Senior Operations Professional – Storage Administrator
IBM India Pvt. Ltd.
Total years of experience :15 years, 3 Months
Presently Working at IBM India Pvt Ltd as Storage Administrator from April 2011-tilldate
Contribution:
1. Project: Energy Australia (Formerly TRUEnergy)
About Energy Australia:
Energy Australia is an electricity generation, electricity and gas retailing private company in Australia.
Energy Australia supplies natural gas and electricity to more than 1.25 million residential and business customers throughout Australia. In addition to the retail function, energy Australia has a significant portfolio of industrial and commercial customers, and a A$5 billion portfolio of energy assets, including an underground natural gas storage facility at lina near port Campbell, a master hedge agreement with Ecogen for 966 megawatts of gas-fired electricity and power stations at yallourn, Victoria and Haslett Power Station, in South Australia.
Responsibilities:-
* Provide storage administration for IBM Enterprise, Midrange, HP EVA 8000 series and SUN StorEdge 9980-85 Storage boxes.
* Configuring and managing IBM Midrange storage boxes using DS Storage Manager.
* Configuring and managing HP EVA 8000 series storage boxes using HP Command view EVA.
* Configuring and managing SUN StorEdge 9980-85 storage boxes using Storage Navigator.
* Storage allocation, de-allocation and reclaiming space using SMC and CLI on V-Max
* Coordinating with vendor (I BM and HP) for hardware replacements
* Performing the Zoning using GUI browser and CLI
* Registering the host HBA in Storage Arrays.
* Checking alerts
* Maintenance of existing fiber channel switches, creating soft zones & upgrading firmware of the switches with the help of CLI.
* Expanding the existing LUNs as per the requirement.
* Deletion of unused LUN as per the requirement from Clients.
* Managing raid groups (Creation, Expansion, and Deletion)
* Taking the logs and configuration backups from various storage arrays for analysis and life cycle management.
* Defining Zoning and LUN masking for secured SAN environment.
* Proactively monitoring of Storage Fabrics in a SAN environment.
* Preparing the activity plans to achieve the customer's requirements.
* Delivering the solutions in time while meeting the deadlines.
* Preparing Health check reports on daily basis and capacity reports on monthly.
* New Host registration with clarion boxes
* Preparing Health check reports on daily basis and capacity reports on monthly
* Follow proper Change management and preparation of technical documentation of all SAN related projects
Company Name: IBM India Pvt. Ltd.
Destination: Senior Operations Professional - Storage Administrator
Client: Energy Australia
Duration: Since 06.04.2011 to till date
Company Name: Accel IT Resources Ltd.
Destination: Associate Engineer - Customer Services
Organization: Tamil Nadu Electricity Board
Destination: Graduate Apprenticeship Trainee
Client Place: Office of Superintending Engineer, TNEB, Pudukkottai.
Duration: Since 16.08.2008 to till 15.08.2009
Presently Working at IBM India Pvt Ltd as Storage Administrator from April 2011-tilldate
Contribution:
1. Project: Energy Australia (Formerly TRUEnergy)
About Energy Australia:
Energy Australia is an electricity generation, electricity and gas retailing private company in Australia.
Energy Australia supplies natural gas and electricity to more than 1.25 million residential and business customers throughout Australia. In addition to the retail function, energy Australia has a significant portfolio of industrial and commercial customers, and a A$5 billion portfolio of energy assets, including an underground natural gas storage facility at lina near port Campbell, a master hedge agreement with Ecogen for 966 megawatts of gas-fired electricity and power stations at yallourn, Victoria and Haslett Power Station, in South Australia.
Responsibilities:-
* Provide storage administration for IBM Enterprise, Midrange, HP EVA 8000 series and SUN StorEdge 9980-85 Storage boxes.
* Configuring and managing IBM Midrange storage boxes using DS Storage Manager.
* Configuring and managing HP EVA 8000 series storage boxes using HP Command view EVA.
* Configuring and managing SUN StorEdge 9980-85 storage boxes using Storage Navigator.
* Storage allocation, de-allocation and reclaiming space using SMC and CLI on V-Max
* Coordinating with vendor (I BM and HP) for hardware replacements
* Performing the Zoning using GUI browser and CLI
* Registering the host HBA in Storage Arrays.
* Checking alerts
* Maintenance of existing fiber channel switches, creating soft zones & upgrading firmware of the switches with the help of CLI.
* Expanding the existing LUNs as per the requirement.
* Deletion of unused LUN as per the requirement from Clients.
* Managing raid groups (Creation, Expansion, and Deletion)
* Taking the logs and configuration backups from various storage arrays for analysis and life cycle management.
* Defining Zoning and LUN masking for secured SAN environment.
* Proactively monitoring of Storage Fabrics in a SAN environment.
* Preparing the activity plans to achieve the customer's requirements.
* Delivering the solutions in time while meeting the deadlines.
* Preparing Health check reports on daily basis and capacity reports on monthly.
* New Host registration with clarion boxes
* Preparing Health check reports on daily basis and capacity reports on monthly
* Follow proper Change management and preparation of technical documentation of all SAN related projects
Presently Working at IBM India Pvt Ltd as Storage Administrator from April 2011-tilldate
Contribution:
1. Project: Energy Australia (Formerly TRUEnergy)
About Energy Australia:
Energy Australia is an electricity generation, electricity and gas retailing private company in Australia.
Energy Australia supplies natural gas and electricity to more than 1.25 million residential and business customers throughout Australia. In addition to the retail function, energy Australia has a significant portfolio of industrial and commercial customers, and a A$5 billion portfolio of energy assets, including an underground natural gas storage facility at lina near port Campbell, a master hedge agreement with Ecogen for 966 megawatts of gas-fired electricity and power stations at yallourn, Victoria and Haslett Power Station, in South Australia.
Responsibilities:-
* Provide storage administration for IBM Enterprise, Midrange, HP EVA 8000 series and SUN StorEdge 9980-85 Storage boxes.
* Configuring and managing IBM Midrange storage boxes using DS Storage Manager.
* Configuring and managing HP EVA 8000 series storage boxes using HP Command view EVA.
* Configuring and managing SUN StorEdge 9980-85 storage boxes using Storage Navigator.
* Storage allocation, de-allocation and reclaiming space using SMC and CLI on V-Max
* Coordinating with vendor (I BM and HP) for hardware replacements
* Performing the Zoning using GUI browser and CLI
* Registering the host HBA in Storage Arrays.
* Checking alerts
* Maintenance of existing fiber channel switches, creating soft zones & upgrading firmware of the switches with the help of CLI.
* Expanding the existing LUNs as per the requirement.
* Deletion of unused LUN as per the requirement from Clients.
* Managing raid groups (Creation, Expansion, and Deletion)
* Taking the logs and configuration backups from various storage arrays for analysis and life cycle management.
* Defining Zoning and LUN masking for secured SAN environment.
* Proactively monitoring of Storage Fabrics in a SAN environment.
* Preparing the activity plans to achieve the customer's requirements.
* Delivering the solutions in time while meeting the deadlines.
* Preparing Health check reports on daily basis and capacity reports on monthly.
* New Host registration with clarion boxes
* Preparing Health check reports on daily basis and capacity reports on monthly
* Follow proper Change management and preparation of technical documentation of all SAN related projects
Company Name: IBM India Pvt. Ltd.
Destination: Senior Operations Professional - Storage Administrator
Client: Energy Australia
Duration: Since 06.04.2011 to till date
Client Place: Chennai Port Trust, Rajaji salai, Chennai 01
Duration: Since 15.04.2010 to 31.09.2010
* B.E., Electrical and Electronics Engineering with 62% from Sudharsan Engg. College, Pudukkottai. (Affiliated to Anna University)
* HSC with 84.83% from Laurel Hr. Sec. School, Pattukkottai.
* SSLC with 82.6% from Government Boys hr. Sec. School, Aranthangi.