Storage Administration
saqoor al royah
مجموع سنوات الخبرة :8 years, 7 أشهر
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.
• M.Tech: Master of Technology with Computer Science in Engineering (CSE) from Shadan College of Engineering and Technology, Hyderabad (SCET), Jawaharlal Nehru Technology University (JNTU), Hyderabad (Aug 2009 - Sep 2011) 2 years
• B.E: Bachelor of Engineering with Computer Science in Engineering (CSE) from Deccan Engineering College of Technology, Hyderabad (DECT), Osmania University (OU), Hyderabad (Aug- 2005 -July 2009) 4 years