PROFILE SUMMARY

• More than 10years of Storage Administration/Implementation experience with EMC DMX/Symmetrix, VMAX, CLARiiON, Brocade, Cisco MDS, EMC Control Center, NaviSphere Manager, PowerPath, EMC Replication Manager, Time Finder Mirror/Clone/Snap, SRDF/A,SRDF/AC, SRDF/S, SnapView, MirrorView, SANCopy, Oracle Solaris, Windows, AIX, HP-UX, Linux and VMware.
• End-to-end installation, configuration, and management of enterprise storage and SAN environment components.
• EMC Symmetrix, Clariion, VNX enterprise storage arrays.
• Migrations across EMC storages using Open Replicator and SRDF and Powerpath Migration Enabler and VMware Storage VMotion.
• Excellent working knowledge with EMC storage including Clariion, Symmetrix DMX and VMAX, ECC, SMC,SPA, Cisco Fabrics, Brocade DCX.
• Emulex / Qlogic Fiber Channel HBAs.
• Strong understanding of Disaster Recovery Business Continuity concepts.
• SRDF/S, SRDF/A and Time Finder.
• Hands on Experience on performance tools for Symmetrix arrays especially Symmetrix Performance Manager ,Symmetrix Performance Analyzer and Unisphere for VMAX.
• Hands experience using Solutions enabler command line for monitoring, configuring, trouble shooting and reporting of symmetrix arrays.
• Excellent Skills on Sun Solaris, HP-UX, AIX, Linux and Windows 2k/2k3/2K8 and ESX servers storage subsystems.
• Migrations, Installations, Administration In-depth troubleshooting.
• Hands on Experience on Storage Reporting and Capacity planning.
• Strong Knowledge of scripting languages bash, Perl and Python.
• Good Working knowledge on other storage arrays NetApp FAS, IBM XIV.
• Good understanding of EMC VPLEX and EMC Recoverpoint.

Technical Skills

• Operating Systems: Windows 2k/2k3/NT/2k8, Solaris 8/9/10, HP-UX 11.x, AIX 4.3/5.2, RedHat Linux 2.6.x and SLES 11 and 9., VMWare ESX.
• EMC Software: EMC Control Center 6.0/6.1/7.0, SMC, Storage Scope, Performance Manager, Navisphere Manager 6.x, Time Finder Mirror/Clone/Snap, SRDF, SRDF/AR, Dynamic SRDF, MirrorView/S, MirrorView/A, SnapView Clone/Snap, Access Logix, Volume Logix, PowerPath 3.x/4.x,5.x, SANCopy 2.0, Symcli, Navicli, Fabric Manager 4.3, Connectrix Manager /8.x/9.7.
• EMC Hardware: EMC VMAX, Symmetrix DMX1000/2000/3000, DMX3/DMX4, CLARiiON FC4700, CX400, CX600, CX700, CX3-80 , Brocade B12000, B24000, B48000i, Cisco MDS 9000 Series 9509/9513/9216 , McData,EMC VPLEX,EMC Recoverpoint.
• Others: Celerra 704G , Symantec NetBackup 5.2, EMC Disk Library DL4206,
• StorageTek L1400, L700, L180, Symantec Volume Manager, Oracle 9i
• Professional Certifications:
• EMCSIA Information Storage Associate.
• EMCSA Symmetrix Solutions Specialist v 6.0.

Professional EXPERIENCE

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Sr Storage Ops specilaist

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Responsibilities:

• Plan, implement and document migrations from DMX3,DMX800 and Clariion CX700 to VMAX 40k.
• Used open replicator hot pull for migrating data to the VMAX. Most of the hosts are windows clusters involving Cisco and Brocade fabrics.
• Storage provisioning and open replicator configurations on DMX3,DMX4,DMX800, Clariion and VMAX.
• Performed test migrations to identify potential failures scenarios. Identification of host remediation requirements.
• Plan and set up open replicator connectivity to perform the migration within the scheduled window.
• Worked with EMC team to prepare Run-books , Visio design documents and Workflow documents, documenting each migration event.
• Worked with EMC team in helping the customer understand the scope of the migrations and open change control tickets accordingly.
• Helped customer in understanding FAST VP and associate policies to storage groups accordingly.
• Assited cutomer in switch based migration from Cisco fabrics to brocade fabrics parallelly.
• Written scripts to report FAST VP utilization and demand.

Evironment:

• DMX3,DMX800,CX700,VMAX 40k
• Windows 2003 MSCS,Windows 2008
• Brocade
• Cisco

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Sr Storage Ops specialist

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Responsibilities:

• Guide the Customer for configuration of VMAX using best practices and knowledge transfer of management using solutions enabler, Unisphere for VMAX.
• Recommended changes to existing configurations for future enhancements like replications for disaster recovery and migrations.
• Create devices , manage pools configure FAST VP policies and other VMAX related ops using Unisphere for VMAX.

Environmnet:

• EMC VMAX20K,VMWARE ESX 4.1
• Linux redhat 6.
• Cisco

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Sr Storage Consultant

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Responsibilities:

• Data migrations from DMX-800, CX-700 and Symmetrix 8830 to DMX-4, DMX-3 and VMAX.
• Helped in installing and configuration of new VMAXs and recommended changes for storage migration from old hardware.
• Worked on cutting edge technologies like FAST and FAST VP configuration on VMAX.
• Analyzed Storage infrastructure and created hardware upgrade and storage refreshment plans. Worked with project managers, server and application team to schedule downtime for migration cutovers.
• Analyzed Capacity and IO utilization before migration to avoid performance complications after cutover. Used Tools like Performance Manager and Symmetrix Performance Analyzer to forecast capacity and port utilization.
• Setup SRDF and open replicator connections for data migrations with minimum downtime. Performed zoning on Cisco and Brocade directors and enabled port flags to set up connections correctly.
• Performed test migrations before critical server migrations to identify potential issues during cutover.
• Performed complex migration procedures using bunker frames DMX-2000 between the source Arrays Symmetrix 8830 and target Arrays DMX-4 . This is done using SRDF and Time finder for an Oracle ASM 4 Node Cluster.
• Performed host based migration using PPME host copy on Solaris VERITAS and ZFS and Linux LVM2 Hosts for non-disruptive storage upgrades.
• Worked with Customer infrastructure team to architect disaster recovery using SRDF/A across two data centers 400 miles apart. This is implemented between VMAXs.
• Installation of Storage Resource Management software like ECC and Pro-Sphere.
• Analyzed Infrastructure and Recommended Infrastructure resources required for SRM software deployment and Installation.
• Installation, Configuration and functional testing of SMC, Solutions Enabler, SPA, agents like Brocade SMI-S agent, EMC SMI-S provider, navicli agent and Symmetrix agent.
• Discovered Hosts, SAN and Arrays on ECC and Prosphere. Configured Alerts and other settings on ECC and Pro-sphere.
• Migration of Historical Data from ECC to Pro-sphere.
• Developed scripts in Perl, for creation of open replicator pair files on the fly. These process the inq outputs and the symcli outputs to create the appropriate joining of devices from both arrays.
• Config file defined for reusability of scripts.
• Developed scripts for custom storage reporting to report accurate utilization which otherwise is done manually and prone to inaccuracy.
• Worked on Storage scope read-only database with SqlPlus to develop custom queries for Storage utilization reporting on Symmetrix arrays and NAS boxes.

Environment: EMC Symmetrix V-MAX, DMX 4, DMX 3, DMX 2000,Symmetrix 8830,EMC CX-3-80, CX-500, CX-600, CX-700, EMC ECC 6.1,Ionix Prosphere , EMC SMC 7.3, EMC SYMCLI 7.3, EMC Open Replicator, EMC Powerpath 5.3, EMC switches Connectrix ED-DCX-FC8-48,CISCO MDS ,VMware ESX 4.1.

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SAN Administrator

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Responsibilities:

• Data migrations from DMX-3/ DMX-4 to VMAXs using Open Replicator.
• Some migrations are performed on windows hosts using PPME with open replicator in hot pull mode.
• Worked with the system admin to perform power path migration setup, tune-up and cleanup processes.
• PPME was used to facilitate load balancing while the migrations are taking place to avoid host performance reduction.
• Migrated a total of around 500 TB 880 servers of data from ex-Mcgraw datacenters to ex-Mcgraw datacenters.
• Establishing the SRDF between VMAXs once the data is migrated.
• Creating the rdfg groups for setting up the SRDF.
• Used switch fabric for migrating the data.
• OR masking views creation and OR FAs masking on source side.
• Virtual provisioning on tier-1 FC and tier-2 SATA storage on VMAXs.
• Binding tdevs to storage pools based on storage tiering.
• Creating the storage groups, port groups, initiator groups and masking views.
• Creating cascaded groups for the clusters.
• Establishing the SRDF between the target devices before starting the OR sessions.
• Set the SRDF in Adaptive Copy mode before the data copy.
• Starting the OR Cold Pull copy sessions and setting pace to 0.
• Terminate the OR sessions after the data copy is done and set SRDF in SYN mode.
• Zoning on Cisco and McData switches.
• Establishing concurrent SRDF between DMXs for some exceptional swing clusters.
• Assigning switch ports for the hosts and make sure the ports are unblocked and are in correct VSANs.
• Ready the target devices and worked with the third party for cable checks and host check-outs.
• Performed the clean-ups after the migration.

Environment: HP XP12000, EMC Symmetrix V-MAX, DMX 4, DMX 3, DMX 3000, DMX 2000, DMX 1000, DMX 800,EMC CX-3-80, CX-500, CX-600, CX-700 EMC Celerra NSG8, N5600, N7600, EMC EDL DL4106, EMC Centerra, EMC ECC 6.1, EMC SMC 7.0, EMC SYMCLI 7.0, EMC Open Replicator, EMC PowerPath 5.3, EMC Recoverpoint V3.0 EMC switches Connectrix ED-DCX-B 240 x 4 , Connectrix DS-5300B 64 x 8 ,CISCO MDS 9 Series, SilkWorm 48000, SilkWorm 5000 32 x 2 , HP Brocade switches 48000, HP Superdome, Quantum i2000,VMware ESX 3.x, ESX 4.1, VMware Server 1.0.x

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SAN Administrator

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Responsibilities:

• Worked in Planning, Design and Implementation of 400 TB SAN storage environment
• Successfully configured and managed EMC storage arrays comprising of DMX1000, Clariion CX700, CX600.
• Managed DMX arrays using ECC ,Solutions Enabler SYMCLI and Clariion Arrays using Navishpere
• Design and Implementation of Dual-Fabric SAN for Host connectivity using Mcdata Switches
• Performed LUN Allocation for various Hosts including Zoning, LUN Mapping and LUN Masking
• Used Replication Manager for some application based backups.
• Worked in Migration of Direct Attached Storage to SAN storage
• Performed system and storage Administration Tasks on IBM AIX, SUN-OS and Windows NT/2000/2003 systems

Environment: EMC DMX3000, EMC Clarion CX700/CX600, , Brocade 48K and 4900, McData 6140, Sphereon 4500, 3232, Veritas Netbackup 4.5/5.1, Quantum ADIC i2K, NetApp FAS 3020

SAN Administrator

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Responsibilities:

• Lead a project to migrate 16TB of data from DMX 3 to DMX 4 for 6 servers ONLINE using host based migration using openmigrator.
• Implemented SAN boot for over 200 AIX servers with FAILOVER and load-balancing for the operating system.
• Optimized disk storage for UDB, DB2, Oracle databases. Increased sequential read speeds from 30 to 200MB/sec.
• Worked with DBAs to create clones of production DB2 databases. The cloned copies were then backed up to tape or used for testing.
• Administered a SAN including storage arrays: Symmetrix, DMX, CLARiiON, ESS, DS8000, and HPXP.
• Wrote several scripts to automate storage allocation using SYMCLI.
• Created a wwn script to report which SAN switch/port a server/HBA is connected to. SAN info is updated daily via FibreZone to pull data from the McData Directors and SSH to pull data from CISCO MDS-9509 Directors.
• Created an EMC I/O monitoring tool called emc iostat which displays read/write speeds and transaction sizes in real time.
• Implemented a 4 node SVC cluster to virtualize storage for AIX hosts. Tested TPC to monitor SAN performance.
• Implemented a WIKI server easily modified web pages without HTML for the UNIX, DBA, Storage teams to easily document procedures.

Environment: EMC DMX3000, EMC Clarion CX700/CX600, Brocade 48K and 4900, McData 6140, Veritas Netbackup 4.5/5.1, UDB, DB2, Oracle, Unix

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San Administrator

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Responsibilities:

• Member of a five person Storage team where we managed 6.9 PB of open systems data with a mixture of Symmetrix DMX and Clariion Arrays.
• Creation of Meta's, Mapping of devices to the FA adapters, updating configuration file and device mapping using SYMCLI.
• Provided customized documentation on EMC SAN related tasks such as LUN mapping, LUN masking, zoning, installing agents and using SYMCLI commands via Solutions Enabler.
• Assisted in performing Flarecode upgrades to the EMC Clariion CX 700s, in addition to upgrading PowerPath and Solutions Enabler to UNIX and Windows servers.
• Storage sizing and LUN/Volume layout for databases and applications including Oracle, DB2, Microsoft SQL Server, and Microsoft Exchange.
• BCV was used to copy data between ReadWrite and ReadOnly volumes within the same Storage Array.
• Schedule and coordinated updates on all storage hardware with EMC.
• Prepared and provided documentation and standard procedures on various SAN tasks via EMC Control Center and SYMCLI Command Line Interface via Solutions Enabler.
• Created weekly reports on SAN related tasks and resolved pending tickets.
• Interacted with vendor support staff to troubleshoot problems.
• Responsible for change management on all aspect for storage changes. Attended weekly change management meetings to address concerns about changes in storage environments.
• Identify Source devices create a Bin Request for CE to create Target devices on DMX2000 prepare From-To-List for CE to create the pairing of R1-R2 devices.

Environment: EMC DMX3000, EMC Clarion CX700/CX600, Brocade 48K and 4900, McData 6140, SQL Server, MS Exchange, Oracle, DB2