DevOps Engineer

• Jun 2019 - Present

SAN Engineer

• Dec 2015 - May 2019

Senior Storage Consultant

• Nov 2014 - Dec 2015

Nov ‘15 – December 2015 Storage Consultant, The Travelers Company, Hartford, CT • Plan and strategize the data movement to the new data centre with in the available Bandwidth. • Managed and implemented new features with HP P9500 and G1000 as below. • LDAP configurations for AD backed security for storage and easy user management. • SNMP configuration with MIB codes. Developed handling procedures for L1 activity as per defined SLA. • Remodeled the storage environment with prod and non _Prod data segregation for data consistency of SQL instances. • Thin pool creation, monitored the changing thresholds and subscription changes as required. • MCU and RCU configuration in HP arrays for Async replication. • Planned and designed host placement in journal groups, adding journal Vols from selected raid groups. Trouble shooting CAJ issues with the performance analyzer. • Ported the redistribution of high performing cluster with the host team coordination. • Worked with Brocade and Cisco SAN for zoning and configurations. • New server storage compatibility testing with right firmware check for converged HBA’s. • SRDF port redistribution for data migration to the new remote arrays by creating separate RA groups and corresponding zoning. Knowledge on Vcloud and Ms cloud. Environment: VMAX 20K,40K, XIV, HP P9500 , HPXP7 ,SYMCLI, UniSphere Manager, SRDF, Time Finder, Power path, OC Manager , Remote Web console, Performance analyzer ,Cisco CLI, WINDOWS, VMware . Show less

Storage Consultant

• Aug 2013 - Nov 2014

Aug ‘13 – Nov ’14 Consultant, PepsiCo, Dallas, TX PepsiCo renowned multinational food and beverage whose storage activities includes a broad spectrum of storage products which needs to be administered and supported for a seamless data availability for all their international business activities with some of the activities listed as below. • Performance tuning of arrays for latency, high port utilization and wrote pending in EMC-Vmax etc. • Trouble shooting time finder backup job issues and other related failures. • Hosted commissioning and decommissioning as part of the server refresh activity. • Installed power path and handled the incidents related to path failures. • Analysis for sizing and solutions for technology refresh and other estimates. • Configured FAST/VP and virtual provisioning on symmetric VMAX as per the environment. • New server built compatibility check from the storage end. • Proposed SOP’s of storage activities, scheduled training plans for new members as well as other miscellaneous activities. • Prepared capacity reports and the growth forecast for future array purchases plans. • Allocation and provisions as per the IO groups in IBM – SVC. • Attached the external storage to the virtualization platform and provisioning storage. • Planned capacity management to maintain storage resources. • Internal data migration for codes and upgraded of backend arrays in IBM-SVC. Environment: VMAX 20k, 40k , IBM svc , Brocade SAN , SYMCLI, UniSphere Manager, SRDF, Time Finder, Power path, Svc Gui. Show less

Storage Administrator

• Sep 2012 - Aug 2013

• End to end cloning in EMC, Vmax for database refresh activity of Aix hosts including host side configurations. • Performed DR drills with application team coordination and restored it back to production. • Configured SRDF/A, SRDF/S for production systems including the creation of dynamic RA groups, creation of dynamic RDF pairs and enabled SRDF/A for a group of devices. • Zoned in Cisco and Brocade switches for new server integration in SAN. • SAN cleanup of the old decommissioned server with zone set modifications. • Allocated new data store to VM’s and data store expansions in case of space issues. • Created and expanded VG’s & FS as part of space expansions. • Executed the changes as per the stipulated ITIL process with proper back out plans. • Hosted creation, allocation and provisioning of volumes to the respective host in IBM-XIV. • Pool creation and pool management. • Local replication like snapshots and snapshot pool resizing in XIV arrays. • Incidents and hardware issue management and X-ray log collections to share with the vendor. • Migrated from DMX to XIV with inbuilt XIV tool and storage V- motion with virtual clients. • Resolved performance bottle necks issues using XIV TOP. • Configured LDAP configuration in XIV arrays for AD authentication. Show less

Storage Administrator

• Sep 2011 - Sep 2012

• Responsible for the day to day administration of VMAX/DMX-4, Brocade directors. • Allocation provisioning, de-allocations to Linux and AIX host. • Managed Symmetrix using Solutions Enabler Software (SYMCLI) for hardware and software issues. • Local replication with Timefinder (Bcv activities). • Established SRDF relationships with R1& R2 devices and basic configurations settings. • Added additional devices to the existing SRDF A-sync groups. • Coordinated with the vendors for incident resolutions and break fix within stipulated SLA. • Corrected emulation issues with the existing clone luns. • Created SRDF devices using SYMCLI, device groups and added devices to the device groups. • Local replication: established the shadow copy pair between the P-vol and S-vol by modifying the respecting HORCOM entries in CLI and subsequent splitting and synching in Hitachi USP. • Remote replications, established the true copy relation between the P-vol and S-vol by identifying the respecting HORCOM entries and subsequent splitting and synching. Show less

Remote Support Associate

• Jun 2008 - Sep 2011

• Monitored the day to day of DMX and Clariion arrays on a Brocade SAN. • Managed the RAID Groups, LUNs, storage groups and assigned from LUNs to hosts. • Host configuration in DMX, Clariion and with proper validation checks. • Brocade SAN zoning for Windows and AIX host. • Assisted the system administrators to install, configure and upgrade HBA driver and firmware on UNIX and Windows environment. • Configured local replication technologies like snapview snapshots and snapview clones. • Configured, administered and troubleshoot the power path software issues. • Created and dissolved Meta volumes and mapd and unmap devices to FA ports when required. • Allocated and provisioned devices to different host types in Hitachi array. • Added new host groups for different operating systems. • De-allocation and formatting the devices. • Identified and trouble shoot the hardware issues and coordinated with the vendors. Environment: DMX-3,Clariion CX3 & 4 , Hitachi USP, Brocade, SYMCLI, UniSphere Manager, SRDF, Time Finder, Power path, AIX, WINDOWS. Show less