Zahed Khan

Zahed Khan M

ZAIN VODAPHONE,

Al Afoo Bldg, Road 2811, Building 662,

Block 428, PO Box 266, Manama,

Kingdom of Bahrain, Tel:13601387

Voice- Mobile – 009**-********

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Objective:

EMC Proven Professional with 9 + years’ experience in Information Technology, which includes 3 + Years on SAN environment as a EMC SYMMITRIX (V-MAX & DMX), VNX Storages & EMC Connectrix (DS-4900B & DS-300B) Administration on various platforms & 6 + Years as a Unix Systems (Sun Solaris) administration. Seeking storage administration position in a multi platform environment which leverage my technical expertise and provide sustained learning and growth opportunity

Expertise In:

• Managing & maintaining EMC storages (V-MAX, DMX-3 & VNX-5300) using Solution Enabler SYM CLI , EMC Control Center, Symmetrix Management console and Unisphere V1.1.25

• Managing & maintaining Connectrix DS-4900B & DS-300B SAN switches

• Managing & maintaining Centera, Celera NS500G, Data Domain’s (DD880 & DD670) and FMA.

• Installation and configuration of Vertias Volume Manager, Veritas Cluster, Sun Clustering Solutions Administration

• Veirtas Netback Up and Legato Networker / EBS Backup Administration

• Experience in configuration / re-configuration of client machines to ensure optimum connectivity with storage and backup solution.

• Configured LDOM’s, Zones, NIS, NFS, Flash Archive and Jumpstart.

• Installation & configuration of ZFS, VXFS and QFS file systems

• Backup and Restore Management

Certifications and formal trainings:

Storage Administrator, CLARiiON Solutions Specialist (EMCSA)

Sun certified Solaris System Administrator (SCSA 1 & 2) for Solaris 10

Sun certified Solaris System Administrator (SCSA 1 & 2) for Solaris 9

SYMMETRIX Configuration Management with EMC (5 days)

SYMMETRIX TIME Finder and SRDF Solutions with EMC (7 days)

Legato Networker 7.1 (3 days)

Professional Experience:

Organization : ZAIN VODAPHONE www://bh.zain.com/

Role : Storage Admin

Period : Jan ‘2009 to Till Date

Environment : Zain Bahrain is the new name for a trusted telecommunications brand that has, over the last three years, swept Bahrain to top place with its innovative technological and marketing approach. Having entered the Bahrain market as the first company to break the telecoms monopoly, we have proved time and again that technological innovation paired with top-class customer service can win the race. The new brand is a first step in a new journey towards global achievements and will unite our team of more than 13,000 employees serving over 32 million customers in seven Middle Eastern and 14 sub-Saharan African countries. Zain Bahrain Data setup with high end configuration.

Responsibilities:

Expert knowledge and experience in creating, allocating LUN’s on a DMX using, Solution Enabler SYM CLI, EMC Control Center, Symmetrix Management console and Unisphere V1.1.25

Responsible for creation hyper’s, meta devices on V-MAX ,DMX & VNX storages and mapping and masking the LUN’s to new servers.

Storage provisioning to exiting production servers.

Managing and maintaining VMAX, DMX/Symmetrix issues for EMC Global Customer

Responsible for San setup for new servers.

Ability to work with host administrators to install EMC supported Path Management Software supported firmware revision, EMC qualified cluster software and EMC HBA supported drivers.

Resolving the issues related to connectivity, PowerPath, Solution Enabler and Replication Software TimeFinder.

Responsible for reclaiming unused space and using for provisioning.

Updating SIG file with new changes for future reference.

Installation & configuration of Solution Enable and ECC agents.

Configured the alerts on ECC to monitor the EMC boxes.

Responsible for creation of LUN’s, for block and file level on VNX using NaviCLI and Unisphere.

Administration, management and configuration of new pools, policies on Centera using FMA.

Working closely with database and system administrators with storage relation to provisioning, managing, reporting, performance issues and troubleshooting.

Generating EMC SAN performance report monthly basis.

New BIN file uploaded on V-MAX with EMC CE to add additional hard drives for new project.

Faulty hard drives replaced on V-MAX with EMC CE.

TimeFinder CLONES configured and setup between production and test environment. Full synchronization done at first time. Incremental synchronization executes based up on request.

Administration, management and configuration DD880 & DD670 (Virtual Tape Library).

Creating and configuring new TAPE’s on DD880 & DD670.

Replicating data from DD880 to DD670

Administration, management and configuration of DL3D (Virtual Tape Library).

Administration, management and configuration of NS500G.

SAN Administrator:

Handling administration task of SAN switches Connectrix DS-4900B & DS-300

Storage integration for new servers

Responsible for creating, managing & maintaining zones on SAN switches.

Focusing on the creation of accurate, redundant and high performance data devices.

Creating new zones for new storages, servers and new EMC equipment’s.

Taking backup SAN switches using sanconfig regular basis.

Submitting supportsave details to vendor for troubleshooting as per requirement.

Replacing faulty SFP’s on SAN switches.

Monitoring the SAN switches regular basis.

Working on performance improvement plan for SAN.

Regularly generating SAN Health check report.

Project Executed

Data Migrated from DMX-3 to V-MAX using Open Migrator

Collected required information from each Application owner and prepared final document for approval.

Installed EMC grab on all servers connected to DMX and uploaded to EMC for verification.

Installed EMC recommended OS kernel parameter’s and patches on all production servers.

FC cables lay between V-MAX to SAN switches

Created new zones and updated exiting zones with new V-MAX ports to visible both storage on hosts.

New BIN file uploaded on V-MAX by EMC CE.

Created hyper’s and meta devices as per requirement

Created VIEWS with Initiator, Port and Storage groups and also maintain the redundancy for high availability.

Installed EMC Open Migrator packages on all production servers.

Copy the production data from DMX to V-MAX online using EMC Open Migrator.

Data Migrated from DMX-3 to VNX using Open Replicator

Installed EMC recommended OS kernel parameter’s and patches on all production servers.

FC cables lay between V-MAX to SAN switches

Created new zones and updated exiting zones with new V-MAX ports to visible both storage on hosts.

Created zone between FA ports V-MAX, DMX-3 & VNX.

Since Open Replicator is device to device copy created TARGET LUNs with higher sizes on VNX storage.

Prepared source and target LUN’s list for copy the data using Open Replicator

Installed EMC Open Replicator packages servers.

Copy the production data from DMX, V-MAX to VNX storage online using EMC Open Replicator.

System Administrator:

Installed and configured Sun Cluster 3.2 on M series SUN servers.

Installed and configured QFS file system for Sun Cluster 3.2.

Responsible for managing and configuring Vertias Cluster 5.0

Administration, management and configuration of Veritas Volume Manager.

Configured multiple Logical Domains on single server with LDOM software.

Installed configured UAT and SIT environment for production testing.

Troubleshooting Veritas and Sun Cluster problems.

File system grow online on production servers.

Administration, management and configuration of Veritas Netbackup 6.5

Responsible for VERITAS Net back client media server & master server operation management.

Troubleshooting day-to-day backup problems.

Organization : SAMBA (Saudi American Bank) www://samba.com/

Role : System Admin

Period : Nov ‘2006 to Jan ‘2009

Environment : Saudi American Bank is an ISO certified premier bank in Saudi Arabia. The IT infrastructure of the bank is wholly managed by Samba Technology Group with a strength of more than 250 IT professionals having expertise in different areas. Operations are spread into production and development areas supported by Datacenter (DC) and an Alternate Datacenter (ADC). These Data Centers are setup with high end configuration which includes Sun Fire 10k, 15k, 25k, M series servers and tape libraries are connected over SAN to SUN storage. The bank has been under the guiding principles of Citi Corp in the past and follows the same standards in managing the IT environment.

Responsibilities:

Handled & Setup 24 *7*365 days Data Center Operation, Managing the change in the environmental setups, defining process and systems using best practices.

Trouble shooting, performance tuning OS related problems.

Installed and configured Sun Cluster 3.2 on M series SUN servers Installation, configuration, trouble shooting and performance tuning of Operating Systems.

Creation and customization of Solaris zones

Up gradation of Solaris 8 to Solaris 10

Actively involved in process migration, installation & implementation, resource allocation, vendor coordination, change management, reporting and documentation

Task redirection to the operations management team, interfacing with the Customer to deliver quality services, oversee the co-ordination of day to day operational service delivery.

Responsible for smooth functioning of the Alternate Data Center 24/7.

Quickly responding to high severity and critical problems within Data Center Operations.

Solving day-to-day administration and security issues.

Created different domains on the sun fire E10k, E15k and E25K platform

Performance monitoring and Capacity Planning.

Organization : WIPRO (www.wipro.com)

Role : Technical Specialist

The Client : Texas Instruments, Bangalore (www.ti.com)

Period : Nov ‘2005 to Nov ‘2006

Client Environment : TI (Texas Instruments Pv Ltd) Texas Instruments design and manufactures analog, digital signal processing and DLP chip technology that help customers develop products that matter. From affordable mobile phones that connect more people, to classroom projectors that support remote learning, to prosthetic devices that provide greater confidence, flexibility, and freedom –TI technology powers new ideas and inspires better solution. TI having Data Center setup with 250 sun servers of 480, 440, 220 series are connected to Net Apps Filer in NAS environment. NAS is for backup consolidation. Data of all Servers is saved in Net Apps Storage so that backup is centralized. The Backup device is used as Quantum Tape Library which is managed by Veritas Netback up.

Responsibilities:

Systems planning, and Configuring DNS, TCP/IP, NFS, NIS, Solstice Disk Suite. Jumpstart installation of Solaris O.S. within the framework of NIS, install server and boot server

Perform on going system. Administration tasks memory management and file systems

NIS Management, marinating and updating master and slave servers, configuring master, slave and clients as per the situations .NIS trouble shooting, pushing the maps, reconfiguring the slave and clients stopping and restarting the NIS, creating New Databases etc

Machine base lining that includes installation and Configuration of Sudo, SSH.

Maintaining the DNS environment for the Corporate Intranet users running on SUN Solaris

Installing hard disks. Logical volume manager, creating physical volume groups and logical volumes and creating mount points, volume group backup.

Trouble shooting for the file system and boot problems, file system repair and making alternate boot.

Testing and maintenance of systems consisting of Sun Servers & workstations.

Interacting with users locally as well as from Europe, Singapore for the Unix systems issues

Organization : WIPRO (www.wipro.com)

Role : Technical Specialist

The Client : GAIL India Limited, Noida, India. (www.gailonline.com)

Period : Feb ‘ 2005 To Nov ‘2005

Client Environment : GAIL (India) Limited, is India’s flagship Natural Gas company, integrating ass aspects of the Natural Gas value chain (including Exploration & Production, Transmission, Distribution and Marketing) and its related services. GAIL (India) Limited having Data Center setup with Two Sun E6900 Server & Two E2900 Server are connected to Sun StorEdge 9900 as SAN for backup consolidation. These two E6900 & E2900 Servers are configuring in SunOne Cluster Server & Oracle database running on that. Data of all Servers is saved in Storage so that backup is centralized.

Responsibilities:

Perform on going system. Administration tasks memory management, file systems

NIS Management, maintaining and updating master and slave servers, configuring master, slave and clients as per the situations .NIS trouble shooting, pushing the maps, reconfiguring the slave and clients stopping and restarting the NIS, creating New Databases etc

Performance monitoring the system, CPU, Memory, Disk space, Lan detail, NFS by system, process resource manager I/O by file system I/O by device, I/O by logical volume, I/O CPU statistics with iostat, Virtual Memory statistics with netstat and landiag, check process with ps swap with swap info and sar the system activity reporter

Environment consisting of Sun Enterprise Servers (E6500/4500/450/420R/250) -

several of these were clustered using Sun Cluster Server 3.1 (SCS).

Experience with Legato Networker and Solstice Backup software and StorageTek and ADIC tape jukeboxes

Installation Configuration & Administration of Sun FIRE 2*SF6900, Sun FIRE 2*SF2900, Sun FIRE 7*V890, Sun L700e & L8 Storage Tape Library,3* MC DATA 4500, Sun Fire V210, V240, V880, Sun Blade 1500/150, Ultra 80 & Sun StorEdge D240/3310

Organization : Micro Land Ltd.

Role : Technical Support Engineer

The Client : Micro Land Ltd, Bangalore, India (www.microland.net)

Period : Nov ‘ 2004 To Feb 2005

Client Environment: Micro Land is a leader in IT Infrastructure Management &Technical Support Services Outsourcing. Provide end-to-end IT infrastructure management services to enterprise clients managing their worldwide IT infrastructures and supporting their users globally with our Help Desk services We enable global large and medium sized organizations to reduce their Total Cost of Technology Operations (TCO) using a combination of remote and onsite services.

Responsibilities:

Remote Administration/Installation of the SUN Enterprise Servers 6500/ 4500/ 3500 and Ultra 10.

Volume creation as well as resizing on the server.

Created system wide documentation of all Unix servers.

Involved in Installation, Configuration and Troubleshooting of NIS, NFS and DNS

Interacting with Different Application groups for the user problems and maintaining the problem Track sheet

Managed and corrected disk-space related issues on NFS server home directories

Perform patches search, patches installation; bug fixing, firmware upgrades and package installation. Spare parts management. Documentation.

Software:

Power-Path, Solution Enabler, SRDF and TIMEFINDER features, SYMMITRIX Management Console (SMC), ECC, NaviCLI and Unisphere.

NAS (Network Area Storage):

EMC CELERRA NS500G, VNX

Hardware:

EMC SYMMITRXI, V-MAX, DMX-3, VNX, CELERA, DL3D,CENTERA, DD880, DD670,, Connectrix DS-4900B, DS-300, Mc DATA 4500 Oracle M5000, M4000 & BLADE 6000, SUN Fire E15k, E10k, SF6900, SF2900, V890, V880, V480, V440, V220r Servers, Hitachi V9980, V9970, A5200, ST3510,SUN SPARC Workstations 1500/150, and Sun blade.

Backup Solution:

Veirtas Netbackup 6.5, 7.1 & Legato 7.1, Sun Storage Tec L700e, L8 Tape Library & Data Domain

Operating Systems: Sun Solaris (5.8, 5.9 and 5.10), Redhat Linux 2.6 and Windows NT, XP

Education:

Master of Science in Information Technology (MSc)

From Alagapha University,

Karaikudi, Tamil Nadu,

India.

Personal Information:

Date Of Birth : 01-06-1978

Nationality : Indian

Driving : Holding Valid International License (Bahrain).

Languages : English, Telugu, Tamil, Hindi & Urdu.

Hobbies : Reading, Traveling, Sports and interacting with people.

Permanent Address : S/O. M. Abdual Rawoof Khan

Marpur Sreet, Indra Nager, Madanapalle(T)

Chittoor(DT). AP, India.

• Excellent problem solving and analytical skills, effective communication

• Dedicated and hardworking, quick learner, methodical and professional.

• Have excellent written and verbal communication skills.

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