Suresh Varma Jampana

ac2wod@r.postjobfree.com / 512-***-****

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

Over 10 years of experience in design, building, planning, management and support of SAN Infrastructure, Storage arrays (3PAR, NetApp, EVA, EMC XtremI/O, VMAX, VNX, IBM SVC, XIV & DS5000), Backup Infrastructure, Virtualization

Project management and design SAN Infrastructure, data migration between data center and/or within data center from one technology to other

Expertise in managing storage array such as EMC, HP, IBM, NetApp etc.

Disk based backup design, data de-duplication, SAN and storage virtualizations

Performance tuning and reports for SAN, Disk arrays and Backups.

Planning, design of disaster recovery and business continuity services using 3PAR Remote copy, IBM Metro Mirror, VMAX SRDF tools

Expertise in SAN management, Continuous access, business copy, Data Replication in complex environment.

Expertise in backup management and supports in large environment using various database integration using NetBackup, and CommVault with their native de-duplication

Experience in data Migration using various storage migration tools including 3PAR EVA Imports, EMC San Copy

Experience in NetApp Snap manager, SQL Snap manager, Snap drive

Hands-on experience in Generating host remediation report using EMC E-lab Advisor, Grab analysis tool, EMC Host Environment Analysis Tool (HEAT) for remediation and root cause analysis on Host

Experience in installation, configuration and administration of Brocade, Cisco MDS Switches.

Experience in 24*7 on call support.

Coordinated with the patch upgrades, with EMC and HP Operations engineer

Proficient in Administering and Storage Provisioning in multi-vendor OS environment including Solaris, IBM AIX, Red Hat Linux, and Windows.

Highly motivated Team Player with good communication skills

EDUCATION:

Master of Computer Application, Post-Graduation, OU, India.

CERTIFICATIONS:

ITIL Certified

EMCISA – Information Storage and Management

MCSA – Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Hardware:

EMC Symmetrix – DMX & VMAX

EMC Xtrem I/O

EMC CLARiiON - CX3-20, CX3-40, CX3-80 & CX4 960

EMC VNX 5700, 7600

EMC DD 160, 2500

HP EVA- HSV 450

HP 3PAR- 7400, Inserv V400

IBM SVC, DS8000, DS5000 & DS4000

NetApp – FAS 8040, 6000 series and 3000 series.

Switches - Cisco - MDS 9000 & MDS 9710

Brocade 5000 Series

Software:

NetApp - Data ONTAP 8.x (7mode & C-mode), SnapMirror, SyncMirror, SnapVault, OSSV, SnapManager, Data Fabric operations manager, SnapDrive, FlexShare, Filerview, Config Advisor

EMC - Control Center v6.x, Solutions Enabler v6.5, Navisphere Manager v6.x, NaviCLI, SymCLI, MirrorView, SnapView, SAN Copy, TimeFinder, SRDF, PowerPath v5.1, SANtegrity, Fabric Manager, Device Manager

HP – HP Management Console, HP 3PAR System Reporter, HP EVA Console, Remote Copy, AO, DO, Online Import for Migration

IBM – SVC Console v5.10, HMC v6.1, Storage Manager v10, TPC v5.2

BACKUP Tools – CommVault v10.1, Net Backup v7.7

Operating Systems:

Red Hat Linux 4/5, Windows NT/2000/2003/2008/2012, AIX 5L v5.1/5.2

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Client: Dex Media (DEX), Dallas, TX April 2016 – Present

Role: Storage & Backup Administrator

Responsibilities:

Responsible for Administration and Maintenance of Storage Area Networks on multiple Data Centres

Day-to-day administration includes storage allocation, zoning, troubleshooting and maintenance of Storage arrays & SAN fabric.

Storage allocation to new build and existing UNIX, Windows servers/clusters and VMWare ESX environment using auto provisioning on IBM XIV using IBM Storage management console.

Storage allocation on VMAX using SYMCLI/SMC/Unisphere for VMAX/DMX. Tasks include creation of tdevs, binding tdevs to thin pools, creation of initiator/storage/port groups and creating masking view

Implemented FASTVP sub lun level data movement on VMAX, by creating tiers, FAST policies associating storage groups to the FAST policies

Configured aggregates, volumes, Qtree on NetApp filers

Implemented provision requests from customer for CIFS/NFS shares and configuring and managing permissions

Provisioned LUN’s to different servers using NetApp Oncommand System Manager

Responded to DFM alerts and do troubleshooting

Worked on Creating Virtual Volumes, Ldevs, creating Hosts, exporting VVs to Host, to create Virtual LUNS on HDS VSP

Involved in migrations between HP EVA and NetApp filers

Worked on migrating data between HP subsystems using Host based migration

Collect performance data using system reporter tool and analyse the data as per client needs

Coordinate with different vendors for disk replacements or any other hardware related issues

Worked on Decommissioning Servers and reclaiming unwanted storage from IBM, HDS, EMC, NetApp and HP arrays and clean up on zoning level

Worked with different storage vendors for firmware and code level upgrades

Experience in zoning between servers and arrays using Brocade Switches

Created RCA’s and Documented best practices in SAN for all P1 and P2 issues

Opened tickets with IBM, EMC, NetApp, HDS and HP customer support and work with them to resolve the open issues

Continuous availability to Team/customers for any issues during on-call schedule for whole week (day & night).

Environment: EMC VMAX20K, VNX, XtremI/O, Unisphere, Solution Enabler, Performance Analyzer, EMC Replication Manager for snapshot Management, Brocade 8000 series, NetApp 3000 and 6000 series, DD 160, 2500, HP EVA, HP 3PAR 7400, HP Management Console, NetApp Oncommand System Manager and Service Now Ticketing Tool, Online Import Tool, System Reporter for HP.

Client: Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), Austin, TX July 2015 – April 2016

Role: Storage & Backup Administrator

Responsibilities:

Responsible for Administration and Maintenance of Storage Area Networks on multiple Data Centres

Day-to-day administration includes storage allocation, zoning, troubleshooting and maintenance of Storage arrays & SAN fabric.

Storage allocation to new build and existing UNIX, Windows servers/clusters and VMWare ESX environment using auto provisioning on VMAX using SYMCLI/SMC/Unisphere for VMAX. Tasks include creation of tdevs, binding tdevs to thin pools, creation of initiator/storage/port groups and creating masking view

Implemented FASTVP sub lun level data movement on VMAX, by creating tiers, FAST policies associating storage groups to the FAST policies

Troubleshooted performance issues using EMC Symmetrix Performance Analyzer

Configured aggregates, volumes, Qtree on NetApp filers

Implemented provision requests from customer for CIFS/NFS shares and configuring and managing permissions

Provisioned LUN’s to different servers using NetApp Oncommand System Manager

Responded to DFM alerts and do troubleshooting

Worked on Creating Virtual Volumes, Common Provisioned Groups (CPG), creating Hosts, exporting VVs to Host, to create Virtual LUNS.

Obtained strong knowledge about HP 3PAR Thin Technologies for space management.

Implementing Dynamic Optimization by moving data between CPG's using both IMC and CLI.

Implementing Adaptive optimization to improve the performance by moving the data at sub-LUN level.

Implementing Autonomic groups to create VVSet & Hostset, for provisioning storage.

Creating virtual copy snapshots using IMC and CLI.

Setup Remote Copy between HP 3PAR’s in different locations

Involved in migrations between HP EVA and NetApp filers

Worked on migrating data between HP subsystems using HP online import tool

Collect performance data using system reporter tool and analyse the data as per client needs

Coordinate with different vendors for disk replacements or any other hardware related issues

Worked on Decommissioning Servers and reclaiming unwanted storage from EMC, NetApp and HP arrays and clean up on zoning level

Worked with different storage vendors for firmware and code level upgrades

Experience in zoning between servers and arrays using Brocade Switches

Created RCA’s and Documented best practices in SAN for all P1 and P2 issues

Opened tickets with EMC, NetApp and HP customer support and work with them to resolve the open issues

Continuous availability to Team/customers for any issues during on-call schedule for whole week (day & night).

Worked on exporting and importing tapes using Commvault backup software

Generated weekly report and sent exported tapes to Iron Mount

CommVault backup implementation on Various different platform and integrations

Environment: EMC VMAX20K, VNX, XtremI/O, Unisphere, Solution Enabler, Performance Analyzer, EMC Replication Manager for snapshot Management, Brocade 5000 series, NetApp 3000 and 6000 series, DD 160, 2500, HP EVA, HP 3PAR 7400, HP Management Console, NetApp Oncommand System Manager and Service Now Ticketing Tool, Online Import Tool, System Reporter for HP, CommVault for Backup

Client: Maxis Communications, Telecom, Malaysia Dec 2013 – July 2015

Role: Storage & Backup Administrator

Responsibilities:

Responsible for Storage & Backup Engineering and operations support at Maxis telecommunications

Perform daily storage administration activities such as storage provisioning, capacity planning, coordinate both planned and break/fix maintenance, perform code upgrades, and adhere to documented storage best practices

Experience with Auto-provisioning by creating Mdisk, Vdisk, Raid Groups and host group in IBM SVC, XIV,DS8000 & DS5000

Experience with Auto-Provisioning by creating Mixed Pool, Host Groups in EMC VNX

Worked on Creating Virtual Volumes, Common Provisioned Groups (CPG), creating Hosts, exporting VVs to Host, to create Virtual LUNS on HP 3-PAR and HP EVA’s

Implemented Business Continuity solutions for production data using Metro Mirror, Clone on IBM SVC arrays

Provided regular updates in weekly meetings with team, EMC, IBM & HP production managers.

Worked on zoning different servers on Brocade and Cisco Switches

Worked on implementing New EMC VNX and Data Domains in the environment

Performed server remediation prior to migration by collecting “grab” reports from servers and based on report generated by Host Environment Analysis Tool (HEAT)

Administration of HP EVA & HP 3PAR Storages arrays

Worked on Creating Vdisk and present it to different hosts

Coordinate with HP vendor for hardware failures and code upgrades

Migrated data from HP EVA to EMC VNX arrays – San Copy & Host based Migration

Worked on implementing migration plan - moving existence cisco fabric to newly connected MDS 9710 director’s to Brocade director’s

Resolved performance issues by monitoring and analysing the end-to-end performance of the infrastructure using EMC performance analyser on VNX

Handled pool utilization rate, making sure that it does not reach the alert levels

Involved in migration activities between EMC and IBM Arrays

Decommissioned storage for open systems by reclaiming the storage after destroying the data, unmounting the file systems, unmasking, unmapping from the FA ports and dissolving the devices using HP Command View and cleaned up the old storage includes deleting relationships between EVA’s

Created copies of production data by using Meter Mirror for testing and development and also for backups

Used Performance Analyzer, created reports for storage and capacity planning purposes

Created Visio diagrams for all storage arrays using Microsoft Visio software

Assigned switch ports for the hosts and make sure the ports are in correct VSANs and Zoning on Cisco MDS switches

Continuous availability to team/management/customers for any issues during on-call schedule for whole week (day & night).

Worked on NetBackup backup implementation on Various different platform and integrations

Created RCA’s and Documented best practices in SAN for all P1 and P2 issues

Opened tickets with EMC, IBM and HP customer support and work with them to resolve the open issues

Continuous availability to Team/customers for any issues during on-call schedule for whole week (day & night).

Environment: Remedy Tool, EMC VNX, Unisphere, Power Path, Performance Analyzer, Cisco 9148, MDS 9710, Brocade, IBM SVC, XIV, DS8000, DS5000, DS4000, Storage Manager, DSCLI, HP EVA, 3PAR Console SSMC, Netbackup, Data Domains and Tape Library

Client: Dubai Communications, Telecom, Dubai Feb 2011 – Dec 2013

Role: Storage & Backup Administrator

Responsibilities:

Responsible for Administration and operations support in Du Telecom environment

Gathered replication information from different V-MAX frames for the purpose of DR Test

Checked whether replication exists or not for the devices and created BCV, Clones if missed anything

Responsible for Providing Clone Luns for UAT applications regarding testing to new environment.

Creating BCV and SRDF relationship and assigning them to the backup hosts from EMC Symmetrix

Performed the clean-ups after the DR Test

Documented the DR procedures for future purposes

Assigning switch ports for the hosts and make sure the ports are in correct VSANs and Zoning on Brocade switches.

Decommission the storage as per the requirement

Day-to-day administration includes storage allocation, zoning, troubleshooting, taking daily & weekend backups and maintenance of Storage arrays & SAN fabric.

Experience with storage provisioning on Symmetrix DMX4, V-MAX running Enginuity 5875 using SYMCLI 7.4

Experience with Auto-provisioning by creating initiator groups, port groups, storage groups and putting them into masking views on VMAX & DMX

Worked on V-MAX Thin provisioning and storage tiering.

Experience in administering EMC VNX, CLARiiON and HP EVA systems

Experience with Auto-provisioning on Array Group and Host Groups on CLARiiON and VNX

Administration of NetBackup tool

Migrating client from Tape based backup to Data Domain disk based backup. Also, used data domain for replication for offsite storage.

Implementation of Storage Essential on multiple site location for EMC and various customer for reporting, monitoring and capacity management.

Helping customer to decide vendor and product based on their requirement and budget.

Disk based backup solutions, data De-Duplication backup and replication disk backup to remote site for offsite storage.

SAN Migration and Storage migration from DMX3 to VMAX

NetBackup backup implementation on various different platform and integrations

Document all best practices and create RCA for all P1 and P2 issues

Knowledge of provisioning storage for new hosts and existing hosts (Solaris, Windows & Linux)

Troubleshoot and work with storage support on production related issues

Planned and implement storage solutions in production environments

Worked with the system administrators to troubleshoot Unix connectivity issues

Provided regular updates in weekly meetings with team, EMC, production managers.

Monitor space utilization in storage subsystems and resolving the issues.

Environment: Service now ticketing system, EMC VMAX, DMX, EMC DMX-3,4, EMC VNX 5500,5700, EMC Control Center, Solution Enabler, Performance Manager, Symmetrix Remote Data Facility (SRDF), TimeFinder, Cisco 9506, 9513, Netapp, HP EVA, NetBackup and Data Domain

Previous Experience: IBM Pvt Ltd

Client: Philip Medicals, CA Aug 2009 – Feb 2011

Role: System Senior Specialist

Responsibilities:

Responsible for Storage & Backup Engineering and operations support at Maxis telecommunications

Perform daily storage administration activities such as storage provisioning, capacity planning, coordinate both planned and break/fix maintenance, perform code upgrades, and adhere to documented storage best practices

Experience with Auto-provisioning by creating Mdisk, Vdisk, Raid Groups and host group in IBM SVC, XIV,DS8000, DS5000, DS4000 & ESS

Experience with Provisioning by creating Array groups, Luns in DS5000, DS4000 and ESS

Provided regular updates in weekly meetings with team, EMC & IBM production managers.

Worked on zoning different servers on Cisco Switches

Performed server remediation prior to migration by collecting “grab” reports from servers and based on report generated by Host Environment Analysis Tool (HEAT)

Worked on Creating Vdisk and present it to different hosts

Coordinate with HP vendor for hardware failures and code upgrades

Migrated data from HP EVA to EMC VNX arrays – San Copy & Host based Migration

Worked on implementing migration plan - moving existence cisco fabric to newly connected MDS 9710 director’s to Brocade director’s

Resolved performance issues by monitoring and analysing the end-to-end performance of the infrastructure using EMC performance analyser on VNX

Handled pool utilization rate, making sure that it does not reach the alert levels

Involved in migration activities between EMC and IBM Arrays

Decommissioned storage for open systems by reclaiming the storage after destroying the data, unmounting the file systems, unmasking, unmapping from the FA ports and dissolving the devices using HP Command View and cleaned up the old storage includes deleting relationships between EVA’s

Created copies of production data by using Meter Mirror for testing and development and also for backups

Used Performance Analyzer, created reports for storage and capacity planning purposes

Created Visio diagrams for all storage arrays using Microsoft Visio software

Assigned switch ports for the hosts and make sure the ports are in correct VSANs and Zoning on Cisco MDS switches

Continuous availability to team/management/customers for any issues during on-call schedule for whole week (day & night).

Worked on NetBackup backup implementation on Various different platform and integrations

Created RCA’s and Documented best practices in SAN for all P1 and P2 issues

Opened tickets with EMC, IBM and HP customer support and work with them to resolve the open issues

Continuous availability to Team/customers for any issues during on-call schedule for whole week (day & night).

Environment: IBM San Volume controller, Operations Manager, Performance advisor, BMC Remedy Automatic ticketing system, EMC CLARiiON, Centra, IBM XIV, SVC, DS8000, DS6000, DS5000, Cisco 9506, 9513.

Client: Fluor, Houston, TX Dec 2006 – Aug 2009

Role: System Senior Specialist

Responsibilities:

Allocated storage from EMC CLARiiON CX4, CX3, CX600 Arrays to different Unix/windows and VMware platforms

Worked on Storage from IBM DS5000, DS4000 and ESS for Daily operations to provide storage

Implemented TPC(Tivoli Storage Productivity Center) for Storage, switches and Servers in the environment

Generated performance reports for Switches, Storage and Servers using TPC

Involved in assisting clients on various issues - Provision Management, Break/Fix, LUN Security, HBA Consulting, Firmware/Microcode Management and Storage Infrastructure Management.

Involved in solving tickets assigned via internal ticketing system and carry out scheduled change controls and let customer know status through phone/email/page.

Work with the backup team to troubleshoot issues in the environment

Providing the customer support for the agencies with storage I/Os issues

Resolved performance issues by monitoring and analysing the end-to-end performance of the infrastructure using IBM TPC performance analyser.

Handling of pool utilization rate, making sure that it does not reach the alert levels

Storage reclaims and Decommission of the hosts in the clusters

Creating Data stores and extension of data stores at the LUN level.

Upgrading Fabric manager and assist EMC admins with the Firmware upgrades

Experience in Aliasing and Zoning on Cisco switches.

Environment: EMC CLARiiON CX4, CX3, CX600, IBM DS5000, DS4000, DS3000, ESS Storage array, Cisco MDS MDS 9200, 9100, Brocade 6510, 6505, TPC (Tivoli Storage Productivity Center), Remedy Ticketing tool

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