SUMMARY

Over 7 years of experience in CONFIDENTIAL

• Storage Arrays including DMX/VMAX Symmetrix, CLARiiON, VNX, Isilon and NetApp.
• Experience in Open Replicator,VPLEX, PowerPath Migration Enabler, Solutions Enabler SymCLI , San Copy, TimeFinder, EMC Control Center, Storage Scope, Performance Manager, Navisphere Event Monitor, Navisphere Analyzer, Symmetrix Analyzer, SRDF/S, SRDF/A, Mirror view, SnapView and PowerPath.

• Experienced in Performing Encapsulation and Data Mobility on VPLEX Metro using VPLEX GUI and VPLEX CLI.
• Experience in NetApps NAS Administration, Filer Administration, CIFS, NFS, Qtree configuration and Data migration. Involved in capacity planning functions for the SAN environment.
• Experienced in migrating data from Celerra to VNX Netapp to Isilon.Used a wide range of host and array based tools including VNX replicator / Robocopy/ securecopy, rsync / isi volcopy.
• Good Understanding on NFS/CIFS/SMB protocols.
• Extensively worked with Brocade SAN switches and Cisco SAN switches in creating zones for improving SAN security.
• ONTAP 7.x, SnapMirror, Snaprestore, SnapShot, CIFS, NFS, ISCSI, FCP and integrating with backup software.
• Aggregate, Traditional Flexible volumes management. Manage CIFS / iSCSI / NFS volumes and aggregates.
• Experience in preparation of reports depending on the management requirements using Storage Scope.
• Preparation of operational procedures and technical documentation of all SAN related projects and follow proper changes in SAN management

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Storage:

Symmetrix DMX / VMAX, CLARiiON CX Series ,VNX,VPLEX, Isilon and, NetApp Filers

SAN Management Solutions:

SymCLI, EMC Control Center, Navisphere Manager, EMC SMC, Data ONTAP, Replication Manager, Recover Point, Unisphere Manager, SPA, Performance manager, SMI-S client

SAN Connectivity:

Brocade Director Switches, HBA's Emulex, Qlogic, Brocade Fabric Manager Web Tools, Cisco Switches, and Fabric Manager

Replication Software:

Open Replicator, Open Migrator, SRDF, TimeFinder SAN Copy, Mirror View, SnapMirror, SnapView and V-Motion

Multivendor Platforms: Solaris, VMware, Windows NT/2000/2003, UNIX, HP-UX, IBM AIX

Monitoring/Reporting: Performance Manager, Storage Scope, Navisphere Event Monitor, Navisphere Analyzer

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

CONFIDENTIAL

Title: Data Storage Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Administered a SAN/NAS environment comprising of EMC VMAX/VNX/Celerra/Isilon,Vplex and NetApp Arrays.
• Implemented EMC Open Replicator for creating point-in-time copies of Symmetrix and also for migration from DMX-4 to VMAX.
• Analyzing Grabs and Heat Reports for Pre-migration. Used elab navigator to check end-to-end software compatibility for san components.
• Implemented Host-based Open Migrator migration on Windows servers.
• Was involved in a migrating Celerra/Netapp File Data to Isilon OneFs using host based tools like Rsync ,emcopy, RoboCopy,securecopy and isi volcopy.
• Implemented TimeFinder-clone and TimeFinder-snap, disaster recovery for performance critical hosts using SRDF/A.

• Performed VPLEX Encapsulation of CX4-240 and VNX storage volumes using both GUI and VPLEX CLI. Performed Successful rescan on ESX hosts, Powering up VM, Bringing VM into Inventory, Mounting VPLEX volumes, and adding new signatures.

• Implementation of Symmetrix V-max Thin Provisioning, FAST VP, Virtualization and Auto provisioning, Used thin devices tdevs , virtualization and Auto provisioning features on the VMAX by creating initiators, storage groups and masking views.
• Used SPA to monitor Symmetrix performance issues.
• Used Connectrix manager console to manage Brocade and McDATA switches.
• Allocation and Decommissioning of storage to open system environment hosts from storage arrays using ECC, SMC console, SymCLI, NaviCLI and Navisphere Manager.
• Maintaining ECC for SAN environment and troubleshooting the same including discovery of new objects Storage Arrays, Switches and Hosts .
• Extensively worked on analyzing performance issues like number of I/O per sec by using ECC performance manager and EMC performance analyzer.
• Maintaining CLARiiON / VNX environment including Creating Raid groups, binding the LUNs and the Meta LUNs and configuring alerts/templates.
• Troubleshooting, and resolving issues like one-path-down, hosts not seeing storage, HBA failures, storage allocations, mapping, masking and zoning.

CONFIDENTIAL

Title: Storage Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Administer a SAN/NAS environment comprising of EMC Celerra/VNX/Isilon and Netapp Arrays.
• Used Open Replicator/Open Migrator/PPME for migration of data .
• Installed and configured ECC infrastructure agents, monitored SAN environment using ECC, configured ECC alerts and set up management policies
• Planned and Implemented migration of data from Symmetrix DMX to VMAX thin devices using SRDF/S.
• Involved in creating, configuring and managing aggregates, volumes, qtree, quotas, Snapshots, CIFS Shares and NFS exports on the filers, provisioning of storage allocations, Space quota management, capacity management, data migrations, performance analysis and management
• Involved in creation and maintenance of checkpoints and replications for data backup and recovery. Recovery of corrupted/backup data from NFS and CIFS file systems from the checkpoints.
• Handling day to day NAS storage requests allocating storage to Unix and Windows Hosts
• Involved in the migration of NS480 to VNX 5500 array using Celerra V2 replicator data mover pre-migration checks, creating Virtual data mover and data mover failovers and cleanup of the Celerra box to be decommissioned. Involved in creating virtual data mover and data mover failovers and testing data mover failover. Involved in creation and maintenance of checkpoints and replications for data backup and recovery.
• Was involved in a migrating Celerra File Data to Isilon OneFS.
• Responsible in Configuring/Joining nodes in Isilon cluster, and involved in Configuring NFS, SMB shares on Isilon using Smart Connect .Adding New Isilon clusters to domain and configuring them.
• Configured SmartZone Pools, Access Zones, NFS/SMB Exports, SmartPools, SmartQuotas and SyncIQ
• Used InsightIQ for reporting and gathering performance statistics.
• Created Standard Operating Procedure documents, Run books for EMC Symmetrix V-Max's Virtual Provisioning VP ,SRDF S/A , and TimeFinder Mirror/Clone.

CONFIDENTIAL

Migration implementation specialist

Responsibilities:

• Implemented SAN Copy solution in data migration from CX-3 to CX-4
• Created MetaLUNs in CLARiiON and allocated to a windows based server to provide additional storage.
• Data Migration planning including the server maintenance windows and implementing the Migration on a weekly basis keeping in mind the business continuity.assigning storage to the different open system hosts.
• Administrated the CLARiiON by performing duties like creating RAID groups, binding the LUNs and
• Data Migration from Netapp to CX-4 Clariion.
• Created run book documentation for all scheduled migrations.
• Worked on Brocade and Cisco switch administration.

CONFIDENTIAL

Migration implementation specialist

Responsibilities:

• Data Migration implementation in a storage environment consisting of DMX-3, CLARiiON, Brocade and Cisco MDS Switches.
• Implementation of Binding Raid groups and Lun's for a new CX 4-480 and CX4-120.
• Storage provisioning using Unisphere manager.
• Implementing the migration of data from DMX-3 to CX 4-480 by using Open Replicator/Open Migrator migration solution.
• Data Migration planning including the server maintenance windows and implementing the Migration on a weekly basis keeping in mind the business continuity.
• Implementation of Cisco Switch for creation of VSAN's and ISL's
• Used Recover Point in the lab to test the production configuration
• Troubleshooting the SAN connectivity on different Operating Systems like Windows, Linux, Solaris and VMware

CONFIDENTIAL

Storage Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for administration of multi-vendor tiered storage environment, performing daily administrative tasks like storage provisioning and troubleshooting SAN related issues including incident escalations and root cause analysis and remediation.
• Day to day provisioning of storage Storage device selection/creation, Zoning, LUN Masking . Managed and deployed LUNS from EMC storage frames to multiple servers using the SYMCLI, SMC, ECC, Navisphere Manager.
• Provided On Call Support day-to-day troubleshooting SAN related issues.
• Troubleshooting the SAN connectivity on different Operating Systems like Windows, Linux, Solaris and VMware.
• Troubleshooting, and resolving issues like one-path-down, hosts not seeing storage, HBA failures, storage allocations, mapping, masking and zoning.
• Implemented Mirror view to configure asynchronous replication between local and remote CX arrays.
• Configured Brocade Director switches used WebTools to create aliases and zones.
• Created and maintained zoning, performed firmware upgrades, and integrated all SAN connected hosts.
• Extensively worked on Cisco Switch in creation of VSAN's, configuring Cisco FCoE, ISL's, port channels and assigning domain ids.
• Used EMC's Open Replicator software, execute data migration from existing DMX to new VMAX and NS 480 storage arrays.
• Used elab navigator to check end-to-end software compatibility for san components.
• Extensive Implementation of Open Replicator Hot Pull and Hot Push for Migrations.
• Host based migration for various servers using PPME.
• Extensively Worked on SymCLI to implement concurrent SRDF and successfully replicated the storage to the remote site using SRDF solutions SRDF/S and SRDF/A .
• Implementing the migration of data from CX 600/700 to CX 4-480 and NS 480 by using Incremental SAN Copy migration solution.
• Implementation of SAN Copy using NaviCLI to implement the bulk option for migration of data from source to target.
• Configured EMC Control Center ECC console alerts and monitoring thresholds.
• Administration of ECC, monitoring alerts, set data collection policies and alert thresholds, responsible for testing and verifying device configuration recommendation to enhance the DMX performance for mission critical database.
• Investigate performance issues on Symmetrix and CLARiiON using Symmetrix Performance Manager analyzed .btp files and Navisphere Analyzer .nar files.
• Identified and resolved configuration problems with HBA drivers, and cabling.
• My other duties were the weekly shifts of 24x7 on-call duty and the cooperative queue management of trouble calls using a trouble-ticket system.