Storage Administrator

Storage Administrator - Amgen Inc

Thousand Oaks, CA - Email me on Indeed: indeed.com/r/c19ae9f60e22b53f

10+ years of Functional\Technical IT experience in NAS/SAN Storage Administration,Backup Management,

Technical Support, Server Support, System Administration and User Management.
Experience in administering NetApp Storage systems on Data ONTAP, EMC ISILON OneFS and EMC VNX
Administration experience in storage to Multiprotocol Environments like CIFS and NFS in NetApp SAN/NAS
environment.
Experience in installation, configuration and administration of EMC Isilon OneFS v7.2.1
Experience in administering, maintaining, implementing NetApp Storage Systems FAS6280, FAS6290,
FAS8080 and EMC Isilon OneFS v7.2.1.
Experience in administering, maintaining, implementing NetApp cluster mode.
Migrations from 7mode to C-Dot clusters in NetApp and experience in Data Center migrations from site to site.
Experience in administering, maintaining and implementing ISILON Storage systems and SyncIQ best
practices.
Experience in administering EMC VNX Storage systems with best practices like LUN provisioning, storage
groups and initiators.
Migrations from NetApp to ISILON and vice versa expertise.
Performed Data ONTAP 7.0 Data protection online backup and recovery using Snap mirror, Snap Vault,
Volume Copy, Sync mirror and disaster recovery using Snap Restore.
Experienced with NETAPP snap suite solutions like snapshots, snap mirror, snap vault and snap restore for
providing high availability and disaster recovery solutions
Experience in Installation, Configuration and Integration of NetApp filers with the Windows and UNIX
environment.
Expertise in installing and configuring fibre channel switches and directors- Brocade, Mcdata, Cisco MDS
and connectrix.
Experience in installing and configuring EMC Powerpath for load balancing, path management and path
failover
Experience in implementing EMC snapview solutions like snapshots and clones
Extensive knowledge in replication techniques which include mirroview, timefinder and SRDF
Solid knowledge on all levels of RAID configuration and management.
Experience in working on VMWARE Software Suite and VERITAS volume manager VxVm 3.5.
Experience in storage provisioning which includes Lun creation, mapping, and masking
Experience in administering multi-vendor operating system which includes SUN SOLARIS, IBM-AIX,
REDHAT-LINUX, HP-UX, and WINDOWS
Experience in implementing and managing Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapters -EMULEX, QLOGIC
Experience in implementing migration of data using SanCopy, Open Replicator, Open Migrator and LVM
migration
Experience in managing Symmetrix storage arrays using ECC, SymCli
Experience in managing CLARiiON storage arrays using Navisphere Manager, NaviCli
Experience in troubleshooting and resolving complex issues related to storage
Installation, configuration and administration of legato Networker and Veritas Netback up
Experienced with VMWARE ESX Server and VMWARE Sphere
Solid knowledge on all levels of RAID configuration and management
Experience in scripting to ease the process of storage allocation
Troubleshooting issues dealing with Netpp, EMC ISILON performance and capacity issues.
Installations and Qualification of EMC ISILON cluster nodes with respective to client procedures.
Willing to relocate: Anywhere

WORK EXPERIENCE

Storage Administrator
Amgen Inc - Thousand Oaks, CA - June 2012 to Present
Responsibilities
Planning & Integration tasks in NAS environment with over 5PB of data.
Configured aggregates, volumes and qtrees on NetApp filers
Configured and manage NFS and CIFS shares/Vservers from NetApp filers
Performance and capacity monitoring of NetApp storage systems
General administration including RAID groups, aggregates, vservers, volumes etc.
Scripting using NetApp CLI commands
Setup Snapmirror replication, SyncIQ mirrors and Tape backups between data centers for Disaster Recovery
Careful and well written documentation and making Visio's for future purpose.
Co-ordinate with various customers and assisted with service catalog description regarding storage, backups
and availability.
Setup cluster configurations with CIFS and NFS for NAS storage
On hands experience replacing disk shelves, disks and SAS cable troubleshooting.
Weekly technical engagements with NetApp and customers.
Migrating data from NetApp 7-mode to CDOT through 7MT tool and manually with respective to Data Center
or Application migrations.
ISILON installations and qualification as per business requirement.
Performance and capacity monitoring of EMC ISILON.
Migration data from NetApp to EMC ISILON through isi_vol_copy utilities & Sync IQ.
Configure and manage EMC products VNX like provisioning LUNS and smart pools
Qualifications and documentations of NetApp and EMC ISILON with respective to client procedures.
Administered IBM NAS using DataOntap and N Series Management Console
Configured volumes, qtrees and quotas for CIFS and NFS in NAS environment
Creating and administering aggregates, volumes, qtrees, FlexVols, Snapshots, and Space Guarantee etc
Managing Trouble shooting hardware / software issues, Fine tune and enhance performance, Raid groups,
Presenting LUNs to host, Multipath for redundancy, Creating switch Zoning, Snap mirror replication between
inter sites. Hitachi Shadow image/snapshot technologies. Firmware upgradation of SAN and FC switches.
Implemented and managed snapmirror for data replication at volume level
Configured Snapshot schedule for volumes and aggregates
Configured and Administered SnapVault and SnapRestore for backup and restore operation
Installation, Configuration and integration of NetApp filers with the Windows and UNIX environment,
experience with CIFS, NFS, LUN management, Managing Quotas and permissions, managing disks.
Used Data fabric manager (DFM), Filer view and ONTAP command line, Snap drive in monitoring, managing,
reporting and provisioning storage to the users.
Performed Data ONTAP 8.0 Data protection online backup and recovery using Snap mirror, Snap Vault and
disaster recovery using Snap Restore
Installing nodes to EMC ISILON cluster and EMC disk replacements.
Migrations of data from NetApp to EMC ISILON with isi_vol_copy and user based migrations.
Environment: FAS6000 series, FAS8080, FAS6280, FAS6290, and Data ONTAP 7.3.3, 8.0.1, 8.3.1P2,
SnapMirror, SyncMirror, SnapVault, Performance Manager, OnCommand System Manager, OnCommand
Insight, 7MT Tool, Filerview, ISILON OneFS, ISILON Insight, Data ONTAP Clusters, Disaster Recovery's and
VNX.
Storage Administrator
Turner Broadcasting Systems - Atlanta, GA - August 2011 to June 2012
Responsibilities:
Responsible for HBA connectivity, Configuring HBA's, Zoning switches and allocating storage to SAN mostly
EMC CLARiiON and Symmetrix and NAS with NetApp and EMC Celerra
Provisioned storage from CLARiiON using Navisphere 6.X, NaviCli, and zone and tweak the conf files on
hosts
Created snapshots of luns using the Snapview functionality of CLARiiON
Involved in data migration from CLARiiON to CLARiiON using SANCOPY
Involved in assisting EMC CE in upgrading Flare Code on CLARiiONs
Monitored the performance of the Symmetrix using the Work Load analyzer
Installed Timefinder and configured Symmetrix Device groups for BCV operations
Installation & configuration of EMC Control Center (ECC) & Navisphere suite
Performed firmware upgrade on cisco and brocade switches
Ran EMC grab utility on various operating systems and analyzed and monitored the behavior of the servers.
Installed and Configured FAS-940, FAS-960
Created aggregates and Flex Vol volume and qtrees
Migrated data from traditional volumes to FlexVol volumes
Restored data by using SnapRestore feature
Worked on OSSV, Snap Mirroring, Snap Manager
Involved in installation and configuration of NAS device EMC Celerra NS501G, NS700
Created and administered Celerra volumes, slices
Configured Celerra Replicator on Celerra systems for Local and Remote Replication after creating
checkpoints
Configured storage units for NDMP backups
Zone switches, map volumes to FA ports, LUN masking
Administered and managed switches/directors. Managed switches with vendor specific GUI
Emulex HBA installation and troubleshooting. Working experience of HBA config files
Worked with backup team in scheduling and performing regular backups using Veritas Netbackup
Environment: EMC CLARiiON , Symmetrix DMX-1000, 2000 , Celerra NS501G, NS700 NetApp FAS 940, FAS
960, Emulex HBAs, Qlogic HBAs, Brocade and Cisco switches.

Storage Administrator
Franklyn Credit Management - Jersey City, NJ - June 2010 to July 2011
Responsibilities:
Administered and maintained EMC Symmetrix DMX-2000, DMX-3000, CLARiiON 400 and Celerra NS600
Assigning storage to hosts, by configuring storage groups, adding LUNs and hosts to the storage groups in
the CLARiiON environment using Navisphere Suite
Storage provisioning to hosts by mapping devices, and performing LUN masking in the Symmetrix/DMX
environment using SymCli and ECC
Managing SRDF in SRDF/A environments for Disaster Recovery solution
Used Open Replicator for DMX Symmetrix to create remote point-in-time copies, for high-speed data mobility,
remote vaulting and migration
Installed EMC Control Center software on Servers and configured them with Master agents and host agents
as well storage agent for Symmetrix
Monitoring and generating reports using ECC 6.X
Created and managed raid groups, storage groups, Meta volumes, LUN binding along with performance
management and monitoring. (CLARiiON)
Configured Snapview Snapshots and Snapview Clones on CLARiiON CX Series Sub-Systems
 Created SANCopy Sessions using Navisphere Manager to perform migration
Maintained Enterprise Business Continuity/DR data centers by implementing Synchronous and
Asynchronous replication using EMC MirrorView
Involved in Setup of NAS device, EMC Celerra NS600
Troubleshoot NFS, CIFS issues on the EMC Celerra and fine-tuned the file server for optimal performance
Responsible for routine health-check of the SAN/NAS including configuration, documentation, maintenance
Monitoring performance and capacity of the SAN & NAS environment
Configured and administered Fiber Channel Switches like Brocade, McData and Cisco MDS
Creating, adding and deleting aliases, zones, and activating zonesets on CISCO switches
Installed PowerPath software, configured and administrated on UNIX & Windows Servers
Configuring and installing Legato Networker software on servers and clients
Performed server initiated backups and client initiated backups using Legato Networker
Created File systems on the newly allocated disks and configured them using Networker
Environment: EMC Symmetrix DMX-2000, DMX-3000, CLARiiON 400, Celerra NS600, Legato Networker,
NFS, NIS, DNS, Shell Scripts, Emulex HBAs, Qlogic HBAs, Brocade , McData and Cisco switches, Silkworm
2400, 3200/4800, QLogic 9600/9202, PowerPath.

Storage Administrator
nCircle, California - April 2009 to May 2010
Responsibilities:
Administered and maintained IBM DS 8100, DS 8300 , IBM N6000, N7000 Series, NetApp FAS 6080, 3070
Performed virtualization procedures on IBM storage using SVC (SAN VOLUME CONTROLLERS)
Performed storage provisioning on a regular basis and provided IBM DS 8100 LUN's to SVC
Involved in performing Metro-mirror and Flash copy on DS8100 and DS8300
Decommissioned storage from IBM N7700
Administered IBM NAS using DataOntap and N Series Management Console
Configured volumes, qtrees and quotas for CIFS and NFS in NAS environment
Creating and administering aggregates, volumes, qtrees, FlexVols, Snapshots, and Space Guarantee etc
Managing Trouble shooting hardware / software issues, Fine tune and enhance performance, Raid groups,
Presenting LUNs to host, Multipath for redundancy, Creating switch Zoning, Snap mirror replication between
inter sites. Hitachi Shadow image/snapshot technologies. Firmware upgradation of SAN and FC switches.
Implemented and managed snapmirror for data replication at volume level
Configured Snapshot schedule for volumes and aggregates
Configured and Administered SnapVault and SnapRestore for backup and restore operation
Installation, Configuration and integration of NetApp filers with the Windows and UNIX environment,
experience with CIFS, NFS, LUN management, Managing Quotas and permissions, managing disks.
Used Data fabric manager (DFM), Filer view and ONTAP command line, Snap drive in monitoring, managing,
reporting and provisioning storage to the users.
Performed Data ONTAP 7.0 Data protection online backup and recovery using Snap mirror, Snap Vault and
disaster recovery using Snap Restore.
Worked on Snap Manager of SQL server for backup and instant restore.
Experience with Vfiler configuration and Managed 150 Vfiler units using MultiStore to the research cluster,
assisted in migration using Snap mover software.
Upgraded the filers from ONTAP 7.0 to ONTAP 7.2 as a process of flexvols migration.
Implemented active active controller configuration and SyncMirror to ensure continuous data availability in
the enterprise and rapid recovery of data in the event of a disaster
Administration of Fiber channel switches by creating zones and fabric configurations
 Configured zoning on FC Switches Mcdata using Connectrix Manger, Inrange switches using EFCM, Brocade
switches using webtools and command line.Configured zoning on FC Switches (Cisco) using the Fabric
Manager and Device Manager
Configured and installed various Qlogic, Emulex model HBA cards, providing server SAN access
Configured PowerPath for dynamic load balancing, masking system redundant of path failures and masking
the LUN's for providing security to SAN
Administered user and group permissions in Windows 2003 Active Directory using Group Policies
Installed and configured VMware ESX in a multi host shared storage environment
Performed nightly backups and regular restores using Veritas Netbackup 6.0
Setup automatic backup and restoration using Veritas Netbackup 6.0
Troubleshooting issues dealing with Veritas Netbackup
Installing and configuring Veritas Volume Manager (VxVm), Veritas File System (VxFs) and Veritas Cluster
Server (VCS)
Environment: IBM DS 8100, DS 8300, IBM N7700, NetApp FAS 6080, 3070 , VMware ESX 3x, Vertas
Netbackup 6.0 Webtools, Connetrix manager, Fabric Manager, Device manager, Zoning, DataOntap 7.G,
SVC, Cisco 9509/9513 and brocade fabric switches.

Senior Storage Administrator

Arthur J Gallagher and Company - Chicago, IL - January 2008 to March 2009
Responsibilities:
Administered and maintained EMC Symmetrix DMX 3, DMX 4 series, V-Max and EMC CLARiiON 700,
CX3-80, CX-4
Provisioned storage from DMX by mapping, masking using Solution enabler SYMCLI and ECC to various
hosts including Solaris, RHEL, AIX and Windows servers
Hands on experience on EMC VNX build, implementation
Exposure to Configuring the RAID Groups and LUNs - GUI & CLI - VNX
Worked extensively in integration of EMC VNX SAN & NAS, control station, data mover Storage Array into
the USER / AD environment
Included in configuring the quotas, User mapping, snapshot and remote copy (DR facilities) of EMC Celerra /
VNX NAS server
Administered the storage and server in production environments. Created MetaLUN's by expanding base
LUN's using striping
Created and Configured RAID Groups, Storage Groups, Binding Luns, Resizing, Unbinding Luns through
Navisphere Manager and NaviCLI
Involved in configuring Symmetrix device groups for Timefinder BCV operations using SYMCLI
Management of SRDF, Timefinder and creating BCVs as disaster recovery solution
Performed data replication between the datacenters using the SRDF. Performed daily health checks and
tested restore from R2 to R1 after establishing SRDF links
Migrated the production environment from CX4-420 and CX-80 to NS-960 using San copy.
Planned and implemented data migration from CX 700 to VNX storage systems using SAN Copy.
Planned and executed numerous data storage migrations using Open Replicator, Mirror View, SAN Copy
tools.
NetApp implementation including Filer configuration, Network configuration and routing, primary and
SnapMirror volume configuration, Implementation of SnapVault policies, implementing revision control
of system files, transition and support of pilot users, documentation of operational procedures and
troubleshooting.
Involved in creation of daily snapshot/snapmirror.
Implementation of NetApp Snap Mirror and Operations manager, centralized management,
Monitoring and provisioning storage using storage essentials.
 Created Aggregates, volumes (FlexVol), qtrees and Quotas on NetApp Filers. Involved in creating CIFS
shares, NFS exports.
Configuring data storage in NetApp FAS 3170 series filers that run Data ONTAP 7G using CLI and Filer View.
Provisioned storage to customers using both ISCSI and Fiberchannel provisioning.
Primary duty is responsibility for SAN migrations from Brocade 2-tier SAN to McData Fabric SAN utilizing
EMC Symmetrix & DMX storage, replacement of JNI HBA's with Emulex HBA's.
Administration of Fiber channel switches by creating zones and fabric configurations. Configured zoning on
FC Switches (Cisco) using the Fabric Manager, Device Manager
Monitoring, Capacity planning, performance tuning and maintaining Symmetrix, CLARiiON's using Control
Center (ECC), Performance Manager, Storage Scope
Performed various methods of data replication on CLARiiON using Mirror View/A
Installed, configured tested SAN copy procedure to migrate data from CLARiiON
Used EMC Replication Manager for managing point-in-time replication technologies which included
TimeFinder (clone/snap/mirror), SnapView, and SAN Copy
Installed and configured the EMC Control Center (ECC) to monitor and manage hosts, EMC Clariion and
Symmetrix, Brocade and Cisco switches.
SAN administration - masking, zoning, metadevice creation/reclamation, RDF and BCV creation. SDR and
SRDF scripting for EMC frame migrations and SAN switch migrations.
Configured EMC Control Center for end to end Administration and Management of SAN environment.
Involved in setting up thresholds and alerts on ECC
Involved in generating reports for storage allocation, usage and configuration details using EMC Storage
Scope
Installed and configured VMware vSphere in shared storage environment like, Fibre Channel iSCSI, NFS
and CIFS
Performed virtualization procedures using VMware on the client side systems
Configured and installed Veritas Netbackup 6.5
Performed regular backups and restores using Veritas Netbackup
Scheduling automatic backups using Veritas Netbackup
Installation, configuration and supporting for VERITAS volume manager (VxVm & VxFs)
Environment: NetApp FAS3170/3070, EMC CLARiiON 700, CX3-80, CX-4, Symmetrix DMX-3, DMX-4,
VMware vSphere 4, Navisphere 6.X, NaviCLI, ECC, Symcli, snapview, mirrorview, SAN Copy, powerpath,
BCV, SRDF, Zoning, TimeFinder, Brocade 5100, Cisco 9505, 9513 and Cisco MDS 9100 series switches,
Fabric Manager, Device Manager, EMC control center, Veritas NetBackup 6.5, Emulex, Qlogic HBA.

System Administrator
VA Solutions Pvt Ltd - Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh - September 2006 to January 2008
Responsibilities
Administration / installation /upgrade and maintenance of SUN Servers and REDHAT Servers
Configured the Jump Start installations of Solaris over the Network
Configured and installed Veritas Netbackup
Performed nightly backups and regular restores using Veritas Netbackup
Setup automatic backup and restoration using Veritas Netbackup
Installed and configured Veritas Volume Manager
Administering file systems and recognizing file access problems and Disk problems using VERITAS Volume
Manager
Involved in the resizing VERITAS file systems including shrinking and growing the file systems
Involved in the fine-tuning of VERITAS file systems
Created and Managed users and groups
Diagnosed and troubleshoot servers, networks for optimal performance
 Created system automation Scripts using Perl and Shell Programming
Configured the kick start installation of Redhat Linux over the Network
Printer configuration, OS installation / reconfiguration / Upgradation / Patch installation
Interacting with users for day-to-day problems
Trouble shooting of Server breakdown, OS problem and major outages of the servers
Monitored the performance of all servers using SEToolkit, vmstat, iostat, mpstat, lockstat, netstat, SAR
24/7 oncall support
Environment: SUN Solaris 2.x, SUN OS, Redhat7.x/8.0, Perl, Shell, Veritas Netbackup, Veritas Volume
Manager

EDUCATION

Bachelors in Computer Science and Engineering

Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University - Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh
May 2006

MDS in Integrated Service Management

EMC Control Center