Manager Engineer
Resume:
Sandeep
Email: *******.*************@*****.*** Mobile: +1-510-***-****
A technology leader with 7+ years of Strong experience in Storage (SAN/NAS/Converged Storages) and Backup Analysis, Migrations, Planning, Solutions, Implementations, Maintenance and Administration. I bring an innovative and pragmatic approach to analysing complex business needs, enabling me to conceptualize, design and implement cutting edge solutions based on the latest virtualization, storage, and cloud technologies.
SUMMARY of QUALIFICATIONS:
7 years extensive experience in NetApp storage Management and Administration
Experience in implementing new NetApp Filers both FAS and AFF.
Experience in Migrations from 7 Mode to C mode using 7MTT, SecureCopy, VMotion and Rsync
Hands on experience working on NetApp SAN, NAS and IBM N-Series Technologies.
Hands on Experience with NetApp Filers FAS2040, FAS2240, FAS3140, FAS3020, FAS3040, FAS3210, FAS3240, FAS3270, FAS6080, FAS6210, FAS6280, FAS8020,FAS8080 and V-Series Filer's
Experience in Aggregate, SVM, Volume, Qtree and LUN management.
Experience in implementing and administration Flexpod and E Series.
Operation Management: Managed Data center Consist of Hitachi, EMC & NetApp Storage, Symantec, IBM Storage and Backup technologies, Brocade and Cisco Devices.
Perform Analysis, Planning, Designing and Implementation of Storage & Backup Solutions.
Extensive hands-on experience with maintaining and troubleshooting EMC storage arrays such as EMC VMAX2, VMAX3, VNX, Clarrion CX-4 and CX-3 Storage arrays
Enterprise Storage Design and Implementation: Data Centre Transformation, Data Centre Green field project implementation, Consolidation, Data Centre Migration and Cloud Implementations.
Data Centre Design & Build: Storage & Backup Installation, configuration and Troubleshooting.
Virtual environment build installation and configuration and troubleshooting.
Data Management: Backup and Recovery, VTL, De-Duplication, NAS and SAN Technologies.
Experience in NetApp Filers quota Management, CIFS shares, NFS exports, Data migrations
Upgraded Ontap, from - 7.3.4P6 to 8.0.2P4, 8.0.1 to 8.0.3P2, 8.0.2.P5 to 8.1.1, 8.1.1 to 8.1.2P1 and 8.2 to 8.3.
Experience in troubleshooting the performance issues on the filers by collecting Core Dump and Perfstats
Experience in adding NetApp DS4243, DS2246, ESH4 and ESH2 module Shelves to Increase Storage Space on NetApp Filer's
Experience in troubleshooting Level 3 issues on the NetApp filers in SAN and NAS environments
Experience in Troubleshooting Storage and Server Related Issues
Experience with different data management and monitoring tools such as Operations manager, provisioning manager, protection manager and Oncommand Core/Host
Experience in NetApp Snap Drive, Snap Manager for SQL, Snap Manager for Oracle, Snap Manager for Virtual Infrastructure, Volume Snapmirror, Qtree Snapmirror, Flex Clone, Deduplication, Compression, Oncommand Balance, storage planning, data management, disaster recovery planning best practices and testing.
Experience in Managing Cisco, Brocade and Mcdata Switches
Experience with Ontap Versions both 7 Mode and C Mode
TECHNOLOGIES:
Storage Hardware: FAS2040, FAS2240, FAS3040, FAS3140, FAS3170, FAS3210, FAS3240, FAS3270, FAS6080, FAS6210, FAS6240, FAS6280, V-SERIES FILER'S, N3240, N3700, N6040, N6070, N6250, N7600,FAS/AFF8020, FAS/AFF8080 and Flexpod, VMAX2,VMAX3, Xtremio.
OS Platforms: Data ONTAP, Microsoft Windows operating systems, Linux (Red Hat), Solaris, VMware ESX, AIX.
Networking: Cisco switches, Brocade switches, Mcdata Switches, TCP/IP, ISDN, LAN/WAN, Transport Protocols, Mobile IP, PSTN, DSL, VPNs, Ethernet, BGP.
NetApp Monitoring and Management tools: OCUM, Snap Mirror, Sync Mirror, Snap Vault, Open System Snap Vault (OSSV), Snap Drive, Snap Lock, Snap Restore, Snap Manager for Exchange (SME), Snap Manager for SQL(SMSQL), Snap Manger for Virtual Infrastructure, Snap Manager For Oracle (SMO), Operations Manager(Data Fabric Manager(DFM), Oncommand Performance Manager(OCPM), Oncommand Insight (OCI), Oncommand Core and Host Package, Flex Clone, Oncommand Balance, RAID Concepts, LDAP.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
Client: Bank of America Sept 2016 – Present
Position: Storage Engineer
As a Storage Engineer in BOFA, I have administered 60 PB of storage globally including file and block storage systems. Configured storage arrays with business continuity solutions, performed upgrades and worked extensively on storage migration and data center consolidation projects.
Performed storage allocation on VMAX arrays and assigned FAST policies for the Storage Groups using Solution Enabler.
Creating Business Continuality Volumes (BCV's) for the LUNs on VMAX for redundancy.
Created and mapped gatekeepers to hosts for SYMCLI.
Configured and monitored all cDOT and 7-mode clusters.
cDOT & 7 Mode Environments were brought up to the required levels and configuration for migration from all 7 Mode controllers
Created and configured CIFS Shares, NFS Mounts, Q uotas, Groups and Permissions on NetApp NAS.
Created and configured Policies CMode filers.
Experience on installation and upgrading of the Data Fabric Manager and Operations Manager to monitor and manage the filers.
Managed ONTAP Upgrade activities both Clustered filers and non-clustered filers in production environments.
Installed FAS8020 Filers
Monitoring and Administration of FAS8020.
Architect, deploy, configure, and train administration skills for the Hitachi Block, File and Content product line with expertise specifically in VSP, HUS, HNAS and HCP.
Architect, deploy, configure, and train administration skills for SAN management with Brocade and Cisco SAN products.
Practical hands-on systems administration, expert in Hitachi Data Systems, Hitachi Command Suite, Hitachi Tuning Manager and Hitachi Dynamic Provisioning
Managing Hitachi Dynamic provisioning pools
Experience with engineer, deploy and administer HP-3PAR arrays, performance analysis, migrations, replication, etc.
Very good understanding of concepts and architecture, capacity reporting/planning.
Virtualizations of AMS 1000, AMS 2500 and USP storage frames behind the USPV and VSP using Universal Volume Manager
Used OCI for performance troubleshooting
Performed migrations between pools using Tiered Storage Manager and Volume Migrator.
Implemented remote migrations using True Copy and Hitachi Universal replicator.
Performed In-system level replications using Shadow Image and Copy On Write Snapshot.
Evaluating the performance of the storage frames using Tuning Manager, Performance Manager
Provide compelling technical collateral by synthesizing complex concepts into customer, field and channel-centric materials.
Develop technical focused collateral for best practice guides, demos, whitepapers, design guides and application notes for Storage.
Configuring and administering of Snap Drive, Snap Protect, Snap Manager tools for Exchange, Hyper-V, SQL, Oracle and Share point databases
Configuring and administering of config advisor, Insight, LatX, Auto support, Perfstat tools.
Configuring the setup in lab and create/execute various design scenarios/performance analysis to shape out the best practices for the given product.
Client: Express Scripts May 2015 – Aug 2016
Position: Storage Engineer
As a Storage Engineer in Express Scripts, I am directly responsible for the Storage and Backup infrastructure Administrations, Migrations and DR test for the Network consisting of NetApp Filers, HP, Pure, EMC, Brocade Hitachi, HP, Dell and IBM Storage Arrays.
Maintenance and Monitoring of NetApp storage by Configuring Aggregates, SVM, volume, Qtree and snapshots using Filer View and Oncommand System manager.
Configured and monitored all cDOT and 7-mode clusters.
cDOT & 7 Mode Environments were brought up to the required levels and configuration for migration from all 7 Mode controllers
Created and configured CIFS Shares, NFS Mounts, Quotas, Groups and Permissions on NetApp NAS.
Created and configured Policies CMode filers.
Experience on installation and upgrading of the Data Fabric Manager and Operations Manager to monitor and manage the filers.
Managed ONTAP Upgrade activities both Clustered filers and non-clustered filers in production environments.
Installed FAS8020 Filers
Monitoring and Administration of FAS8020.
Architect, deploy, configure, and train administration skills for the Hitachi Block, File and Content product line with expertise specifically in VSP, HUS, HNAS and HCP.
Architect, deploy, configure, and train administration skills for SAN management with Brocade and Cisco SAN products.
Practical hands-on systems administration, expert in Hitachi Data Systems, Hitachi Command Suite, Hitachi Tuning Manager and Hitachi Dynamic Provisioning
Managing Hitachi Dynamic provisioning pools
Experience with engineer, deploy and administer HP-3PAR arrays, performance analysis, migrations, replication, etc.
Very good understanding of concepts and architecture, capacity reporting/planning.
Virtualizations of AMS 1000, AMS 2500 and USP storage frames behind the USPV and VSP using Universal Volume Manager
Used OCI for performance troubleshooting
Performed migrations between pools using Tiered Storage Manager and Volume Migrator.
Implemented remote migrations using True Copy and Hitachi Universal replicator.
Performed In-system level replications using Shadow Image and Copy On Write Snapshot.
Evaluating the performance of the storage frames using Tuning Manager, Performance Manager
Provide compelling technical collateral by synthesizing complex concepts into customer, field and channel-centric materials.
Develop technical focused collateral for best practice guides, demos, whitepapers, design guides and application notes for Storage.
Configuring and administering of Snap Drive, Snap Protect, Snap Manager tools for Exchange, Hyper-V, SQL, Oracle and Share point databases
Configuring and administering of config advisor, Insight, LatX, Auto support, Perfstat tools.
Configuring the setup in lab and create/execute various design scenarios/performance analysis to shape out the best practices for the given product.
Performed complete documentation of all systems, including SAD, SOP and Quality gate documents.
Client: TechMahindra June 2012 – April 2015
Position: Storage Engineer
As a Storage Engineer TechMahindra Ltd, assigned to the Global accounts like BP, Westfield Insurance etc... I am directly responsible for the Storage and Backup infrastructure Administrations, Migrations and DR test for the Network consisting of NetApp Filers, Hitachi, HP, Dell, EMC Symmetric/DMX/Clariion, Violin and IBM Storage Arrays.
Installation, Configuration and Administration of NetApp FAS2000, FAS3000 and FAS6000 Series Filers
Created Aggregates, Volume, Qtrees, Vlans, Virtual Interfaces, Igroups, VFiler's, CIFS Shares and NFS Exports.
cDOT & 7 Mode Environments were brought up to the required levels and configuration for migration from all 7 Mode controllers
Created Volume and Qtree Snapmirror Relationships as a part of Disaster Recovery Planning.
Configured and monitored all cDOT and 7-mode clusters.
Recovered Lost Storage Data using Snap Restore, Flex Clone, Snapmirror and Snap Vault
Assisted the team in various projects like Patriot Office Upgrade 8.0,Verint I360 and Wausau Upgrade.
Added DS4243 Shelves to New or Existing Loop to Increase Storage Space
Configured DSM MPIO 3.4,3.5 and 4.0 in the Environment for Load Balancing
Upgraded Shelf, Disk, RLM (Remote Lan Module), SP (Service Processor), BMC (Base Board Management Controller) Firmware Non-Disruptively.
Installed, Configured and Administered Oncommand Balance to run Virtual Score card /Server Reports.
Upgraded BIOS firmware, NVMEM Firmware and Mother Board Firmware on the NetApp filers
Upgraded Ontap, from - 7.3.4P6 to 8.0.2P4, 8.0.1 to 8.0.3P2, 8.0.2.P5 to 8.1.1 and 8.1.1 to 8.1.2P1
Migrated from 7 mode to C mode and CMode Administration
Created Volume and Qtree Level Permissions Based on Customer Request
Managed Filers Using Oncommand System Manager, Filer View, Command Line Interface and Provisioning Manager
Installed, Configured and Administered Snap drive, Snap Manager for Oracle, Snap Manger For SQL and Snap Manager For Virtual Infrastructure for Backup and Recovery
Configured NDMP for Snap Vault and Tape Backup
Created VSan, Zones, and Zone sets on Cisco Switches
Performed host-based migrations from IBM to NetApp filers using Image Mode Copy, Robocopy and Rsync Technologies
Administered Cisco and Brocade switches Monitoring and Administration of FAS3240/FAS3270 Filers
Configuring and Troubleshooting FAS3200 Series NetApp Filers
Created aggregates/volumes/qtrees in a NetApp environment
Managed protection manager, provisioning manager and operations manager for automation monitoring and reporting purposes
Troubleshooting issues in the environment by working with the NetApp Customer support
Provisioned Storage for VMware.
Used OCI for performance troubleshooting
Troubleshooting issues encountered with virtual storage console.
Installed Snap Manager For Exchange
Installed Single Mail Box Recovery
Troubleshooting Issues Encountered with SMBR and SME.
Troubleshooting Issue with CIFS and NFS Performance
Troubleshooting Issue With Upgrade of Disk Firmware
Upgraded Data ONTAP Version From 8.0.2 to 8.0.2P1
Upgraded Data ONTAP Version From 7.3.4P3 to 8.0.2P2
Used Data Fabric Manager and other tools to ensure system stability and monitoring
Implemented Snap Vault Technology in to the environment for disk to disk Backup
Implemented Snap Mirror Technology to Migrate Data to DR Location
Provided Point in Time images of Volumes and Qtrees using Snapshot Technology
Sparkzen Technologies, India June 2010 – May 2012
Position: Storage Support Engineer
As a part of the Expandtree Services team assigned to the Global accounts like NetApp. I am directly responsible for the Storage infrastructure implementation and support for the Network consisting of over 15000+ Windows/Storage/Solaris based Intel/NetApp FAS series/ IBM and EMC .
NET APPS filers FAS 6080, FAS 3070, FAS 2050 and FAS 270 Installation and support
LUN mapping/creation on NetApp devices, F/C Switch Configuration management.
Monitoring and Replication Strategies (Snapshot, SnapMirror).
Administration of Hitachi AMS 2500, USP-V, VSP and HUS storage arrays by using Hitachi command suite7, Storage Navigator, Storage Navigator Modular2, Solution Enabler (SYMCLI) and SMC.
Managing Hitachi Dynamic provisioning pools
Virtualizations of AMS 1000, AMS 2500 and USP storage frames behind the USPV and VSP using Universal Volume Manager
Data migration from DMX3000 to DMX-3 and data migration from CX600 to DMX-3
Executing prep work for host analysis and working with support matrix
Manage SAN & NAS capacity and performance using appropriate reporting & monitoring tools
Cisco 9506 / 9513 Director installation and configuration
Experience with Cisco fabric manager, Brocade zoning, storage allocation
Experience in creating zones and zone sets and fabric configuration
Supervise network monitoring standards, security, disaster/recovery, resource utilization and stability.
Work Flow ticketing systems, Change management, Performance manager and Break fix issues follow up and support.
NAS Administration, NetApp filer installation, on tap upgrades, SnapMirror and quota, qtrees Administration.
NET APPS filers FAS 3050, FAS 3070, FAS 2050 and FAS 940 Installation and support
LUN mapping/creation on NetApp devices, F/C Switch Configuration management.
Monitoring and Replication Strategies (Snapshot, SnapMirror).
Manage SAN & NAS capacity and performance using appropriate reporting & monitoring tools
IBM Shark and IBM FastT (DS4500) Installation and support.
Flash Copy, Snapshot and SnapMirror Installation and support
Work Flow ticketing systems, Change management, Performance manager and Break fix issues follow up and support
Experience with Connectrix Manager and data Fabric manager, Zoning, LUN allocation, Storage allocation to storage groups.
24/7 Support and On-call Support.
RCA preparation and meeting SLA for RCA submission.
PROFESSIONAL TRAININGS SUMMARY:
Attended VERITAS NETBACKUP 6.X for UNIX, Administration conducted by SYMANTEC. It's a FIVE days, INSTRUCTOR-LED course.
Attended Symmetrix Configuration Management conducted by EMC. It's a FIVE days, INSTRUCTOR-LED course.
Attended Symmetrix Business Continuity Management conducted by EMC. It's a FIVE days, INSTRUCTOR-LED course.
Attended Data ONTAP 7-Mode Fundamentals (D7ADM) conducted by NETAPP. It's a FIVE days, INSTRUCTOR-LED course.
Attended Accelerated NCDA Boot Camp Data ONTAP 8.0 7-Mode (ANCDABC87) conducted by NETAPP. It's a FIVE days, INSTRUCTOR-LED course.
Attended Performance Analysis on Data ONTAP (PAD) conducted by NETAPP. It's a THREE days, INSTRUCTOR-LED course.
Attended Operations Manager, Protection Manager, and Provisioning Manager Administration (OPSMGR) conducted by NETAPP. It's a FIVE days, INSTRUCTOR-LED course.
Attended Program on Enhancing Personal and Interpersonal Effectiveness conducted by Centre for Organization Development (COD). It's a THREE days, INSTRUCTOR-LED course.
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