Manager Engineer
Resume:
SALMAN MALIK
**************@*****.***
US Citizen
SYSTEM ADMINISTRATOR
Objective
To secure a position in a field that leverages my existing experience, as well as help to build new skills, as to be useful to my employer. Ultimately, find a position in a company that allows upward mobility.
7+ Years of industry experience in planning, implementing and supporting various IT infrastructure projects with diverse technical background in Enterprise Servers, Virtualizations, Networking, Storage configuration and Data Center consolidation. Managed multiple projects simultaneously with high efficiency in very tight time schedules. Excellent verbal and written communication skills. Highly motivated, diligent, honest, conceptually strong team player with ability to take new roles.
SKILLS:
Storage:
EMC VNX 5100, 5300, 7500, EMC Clarriion, EMC VMAX 10k/20k/40k, NetApp 7 mode, FAS6240, FAS6040, FAS 3210, CDOT, FAS2720, FAS8300, FAS8700, DELL Compellent Storage Solutions SC 8000, SC280, SC200, SC420, SC5000, SAN/NAS Disk Array systems (NetApp, EMC, HITACHI, IBM), Brocade, NetApp Cluster Data OnTap (C-Dot), 7-Mode, Operations Manager DFM, OnCommand, SnapManager, SnapDrive, DataMotion and SnapProtect, Navisphere management software (Navisphere/NaviCLI), Symmetrix Management, VCM, Console/SYMCLI, FC and iSCSI, Linux LVM, VIO disk mapping, multipathing, Blue Arc. ASM disks creation for Oracle RAC with Raw disks on VMware.
Virtualization:
VMware ESXi 3/4/5. VMware Converter, VMware View
Microsoft:
Windows Server (2003, 2008, 2012, 2016), Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows XP
Linux:
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.x/5.x/6.x, SUSE 10.3/11.1
Hardware:
HP BL460C, BL 620’s, BL 680’s C-7000, iLO, OA, VCEM. CISCO UCS 5108, B200’s B250’s
Racks and Cabling:
Installation of Hardware HP, UCS Enclosures, EMC VMAX, VNX, Cable Management.
VMWARE:
VSphere, VMware View 4/5.0, VMware ESX 3, 3.5 and 4.1/4.0, 5.0, Virtual Center server 2.5,4.0 and 5.0, VMware converter enterprise, VMware Update Manager, HA, DRS, DPM, vMotion and Storage vMotion, VMware ESXI server and SRM.
Network Servers:
DNS, DHCP, NIS, NFS, CIFS, iSCSI/SAN, Unix, Linux, Windows
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Entergy Services INC Remote [Mar 2020 – present]
Systems Specialist – Storage Admin
Experience with Storage Configuration, Task Scheduling and Operational Maintenance
Experience with Cluster Data ONTAP 8.2 or higher version
Involved with team in Planning, Preparation & Implementation of Data ONTAP Upgrade 9.5
Daily responsibilities Storage Provisioning, storage hardware support.
Storage Software/Firmware Support
NAS Storage Operations and NAS File System Administration
Manage and monitor all methods of access and access protocols (e.g. CIFS, NFS, SMB, etc.) to enable file servers and NAS file sharing.
Storage Data Replication and Mirroring Services
External / Offsite Storage Media Management
SAN Infrastructure Operations and Administration
Experience with standing up new controllers in an existing NetApp Cluster
Storage technology services including services for the all Disk Storage subsystems (SAN attached, NAS, unified storage, iSCSI, CAS, flash storage, object storage, direct attached, etc.), automatic and manual tape, virtual tape, optical disk, storage virtualization technologies, SAN switches.
Storage connectivity such as Power-path, Multi-Path IO (“MPIO”) and iSCSI
Worked on NAS systems and file shares
Storage software and firmware lifecycle management, upgrades, patches and evolution
Updated Software / firmware license management
Experienced with OCUM OnCommand Unified Manager, in terms of configuration, different protocols NFS, CIFS, ISCIS.
Vastly used OCUM in terms of monitoring Clusters, nodes, SVM, aggregates, volumes, qtree, Luns.
Also used Active IQ which has been replaced for OCUM to monitor Capacity planning, performance issues, snap-mirror protection, and event alerts as well.
Worked on DQP, Disk Shelves, Disk, ACP Firmware Upgrade
Involved in Capacity Planning Trend for NetApp Aggregates based on current growth rate
Configure and worked on Fixing NFS Mount issue.
Experience with Creation & Deletion of Volume using OCUM and CLI, Provisioned NTFS and UNIX type volume, worked on Windows CIFS Share, UNIX NFS Export, Data Stores and Logical Interfaces
Addition of new disk shelves on an existing NetApp Cluster
Hands on experience with Snapmirror & Snapvault, troubleshooting snapmirror lag issues.
Setting up new NetApp SAN Storage using FC & ISCSI Protocols
Experience working with OnCommand Insight (OCI).
Troubleshooting skills at higher level for OnCommand Insight (OCI)
Worked on creating and mounting LUNS, even performed volume move to keep aggregate balance.
Engineered and migrated 400+ Windows/Linux Servers from physical to virtual (P2V) migration and Virtual to Virtual (V2V) migration using Platespin and VMware converter 4.3/5.0 as part of a refresh project to consolidate the entire legacy windows environment.
Document and develop runbooks for the entire P2V migration project as wll as coordinate with onsite support to maintain a smooth transition.
Experienced in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5/6, SUSE 10/11, Windows server 2003/2008/2012, VMware ESXi 3/4/5 Systems Administrator.
Expertise in deploying various Red Hat Enterprise Linux/SUSE builds both Physical and Virtual on HP/CISCO/Dell Hardware running ESXi utilizing Satellite/Kick start and Puppet servers.
Experience with deploying SUSE/Red Hat 5/6.5/6.6 Linux using Kickstart.
Experience in RHEL/SUSE server provisioning, upgrades, patching, configuration and performance Tuning in Linux, and VMware environments.
Administrating and troubleshooting Red Hat Cluster Suites.
Expertise in upgrading large enterprise level SUSE 10 environments to SUSE 11 and upgrading RHEL 6.5 to RHEL 6.6.
GE General Electric Remote [AUG 2017 – Jan 30 2020]
STORAGE ENGINEER
Engineer, administer and support an entire refresh project to migrate from legacy storage solutions to NetApp NAS storage solutions.
Create documents from scratch and build SOP to make transitions smooth.
Migrate legacy filers to Brand new NetApp Filers running cDOT 8.x/9.x and Isilon from GEN4 to GEN5 and Gen6 by working through maintenance windows, scheduling downtimes and working with server owners to consolidate and migrate all legacy filers.
Recently worked with 9.5P8 version of NetApp ON TAP.
Managing daily operations including NetApp Storage solutions Cluster Data OnTap cDot, Mode, 7-Mode, installation and configuration.
Configure NetApp Cluster Data OnTap C-Dot, 7-Mode, solidfire, Operations Manager DFM, OnCommand, SnapManager, SnapDrive, Data Motion and SnapProtect, Snap Restore.
Working with application/Virtualization/OS server teams to schedule maintenance windows to ensure smooth migration from 7-Mode to Cluster Data OnTap (cDOT)
Migrate the entire multi array NetApp solution from 7-Mode to NetApp Cluster Data OnTap cDot.
Configure and maintain Data ONTAP 7/8/8.1/8.2/8.3 as part of new implementation projects.
Migrate Data from legacy frames using, SnapMirror, Rsync, RoboCopy, 7 MTT, and Storage X.
Experience with OnCommand Workflow Automation to automate storage management tasks such as provisioning, migration, and cloning.
Also experience with Workflow Automation (WFA) to build workflows for tasks specified by your processes.
Knowledge Raising support cases for alerts received by the SolidFire monitoring system or direct requests from customers.
Troubleshoot incidents can range from various hardware and/or software issues with SolidFire storage systems and solutions, to multi-system, multi-vendor, and multi-network interoperability issues.
Technical troubleshooting of customer environments and the SolidFire product, used Cloud insight as a data collector tool.
Build, configure and deploy VMs and templates. Completed Physical-to-Virtual (P2V), Virtual-to-Virtual (V2V) and Virtual-to-Physical (V2P) migration of Windows NT, 2000, 2003, 2008, and 2012 as well as Linux servers from VMware, Hyper-V, Xen and legacy hardware.
Customize layer 2 and layer 3 networking between VMware, networking components and storage for high availability and maximum performance.
Storage allocation to new build and existing UNIX, Windows servers/clusters and VMWare ESX environment using auto provisioning on V-max using SYMCLI/SMC. Tasks include creation of tdevs, binding tdevs to thin pools, creation of initiator/storage/port groups and creating masking view and enabling bit settings to initiators.
Provisioning storage to UNIX, Windows and ESX servers from DMX4/DMX3 arrays using SYMCLI/SMC
Provisioning storage to ESXi Hosts, ESXi cluster from Dell Compellent Storage & VNX.
Configuration and management of Cisco Fabric environment. Tasks include creation of device alias, zones, adding zones to zoneset and activating zoneset.
Implemented thin provisioning from VMAX to UNIX (AIX, Solaris and Linux) and Windows2003/2008 (clusters) servers, and VMware ESX Servers.
Migration experience with VNX to Unity Block and file storage using SAN Copy.
Migration tools i have used are Datadobi, EMCopy, Robocopy, rsync.
Experience with VMware storage vMotion.
Was involved in a migrating Celerra File Data to Isilon.
Responsible in Configuring/Joining nodes in Isilon cluster, and involved in Configuring NFS, SMB shares on Isilon using Smart Connect. Adding New Isilon clusters to domain and configuring them.
Added 18 new nodes to existing cluster NL400.
Experience with OneFS 8.1.2.0 used heavily to create policy.
Configured SmartZone Pools, Access Zones, NFS/SMB Exports, SmartPools, SmartQuotas and SyncIQ
Worked on snapshotIQ, with instant recovery, and data protection is very much realible.
Used InsightIQ for reporting and gathering performance statistics.
Create various Cisco UCS service profile templates and service profile based on the requirements for VMware ESXi v4/5, RHEL 5/6 and Windows 2008 R2 Deployment.
Provide 24/7 support to Middleware application servers ( Weblogic, Tomcat, Oracle ), Webservers ( Apache, IIS, Oracle IPlanet ) and Database servers ( Oracle RAC, DB2, MS SQL, MYSQL ).
Expertise in upgrading of ESXi 4.1 to ESXi 5.0 hosts, vCenter 4 to 5, as well as upgrading 1800+ VM’s from Virtual machine hardware 7 to 8 as part of a major enterprise upgrade.
Expertise in the area of Virtualization with Installation, Configuration and Admonition of VMware ESX 4.0, VMware ESXi 4.1.1, vSphere 5 servers, and vCenter Server 5.
Provide support to web team (middleware) build UNIX servers for web team install Java/repliweb work with web team side by side to help them install the application.
Hand over 200 project yearly. Work with customer to fulfill there request.
Experience in Dell Unity NAS and Block Storage.
Administered VPLEX using Unisphere, VPLEX GUI and encapsulated LUNS to bring environment under VPLEX.
Experience with EMC VMAX3/VNX/Unity storage allocation/replication/migration/SRDF/SRDF-Metro/SnapVX, CloudIQ/troubleshooting.
Worked on Compellent models, SC420 version 6.8.7, SC5020.
Experience with Data Migration from Dell PS Series or PowerVault MD3 to Dell EMC SC Series 5020 Storage using Thin Import.
Troubleshooting and working with Dell EMC for any hosts impacted with lost storage and performance issued during and after the version upgrade for SC5020 and SC8000.
Administered a SAN environment comprising of EMC VMAX/VNX/CX and Dell Compellent Arrays.
Allocation of storage by creating volumes, presenting the volumes to the server using Compellent Enterprise Manager.
Experience with NetApp MetroCluster
Experience with Metrocluster which provides availability and nondisruptive operations, on ONTAP software.
Performed Data center migration using Vplex.
Worked on thin Provisioning for VMAX storage array by creating TDEVs, adding TDEVs to thin pool and binding TDEVs to thin pool utilizing EMC Unity.
Created data devs, thin pools, tdevs, Meta volumes using SMC and Symcli
Configuration and management of VNX arrays using Unisphere Manager. Assigned storage to unix and windows servers and configuration of NFS exports and CIFS shares using Unisphere manager
Troubleshooting routine critical issues including threshold optimization, server throughput, ports availability, meeting zoning requirements, one-path down, enabling the path on source or destination arrays, data not migrated, host not seeing storage and storage management problems.
Administration of FAS6000 systems including creation of file systems, exporting and mounting CIFS/NFS shares using FilerView.
Experience in implementation and troubleshooting of SAP HANA Environment with NetApp AFF, SnapCenter, SnapCreator and SVM DR technologies.
Commvault backup experience.
Migrated data successfully from CX600/CX700 to CX4-240 using Mirror View/S and SAN Copy and CX600/CX700 to DMX-3 to DMX-4 using Open Replicator /Open Migrator.
Installed and configured Power Path for AIX / Solaris /HP and Windows Operating Systems to support the load balancing and failover features among the HBAs on the system and also installed Symcli software.
Production support of NetBackup (Version 5.1, 6.0, 6.5, 7.0, 7.1, 7.5) domain across country.
Verizon Remote [Feburary 2017 – Aug 2017]
NetApp Storage Systems ENGINEER
Administration and reconfiguration of SAN infrastructure running Cisco switches (pair of 9148 & 9506) and NetApp Filer SAN/NAS (20 filers; 3020, 3070, 3170, 3210, 3270) across 5 international sites.
File services are/were migrated to the NetApp Filer and deduplicated. This is to turn down and consolidate file services from active-passive windows clusters as well as standalone file servers.
Managing backup policies and volume pools for daily, weekly and monthly backups
Assigned storage from DMX 1000/2000 using ECC and SYMCLI.
Assisted the system administrators to Install, configure and upgrade HBA driver and firmware on UNIX and Windows environment.
Configured management server to use SMC, Solutions Enabler and SPA to provision storage, troubleshoot and other tasks.
Administer Unix/Linux and Windows Servers throughout the enterprise
Installed operated and maintained multiple platforms, 540 servers with 24/7 service, ensuring 100% uptime to promote company productivity and efficiency.
Provisioned SAN storage from DMX & CX arrays to UNIX & Windows systems.
Involved in decommissioning number of Symmetrix 8830/8730 frames. And also migrating data to a new DMX 3000 using SRDF.
Configure, maintain and grow NFS, CIFS file systems as part day to day operations.
Worked with Multi-protocol access is supported by NFS and SMB/CIFS for files and iSCSi for block
Monitor replication status ONTAP systems running in AWS, AZURE and GCP.
Experience with deploying Cloud manager in Azure, to create and maintain Cloud volumes ONTAP in AZURE.
Configured, administered and troubleshot the Power Path software.
Create/dissolve Meta Volumes, change device configuration and map/unmap devices to FA ports as and when required.
Was involved in migrating data from CX 500 to CX 700 using SAN copy.
Allocated storage from CX600/CX700 using NaviSphere Manager.
Managing HDS VSP, USP, USPV/VM, and Implementation of AMS2000 series
storage systems in multiple Datacenters.
Implemented Hitachi Universal Replicator in USP, USPV/VM and VSP storages across the Datacenters for open systems.
Generate Custom reports for volume utilizarion, quota report.
Configuring and troubleshooting Storage based Snapshot and Shadow Image replications.
Creation of Parity Groups from HDS Service Processor. Performed using maintenance mode of SVP in VSP, USPV/VM storages.
Work with Hitachi Tuning manager for identifying the underlying the issues in SAN. LUN publishing, expansion and shredding across Datacenters.
Assigned storage from DMX 1000/2000 using ECC and SYMCLI.
Assisted the system administrators to Install, configure and upgrade HBA driver and firmware on UNIX and Windows environment.
Experience with Commvault, snap vault.
Configured, administered and troubleshot the Power Path software.
Create/dissolve Meta Volumes, change device configuration and map/unmap devices to FA ports as and when required.
Created SRDF devices using SYMCLI, device groups and added devices to the device groups. Also, worked on disaster recovery operations such as failover, failback and update.
Experience with using the SVC to migrate to the XIV.
Strong IBM storage infrastructure and performance troubleshooting methodologies
Hands on experience in fabric expansion of Brocade 3900 to include additional servers.
Experienced with Citrix VDI which is used as secure terminal by lot of companies to protect their data.
Worked on Citrix as a remote user, provide technical guidance to operations and work together with other global engineering teams.
Performs related duties as assigned and maintains software versions management controls as requested.
GE General Electric (Milwaukee, WI)/Remote [July 2015 – December 2016]
NetApp NAS Migration Engineer
Engineer, administer and support an entire refresh project to migrate from legacy storage solutions to NetApp NAS storage solutions.
Create documents from scratch and build SOP to make transitions smooth.
Migrate legacy filers to Brand new NetApp Filers running cDOT 8.1/8.2/8.3 by working through maintenance windows, scheduling downtimes and working with server owners to consolidate and migrate all legacy filers.
Managing daily operations including NetApp Storage solutions Cluster Data OnTap cDot, Mode, 7-Mode, installation and configuration.
Configure NetApp Cluster Data OnTap C-Dot, 7-Mode, Operations Manager DFM, OnCommand, SnapManager, SnapDrive, Data Motion and SnapProtect.
Working with application/Virtualization/OS server teams to schedule maintenance windows to ensure smooth migration from 7-Mode to Cluster Data OnTap (cDOT)
Migrate the entire multi array NetApp solution from 7-Mode to NetApp Cluster Data OnTap cDot.
Configure and maintain Data ONTAP 7/8/8.1/8.2/8.3 as part of new implementation projects.
Migrate Data from legacy frames using, SnapMirror, Rsync, RoboCopy, 7 MTT, and Storage X.
Trouble shoot on day to day basis on the issues with windows, cDOT, 7-Mode frame and tools used to move data.
Worked on UNIX servers during cutover activity involving mounting and unmount.
Teams coordination and involvement for a relevant site.
PNC, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania [May 2013 – June 2015]
Sr. NetApp/EMC Storage Systems Engineer
Complete Hardware and Software builds for new server deployments, ensuring adherence to documented build procedures.
Installed and maintained NetApp FAS 6240’s, 6080’s, 3270’s NAS/SAN Solutions running a combination of 7-mode and Cluster Data OnTap (cDOT) and CISCO MDS Switches for LUN masking and Zoning to VMware ESXi 5.0/5.1/5.5, RHEL 5/6, Windows Server 2003/2008/2012 server
Engineer, administer and support an entire refresh project to migrate from legacy storage solutions to NetApp NAS/SAN, EMC and Hitachi storage solutions.
Supported other systems administrators in troubleshooting SAN issues such as initial storage configuration, path and storage failures
Installation of ESXi 4.1/5/5.1/5.5 Hosts, vCenter Server, vCenter update manager and administering VM’s across 6 Datacenters running 4000+ VM’s in a FlexPod/VBLOCK environment.
Architecture, design, install, configure VMware ESX, ESXi, within VI3, vSphere 4 and vSphere 5 environments with Virtual Center management, Lab Manager, vCloud Director, Consolidated Backup, DRS, HA, DPM, vMotion, VMware Data Recovery, VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM), vCenter Operations Manager, Horizon Workspace, Horizon Mirage, ThinApp and VMware View desktop virtualization infrastructure (VDI).
Perform VMware Horizon View upgrades for companies already using VMware Horizon View.
Help design, install and manage a customer’s VMware Horizon View Virtual Desktop Infrastructure.
Implemented SRDF/A on V-Max/DMX for disaster recovery setup between local and remote datacenters
End to End deployment and configuration of new VBLOCK’s/UCS chassis as part of new implementation projects.
Migrated Unix and windows servers using Open replicator and SRDF (array based) and Open Migrator/LVM Mirroring (Host based) to migrate the data from DMX-3/DMX-4 to V-Max storage systems.
Experience with monitoring of Vblock resources that comprised of domains, and chassis using UCS Central v1.2 and UCS Director 5.1.
Design, construct and implement a decommission strategy for consolidating Data Centers from around the world to two centralized locations in US which involves 6000+ servers of various Windows Server 2003/2008/2012 versions.
Managed multiple NetApp 3240’s, 6240’s SAN/NAS devices which provided storage for the virtual infrastructure
Migrate legacy filers to Brand new NetApp Filers running cDOT 8.1/8.2 by working through maintenance windows, scheduling downtimes and working with server owners to consolidate and migrate all legacy filers.
Managing daily operations including NetApp Storage solutions Cluster Data OnTap (v8 cDot)-Mode, 7-Mode, installation and configuration
Configure NetApp Cluster Data OnTap (v8 C-Dot), 7-Mode, Operations Manager DFM, OnCommand, SnapManager, SnapDrive, Data Motion and SnapProtect.
Working with application/Virtualization/OS server teams to schedule maintenance windows to ensure smooth migration from 7-Mode to Cluster Data OnTap (cDOT)
Migrate the entire multi array NetApp solution from 7-Mode to NetApp Cluster Data OnTap (v8 cDot) as a companywide upgrade project including 40+ storage Arrays
Configure and maintain Data ONTAP 7/8/8.1 as part of new implementation projects.
Configured NetApp (Cluster Data OnTap (cDOT), 7-Mode SnapMirror, SnapManager, Operations Manager DFM, OnCommand, SnapDrive, SnapProtect)
Thin provisioned for VMAX storage array by creating TDEVs, adding TDEVs to thin pool and binding TDEVs to thin pool utilizing EMC UNISPHERE
Implementation/Design/Allocations/Testing from Hitachi VSP/HUS and EMC VNX/VMAX storage frames including zone creation/modifications to the client WWNs. Thin and Thick provisioning.
Implemented and upgraded firmware for CISCO MDS switches - 9513, 9509, 9216i.
Monitored and maintained Hitachi Storage platforms to include 9990v USPV, 9985, 9980, AMS2500.
Configured VSANs, Zones, Cisco MDS - Fabric Manager, Device Manager, Brocade Fabric Manager and CLI
Utilized command line scripts to provision EMC Storage on DMX, VMAX and Fast VP arrays
Administration of EMC arrays VMAX, DMX3, DMX4, VNX7500, CX4-960, CX3-40F with Brocade fabrics to 150+ Windows server using Solutions Enabler, SMC, Unisphere Manager, Webtools, EMC Connectrix Manager and Putty (SSH)
Implemented Unified storage with VNX created Homogeneous/Heterogeneous Pools, Created RAID protection, assigned Thin LUNs and Traditional LUNs to Pools
Knowledge about DR and restoring backups based on requirement.
Experience in Administration in Data domain, Veeam and virtual Tape Library
Experience with Avamar backup technologies
Knowledge about DR and restoring backups
Configuring and managing EMC PowerPath solution for path failover, load balancing, path management and automatic I/O failure detections.
Installed and maintained HUS, VSP, VMAX, NetApp FAS Solutions and CISCO MDS Switches for LUN masking and Zoning to ESXi 5.0 hosts.
NetApp deployments ensuring that units are adhering to NetApp best practices.
Configured storage replication using OnCommand Manager between protected and recovery sites to regulate data.
ViPR SRM upgrades.
Installation of ViPR components, troubleshooting, providing service to customers.
Experience in ViPR SRM and ViPR Controller
File Server Migration, Migrated file server from Windows Server 2003 to Windows Server 2008 Servers
EDUCATION:
Bachelor of Science in Information Systems, Texas State University, Texas 2013
NetApp Certified Data Administrator (NCDA)
NetApp Certified Implementation Engineer (NCIE)
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