. Administration of EMC Symmetrix DMX4/3-2500/950 . Implementation and administration of EMC TimeFinder (BCV/Mirror/Clone) .

Installation, configuration of Storage Area Networks in a heterogeneous environment using EMC -CLARiiON (CX4 series & CX3 series) . To Maintain EMC Clariion Storage device by using Navisphere Manager Version, using EMC Powerpath. . Clones of Snap Views. . Configuring SAN Copy. . Creating Meta LUNs. . Performing day to day administration like Snapviews, snapshot maintenance, . Configuring ZONES on Brocade switch to provide security in Storage Area Network . Configure and troubleshoot fabric switches zoning using McData, Brocade switches. . Storage management using EMC Navisphere Manager. . Storage and Host integration using Windows, Linux, Solaris. . Multipathing software like EMC Powerpath

Storage Area Networks . . . . Administration of EMC Symmetrix V-Max,DMX4/3-2500/3500/950 Implemented Pilot FAST VP in Development Environment Used Open Replicator to Migrate from DMX-3 to VMAX Implementation and administration of EMC TimeFinder (BCV/Mirror/Clone) using scripts and monitor any errors and assist SA's to troubleshooting. . Installation, configuration of Storage Area Networks in a heterogeneous

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environment using EMC -CLARiiON (CX4 series,CX3 series , CX series and FC series) To Configure and maintain the hosts in SAN environment. To Maintain EMC Clariion Storage device by using Navisphere Manager Version 6, using EMC Powerpath. Configuring different Raid Groups assigning different Raid levels in EMC Storage Clones of Snap Views. Configuring SAN Copy. Creating Meta LUNs. Administration of NetApp Arrays FAS 3000 series, FAS 3200 series, 6000 series. Familiar with all versions of ONTAP 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 8.1 Performing day to day administration like Snapviews, snapshot maintenance, qtree creation, snap drive, snap lock, sync mirror, deduplication. Configuring and Administrating NetApp disk arrays through CLI and Filer view. Creating Aggregates, Fileset, Qtree, snapshots. Management of NAS through NFS and CIFS. Configuring ZONES on Brocade switch to provide security in Storage Area Network Management of Advanced LUNs. Managing the Fabric and troubleshooting. Configure layered applications for business continuity and disaster recovery using EMC Mirrorview, SANCopy and Snapview Configure and troubleshoot fabric switches zoning using McData, Brocade switches. Storage management using EMC Navisphere Manager. Storage and Host integration using Windows, Linux, Solaris. Multipathing software like EMC Powerpath

Systems Administration . Administration and maintenance of Vsphere 4.0 and VMware 3.5 servers . Administration and maintenance of servers using Red hat Linux, Windows 2000 Advanced Server, and Windows 2003 Server and Windows 2008 server. . Installation, maintenance and optimization of MS-SQL Server 7/2000 . Installation and maintenance of IIS 5.0/6.0 web server in corporate environment . Active Directory DNS configuration and optimization, creation of zones and records Business Continuity plan and Disaster Recovery: . Maintain and support Virtualization Infrastructure using VMware, Virtual Server 2005/2007 thereby easing business continuity plans. . Planning, designing and implementing Disaster recovery strategies using products like VERITAS Netbackup and VERITAS Backup Exec. . Configuring media pools and media management so as to account for the tapes present onsite and offsite and ensure proper media rotation as per Company's retention policy. . Configuring backups for operating System (System State, Disaster Recovery), Active Directory Backup, Microsoft Cluster backup (Including quorum disk) and recovery. . Application level backup's for Exchange, SQL, Lotus Notes, SharePoint Portal Server running in a high availability environments like clustering.

Work Experience Organization: Company: AFC Inc, New York, NY Period: From March 2009 till date Role and Responsibilities: Storage Administrator . Responsible for administration of storage arrays Symmetrix, VMAX, DMX 4-950, Clariion CX4-960, CX4-240 and NetApp FAS 3270. . Day-to-day administration of SAN infrastructure using Symcli, SMC, Fabric Manager, Device Manager, Navisphere and Navicli. . Day-to-day administration of NAS infrastructure using Filer View and CLI. . Provide BAU support in performing Zone Config changes, Mapping of Devices to the respective FA ports and masking of devices to servers and also de-allocation of storage to unmap and unmask devices. . Implement FAST VP as part of a Pilot Project. Did feasibility Study to determine the ratio of SSD, FC and Sata. . Implemented FAST VP Policies and observed the data movement within the pools. . Implementation and administration of EMC TimeFinder (BCV/Mirror/Clone) using scripts and monitor any errors and assist SA's to troubleshooting. . Managed and Provisioned storage on Symmetrix DMX4-950, DMX 3000, V-MAX using Solution Enabler and SMC . Executed storage provisioning on Symmetrix VMAX Storage arrays by Creating Initiator Groups, Port Groups and Storage Groups. . Implemented Thin Provisioning in VMAX by creating Thin Pools and Binding devices to pools. . Expanded Thin Pools with additional Capacity and pool rebalancing. . On Clariion provisioned storage to host by creating Raid groups, Luns, Storage groups , Registering hosts and assign Luns to the host by using Navisphere manager . Created thin pools and thin Luns while performing thin provisioning on Clariion CX4-960. . Expanded thin pools on CX4 and also configured alerts for pool threshold. . Implement SRDF for Production and COB Sites by creating R1/R2 device pairings, RDF Groups, device groups and provide support to troubleshoot issues. . Pulled switch logs in order to analyze end to end switch performance and resource utilization . Implemented SAN expansion by joining the new switches to the existing fabric or merging two fabrics with minimal or no disturbance to the production. . Involved in switch migration from Cisco MDS 9506 to Cisco MDS 9513. . Performed Firmware upgrades for Emulex HBA drives . Provided analysis and solutions for server storage configuration and utilization improvements . Migrated the ECC Infrastructure from 6.0 to 6.1 . Involved in SAN refresh Project to migrate the existing SAN environment from Brocade to Cisco MDS 9513's and also the existing DWDM link between the production and DR sties. . Designed the Core-Edge topology for new Cisco Fabrics to ensure high availability and redundancy. . Built Cisco 9513's from the scratch configuring the setup, Upgrade SONOS, Install Licensing, setup user accounts, Security, Install and configured Fabric Manager on SAN Control workstation.

. Performed Inventory of the existing environment in both Prod and DR Sites (Devices attached, Ports connected on Brocade, WWN Numbers, FA's Masked) . Identified servers I/O bases on the Storage Scope WLA reports and used the info in carefully planning the SAN Design and allocation the bandwidth to the ports hosts are connected to. . Attended all the Migration Meetings for Bin Requests and the Migration itself. . Involved in setting up new ECC Servers with powerful hardware retiring the existing ECC servers. . Implemented Tivoli Alerting for the SAN Infrastructure devices to alert the Command Center and worked closely with Tivoli team to create log adapters and carefully planned out the severity levels carefully to alert, email, and call the on-call support in timely fashion. Organization: ADP Ann Arbor, MI Period: From September 2007 till March 2009 Role and Responsibilities: Storage Specialist . Provisioned, allocated, zoned, mapped, and masked array disk space for HP-UX, AIX, and Windows platforms. . Supported and managed 10 different Symmetrix class arrays (DMX3000's, DMX 3's) utilizing solutions enabler 6.3 symmcli, and Clariion arrays approximately 50+ (CX300's, 700's, CX3-10 - 80's) using Navisphere. . Planned and designed storage solution models that were deployed in remote locations for specific business application requirements and budget constraints. . Managed and supported multiple fabrics from a local and remote standpoint. These fabrics contained multiple core director class switches (McData 140 ports) and edge departmental switches (McData 32 ports). Connectrix Manager 8.9.1 was utilized to manage all switches, zone sets, and fabrics. . Managed and supported SRDF replications between DR data center locations in North Carolina and Texas. . Used NaviSphere Analyzer as a tool to get the characteristics like the Read throughput, Write Throughput and the Total IOPS for a specific Lun and took them back to the Management and addressed the re-design of the existing bottlenecks in the performance . Developed procedures for the allocation of storage to VMware servers on 1TB SATA drives and implemented Meta Lun's to spread across multiple spindles for good throughput and performance. . Installation, configuration and driver upgrades of HBA's (Emulex & Qlogic) on Unix and Windows servers. . Powerpath software installation, configuration and administration using powermt CLI in Unix and powerpath GUI in windows . Installation and configuration of Host Agents, Master Agent, Connectivity Agent and all relevant agents to support the ECC 5.2SP4/6.1 environment. . Worked with ECC Storage Scope to build custom reports and understand the current Utilization of storage thereby performing Capacity Planning recommendations to management for procurement of new hardware. . Implemented ESRS setup for EMC Dial homes thereby replacing the conventional modem Dial home method. . Isolated and resolved performance problems with disk I/O on arrays with respect to Exchange applications.

Organization: Lowes , NC Period: From August 2006, till September 2007 Role and Responsibilities: SAN Administrator . Planned, designed, configured, and implemented SAN fabric and EMC DMX storage array for an Exchange cluster that provided corporate executive email services. . Storage Provisioning on DMX 3, DMX 2000, Clariion CX 700, CX-380 . Worked on Tickets for issue resolution and Storage Allocation requests. . Planned, designed, configured and implemented SAN fabric and EMC DMX storage array for a secondary field Exchange cluster and fileserver repository. . Created SAN/NAS topology infrastructure diagrams and documentation procedures on how to create zones, luns, metavolumes, along with the processes involved with mapping and masking those devices. . Installed and configured drivers/configuration files for Emulex HBA's on Solaris 8 hosts. . Provisioned, allocated, zoned, mapped and masked storage disk space for Solaris and Windows hosts. (100+ servers) . Installed and configured EMC StorageScope to generate reports for space forecasting and trending - also created chargeback groups. . Supported and managed EMC Celerra Datamovers (8) and control stations for both production and test/dev environments. (NAS) Created corporate CIFS shares and NFS mount filesystems on the datamovers for application servers in production. . Supported and managed an IP4700 and Clariion FC4700 unit that contains file repositories and application data. . Supported and managed 5 (32 port) McData Fiber switches, 2 (64 port) Mcdata Fiber switches, and 2 (140 port) McData director class switches, utilizing Connectrix Manager 8.1 and/or ECC 5.2. . Supported multipathing via EMC PowerPath and Veritas DMP (Dynamic Multipathing)