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Storage Engineer Recovery Manager

Location:
Pleasanton, CA
Posted:
August 30, 2021

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SravanKumar Jatapprolu

Pleasanton, CA ***** 925-***-**** adogfo@r.postjobfree.com

https://www.linkedin.com/in/sravan-kumar-j-a5483016/

Profile Summary

Proficiency in analyzing and supporting IT Enterprise Storage systems. Anticipating problems, and finding ways to mitigate risk. Providing and Supporting SAN/NAS Storage Solutions and best practices to Application/ DB/ DevOps/ Network/ Virtualization teams as Storage systems Engineer as SME in NFS/CIFS/FC/ISCSI SAN Storage device technologies with extensive experience more than 15 years.

Skill Set:

Storage Technologies

NetApp: All FAS models and E-series models supported all protocols NAS and SAN.

Including all latest feature set available in Netapp including

XCP/Flex Groups/S3

Pure: Flash array and Flash Blades. All latest features including:

VVOLs/Active

DR/Pure1 VM analytics

Hitachi: VSP G1K

Brocade: 8k SAN cores and 75k FCIP

MDS: 9k switches with 8.4x version

VMware: NFS Datastores/SAN(FC/ISCSI) datastores/VVOL datastores on Pure

FA.

Oracle: RDM/VMDK/VVOLs/snapshots/clones/restores/Replication/DR

tests/Performance troubleshooting/RCA

SQL Server: RDM/VMDK/vvols/snapshots/clones/restores/Replication/DR tests.

Commvault: IntelliSnap/ NDMP snapshots

Scripting: PowerShell/Python/Rest API

Automation: Ansible.

EMC: Clarion CX3 and CX4 series, Symmetrix DMX3, DMX4 and VMAXHP 3PAR: HP 3PAR® T400 and T800 Storage Systems, HP 3PAR Thin

Provisioning, HP 3PAR Virtual Copy, HP 3PAR Remote Copy, Virtual

Copy Snapshot and backup management via GUI and CLI, 3PAR

Recovery Manager, 3PAR VIRTUAL COPY SNAPSHOTS, 3PAR

Synchronous long distance Remote copy.

Operating Systems:

Data ONTAP 9.8, Purity 6.0x, San Tricity 8.x Cisco Fiber switch OS 8.x,

Windows 2012, Linux 6.5 and 7.x, VMware 6.0 and 6.5

Experience

State Compensation Insurance Fund,

Pleasanton, CA. May2013-August 2021

Storage Systems Architect

Detailed Timeline:

Jan 2020 to August 2021

● configured and deployed VVOLs on all PURE FAS and tested Database VMs and Application VMs by Storage VMotion from VMFS6 datastores to VMware VVOls configured on Pure FAs. Tested disk deletion and disk restore procedures. Tested VM deletion and VM restore procedures. Finished configuring VVOLs in Non-Prod/Prod and DR Pure FAs.

●Technology refresh for remaining Remote offices with E-series and ISCSI SAN for VMware hosts and for Genentech CC camera recording purposes. Worked on end-to-end process from Racking and stacking until migrations and critical production application VMs were running successfully by resolving critical issues.

●Controller refresh for Netapp FAS 82K controllers to 83K

●Controller refresh for FAS AFF300 to AFF400s

●consolidation of SVMs using SVM DR.

●Worked with SCOM team to configure and consolidate monitoring for all storage devices.

●POC comprise and XCP for fabric pool analysis.

●Ontap upgrades to fix vulnerabilities.

●Project management.

●DR Test

Jan 2019 to Jan 2020:

●Setting up MDS 9k switches and smart zoning as well as regular zoning and Port channels for 4 MDS fabric switches.

●Configuring Flex-groups for High file count and performance thirsty applications.

●Configuring Pure FA with ISCSI SAN in remote offices.

●Configuring OCUM 9.x for monitoring all Netapp devices and configuring and setting up alerts.

●Configuring hourly replications on Pure FAs and testing DR.

●SRM testing for critical production applications on Pure storage.

●Ontap upgrade to fix vulnerabilities

●Project management.

●DR Test

Jan 2018 to Jan 2019:

●Technology refresh from FAS 6K to AFF300. configuring/migrating with SnapMirror and validation.

●Technology refresh and migrations from E-series FC SAN to PURE FA SAN arrays.

●Migrations from Hitachi VSP, Brocade 8k, 75k FCIP switches to Pure FAs and MDS 9k SAN switches.

●Upgrading MDS 9k switches to the latest version to fix vulnerabilities.

●Deploy and configure Pure1 OVA for VM analytics.

●Ontap upgrades to fix vulnerabilities.

●Project management.

●DR Test

From Jan 2016 to 2018:

●Meeting Vendors, helped in design, plan, deploy new hardware FAS AFF 300 AND Pure FAs, and make it available for migrations.

●Tested hardware and migration process and performance.

●Tested Pure storage connection to HP UX hardware by connecting to MDS switches from HPUX chassis connection plane to Pure storage. Zoned provisioned and tested for making it available for future migrations from Hitachi.

●Project management.

●DR Test.

From Jan 2013 to 2016

●Technology refresh from 7mode based Flex-pods to CDOT Flex-pods.

●Migration of data using snapmirror and storage Vmotion for NFS/FC VM datastores.

●Configuring Netapp E-series for DB VM datastores and RDMs.

●Ontap upgrades for fixing critical bugs and vulnerabilities.

●Configuring SolarWinds monitoring tool.

Roles & Responsibilities

● performed Design,Planning,Deploy and handbook documentation.

● Troubleshooting and root cause analysis of hardware/software/performance problems.

● Performing Technology Refresh as required Data Migration to latest Storage hardware.

● System Reporting.

● performing Disaster Recovery tests with vmware team and Devops teams,

● Backup Recovery.

● Provisioning.

● Fabric Zoning.

● configuring and testing replications.

● Leading contributor individually as well as a team member.

● providing direction and mentoring to others Work with & support other technical groups to provide end-to-end service and problem identification/resolution.

● Provide assistance with system solution design Convene & conduct meetings, develop project plans, manage projects to completion and meet agreed target dates.

● Provide subject matter expertise and backup support to co-workers in the ●Enterprise Storage Management. team Develop & Maintain Management, and Utilization Reporting.

● Develop plans supporting Life-Cycle-Management of storage resources.

● Environment: Netapp FAS/ AFFs/ E-series/ PURE FA/ Pure Flash blades/ MDS 9k SAN switches/ VMware 6.5/ Flexpod/ Flash Stack/ Hitachi vsp G1K/ Brocade 8k/ Brocade 7k FCIP/ Commvault

Amgen Inc, Thousand Oaks, CA. July 2012- May2013Sr. Storage Administrator

Roles & Responsibilities

ONTAP Cluster mode 8.1.1 Administration on Netapp 6800 series filer.

Creating NFS and CIFS shares and exporting to servers and troubleshooting access issues.

Migration of data from old Netapp 2000 series filers to new 3040 Netapp filers using snapmirror.

Checking the performance and tuning by moving stressed volumes to different drives and Raid policies.

Worked on Netapp 2000 and 3000 series and 6100 FAS filers. Created aggregates, volumes, qtrees, qoutas, NFS, CIFS and on ISCSI LUNs and FC LUNs.

VFiler administration for various VLAN purposes.

Provisioning storage on Netapp filers with best practices suggested by netapp and Storage architects.

Configuring storage using SIS and Compression technologies which saved more than 50% of storage costs.

Performed ontap upgrades, troubleshooting database performance issues, migrated volumes between different aggregates and filers.

Configured disaster recovery using SnapMirror. Performed DR tests.

Used DFM operations manager, Akori monitoring tool for monitoring the performance and checking historical performance to analyze and trace out bottlenecks.

Performed disk, shelf and Ontap upgrades.

Implemented snapshots and snapmirror technologies for replicating VMware datastores.

Worked on SMVI to take and restore snapshots of ESX hosts and restore them. Implemented file restoring in Windows and Linux environments.

troubleshoot storage issues.

Troubleshooting SAN communication issues.

Environment: Netapp 6000/3000 series, Windows 2003/2008 servers, Varonis DatAdvantage, Tree size Professional, Varonis DataPrevilage.

Autodesk, Inc- San Rafael, CA. July 2011- June 2012

Storage and Backup Administrator

Roles & Responsibilities

Storage provisioning on 3PAR T800 storage system using 3par Inform GUI and allocating to hosts.

Created virtual volumes and VLUNS on T800 using Inserv Gui to assign it to host by exporting to host sets.

Checking the performance and tuning by moving stressed volumes to different drives and Raid policies.

Worked on 3par inform cli for checking performance statistics and recommending tuning or adaptive optimization for best performance.

Implemented Adaptive Optimization using 3Par system reporter for sub-LUN optimization.

Implemented Zoning on Brocade 5300 switches using VHBA devices provided by XSIGO director and extender.

Mounting Luns provisioned from 3Par on Linux, Solaris, and Windows 2008 hosts.

Implemented ARX Managed volumes on Netapp filers for Disk staging and provisioned CIFS and NFS from ARX for implementing Siebel applications.

Participated in implementation of Data Domain by provisioning NFS mounts for Oracle and SQL server database backups.

Worked on Veritas NetBackup Environment for tape backups on Storage Tek library system.

Worked on Netapp 2000 and 3000 series FAS filers. Created aggregates, volumes, qtrees, qoutas, NFS, CIFS and on ISCSI LUNs and FC LUNs.

Implemented snapshots and snapmirror technologies for replicating VMware datastores.

VFiler administration for various VLAN purposes.

Used DFM operations manager, Akori monitoring tool for monitoring the performance and checking historical performance to analyze and trace out bottlenecks.

Worked on SMVI to take and restore snapshots of ESX hosts and restore them. Implemented file restoring in Windows and Linux environments.

Performed disk, shelf and Ontap upgrades.

Provisioned storage on EMC Clariion NS 960. Performed snapshots, LUN migration and SAN copy. Worked on Celera platform and on Clariion platform for NS 960. Worked with Uni-sphere, Navi sphere and Navi cli to provision and troubleshoot storage issues.

Brigade Corporation ltd Dec 2004 - June 2009

Storage Engineer.

Responsibilities:

Implementation of Symmetrix DMX4, CLARiiON CX 3-80.

Creating Hypers on Symmetrix with internal Tiered architecture.

Day – Day storage provisioning on Symmetrix, CLARiiON.

Created and configured RAID groups, storage groups, binding LUN’s, Naming, Resizing, Unbinding LUN’s through Navisphere manager and NaviCLI.

Installing and troubleshooting QLogic and Emulex HBA’s to provide SAN access for Host integration.

Created MetaLUN’s by expaninding base LUN’s using striping and concatenation.

Performed various methods of data migration on CLARiiON using Mirror View/A & SAN copy.

Installed, configured tested SAN copy procedure to migrate data from CLARiiON.

Involved in Migration of data from FC4700 to DMX3 using Open Replicator.

Involved in Host Based Migration of data from one CLARiiON box to other CLARiiON box with Help of Robocopy.

Thin provisioning in DMX-4 to Windows2003/2008 (clusters) servers, Linux and VMware ESX Servers (3.5/4.0).

Implemented Data Devs, Thin Pools, TDevs, Meta LUNs using SMC and Symcli.

Created dynamic cache partitions for time sensitive applications on V-MAX.

Implemented Disaster recovery setup between VMAX and DMX-4 using SRDF/Asynchronous.

VSAN creation, Port Channel Creation and Zoning of Cisco Fabrics.

Configuring hosts to replicate data, using Replication Manager, between Symmetrix, CLARiiON, Tape Library.

Troubleshooting day-day issues for storage and backup environments.

Environment: EMC DMX4, CX4-120, CX4-240, Brocade 48k enterprise directors. AIX (5.2/5.3), HP-UX (11.11/11.23), Win 2K/2K3, SMC, SYMCLI, Navisphere Manager, Time Finder/BCV’s, Open Replicator and San Copy.

Education

Bachelor of Technology in computer science In Vinayaka Mission University.

MS computer science from National University with 3.4 GPA.



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