• Experience with Brocade Data Center Fabric Manager, Brocade Network Advisor, Cisco Fabric Manger, Cisco Device Manager and Cisco CLI.
• Familiar with NetApp FAS 3200, FAS 6200 series of NAS arrays.
• Familiar with NetApp OnCommand System Manager, Operations Manager and Filer View.
• Worked on VMware ESXi 5.1, VMware vCenter and vCenter Operations Suites.
• Familiar with Hitachi Tuning Manager and NetApp OnCommand Insight for performance and capacity monitoring.
• Experienced on Hitachi Replication technologies like Shadow Image, COW and HUR.
• Performed daily tasks like Storage provisioning, SAN performance, usage monitoring and applied optimizations or corrective measures.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Storage Arrays: Hitachi Data Systems’ VSP, USP-V, USP, USP-VM, HUS-VM, HUS and AMS series of block storage arrays and HNAS 3000 series. HP’s XP24000, XP12000 and XP1024. NetApp FAS 3200 and FAS 6200.

Fabric Switches: Cisco MDS 9500 and 9100 series, Brocade 5100 and 5300 switches.

Management Software: Hitachi Command Suite, Hitachi Storage Navigator, NetApp OnCommand System Manager, NetApp Operations Manager, Brocade Fabric Manager, Cisco Fabric Manager, Cisco Device Manager and VMware vCentr

Performance Analysis & Reporting: Hitachi Tuning Manager, Hitachi Performance Reporter, NetApp OnCommand Insight, VMware Hyperic and VMware vCenter Operations.

Operating Systems: Windows Server 2003, 2008, 2008 R2 and RHEL

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, NYC

Storage Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Performed installation, configuration and deployment of Hitachi HUS 110 and AMS 2000 series of arrays and Configuration on VSP arrays.
• Integrated HUS 100s, AMS 2000 and VSPs into Hitachi Command Suite, HTnM and NetApp OnCommand Insight.
• Involved in configuring SNMP traps into SiteScope and performance reports on NetApp OnCommand Insight.
• Sizing and implementation of HDP and HDT pools, LDEV designs as per workload demands.
• Configuring performance reports on Tuning Manager for VSPs and setup automated email reports.
• Performed data migration and virtualization tasks between Hitachi VSPs, HUS 100s, EMC Clariion and NetApp FAS series of arrays.
• Involved in the setup and maintenance of Hitachi Shadow Image, Copy-on-Write and ThinImage.
• Configured HUS 100 series of arrays for HNAS usage per HDS Best Practices.
• Configuration of HNAS 3000 controllers for file services, from standalone and virtualized storage.
• Provided operational support by communicating with Hitachi Support to troubleshoot and resolve performance issues and executed proposed solution and fixes.
• Maintenance of client’s VMware backend infrastructure, including deployment of new ESX hosts and installing patches.
• Utilized VMware vMotion, Storage DRS and Hitachi Tiered Storage Manager for storage and compute load balancing.
• Involved in design, deployment and upgrades for new VMware clusters, with VMFS 5 datastores.
• Upgraded VMware environment from EXS 4.0 to ESXi 5.0, ESXi 5.0 to 5.1 and finally to 5.5.
• Performed configuration and setup of storage optimization policies including Deduplication and Compression on NetApp 3200 and 6200 arrays.

Confidential, Dallas, TX

Sr. SAN Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Managed and administrated Hitachi VSP, USP-V, AMS 2500 & AMS 2300 models.
• Installation and configuration of Hitachi Command Suite, Hitachi Tuning Manager and Hitachi Replication Manager.
• Managed Cisco switches, created VSANs, added members to zones, added zones to zone set and activated zone set using command line interface.
• Configure Dynamic Provisioning Pools on Hitachi VSP and USP arrays.
• Installation and configuration of Hitachi /HP external storage for externalizing and migrating EMC storage to Hitachi storage array.
• Collecting SAN performance reports using Hitachi Tuning Manager.
• Configured virtualization using Universal Volume Manager.
• Installation and configuration of Hitachi Shadow Image.
• Managing EMC Clariion storage arrays using EMC Navisphere.
• Created and updated the storage Documentation. Problem analysis and Capacity planning. Monitor the storage environment. Set up the alerts and create the logs. Set up the user accounts on storage devices.
• Installation of Fiber adapters, installation of Fiber switches, Zoning.
• Health monitoring of SAN components. Collect the data for trending. Create daily logs, perform capacity planning.

Confidential, Weehawken, NJ

Sr. SAN Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Managed and administrated Hitachi USP 1100, 9980v, 9970 models.
• Managed and administrated Hitachi AMS 2100, AMS 1000 & AMS 500 and HP 1024.
• Configure Hitachi Dynamic Provisioning on Hitachi USP arrays.
• Install and configure Brocade SAN Switches.
• Administration and Configuration of Brocade Director switches using Brocade Web Tools and CLI.
• Performing Zoning on Brocade switches using Brocade Web Tools.
• Storage Provisioning using Hitachi Storage Navigator, Modular 2 and Modular.
• Installation and configuration of Hitachi Shadow Image using Storage Navigator.
• Installation and configuration of Hitachi True Copy (sync).
• Following change control procedures for disk assignment, space allocation, LUN expansion.
• Provided Support and administer assistance within the SAN environments.
• Performed the basic trouble shooting techniques and problem resolution to identify the HBA or driver software problems on Windows platforms.

Confidential

SAN Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Worked on a CLARiiON AX150 and AX100 -based data migration project in SAN environment for Solaris and Win2003.
• Depending upon the host’s request created MetaLUNs or allocated additional LUNs for additional storage and also decommissioned the unused storage to improve resources availability.
• Managed and administrated Hitachi 9980v, 9970, AMS 1000 & AMS 500.
• Installation and configuration of Hitachi True Copy and Shadow Image.
• Installed and configured SUN E220/E420/E450 servers with Solaris. Created partitions, mounted file systems, user administration by controlling the system processes, patch and package administration.
• Provided technical support and aided the development research projects by implementing acceptance-testing procedures.
• Analyzed existing infrastructure and proposed feasible system/ software upgrades with potential incompatibilities identified.
• Oversee the network connectivity, implementation, and integration and troubleshooting for printers, scanners and Laser Jet format plotters.
• Determined the requirements and proposed the purchase of new network equipment that included switches, routers, servers, workstations and backup equipment.