Sr, Storage,Backup & Virtualization Specialist.

MOHAMMED IMTIYAZ UDDIN.

Email: *********@*****.*** Phone: 762-***-****

Summary:

** ***** ** ******** ** Infrastructure Architect experience.

Advanced working knowledge in areas of Storage Management that includes Designing, Implementing, and Supporting with different vendors (EMC- All Flash Storage Arrays like XtremeIO,VMAX3,VPLEX,RecoverPoint,VIPR,VMAX2,DMX,VNX 5600, Isilon, VNX – VG8, Recover Point, VPLEX, Hitachi - USP-VM, AMS,HNAS – Device Manager, IBM- DS8800, Storewise V7000,SVC,N-Series/Netapp – FAS 3200, Celerra and RPA).

Advanced experience in Virtualization techniques such as VMWARE- Vcenter, DCV, NSX, VDI

Advanced experience in Designing, implementing and support of backup tools like (EMC-Networker, Avamar, Data Domain EDD, IBM-TSM 5.X, 6.X, 7.X, ProctecTIER-7800.) Working experience Symantec-Veritas Net backup, HP-Data Protector).

Worked on different flavors of UNIX - Linux-RHEL, AIX, Solaris and HP-UX, Windows 2008 & 2012.

I have very good experience working with various SAN/NAS/DAS technologies such as VSAN, VLAN, ISL, IVR, and Path management Native path, Power Path.

I have a good understanding of various storage access protocols such as FC, FCOE, NFS, CIFS and iSCSI.

Also has experience with Cisco UCS servers servers and Cisco Nexus switches switches and Knowledge of IP routing, L2/L3 technologies and data center architectures.

Experience in managing VMFS,vMotion / Storage vMotion,DRS,vSphere High Availability & Clustering,vSphere Host Profiles,vSphere Update Manager,vSphere Thin Provisioning,vSphere Distributed Switch,vSphere PowerCLI,VMware P2V (Physical to Virtual) conversion,VMware-related SAN technologies:

Experience in managing performance and availability of mission critical applications, with a focus on virtualized environments. Replication and Data Protection with vRealize software.Experience with the cloud suite VMware modules and Solution Enablement Toolkits for Software Defined Data Center and Cloud Automation. (VRA, VRO, VROPS, Hyperic, SRM, VRB, VCM) .

Experience in managing VMware products such as VMware vSphere for Desktops (includes ESXi, VMware's hypervisor),VMware vCenter Server (management of virtualization environment),View Composer (advanced View management, with automation and cloning),View Manager (administration of the View Environment), View Client (communication between View and the desktop OS),VMware ThinApp (application virtualization),View Persona Management (user profile management)

Has experience with the evaluation, analysis and design of large-scale storage solutions, backup solutions and SAN in a mixed environment.

Ability to gather technical requirements and translate them into practical designs and platform requirements. Experience leading technical projects, including planning, documentation, and implementation.

Ability to meet deadlines and commitments in an environment that requires multitasking among multiple concurrent projects while also handling interrupts.

Solid understanding of network and system security principles and techniques

Ability to systematically troubleshoot problems in complex systems and network environments.

Excellent presentation, analytical, documentation and interpersonal communication skills.

As part of the IT service management companies, I was involved with most of the Storage venders (EMC, IBM, HP & Hitachi, and Netapp).

Technical Skills: Excellent experience in Architecture of VMAX3,VMAX2,DMX,VNX,ISILON,VNX – VG8,CLARiiON, IBM DS8800, N-Series, Hitachi USP,AMS.

Expertise in SAN/NAS/DAS Storage & Backup

Storage Systems - All Flash Storage Arrays like XtremeIO,VMAX3 XtremeIO, Isilon, VMAX3, VMAX2,DMX,RecoverPoint,VPLEX, DS 8800 and Storwize v7000, VNX,VNX – VG8, IBM- N-Series, NETAPP – FAS3X,Hitachi - USP-VM,HNAS – Device Manager, NUTANIX – With POC

Backup Systems - AVAMAR, DATADOMAIN, NETWORKER, DPA,BRM). IBM - TSM5.5,6.X,7.X, ProtecTIER, Tape Library 3584)

SAN - CISCO MDS, Brocade DCX Directors. Fiber Interconnect.

Storage& Backup Management Software

Unisphere for VNX, Unisphere for VMAX, VPLEX, RecoverPoint and VNX,Solutions Enabler (symcli), NaviCLI, SRDF, TimeFinder,, ViPR SRM, SMC, Snapview, MirrorView, SanCopy,

IBM Storage Manager – SSPC, SVM Controller, N- Series Management Console

Avamar Adminitrator,NMC,DD,TIP,ProtecTIER –

Fabric Manager, DCNM, Device Manager, Connectix Manager, Brocade Web console, UCS Manager.

Storage Migration Tools

Open Replicator, Open Migrator and Power Path Migration Enabler, Replication Manager Symigrate and Storage vMotion.

Operating Systems

Solaris 10, HP-UX 11i, Linux RedHat 5,6, AIX 6.x,7.X, VMWare - ESXi,, Windows 03/2008/2012 servers.

Virtualization

VMWARE 5.0,5.5,6 Vcenter, NSX, VDI, VCOPS, VRAS,

Education Qualification

Bachelors in Computer Science

Professional Certifications & Trainings:

EMC-VMAX2, VNX, ISILON SPECIALIST FOR STORAGE ADMINISTRATORS.

EMC-AVAMAR, DATADOMAIN, NETWORKER FOR BACKUP ADMINISTRATORS.

VCE – VBLOCK 300,500,700 Administration and Management.

VMWARE-VCP-5, NSX-6, CMA-6.

EMC-INFORMATION STORAGE MANAGEMENT (ISM).

SYMANTEC-DATA PROTECTION 6.5 FOR UNIX.

SUN-SOLARIS -10 CERTIFIED SYSTEM ADMINISTRATOR.

IBM-AIX CERITIFIED SYSTEM ADMINISTRATOR.

Certified training for IBM – Power-VM, Power-HA.

Certified training for Cisco Data Center Unified Computing Support Specialist @ FASTLANE

Certified training for Cisco Data Center Unified Computing Design Specialist @ FASTLANE

Certified training for IBM – LPAR,VIOS

Certified training for VERITAS SUITE [VERITAS Volume Manager, VERITAS Clusters, VERITAS NetBackup].

Certified training for LINUX – ADMINISTRATION.& HP - UX ADMINISTRATION.

Training for Oracle – DBA (9i & 10g).

Professional Experience

IHG, Alpharetta GA

March 2014 – Till date

Sr. Storage, Backup & Virtualization Specialist

Environment: Includes XTremeIO, VMAX3, VBLOCK 700, VNX, Replication Manager, NETWORKER, AVAMAR, DATADOMAIN, DPA, and BRM

Storage - All Flash Storage Arrays like XtremeIO,VMAX3, VBLOCK 700, VNX.

Backup - NETWORKER, AVAMAR, DATADOMAIN, DPA, BRM.

SAN - Brocade DCX Directors, MDC 540, Cisco MDS 9148S SAN Switch for Fibre Channel Interconnect

LAN - CISCO UCS M4 Blades, Fabric Interconnect, Cisco Nexus 5548 IP, and Nexus 3K IP management switches.

Virtualization - VMware VCenter 5.0, ESXi, VCOPS, NSX-POC,

Servers - Cisco UCS B200 M4, Advanced Management POD with dedicated 2 C220 Rack server

X- Treme IO design, implementation & Administration as per client requirement.

VPLEX management and health check.

Creating extends, devices, virtual volumes.

Creating distributed devices across clusters.

Managing clusters of Metro VPLEX environment.

Health check of clusters and checking device status.

Claiming storages and creating a devices.

Recoverpoint management includes claiming virtual volumes from vplex.

Performing replication of Recoverpoint metro.

Performing Recoverpoint splitters management.

Performing Recoverpoint jobs failures and re-sync.

Performing Recoverpoint health check and checking clusters.

Performing Recoverpoint health check on splitters.

Design and implement solution with AVAMAR, DATADOMAIN, Networker

Designed to use existing Fabric Interconnect as a SAN Switch to performed zoning between X-TremeIO and Fabric Interconnect.

Installation of M4 blades in to existing CISCO – Chassis.

Implementation of 3 – M4 Blades to use in High performance cluster.

Configuration of zoning between Fabric Interconnect and X-IO.

Configuration of new Service profiles for High performance cluster.

Mounting Flash storage in existing Vcenter server then performing Vmotion for migration of Critical applications.

Configuration of VDAP image base backup for whole HPC – Cluster using AVAMAR & DATADOMAIN.

Generation of Daily Backup reports to management from DPA.

Generation of Charge Backup reports to Management from DPA.

BRM integration with AVAMAR, DATADOMAIN, Networker.

Maintain smooth operation of multi-user computer systems, including coordination with network engineers.

Monitor and manage system resources, including CPU usage, disk usage, and response times to maintain operating efficiency.

Perform systems security administration functions, including creating user profiles and accounts.

Interact with users and evaluates vendor products. Coordinates with installations WAS, WEBLOGIC,MQ Broker Teams.

Develop and monitor policies and standards for allocation related to the use of computing resources.

Responsibility for the management of the systems administration function.

Performing maintaining of system documentation, tuning system performance, installing system wide software and allocating mass storage space

We have issues with TEST & DEV environment because our storage environment is exhausted due to capacity issues.

So, Instead of using VMAX3 we have moved TEST & DEV of 200TB to New VNX 5600 storage.

Design and implementation of new storage for TEST & DEV Cluster.

Design and implementation of New Vcenter for TEST & DEV Cluster.

Implementation of New VLANs & Dedicated VLANs for TDC Cluster.

Migration of existing server from VMAX2 to VNX using VMWARE Vmotion.

Also includes installation & Design of New CISCO UCS chassis which includes 7 M3 blades. It gives us capacity for 150Server per blade.

Creating of Storage Pools, hosts, SAN Boot LUN’, DATA LUN’s.

Performing zoning with UCS – Fabric Interconnect.

Configuration of VDAP image base backup for whole HPC – Cluster using AVAMAR & DATADOMAIN.

Understanding the challenges of VDI – Cluster.

Understanding the challenges of golden images of VDI.

Understanding the challenges of roaming profiles.

Working with VCE – Vendor for deduplication issues of VDI clusters.

Design of LCS. Working on LCS as per requirement and challenges.

Configration of VLANs for X-app & X- DKP clusters.

Working with VCE -Team for during the time of implementation.

Working with VCE – Team for performing testing of VDC – Cluster.

Administration of VBLOCK Systems which includes.

Vcenter 6.0, ESXi hosts, CISCO Fabric Interconnect, CISCO – UCS Chasis,

Managing X-IO Storage, MDC – Switches.

Managing NEXUS -5K & 3K for VDI – Solution.

Managing AMP – Management Cluster which contains all management servers of VBLOCK System.

Perform Cold Migration of VDI Server from VMAX2 to VBLOCK – XIO.

Managing of Zoning for Fabric Interconnect.

Working on VBLOCK – VISION Management solution.

Configuration of VDAP image base backup for whole HPC – Cluster using AVAMAR & DATADOMAIN.

July 2010 – February 2014

Client : Citizens Bank, Rhode Island

Role : Storage, Backup & Virtualization – Specialist.

Environment: Includes VMAX2, VPLEX, VNX – VG8, IBM DS8008, Storewise V7000, IBM N-Series, AVAMAR, and DATADOMAIN.

Storage - VMAX2, ISILON, VNX-VG8, IBM DS8008, Storewise V7000, IBM N-Series,

Backup - AVAMAR DATADOMAIN.NETWORKER.

SAN - Brocade DCX Directors,

LAN – CISCO UCS M3 Blades. Fabric Interconnect, Nexus Switches.

OS – AIX, Windows, Linux.

Virtualization - VMware VCenter 5.0, ESXi

Management of Networker servers for long time data by using ISILON. This need required by PCI industry.

Work with account team on customer requirements and project implementations.

Planning and implementation of storage migration from VMAX to VPLEX.

Design customer production projects and assist with installations.

Configure FAST policies and storage tiers for EFD, FC and SATA technologies.

Configure and upgrading storage disk capacity using Unisphere and SYMCLI

Installing and configuring new SAN port blades in Brocade DCX8510 and configure LSANs.

Customize storage and performance reports using EMC ViPR SRM as per customer requirements.

Planning and implementation of migrations from IBM hardware to EMC VMAX

Work with account team on customer requirements and project implementations.

Installation and Configuring EMC VMAX20K and CISCO MDS

Migrating data using SRDF, PPME, Open Replicator and Open Migrator.

Configuring FAST policies and storage tiers for EFD, FC and SATA technologies.

Installing & configure, various HBAs and PowerPath.

Creating Thin/data devices and binding to respective pools using Unisphere and SYMCLI

Creating zones using various HBA, Storage array WWN and FA directors

Creating auto provisioning group and assigned required thin devices.

Configuring SRDF Replications on production servers to maintain business continuity.

Prepare SRDF operational automated scripts for quarterly DR test

Creating Time Finder Cones on R2 devices and activating for development servers in DR.

Capacity planning, recommendations and disk upgrades as per customer requirements.

Monitoring EMC Storage on SRM, Unisphere, working on hardware failures.

Storage Administration for EMC Symmetrix ( DMX and VMAX ), VNX and Clariion ( CX, CX3 and CX4 )

Maintaining Business continuity of VMAX and DMX using SRDF and Time Finder/Clones for customers.

Thin Provisioning and creating auto provisioning groups in V-MAX storage.

Storage provisioning to hosts and troubleshooting SAN related issues.

Handling customer cases involving UNIX, windows and EMC storages.

Designing and implementing business continuity solutions for windows and UNIX systems.

Creating best practices for meta devices creation and expanding meta devices on customer requests Concatenated and stripped).

Provide Customers with END to END solutions involving Brocade/Cisco SAN, EMC Storages and UNIX hosts (AIX and Solaris).

Raise emergency change requests as per requirements and taking active lead role in system outages

SAN administration, involving zoning and configuration management in Brocade, Cisco and McData switches and directors.

Flare Code upgrade of Clariion Storages, installing new DAEs and preparing for microcode upgrades for VMAX

Implementing and managing Symmetrix Time Finder Clones for Critical production Volumes.

Configuring SRDF/A, S between DMX arrays for business continuity.

Implemented bash script to automate cloning BCVs and SRDF splits and DR test.

Involved in creating project based documentation whenever required.

Storage provisioning to hosts and troubleshooting SAN related issues.

Thin Provisioning and creating auto provisioning groups in V-MAX storage.

Designing and implementing business continuity solutions for windows and UNIX systems.

Creating best practices for meta devices creation and expanding meta devices on customer requests (Concatenated and stripped).

Provide Customers with END to END solutions involving Brocade/Cisco SAN, EMC Storages

Taking part in bridge calls involving critical customer cases.

Coordinating with other teams to handle customer issues (IM and CMs).

SAN Storage Administration, zoning configuration in Brocade, Cisco and McData switches and directors.

Flare Code upgrade of Clariion Storages and preparing for microcode upgrades for VMAX.

Implementing and managing Symmetrix Time Finder Clones for Critical production Volumes.

Configuring Time Finder and SRDF replications between DMX arrays for business continuity.

Prepared run book and technical documents in creating project based documentation whenever required.

Planning and implementation of migrations from older EMC hardware to DMX and VMAX.

Experience for the implementation of backup infrastructure devices, NB master server, NB media servers, Data Domain Disk, Tape Drive & Tape silo infrastructure.

Experience with activities such as backup/restore process for this infrastructure to ensure the highest level of availability.

Experience with multiple infrastructure as it relates to support, develop policies, identify operational usages patterns as it relates to performance, provides improvements to SLAs, participates in RCA reviews, monitors backup/restore activity, generates operational reports, manages storage capacity as it relates to backup images, assists with operational documentation, meets audit and compliance policies, implements global standards, applied supported software/firmware versions, and the on boarding of the backup devices into this environment.

Deploy and decommission Netbackup Infrastructure devices.

Net Backup migration on to DPS Suite.

On-board new storage devices into Data Centers and remote offices throughout the globe.

Perform Data Domain and Tape Library hardware firmware upgrades.

Perform Netbackup Installs & upgrades.

Support multiple operational and infrastructure related backup projects.

Perform in-depth analysis and problem determination/resolution such as...

NetBackup Master, Media and client server failures/management

IBM Tape silos, Tape drives and media management

Create, modify reports related to our NB master, NB media & NB client, OpsCenter servers, this also includes Data Domain, and tape infrastructure used within backup infrastructure environments.

Create, modify and publish process & procedural documents that our team can leverage to support the Backup Infrastructure globally.

Ensure that all Backup Infrastructure deployed into our global environment meet or excide the Audit, Risk, Governess, Disaster Recovery & Security requirements documented by policy.

Implement standard configuration of the Backup Infrastructure to ensure consistency and supportability globally.

Process Flow and Log Analysis for NB Master, NB Media, NB Client, SAN zoning for tape drives, SAN Disk for NB catalog, Tape Silos, Tape Drives, media pools, and firmware/software versions for these devices.

June 2006 - June 2010

Client – SABIC, Houston

Role – Storage & Backup Administrator

Storage - Hitachi USP to EMC VMAX20K, VNX – VG8,

Backup - IBM TSM 5.5 with Physical Automatic Tape Library IBM3584 & HP – Data protector

SAN - Brocade DCX Directors, MDC 540

OS – AIX, Windows, Linux

My Role in Project: I was working with EMC – Design Team, Implementation also with our team it includes 5 Team Members. Our team is responsible for migration of all production system from Hitachi – USP to EMC – VMAX20K. My main role in this project to co-ordinate with EMC to proceed with Configure, Manage, and Administrate & Migrate Storage Environments.

Installation, implementation of VMAX & VNX-VG8 and migration from Hitachi-USP &AMS to EMC-Storage Solution.

Implementation of Thin pools of EFD, FC, SATA and creating a TDATA & TDEV pools.

Working with Open Replicator, Replication Manager.

Working with Storage Tiering (FAST & FAST VP).

Working with Unisphere for VMAX, EMC Symmetrix CLI (Solutions Enabler).

Configuration of BCV’s, Time Finder Clones, SRDF/A with 800mb/s DR Replication.

Performed Storage Migration with Hot Pools configuration of Storage pools, RAID Pools.

Implementation of with EMC-Support BIN File setting of the symmetrix port flags.

Configuration of Initiator group, Port group Storage groups, Raid groups.

Configuration of Symmetrix devices, Gate Keeper devices, Vault devices.

Configuration of Hypers, standard devices with SYMCLI v-7.5.

Configuration of SNAP, lun management, metaluns, lun mapping and masking.

Working with Symmetrix Performance Analyzer, Storage Scope.

Installation of EMC-Grub utilities.

Installation of Power path, Emcgrab on host, analyzed heat reports against the Emc Support Matrix.

Provisioning SAN Based storage & NAS based Storage to Windows-Farm, PowerVM-Farm, and VMware-Farm.

Providing NFS – Shares for VMware –Datastores.

Protecting those VMware Datastores with Replication Manager.

Keeping data for 30 days then 7 – days due to pool.

Migration of Application Servers on VMAX storage like TSM, MS-SQL Cluster Farm, Exchange

Servers, Banking Application Servers, DRC- Farm.

Integration of New hosts with Storage by Installation, Configuration, Management of Power path,

HBA, Zoning, Mapping, Masking, Local Replication.

Working with EMC Time finder and SRDF environments.

Proficient in BCV sync / split processes and RDF1 / RDF2 sync / split. Working in issues like SRDF/A Performance, Host related to storage, Time Finder, Power path.

Performing Zoning, Switch Management, Brocade Directors, port management.

Performing zoning from Hitachi – Storage to IBM ProtecTIER (VTIL) then from TSM – 6.3 Windows Servers.

Management of 3 TSM Servers which are connected to 4 – Physical Tape libraries and 2 Virtual Tape libraries.

Performing partition between LTO2 & LTO5 in single IBM 3584 library. Performing SNAP Based backups.

Performing VNX – VG8 NDMP Dump Backups of all volumes Performing Audit on TSM Servers & Tape Libraries.

Allocation of Storage to IBM PowerVM Farm from different Storage Arrays like ( Hitachi AMS,USP & IBM DS8800 to IBM SAN Volume Controller ( SVC).

Performing Tape Rotation between MDC to DRC Environment. Implementation,installation,Management & Administration of TSM Servers Windows & AIX followed by 4 Physical Tape libraries & 2 Virtual Tape Libraries.

TSMServers– Configurations, Management, Administration.

TSM Tape Libraries– Configurations, Management, Administration.

TSM Client - Configurations, Management, Administration.

N-Series NDMP Backups Configurations.

TSM – Tape Inventory Management. TSM – MDC to DRC Tape Rotations.

TSM Servers– Configurations, Management, Administration.

TSM Tape Libraries– Configurations, Management, Administration.

TSM Client - Configurations, Management, Administration

TSM – Client -Database such as (TDP for oracle (AIX, Windows), TDP SQL

TSM – E-mail Client such as (TDP for Exchange Configuration).

Administration and management of HDS USP &AMS Working with Lun LUN provisioning.

Extent pools, OPEN-V, Shadow Image, True Copy, HORCM Configuration.

HTnM, HDvM, HTsM, storage Navigator, HDLM,HGLM, Hitachi command suit 7,

Managing Replications, HORCM, True copy, COW, HUR.

Hitachi True Copy and Hitachi Universal Replicator for BCP/DR operation.

Hitachi Tuning Manager to troubleshoot performance related issues.

Good working experience on Hitachi Device Manager.

Installation & configuration of HP Data Protector (backup s/w).

SAP/Oracle/SQL/Exchange/VMware/NDMP Integration with HP Data Protector.

Backup/restoration of Unix/Windows Host

Backup/Restore for SAP/Oracle/SQL/Exchange Database, VMware/NDMP

Configuring/Managing & Troubleshooting Disk Based Backup with HP Data Protector.

Managing Internal Database of HP Data protector.

Managing & Troubleshooting Virtual Tape Library

Managing & Troubleshooting High End and Midrange Tape Libraries

Knowledge of D2D replication

License Management on HP Data Protector

Comfortable in opening case with HP and driving them to closure.

Liaise and work with hardware/software vendors and project groups asrequired.

Analyze and resolve escalated problems within target. Trouble shooting

Backup related problems and alerts monitoring

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