PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Over 7 plus years of expertise in administrating and troubleshooting enterprise storage networks including experience in Network Attached Storage NAS Storage Area Networks SAN .
• Expertise in Cisco Director switches including MDS 9500 and 9100 series, and Brocade DCX 48000.
• Experience in managing and configuring various file systems through network using NAS, SAN methodologies and installed RAID devices and identifying and analyzing technical issues and trouble shooting them.
• Installation, Configuration and implementation of NetApp FAS-series and V-series filers.
• Upgraded Data OnTAP from older version 7.3 to 8.0 on NetApp filers.
• Experience in Firmware Upgrade and Zoning on Switches and Storage Technologies like iSCSI, FC, RAID and Storage Virtualization.
• Manage multiple outside vendor relationships for Remote Site Assistance, Setup, Troubleshooting and Custom jobs.
• Expertise in allocating storage from NetApp NAS FAS 2000 series, FAS 3000 using NFS, CIFS and iSCSI.
• Working experience on Cisco 9513, 9509 and 9506 switches.
• Experience in Replication technologies like SRDF, VPLEX, Recovery point, SAN Copy, Secure Copy and Continuous Access
• Experience with Cisco Device Manager, Fabric Manger, Brocade Data Center Fabric Manager and Brocade web tools.
• 24x7 on Call Support for Troubleshooting.
• Working experience on Clariion CX600, CX700CX4- 120/240/480/960, CX3-40/CX3-80 , VPLEX, VNX 5500, 5700, 7500 .
• Expertise with Snapshots, FlexClones, SnapMirror, Snapvault and NetApp management tools like FilerView, NetApp system Manager, Operations Manager.
• Used Snap Manager for simplifying Oracle database management to backup, recover, restore, cloning features and integrate space-efficient copies and clones of oracle databases.
• Working experience with 2petabyte of data storage .

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Title: NAS/SAN Operations Engineer

Responsibilities

• Designing, architecting, and implementing bunker and remote replication using NetApp Snapmirror and Snapvault technologies.
• Installation, Configuration and integration of NetApp filers with the Windows and UNIX domains.
• Involved in the implementation of NetApp NAS technology and configuring shares, CIFS and NFS Administration.
• Created Aggregates and Volumes in NetApp FAS2020 and FAS3040 using FilerView.
• Maintained a healthy NetApp storage by Configuring Vfiler, Qtree, volume, aggregates and snapshots using Data ONTAP, FilerView, and DataFabric when required.
• Design and establishing FC connection for VMAX 20k engunity in both production site and DR Site
• Installed and configured the Unisphere Agent/CLI on UNIX and Windows Servers.
• Rack and Stack of New SAN Cisco MDS 9710 configuration in DR site
• Design and FC establishing connection for VNX 7600 SPs in DR site
• Rack and Stack of Gen4 RPA's for VNX replication and Gen5 RPA's for VMAX replication on both sites and configured the box mgmt and added cluster RPA's
• Design and establishing FC connection for RPA's and connected Ethernet cables LAN WAN to the network switches
• Adding new DAE's in VNX 7500 and Cx4 for storage expansion
• Installing Recover point Deployment manager for replication
• Gained working knowledge on Recover Point and assisted the client on RPA based data migration from one data center to the other.
• Created Consistency Groups configured journal volumes and created Recover Point session for Disaster recovery.
• Based on the analysis, implemented a disaster recovery solution between Production and DR Data centers using Recover Point Appliances
• Participating DR drill for the Data centers using Recover point appliances.
• Rack and Stack of Data mover and control stations for VNX 7500 block to Unified storage platform.
• Implemented Unified storage with VNX created Homogeneous/Heterogeneous Pools, Created RAID protection, assigned Thin LUNs and Traditional LUNs to Pools
• Performed Array Based Migrations using Open Replicator using SMC to perform migration between DMX and VMAX.
• Performed Array Based Migrations using SAN Copy between CLARiiON and VNX.
• Performed Host based migrations using OPEN MIGRATOR for windows and Linux servers.
• Performed Host based migrations using PPME for windows servers.
• Decommissioned storage for open systems by reclaiming the storage after destroying the data, unmounting the file systems, unmasking, unmapping from the FA ports and dissolving the Meta devices using SYMCLI and cleaned up the old storage includes deleting SRDF pairs and clone relationships.
• Performed Auto-provisioning for VMAX by creating, initiator groups, port groups, storage groups and masking views using Unisphere and Solution Enabler SYMCLI.
• Implemented Thin Provisioning from VMAX array to hosts by creating Data devices, Thin devices, Thin Pool, binding Thin devices to Pool and masking the Thin devices to the host, using Unisphere and SMC 7.0.
• Implemented Business Continuity solutions for production data using TimeFinder Clone Emulation, Time Finder/Snap on V-MAX.
• Creating CIFS NFS shares on NS 480 Celerra using Unisphere
• Experience in migrating from Centera to ATMOS using Disk Extender
• Created file systems using NFS and CIFS protocol and exported them to UNIX clients and shared them to Windows clients respectively.
• Performed a detailed Storage Capacity Planning by collecting data using ECC Storage Scope reports to prepare the customer for Tech Refresh projects.
• Troubleshooting critical issues including threshold optimization, server throughput, ports availability, meeting zoning requirements, one-path down, host not seeing storage management problems.
• Created and Configured RAID Groups, Storage Groups, Binding Luns, Naming, Resizing
• Performed Auto-provisioning for VMAX by creating, initiator groups, port groups, storage groups and masking views using SMC and Solution Enabler SYMCLI.
• Performed code upgrades microcode for DMX and OE for Cx in conjunction with EMC
• Experience in installing, configuring and administration of Cisco and Brocade switches and fabric management
• Experience With data Fabric manager, Zoning, LUN allocation on Brocade switches
• Involved in multiple critical project, including Storage Consolidation and Datacenter Migration
• Provisioned storage from VNX by registering hosts, Creating Storage Pools Thin pools and raid groups , Creating LUN, creating Storage Groups, and adding hosts to the storage group using Unisphere.

Confidential

Title: Storage Admin

Responsibilities

• Implementation, administration and maintenance of high end storage arrays like EMC Clariion CX 600, 700, CX3-40, 3-80, Symmetrix DMX 2000, DMX- 3, Celerra NS120/480/960 and NetApp FAS 6040, 3070, Nearstore R200 in SAN and NAS Environments.
• Supported and Implemented NetApp in an existing environment of Solaris, VMware, UNIX, and Windows Servers.
• Day to day Storage allocation and management of LUNS from the EMC CLARiiON storage to servers using EMC Navisphere Manager and EMC Symmetrix Storage Arrays using ECC.
• Day to day problem analysis, escalation and resolution on NetApp Filers
• Worked with backup team to process the restore requests on NetApp filers.
• Performed installation configuring EMC Control Center ECC 5.2 and upgraded to ECC6.0.
• Performed migration of 50 TB of data from CX-3/DMX to VMAX using Powerpath Migration Enabler PPME , Open Replicator Hot pull/push . Migrated around 20TB of data on 45 Windows/Linux servers using Open Migrator.
• Performed data migration of Microsoft Windows, UNIX volumes VMAX, DMX 4/3/, CLARiiON CX 3-80 using Open Migrator.
• Replacing the failed disks on NetApp Filer.
• Setup Manage Multiprotocol environment as needed by client.
• Expertise in data migrations between V-filers and filers using SnapMirror.
• Expertise in creating aggregates, Volumes and Qtree and export them using NFS and CIFS shares.
• Managing NFS / CIFS / IP SAN Volume, Qtree.
• Expertise in creating snapshots, FlexClones on volumes.
• Implemented SnapMirror as DR solution between filers and Snap Vault as backup solution.
• Creating CIFS shares and managing the permissions of the CIFS Shares and Managing NFS Exports.
• Upgrade disk shelf firmware upgrades on the NetApp Filers FAS6080.
• Worked on designing and implementing bunker and remote replication using NetApp SnapMirror and Snapvault technologies.
• Weekly basis increasing the storage capacity by going through Data Deduplication and data compression.
• Schedule dedublication to occur during off-Peak times in capacity management of storage system.
• Worked on VMware ESX Servers and provided NFS volumes and LUNs to ESX Servers.
• Administer SAN and NAS Environment using Data Fabric Manager Console
• Monitored the health of SAN components, set up alarms and created the logs.
• Create array performance report and capacity planning using Operations Manager and NetApp Management Console.
• 24x7 on Call Support.

Confidential

Title: Associate Engineer

Responsibilities

• In-depth knowledge of Netbackup 5.x, 6.x and 7.x concepts
• The challenges of Enterprise net backup environment
• Installation and configuration of Master/Media and clients
• Installation and configuration of Database agents
• Customization of RMAN scripts Preferred
• Working with Netbackup GUI and Command Line interface
• Configuration of Volume Pools, Storage Units, Policies, Tape drives and Robot, Media management
• Performing catalog backups and restores
• Troubleshooting the backup issues by analyzing the net backup logs
• Perquisites of up-gradation from NBU 5.x to NBU 6.x
• Knowledge of the different types of libraries and the tape drives with the density.