Abhishek Sardana

Handling IBM SAN products like SVC, V7000, Flash Systems and XIV.
Firmware up gradation of Flash Systems, SVC and V7000.
Firmware up gradation of Brocade Core and Edge Switches.
Delivering SAN trainings to the teams that belong to different platforms.
Performing health checks of all the SAN devices on daily basis.
Working on DC migration using technologies like Metro Mirroring.
Worked on Open Stack Cloud implementation.
Working on changes, CIRATS and incidents.
Working on Brocade Switches.
Creating and assigning volumes to the hosts.
Handling zoning on the SAN Switches. Both soft and hard zoning.
Troubleshooting the issues related to the RAID groups and Volumes not getting visible to the clients.
Day to day jobs include storage allocation, troubleshooting, monitoring and reporting on the SAN Environment

Good experience in handling HP storage products like MSA 2040, MSA P 2000 G3, MSA 2312, NAS X1400, X1600 and X1800 series.
Creating and assigning LUNs to the hosts. (Default and Explicit mapping)
Adding hosts to the MSA arrays using SMU.
Expansion of the VDISKs using SMU.
Analysing the reports of the MSAs on daily basis to know about the performance and the faults going on.
Troubleshooting the issues related to the MSA VDISKs, Volumes not getting visible on the Host OS, HDD failure and Performance of the MSA.
Firmware up gradation.
Good experience in handling HP Tape Libraries like Autoloaders, MSL 2024, 4048, 8096 and MSL 6480.
Exposure to Windows OS and basics of RHEL.
Exposure to the SAN Switch like Brocade.
Basics of the Zoning (Soft and Hard) on the Brocade Switch.

Day to day jobs include storage allocation, troubleshooting, monitoring and reporting on the SAN Environment.
Complete knowledge about the VNX7500 architecture.
Managing VNX 7500 using EMC Unisphere.
Hands on experience in Host Registration, Creation of LUN, Meta LUN and Storage Groups using EMC Unisphere.
Hands on experience for creating Storage pool & pool LUNs using Unisphere.
Performed Binding of LUNS onto the RAID Groups in the EMC VNX 7500.
Creating Thin & thick LUN from storage pool.
Having knowledge in registering the hosts in the VNX.
Access Logix configuration for EMC VNX.
Hands on experience in configuring FAST VP and FAST Cache in EMC VNX.
Monitoring Storage processor performance and collecting logs (Sp collect).
Hands on experience in configuring VNX Snapview - Snapshots and Clones.
Participating with Vendor for Firmware upgrade.
Maintain reports on disk utilization, availability and growth patterns.
Working with Vendor for parts replacements.
Proactively monitoring of Storage Fabrics in a SAN environment.
Defining Zoning and LUN masking for secured SAN environment.
CLI and GUI Based Zoning with brocade switches and brocade directors.
Practical knowledge of hard-zoning and soft- zoning.
Knowledge on ISL & Trunking in Brocade switch
Troubleshooting of Fabric Switch configuration.

Monitoring of the DataCenter Server, Storage and Network Devices of Bharti Airtel.
Complete knowledge of the CX4 -960 architecture.
Managing Clariion CX-4 -960 using Navisphere 6.29.
Performing Administration tasks on EMC Clariion CX4 -960.
Hands on experience in Host Registration, Creation of LUN, Meta LUN and Storage Groups using Navisphere Manager.
Worked on Storage Provisioning as per Client request to hosts by using Navisphere Manager.
Performed Binding of LUNS onto the RAID Groups in the EMC Clariion.
Performed creation of the Storage groups and allocation of LUNS to the hosts in the Clariion.
Monitoring Storage processor performance and collecting logs (Sp collect).
Access Logix configuration for Clariion Storage
Knowledge on SNAP VIEW, MIRROR VIEW, SAN COPY.
Maintain reports on disk utilization, availability and growth patterns
Working with Vendor for parts replacements
Proactively monitoring of Storage Fabrics in SAN Environment
Defining Zoning and LUN masking for secured SAN Environment.