LAKSHMI NARAYANA K

Mobile: 09379505307, 9535674703 E-Mail: lakshmi705.nitk@gmail.com Obtain a recognizable position in the engineering field where I can apply my experience, knowledge and technical skills in developing the organization and to take up new technical concepts and responsibilities. SYNOPSIS Currently working at Apara Enterprise Solutions as an Storage Engineer Services since August 2010. 2 years of experience at Dell India R&D Centre on Direct contract in High Performance Computing Cluster and Database Oracle Teams. Experience in different Storage Technologies, File systems, Oracle Database as well as system administration in UNIX, Linux and Solaris Environment. Conversant with operating system administration in Red hat enterprise Linux 5.3. Experience in programming languages like C & OOPS, SQL / PLSQL. Excellent team player with strong analytical and leadership skills. Ability to learn new technologies quickly, communicates ideas and implementing them very effectively. Skills to manage and deploy NetApp technologies to best meet the organization's needs having technically certified on NetApp products and technologies.

EDUCATION M.Tech. (Systems Analysis & Computer Applications) from National Institute of Technology, Surathkal with CGPA of 7.83 in 2009. B.Tech. (Electrical & Electronics) from S.V. University, Tirupati with 71.86% in 2006. H.S.C from Sri Sidhartha Junior College, Madanapalli with 89.5% in 2002. S.S.C from Jawahar Navodaya Vidyala, Valasapalli with 78.6% in 2000.

IT SKILLS Storage Backup Environments Operating Systems NetApp FAS Systems, EMC-Clarrion CX3-20, AX4-5i, Dell MD3000i. Symantec Veritas Netbackup, Backup Exec DataOntap versions, Red hat enterprise Linux 5.3 and 5.1, UNIX, Solaris, Windows NT, 2003. NET2, EMC Navisphere Express, Navispere Manager, MDSM, SnapMirror, SnapVault, SyncMirror, Snap Drive, NearStore, Metro Cluster, Protection Manager, DFM, OEM, Net 8, Toad, SQL Loader, Import/Export. Quest Benchmark Factory. Ibrix parallel file system and ext3 nfs. IOzone Oracle 11g RAC, 10g RAC Oracle 10g, 9i Database C, OOPS, SQL and PL/SQL Open Cluster Stack 5.1, MS Office, Snap manager

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Data base Bench Mark Tool File Systems File System Bench Mark Tool Data Base Data Base Servers Programming Application Packages

Status and performance Gathering tools Sar, Iostat, Network Stat, Vmstat, perfstat, pktt Conceptual knowledge: o Database Management Systems and System Administration in Linux Environment. o Linux OS, OS installations and other deployment scenarios under Linux environment.

ORGANIZATIONAL EXPERIENCE Aug10 - Till Date at Apara Enterprise Solutions, Bangalore as Storage Engineer Services Job Role: Providing Solutions, Services and Training to the Customers on Storage Systems like NetApp FAS, EMCClarrion, Hitachi, VTL, Backup Environments. Document storage infrastructure and analyze system logs. Block Level and File level Access to Storage based on Customer requirement including Shares, Qtrees. Experience with DAS, SAN and NAS concepts, snapshots, clustering and fail-over, file permission management, data protection and disaster recovery. Data Migration and Replication both on Storage Level and Host Level using NetApp SnapMirror, SnapVault, NearStore and Metro Cluster. Worked on Tape Libraries and Backup and Recovery Solutions.

Key Highlights: Physical Installation, Data Ontap installation on all NetApp Storage Systems, Configuration of Storage with required Network details. Deploying Cluster mode and Fail-Over mode Storages with High-Availabilty Hardware for FC and iSCSI. Creating LUNs for block level access, Qtrees and Shares with User Quota for CIFS access for Windows users using LDAP in Active Directory for NFS for Linux users using exports. CIFS Setup. Upgrading Data Ontap Operating System of NetApp, Firmware for motherboard, RLM, BMC, Disks and Disk Shelves. Creating Users, Groups and Roles. Defining and managing access privileges to User Groups and assigning Roles to them. Troubleshooting Storage, Network and Operating System issues. Installation of EMC Navispere, Configuration of Storage and troubleshooting of EMC Clarrion Storage Systems. Working on SnapShot Technology. Suggesting on RAID Groups, Zoning, Space Requirement and Sizing of Volumes and Flex Volumes for best results. Obtaining performance of WAFL File System and network using Stat Gathering tools like perfstat and Packet tracer. Symantec File System Analyzer for Archiving. Data Migration from Storage to Storage, Hosts and Tape Libraries using NetApp Tools.

Aug08-July10 at Dell India R&D Centre, Bangalore in High Performance Computing and Database Oracle on Linux Platform Job Role: Deployed 2 node cluster with 8 Ibrix Fusion Clients to obtain performance for Ibrix Parallel file system on RHEL 5.1 and used IOzone benchmark tool for the same. Deployed 2 node cluster with Oracle 11g Real Application Cluster(RAC) to obtain and improve the performance of Oracle 11g RAC using the Quest Benchmark tool on RHEL 5.3

Key Highlights: Deployed and administered Oracle 11g RAC (Real Application Cluster) with Fibre Channel (FC) Storage CX320 and AX4-5i. Obtained performance of Ibrix parallel file system with the combination of iSCSI Storage that is Dell MD3000i. Improved the performance of the Ibrix file system and tuned it in many ways. Successfully resolved many operating system and network issues. CERTIFICATION Pursued NetApp Certified Data Administrator (NCDA) Certification and obtained 95% Score. Pursued Cisco CCNA Certification Course at NIIT: Ability to install, configure, operate, and troubleshoot Cisco 2811 routers, 2960 switches, medium-size route and switched networks. Used Protocols: IP, Static and

Dynamic Routing Protocols including EIGRP, Routing Information Protocol Version 2 (RIPv2), OSPF, VLANs and Ethernet. PROJECTS Title Implementation of NETAPP FAS 2040, FAS 2020a, FAS 3160 as Primary and DR in Pune for different Customers like BMC, Global Logic, Jhon Dhere. Physically Installed and configured NetApp FAS based on customer requirement. These are the projects in which the storage has been successfully implemented for NFS, iSCSI and FC. Physically connected 8 ESX Hosts in which 6 hosts were connected to Corporate LAN for NFS and iSCSI service. Remaining 2 hosts were connected to Fibre Channel switch to get accees to FC LUNs. Created igroups and mapped specific LUN to each igroup. Tested the functionality of each service running on storage. Installation of Ontap 7.3.2 Operating System. Configuration of Storage, Network and CIFS Setup. Performed Ontap Upgrade to 7.3.4 and firmware for Disks, Disk Shelves, Mother Board for FAS Systems. Created Aggregates, Flexible Volumes, Qtrees and Shares for CIFS. Created Users list within UserAdmin Groups from Windows Administrator Server and Access Permissions for each group. Created LUNs for iSCSI and FC access using RAID4 and RAID DP. Zones for Fibre Channel to allow storage to see Tape Library connected to FC Switch for Data Backup. Migrated data from Filer Servers to NetApp and run live on NetApp. Using Snap Mirror data migrated asynchronously to DR Site with scheduled Migration. Implementing Back Up and Recovery Strategies at Secondary and DR Site. Trained the customer in administering storage.

Responsibilities

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Performance for Ibrix Parallel File System with Dell MD3000i Storage Using IOzone File System Benchmarking Tool This project was done for high performance computing team as part of Research and Development in Dell India R&D Bangalore. This project validates Ibrix parallel file system functionality and performance with iSCSI storage MD3000i which is a Dell product. Two segment servers were used for this project which are Dell Power Edge 1950 servers and 8 blade servers which were used as 8 client machines to access the storage. There was a front end machine to monitor and operate all the functions and also an Ibrix fusion manager machine which was used to manage Ibrix file system. Important Technical concepts used for this project The project included Storage Networks, iSCSI (internet Small Computer System Interface) Technology, RAID5 and High Availability. A comparison would be drawn based on IOzone performance for Ibrix file system using different number of threads, file set size, NFS using Ibrix and ext3 file system.

Responsibilities Configuring storage and providing luns with RAID to different hosts. Configuring zones on SAN switches. Installing and configuring HBAs on the hosts. Installing and configuring hosts with different software and configurations as per the requirements of developers. Network Configuration and Troubleshooting. Working on SSH and RSH.

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Installing and Policy Tuning of IBRIX file system and other Linux file systems like ext3 with/without exporting over nfs. Working on Channel Bonding to increase the bandwidth of the network. Running IOzone Benchmark Script to evaluate read, write, random read and random write performance of IBRIX file system. Shell Scripting to implement multithreading to allow different number of Clients to access file system segments. Resolving storage short falls. Resolving performance issues. High availability of data to all applications. Data Migrations. Replication. Drawing Comparative analysis of IBRIX and ext3 file systems. Monitoring existing Disk, CPU, Network and Memory utilization.

Project Description

Oracle 10g, 11g RAC (Real Application Cluster) Administration, Deployment and Performance tuning on Fibre Channel (FC) Storage CX3-20 This project was done as part of Research and Development in Dell India R&D Bangalore. It includes Deployment of Oracle 11g RAC for Data base 2 node Cluster. Here functionality and performance for Oracle 11g RAC with FC storage CX3-20, and Ax4-5i Storages was carried out. There were two Oracle 11g Servers used for this project which are Dell Power Edge 6950 Servers and 2 Rack Servers which were used as 2 Client machines to access the storage. Important Technical concepts used for this project: Fibre Channel, Power path, Oracle 11g Clusterware, Oracle 11g RAC, Automatic Storage Manager, Voting Disks, Oracle Cluster Registry (OCR), SGA (System Global Area) and RAID 10.

Responsibilities Installed Oracle 11g Clusterware, Database, 11.1.0.7 Patch set for Oracle Clusterware and for Oracle Database, Configured Listener for remote client connection to a database. Creating required Storage Partitions from the Configured storage LUNs with RAID 10 for OCR (Oracle Cluster Registry), Voting Disks and for ASM Disks. Installation and Administering RAC Databases and Automatic Storage Management Connecting nodes to Oracle Database using Services and VIP addresses Cloning using addNode.sh script Add/Remove node to/from a Oracle Cluster with RMAN for backup Understanding Oracle RAC Background processes that enable Cache Fusion Providing High Availability for Database Instances Installed Quest Benchmark Factory 5.8 on client machine and successfully done TPC-C benchmarking by loading required tables and then by running the jobs for different number of user loads Using stat gathering tools like i/o stat, net stat, vm stat and sar to obtain CPU, Memory, Network and Disk Utilization Administration of Oracle 10g database including installation, creation and monitoring database. Installed and supported Oracle 10g on Linux. Creating and Managing primary database structure and objects. Taking Hot, Cold Backups Logical Backups (Database export) of the database. Coordinating with development teams for better database design and performance

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Creating privileges roles and user profiles. Granting resources to users Importing of schemas and tables Space Management which includes table space creation, adding new data files. Optimizing INIT.ORA parameters to best utilize the system resources Expert in usage of many oracle tools like EXPORT, IMPORT, ORADIM, ORAPWD SQL*LOADER, TKPROF, OEM etc. Configuring NET 8 on clients PC's to both production and test Databases. Working with SQL * Loader to move data from external flat files into oracle database. Controlling and monitoring user access to the database. Creating objects triggers, functions, packages etc. Used various Third party tools like TOAD, SQL Developer. Having experience in creating the users/groups and at Operating system level. Monitored the databases - Alert log and Trace files. Ticket handling in Production, Development and Test Instances. Designed and created various database objects like tables, indexes, view, sequences etc. Creating database users, assigning roles and profiles controlling and monitoring their actions. Planning and Performing Daily, Weekly and monthly Cold and Hot Backups. Running monthly password change procedure using scripts.

Online Examination System In this project a data base of academic institute was created and PHP code was written to access the database using XAMP Server. Handwritten Digit Recognition with Artificial Neural Network using MATLAB In this project handwritten digits were taken as a scanned image, creating a multilayer feed forward back propagation network, applying pattern recognition methods of ANN and making that network detect the correct digits in scanned image.

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BEYOND ACADEMICS Scored 95% in NetApp NCDA Certification Exam. Won 1st place for presenting a paper on AN Approach for Fault Classification in an AC transmission system at Pragnya (A national level technical symposium) in B.Tech. held at JNTU Hyderabad. Secured 96.66% in GATE-2007. Won gold medals in Athletics in Cluster and Regional Level.

PERSONAL DETAILS Date of Birth Address Languages Known Passport Details DECLARATION: 7th August, 1985 1st Floor, RamDas Building, near tavarkere Bus Stop, tavarekere, btm layout 1st stage, Bangalore-560 081. Telugu, English and Hindi. F6990530

I hereby declare that all the details furnished above are true to the best of my knowledge

Place: Bangalore

(LAKSHMI NARAYANA KULLAI)