Hemanth Kommuru

Mobile: 408-***-**** E-Mail: acebwx@r.postjobfree.com

Seeking Storage System Design, implementation and administration assignments in IT

Infrastructure Industry with a technology driven organ ization of repute

Professional Profile

Storage Technologist with 7 years of experience in architecting, managing and administering SAN/NAS

products and storage teams in various enterprise datacenters.

Extensive Datacenter migration experience including Host-based file-level/Block-level migration, Network-

based file-level/Block-level migration and Array-based block-level migration.

Experienced with enterprise class storage including EMC VMAX, DMX4, DMX3, DMX Symmetrix Series, VNX,

Clariion CX4, CX3, CX and FC Series, Celerra/Unified NS gateway, integrated filers, Netapp FAS960C, HP

3PAR, Isilon, Centera, Atmos.

Worked extensively on a wide range of EMC Suite of products including SRDFA/S /A, Recoverpoint,

TimeFinder, Open Migrator/Replicator, SanCopy, MirrorView, EMC Control Center and Unisphere/Navisphere

Manager & Analyzer, SMC, and SPA.

Worked extensively on NAS based migration products including Robocopy, EMCopy, Rsync, Beyond

compare, EMC Rainfinity (CTA).

Experienced in EMC Networker and Avamar for backup and recovery operations.

UNIX and Windows system administration experience.

Proven ability to work in a team environment whilst being resourceful, self-directed and self-motivated.

A keen planner, strategist & implementer with demonstrated abilities in IT infrastructure planning and

management for streamlining business operations.

An effective communicator with exceptional relationship management skills with the ability to relate to

people at any level of business and management.

Excellent Technical Documentation creation skills.

Technical Skills

Product category Storage Products

Symmetrix VMAX & DMX, CLARiiON, Celerra,

Storage Systems VNX/VNXe, Iomega, Isilon, HP XP 9500, Netapp FAS

Series, Atmos.

VMware, VMware ESX4.0 & 5.0, Vsphere, VMax Thin

Virtualization

provisioning using TDEVs, Clariion Thin provisioning.

Backup, Recovery and Archiving Avamar, RecoverPoint, NetWorker, Centera

Prosphere, EMC Control Center (ECC), Navisphere

Manager, Sanscreen, Unisphere, Celerra Manager,

SAN/NAS Management Connectrix Manager, Cisco Fabric Manager, Cisco

Device Manager, Brocade Fabric Manager, EMC Storage

SMC, OnCommand.

SRDF/S/Semi/A, TimeFinder/Mirror/Clone, Snapview,

Business Continuity Mirrorview, San Copy, EMC Snap, Open Replicator,

SnapMirror, Vplex.

Service Management Tools PlanIT, Service center, HPSM, Remedy.

Solaris 8/9/10, RHEL 3.0, 4.0, Windows

Operating Systems

NT/2000/2003/2008 Server.

Programming Perl, Shell scripting, C, batch and vbscript.

Scholastics

Masters in Computer Applications (MCA)

Bangalore University

Certifications

Certified Storage technology foundation (ISM) professional.

Certified in ITIL V3 Information technology infrastructure library.

Certified in SIX SIGMA GREEN BELT.

Certified CLARiiON Solutions Specialist.

Certified Symmetrix Solutions Specialist

Certified Isilon Solutions Specialist

Organizational Experience

EMC Corporation Sr Delivery Specialist June 12 - Present

Project: Professional Services Engineer.

Role:

Provide specialist business support and subject matter expert to EMC customers in the New England & Canada.

Provide proactive recommendations to the customer’s for improving their use of EMC storage solutions to

help maximize their satisfaction with EMC. Actively contributes to the configuration, layout and performance

tuning of EMC products.

Participate in the design and operational execution of the customer's disaster recovery process.

Performs infrastructure maintenance and necessary data migrations.

Provides assistance to EMC technical teams in the development of custom solutions and implementation

preparation.

Responsible for performing daily operational tasks and maintaining availability at the customer sites.

Provisions solutions based on standardized procedures as outlined by EMC best practice documentation.

Performs necessary infrastructure maintenance in accordance with EMC and customer's change

management policies.

Worked on design, implementation, configuration and migration of 3 Billion files from EMC VNX/Celerra to

Isilon S, NL and X400 series cluster across 3 datacenters.

Worked on VMAX migrations using SRDF/S, Power path Migration Enabler (PPME) and Open Replicator.

Worked on complex storage allocations which include Celerra NS80G with VMAX and DMX back end with

Concurrent SRDF setup.

Performed a review of the existing SAN/NAS infrastructure and provided reports on stale unused storage,

replicated storage which need not be replicated, zone cleanups, process to ensure server teams notify

retired servers to storage team for proper reclamation of storage, san ports, drivers etc.

Storage provisioning of VMAX/VNX/DMX3 storage using SYMCLI, SMC and Unisphere Manager.

Perform Isilon SMB/NFS shares and exports configurations.

Perform NAS multiprotocol migrations across different vendors.

DR configurations using local and remote replications.

Performance monitoring and Reporting.

Configuring SNMP alerts.

ECC alerting and storage scope reporting.

Participate in customer proof of concepts and demos.

Write custom Perl, Shell and batch scripts for customers to accomplish daily tasks, reporting, accounting

and quota management.

Define operation process for SAN and NAS infrastructure.

Fiber Channel Switches management.

Capacity Planning and Disaster Recovery Planning.

EMC Corporation Storage Administrator Jan 12 – June 12

Project: Durham Data Center Migrations.

Role:

Worked in EMC IT to migrate the entire SAN/NAS infrastructure to the new Data center in Durham, NC.

Data collection and Planning of migration strategy.

SAN/NAS Design and Build as per required configuration.

DR configuration with SRDF and Time finder Clones.

Co-ordinate Network and Backup configurations.

Execute migrations using replication/Host based copy.

Worked on migration tools like Rsync, NDMP, Emcopy, SRDF, PPME, VNX replicator.

Co-ordinate between business groups to drive the migration smoothly.

Automate data replication process using replication manager.

Create and update run book.

Act as a Subject Matter expert for production support team for any day to day operational issues.

Co-ordinate between business groups to drive the migration smoothly.

Yellow Book USA Inc System Engineer - SAN Jun 11 – Dec 11

Project: Storage Management & Migrations.

Role:

Manage systems and storage environment at Yellow book Inc data centers

Migration of data from snap volumes on legacy 300GB drives (in order to change the cylinder size of the

legacy drives to obtain more usable space).

Installation of new (additional) 450GB drives and configuration with a new bin file load.

Write scripts for data migration.

Implementing Virtual provisioning in FAST VP

Monitoring the storage pool utilization while migrating data from thin- to-thin devices.

Worked on SANscreen PoC.

Storage allocations and configurations for Oracle databases.

Storage monitoring and performance tuning.

Worked on Cisco fabric manager for zoning and switch management.

Worked on storage firmware upgrades.

Worked on EMC Control Center.

EMC Corporation Storage Administrator Aug 07 – May 11

Project: Windows to NAS data migration.

Environment: Windows 2003, Windows 2000, Celerra NSX, Clariion CX4, Beyond Compare, EMCopy

Role:

This project was initiated to move all the Windows File Shares and their contents to NAS EMC Celerra CIFS

Shares. I was involved in the project planning and implementation from adding the storage to the Celerra,

Creating file systems exporting them and migrating the data using the tools Beyond Compare and EMC Copy

and verifying all the permissions.

Plan and Create file systems.

Storage allocation on Clariion.

Configure and Install Beyond compare/EMCopy.

Create, update, and execute Migration Run-book.

Permission the shares as per source.

Co-ordinate between business groups to drive the migration smoothly.

Act as a Subject Matter expert for production support team for any day to day operational issues.

Project: Symmetrix Consolidation Project

Environment: Windows Server 2k/2k3, Linux OS, Solaris OS, DMX 800, DMX 1000 & DMX4/VMAX.

Role:

This scope of the project is consolidating old DMX 800/1000’s to DMX4’s & VMAX by migrating the data using

Open Replicator & SRDF.

Planning and understand the demand management.

Configuring and creating Devices, Mapping & Masking them at PROD & DR environments

Establishing SRDF relationship between PROD & DR environments.

Configuring Time finder operations (Clones & Mirror) on PROD & DR environment.

Create Zones and communicate between Source Symmetrix to Target Symmetrix.

Execute the OR sessions.

Configuring, Managing, Administering and Troubleshooting of Issues.

Working with Vendor to solve Hardware related issues.

Co-ordinate between business groups to drive the migration smoothly.

Act as a Subject Matter expert for production support team for any day to day operational issues.

Project: VPLEX beta testing

Environment: Symmetrix DMX, Vmax, Clariion CX4

Role:

This scope of the project is to test the new federation of HW and SW platform as well as the Federation view of

EMC and non EMC storage arrays.

Understanding the next generation data mobility.

Non-disruptive data mobility and simplified multi-array management using EMC VPLEX Local.

“AccessAnywhere” within and across locations at synchronous distances using EMC VPLEX Metro.

Project: Clariion Consolidation Project

Environment: Windows Server 2k/2k3, Linux OS, Solaris OS, CX6/700’s & CX4’s.

Role:

This scope of the project is consolidating old CX5/6/700’s to CX4’s by migrating the data using Sancopy.

Planning and understand the demand management.

Configuring and creating LUNs, storage groups and SANCOPY sessions.

Create Zones from the Source Clariion to Target Clariion.

Execute the SANCopy sessions.

Configuring, Managing, Administering and Troubleshooting of Issues.

Working with Vendor to solve Hardware related issues.

Co-ordinate between business groups to drive the migration smoothly.

Act as a Subject Matter expert for production support team for any day to day operational issues.

Project: Project VOLANTE.

Environment: Windows Server 2k/2k3, Clariion, Symmetrix, Centera, Celerra, Legato Networker,

cisco Switches

Role:

Was part of 16 member GIIS (Global Information Infrastructure Services) Bangalore group supporting tiered

storage and information protection solutions which meets our customer’s business requirements of availability,

performance, protection, security and recovery. We continuously monitor and audit, both proactively and

reactively, ensuring health and scalability throughout its lifecycle thus enabling the company’s ability to design,

build, test and distribute its catalog of products and services.

Working with the other infrastructure teams in streamlining some of the processes and also involved in

setting up an escalation matrix for our team set up.

Support & Maintenance of Clariion, Symmetrix, Centera, EMC Disk Library, ADIC Tape Library Unit, Cisco

Switches.

Administrate the Storage infrastructure using EMC Control Center (ECC).

Applied knowledge of ITIL best practices - Developing/ Deploying ITIL Processes, Performance Metrics &

Measurements

Incident Management, Change Management, Problem Management.

Customer Responsiveness; Cross Functional Collaboration

Documentation, Reporting & Presentations

Project: PC Device Acquisition Six Sigma Green Belt Project

Environment: SIX Sigma Methodologies and tools.

Role:

Reduce the overall time in the PC device fulfillment process as the existing process takes too long to meet the

expectations of the customer in ordering and receiving PC devices. There is limited visibility for the customer

of the status of the order throughout the fulfillment process. Consequently, people ordering PC devices

frequently do not have a PC device to do their work, often for several days.

Lead a team of 6 people.

Successfully streamlined the process and made financial gains to the organization.

Perot Systems College Internship Jan 07 – Aug 07

Role:

Worked as a Level-1 & 2 Support engineer in providing remote support for the Systems, Storage and

backup environment while taking the ownership of the Service request that has been created and analyzing the

problem, fixing it and suggesting the next action plan for that service request.

Windows active directory services.

Windows share creations and permissions.

Monitor storage systems and backups.

Hands on experience on Navisphere and ECC (EMC Control Centre, One tool to manage all alerts Hosts,

Networks, Storage, and Applications).

Monitor hardware faults of SYMMETRIX, CLARiiON, and CENTERA through ECC, Navisphere and Centera

viewer

Monitor switch Alerts through Device manager and Fabric manager.

Restorations and recovery of user or application data.

Trainings

Storage technology foundation.

Symmetrix Configuration management.

CLARiiON Host Integration & Management.

SnapView Configuration & Management.

MirrorView & SAN Copy Configuration & Management.

NAS Celerra Operations and Management.

Celerra troubleshooting.

Windows 2008 server administration.

Red hat system administration.

Perl scripting.

EMC Networker Administration for UNIX and Microsoft Windows.

Lean Six Sigma Yellow Belt.

Lean Six Sigma Green Belt.

Avamar Backup and Data Deduplication.

ITIL V3 training.

VPLEX Fundamentals.

VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage [V41].

Isilon Administration and Integration.

Isilon Advance troubleshooting training

Vmax internals 2013

Vplex installation and maintenance

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