Storage/vblock admin

PROFESSIONALSUMMARY

Storage Engineer with Extensive experience in configuration, administrating and troubleshooting enterprise level environments using EMC VMAX Unisphere, Control Center, SMC, SPA, Connectrix Manager, Cisco Fabric/Device Manager, SRDF/S, SRDF/A, SAN Copy, Snap View, Mirror View, Replication Manager, Open Replicator, Open Migrator, Performance Manager, Navisphere Analyzer, Storage Scope Prosphere, HUR, Sync IQ and Operations manager.

Extensive experience in SAN based solutions like Disaster Recovery, Business Continuity, Tiered storage management (ILM), Disk based backup and Network attached storage.

Experience in provisioning storage from all tiers of storage arrays including VMAX, DMX, Symmetrix, HP 3PAR, Isilon using ECC, SMC, SYMCLI, HDS command suite, Navisphere manager /NaviCLI, Connectrix/Fabric manager

Experienced with installation and configuration of EMC Unisphere for VMAX 10k/20k/40k/VMAX3 and Unisphere

Experienced in EMC Isilon Migration, provisioning, creating shares, replicating storage by SyncIQ, Antivirus scanning, setting up SmartQuotas.

Managed CIFS and NFS exports and FTP services on Isilon.

Experienced with setting up Smart pools and Smart Quotas in Isilon

Analyzed customer environment based on current EMC Isilon performance and growth. Added high performance nodes in the Isilon environment to mitigate the future growth.

Experience with monitoring and management of storage devices by EMC Prosphere, ECC.

As a storage administrator proven experience with Mapping, Masking, Virtual Provisioning, Auto provisioning Virtual LUN migration (V-MAX3) on EMC Symmetrix arrays using SYMCLI, SMC and ECC

Experienced with ESX 4/5 migration of virtual machine by using vMotion and site recovery manager(SRM)

Adept at implementation of Disaster Recovery Solutions using SRDF/A, SRDF/S, on Symmetrix and MirrorView/S, MirrorView/A on Clariion arrays

Expert in setting up/administration and maintenance of Recoverpoint cluster to replicate storage from primary to secondary locations.

Environment.

Well-developed interpersonal and communication skills, self-motivated and quick learner with a commitment to working collaboratively in a team-based organization delivering high client satisfaction.

Strong ability to build and maintain positive professional relationships with team members, peers, superiors, clients, stakeholders, business partners, end users, system analysts, business analysts and work comfortably with both business and technical professionals from different technological backgrounds to provide and guide on technical and business solutions for Optimum System Performance.

Experience and proficiency in handling 24x7 production support and on-call customer service for applications dealing with critical Production Support Issues, diagnose, fix bugs identified and provide quick resolutions attaining SLA’s.

Excellency in Team Leadership, work prioritization and organization, efficient multi-tasking capabilities demonstrating the ability to make practical and objective decisions as per the project needs.

EDUCATION&CERTIFICATIONS

Bachelor’s Degree in Electronics &Communication Engineering

EMC – ISM

VMware Certified Professional – VCP 5 DCV

VMware Certified Associate - VCA-DCV

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Tools

SRDF, VPLEX, Recoverpoint, VMware VSphere 6.x, 5.5, 5.x, 4.1,, ESX/ESXi Server 6.x, 5.x, VMware DRS, SDRS, HA and FT, VMware Capacity Planner,

Operating Systems

Windows 2003, 2008, 2008 R2, 2012 server OS, Windows 8, 7, Vista, XP Client OS, Linux

Languages

C, c++, Matlab,SQL, PowerCLi

Hardware

EMC (VMAX3, Xtreme IO, ISILON, VNX), HP 3Par (P7200, V800, T800), Dell Servers, HP Blade servers and Rack servers, HP Thin Client 5445, SAS and SSD Hard drives, Enterprise Switches and Routers, RAM, Cisco UCS

WORK EXPERIENCE

Mohawk Industries, Calhoun, Georgia Jan 2017 to Till Now

Sr. Storage Consultant

Responsibilities:

Administrated and Maintained SAN (Storage Area Network) Infrastructure consisting of high end systems including VMAX, DMX, Isilon, VNX, Brocade SAN switches.

Lun creation, Mapping and Masking in VNX and Symmetrix DMX, VMAX.

Configuring Soft Zoning and Hard zoning on Brocade Switches.

VNX Build implementation like, Creation of pool, pool for file Network configuration, creating Server for NAS.

Analyzing performance issue in vmax3 and Vmax450k based on IOPS and Cache.

Executed the project for the Migration of SAN storage from EMC VNX to the new EMC VNX5400 Storage Array.

Having experience on Xtrem IO integration.

Build the Vplex Metro with VNX and Xtrem IO for more accurate performance and Remote Replication.

Build Fast X in environment with VMAX3 with Xtrem IO

Administering the VBlock300,700 Series environment.

Isilon SMB and NFS creation and Administration.

Build the cluster and adding nodes in Isilon.

VNX Replicate Applications like Snapview (Snapshot&Snapclone) and Mirror View.

Troubleshoot the issue related to Layered Applications like Snapview and Mirror view.

Creating, monitoring and troubleshooting TimeFinder (Symmir&Symclone) jobs.

Created SRDF/S, SRDF/A Remote replication.

Troubleshooting DMX and VNX, Switch and host related issues.

Document and implement changes to technical standards as required.

Ensure that customer satisfactory levels are exceeded.

Zoning and Monitoring Brocade switches.

Troubleshooting HBA related issues by Using HBA Any where.

Troubleshooting connectivity issues between servers, fabric switches and storage

Performing Health Checks on all the SAN devices in the environment.

Worked on Powerpath to integrate multiple-path I/O capabilities.

Troubleshooting issues pertaining to network, storage and VMware level as per required and providing best practices on Vblock Administration for better performance and redundancy.

Following the change management process for smoother resolution of issues with other teams.

24x7 support to the Production and Test Servers and storage components (On Call).

HP Enterprise services, Atlanta, GA June 2016 to Dec 2016

Systems Administrator

Responsibilities

Providing efficient and reliable storage allocation in the environment typically consisting of Vmax 20k’s, CX,VNX, and HP 3Par; troubleshooting storage related issues and taking appropriate actions.

Planning and implementing SAN migration from various third party arrays to EMC VMAX 20k using Open Replicator (Hot Pull). Generating EMC grabs, reports and migration readiness reports prior to the migration.

Setting up the Brocade 7800's for the FCIP migration.

Creating the LSAN zones and doing the pre migration prep work.

Hands-on experience on HP 3Par (P7200, V800, T800), Dell Equallogic PS 6000, Xiotech arrays.

Migrated data from HP P2000 MSA to HP 3PAR system in one of the data center across globe.

Working on the Brocade DCX switches using the GUI Web Tools and even the Putty for CLI.

Experience in creating Common Provisioned Groups(CPG), Virtual Volumes(VV), creating Hosts, exporting Virtual Volumes to Host, creating Virtual Domains, Domain object and managing Domain objects in HP-3PAR.

Worked with the NAS team in implementation and configuration of Isilon in the environment and then involved in the NAS migrations (VNX to Isilon).

Migrated around 400TB of data to Isilon using both isi_vol_copy migration tool and Robocopy.

Performing p2v and v2v hot & cold migrations using VMware Vmconverter by bringing them into new VBLOCK environment.

Worked on the ESRS IP installation for the new EMC equipment in the environment. Monitoring the alerts.

Initiating storage replication between sites using SRDF and local replication using EMC TimeFinder.

Installing, configuring media server on Commvault.

Running scheduled and manual backups. Restoring data from the backups.

Completing the SAN & NAS migrations using EM COPY and SAN COPY and moving storage to new VBLOCK environment.

Solutions Enabler Installation, Installation and configuration of EMC Powerpath Multipathing on all the hosts prior to the migration.

Performed Open migrator for some of the hosts dealing with Quorum drives and Tempdb drives.

Experience working on storage provisioning on Vplex.

Worked on migrations using Vplex.

Worked in collaboration with offshore team to smoothly transition from HP 3par snapshots to EMC clones.

Worked on Cluster administration and licensing of Isilon using OneFs console.

Creating and managing storage pools and worked on File sharing like SMB shares and NFS exports on Isilon.

Monitoring, analyzing the performance issues if any, post migration to EMC Vmax using the Storage Performance Analyzer.

Mphasis/HP, Bangalore, IN Oct 2012 to April 2016

Associate Systems Administrator

Responsibilities

Allocated and Provisioned storage from several VMAX, DMX-3, DMX-4, CX3-80, CX4-480 to Windows, Solaris, HP-UNIX and AIX servers.

Experienced with Virtual Provisioning technology to allocate storage from for VMAX and DMX-4 Arrays using SymCLI, SMC 7.0.

Implemented zoning on Brocade 48k, DCX, 5100, 5300, Cisco MDS 9513 switches using ECC.

Hands on experience in EMC CLARiiON Administration by using Navisphere Manager and NaviCLI.

Design, planning, configuration and implemented data center migration for over 100 servers using different migration methods (LVM, Open Migrator and Open Replicator) with no or less down time.

Actively involved in the design of the migration methods by discussing with system/database administrators and application owners.

Migrated 2PB data from old storage frames like DMX-2000s to new array DMX-3 using LVM/open Migrator and open Replicator depending on the customer requirement.

Involved in migrating SAN environment from Brocade to Cisco MDS 9509 and MDS 9513

Implementing NFS and CIFS shares in VNX, Creating and Managing File Systems, shares and quotas

Experienced with storage allocation on 3PAR storage arrays.

Administering Cisco UCS environment- creating service profile templates, deploying service profiles from a template, cloning service profiles, adding VLANS through UCS Manager and some high-level operations through UCS Manager.

Experience in troubleshooting the boot from SAN issues and performing the server remediation as a part of migration with respect to latest ESM using HEAT reports and E-lab navigator.

Implemented and tested SRDF/A for selected high performance Tier 1 applications from DMX3 to DMX4 including creation of dynamic RA groups and dynamic RDF pairs

Created documents for operational management, troubleshooting the issues that occur in the SAN environment including Storage and Switches.

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