SAN adminstrator Resume

Title
SAN adminstrator

Primary Skills
SAN, VMWARE, TSM

Location
US-CA-los angeles (will consider relocating)

Posted
Aug-26-09

Summary:

• Expertise and experience in planning, designing and implementing SAN on open systems for High Availability and Disaster Recovery.
• Proficient in EMC storage systems (Clariion and Symmetrix) and EMC software such as Enterprise Control Center, Storage Scope, Navisphere, connectrix manager, Snap view, Mirror view, Time Finder, SRDF, power path, SAN copy.
• Equally exposed to the IBM DS 8000 storage systems using DS 8000 storage manager, offline storage using Tivoli storage manager, copy services for IBM storage systems using CLI commands
• Savvy of Veritas Net backup for backup and recovery purposes.
• Proficient user of CLI commands on the EMC storage systems.
• Have exposure on NAS celerra systems for the creation of file systems and share names.
• Skilled in configuring Disk Arrays, Storage Management, Disk Management.
• Have administration skills on UNIX, Linux and Windows operating systems from a SAN admin point of view
• Great understanding of VMWare ESX server.
• Knowledge on using Veritas Volume Manager.
• Have excellent communication skills and a team player.



Technical Skills:

Operating System : Windows 2003/2000, UNIX, VMWare
High end disk systems : IBM DS 8000, EMC symmetrix DMX,
CLARIION, CELERRA (NAS), Netapp filers
SAN switches : Brocade 3800/2800, CISCO MDS 9800,
McData Director 6410
SAN Management software : EMC Control Center, Storage Scope, Navisphere,
Snap view, Mirror view, Time Finder, SRDF &
Power Path, brocade fabric manager, TPC,
Veritas Volume Manager
Backup and Recovery Solutions : Veritas Net backup, TSM
Server software : VMWare virtual center, VMWare Vmotion,
VMWare P2V
Design tools : Microsoft Visio 2003



Experience:

Farmers Insurance, Los Angeles, CA [Sep 2007-present]
SAN Administrator

• Worked on End to End documentation of the SAN with Visio diagrams of all San Islands
• Storage administrator with system administration responsibilities for multiple operating systems
• SAN administration, brocade zoning, managing LUNs, volumes and installing FC HBA on host, installing HBA driver and troubleshooting storage issues.
• Performed zoning on McData, Brocade and CISCO MDS switches with Connectrix Manager and Fabric Manager respectively.
• Maintained enterprise SAN consisting of both Fiber Channel and SCSI disk arrays.
• Identify servers to migrate, Perform Host Analysis by collecting emcgrab reports and analyzing the reports using HEAT Tool
• Day-to-day administration of SAN infrastructure using ECC, symcli, Navisphere, navicli, DS storage manager, DS CLI, TPC (total productivity center).
• Implemented Multiple Concurrent BCV's, hot (live) BCV splits and BCV restores.
• Designed remote replication and helped disaster recovery solutions to ensure 24/7 data availability using SRDF/A, TimeFinder and MirrorView.
• Perform Data Migration from Symmetrix to symmetrix using SRDF, CLARiiON to CLARiiON using SANCopy and DS6000 to DS6000 using copy services (CLI).
• Assigning gate keepers for different servers from DMX storage box on request from server side.
• Implemented VMWare ESX to consolodate 20+ servers onto two boxes
• Implemented NetApp SAN to utilize high availabilty, dynamic resource scheduling, and vmotion for our ESX environment. Additionally, reduced storage requirements by half using NetApp's deduplication, cloning, and thin-provisioning technologies
• Switch migrations.
• Created CIFS and NFS file systems on celerra storage box (NAS)
• Mounting shares in celerra (NAS)
• Backup, Recovery of the database using TSM.


Capgemni, Burbank, CA [Sept'06 -- Aug'07]
Storage Engineer

• Install, configure and upgrade HBA driver and firmware on UNIX and Windows environment.
• Implemented, administered and maintained EMC Clariion CX 600/700, SnapView and BCV(Cloning)
• Provisioned LUN's to servers, databases.
• Configured Snapview Snapshots and Snapview Clones on CLARiiON CX Series Sub-Systems.
• Configured MirrorView, SAN Copy for SQL and Exchange with Clariion Storage systems
• Design, Installation, Configuration and Administration of ECC 5.2 in Single-Host architecture.
• Implement Core-Edge design. Create ISLs. Zone administration on McData switches.
• Configure lpfc.conf and sd.conf files in Solaris environment for storage visibility to the servers.
• Install and configure PowerPath in UNIX and Windows environment
• Assign storage from DMX/Symmetrix & CLARiiON arrays to UNIX & Windows systems
• Install NaviSphere Agent and NaviCLI on all the hosts in CLARiiON environment.
• Create RAID Groups, Bind LUNs, create Storage Groups, Register Hosts for assigning Host to Storage Group and Add LUNs.
• Assign storage from CX600/CX700 using NaviSphere Manager.
• Perform data migration using SANCopy from CX700 to Symmetrix 8530.
• Configured zoning on FC Switches using the vendors Fabric Manager for Storage access by multi-vendor
• Configured and administered Fiber Channel Switches like Brocade, McData and Cisco MDS.
• Zoned M-series switches with Connectrix Manager and also MDS series switch with Fabric Manager.
• Setup and Configured Cisco MDS switches 9216 and 9509 using Fabric and Device Manager.
• Zone administration to do migration and assign new storage after migration.
• Create SANCopy Sessions using Navisphere Manager to perform migration.
• Implemented and Maintained VERITAS Netbackup which includes installation, upgrade, configuration and maintenance of VERITAS Netbackup 5.1 for Solaris and Windows.
• Backup, Recovery of the database using Veritas NetBackup.
• Monitor array performance and error logs and troubleshoot problems to enhance availability.
• Use SRDF for Symmetrix 8530 to DMX 3000 data replication.
• Use symconfigure to perform configuration changes on the DMX/Symmetrix arrays. Create/dissolve Meta Volumes, Change device configuration, map/unmap devices to FA ports as and when required.
• Setup Device groups and Perform TimeFinder/Mirror/Clone operations for Backup/Testing purposes.
• Generate Reports using Storage Scope in ECC.


Project work in EMC, Bangalore [Jan'06 -- July'06]

• Had exposure to McData Fibre Channel Switches, Brocade Switches, and Cisco Switches.
• Had worked on Navisphere Manager, EMC Symmetrix CLI (Solutions Enabler), EMC Control Centre (ECC).
• Worked on viewing Symmetrix configuration data using Solutions Enabler and ECC.
• Worked on daily tasks which include LUN mapping and masking, setting symmetrix port flags.
• Had exposure to EMC Timefinder and SRDF environments. Worked on BCV sync / split processes and RDF1 / RDF2 sync / split.
• Worked on viewing Clarion and Symmetrix / DMX errors and hardware failures.

Certifications:

EMC certification of foundation level
EMC certification of clariion associate level

Certifications
emc certified storage associate
emc certified clariion associate


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