Data Analytics Storage Systems

SRIKANTH

Lead Storage and Backup Administrator

Phone: (M) +1-848-***-**** Email: ***********@*****.***

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Over 10 years of IT experience in Backup and storage technologies supporting multiple platforms and applications.

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.

Experience in Administration of Storage to Multiprotocol Environments like FC, iSCSI, CIFS and NFS.

Conducted data analytics for all SAN and NAS platforms.

Suggested improvements for NetApp storage systems for data availability.

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 and NetApp Storage, Symantec, IBM Storage and Backup technologies, Brocade and CISCO devices.

Perform Analysis, Planning, Designing and implementations of Storage & Backup solutions.

Experience in Implementation and administration of critical SAN and NAS environments

Experience with Multi - tier Enterprise Storage systems design, installation, migration, virtualization, management, monitoring, Performance analysis & Reporting.

Expertise in design architecture for EMC Storage arrays and Data Protection (XtremIO, Unity, ECS, VMAX3, VPLEX, Isilon, RecoverPoint, Data Domain, Avamar, Networker, DPA)

Expertise in Brocade & Cisco Director switches.

Expertise in planning and executing code upgrades on the storage devices

Experience of administration and configuration of Hitachi AMS - 2500, Hitachi USPv, HUS-VM, G1000, Hitachi VSP, HCP, HDI, IBM DS8700/DS8800.

Performance analysis using tools like ViPR SRM, Unisphere, Symmetrix performance analyser (SPA), Prosphere, Watch4net, ECC, Hitachi tuning manager, SolarWinds and IBM TPC.

Experience on Confidential ViPR, Solutions Enabler, Powerpath, Hitachi Storage navigator, Hitachi Tiered Storage Manager, Hitachi Dynamic Link Manager etc.

Knowledge of local and remote replications on Symmetrix VMAX, VNX and Hitachi arrays.

SAN switch management and configuration of Cisco and Brocade switches.

Configuring backups using Symantec NetBackup, Avamar, Data Domain for SAN and NAS infrastructure.

Designed and implemented several Backup and recovery Environments that meet the requirements, compliances (both Audit and Security) with the best RPO and RTO.

Documented Architecture, Implementation plans and operations run books for new and transformation projects.

Experience working with On-premise and Public Clouds- designed and implemented data protection at various levels

Experience in planning, designing, deploying Backup Infrastructure Using Avamar, Data Domain, Networker, Rubrik and Igneous.

Expert in Installing, Configuring and integrating EMC backup products - Networker, Avamar, Data Domain, DPA and Rubrik

Expertise with S3 Object Storage, EMC ECS

Good Knowledge of network switching, routing, firewalls, DNS and load balancers

Address and resolve third level problems related to the storage & SAN Switches

Proficient in learning new technologies and quickly adaptable to new environment.

Excellent analytical problem solving,

Good experience in ITIL Process and 24*7 support environments.

Extensively experienced with the performance tuning and planning for consolidation of Storage.

Good analytical and problem-solving skills. Ability to quickly adapt new environments and learn new technologies.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Fabric Switches: Cisco MDS 9500 and 9100 series, Brocade 5100 and 5300 switches, 4800, T4900 & DCX.

NetApp - FAS2040, FAS3140, FAS6030, FAS6080 & FAS6280.

Confidential - VMAX, VPLEX, DD610, DD630, DD690, DD860 & DD990

Management Software: Hitachi Command Suite, Hitachi Storage Navigator, NetApp OnCommand System Manager, NetApp Operations Manager, Brocade Fabric Manager, Cisco Fabric Manager, Cisco Device Manager and VMware vCenter

Backup tools: NetBackup, Commvault, Avamar, Veeam, Data Domain

Performance Analysis & Reporting: Hitachi Tuning Manager, Hitachi Performance Reporter, NetApp OnCommand Insight, VMware Hyperic and VMware vCenter Operations.

Operating Systems: Windows Server 2003, 2008, 2008 R2 and RHEL

EDUCATION

BACHELOR OF COMPUTER SCIENCE

Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University – Kakinada in 2013.

April 2013

EXPERIENCE

Lead Storage and Backup Engineer

Contractor at Airman Flight Training LLC, Long Beach, CA May 2024 to Till now

Need to perform Health checks and proactively find issues and resolutions using NetApp IQ and unified manager.

Performed multiple ONTAP Upgrades alone.

Need to monitor and check alerts mails for quick response when the issue occurred.

Need to maintain SLAs, and make sure no SLA beach.

Setup the CIFS shares, NFS volumes, and Fiber channel LUNs. Setup iSCSI / NFS volumes to ESXI hosts.

Configuring NAS Aggregates (RAID 4, RAID-DP, RAID TEC), volumes and file systems.

Setup Snapmirror and Snapvault Backups for remote sites.

Worked with change management system and follow up with approval access.

Created Aggregates, Volumes, Qtree, and configured CIFS, & NFS for Windows/Unix hosts.

LUN commissioning, Decommissioning for the existing servers or new servers (Windows 2008/2003, Linux, AIX, VMware ESX).

Monitoring Capacity Reports.

Performing zoning between storage and new hosts.

Performing Decommissions on NetApp filer phase wise.

Releasing Snapmirror relation from POD NetApp to cob NetApp.

Deleting CIFS shares and NFS exports on NetApp filer after confirming there are no CIFS sessions and NFS activity using Netstat command.

Deleting snapshots on the volumes, making volume offline and destroy, making aggregate offline and destroy.

Installation, configuration and maintenance of SAN and NAS environment on NetApp, IBM XIV and EMC Isilon, Vmax, and Hitachi.

Deployed and administration of NetBackup and Spectrum Protect (TSM) on Window, AIX and Linux Servers.

24x7 on - call support for problems, emergency storage issues, failed equipment, etc.

Upgrade of NetApp 7-mode to CDOT environment

Provisioning of EMC Isilon Storage and support for the Cluster environment

Data migration, zoning, Storage array configuration changes, creation of volumes, storage pools, shares, resizing and increasing volume/share quotas.

Installation, configuration and maintenance of Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) Commvault Simpana on Windows, AIX and Linux Servers.

Management of Storage Area Network and Network Attached Storage (NAS)

24x7 on-call support for problems, emergency storage issues, failed equipment, etc.

Upgrade of TSM Server from V5.x to V6., V7 and above on AIX 5L and AIX 6.x and Windows Servers.

Maintenance of storage libraries including IBM 3584, 3570, 3582, and 3583

Configuring TSM TDP such as Tivoli Data Protection for SQL, Lotus Domino, MS Exchange and Oracle.

Weekly update to management on Storage performance and any new road maps.

Enhance DR environment by providing additional solutions to address any short falls.

Maintained on-off site tape rotations and tape inventory for Disaster Recovery.

Maintained proper documentation for standards, processes & procedures to be adhered to by the team.

Participated in disaster recovery planning, testing and maintenance for the enterprise NetBackup, TSM, Commvault backup environment.

Managed all components of Commvault, including databases, logs, tape libraries, messages and backups.

Define and manage storage pools in line with standards.

Define and manage retention policies, management classes and copy groups.

Administration of NetApp storage array, ensuring overall system performance and stability.

Enhance DR environment by providing additional solutions to address any short falls.

Maintenance storage libraries including IBM 3584, SpectraT950, SUN SL8500 and STK libraries.

Thorough understanding of Commvault policy - drive backup/restore architecture and best practices.

Well versed with configuring and maintaining CommServe, Media Agents and clients.

Competent in configuring disaster recovery and fault tolerant features.

Competent in configuring Storage Policies and copies for de-duplicated disk and tape libraries.

Competent in configuring Schedules and Schedule Policies for data management and administrative functions.

Competent in installation and configuration of Non-de-duplicated and Deduplication Media Agents. Linux media agent Installation, configuration, administration and troubleshooting

Competent in installation and configuration of disk and tape libraries.

Competent in installing, configuring and troubleshooting client backup/restore agents.

Experienced in Windows and Unix/Linux server administration including routine patching in a Commvault environment

Senior Storage and Backup Administrator

CDI Managed Services, Offshore Jan 2022 to Apr 2024

Working as SME (Subject Matter Expert) on Storage and backup products

Experience in installing, configuring, upgrading and managing Storage and backup environments using Rubrik, Avamar, Data Domain and DPA, Cohesity, Elastic Cloud Storage, F5 Load Balancers VNX, XtremIO, Isilon and VPLEX and more products

Transitioned from Networker, Avamar to Rubrik and Cohesity Archived data to EMC ECS, AWS s3 -DD cloud Tiering

Configuring, troubleshooting & performing Zoning on Brocade Switches using Web Tools & CLI.

Isilon implementation and administration

Extensive knowledge on Isilon and EMC ECS, S3 storage administration

Having experience on NetApp Data OnTap Cluster Mode.

Having experience on creating Vserver/SVMS, aggregates and volumes.

Involved on Data ONTAP upgradation.

Creating Zones and delete hanging/inactive zones.

Worked on NetApp filers running Clustered Data OnTap 9.2, 9.4, 9.7, 9.9, 9.10.1, 9.11, 9.13.1 versions and NetApp FAS 2040, FAS 6080, FAS3170, 8040, 8080, A300, AFF models.

Installed FAS 2040, FAS3170, FAS 6080 systems in the data center with help of onsite team. Configured the network, Aggregates and volumes.

Setup the CIFS shares, NFS volumes, and Fiber channel LUNs, Setup ISCSI/NFS volumes to ESXI hosts.

Hands on experience with CIFS, NFS and snapshots, FlexVol, SnapMirror, Snapvault.

Extensively involved in performing Data ONTAP upgrades.

Involved in configuration of OnCommand Unified Manager Monitoring Tool.

Involved in troubleshooting and managing CIFS shares and NFS exports.

Involved in performing vol move, vol copy and NDMP copy.

Extensively worked with Brocade and Cisco SAN switches and creating zones for improving SAN security.

Health monitoring of SAN components. Creating daily logs to perform capacity planning and monitoring storage performance utilization.

Knowledgeable in TCP/IP and SAN technologies.

Knowledgeable in Commvault firewall configuration and deployment issues.

Knowledgeable in data center operations including handling tape library configuration and day to day operations.

Competent in monitoring and administering Commvault daily operations including performance monitoring and resource management.

Experienced in Commvault Maintenance Advantage incident submission and resolution.

Experienced in Commvault upgrades, Service Pack and Hotfix deployment.

Design, develop, implement, and document complex Commvault and TSM backup/recovery products

Proficient in implementation and troubleshooting of Commvault Hyperscale Appliance

Proficient in IntelliSnap, VSA, Metrics Reporting, Disaster Recovery, Workflows, 1 - Touch, OnePass

Experience in backup & restore of common applications such as, SQL, VMware, Exchange, and Unix etc.

Installation and Configuration of Avamar Plugins for various Applications such as MS Exchange, SQL and Oracle

Configuring NDMP Backups with Avamar

Configuration of VMware Image Level Backups to Avamar by deploying proxies for multiple vCenter’s

Avamar Replication (Normal, Policy Based Replication & Root-Root)

Installation and Configuration of Data Domain DD4500, DD880, DD990.

Configuration of NFS & CIFS shares.

Integration of DD with various Backup Applications as a target device.

Expertise in DPA 6.x In-built & Custom Reporting for BRS Solutions.

Installation of backup agents on servers, configuration of agents, scheduling the backups, restoring data.

Managing LDAP User Authentications for DPA Server

Creation of Customized Reports on Avamar and Data Domain Utilizations

Created Backups Audit Summary Reports across all the Backup Server Application as per the Customer Requirements

Good experience in handling multiple projects, extreme workloads with multiple vendors and business teams

Manage NetBackup (3 Master & 20 Media servers), data De-Duplication, and disk storage (Data Domain) and tape libraries (SL8500).

Manage NetBackup upgrades from 5.1 to 7.1.0.4 to 7.5.0.6

Implemented Symantec Enterprise Vault NetBackup solution.

Provide training in NetBackup for nightly monitors.

Manage Remedy ITIL incidents and change requests.

Maintain and update ongoing documentation.

Process analytical data to deliver SLA (Service Level Agreements) ratings.

Role: Senior Storage Administrator

Client: Capital Group Services, Offshore Mar 2020 to Dec 2021

Act as Senior Storage Engineer in coordinating level 3 support

Strong in providing SAN security using Zoning, Masking & Mapping.

Experience in configuration of Dual path SAN solutions of load balancing and failover using MPIO.

Experience in troubleshooting application performance issues, LUN discovery issues and hardware failures in production environment.

Experience and knowledge of high-end storage disk sub systems with NAS backup solutions.

Good knowledge on the Hosts OS environment like Windows, Unix, and Linux.

Administer and configure a virtual storage environment that utilize IBM SVC with more Temp 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.

NetApp 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 (Snapshots, SnapMirror).

Data migration from DMX300o to DMX-3 and data migration from CX600 to DMX-3.

Work flow ticketing systems, change management, performance manager and Break fix issues follow up and support.

NAS administration, NetApp filer installation, OnTap upgrades, SnapMirror and quota, qtress administration.

Flash copy, Snapshot and snapmirror installation and support.

Confidential SAN-NAS Storage engineer responsible for design, implementation and administration of Confidential VMAX, Xtreme IO, Isilon, Hitachi and IBM storage arrays.

Work on VMware, Nutanix and Cisco Hyperflex Hyperconverged Infrastructure.

Backup and recovery design, implementation and administration of Avamar and Data Domain.

Design and implement disaster recovery using Avamar and Data Domain replications.

Configure backups of multiple operating systems, VMware image level backups, configure DD boost plugins for SQL, Oracle etc. on Avamar.

Design and implement exchange server backups on Avamar.

Design and implement exchange server backups on Avamar.

Integration of Avamar and Data Domain, configure Data domain for multisite replication, mtrees etc.

Isilon NAS backup and disaster recovery design, implementation and administration, use of syncIQ and Superna Eyeglass for disaster recovery.

NAS migrations from windows file servers to enterprise NAS storage.

Capacity planning and performance analysis of storage, backup and recovery

Clients: Green Pages, Helix Strom

Role: Storage Administrator

February 2018 - Mar 2020.

Involved Zoning, Storage provision and configuring Multipath and Server decommission projects. Managed assorted issues on Storage and SAN environment like port errors and hardware fails.

Administration of NetApp filers in CIFS & NFS environment and NDMP backup.

Involved large storage environments consisting of VMAX, DMX, VNX, VPlex, NetApp and Cisco MDS Enterprise directors, planning, commissioning, and configuring of a new VMAX, VNX and NetApp storage arrays.

Diagnose and resolve complex problems involving software, servers, storage arrays, directors, and switches.

Conducting the performance tuning, capacity planning and troubleshooting in the event of system slowness and disasters.

Collect EMCGrab reports, SP Collect and upload to emc ftp sites and work with EMC support.

Proficient in installing, configuring, remediate and administering Dell networker 7.x, 8.x issues.

Experience with Avamar and Networker integration with data domain.

Installing, configure,

Hands on experience with EMC networker installation and backups.

Work with support team for advanced troubleshooting of network installation.

Patch-planning and Zoning on Brocade Switches.

Vendor coordination in case of any hardware failures or new hardware procurement.

Supporting the production environment and participating in the scheduled on-call process.

Technical discussion with the internal team with requirements and provided design to deploy new storage infrastructure application teams.

Installed and configured Brocade/Cisco switches in data centers along with cleanup and also replaced the optical fibers, SFP in data centers

Create and allocate storage volumes to meet the requirements of various applications and users. This involves configuring storage pools, volumes, and LUNs (Logical Unit Numbers).

Set up and manage data replication using NetApp Snapmirror or Snapvault for disaster recovery and data archiving purposes. Ensure that critical data is replicated to remote sites for redundancy.

Integrate NAS with backup solutions to ensure data is regularly backed up and can be restored quickly in case of data loss. Use tools like NetApp OnCommand Unified Manager for monitoring and managing backups.

Diagnose and resolve issues related to storage performance, connectivity, data corruption, and hardware failures. Use tools like NetApp OnCommand System Manager and NetApp Active IQ for monitoring and troubleshooting.

Performed day-to-day operations on Isilon cluster nodes

Coordinate with NetApp support for hardware replacements, firmware updates, and advanced troubleshooting. Ensure timely resolution of issues and implementation of best practices.

Plan and execute hardware upgrades to increase storage capacity and improve performance. This involves adding new storage shelves, upgrading controllers, and replacing outdated hardware.

Regularly update the firmware and software of NetApp systems to the latest versions. This ensures that the systems have the latest features, performance improvements, and security patches.

Determined and documented root cause analysis and corrective action plan to storage and support teams

Managed structured/unstructured data of 60 PB storage data and 80 PB backup data in primary and secondary data centers across multiple sites.

Provided the annual capacity management solutions and site design planning for the primary and secondary data centers for storage and backup solutions

Explained by drawing the Visio diagrams and provided documentation to the Project Manager related to storage and backup infrastructure

Provided L3 Support on troubleshooting issues to the storage operations team

Monitor the performance of Pure Storage systems using tools like Pure1 for proactive management and analytics.

Configure and Administration on Isilon cluster Nodes F800, H500, X410, NL410, HD400, A200 and NetApp cluster Nodes AFF-700, FAS8080 and managed FAS2650.

Manage and maintain Isilon clusters file system day to day multiprotocol SMB, NFS provisioning.

Configure and Implement Smart Pools and Smart Connect, IP address pools and Access Zones.

Configure and perform Deduplication testing on Isilon.

Configure and Implement Smart Quotas; Isilon capacity reporting and forecast using InsightIQ.

Configure Security, multiprotocol NTFS permissions.

Configure and Implement Quotas on Isilon/NetApp and working with user quota exceed limits.

Provides predictive analytics and recommendations for improving storage health and performance.

Uses AI to detect potential issues, such as degraded performance or capacity shortages.

Offers health scores for storage systems and insights into system upgrades or optimizations.

Set up custom thresholds and alerts for key metrics like volume capacity, node utilization, and latency.

Enable performance service levels (QoS) to manage workloads and prevent resource contention.

Regularly review snapshots and backup schedules to avoid performance degradation.

EMC Unity All Flash array configuration and administration of block, NFS exports, and CIFS share.

Configure Unity SAN Copy pull for data migration.

NetApp CDOT installation, configuration, and migration from 7-mode to Cluster Data Ontap.

Set up NetApp QOS as per application requirements.

Create NetApp SVM and configure intra-cluster and inter-cluster LIFs.

Upgrade NetApp OS-ONTAP 9.x. Snapmirror setup for DR setup.

NAS storage administration and troubleshooting. CIFS and NFS share creation.

Cisco SAN management. SAN Switch migration, Smart Zoning, cleanup, backup configuration, setup automated scheduler jobs, slow drain analysis.

Work on windows & Linux systems installation and management

Monitor and maintain system performance

Expertise in windows & Linux operating systems

Maintained the centralized log server for all Linux clients.

Configuring and Maintaining of Network File Systems like (N.F.S) and Auto mount in networks installing and updating Kernel. Created and modified swap files and added swap space

Upgrades of Red hat/centos and Windows servers from 7.2 to 7.4, patching and Vulnerabilities fixing.

Worked on VMware Update Manager for updating or Patching for all the ESX hosts and Virtual machines.

Worked on infrastructure and enterprise hardware.

Configuring FTP server and Syslog Server on Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Centralize SAN management: Cisco DCNM configuration and upgrade.

Managing Windows and Linux management hosts.

Cisco MDS and Brocade DCX switch administration, configuration, and troubleshooting; create zones, device aliases npiv/mpv.

Hands-on knowledge of VMware - Storage vMotion, datastore creation, VM creation, monitoring um performance, cluster consolidation, and finding storage detail.

PROJECT: QBE

ROLE: STORAGE SUPPORT ENGINEER

Mar 2015 – Feb 2018

Day-to-day monitoring and troubleshooting of Storage infrastructure using DS CLI and SVC CLI on DS Storage manager for IBM Devices and Unisphere for EMC VNX.

Zone creation, modification & deletion on Brocade switches by using DCFM.

Performing LUN allocation to new and existing servers in the environment from SVC and DS8000 storage devices.

Performing reclamation and decommissioning of unused storage from servers.

Provisioned storage from DS4000 Series using DS Storage Manager and provisioned storage from DS8K, SVC using CLI.

Creating and managing space-efficient volumes in DS8K and Vdisk expansions and migrations on SVC using SVC CLI.

Performing checks on Mdisks, Vdisks, Mdisk Groups, Hosts, Quorum Disks, Nodes and Cluster.

Generating Capacity reports on a weekly and monthly basis as per client requirements.

Performed upgrade activities on the storage Devices EMC VNX, and VMAX with support team assistance.

Troubleshoot connectivity issues, high IO issues, and IO latency issues

Presented the technical changes during Incident Management, Change Management, and Problem management

Superior proficiency in resolving issues on EMC Isilon, NetApp, Pure arrays, and Cisco switches.

Design and Implement DR-related activities and Perform the DR activities for critical applications.

Participate in the review of processes and recommendations.

Manage and recommend upgrades, patches, maintenance releases, incidents, and tech alerts.

Perform OneFS/Flare/File/DD code upgrades and complete code certifications for Dell EMC Isilon.

Resolved and documented issues using ticketing tools like Service Now and ITSM

Perform scheduled maintenance, operational changes, and incident troubleshooting/management of storage networking equipment, including switches and storage arrays EMC Clariion, VMAX3, VNX, and Isilon.

Administered and managed EMC VMAX3, VMAX, VPLEX, and VNX storage arrays across Windows, AIX, Solaris, and ESX servers

Managing Cisco MDS San switches with Fabric Manager, CLI, and Device Manager

Configured NetApp CDOT cluster, E-series and managed the NetApp 7 mode filers.

Performed daily health checks to monitor the usage of LUN, Aggregate, and volume utilization by using OCI

Installed 20 Cisco MDS switches across data centers and performed the San switch migrations from old to new switches along with switch upgrades

Administration. Configuration and Installation of various storage arrays EMC Powermax, All Flash, VIMAX3, 40K, VNX, Unity, and Isilon. ECS: NetApp 7-mode, CDOT FAS8000. ONTAP 9 and IBM 8880: PURE storage.Data Center Consolidation.

Migrate Windows. Vmware, Linux, and Solaris host data from EMC VMAX3, EMC All Flash to Powermax (Storage as well as Host based migration)

Create Initiator groups. Port groups, storage groups, and Masking view to allocate new storage.

Decommission legacy EMC storage arrays.

Design Business Continuity (BC) Infrastructure. Set up DR replication between Production and remote site using Synchronous SRDF.

Centralize storage management: EMC ESRS and CloudIQ application configuration. Capacity management and performance troubleshooting.

NAS File System configuration, NFS, and CIFS share creation. Set quota, snapshots on VNX5700 V7017600 and Isilon 8

EMC Isilon Administration and configuration. Set up SyncIQ, performance analysis, and troubleshooting via Insight IQ, Working with Snapshots IQ. Smart Dedupe, SmartConnect.

Group Pool configuration and set ECS as archival object storage from Isilon

EMC besty All Flash array configuration and administration of block. NFS exports, CIFS stare

Analyzing hardware issues on Storage and SAN, coordinating with vendors to get it fixed.

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