zahoor mohammed

Employment : IDEAL OAISIS EST, Saudi Arabia

Type : EMC Storage Admin

Tools : EMC Unisphere Manager.
Avamar and Data domain (Backup) and DPA for Reports .


SAN ADMINISTRATION:

• Managed masking of LUNs and formulated RAID groups and storage groups.
• Formulated zones and cabled connections.
• Knowledge of Brocade SAN switches & fibre channel connectivity
• Familiarity with EMC SAN hardware (Clariion and VNX) and software products
• Capable of architecting and managing Enterprise SAN and NAS environments.
• Lun Masking & LUN mapping.
• Configuring CIFS, NFS in VNX.
• Configuring Snapshots and cloning.
• Windows Integration and Linux Integration.
• Familiar with EMC Navisphere and Unisphere
Roles and Responsibilities:
 Provide storage administration for EMC Clarion, VNX and VMAX Storage systems
 Monitoring EMC CX, DMX and VMAX SAN environment with Navisphere Manager, Symmetrix management console and Symcli
 Performing the WWN Zoning using Fabric Manager
 Checking alerts of Clariion-CX4-480/960 using EMC Navisphere Manager
 Creation of New LUNS from Clariion-CX4-480/960 and presenting them to Servers
 Expanding the existing LUNs as per the requirement Implementation of Storage Allocation Policies -Hyper/LUN creation, Mapping, Masking
 Managing raid groups (Creation, Expansion, and Deletion)
 Checking the SP collects if requirements.
 Responsible for managing ClARiiON Storage arrays by using Unisphere, Navisphere.
 Managing VNX7500 in both block level using Unisphere.

 Upgrading Avamar and Data domain.
 Performing restore tests of data from cloned copy.
 Performing audit on clients for their configuration and restoration.
 Checking file system usage of the servers and the storage nodes and NMC server.
 Adding new Avamar, and Data domain systems to Backup and Recovery manager for monitoring.
 Ensuring proper health of all the Avamar Grids, Data domains, Networker servers and storage nodes.
 Ensuring that replication, checkpoints, HFS check and Garbage collection are running properly.
 Ensuring services are running for the Data Protection Advisor (DPA) server which hosts the DPA reporting tool.
 Implementation of Reports using third party tools like EMC DPA.
 Generating reports from DPA for monitoring backup failure and calculating the total size of data backed up for all the clients.
 Working on the backup failure tickets escalated by L1 team and other escalated tickets.
 Training and mentoring L1 team. VMware Administration:
o Good at all VMware product design, configuration, administration and maintenance.
o VMware vSphere ESX/ESXi 5.x and 6.x
o VMware vSphere vCenter server (Windows) 5.x and 6.x
o VMware vSphere vCenter server appliance (Linux), 5.x and 6.x
o VMware VSAN Virtual - SAN 5.x and 6.x
o VMware vSphere replication.
o VMware vSphere Converter 5.x and 6.x
o VMware vSphere Update manager 5.x and 6.x
o VMware networking administration.
o VMware storage administration.
o Configuring and designing network for VMware infrastructure
o Configuring and designing storage for VMware infrastructure.
o VMware backup and recovery.
o VMware troubleshooting and support.
o Expert at VMware snapshot concepts (Memory backup and file system level backup).
o Good at all VMware virtualization concepts.
o Configuring and implementing VMware storage Fiber channel NPIV technology.
o VMware vSphere standard networking switch support.
o VMware vSphere distributed networking switch support.
o Templates and cloning VM’s.
o Deploying VM’s
o Deploying third party plugins and ovf/ova templates (appliance) on VMware products
o Syslog server configurations.

Tools : EMC Unisphere Manager.
Avamar and Datadomain (Backup) and DPA for Reports


Roles and Responsibilities:

 Provide storage administration for EMC Clarion, VNX and VMAX Storage systems
 Monitoring EMC CX, DMX and VMAX SAN environment with Navisphere Manager, Symmetrix management console and Symcli
 Performing the WWN Zoning using Fabric Manager
 Checking alerts of Clariion-CX4-480/960 using EMC Navisphere Manager
 Creation of New LUNS from Clariion-CX4-480/960 and presenting them to Servers
 Expanding the existing LUNs as per the requirement
 Create the Meta LUNs
 Deletion of unused LUN as per the requirement from Clients
 Creating Hyper, Meta and Lun according to the client specifications & requirement
 Implementation of Storage Allocation Policies -Hyper/LUN creation, Mapping, Masking
 Managing raid groups (Creation, Expansion, and Deletion)
 Checking the SP collects if requirements.
 Preparing the activity plans to achieve the customer’s requirements
 Delivering the solutions in time while meeting the deadlines
 Allocating the storage to hosts as per their requirements
 Configured and Installed Power Path for load balancing and path failover on host system

Responsibilities:
 Software Installation to PCs
 Trouble shooting of PC
 Installation of Windows on Server
 Server Maintenance and update service packs
 LAN Switches and Connections
 Active Directory - Management
 User problems Log Maintenance
 Daily performance report
 Attending online support calls also

o Company: KBM Technologies, Hyderabad (India) - Sct 2011 to Dec 2012
o Position: Storage Admin L2
Responsibility:
* Work on SAN Management software like Symmetrix Management Console, Web Tools, Fabric Manager, Navisphere Manager, HP Command View EVA.

* Perform LUN Addition, Grow, Delete, Migration, Pivoting LUNs between Servers.
* SAN Switches: Switch Zoning (Brocade and CISCO)

* Thin Provisioning of Storage via EMC Symmetrix DMX4, VMAX, CLARiiON.

* Analysing I/O performance counters for SAN Drives and fixing the loop holes.

* Active Directory Maintenance
* Preparing Technical Process Documentation.
* Managing, moving, upgrading and decommissioning of Virtual Machines.
* Dealing with Ip


• EXTRA CIRICULAR ACTIVITIES

o Presented papers at state level technical symposium held at Shadan College Of Engg.
o Member of Seminar Committee during my graduation for two years and guided many people for seminars.