Objective

To be Excellent while continuously learning and be recognized as specialist in the field of Data Center Infrastructure Solution Architect of Systems, Storage (SAN, NAS and DAS), Backup and Fabric switched network environments.

Profile Summary

Having 19+ years of experience in Information Systems with demonstrated expertise in complete the storage system infrastructure lifecycle, methodology, and practices. Possess strong analytical thinking, troubleshooting capabilities and excellent interpersonal communication skills. Evaluate stated requirements and expectations in terms of technical feasibility and cost outcomes. Work closely and effectively with all levels of management to satisfy project/productivity requirements. Demonstrate commitment to leadership/teamwork through positive contributions in streamlining systems and providing superior customer service.

Technical experience within the solutions practice includes

Design, implementation configuration, and administration of large SANs using best practice of EMC, HP, NetApp, IBM storage arrays SAN and NAS environment with extensive performance analysis of database systems on Symmetrix VMAX3, VMAX2, VMAX, DMX, Unified VNX & VNX2, VNXe & VNXe-2, Unity flash & hybrid, XIO, Isilon, HP 3PAR, NetApp, Synology NAS and Pure storage arrays

Heterogeneous storage array migrations (CLARRION to VMAX, DMX to VMAX, VNX to VMAX3, DMX to VNX, HDS to VMAX, and VMAX to 3PAR etc.)

Design, implement, upgrade and migrate, manage and support EMC’s Symmetrix VMAX3, VMAX, DMX, Unified VNX & VNX2, VNXe & VNXe2, HP MSA, EVA and 3PAR, Hitachi USP-V, IBM midrange, XIV and NetApp Filers storage systems

Designing & implementation – NetApp filers 7-Dot and C-Mode (FAS3050/3150/6000/6060), IBM N series N3XXX, and N5XXX.

Extensive experience in managing & supporting Block (FC and iSCSI) and File (Microsoft DFS, CIFS & NFS, FICON) environments

Design, implement, upgrade and migrate SAN switches (CISCO MDS to Brocade DCX and Brocade 48K to Brocade DCX, Brocade B series to Brocade 48K)

Design, implement, upgrade and migrate, managing & support data protection suite such as Veritas NetBackup, BackupExec, HP Data Protector, CommVault, CA Arch Backup and EMC Networker, EMC Avamar integration of Data Domain using DDBoost and replication

Excellent hand-on experience with VMWare vSphere ESXi, vCenter, Microsoft Hyper-V

Design, Install, configure and administer operating systems, including MS Win-NT, 2K, 2K3, 2K8, 2012 & 2016 Servers, Solaris, Unix/Linux, ADS, DHCP, DNS, WINS, IIS and SQL, Windows cluster File and especially Windows SQL Clustering

Products and Platform based Experience

Operating Systems: Windows NT, 2000, 2003, 2008, 2012 and 2016 servers, AD, DHCP, DNS, IIS, SQL, Windows & SQL Database Clustering, Solaris, SCO-Unix and Linux

Compute Platforms: HP C7000 chassis & Blades, DELL Blades & PowerEdge, IBM, Acer, Wipro & HCL

Storage Platforms: EMC Symmetrix (VMAX3, VMAX, DMX) XtremIO, Data Domain, VNX and VNX2 (File and block), VNXe1 and VNXe2 (File and block), Isilon, Clariion and Celera, HP 3PAR, HP EVA, NetApp Filers, Hitachi USPV storage array, Brocade and CISCO switching where FC, FICON and iSCSI environment

Storage Software: EMC TimeFinder, Celera Replicator, EMC Control Center, SnapView, MirrorView, Unisphere for VMAX, USM, Open Replicator, Open Migrator, SAN Copy and PPME, HP CommandView EVA, Hitachi Device Manager, CISCO Fabric Manager, Brocade DCFM and CONNECTRIX MANAGER CONVERGED NETWORK EDITION 12.3.4

Backup Platforms: VERITAS NetBackup & Backup Exec, HP-DP, EMC Networker, CA ARCH Backup, CommVault Backups, Data Domain, VTL, DDBoost & Oracle RMAN

Academics

Master’s in Business Administration from Information Technology from SMU in 2010

Diploma in Computer Science Engineering from TM polytechnic college in 1998

Professional Designations and Certifications

EMC Proven Professional Implementation Engineer (EMCIE)

oViPR SRM 3.X Storage Resource Management

oSymmetrix VMAX3 Solutions Specialist

oSymmetrix VMAX Solutions Specialist

oRecoverPoint Data Replication and Recovery Specialist – V4

oVNX Solutions Specialist – V6 and V8

oData Domain Specialist – V1

oNetworker Specialist – V7.4, V7.6, V8 and V8.1

oClariion Solutions Specialist

oNetwork Attached Storage Specialist

oAvamar Specialist – V7.0

EMC Storage Administrator, Storage Management Specialist (EMCSA)

oSymmetrix VMAX3 Solutions Specialist

oSymmetrix Solutions Specialist

oVNX Solutions Specialist – V6 and V8

oNetworker Specialist – V7.4, V7.6, V8 and V8.1

oAvamar Specialist – V7.0

EMC Storage Administrator, Storage Management Associate (EMCPA)

EMC Information Storage Associate (EMCISA)

IBM Certified Specialist – Midrange Technical Support V2

SNIA Storage Technology Professional (SNIA)

NetApp Network Appliance Storage Associate (NS0-111)

VERITAS NetBackup Certified Specialist for Microsoft Windows (DP-023W NBU 6.5)

VERITAS NetBackup Certified Specialist for Microsoft Windows (DP-023W NBU 5.1)

Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE-2003)

Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE-2000)

Dell Certified Systems Engineer (DCSE-V5 & V6)

Cognizant Technology Services (09/19/2016 to till date) Designation: Associate Ops Manager - Storage

Client: Oxford University Press, Cary NC USA

Supporting the storage array’s at US, CANADA and LATAM location

Trend Analysis of data includes capacity planning, data growth, port utilization, performance analysis and future design for proactive discovery and identification.

Provisioning/Reclaiming the Block and File storage on EMC VMAX, VNX, NetApp Filers C-Mode FAS3220 Clusters, HP EVA’s, IBM XIV, EMC Isilon, Dell EqualLogic, and Synology NAS Arrays.

Performing code upgrades on EMC, HP, and NetApp storage arrays and CISCO & Brocade fabric switches

Designed and implemented EMC Isilon OneFS storage systems.

Design disk layouts, creating storage pools and provisioning the storage on EMC ISILON, adding/removing the nodes to/from the EMC Isilon cluster. Setting up access zones, file shares, access privileges, quotes to the users.

Supporting and managing VMWare ESXi vCenter v5.1 (US), 5.5 (CANADA) and 6.0 UK environment

Implemented Synology NAS storage across multiple locations as secondary storage

Troubleshooting Windows 2003, 2008, 2012, 2016 Windows & SQL clustering

Troubleshooting SQL clusters, Exchange databases, and SAP databases L2 level

Supporting across different location – US, UK, Canada, Brazil, Mexico, Argentina, India, Singapore, China, and Japan

Performing zoning using CISCO Fabric Manager, DCFM and BNA

Redesigning and redefining the Backup system on platforms HP Data Protector, Veritas NetBackup and Backup Exec, Veeam, Nova and DoubleTek Backup environment with Tape library units for all the OUP customers across the globe

Worked on Netapp Snap manager for SQL,Exchange,Oracle Netapp snapvault, and SnapMirror and SnapVault. SMB, CIFS, NFS, Qtree, Quota’s and iSCSI LUN management.

Performed the array DATA ONTAP, Flare, DSM firmware code, disk, and shelf update

Monitor the NetApp arraying using NetApp OnCommand Management, NetApp OPS Manager, EMC Unisphere, HPE CommandView EVA, CISCO Fabric Manager, Brocade Web console, VERITAS Backup Exec, HP Data Protector, CA Arch Backup, DoubleTek, and Nova Backup

Following complete ITIL frame work - Incident, Change, problem and risk management process

Coordinating between the teams at offshore and across OUP locations

Perform customer service improvements (CSI), and critical problem remediation

Sonsoft/ClearBridge Technology LLC, EMC Partner (07/01/2016 to 09/16/2016) Designation: Sr EMC Storage Solution Architect

Client: Microsoft Corporation, Bellevue WA USA

Representation: DellEMC Corporation

Provisioning/Reclaiming the storage from EMC VMAX3 400K, VMAX2 40K, VMAX 10K, VNX 7500 Unified, VNX5300, and XtremIO storage arrays.

Performing zoning using CMCNE on Brocade DCX 8510-8B, 6510 and departmental switches

Supporting tools such as Unisphere for VMAX, Unisphere for VNX, SYMCLI, Symmetrix Performance Analyzer, CMCNE, OneCommand, HBA and PowerPath

Troubleshooting the performance related issues, latency, IOPS spikes, balance the ports, port groups and set the line rate limits on the storage groups and front end director ports

Standardizing the environment using EMC and Brocade best practices

Supporting SQL clusters and troubleshooting their level1 and level2 problems

Troubleshooting the SQL performance issues on Microsoft SQL clusters

Troubleshooting the fabric related issues such as link, Fibre Cable, GBIC, light levels, Port congestion, Port settings, Buffer Credit overrun, and Hardware congestion such as memory, network and resource bottleneck, data corruption on filesystems, Disk offline, Cluster disk reservation on the disks

Coordinating the customer for the maintenance windows for any scheduled activities

Performing LUN migrations from one disk type to another (one pool to another) based on customer need

Performed trending the customer data for reporting, accommodating future growth, future migrations, and submitting the data to hire officials

Reclaiming the Orphan Storage from the EMC storage arrays

Migrating the 6510 8GB cores to new warranty 8510-8B 16GB core switches

Decommissioning the older out of warranty core switches 6510 8GB, and departmental switches

Performing FOS code upgrades on CCP, Saturn, CO2, BY2 and CH1 location

Monitor the line rates on Storage groups and Port Groups

Monitor the Pools, FAST, TRIM, Zero Reclaims, Defragmentation’s, and Filesystem checks

Providing additional space to the customer based on their need with a satisfied business justification

Reach out Brocade & EMC for any escalation, open up the Service Request and end-to-end follow till the resolution of the issue

Using Windows Powershell and batch scripts to customize the operations

Supported Data Center maintenance such as power outage, cooling outage, and water leakage and out of office hours support on On-Call

Perform the Enginuity for Symmetrix, Flare block/File for VNX, DATA ONTAP for NetApp appliances

Migrating the data using host based tools PPME, PPME with clustering, array based tools Open Replicator and Open Replicator with Clustering

Decommissioning the storage arrays, fabric switches and scrubbing the data on the disks

Virtualization – VMware vsphere 5.1, ESX administration, vMotion and storage vMotion and VSC 5.1

AdvizeX Technology LLC, Burlington (12/31/2012 to 06/30/2016) Designation: Sr EMC Storage Consultant

Design, implement, configure, and administer EMC VMAX3, VMAX2, DMX, VNX & VNX2, VNXe & VNXe2, Clariion, HP 3PAR 7200/7400, HP EVA 5000/8000, HP XP 12K, XP20K and XP24K, HP 3PAR 7200/7400/2000, NetApp Filers FAS3000/3050/3220/6000/6060, Hitachi USP-V storage array’s

Design and layout of EMC, HP, NetApp, IBM storage arrays SAN and NAS environment with extensive performance analysis of database systems on Symmetrix VMAX3 200K, VMAX2 40K, 20K & 10K, DMX, Unified VNX & VNX2, VNXe & VNXe, HP 3PAR, and NetApp Filers using best practices

Performed heterogeneous storage array migrations (CLARRION and DMX & VMAX, VNX to VMAX3, DMX to VNX, HDS to VMAX, etc.)

Extensive hands on EMC SANCopy, EMC Open Replicator, EMC Open Migrator, PPME, EMC Snap clones, HP Online Import, NetApp SnapMirror, vMotion, and Storage vMotion, Celera Replicator.

Install, configure, and administer the tools like ECC, SMC, USM for VNX, USM for VMAX, BNA, DCFM, CMCNE, NaviSphere Analyzer, NaviSphere Manager, NaviSec CLI, SYMCLI, Performance Analyzer, Heat reports, EMC Grabs, HP CommandView, NetApp FilerView, and Hitachi Device Manager, Navi CLI and SYMCLI, EMC Trends Report, EMC eLab Advisor, SYMWIN, Heat Maps, NetApp OPS Manager, SANScreen, and TekTools

Design & implement NetApp filers (FAS3050/3150/6000/6060), IBM N series N3XXX, and N5XXX.

Very good understanding of Isilon and NetApp hardware architecture and its different tools from various vendors EMC Isilon – SmartConnect, Smart Fail, SmartPools/Zones, SyncIQ, SmartQuota, SnapShotIQ, SmartLock, InsightIQ and NetApp – SnapMirror, SnapVault, Oncommand Manager, FilerView, OCI, OnCommand Insight

Design, implement, upgrade and migrate SAN switches (CISCO MDS to Brocade DCX and Brocade 48K to Brocade DCX, Brocade B series to Brocade 48K)

Hands on experience with configuring and managing EMC’s R2/BCV storage clones for failover tests using Manage ESCON and FICON SAN Resources, including fiber-based hubs, switches, and directors.

Design, configure and administer of block & File storage using RAID’s, drive type using FLASH, FC, SAS and SATA device configurations that including setting up Pools, RAID groups, spares, zoning, Auto provisioning, FASTCache, and FAST-VP Tiering.

Define logical volumes, meta volumes, hyper volumes, striping in the storage arrays.

Determine SAN device problem, perform SAN Monitoring, Health checking SAN Resources including HBA’s, Utilities, firmware, BIOS, PowerPath, FC/Ethernet cables, switches and their resolution

Coordinate and managing micro codes with Engineering & Technical Support teams, customers, vendors and certified Engineers

Design, implement, upgrade and migrate, managing & support data protection suite such as Veritas NetBackup, BackupExec, CommVault, CA Arch Backup and EMC Networker with integration of Data Domain using DDBoost and replication, configuring tape libraries, this includes setting up VTL, tape drives, defining library partitions and troubleshooting

Excellent hand-on experience with VMWare vSphere ESXi, vCenter, Microsoft Hyper-V

Excellent knowledge of VMware vMotion, Storage vMotion, High Availability, DRS and Site Recovery Manager (SRM)

Monitor health of VMs, replications, VM vMotion movements between datacenters

Systems management and administration with an in-depth knowledge of connectivity requirements for open systems hosts (ESX, Linux, Windows (Win-NT, 2K, 2K3, 2K8, 2012 and 2016), UNIX, AIX and HP-UX), applications ADS, DHCP, DNS, WINS, IIS and SQL

Strong knowledge in installation, configuration, and administration of Windows clustering and Windows SQL Clustering

Selected Project Engagement Experience at AdvizeX Technologies LLC

State Massachusetts Information Technology Division (Mass - ITD) – Chelsea, MA

Designed and implemented Symmetrix VMAX3 storage array

Host remediation – HP-UX, AIX, Linux and Windows Host

Worked on Host Grabs for the migration prep-work

Worked on EMC eLab Advisor, EMC Trends reports

Migrated EMC VNX 7500 & VNX 5500 data to EMC Symmetrix VMAX3 200K using SAN Copy

Migrating EMC Symmetrix VMAX 20K data to EMC Symmetrix VMAX3 200K using Open Replicator

Documented VMAX3 environment & Knowledge Transfer is done

Supported & managed VMware vSphere ESXi, vCenter environment

Monitor health of VMs operating in various datacenters

Manage replications and VM movements between datacenters

Manage Disaster recovery testing of the virtualized datacenter using SRM

State Massachusetts Department of Energy Environmental (Mass - DEEP) – Boston, MA

Racked, Stacked and initialized the HP C7000 Enclosure

Configured the Interconnect FC switches in HP C7000 Chassis

Racked, Stacked and initialized HP R5000 3U L630 HV NA/JP UPS

Racked, Stacked and initialized HP R5 and 7KVA ext run time mod kits

Racked, Stacked and initialized HP Intelligent 4.9KVA/L6-30P/NA/J PDU

Racked, Stacked and initialized HP 5XC13 intlgent PDU ext Bar G2 Kit

Pinpoint Global – West Virginia

Designed and implemented EMC VNXe2 3200 Block array

Setup a VM on Win2008 r2, installed and configured the Unisphere Service Manager for VNX

Connected HP C7000 enclosure to EMC VNXe2 3200

Configured the Brocade Interconnect FC switches

Deployed the block based solution with EMC VNXe2 3200

Supported & managed Vmware vSphere ESXi, vCenter environment

Migrated the VM’s from VNX5300 to VNXe2 3200 using Storage V-Motion

Documented detailed design runbooks

Saint Francis Hospital Medical Center – Hartford, CT

Designed and implemented EMC Data Domain 7200 primary and DR Sites

Configured the DDBoost, Replication and encryption

Installed and configured the EMC Networker v8.2.2 and integrated DD7200

Installed the NMM for SQL databases

Installed the Networker Backup Server and Recover Manager for VM’s

Installed the Networker Backup Monitoring and Reporting software

Aries system Corporation – Andover, MA

Merged the standalone Brocade switches into a single Fabric

Configured the MirrorView suite on VNX using Fibre Channel

Navisite – Andover, MA

Designed and implemented EMC Data Domain 2500

Integrated Data Domain with Veeam backup software

Configured the DDBoost, Replication and encryption

Configured the Hyper-V Client backups in Veeam Backup software

Configured the Windows 2008 and 2012r2 physical server Backups in Veeam Backup software

City of Gloucester Police Department – Gloucester, MA

Designed and implemented EMC Data Domain 2500

Integrated Data Domain with Veeam backup software

Configured the DDBoost, Replication and encryption

Russounds – Newmarket, NH

Designed and implemented EMC VNXe3200

Configured iSCSI for the VMWare vSphere vCenter environment

Configured the storage to Windows 2008 and 2012 servers in virtualized environment

Designed and implemented two EMC Data Domain 2500

Integrated Data Domain with Symantec BackupExec software

Deployed the OST plug-in for the Veritas BackupExec 12.4

Configured the DDBoost and Replication

State Department of Energy Environmental Protection Connecticut – Hartford, CT

Designed and implemented EMC Data Domain 2500

Implemented the Networker server v8.2.2, Networker Storage node v8.2.2 and Networker client

Integrated Data Domain with EMC Networker backup software

Installed and configured HP StorEver MSL4048 Tape Library with EMC Networker v8.2.2

Deployed the NMM for SQL databases

Deployed the Networker Backup Server and Recover Manager for VM’s

Deployed the Networker Backup Monitoring and Reporting software

Configured the DDBoost and Replication

Massachusetts State ITD (MA - ITD) – Chelsea, MA

Designed and implemented EMC Symmetrix VMAX3

Designed and implemented Brocade DCX Directors 8510-8B and 8510-4B

Migrated the hosts and storage from legacy CISCO MDS 9510 with Brocade DCX 8510-8B and CISCO MDS 9500 with 8510-4B

Setup and configured Brocade CONNECTRIX MANAGER CONVERGED NETWORK EDITION 12.4.1 for ease of administration

Performed the FOS upgrade for the Brocade DCX8510-8B & 4B to v7.4.0a

Enabled the Virtual fabrics and setup the domain ID’s

Migrated the legacy CISCO MDS 9510 fabrics to Brocade DCX 8510-8B

WRGrace – Cambridge, MA

Upgraded the latest FOS code 7.3.0a on to Brocade B300 SAN fabric switches

Upgraded the Java v8 update 40 for OWA for Brocade

Cavicciho Nursery – Sudbury, MA

Upgraded the RAM to four ESX nodes to 128 GB

Migrations using vMotion with in vSphere

Balanced the VM load across the four ESX hosts

Connecticut Orthopedics Specialist – Hamden, CT

Upgraded the drives in HP 3PAR 7200

Performed the HP 3PAR OS 3.2.1 EMU3 upgrade on HP 3PAR 72000

Designed and implemented two EMC Data Domain 2500

Integrated Data Domain with EMC Networker

Configured the DDBoost and Replication

Configured the CIFS & NFS for their file shares

Philips Lifeline Monitoring – Framingham, MA

Designed and implemented Brocade DCX Directors 8510-8B and 8510-4B

Migrated the hosts and storage from legacy Brocade 48K to Brocade DCX 8510-8B and 8510-4B

Setup and configured Brocade CONNECTRIX MANAGER CONVERGED NETWORK EDITION 12.4.1 for ease of administration

Performed the FOS upgrade for the Brocade DCX8510-8B & 4B to v7.4.0a

Enabled the Virtual fabrics and setup the domain ID’s

Upgraded the Java version 8 update 40

Attrium Medicals – Hudson, NH

Designed and implemented EMC VNX 5300 unified array

Configured the FAST Cache and host spares

Setup a VM on Win2008 r2, installed and configured the Unisphere Service Manager for VNX

Configured the RAID Groups and Pools to separate the workloads

Provisioned the storage to their vCenter ESXi hosts

Discovered the storage from vCenter Storage View and deployed the new VM’s on new datastore

Philips Lifeline Monitoring – Framingham, MA

Completed performance analysis of current EMC Symmetrix VMAX 10K for Capacity Expansion

Upgraded the drive shelves to increase the capacity in order to meet the customer’s capacity requirements

Virtualized Unisphere for VMAX and migrated the SYM DB from physical to VM

Designed and implemented EMC VNX 5600 Unified at their production site and Co-Location (secondary) EMC VNX 5400

Completed Brocade SAN Health review of FC SAN infrastructure

Architected and implemented migration of legacy Brocade 48K directors to Brocade DCX 8510-8B directors at two datacenters

Setup and configured Brocade Connectrix Manager Converged Network Edition 12.3.4

Created port-level migration plan to swing existing hosts and arrays to new switches

Delivered end-to-end As-Built documentation to the customer

Massachusetts State ITD (MA - ITD) – Chelsea, MA and Springfield, MA

Designed and implemented VMAX 40K at Production and co-location

Pre SRDF migration planning of gathering data, creating the volumes, reserving the VMAX Front End directors and setting up the necessary flags using bin process, mapping the devices and setting-up the source and target

Implemented the FAST-VP as per EMC Best Practices

Designed and implemented EMC VNX 5300 Unified at their Production and co-lo VNX 5500

Installed, configured RecoverPoint appliances and implemented EMC RecoverPoint replication between primary VMAX to co-lo site VNX 5500

EMC VNX 7500 Drive Expansion - Upgraded additional drive bays with fully populated FLASH drives to boost their Mainframe application response time

Upgraded the FAST Cache as per EMC Best Practices

EMC Symmetrix VMAX 40K Enginuity Code Upgrade from 5876.159.102 to 5876.252.161

EMC Symmetrix VMAX 40K drive expansion – 128x10K 600GB drives using SYMWIN utility through bin process.

WR Grace – Cambridge, MA and Columbia MD

Designed and implemented HP 3PAR 7400 at production site in Cambridge, MA and HP 3PAR 7200 at co-location site in Columbia MD

Setup the pool based on cages using FC, SAS and SATA drives

HP 3PAR 7400 shelf and drive expansion – Installed additional shelves and also installed additional 900 GB SAS 3.5” drives

HP3PAR 7400 and 7200 StoreServ disk and shelf firmware upgrades

Liaison International – Water Town, MA

Designed and implemented 2 EMC VNX 5300 unified arrays at production and co-lo AT&T datacenter sites

Configured file replication using VNX Replicator

Migrated legacy EMC Clariion block volumes using Storage vMotion and CIFS shares on using Celera Replicator to new EMC VNX 5300

Configured the FAST Cache and host spares

Setup a VM on Win2008 r2, installed and configured the Unisphere Service Manager for VNX

Configured the RAID Groups and Pools to separate the workloads

Provisioned the storage to their vCenter ESXi hosts

Discovered the storage from vCenter Storage View and deployed the new VM’s

Migrated the existing VM’s using storage vMotion in the VMware vCenter

Fidelis Care – Buffalo, NY – Residency

Completion of on-site storage residency

Consolidated two Clariion storage arrays to a single VMAX 10K with requisite migration planning and using SANCopy for execution of data migration

Implemented EMC Symmetrix VMAX 10K at Buffalo NY, co-lo at SunGard Pennsylvania, MA

Installed the secondary site hardware at primary site, setup the configuration, replicated the data, and relocated to co-location site. After relocation, configured the hardware, established the replication links, tested failover and failback, and assessed the performance and response time to determine the RPO’s & RTO’s for disaster recovery

Designed and implemented EMC VNX 5500 Unified at production site and co-lo VNX 5300 at SunGard in Pennsylvania

Configured cascaded replication between EMC Celera NS-480 to Primary VNX 5300 and secondary EMC VNX 5500 for their CIFS shares using Celera Replicator

Designed and Implemented block level replication using RecoverPoint Appliances.

Installed and configured RecoverPoint at Buffalo, SunGard and staging site between EMC Symmetrix VMAX, EMC VNX, and EMC Clariion

Fidelis Care – Buffalo, NY – Residency

Completed onsite SAN and NAS Residency as their primary storage admin had left the company

Migrated the legacy hosts, production, and test applications of block data from Clariion CX4-80 to EMC Symmetrix VAMX 10K and VNX 5300 using EMC SANCopy

Implemented TimeFinder clones for test environment on Symmetrix VMAX 10K

Migrated all CIFS shares from EMC Celera NS-480 file data to Primary VNX 5300 using Celera Replicator and decommissioned NS-480

Performed the test DR and a month later live production DR test. Both were 97% successful and those 3% failures were due to inability to restore from backup due to either bad tapes or old backups

Managed Vmware vSphere ESXi, vCenter environment

Migrated the VM’s using Vmware vMotion, Storage vMotion, High Availability, and Site Recovery Manager (SRM)

Monitor health of VMs operating in various datacenters

Manage replications and VM movements between datacenters

Manage Disaster recovery testing of the virtualized datacenter using SRM

City of Mount Vernon Police Department – Mount Vernon, NY

Designed and implemented VNX 5300 unified block solution

Installed and configured the Unisphere Service Manager for VNX

Performed a storage LUN layout and analysis of Exchange 2010 environment

Delivered a performance analysis of pre-production VNX5300

Comparative analysis and general health check of VNX5300

Quinsigamond Community College – Worcester, MA

Implemented HP 3PAR 7400 and 7200 arrays at primary and co-lo sites with iSCSI block connectivity

Migrated the data from Left hand to 3PAR using MPX hardware – host/capacity based migration

Care New England – Providence, RI

Physical install and initial configuration of HP 3PAR 7400

Installed and configured HP C7000 Blade System

Installed and configured Brocade B series switches

SAN configuration, zoning, LUN masking, and storage provisioning

Configuration of thin provisioning

New Hampshire University – Dedham, NH

Implemented 2 HP 3PAR 7400 at primary and co-lo sites with iSCSI block connectivity

SAN configuration, zoning, LUN masking, and storage provisioning

Configuration of thin provisioning

Host remediation

North East Delta Dental – Manchester, NH

Virtualized the EMC DiskXtender File System Manager for physical Win2K3 SP2 x86 to VM Win2012 R2 x64 environment

Migrated the DiskXtender FSM environment from to V5 to V6.5 SP2

Migrated the DiskXtender FSM for Windows configuration and data from to V5 to V6.5 SP2 and physical to VM

Providence Housing Authority – Providence, RI

Sanity check of SAN configuration and environment in terms of health checks, capacity review, performance analysis and bottlenecks, found customer had reached threshold of 97% pool utilization. Customer purchased additional DAE and capacity was added to their data stores on VMware side. There was a limitation of 4 TB volumes in VNXe older flare code hence we setup additional data stores with new capacity to utilize newly expanded space

Block (Flare) and File (DART) Code Upgrades performed on both Prod and DR VNXe3150 and 3100

User training and documentation of the customer environment

Whitman Hanson Regional District School – Whitman, MA

Physical Install and initial configuration of HP 3PAR 7400

Installed and configured HP C7000 Blade System with 12 blades

Installed HP StorServ 1850

Installed and configured Brocade B series switches

Microsoft Exchange data layout on HP 3PAR

VMware View (VDI) data layout on HP 3PAR

Emerson Hospital – Concord, MA

EMC VNX 5700 4 Shelf & Drive Expansion

Installed 2 additional shelf with additional 30 x 600 GB SAS 3.5” drives

Installed 2 additional shelf with additional 24 x 2 TB SATA 3.5’ drives

Configured the drives in to their mixed pool environment

Communispace Corporation – Boston, MA

Designed & Implemented VNX 5500 Unified block solution

Configured the FAST Cache, ESRS and host spares

Setup a VM on Win2008 r2, installed and configured the Unisphere Service Manager for VNX

Configured the RAID Groups and Pools to separate the workloads

Provisioned the storage to their vCenter ESXi hosts

Discovered the storage from vCenter Storage View and deployed the new VM’s on new datastore

Worcester Police Department – Worcester, MA

Upgraded the drives shelves to Clariion CX3-80

EMC Clariion CX4-80 Shelf & Drive Expansion

Installed additional shelf with additional 15 x 600 GB SAS 3.5” drives

Added those drive capacity to their performance pool

Milford Hospital – Milford, MA

EMC Clariion CX4-80 Shelf & Drive Expansion

Installed additional shelf with additional 15 x 600 GB SAS 3.5” drives

Added and configured them in to the pool

Created additional Datastore’s and presented to VMWare vCenter ESX hosts.

Emerson Group of Hospital – Wallingford, CT

EMC VNX 5300 Shelf & Drive Expansion

Installed additional shelf with additional 15 x 600 GB SAS 3.5” drives

Added and configured them in to the pool

Created additional Datastore’s and presented to VMWare vCenter ESX hosts.

Reading Municipal Light Department - Reading, MA

Block (Flare) & File (DART) Code Upgrades on both Prod & DR VNXe3150 & 3100

Documented the process and knowledge transfer is done to the customer

Educated the customer on how VNXe3150 disk layout designed for future reference

Also educated the on how to create and present the storage to the hosts

DiSanto Priest & Co – Warwick, RI

Racked, stacked and initialized the VNXe3200

Designed & Implemented VNXe3200 block solution (disk layout)

Configured SMTP for

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