Engineer - Storage and Backup
Malomatia
Total years of experience :14 years, 0 Months
• Major project Handled in Malomatia are - Ministry of Finance Qatar, Single Window and SJC.
• Managing EMC VxBlock 350 with Unity 550F storage, UCS 5108 Chassis with UCS B and C series blades, UCS C series standalone servers, VPLEX and MDS 9148S switches in both Primary and DR locations.
• Managing HP MSA arrays, IBM v7000, NetApp FAS series, NetApp E2800 and Hikvision storage arrays And EMC Networker, Avamar, Data Domain (EMC DPA), Veeam and Backup Exec as backup solution and Brocade, Cisco SAN Switches for different customers
• Coordinated with customers and developed new backup and retention policies
• Performed firmware upgrades for Unity arrays, Data domain systems, DPC, IBM storage array, EMC Networker, Tape libraries… etc.
• Involving in the new Storage and Backup products procurement and renewal processes.
• Preparing SoW for the new requirements, identifying the compatible products, preparing RFQ documents and performing technical evaluation on technical offers from multiple vendors.
• Performing daily activities such as Storage provisioning from Unity and VPLEX to hosts, LUN expansion, new backup and clone/offshore clone policy creation, restore operations.
• Prepared SOP documents for all the storage and backup operations
• Coordinating with vendors to replace the faulty hardware components
• Managed NetApp C Mode Filers, Hitachi Storage Arrays and Backup software’s (Veeam and CA ARCServe)
• Day-to-day administration and monitoring of the production virtual infrastructure
• Managed ScaleIO environment
• Implemented capacity planning and supported performance tuning procedures
• Developed and maintained backup and data restore solutions for critical data
• Provided support to DR data replication activities and maintained data recoverability
• Provisioning & scaling up and reclaiming Aggregate & volumes & LUNs
• Configured NFS/CIFS for UNIX and Windows clients
• Decommissioning of storage arrays
• Gathering and sharing artefacts/evidences for audit requests
• Performed ONTAP version upgrades
• Configured zoning on Brocade SAN switches
• Performed HCI migration activities
• Prepared knowledgebase documents with all required details and sharing it with the team
• Incident/Service Requests/Change Requests/Problem ticket handling
• ESXi Host patching and VMware environment management
• Managing storage systems - EMC VNX, IBM DS series arrays and v series arrays
• Managing Backup solutions - EMC Avamar, CA ARCServe and Microsoft DPM
• Daily Activities: L2 and L3 level Troubleshooting for the issues, monitoring different backup setups including EMC Avamar, CA ARCserve and Microsoft DPM and troubleshooting and resolving the issues if any, Monitoring the Storage Hardware status, LUN expansion, assigning new LUN to hosts
• Configured Avamar backup at Europe region by sending data in HDD from different locations and connecting it locally
• Storage firmware upgrade
• Started career with HCL as a Storage and Backup implementation Engineer
• Installed and configured a number of storage arrays (EMC CLARiiON, Celerra, VNX, Hitachi AMS series arrays, NetApp entry level box) and backup solutions (EMC Networker, Backup Exec) from different vendors at different customer premises
• Storage and SAN switches firmware upgrades in regular basis Installed and configured the SAN switches (Brocade and CISCO) and tape libraries (Tandberg) at customer places
• Replaced the faulty components at customer places and troubleshoot the issues occurred
• EMC Resident Engineer at UIDAI DC for 19 months
• Participated on the complete DC build activities
• Participated on new EMC VMAX implementation (8 VMAX 20K arrays) at UIDAI DC
• Performed Enginuity and disk firmware upgrades for the new VMAX 20K arrays and for the existing DMX arrays
• Installed and configured CISCO MDS 9513, 9148 SAN Switches and performed firmware upgrades
• Conducted UAT for the new VMAX arrays
• Managed all the EMC boxes including VMAX, DMX, VNX, CLARiiON and Celerra arrays at UIDAI project and coordinated with different vendor and helped to replace the faulty components
• Performed the daily storage activities and worked on multiple projects assigned by EMC
3 Year Diploma in Computer Hardware Maintenance