Senior Storage Engineer
Resume:
VIJAY SUBRAMANIAN
***.*****@*****.***
Summary
Over Fifteen years of IT experience in Production Support, EMC/Netapp/HITACHI, Netbackup/CommVault and Unix/Solaris Design, Implementation & Administration
Supporting 45K+ developers building over 3K products globally and supporting entire suite of Oracle Product Development involving Database, Enterprise Manager, Beehive, Fusion Middleware, Fusion Apps, PeopleSoft, Siebel, and BEA
Lead on projects coordinating with Application and Hardware teams as well as vendors in order for the project to stay on track and complete within the deadline
Contribute my Technical, Interpersonal and Communication skills to a challenging position of Storage implementation with a vision of becoming a significant leader in Storage Industry and, To Excel in life using my Positive Attitude, Confidence and Determination
Strong technical training related to storage, server and backup systems and administration duties in an enterprise class data center environment
Deployment and Integration of various types of databases, exchange servers and applications onto Oracle, EMC and IBM hardware with CISCO MDS, Brocade directors and Sun Solaris, Windows Server and Red Hat Linux operating systems
Administration of EMC storage including LUN provisioning, Local and Remote replication, Zoning and ISL on Fabric switches
Managed various enterprise storage systems like Oracle ZFS, Pillar, FS1, EMC XtremIO, VMAX All-Flash, 40K, 200K, VNX, Isilon, Unity 500, 600, DMX4 950, DMX3 4500, CX4-80, CX3-80, CX3-40, DS8300, SVC, XIV, DS4700,800, Netapp N series, EVA, 3PAR, HITACHI, VSPG1500/1000, VSP, USPV, XP24K, XP20K, CISCO MDS and Brocade directors
Competency with operating at Symcli and Solaris/Unix command line
Host Integration, Unisphere, Symcli, Powerpath, Navisphere, Navicli, DSCLI, ESScli, DFM/Operations manager, SyncIQ, InsightIQ, OneFS,
Navi Analyzer, EMC control center and Celerra manager installation and configuration
Experience on Timefinder and SRDF devices configuration, Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Replication, Snapmirror, Snapview, Snapvault, Mirrorview, SAN copy, Recovery Point 3.0, VPLEX, Replication Manager, Powerpath Migration Enabler, Celerra Replicator, CISCO Fabric Manager and Solarwinds
Capacity planning and management
Datamovers, Filers, Filesystem, NFS and CIFS shares, QTrees, Quotas and Aggregates management in NAS
Responsible for troubleshooting, break-fix, and RCA’s across the VMware infrastructure
Experience with vSphere system administration and support, including components of vCenter, which includes vMotion, HA, and DRS, NSX, VDI environments
Installing, upgrading and configuring SUN Solaris 7, 8, 9 and 10 on Sun Servers Using Jumpstart Servers and Interactive Installation
Creating and maintaining user accounts, profiles, security rights, disk space and process monitoring
Configured and managed NFS and NIS environment
Administrating software packages and patches
Worked on various Sun Entry level servers like Sun Fire V240, V245, V280, V440, and Midrange servers like Sun Fire V480, V880, and V490 and has also worked on Sun Fire 6800 and 15k
Solaris/Unix shell scripting (bash, csh, ksh)
Expertise in Veritas Volume manager (VxVM), Creating new file systems, mounting file systems and unmounting file systems
Experience with Solaris Zoning/Containers in Solaris10 (Creating and maintaining existing Zones)
Good in Installing, configuring and maintaining Veritas Volume Manager, Veritas Net backup
Efficiency in installing, configuring and implementing the RAID Technologies using various tools like LVM, Veritas volume manager, Solaris volume manager
Managing all master and media servers in the Netbackup environment
Drive configuration and media management
Assist in issue troubleshooting and root-cause analysis of NBU solutions currently installed within the client infrastructure
Enhance current procedures and policies related to TSM backups and carry out TSM health checks
Installation of TSM Server code and customization of defaults, defining policy domain, policyset, management class and copygroups as per requirements in TSM for suiting to various needs of servers
Responsible for configuring and troubleshooting NDMP backups
Generate and Analyzes storage equipment performance, collects information, and prepares summary and Daily, Weekly and Monthly backup reports
Technical Skills:
Storage : Oracle ZFS appliances, Pillar Axiom, FS1, EMC VMAX All-Flash, 40K, 200K, XtremIO, VMAX, VNX, DMX4 950, DMX3 4500, VPLEX,
Isilon, CX4-80, CX3-80, Celerra NS80G, NS700G, DS8300,
IBM SVC, XIV, v7000, DS4700, 800, Netapp 7-mode, Cluster mode,
N series N5300, N6240, 3PAR, HP XP20K, XP24K, EVA8000, HITACHI VSPG1500/1000, USPV, Unity 500, 600
FC switches : CISCO MDS 9700, 9500 series, Brocade DCX, McData ED series
Operating Systems : Oracle Linux 5.10, 5.11, Oracle VM 3, Solaris 9, 10 and 11,
RHEL 5 and 6, Windows 2008, 2010, 2012, 2013
Servers : Hyper-V, VMWare, VCenter, Vmotion, ESXi, OVM,
Sun Fire 280R/V480/4800/3800/12K Server, Sun Enterprise
4500/6500/5000/450/420R/250 Server, Sun Fire 15K/68K,
SPARC server 20 Enterprise Servers, SPARC server 1000/20,
DELL Power Edge series
System Tools : Veritas Volume Manager 4.0, LVM
Backup Tools : Veritas Netbackup 5.1, 6.5, 7 and 8, TSM 5.5 and 6.3,
CommVault Simpana 10 and 11, Data Domain
Tape Library : EMC Disk Library, Quantum I2000, IBM3584, Scalar50,
Storagetek Tape libraries L40, L700
Other Tools : Brocade Network Advisor, Oracle EMCC, CISCO Fabric Manager,
Solarwinds 10.2, Connectrix Manager
Professional Experience:
Software Technology International, Principal Storage Consultant June 2017 to till date
Client : Nuance Communications,
Burlington, MA
Responsibilities
Administration experience of EMC Isilon/Netapp/VNX/Hitachi products
Manage and setup Commvault backup environment for the infrastructure
Performance management and troubleshooting complex and legacy environment setups
Perform environment assessments for risk in storage setups, configuration etc and come out with recommendations of Exposure to performance tuning techniques for SAN/NAS
Manage HNAS, AMS2500, HUS 150, USPV, VSP G1000 storage arrays in the environment
Manage Isilon S210, NL410 nodes and responsible for smartpools & cloudpools
Work on NetApp DFM, Operations Manager, and OnCommand suite of management tools
Troubleshooting complex user access and performance issues
Working on data migration and data center consolidation projects
Oracle America Inc, Principal Storage Engineer Nov 2012 to May 2017
Nashua NH
Responsibilities:
Define, design and implement storage devices and solutions within a fast-paced, leading edge database/applications company
Managing 40 PB size storage farm/environment hosting more than 500 storage appliances supporting Infrastructure, Source Code, FARM, EMS, Hosted Development etc.
High performance centralized NAS storage on 10GigE infrastructure handling heavy read and write operations with high availability, fault tolerant with continuous new writes and purge expired data of 25TB per day
Lead on migration projects of database/applications from end of life appliances to EMC/Netapp /HITACHI/Oracle storage appliances by coordinating with applications and end users team as well as external vendors
High performance storage environment to serve virtual environments and use of storage cloning features for rapid deployment
Migrating applications/databases from Production Infrastructure to Oracle Bare Metal Cloud, AWS
Administration of EMC VMAX All flash, 40K, 200K, XtremIO, VPLEX, VNX, Isilon, Netapp/HITACHI/IBM/Oracle storage including Fabric zoning, LUN provisioning, Local and Remote replication, Zoning and ISL of Fabric switches
Leaded and responsible for design, planning, installation and implementation, maintenance, troubleshooting and supporting EMC, Netapp, HITACHI, Oracle storage appliances
Manage capacity and performance of the storage appliances in the environment
Expert knowledge in SAN Directors management (Brocade DCX, Cisco MDS 9700/9500 series) and responsible for design & planning of SAN switch migrations
Configure and maintain ZFS shares local and remote replication using Avere systems
Expert in Netapp 7-mode, cluster mode administration/migration in a large enterprise environment
EMC Isilon OneFS administration, Smartpools, Smartquota, Cloudpools, SyncIQ, SnapshotIQ and InsightIQ management
Expert in replication, cloning technologies, efficiently consolidate SAN storage and deploy ITaas
Responsible for 4 data centers in the East Coast area, also worked on projects to merge many global data centers.
Actively worked on projects to reduce datacenter floor/rack space by 75% and reduced the number of global datacenters from 120 to 80
Identify and address performance issues on storage appliances and tune array configuration to fix the same
Interface directly with internal customers to implement and validate configuration changes
Responsible to enable production and disaster recovery replication and testing
Manage all storage appliances through EMCC tool, work on automations and high availability of the storage appliances in the environment
Perform firmware upgrades during quarterly maintenance on SAN switches, SAN storage and NAS storage appliances
Work with a team supporting, troubleshooting, monitoring, repairing routine issues and other day-to-day STORAGE tickets associated with maintaining the stability, availability and reliability of storage environment
Manage Enterprise Backup infrastructure and work on various Backup technologies
Working on Hyper-V, VMWare, VCenter, Vmotion, ESXi, OVM, Oracle Linux, Oracle 12c, ASM, RAC
Participate in on-call rotation, create and document all actions, practices, procedures and processes
Cognizant Technology Solutions, Senior Storage and Backup Engineer Jan 2011 to
Client: Hanover Insurance Group, Nov 2012
Worcester, MA
Responsibilities:
Deployment and Integration of various types of databases, exchange servers and applications onto EMC and IBM hardware with CISCO MDS, Brocade directors and Sun Solaris, Windows servers and Red Hat Linux operating systems
Provide technology support for SAN storage, SAN fabric and Enterprise Backup infrastructure
Lead on migration projects, new implementations with internal application/customer teams, project managers and mentor off-shore team members as well to achieve results within the deadline. Single onsite point of contact at Hanover Insurance storage team and managing data center
Administration of EMC/IBM storage including LUN masking, Replication, Zoning and ISL of Fabric switches
Responsible for multi-vendor platform management (EMC, IBM and Netapp)
Perform day-to-day break-fix and troubleshooting storage and backup related tickets
Administration of DS8300, XIV, DS4700, 800, VNX and CX4-80 arrays
Manage local flashcopy and remote global mirror in DS8300 using TPCR, Timefinder & SRDF
Migrated many applications/databases from 800 and DS4700 to XIV/SVC Storage systems
Perform zoning and manage CISCO MDS and Brocade switches in the environment
Performed SAN switch migration projects on Cisco MDS 9500 and Brocade DCX switches
Experience with NetApp hardware and ONTAP 7-mode configuration, administration, and troubleshooting of NFS, CIFS and iSCSI protocols
Datamovers, Filers, Filesystem, NFS and CIFS shares, QTrees, Quotas and Aggregates management in NAS
Snapvault, Snapmirror and Flexclone management in Netapp N series storage array
Migrated data from Netapp N series N5300 to N6240 storage array
Monitoring and perform capacity planning of all CISCO MDS and Brocade switches in the environment using Solarwinds 10.2
Responsible for vCenter administration
Played a key role in VMware VDI implementation project
Managing 6 TSM servers, CommVault commserve servers, Data Domain in the environment
Configure CommVault media agents, storage resources, policies
Checking daily backup schedules for TSM DB and schedule expiration process, sizing the TSM Database, Log and Primary disk pool, defining tape library, drives and storage pools in TSM and performance tuning of TSM Parameters
Checking TSM Database and recovery log and restoring them when server crashes
Investigating long running backups and addition/removal of TSM clients
Perform backups and restore using Snapdiff in TSM 6.3 environment
Worked on VMware High Availability, DRS, SRM, NSX, vCOPS, vROS
Monitor, analyze, and predict trends for storage/Fabric performance and adjust storage configurations for optimal performance and availability
Ensuring that all SAN Fabric, SAN and NAS storage devices are monitored on daily basis and that the proper alerting is setup and sent to the right technology group from a notification perspective
Supports and involve in the installation, extension and configuration of Storage infrastructure, including switches, fiber, disks, shelves, enclosures, controllers and data replication hardware
Schedules and selects firmware and security-related upgrades to SAN switches, hbas, controllers, disks, etc. during monthly maintenance windows
Involved in powerdown and powerup activity of data center
Support systems, policies, and procedures for disaster recovery tests and performed DR test in Sungard NJ datcenter
Participates in the planning, approval, and implementation of approved Change Management requests
Part of an on-call 7x24 support rotation.
Marsh & McLennan Companies, Senior Storage Consultant July 2010 to Dec 2010
Franklin, MA
Responsibilities:
Administration of DMX4 950, DMX3 4500, VNX, CX3-40, CX3-80 and CX4-80 arrays
Responsible for Virtual Provisioning
Perform zoning, migration, masking and mapping of storage with Brocade & CISCO switches in an enterprise storage environment
Managing Recovery Point, VPLEX & replicating data from DMX4 to CX3 array
Perform many host based data migrations using Powerpath Migration Enabler on multiple operating systems
Managing EMC Control Center, SRDF and TimeFinder
Migrating applications & databases from old DMX arrays (DMX2, DMX1) to the new DMX4 array
Assist in implementing and keeping the storage infrastructure stable and up to date
Perform storage monitoring and performance management. SAN management using CommandView, Navisphere and other native tools
Snapmirror, Snapvault, Filers, Volume, Aggregate, NFS and CIFS shares, QTree and Quotas management in Netapp N series storage arrays
Monitor the IO statistics of FA ports in DMX using alert management in ECC
Migrating various clients from 5.1 netbackup master server to 6.5 new netbackup master server
Troubleshooting netbackup failures with various error codes
Perform critical restores in the CommVault and Netbackup environments
Perform incident, problem and change management functions for all data centers
Responds to failure and alert event notifications and incident management tickets 24 x 7 to help ensure data availability
Capacity and performance planning
Credit Suisse, Senior IT Specialist, Jul 2009 to May 2010
Singapore Storage and Backup Systems
Responsibilities:
Implement redundant systems, policies, and procedures for disaster recovery and archiving to ensure effective protection and integrity of storage appliances and stored data assets
Implementation and Integration of DMX4 with Microsoft exchange servers and CISCO MDS 9513 directors
Migrating applications and databases from old DMX arrays (DMX1, SYMM5) to the new DMX4 array
Managing and handling more than 3PB of Data storage environment
Installed and configured 4 DS-5100B Brocade switches with DWDM
Worked in 3PAR, Mirrorview, SAN Copy, SRDF, VPLEX and Powerpath Migration Enabler
Analyzes storage equipment performance, collects information, and prepares summary reports
Configure and maintain storage systems and their documentation to accurately reflect current state
Develop and maintain reports on storage performance and capacity
Managing SRDF setup for production and netbackup master servers
Responsible for migrating data from EMC Celerra to Netapp N series
Snapvault, Snapmirror and Flexclone management in Netapp
Involved in installation of new storage arrays in APAC environment
Plans, schedules, initiates, and administers backups and restores, as well as monitor
the performance, success, or failure of these tasks
Managing Netbackup master servers and all media servers in the AP environment.
Upgraded core Netbackup environment from version 5.1 to 6.5.1
Performed Netbackup Catalog Consistency Checks of the master server domains and upgraded the Netbackup infrastructure from previous versions to version 6.5.1
Responsible for all new installations of SAN switches in various APAC sites
Added and configured new media servers to the environment
Handle NBU support issues, resolve complex issues and assist in escalated issues.
Responsible for NDMP backups and NDMP drive configuration
Involved in installation and upgradation of Quantum I2000 library
Performed DR tests in Asia Pacific environment
Involved in Asia Pacific powerdown and powerup activities
Sony Corporation, Senior IT Engineer May 2008 to Jun 2009
Singapore Storage Systems
Responsibilities:
Played a vital role in Recovery Point Appliance(RPA) Implementation and replicated data from DMX3 array to CX3 array between Production and DR site
Implementation and Integration of DMX3 Storage with HP Proliant Exchange Cluster Servers. Configured VSAN and Zones on CISCO 9513 series and tested the setup for No single point of failure and migrated SAN environment to new CISCO MDS 9500 series SAN switches
Administration and allocating LUN’s from EMC DMX4 950, DMX3 4500, CX3-40, CX4-80, Netapp, 3PAR, HITACHI, HP XP20K, XP24K, EVA8000 and IBM DS8000 to AIX, LINUX and Solaris hosts
Performed NAS network migration from one subnet to other subnet, involved in changing the shares/exports configuration, created new virtual interfaces
Configured Clariion, RAID Groups, Luns, Integration with Exchange, CISCO 9500 firmware upgrade, Migration, Zoning, HBA installation, Snapshot configuration
Have experience in Snapview, Mirrorview and Replication manager
Worked on Celerra Data Recovery (DR) using Celerra Replicator. Involved in Data Replication, Failover, Failback and reactivating the filesystems to the primary site
Analyze performance issues and storage usage patterns, maintain adequate capacity of all storage and backup solutions
Prepare DMX performance reports on monthly basis and responsible for optimal load balancing of storage allocations across all FA ports
Solely installed EMC Software products and responsible for further upgradation
Single point of contact for all BCV/Time Finder, SRDF issues in the setup
Ensure stability, viability and maintenance of the production environment
Installing Veritas Netbackup software in various clients and manage backup environment and responsible for critical backup restores
Managing Netbackup master servers and all media servers in the environment
Mentoring less experienced system administrators
Participate in a 24x7 on-call duty rotation as assigned
Monitor incident and service management queues
Performing off-hours (i.e. evening and weekend) maintenance activities
HP GlobalSoft Limited, Senior Storage Systems Engineer Jul 2007 to May 2008
Bangalore, India
Responsibilities:
Worked in Hawaii Telecom, Bearing Point, Neuland and Lloyd’s Register accounts
Configuration and Integration of DMX2000 with 16B3 Brocade switches with Solaris and Windows server, software includes Navi Analyzer and Snapview
Configured 2 new Brocade switches (DS_4900B) and Clariion CX3-80 (4GBPS) and migrated production applications to the new array. Involved in switch installation, configurations and soft zoning. Also creation of RAID groups with effective performance.
Responsible for Installation and Configuration of NS600G and Data Migration from NetApp Filer to EMC Celerra with minimum downtime.
Merged 4 Brocade switches (DS_4100B) using fabric topology which will result in any hosts connected to neither of the switches can access any DMX arrays
Monitor the IO statistics of FA ports in DMX using alert management in ECC
Capacity planning, provisioning and load management
Upgraded Netbackup environment from version 4.5 to 5.1
Review the overall environment and inform management of new technologies and best practices to improve system performance and availability
Installing Veritas Netbackup and TSM software in various clients and manage TSM and Netbackup environment and responsible for critical backup restores
Change Management, Incident Management and Problem Management
Acted as vital point of contact for failures in the environment and ensured all issues are fixed within SLA
Identify and act on opportunities to reduce failures
Coordinating with IT application teams and internal customers
Ocwen Financial Solutions Unix and Storage administrator Apr 2006 to Jul 2007
Pvt. Ltd., Bangalore, India
Responsibilities:
Manage CX storage arrays in the environment with various flavors of operating systems
Perform zoning in connectrix environment and responsible for storage allocations
Responsible for replication on the Clariion storage platform
Rearranging the Clariion arrays which have many RAID groups. Achieved this by LUN migration and sub disks evacuation using Veritas Volume Manager 4.0. Performed this after thorough knowledge of the setup and excellent planning.
Powerpath management integration into Solaris, HP-UX, Windows environments
Responsible for filesystem creation, CIFS and NFS shares, checkpoints and quota settings in Celerra
Up gradation of CX arrays, NAS boxes and Mc Data switches in Production and UAT environment with minimum downtime
Manage SAN and NAS solutions globally
Performed Zoning in Solaris 10, made two production applications running on same host
Responsible for configuring SUN machines in DR site
Responsible for Disk Space Management using Veritas Volume Manager and LVM
Backup and Recovery of filesystem using tar, cpio and ufsdump
Perform Patch and Operating System upgrade of system controllers and individual domains in SUNFIRE 15K
Managing NFS and NIS
Monitor backup jobs, execute restore jobs and restart failed jobs in Netbackup
Adding clients in to the different netbackup policies
Generating Daily, Weekly and Monthly storage and backup reports
OSS Technologies Pvt Ltd, Solaris administrator Dec 2004 to Apr 2006
Client: Lucent Technologies,
Bangalore, India
Responsibilities:
Install Solaris 8.0 and 9.0, Linux 3.0 and 4.0 in all new machines in the environment
Filesystem management
Performed up gradation of operating system in all servers
Add, reduce swap space in Solaris servers as per requirement
Configure and maintaining the NFS server
Add all clients to NIS master server and manage it
Management of patches and packages
Configuring for a jumpstart installation
Maintenance and administration of UNIX-based stand-alone systems, local area networks (LANs), and/or wide area networks (WANs)
Responsible for CX storage and SUN storage arrays in the environment
Perform zoning in connectrix environment and responsible for storage allocations in the setup
Recommend, develop and maintain documentation and procedures for new servers and software
Identify and act on opportunities to reduce failures
Ensure compliance with Change Management policies
Prepare daily, weekly reports of all storage arrays and servers in the environment
I-Soft Global Consulting Services, System Administrator Jun 2002 to Nov 2004
Navi Mumbai, India
Responsibilities:
Installation, Configuration and Maintenance of SUN ULTRA E-450 servers, Ultra 60 workstation and all WINDOWS NT servers
Maintenance of users, groups and permissions
Setup ACL’s on UNIX based file systems to protect the access levels
Scheduling cron jobs for housekeeping, backing up the database and applications
Create, mount and maintain file systems to ensure access to system, application and user data
Responsible for Installation of various software components on several servers
NTFS and FAT filesystem management
Applying Antivirus patches and packages
DHCP configuration and management
Troubleshooting of frequent network problems connectivity, TCP/IP problems, DNS problems, Gateway errors etc., in Windows NT 4.0/2000, Windows 95/98 environment.
Responsible for hardware replacement and up gradation in all servers
Regular of PM all the Servers, Clients, and Network Equipments, Printers as per the contract
Ensure efficient and effective coordination and communications occur when working with other departments, organizations and various vendors
Education:
Madurai Kamaraj University, Madurai, India in the year 2002
Bachelor of Engineering in Electrical and Electronics
Certifications:
EMC Proven Professional Associate
NetApp Certified Data Management Administrator
Sun Certified System Administrator for Solaris 8
ITIL Version 3 Foundation Examination
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