Storage Administrator
Total years of experience :16 years, 8 Months
•Administration and maintenance EMC SAN environment with VPLEX (Standard), Symmetrix VMAX, DMX4 & DMX3 and CLARiiON.
•Worked on SAN related tasks Zoning, Meta Creation, mapping and masking in Symmetrix using SYMCLI and Unisphere.
•Experience in fabric manager and device manager for zoning using CLI.
•Strong working knowledge on Storage provisioning from EMC Vplex, Symmetrix VMAX, DMX and CLARiiON.
•Experience on Storage provisioning LUN creation, Create storage view, Masking and Mapping.
•Copied LUNs data b/w different and similar storage systems using MirrorView and SANCopy in CLARiiON.
•Experience in SRDF Migration and Host based migration.
•Experience in implementing Business Continuity Solutions using Snap View Clone/Snapshot at CLARiiON level and Time Finder Mirror/Clone/ at the Symmetrix level.
•Experience in allocation and deallocation in remote data facility (SRDF/S & SRDF/A) in EMC VMAX.
•Expertise in device manager and administration of Cisco MDS Switches.
•Troubleshooting HBA issues and path degraded issues .
•Received award and rewards for my excellence work in my current origination.
Technical Strengths:
•Creating Storage views in Vplex.
•Create Zoning through Vplex and register Initiator groups.
•Creating Raid Groups in CLARiiON
•Binding LUNs, Creating Meta LUNs
•Creating Storage Groups
•LUN Mapping & Masking
•MirrorView/S & MirrorView/A
•Creating devices in Symmetrix
•Timefinder and SRDF
•Zoning by Using CLI & GUI
•Reserving & Reclaim the Ports
•Storage Reclaims
Storage Appliances:
•EMC Vplex
•EMC Symmetrix VMAX
•EMC Symmetrix DMX 3 & DMX 4
•EMC CLARiiON CX-3 (40) & CX-4 (480)
•CISCO MDS 9513/9222i Switches.
Software’s:
•Solution Enabler (SE)
•SMC (Symmetrix Management Console)
•EMC Unisphere
•Power Path Enabler
•Mirror View & San Copy
•EMC SRDF
•Cisco Device Manager
•Cisco Fabric Manager
Working on CLARiiON CX4-480/960, EMC Symmetrix VMAX and DMX4 & DMX3.
•Day to day jobs include storage allocation, troubleshooting, monitoring and Reporting on the SAN Environment.
•Strong working knowledge on Provisioning Storage to different Operating systems by using Symmetrix Solution Enabler (SymCLI), Symmetrix VMAX, DMX3 & DMX4.
•Storage Provisioning via allocating necessary storage to different Operating systems by using Navisphere Manager and Unisphere Manager in CLARiiON.
•Creating thin devices, Virtual Devs, Meta LUNs, Data devices, and Save devices using SMYCLI.
•Experience in Cisco Fabric Manager, Device Manager and zoning.
•Creating VSANs, Zonesets, and zones and activating Zonesets.
•Create RAID Groups, Create LUNs, BIND LUNs, and Create Storage Groups in
CLARiiON using Navisphere/Unisphere Manager.
•Created Raid groups, storage groups and migrated LUNs from one raid group to another Raid groups.
•Reclaim Retired storage back to the pool for future use on Symmetrix VMAX.
•Configured Symmetrix Remote Data Facility (SRDF/A) between two Arrays.
•Experience in EMC Powerpath for Path failover and Load balancing
•Monitoring Symmetrix health using Symmetrix Performance Analyzer (SPA).
•Creating Service requests with vendors in case of hardware failures.
•Troubleshooting storage connectivity between server, storage and SAN
Worked on EMC CLARiiON CX 3-40 & CX4-480/960
•Worked on Storage Provisioning via allocating necessary storage to Solaris, windows, Linux Operating systems by using Navisphere Manager and Unisphere Manager on CLARiiON.
•Experience in Binding LUNs, Naming, and resizing, Unbinding LUNs through Unisphere.
•Reclaim Retired storage for future use on CLARiiON.
•Experience in Cisco Fabric Manager, Device Manager and zoning.
•Working on Host based Migration PPME (Power Path Migration Enabler).
•Implemented MirrorView sessions across storage servers.
•Actively participated in installing Powerpath for load balancing and path failover on host systems.
•Deploying additional EMC CLARiiON storage servers into existing storage migrated LUNs from one storage server to other using SAN Copy.
•Experience in EMC Powerpath for Path failover and Load balancing.
•Troubleshooting storage connectivity between server, storage and SAN.
System Admin
Installing configuring & administrating windows XP, Windows 2003 server.
•Troubleshooting desktop related issues (H/W & Software)
•Provided desktop level support to end user.
•Installing and configuring Printer.
•Installing windows update on Desktop.
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