SUMMARY

• Over 6 years of experience as SAN and Storage Administrator in Information Technology (IT) including EMC Storage, SAN Administration and System Administration.
• Configuring, Administration and Troubleshooting of VMAX systems which includes but not limited to Thin-Provisioning and Automated Storage Tiering.
• Experience in administrating, maintaining and troubleshooting EMC Symmetrix V-Max, DMX4, DMX3 and VNX, Clariion CX-3/CX-4 series.
• Configuring, Administration and Troubleshooting of VMAX systems which includes but not limited to Thin-Provisioning and Automated Storage Tiering
• Strong experience with management tools includes EMC Control Center ECC, SymCLI, Performance Manager, Clariion Navisphere Manager/Analyzer/Naviseccli, and Event Manager
• Strong experience in SAN data migration solutions that include EMC Open Replicator, Replication manager, Recover point and Clariion Sancopy
• Strong experience in backup management and disaster recovery administration using EMC TimeFinder family (Snaps, Clones and BCVs), Remote replication techniques (SRDF, Mirror view andSAN Copy)
• Hands on experience with various Brocade enterprise directors (12k and 48k) and departmental switches (3900, 4100 and 4900).
• Experience with Cisco enterprise directors like Cisco MDS 9513/9509/9506 and 9120/9140 departmental switches.
• Hands on experience on the data migration tools, both array based (SRDF and OpenReplicator) and host based/non-array based (Unix native tools, Open Migrator, PPME and Robocopy)
• Experienced SAN Management for Sun Solaris/HPUX/AIX/Windows operating systems.
• Knowledgeable in troubleshooting day to day SAN/Storage and host related issues.

EDUCATION

• Bachelors in Electronics Engineering

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

EMC Storage

VNX,VMAX, DMX 3-4/3000/2000/1000, Symmetrix 8830, Clariion CX4-240/480/960 and Clariion CX3-40/80 & CX 700/600/500

Storage Management Software

EMC Solutions Enabler SymCLI, EMC Control Center, EMC Navisphere Manager & EMC Symmetrix Management Console

Element Manager

EMC Connectrix Manager, MDS Fabric/Device Manager, Brocade Web Tools, Emulex HBAnywhere and QLogic SAN surfer.

EMC Replication and 
Backup

Symmetrix SRDF(S/A), EMC TimeFinder – Clones, SnapView, BCV, Mirror View, Clariion SANCopy, Open Replicator, Recover Point, Replication manager, VERITAS Netbackup 6.5, and VMware

SAN & Fiber Connectivity

Cisco MDS 9509/ 9506/ 9216 , McData M4700, Brocade 12000/ 4800/4100/ DS–16B2, FC HBA (Emulex/QLogic)

SAN Monitoring/Reporting

EMC Control Center Storage Scope / Performance Manager, Navisphere Analyzer & Event Monitor

Path Management Software

EMC PowerPath

Operating Systems

Windows 2000/2003, Linux (Red Hat), Unix (Sun Solaris) and Cisco IOS

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential Mar’11 – present
Storage Administrator.

Responsibilities:

• SAN Administration of a complex multi peta byte storage environment consists of EMC Symmetrix VMAX/DMX4, Clariion arrays and IBM XIV storage arrays including file system configuration in AIX, Solaris and Linux servers/clusters
• Storage allocation to new build and existing UNIX, Windows servers/clusters and VMWare ESX environment using auto provisioning on V-max using SYMCLI/SMC. Tasks include creation of tdevs, binding tdevs to thin pools, creation of initiator/storage/port groups and creating masking view and enabling bit settings to initiators.
• Provisioning storage to UNIX, Windows and ESX servers from DMX4/DMX3 arrays using SYMCLI/SMC
• Configuration and management of Cisco Fabric environment. Tasks include creation of device alias, zones, adding zones to zoneset and activating zoneset.
• Implemented thin provisioning from VMAX to UNIX (AIX, Solaris and Linux) and Windows2003/2008 (clusters) servers, and VMware ESX Servers.
• Created data devs, thin pools, tdevs, Meta volumes using SMC and Symcli
• Configuration and management of VNX arrays using Unisphere Manager. Assigned storage to unix and windows servers and configuration of NFS exports and CIFS shares using Unisphere manager
• Implemented SRDF/A on V-Max/DMX for disaster recovery setup between local and remote datacenters
• Created scripts for daily tasks device creation, mapping, masking and migration tasks.
• Troubleshooting routine critical issues including threshold optimization, server throughput, ports availability, meeting zoning requirements, one-path down, enabling the path on source or destination arrays, data not migrated, host not seeing storage and storage management problems.
• Administration of FAS6000 systems including creation of file systems, exporting and mounting CIFS/NFS shares using FilerView
• Configuration of file systems on AIX, Solaris and Linux servers/clusters using AIX native volume manager, Veritas volume manager
• Migrated Unix and windows servers using Open replicator and SRDF (array based) and Open Migrator/LVM Mirroring (Host based) to migrate the data from DMX-3/DMX-4 to V-Max storage systems
• Migrated data successfully from CX600/CX700 to CX4-240 using Mirror View/S and SAN Copy and CX600/CX700 to DMX-3 to DMX-4 using Open Replicator /Open Migrator.
• Installed and configured Power Path for AIX / Solaris /HP and Windows Operating Systems to support the load balancing and failover features among the HBAs on the system and also installed Symcli software

Environment: EMC V-MAX, DMX-4/DMX-3, DS8300, IBM XIV, VNX, CX3-80, CX500/700,VNX,,Cisco MDS 9513 and McData 6400 Enterprise Director,SYMCLI, ECC6.1, SMC, Unisphere Manager, Navisphere Manager/CLI, SRDF, TimeFinder, Snap View, MirrorView, SANCopy, Open Replicator, Cisco CLI/Fabric Manager and EMC PowerPath, Celerra Manager and DATA Ontap,AIX, Solaris, Windows 2008/2003/2000 and Linux

Confidential, Miami, Florida Mar’10 – Feb’11 
SAN/Storage Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Configured, Administered and Managed a SAN storage environment of 800 TB, consisting of EMC VMAX,DMX3-4/3000/1000 and Clariion CX 4-240/480/960 Storage arrays, Cisco MDS 9509 director and MDS 9216 switch using SYMCLI, Navisphere Manager, EMC Connectrix manager, Fabric/Device Manager and EMC Control Center.
• Storage provisioning and administration of EMC VMAX, Symmetrix and Clariion arrays using Symcli, SMC 7.0, Navisphere and ECC 6.0
• Implementation of FAST, Virtual and Thin Provisioning on VMAX storage array
• Designed and implemented SAN disaster recovery solutions for Tier-1 storage using SRDF/A.
• Extensive use of Open Replicator to migrate storage from EMC DMX 1000 to DMX–4. Configured/Created push/pull sessions to migrate data.
• Worked on Symmetrix Timefinder BCV/Clone/Snap, Clariion SnapView snapshot/Clone for multiple point-in-time copies of file systems/databases for backup/test purposes.
• Responsible for the setup of SAN Fabric, comprising of MDS 9506/9216 switches for the expansion of fabric with minimum downtime to the host applications.
• Provisioned and Decommissioned SAN storagefrom DMX 3–4, DMX 3000/1000 and Clariion CX4-240/480/960 for Windows/UNIX hosts using ECC/SYMCLI and Navisphere Manager.
• Maintaining and troubleshooting SAN backup networks, using EMC TimeFinder by configuring disk based backup using CX series storage.
• Installed and configured EMC Control Center ECC alerts/agents to monitor SAN environment for Symmetrix, Clariion, Switches and Hosts.
• 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.
• Encouraged proper communication between support and test group in order to reduce confusion over defects.

Environment: EMC DMX3-4/3000/1000 and Clariion CX4-240/480/960 storage arrays, Cisco MDS 9509/9216, SymCLI, EMC Control Centre 5.2/6.0, Navisphere Manager V3.28, Connectrix Manager, Fabric/Device Manager, Storage Scope, Performance Manager, Navisphere Analyzer, Windows and SUN Solaris.

Confidential, Salt Lake City, Utah April’08 – Feb’10
SAN Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Performed masking using EMC symCLI and zoning on Cisco MDS 9509 for DMX3000.
• Managed and monitored SAN environment with EMC Clariion storage array CX3-40/80 with Brocade 4100, DS-16B2 switch with provisioning and zoning to hosts.
• Created meta devices on Symmetrix DMX 3000/2000
• Worked on an EMC Symmetrix 8830 to EMC DMX1000 with SRDF/S -based data migration project in SAN environment for UNIX and Win2003.
• Configured different RAID groups and allocated LUNs to storage groups using Navisphere Manager
• Depending upon the host’s request created Meta LUNs or allocated additional LUNs for additional storage and also decommissioned the unused storage to improve resources availability, based onThin Provisioning.
• Non-disruptively Migrated LUNs from one RAID group to another to overcome the performance issues with I/Os in SAN environment.
• Registered new HBAs whenever there is a failure in the HBA of particular host using EMC Navisphere manager.
• Dealt with the situations like one-path-failure, trespassed LUNs, and also upgraded the FLARE CODE version.

Environment: EMC CLARiiON CX3-40/80 Storage array, EMC DMX 3000/2000 Storage array, EMC Symmetrix Storage array 8830, MDS 9509, Brocade DS-16B2/4100, Red Hat Linux, Sun Solaris and Windows for SAN environment.

Confidential, Roanoke, VA Oct’07 to Mar’08
SAN Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Managing storage including storage provisioning, performance tuning, adding volumes, assigning ports, data movement, maintenance of severs & troubleshooting problems in environment.
• Implemented, administered and maintained EMC Clariion CX 700/500 systems.
• Workedwith EMC software tools like symCLI, Control Centre, TimeFinder, SRDF, PowerPath and Navisphere Manager.
• Create RAID Groups, Bind LUNs, and Create Storage Groups using Navisphere Manager.
• Allocation and De-allocation of storage to Linux and Windows hosts from EMC Clariion CX 700/500 and DMX-3 arrays.
• Took the snapshots using the SnapView functionality of EMC Clariion.
• Played an active role in carrying out various data migrations involving EMC Clariion and DMX arrays using SANCopy and SRDF.
• Configuration and administration of EMC PowerPath software for redundant path failover and recovery.
• Planning and configuration of automated backups and restores using VERITAS Netbackup 6.5.
• Installed TimeFinder and configured EMC DMX-3 disk groups for BCV operations.
• Configured and administered Fibre Channel Switches (Brocade and McData) and performed zoning using Connectrix Manager.

Environment: EMC DMX-3, EMC CLARiiON CX 700/500, VERITAS NetBackup 6.5, SymCLI, EMC Control Centre (ECC), TimeFinder, SRDF, SAN Copy, SnapView, Mirror View, Navisphere Manager, Brocade and McData switches, Connectrix Manager.

ConfidentialJan’06 to Sept’07
Jr. System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installed, configured and maintained UNIX/Linux operating systems, system software, and provided hardware, backup and recovery, system monitoring, application and security support. Additional responsibilities include system availability and performance management, and capacity planning assistance.
• Installed, Configured, administered and troubleshooted SunFire Systems on the network with Solaris 8.
• Established network backup by configuring and setting up SunFire (280, 4800) systems on the network along with the DNS client configuration.
• Troubleshooting skills, knowledge of patches, firmware, file system maintenance using VERITAS.
• Involved in monitoring system security, network traffic, network connections, maintaining the OS environment and adjust system parameters to increase system performance.
• Day to day work involved troubleshooting, maintaining groups and user accounts and also daily backups by using VERITAS Netbackup on Windows Servers & Perform restores.
• Created file systems and mounted them persistently by updating VFSTAB while dealing with ultra SCSI storage devices.
• Keeping servers up to date by upgrading them with latest versions of Operating systems and service packs and also protecting with from virus by upgrading antivirus frequently.

Environment:
Sunfire 280, 4800, Windows Server, VERITAS Netbackup, VERITAS Volume Manager.