bharath kumar

Work Experience

Total years of experience :12 years, 9 Months

Storage Admin at CSC India Pvt. Limited

India - Hyderabad
My current job since October 2015

Professional Summary

 Storage administrator with 5 years of experience in large enterprise storage (EMC/NetApp/Cisco/Brocade) Infrastructure support Services and Operations.
 SAN administration including LUN allocation, LUN expansion, storage decommissioning Health checks, Thin provisioning, Zoning, Capacity planning,
 NAS Filesystem creation (CIFS, NFS) filesystem extension, management of Aggregates, Flexible Volumes, LUNs and Qtrees
 Experience on EMC DMX, VMAX, VNX, Clarion, NetApp 7-mode, Cisco and Brocade
 Manage SRDF configured and Data Replication locally and remotely between two DMX-3 using SYMCLI.
 Plan preventive maintenance activities, Disaster recovery activities and deploy business continuity solutions.
 Experience in troubleshooting day to day SAN storage, Fabric and host related operational issues.
 Plan preventive maintenance activities, Disaster recovery activities and deploy business continuity solutions.
 Worked extensively in troubleshooting of EMC Symmetrix and DMX dial homes
 Provided assistance to the Field Engineers regarding the script failures, parts replacement, Enginuity code maintenance and patch upgrades.
 Experience with Symcli, Navisecli, Unisphere Manager & Navisphere Manager.

Project Engineer at Wipro Technologies

India - Bengaluru
September 2011 to October 2015

Storage Administrator
(Technologies: EMC DMX3/DMX4, VMAX, VNX and NetApp; Tools: Symcli, Unisphere and DFM)
 Monitoring the object Health, Capacity utilization and performance characteristics of storage system.
 Created and administration of aggregates, volumes, LUNs and Qtrees, dealt with Resizing as per demand.
 Configured and designed Data Protection features like Snapshot, Snap Restore, Snap Mirror and Snap vault to maintain online backup to recover from accidental deletions, corruptions or modifications of the data.
 Worked with NetApp team to upgrade the Data On Tap version on the filers
 Worked on troubleshooting issues related to aggregates, volumes, LUNs and technologies like Snap Mirror, Snap vault, Deduplication and Thin provisioning.
 Creating Vfilers as required.
 Performed zoning operations on Brocade 5300, 5100, 6510 Switches.
 Coordinating with NetApp for hardware issues and creating cases for hardware replacements.
 Daily Health Check on Storage Boxes and Brocade Switch Health check.
 Handling the tickets by using ITIL processes (change management and incident management).
 Troubleshooting issues regarding connectivity between server, storage and SAN.
 Worked as PSE-Level 1 which involves resolving problems on storage arrays through remotely dialing in to them, making them up and running at all times
 Administering remote diagnostics and corrective maintenance for Symmetrix and DMX dial homes.
 Proactive corrective maintenance for all components of Symmetrix and DMX, avoiding customer impact.
 Rectify issues with Business Continuity Volumes (BCV) and Time Finder operations.
 Experience in handling SCSI bus, Fiber loop, Memory and Directors issues.
 Part of the team which is responsible for handling Platinum/Diamond customers.