Venkat avula 954-***-****

Tivoli Engineer *:acue1b@r.postjobfree.com

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

Having around 8 years of experience in Commvault and IBM Tivoli Storage Manager.

Working experience on TSM Implementation, Upgradation, Administration and troubleshooting of Tivoli Storage Manager Server and Client on Windows and UNIX platforms.

Experience in involving Backup, Recovery and Administration tasks such as Migration, reclamation and Expiration.

Configuring & Managing TSM Database, Storage pools, Recovery log and Policy Management.

Worked on troubleshooting issues related to Client and Admin schedules.

Hands-on experience on TSM server 6.* installation.

Hands-on experience on TSM server 6.2 and 6.3 server versions

Installing and configuring B/A clients, TDP SQL and TDP oracle as per the client requirements.

Installation, Implementing, Configuring and Administration of CommVault/Simpana (Version 9.0/10).

Configuring & Managing CommVault Media Agents.

Re-naming the media agent as per the requirements.

Installation (Auto Deployment) & configuring of different types of agents like, File System, SQL and Oracle.

Configuring & scheduling backups and Creating Backup Policies as per requirement.

Configuring & Managing Auxiliary copy backups from Magnetic Libraries to Tape.

Installation and configuration of backup software for iDataAgent, SQL and Oracle agents, scheduling the clients for backups.

Preparing Daily, Monthly backup reports and also providing the enhanced reports to the customer as requested.

Experienced in Configuring the Different types of Storage policy creation as per Customer Requirement.

Experienced in Configuring the Vcenters for Client Computers.

Experienced of Media agent installation and configuring the Replica Disk Libraries.

Index cache configuration for the media agents (network share or Local drive)

Troubleshooting all client server and backup related issues.

Tape change management in all the sites.

Experience in performing Restore Requests as per the Client Requirement.

Experience in installing the services packs.

TECHNICAL STRENGTHS:

Operating System

Windows Server 2003, 2008 and 2012, Linux(RHEL5 &6), AIX,Sun Solaris, HP_UNIX

Hardware

IBM 3582/3583/3584, LTO Libraries, EMC Data Domain DD2500

Software Applications

TSM Server 5.3/5.4/5.5/6.3/7.1, BA Client, TDP SQL, TDP ORACLE,TDP Exchange, TDP Oracle, TDP ERP, Commvault 9.0/10.0, Netbackup

Ticketing Tools

Remedy

WORK EXPERIENCE

Merck, Kenilworth, NJ

TSM / Commvault Engineer 09/2014 to Present

Job Responsibilities:

Working experience on TSM Implementation, Upgradation, Administration and troubleshooting of Tivoli Storage Manager Server and Client on Windows and UNIX platforms.

Experience in involving Backup, Recovery and Administration tasks such as Migration, reclamation and Expiration.

Configuring & Managing TSM Database, Storage pools, Recovery log and Policy Management.

Worked on troubleshooting issues related to Client and Admin schedules.

Knowledge and Experience on tape libraries such as IBM System storage IBM 3584, EMC Data Domain and sun STK for daily operations and troubleshooting techniques.

Experienced in installation and configuring EMC Data Domain.

Library Management, maintaining Scratch Volumes and Log Monitoring daily.

Media Management, Maintaining Scratch volumes and troubleshooting the issues related to bad Tapes.

Hands on Tivoli Data Protection for SQL, TDP Oracle, TDP For ERP

Working on DRM, Export and Import admin Process.

Worked on WINPE Restoration for Win2k8 Servers

Worked on CIFS and NFS share creation in Data Domain

Experienced in VSS Issue Troubleshooting.

Providing Technical support on Microsoft Windows Servers and UNIX servers for various clients.

Troubleshooting all client server and backup related issues.

Providing support for the L3 devices on process such as Incident/Problem/Service Request/Change.

Configured Commserver, Media agent’s, Client & database idata agent’s and Library’s.

Managing backup infrastructure for an US based client, as Simpana Commvault 9.0 is the primary backup application for the entire client (on all platforms).

Fully understand and support all Backup administration and management policies and procedures.

Managing the backup infrastructure to ensure all Service Level Agreements are met.

American Express, Plantation, FL

TSM / Commvault Engineer 08/2012 to 08/2014

Job Responsibilities:

Implement approved tested, regression planned changes to the Backup infrastructure within agreed outage periods.

Scheduling the backups as per the change requirements by overriding the schedule as and when required.

Restoring the user data (Sql & Oracle database restores) as per the users request from the tapes within the retention period and from outside the retention period.

Administration of backup servers like monitoring drive capacity, services, patches, daily check report and installing required application and any hardware related issues.

Monitoring daily backup status, handling tape changes, troubleshooting of tape libraries and drives, restoration of missing files/directories, disaster recovery and other backup related activities.

Troubleshooting all types of backup failures with in the SLA process.

Troubleshooting and resolving issues for the tape Libraries.

Managing and creating different types of the policies for the backup jobs.

Installing the various Media agents for various servers, adding new clients for the Commvault environment.

Scheduling the backups as per the change requirements by overriding the schedule as and when required.

Tape change management in all the sites.

DR restoration on a monthly basis for mission critical servers and checking the data integrity.

Troubleshooting and resolving issues for the tape Libraries.

Managing and creating different types of the policies for the backup jobs.

Performed DR Activity.

Configuring Oracle Database for Backup.

Configuring Sql Database for Backup.

Configuration, Administration of IBM Tivoli Storage Manger servers, B/A Client.

TSM database and Recovery log management like defining additional volumes and mirroring of TSM data base and recovery log.

Auditing Tape volume errors and restoring data from copy tape.

Planning TSM backups with required retention periods based on the Client Implementation Request, and associating them to the schedules.

Involving TSM remediation activities like deleting old data from TSM and changing backup schedule as per client approval.

Defining administrative schedules for administrative operations in TSM Server for Controlling Migration process, backup storage pools, TSM DB backup, volhist backup, device configuration backup, Expire inventory processes.

Troubleshooting Exchange, SQL, Oracle backup failures.

Troubleshooting Recovery LOG, Database and Storage Pool related issues.

Configuration of TSM Reporting for all TSM Servers.

Performing the initial and final decommission processes.

Involved in TSM migration from one data Center to another data Center

Good knowledge on management class rebinding and managing TSM servers

Involving in Daily Tape check in and checkout.

Good Experience in Management class rebinding as per client requirement.

Expert on client data restoration as per requirement.

Monitor DR Backup and Auxiliary Jobs

Perform daily health checks on regular basis and work on the point of interest.

Troubleshooting and fix the failed backups.

Restoration of data on request from the customer.

Installation and configuration of backup software for iDataAgent, SQL and Oracle agents, scheduling the clients for backups.

HCL Technologies, India

TSM Administrator 08/2010 to 08/2012

Job Responsibilities:

Working on Schedules to take periodic backups of Production Servers

Checking administrative schedules like DB BACKUP, BACKUP STG and client schedules; if any failures working on it based on the priority.

Worked on DRM activities and troubleshooting TDP backups issues

Reporting the backup status to the superiors and working on the client restorations.

Maintaining minimum number of scratch volumes as well as cleaning cartridges.

Tuning of TSM Server and client parameters to improve backup performance.

Configuration of TSM Reporting for all TSM servers

Tape Library availability, performance monitoring & reporting of drives and paths.

Experienced TSM DB Restoration, Recovery log and DB high utilization and crashed.

DRM implementation and LAN-Free configuration

Recover the Missed Primary, Copy and Active STG pool volumes.

Performed DB Reorganization.

Define and Configure the Policy domain, Policy Set, Management class, Backup copy group, Archive copy group and its parameters as per Customers requirement.

Configuring TSM operations like expiration, migration, reclamation, collocation etc

Monitoring client and admin schedule status.

Monitoring scratch count in library.

Working on missed/failed schedules (Client and Admin)

IBM India

TSM Administrator 03/2008 to 08/2010

Job Responsibilities:

Working on Schedules to take periodic backups of Production Servers

Checking administrative schedules like DB BACKUP, BACKUP STG and client schedules; if any failures working on it based on the priority.

Worked on DRM activities and troubleshooting TDP backups issues

Reporting the backup status to the superiors and working on the client restorations.

Maintaining minimum number of scratch volumes as well as cleaning cartridges.

Tuning of TSM Server and client parameters to improve backup performance.

Configuration of TSM Reporting for all TSM servers

Tape Library availability, performance monitoring & reporting of drives and paths.

Experienced TSM DB Restoration, Recovery log and DB high utilization and crashed.

DRM implementation and LAN-Free configuration

Recover the Missed Primary, Copy and Active STG pool volumes.

Performed DB Reorganization.

Define and Configure the Policy domain, Policy Set, Management class, Backup copy group, Archive copy group and its parameters as per Customers requirement.

Configuring TSM operations like expiration, migration, reclamation, collocation etc

Monitoring client and admin schedule status.

Monitoring scratch count in library.

Working on missed/failed schedules (Client and Admin)

CERTIFICATIONS:

IBM Certified Specialist – IBM Tivoli Storage Manager V 6.3 Administration.

EDUCATION QUALIFICATION

MCA From Osmania University, India.

Reference #1:

Reference Name

Pavan Kumar Chudavarapu

Designation

Technical Specialist

Reference Phone No

832-****-***

Name of the Company

Merck, 2000 Galloping Hill Road, Kenilworth, New jercy- 07033

Reference Email:

acue1b@r.postjobfree.com

Name of Project Candidate Worked On

Merck

Description of the services provided

Backup Administrator on Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) & Commvault

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