Manager Engineer
Resume:
Varun Perikala
Weehawken, NJ.
****.*************@*****.***
SUMMMARY:
7+ years of Strong experience in Storage (SAN/NAS/Converged Storages) and Backup Analysis, Planning, Solutions, Implementations, Maintenance and Administration.
Experience in implementing, administering and maintaining NetApp FAS 8000, 6200/6000, FAS3200/3000 & FAS2000 series.
Experience in EMC, Dell, Hitachi, HP, Pure and Nimble storages
Data Center migration support for USP
Experience in Administration of Storage to Multiprotocol Environments like FC, iSCSI, CIFS and NFS
Conducted data analytics for all SAN and NAS platforms.
Implemented remote replications using True Copy, Remote Copy, virtual copy, Snapmirror, SRDF and Hitachi Universal replicator.
Suggested improvements for NetApp storage systems for data availability.
Participated in understanding of implementation and productivity.
Good experience in Performance and capacity management
Experience on Cisco and Brocade switch Zoning Changes.
Infrastructure Build: Implemented Primary & DR environment by Storage & Backup Technologies.
Operation Management: Managed Datacenter Consist of HP Blade, EMC, HDS & NetApp Storage, Symantec, IBM Storage and Backup technologies, Brocade and Cisco Devices.
Perform Analysis, Planning, Designing and Implementation of Storage & Backup Solutions.
DataCenter Transformation, DataCenter Green field project implementation, Consolidation, DataCenter Migration and Cloud Implementations.
Build and administer Linux, Solaris and AIX environments.
Good experience in ITIL Process and 24x7 support environments
Extensively experienced with the performance tuning and planning for consolidation of storage.
Good analytical and problem solving skills. Ability to quickly adapt to new environments and learn new Technologies.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
Union Bank of Switzerland, NJ. April 2016 - Present
Sr. Storage Admin.
Responsibilities:
Primary responsibilities include Monitoring, coordinating and fixing the Global Storage Admins channel where 4 teams globally provide storage support, 24*7 to the customers.
Resolving issues that can possibly cause an outage to the production environment.
Setting up alerts on DFM (data fabric manager) for notifications on capacity and critical events.
Responsible for updating the Line manager about capacity issues.
Fixing snaplags and snapvault lags and making sure that data is replicated to the backup and DR arrays.
Worked on ONTAP upgrades to our very huge 40 PB of storage environment.
Configuring storage- created volumes, Qtrees, CIFS shares and NFS exports.
Migrating the volumes to different aggregates if the aggregates are filled up.
Thin and thick provisioning.
Working after business hours on specific tasks and changes when there is a down time required.
Decommissioned 40 old NetApp filers.
Creating CIFS shares, creating NFS exports and modifying the existing paths.
Coordinating with change management and working off hours for changes.
NETAPP filers FAS 6250 and FAS 6080 Installation and support
Day to day monitoring, maintaining and troubleshooting of NAS production environment.
On call support during critical situations.
Work Flow ticketing systems, Change management, Performance manager and Break fix issues follow up and support
Responsible for doing daily health checks throughout the environment.
Preparing Health check reports on a daily basis for reference.
Juniper Networks, CA Sep 2015 – Mar 2016
Storage Engineer
Responsibilities:
Employ exceptional management and technical skills in administering 6 PB of storage covering NetApp, Pure, Hitachi, HP, EMC and IBM storage arrays across Data Centers.
Analyze and manage Storage Area Network using Brocade and McData director class SAN switches across the Eleven Data Centers.
Parallel DR Test Activities.
Responsible for overall command and control of storage and backup related projects and production issues.
Responsible for administration of storage hardware and implementation of new equipment.
Responsible for coordination of upgrades to equipment. Perform steady state storage administration.
Experience with engineer, deploy and administer HP-3PAR arrays, performance analysis, migrations, replication, etc.
Configuration/upgrading/Hardware cabling and Administration of HP T400, T80, P10000 models and using HP StoreServ
Daily administration and maintenance on Celerra integrated and gateway models and VNX (file & block) level arrays.
Deployed DirectNFS on NFS volumes to improve and optimize Oracle database performance.
Storage provisioning on both VNX and Celerra by creating file systems, quotas; NFS exports; Configured CIFS server and created CIFS shares for Windows and Linux servers.
Involved in the migration of NS40 to NS700 and NS80 to VNX Series: data mover pre-migration checks, creating Virtual data mover and data mover failovers
Configured anonymous File Sharing on Isilon to connect clients to the cluster via SMB/NFS for Windows and UNIX operating environment using Smart Connect.
NETAPP filers FAS 3070, 6070 and FAS 6080 Installation and support.
LUN mapping/creation on NetApp devices, F/C Switch Configuration management.
Creating, Monitoring and Replication Strategies (Snapshot, SnapMirror).
Practical hands-on systems administration, expert in Hitachi Data Systems, Hitachi Command Suite, Hitachi Tuning Manager and Hitachi Dynamic Provisioning
IBM XIV storage management using GUI tool.
Creating and managing the Storage pools and Volume pools in XIV Storage.
Manage SAN & NAS capacity and performance using appropriate reporting & monitoring tools
EMC storage administrator designed configured and allocated storage on EMC Symmetrix/DMX/Clariion.
Administration of Hitachi AMS 2500, USP-V, VSP and HUS storage arrays by using Hitachi command suite7, Storage Navigator, Storage Navigator Modular2, Solution Enabler (SYMCLI) and SMC.
Managing Hitachi Dynamic provisioning pools
Virtualizations of AMS 1000, AMS 2500 and USP storage frames behind the USPV and VSP using Universal Volume Manager
TSM Policy domain, policy set management class and copy groups and configured Fiber Channel Switches such as Brocade and Mediate in the environment
DRM using Tivoli Storage Manager.
Sempra utilities, CA. May 2014 – Aug 2015
Storage Engineer
Responsibilities:
Analyze and manage 2200 port Storage Area Network using Brocade, Cisco, and McData director class SAN switches across the Eleven Data Centers.
Parallel DR Test Activities.
NETAPP filers FAS 3070, 6070 and FAS 6080 Installation and support.
Experience with engineer, deploy and administer HP-3PAR arrays, performance analysis, migrations, replication, etc.
Configuration/upgrading/Hardware cabling and Administration of HP T400, T80, P10000 models and using HP StoreServ
LUN mapping/creation on NetApp devices, F/C Switch Configuration management.
Creating, Monitoring and Replication Strategies (Snapshot, SnapMirror).
Practical hands-on systems administration, expert in Hitachi Data Systems, Hitachi Command Suite, Hitachi Tuning Manager and Hitachi Dynamic Provisioning
IBM XIV storage management using GUI tool.
Creating and managing the Storage pools and Volume pools in XIV Storage.
Manage SAN & NAS capacity and performance using appropriate reporting & monitoring tools
EMC storage administrator designed configured and allocated storage on EMC Symmetrix/DMX/Clariion.
Administration of Hitachi AMS 2500, USP-V, VSP and HUS storage arrays by using Hitachi command suite7, Storage Navigator, Storage Navigator Modular2, Solution Enabler (SYMCLI) and SMC.
Managing Hitachi Dynamic provisioning pools
Virtualizations of AMS 1000, AMS 2500 and USP storage frames behind the USPV and VSP using Universal Volume Manager
Symmetrix Storage provisioning: Create the Meta luns from the available hypers, Map the LUNs to FA ports, Check for available address list in the FA ports and Mask the LUNs to the host.
My day-to-day responsibilities include managing, maintaining, monitoring and troubleshooting various issues related to High availability SAN and NAS environment.
Physical installation, Configuration and maintenance of Cisco/Brocade SAN Switches with fiber cabling from EMC Frames through the various servers connected to SAN.
NAS Administration, NetApp filer installation, on tap upgrades, SnapMirror and quota, qtrees Administration.
Data center Migration support for NetApp, IBM attached hosts.
Administer and configure a virtual storage environment that utilizes IBM SVC with more than 200 hosts using approximately 500 TB of storage on highly redundant SVC clusters
Remote configuration and maintenance of EMC McData SAN Switches including Domain configuration, zoning etc.
RCA preparation and meeting SLA for RCA submission.
Sparkzen Technologies, IN Aug 2008 - Dec 2013
Storage Support Engineer
As a part of the Sparkzen Technologies Services team assigned to the Global accounts like NetApp. I am directly responsible for the Storage infrastructure implementation and support for the Network consisting of over 15000+ Windows/Storage/Solaris based Intel/NetApp FAS series/ IBM and EMC.
Responsibilities:
NET APPS filers FAS 6080, FAS 3070, FAS 2050 and FAS 270 Installation and support
LUN mapping/creation on NetApp devices, F/C Switch Configuration management.
Monitoring and Replication Strategies (Snapshot, SnapMirror).
Administration of Hitachi AMS 2500, USP-V, VSP and HUS storage arrays by using Hitachi command suite7, Storage Navigator, Storage Navigator Modular2, Solution Enabler (SYMCLI) and SMC.
Managing Hitachi Dynamic provisioning pools
Virtualizations of AMS 1000, AMS 2500 and USP storage frames behind the USPV and VSP using Universal Volume Manager
Data migration from DMX3000 to DMX-3 and data migration from CX600 to DMX-3
Executing prep work for host analysis and working with support matrix
Manage SAN & NAS capacity and performance using appropriate reporting & monitoring tools
Cisco 9506 / 9513 Director installation and configuration
Experience with Cisco fabric manager, Brocade zoning, storage allocation
Experience in creating zones and zone sets and fabric configuration
Supervise network monitoring standards, security, disaster/recovery, resource utilization and stability.
Work Flow ticketing systems, Change management, Performance manager and Break fix issues follow up and support.
NAS Administration, NetApp filer installation, on tap upgrades, SnapMirror and quota, qtrees Administration.
NET APPS filers FAS 3050, FAS 3070, FAS 2050 and FAS 940 Installation and support
LUN mapping/creation on NetApp devices, F/C Switch Configuration management.
Monitoring and Replication Strategies (Snapshot, SnapMirror).
Manage SAN & NAS capacity and performance using appropriate reporting & monitoring tools
IBM Shark and IBM FastT (DS4500) Installation and support.
Flash Copy, Snapshot and SnapMirror Installation and support
Work Flow ticketing systems, Change management, Performance manager and Break fix issues follow up and support
Experience with Connectrix Manager and data Fabric manager, Zoning, LUN allocation, Storage allocation to storage groups.
24/7 Support and On-call Support.
RCA preparation and meeting SLA for RCA submission.
Education: Bachelor’s in computer science. Nagarjuna University
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