Sr Storage Engineer
Data Intensity LLC
Total years of experience :21 years, 0 Months
Data Intensity, LLC is a leader in Oracle consulting and private Cloud hosting services, We mange to host more 150+ customers in our Boston Data Center. I am working as Sr.Storage Engineer who manages all the Storage maintenance and life cycle, We have recently migrate all our NetApp 7 mode systems to cDOT clusters, All the legacy 3PAR block storage to PURE flash array.
RESPONSIBILITIES
•Technical lead for all storage Related task
•Primary contact for all storage migrations
•Involved in capacity planning and design
•Drive day to day operations and work plan allocation/management
•Direct interface with all Customer lead for Storage planning and migrations
Achievement
I have recognized as the employee of the Quarter for the extensive migrations done, We have empty out all the legacy NFS and Block storage to new Flash arrays.
Operating Systems: Hpux 11.1x
RESPONSIBILITIES
•HP-UX administration
•XP 12000 and XP1024 Disk Array Administration.
•Ignite Backup and restoration
•HP Sure Store Ultrium Tape Library ESL9595, ESL 712 E Management.
•Disk Administration using LVM
•Backup administration using Omni Data Protector
•Documentation and Reporting
Teradyne, Inc. have deployed networked storage infrastructure (SAN and NAS) across 10 locations worldwide to support their various business and engineering applications. As storage and Unix Admin my responsibilities include managing steady state operations as well as working as key person for various transformation projects such as storage upgrade, technology refreshes, data center migrations, etc. I had been deputed to client location Teradyne Agoura Hills California for 3 years and I was responsible for all Data center related tasks including Data center management, DC migrations and upgrades
Environment
SAN: EMC CLARiiON CX4-960, NetApp FAS32xx, 22xx, 80xx, Brocade 6510 FCP switches, EMC/McDATA ED-140M directors, Brocade 7500 switches (FCIP)
NAS: Net App - FAS32xx, 80xx, 30xx, 22xx F5/Acopia ARX4000, Avere - FXT 3850
Operating Systems: MS Windows (2000/2003/2008), RH Linux (4/5/6), Solaris 10/9/8, HP-UX 11.x, VMWare (ESX 3.5, ESXi 4.x/5.x), Citrix -Xenserver 6.x
Management Tools: NetApp- Data ONTAP (Clustered and 7-mode), OnCommand Core(DFM), OnCommand Unified Manager, OnCommand Performance Manager, SnapManager for Oracle (SMO), SnapView, MirrorView, SAN Copy, EMC/McData Connectrix Manager, EMC Navisphere Manager,
RESPONSIBILITIES
•Single point of contact for the technical tower in front of the customer management
•Ensure proper communication and quick resolution as a crisis manager
•Responsible for Vendor management and people management
•Drive day to day operations and work plan allocation/management
•Weekly and monthly status reports to higher management
•Participate in business meetings with various stake holders
•Take corrective actions based on the customer satisfaction surveys
•Drive service improvement programs
•Authoring and maintaining configuration documents such as Run Books, connectivity diagram, etc. Knowledge transfer to team members for proposed or deployed configuration changes
•Frequent communication and meetings with client, business managers or application owners to understand capacity and performance requirements for existing applications or ongoing/upcoming projects.
•Capacity planning - estimate growth of storage capacity or performance utilization over a period of time and propose, implement hardware upgrades by adding disk shelf or upgrading storage array to meet the requirement. Migrate data between storage arrays (or within array) if necessary.
•Frequent meeting with vendors to understand roadmap of new solutions, evaluate if possible and propose solution to client
•Perform Trend analysis, identify top few incidents and work with respective teams/individual to minimize the incidents.
•Effort estimation/reviews on need basis for new projects
•Perform Storage Administration tasks that include:
•Installation, configuration and administration of NetApp and EMC Storage arrays including storage provisioning, management of RAID-pool or aggregate, volumes, qtrees, LUNs, quota, CIFS and NFS shares, mixed protocol access, user account management, etc.
•Provisioning block (SAN) storage in multi-OS environment.
•Provisioning file (NAS) Storage in NFS, CIFS or mixed protocol environment.
•Online backup of critical volumes by configuring snapshots(SnapView, Timefinder or NetApp - SnapShot), clones (EMC -SnapView/Timefinder, NetApp - FlexClone) or mirrors (MirrorView, SRDF or SnapMirror)
•Configuration and management of replication between two sites for disaster recovery
•Performance enhancement by implementing FAST Cache, Flash Cache or SSD
•Improve storage capacity utilization by implementing Storage Tiering policies.
•SAN Management: Configuration and management of FC SAN for large data centres, implement IP SAN (iSCSI) for smaller data centres, configure FCIP for replication between two sites
•Automate backup and cloning of Oracle databases by using EMC - Replication Manager or NetApp - SnapManager (SMO)
•Install, configure and manage centralized management and monitoring tools like EMC Control Center, NetApp - OnCommand Core, Unified Manager, EMC - Connectrix Manager, Solarwinds (Tek-tools) Storage Profiler, etc.
•Alert management using array based tools, centralized monitoring tools or SNMP traps
•Performance data collection and analysis using array based tools or centralized monitoring tools
•Troubleshoot performance, connectivity or access issues
•Follow vendor support website or communication (ETA/Bulletin) to understand new known software or hardware issues, bugs, etc and perform upgrades as necessary
Providing the front-end support for Hardware and Operating System in data centre.
•Patch Assessment, Installation and Firmware up gradation.
•Configuration and troubleshooting of Data Protector backup and restore.
•Monitoring the XP performance using XP performance advisor.
•File system management with VERITAS volume manager and LVM.
•Management of highly available NFS.
•Management High Availability Cluster with MC Service Guard.
•RedHat Linux Administartion
Environment
Hardware SUN, Dell, HP
Operating System RH Linux 7/8/9, Solaris 7/8
RESPONSIBILITIES
•Providing the front-end support for Hardware and Operating System in data centre.
•Patch Assessment, Installation and Firmware up gradation.
•Configuration and troubleshooting of Data Protector backup and restore.
•Linux Rhel3.0 and Sun Solaris Support
RESPONSIBILITIES
•Handling Internet Cafes using Squid proxy server in
Worked as an apprentice in Systems (EDP) Department
•Developed software using FoxPro, Visual Basic and Sql Server
2001