Hold 6+ years of strong experience on EMC SAN, NetApp NAS, Brocade, Cisco and McData Switches.
EMC SAN Storage Administrator with expertise in Storage administration, monitoring and troubleshooting the SAN environment using SAN management solutions.
Experienced working on EMC and NetApp storage products, comprising of VMAX, VNX, VPLEX, Xtreme IO ISILON, DMX, Clariion, NetApp FAS and V series.
Excelling experience in setting-up, configuring and troubleshooting EMC CLARiiON & EMC Symmetrix storage arrays including VNX and VMAX thin pools, FAST-VP and thin Provisioning.
Have expertise in allocating storage on different Operating Systems like Windows, Linux, Solaris and HP-UX, Unisphere and SYMCLI.
Very strong experience in setting up migrations and with replications on both SAN and NAS products using SRDF, Open Replicator, Open Migrator, Time Finder (BCV, Clones, Snaps), SyncIQ, SnapIQ, Snap Mirror, Snap Vault, C-Mode Cluster ,Mirror View, SAN Copy.
Expertise in migrations from VMAX to VMAX with VPLEX.
Atomization Heterogeneous Storage Systems using ViPR Controller.
Installation and Configuration of ViPR SRM for reporting Performance and Storage trending.
Providing NFS exports and CIFS shares to the ESX Servers, UNIX and Windows host.
Experienced in installing EMC Unisphere, SYMCLI, and SPA and upgrade.
SAN Storage Management Software |
ONEFS , ViPR Controller, ViPR SRM, Symmetrix ,EMC Solutions Enabler (SYMCLI), EMC Unisphere, Management Console (SMC), Symmetrix Performance Analyzer (SPA), EMC StorageScope, EMC Performance Manager, EMC Control centre 6.1, EMC Navisphere |
SAN Storage System
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EMC VMAX-3 ,VMAX-20K/40K, VMAX, VMAX-1SE, DMX-4/3/2000/1000, VNX5500, VNX5700, XtremeIO, Clariion CX-4/3, VPLEX VS1, VS2, ISILON, NetApp V-series and FAS 3220, 3040, 6040, 6280
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SAN Connectivity
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Brocade DS4900-5100, Brocade DCX Switches, Cisco MDS 9506, 9509, 9513, McData ED-140M, HBA’s Emulex, Qlogic.
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EMC Replication Backup & Recovery Software |
Vol Copy , EM Copy , SRDF/S, SRDF/A, Time Finder/ BCV, Clone, Snap, Sancopy, RecoverPoint, Snap Mirror Mirrorview, Snapview, SyncIQ, SnapshotIQ |
AON HEWITT
LINCOLNSHIRE, IL
STORAGE ENGINEER OCT 2015 –TILL DATE
Responsibilities:
Supervised a large SAN/NAS environment comprising of VIPR, VMAX 40K, DMX, VNX (File and Block), Celerra, ISILON and CISCO MDS switches.
Associated with planning, commissioning and also migrating from Cisco MDS 9513 to 9710’s.
Accountable for allocating Storage with VIPR, SYMCLI, Unisphere
Provisioning SAN/NAS storage Unix, Esx ..
Created virtual array and virtual pool for auto provisioning and reclamation of VMAX, VNX and VPLEX.
Installed and configured ViPR controller 5VM providing IPs and authentication.
Site resource discovery for ViPR SRM to determine frontend, backend and data collector numbers.
Configured the ViPR SRM to analyze the performance and capacity trending and provided user access for different reports.
Trending of storage consumption and streamlined the effective usage of storage utilization using ViPR SRM.
Configured storage pools, fabric and VMware ESX hosts to ViPR.
Support for Disaster Recovery issues in the environment.
On-call support for SAN and NAS environment.
Environment: VIPR ,ISILON ,VPLEX DMX 4, Celerra VNX FILE,CISCO MDS, Windows, HP-UX, Linux, ESX servers
CVS CAREMARK.
SCOTTSDALE, AZ
Sr.STORAGE ENGINEER APR 2015 –OCT 2015
Responsibilities:
Supervised a large SAN/NAS environment comprising of VMAX’3, VMAX 40K, DMX, VNX (File and Block), Celerra, ISILON and BROCADE DCX switches.
Associated with planning, commissioning and also configuring new VMAX’3s and ISILON.
Accountable for allocating Storage with SYMCLI, Unisphere for the entire open systems environment.
Provisioning SAN/NAS storage Unix, Esx ..
Created virtual array and virtual pool for auto provisioning and reclamation of VMAX, VNX and VPLEX.
Worked on VPLEX local enfolding existing storage arrays and allocating from VPLEX to Servers.
Responsible for block based allocations on VNX using UNISPHERE to various operating systems.
Lead the migration using the SAN copy to Migrate production data from Clariion to VNX.
Monitored creation of file systems of VNX file-based systems, exporting and mounting CIFS/NFS shares and configuring network shares using Unisphere.
Monitored creation of file systems of ISILON file-based systems, exporting and mounting CIFS/NFS shares and Multi Protocols using ONEFS.
Created VSANs, Zones and Zonesets on BROCADE Fabric.
Involved in Data Host based Migrations from DMX to VMAX.
Involved in Data Migrations from Celerra ,VNX file using EM Copy and Vol copy to ISILON
Created and tested out new Isilon clusters and successfully moved the same in to production.
Designed and tested the Isilon Clusters for Failover and Failback for PROD and STAGE instances.
Designed SnapIQ and SyncIQ for migrations and replications.
Support for Disaster Recovery issues in the environment.
On-call support for SAN and NAS environment.
Environment: VMAX 3 ,ISILON ,VPLEX DMX 4, Celerra VNX FILE, BROCADE DCX Windows, HP-UX, Linux, ESX servers
XPEDIA Inc.
Bellevue, WA
Sr.STORAGE ENGINEER MAY 2011 – MAR 2015
Responsibilities:
Supervised a big storage environment comprising of VMAX, DMX, VNX Xtreme IO and Cisco MDS Enterprise directors.
Associated with planning, commissioning and also configuring new VMAX’s and VNX’s.
Associated with storage pool creation, assigning tiers and configuring the FAST Policy
Accountable for allocating Storage with SYMCLI, Unisphere for the entire open systems environment.
Provisioning SAN/NAS storage to UCS ESX VMware and UCS bare metal servers.
Created virtual array and virtual pool for auto provisioning and reclamation of VMAX, VNX and VPLEX.
Expertise on local and metro VPLEX cluster work. Enfolding existing storage arrays and allocating from VPLEX to Servers.
Implemented and configured XtremeIO and tested against Pure storage as a part of POC.
Implemented and configured XtremeIO and tested against Pure storage as a part of POC.
Monitored creation of file systems of VNX file-based systems , exporting and mounting CIFS/NFS shares and configuring network shares using Unisphere.
Created VSANs, Zones and Zonesets on Cisco Fabric.
Involved in Data Migrations from DMX to VMAX using SRDF.
Involved in Data Migrations from CLARiiON to VNX using SAN Copy
Created TimeFinder/Clones and Snaps for backup and testing from the production LUN’s.
Performed array-based splitter on VMAX and RecoverPoint providing continuous production of data.
Support for Disaster Recovery issues in the environment with SnapMirror.
On-call support for SAN environment.
Environment: VMAX, DMX 4, VNX , Xtreme IO , CLARiiON, ISILON, NetApp FAS6240/6280, Cisco MDS 9509/9513, Windows, HP-UX, Linux, ESX servers
North Western Energy
Grand Island, Nebraska
Role: System Administrator MAR 2010 – APR 2011 Responsibilities:
Administered a large storage environment consisting of NetApp, EMC Clariion and DMX storage Arrays.
Created Aggregates, Volumes on both FAS Systems and V-Series, creating qtrees/LUNs and exporting them to NFS Clients and sharing with CIFS clients.
Troubleshooting SAN Environments Proactively I.e. FCP & ISCSI LUNs.
Worked with cross-functional teams to solve technical issues involving installation, configuration and trouble-shooting of Network Appliance Storage devices and the proprietary Data ONTAP.
Designed and helped with the implementation of NetApp filers in the Storage domain.
Replicated data using SnapVault from primary filer to secondary filer and within the primary filer.
Managed volume data-Deduplication on Netapp NAS using SIS technology
Cloned data from production to development environment using FLEXCLONE technology using SMO/SME.
Implemented SnapMirror replication between volumes on Production and Disaster Recovery and also Restored data from snapshots on the filers in case of accidental deletion
Dealt with Migration of VSM and QSM using NetApp SnapMirror Sync and Async
Provided Support for Disaster Recovery issues in the environment by using NetApp technologies like SnapMirror.
Involved in upgrading from ONTAP 7.3.3 to 8.1.2 .
Solving day-to-day problems by providing 24 X 7 supports. Designed relevant reports including weekly project status and data analysis
Environment: EMC Clariion, Symmetrix DMX, NetApp Vseries Filers, Solaris, Red Hat Linux, Brocade Switches, Logical Volume Manager (LVM)
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