Manager Data

SUMMARY:

EMC Certified professional with **+ years of extensive experience in configuration, administration and management of SAN/NAS arrays including EMC VMAX3, Unity, VNX2, DMX, Clariion, VIPR SRm, VIPR Controller, XtremeIO, VPLEX, ISILON, Celerra, Hitachi VSP, Netapp Fas, IBM SVC in heterogeneous open systems environment.

Expertise in the management of VMAX/DMX including Migration and Replication using Solutions enabler, Unisphere, SMC, SRDF product suite, Timefinder and Open Replicator.

Implemented Migration of Data from VMAX to VMAX3-400k using Open Replicator. Performed similar migrations on VMAX3, VMAX 20k,40k and VMAX.

Migration of data from EMC/Third party vendor to EMC Unity/VNX2 using Mirrorview and Sancopy, implemented storage allocations on VNX /Clariion using Unisphere and Navisphere .

Extensively worked with EMC Vplex local and Metro environments, provisioning storage on vplex, Migration of existing storage, expansion of vplex vol, data mobility, device mirros and distributed devices.

Experience working with Quad X-Brick Xtreme IO,creating Devices, Add initiators, lun mapping and provisioning to Windows and Vmware Hosts.

Provisioning storage on Hitachi VSP using Hitachi command suite and setup replication and clone relation using Hitachi universal replicator (HUR) and shadow image (SI).

Worked with enterprise class director and departmental switches including Cisco, Mcdata and brocade using DCNM, device/fabric manager, Connectrix manager, DCFM, set up NPIV, ISL, IVR on Cisco MDS switches.

Experience in the implementation of Disaster recovery, Data availability and Data mobility using Symmetrix and Clariion based solutions.

Experience on DataONTAP 8.2 creating aggregates, storage virtual machine (SVM), Qtrees, Shares and Provisioning CIFS/SMB Shares & NFS Exports using ONcommand system manager and workflow automation.

Expertise in supporting enterprise class servers in provisioning, decommissioning and migrating storage to/from IBM-AIX, Solaris, Linux, HP-UX, ESX, Blade centers, Main frame Z-Linux hosts. Assisted in Host based Migrations using open migrator and PPME.

Experience with Amazon AWS Cloud service including working with EC2 instances, S3 Storage, EBS, IAM and VPC.

Experience with VIPR SRM in monitoring the operation health of the environment, working with daily reports, custom reporting, installing solutions packs for components, discovering new devices.

Expertise working with Storage Reporting, Monitoring and troubleshooting performance issues and identifying the performance bottlenecks on the EMC storage using Netapp ON Command, EMC Control Center, Symmetrix Performance Analyzer, Unisphere and Navisphere analyzer.

Highly competent SAN technology expert with a strong analytical and qualitative skill acquired from extensive experience in planning, designing, configuring and administration of challenging storage environments.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

EMC Hardware: Symmetrix VMAX3-400k,200k VMAX40K,20k, VMAX, XTREMEIO,ISILON, VIPR SRM, VIPR Controller, VPLEX,DMX4, DMX3,3000,2000,1000,800,symmetrix 8830,8530, Unity,VNX2,VNX, Clariion CX 4-80, CX 4-20, CX 3-80,3-40,3-20, Celerra NS 480, NS 700, NS 80g

EMC Solutions: EMC SRDF, Time finder, Open Replicator, San copy, Mirror view, Open Migrator, PPME, Recover Point.

EMC Software: EMC Solutions Enabler, EMC Unisphere for Symmetrix and VNX/Clariion, Symmetrix Management Console, Symmetrix performance Analyzer, EMC Ionix control center 6.1 UB12,6.0, 5.2,performance manager, storage scope, Navisphere Manager, Navicli, Powerpath, Replication Manager, Dart Code, Enginuity Code, Flare Code, Celerra manager.

IBM : DS 4800, SVC

Hitachi: Hitachi VSP, Hitachi Universal Replicator, Shadow Image.

Cloud : AWS S3,EC2,EBS,VPC

Netapp: Netapp Fas 6200, ONcommand system manager.

SAN Switches: Cisco MDS 9513/9509/9506/9216, CISCO DCNM, fabric manager, device manager,CISCO CLI, connectrix manager, Mcdata ED 140m2,64 M, and Brocade 16/32B, Brocade 4800

Hosted OS : Windows,IBM-AIX, ESX, Solaris 10, SUSE Linux, HP-UX, EMC grabs, Heat Report.

HBA :Emulex,QLogic

EDUCATION AND CERTIFICATION:

Masters of Science in Electronics (major: Computer Networking), Wichita State University, KS

Bachelor of Technology in Electrical and Electronics Engineering, JNTU, INDIA

EMC Proven professional Certification – EMC Symmetrix Solutions Specialist (E20-335)

EMC Technologies Foundations (ETF: E20-040)

Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA)

EMC business continuity management workshop

EMC Certified training on VIPR,XTREMEIO,VPLEX,VNX and VMAX3

Netapp NAS training .

EXPERIENCE:

Client: PNC BANK / EMC resident August 2012 –Present Date

Pittsburgh PA

Sr.Storage Engineer/lead Engineer

Amicus Systems INC

Managed EMC SAN environment in 4 PNC data centers including day-to-day provisioning, replication, DR test, migration and decommissions.

Extensively worked to reduce the pending storage provisioning and decommissioning tickets target from months to current date completing over 600 tickets in a period of 6 months.

Performed Open Replicator Hot Pull and Hot push to migrate data from DMX to Vmax .

Experience working with Quad X-Brick Xtreme IO,creating Devices, Add initiators, lun mapping and provisioning to Windows and Vmware Hosts

Setup SRDF Replication between prod and DR Vmax,creating RDF and Device Groups,replicating R1 to R2 using SRDF/A and setup clone on R2 device .

Setup a New VMAX3 in the environment, creating Masking view,storage groups,initiator groups and port groups, associate the storage groups with Fast policy using Unisphere and Symcli.

Provisioned Hosts on the Vplex claiming storage from a Vmax,created extents, devices,virtual volumes,Register initiators and create storage views.

Migrated data from VNX 5700 to unity600 using EMC san copy .

Worked on VNX block storage management using unisphere for VNX, create raid Groups, Storage pools, thick and thin luns, host provisioning,snap view snapshots, snapview clones and VNX snapshots.

Allocated Storage from Hitachi VSP using Hitachi command suite and replicated the prod luns to Dr using hitachi universal replicator and shadow image.

Worked on Netapp Nas on 7-Mode and Cluster DataONTAP, created aggregates, Qtrees, volumes, storage virtual machine, assigned CIFS share and NFS exports to windows and Unix hosts respectively. Provisioned NAs requests with PNC Workflow automation utilization.

Training involved working with ESX Host,accessing Vsphere client, identifying storage adapters, rescan for new devices, create datastores, Rdm’s and deploying virtual machine from templates.

Identified multiple performance hotspots in the environment including VMAX,DMX using SPA and unisphere performance manager, migrated the hosts to four port groups, worked with emc,oracle and Microsoft team to analyze and provide statistics, supported redesign databases and migrate luns .

Successfully completed the DR test for all the servers in the environment replicating from Pittsburgh to Cleveland,Pittsburgh to first side and Cleveland to Dalton .

Provisioning Boot from San staging requests for Windows,Aix,Solaris,Linux physical servers and blades across all the PNC environments and replicating them to their DR counter parts .

Setup management server to discover new vmax,zoning the new vmax gatekeepers to the management station,setup licenses, setup replication between prod and DR Vmax .

Production server provisioning includes auto provisioning, replicating the prod luns to DR site and setup clones to the R2 luns,zoning the clone luns to DR nodes and test them, associate the storage groups to fast .

setup new design standards including setting up port groups, zoning, Storage groups, masking view in the existing environment and move the servers accordingly .

migrated all the production servers from the Vmax to a production Vmax and set the old array to support the test and QA environment

update EMC solutions enabler from version 7.3 to 7.5.0.6 and SMC to unisphere V1.5.0.6 for symmetrix over the SAN environment and setup alerts for errors in unisphere

knowledge transfer to client providing documents and standard operating procedures working with SYMCLI, SMC and Unisphere.

Worked extensively with Storage Reporting, Monitoring and troubleshooting performance issues and identifying the performance bottlenecks on the EMC storage using VIPR SRM, Netapp ON Command, EMC Control Center, Symmetrix Performance Analyzer, Unisphere and Navisphere analyzer

Client: Automatic data processing (ADP) / EMC Resident April 2008 –July2012

Roseland NJ

Sr.Storage Engineer

Amicus Systems Inc/Zenvet Inc

Administration, configuration and management of EMC SAN and NAS across all ADP data centers including ADP production Data centers (DC1 and DC2), ADP Roseland, ADP Philadelphia and ADP Florence.

Consolidated multiple san environments in ADP Roseland into a single infrastructure by migrating older emc arrays,hosts and switches

Migrated 40 TB data from DMX 4 thick devices to VMax thin devices using open replicator hot push session. It involved setting up a differential hot push session to initially copy the data from control to remote during a weekday and final sync copy on day of cutover weekend. Reclaimed the unused space from the thin devices after the migration.

Configured SRDF/a and clone replication on VMax thin devices for Microsoft exchange 2010 on a VMware Vsphere Site recovery manager server. Worked with VMware team to set up the replication using EMC site recovery manager (SRM), EMC SRDF Storage Replication Adapter (SRA) and Virtual Storage Integrator (VSI).

Planned, designed and configured a new Storage area network for ADP virtual edge clients in Philadelphia using DMX4-6, VMax, Cisco 9509 switches .

Experience working with EMC VPLEX,Configurred VPlex to migrate windows and linux servers on VMAX. Claimed storage from VMAX and DMC registering hosts and creating storage views.

Designed and configured a storage area network for ADP total source clients in Florence using DMX4, Vmaxe, Clariion NS 480, CX 3-80,cx3-20, Cisco 9509 switches, Cisco 9506 switches, migrated all the servers from old Clariion to Clariion NS 480 and Vmax .

Migrated Data using Open Replicator Hot pull session with donor update from a Dmx to Vmax in ADP development lab.

Planned, designed and configured SRDF replication between Vmax thin devices, create RDFG group, RDF devices, setup rdf relation between two Vmax to have SRDF/a replication between them for windows and solaris hosts .

Plan, design and test any newly procured array before going live into production. Designing bin file,disk groups, front end ports, data devices, pools on a EMC VMax and DMX .

Expertise working with Auto provisioning, creating storage group, initiator group, port group and masking view.

Expertise working with Virtual provisioning, creating Data device s (TDAT’s)per emc recommendation, thin pools, thin devices, allocating the thin device to the pool, Tested VMAX FAST VP in Lab Environment. Enabling, creating policies and monitoring the performance.

Experience working with migrating thin devices locally from one pool to another using lun migration wizard depending upon the performance of the device and maintain the pool over subscription .

Design and Provide Bin file requests to the EMC support team to install on the Symmetrix DMX /Vmax . schedule bin changes, cope upgrades, hardware replacements

Worked on a data center refresh project migrating data from older VMax to new Vmax using SRDF replication.

Setup local replication to production hosts using time finder Native clones /snaps on DMX and Vmax. Experience working with EMC timefinder/BCV and clone emulation on a DMX .

Configuration and administration of EMC NAS Celerra, providing storage from the backend clariion, setup data mover, create file systems, create CIFS shares and NFS exports. Migrated shares and permissions from NS 700 to NS 80G using emcopy.

Extensive experience configuring a New clariion using a EMC Clariion designer, creating raid groups, hot spares, thin pools,creating raid groups, luns, storage groups, lun migration, meta devices, lun trespass, checking health status and faults, event monitor and etc .

Migrated data from EMC Clariion CX700 to emc CX 4-80, CX 500 to CX 700, CX 3-80 to CX 4-80 using EMC mirror view replication software and EMC San Copy Migration software.

Migrated storage from IBM DS4100 and DS4800 to EMC Clariion CX3-80 using SANcopy for windows servers.

Day to day tasks involves allocations and troubleshooting if any issues.

Installation administration and maintenance of emc control center across all data centers, deploying agents, setup policies.

Administration and maintenance of all the management boxes in the environment upgrading master agent, windows hot fixes, Emulex drivers/firmware, power path, solutions enabler, smc/spa,cisco DCNM,fabric manager/device manager . Experience with EMC grabs, Heat reports, SWAT,Brocade San health

Efficiently manage enterprise-wide code leveling across all SAN switches, arrays, information and management software’s.

Create run books and operating procedures for storage provisioning, migration and storage based host upgrades

Installed EMC control center 6.0 and later updated it to 6.1 UB 12, deployed agents and policies for a distributed ECC infrastructure. Installed and configured performance manager to collect data from data collection policies to analyze further if any issues.

Performed switch migration involving Merging the vsan’s on the Cisco switch 9509 and 9506 and later decommissioned 9506.

Configuration, administration and maintenance of all the switches in the environment, create zone, zonesets on Cisco switches using DCNM, Fabric manager and device manager, using DCFM on brocade switches and connectrix manager for Mcdata switches. Experience with NPIV, ISL and IVR zoning, switch migration and zone merge.

Managed around 56 storage area network switches using Cisco, Brocade and Mcdata director class, departmental switches and product management tools.

Zenvet INC Jan 2008-March 2010

SAN Administrator

Configured and managed SAN environment comprising of Symmetrix DMX 3000 /2000 / 1000 & Symmetrix 8830, Clariion CX 3-40 & CX 700/600 storage systems, Connectrix M series ED-140 M & MDS 9509 Directors using EMC Control Center, EMC Navisphere Manager, Connectrix & Fabric/Device Manager and Performance Manager

Symmetrix and Clariion provisioning to various hosts using ECC, Mc data switches, Cisco Switches, Navisphere Manager, Symcli, including deploying infrastructure agents and discovering storage equipments

Involved in planning and migration of SAN environment from DMX 1000 to DMX 3000 using SRDF synchronous for increase in performance and capacity management .Decommissioned older Dmx 1000

Migrated data from CX 600 to CX 3-40 using SAN Copy replication solution for better performance. Identified performance issues, located bottlenecks and diagnosed using Performance manager. Created Users, User groups and assigned authorization rules using EMC Control Center

Installation and Configuration of SAN Fabric with Cisco 9509 san switches. Configured multiple VSAN environments and Migrated Connectrix M series ED 140M to MDS 9509 Directors

Configured point-in-time BCV mirror copies of production data and provisioned them to backup hosts using Time finder local storage replication solutions

Configured and acknowledged ECC alerts and data collection policies to monitor the SAN environment for Symmetrix, Clariion, and Switches & Hosts and attached management policies to include Email/Console notifications

Installation and configuration of Veritas volume manager / file system implementing host based migration using veritas administration of file systems and recognizing file access and disk problems using volume manager

Extensively used Open Replicator to migrate from symm 8830 to DMX 2000 configured and created pull/push sessions to migrate devices

Experience in performance reporting and work load analysis using performance manager. Created flexible reporting for storage and host resources using Storage Scope

Maintaining ECC including applying patches, installing agents and discovering new arrays, hosts and switches

Wichita State University, Wichita, KS July 2006- Dec 2007

SAN / System Administrator:

Worked as a student proctor as well as graduate student assistant in university disability services assessing professor surveys and converting physical books in to audio CDS

Installation, administration and maintenance of Windows and Solaris Sparc systems, includes Windows (NT, 2000, Xp ),Solaris Sparc 8,9 . installing software packages,, configured network shared resources, installation and maintenance of antivirus and its updates.

Managing user/group additions, trouble shooting login issues .monitor and control system access, setting up file permissions and ownership. Disabled telnet and rlogin to enhance security. Maintained system logs and ensured system security & integrity

Good understanding in Network Switches and Routers and routing protocols.

Cisco Certified Network Associate in 2007.

Configured workstations, diagnosed technical issues involving Windows 2000/NT, MS Office applications and hardware related issues for troubleshooting and ensuring proper network connectivity and better system performance.

Analyzed existing infrastructure and proposed feasible system/software upgrades with potential incompatibilities identified

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