Suresh Reddy

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Professional Experience and Summary:

Hansd-on expertise on EMC enterprise storage arrays DMX/VMAX Symmetrix,

VNX/CLARiiON.

Extensive Experience on Open Replicator to migrate data from DMX to DMX,

DMX to VMAX, VNX to DMX.

Provisioning of VNX storage disk system.

Configured, Created, push and VNX pull sessions to migrate devices.

EMC Symmetrix based Time Finder-Mirror/ Clone/ Snap, SRDF/S, SRDF/A,

SRDF/AR EMC VNX based Mirror View/A/S, Snap View Clone/Snapshot.

Providing appropriate RAID levels to protect data.

Performed LUN masking in SAN environment.

SAN/NAS design review and implementation.

Hands-on experience in installation, configuration, zoning and

administration of brocade, Cisco switches.

Excellent experience in administration,configuration,troubleshooting of

disk storage systems such as EMC VNX,Netapp.

Experience on configuring Zoning on cisco, brocade switches using

fabric/device manager.

Designing and executing changes to the storage environments consisting of

hardware technologies: Brocade and CISCO MDS.

Provided administration and support for EMC Networker/EMC CDL/IBM Tape

Library backup environment.

Academics:

B.Tech (IT) from Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNTU).

Technical Skills:

SAN : VNX, NetApp, VMAX,IBM DS8k, Cisco, Brocade,DCX.

Switches : Cisco,Brocade.

Virtualisation : VM ware

Operating Systems : Windows, Linux.

Emp History:

Client: Vanity Fair Corps.

Designation: SAN.Engineer Duration: Mar'2012- Jan'2015 Roles &

Responsibilities:

Maintained enterprise SAN consisting/using of both Fiber Channel and SCSI

disk arrays.

Implemented Data Migration from Symmetrix to symmetrix using SRDF, VNX to

VNX and DS6000 to DS6000 using copy services (CLI).

Performed Zoning on McData, Brocade and CISCO MDS switches with Connectrix

Manager and Fabric Manager respectively.

CISCO Switch migrations.

Utilized Fiber technologies and iSCSI to configure and maintain SAN

environments remaining consistent with industry standards.

Created CIFS and NFS file systems on celerra storage box (NAS)

Mounting shares in celerra (NAS).

Backup, Recovery of the database using TSM.

Administrated, Migrated and support of approx. 10 TB multi-site SAN/NAS

environment consisting of EMC DMX and VNX disk arrays, EMC Celerra,NAS

servers, EMC Centera CAS arrays and Brocade FC switches.

Provided SAN/NAS design review and implementation, managed Celerra,Centera,

DMX/VNX and switch code upgrades.

Provided administration and support for EMC Networker/EMC CDL/IBM Tape

Library backup environment.

Provided technical expertise in implementation of disaster recovery

solution with Recover point.

Migrated environment from the physical to virtual with ESX 4.1 Vsphere.

Implemented ESRS, managing both the VNX and Recover point in the

infrastructure.

Migration of the servers from Equlogix storage to the VNX block.

Installation of Powerpath on the ESX servers.

Performed end to end disaster recovery test with the Recover point and VNX

as back end of the Tier-1 applications.

Upgrading of flare code on the VNX and the Recover point.

Providing customer best practices during the storage provisioning and fine

tune the backup infrastructure using the strategies of backing up the

servers with their specific agents and restoration, to save storage

space and backup time window.

Resolving issues with the iscsi connectivity and errors with the VNX and

ESX servers.

Troubleshooting issues with network connectivity with the storage and

Recoverpoint.

Educating the customer on VNX and Recoverpoint with the best practices and

knowledge sharing.

Worked on End to End documentation of the SAN with Visio diagrams of all

San Islands.

Storage administrator with system administration responsibilities for

multiple operating system.

Part of Incident & Change Management where responsibilities include

troubleshooting & configuring SAN and network device issues, documenting

troubleshooting steps.

SAN administration, brocade zoning, managing LUNs, volumes and installing

FC HBA on host, installing HBA driver and troubleshooting storage

issues.

Participate in DSR, SRT, RCA calls to resolve the SAN outages.

Design, document and maintenance of client's network architecture using

VISIO and in asset center data management.

Client: Railtel Corportaion of India Pvt Ltd

Designation: SAN Engineer Duration:Aug'2010-Feb'2012 Roles &

Responsibilities:

Installation, configuration and driver upgrades of HBA's (Emulex & Qlogic)

on UNIX and Windows servers.

Allocation and De-allocation of storage to UNIX, Linux and windows hosts

from DMX4, VMAX, VNX arrays.

Creating NFS, CIFS shares on Celerra Boxes. Working on permissions and

performance issues.

Provided technical expertise to data modeling and management group with

regards to issues of storage management.

Working on Cisco switches and perform zoning operations.

Creating NFS, CIFS shares on Celerra Boxes. Working on permissions and

performance issues.

Provided technical expertise to data modeling and management group with

regards to issues of storage management.

Setting up DR hosts using SRDF/A and monitoring replication and perform

troubleshooting if issues occurs.

Migration of data from the CX, DMX 4 to V-Max.

Installation and administration of ECC considering the needs of the client.

Installation, configuration and driver upgrades of HBA's (Emulex & Qlogic)

on Windows servers.

Performance tuning tasks on the SAN switches, EMC VNX and DMX, using EMC

Control Center.

Performing new installations of the ESX servers and migrating the servers

from one domain to another domain.

Aikia Solution Pvt Ltd

SAN Admin Duration:April'2008-July'2010

Roles & Responsibilities:

Support Netapp NAS/SAN, DATA ONTAP, IBM DS8100/8300/8700,Brocade/Qlogic

Switch.

EMC VNX Storage, EMC Data domain in Windows environment.

Setting up Netapps from scratch in HA environment, storage provisioning for

NAS and SAN,Data ONTAP Upgrades, addition of Disk Shelves, setting up

snap mirror, sync mirror environment, troubleshooting and hardware

maintenance.

Storage provisioning for SAN using DS8100/8300/8700 storage array.

Zoning new Hosts to Netapp/IBM storage/EMC VNX using Brocade and Qlogic

switches. Using CLI and DCFM.

End to End configuration from Storage to Hosts on Aix/Solaris.

Supporting EMC DataDomain for replication/VTL. Integrating with TSM

environment.

Identifying priorities in consultation with the client.

Transitioning and planning the processes.

Participating strategy meeting and periodical business meeting.

Interaction with offshore and Onsite Management.

Aikia Solution Pvt Ltd

SAN Admin Duration:Aug'2006-April'2008

Roles & Responsibilities:

Installed, configured and maintained UNIX and Windows operating systems,

including the system software and provided hardware.

Storage provisioning (LUN creation, Masking, Mapping) on Symmetrix and

CLARiiON CX400 to windows and Solaris hosts, according to business

needs.

Configuring and Managing CLARiiON CX400 arrays using Navisphere Manager.

Host to LUN mapping, load balancing and failover activities via PowerPath

and Navisphere tools.

Zoning performed on Brocade Switches using fabric manager.

Managed Business Continuity solutions using SnapView Clone/Snapshot,

MirrorView in CLARiiON storage arrays.

Upgrading the firmware of various storage components like: SCSI HBA, FC HBA

& iSCSI HBA, EMC CLARiiON arrays.

PowerPath software installation, configuration and administration on UNIX &

Windows Servers.

Racking and unracking of servers and switches.

Documentation of technical difficulties and solutions.

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