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Takoor - Storage , AWS , SOLUTION ARCHITECT

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Location: Audubon, New Jersey, USA

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Visa: H1B

[email protected] PN: 469 598 1989 PROFILE Over 9+ years of experience in Storage Administration. Good hand in implementation, administration and troubleshooting of NetApp, Power scale/Isilon, ECS, IBM, HP3PAR and Hitachi. Good experience in Replication technologies. SAN & NAS Profile Summary: Experience with installation and configuration of Power scale/Isilon, ECS, NetApp FAS 7-mode and cluster mode storage frames FAS8040, 2554, 2252, 2650, HP 3PAR. Configuring Licenses, Group-net, Subnets, Access zone, Smart Connect. Creating Smart Pools, File Pool Policies, Smart Quotas, Deduplication, Snapshot-IQ, Sync-IQ, Smart Lock. Creating Shares, Exports, S3. Creation of Storage Pools, VDC, Federation, Replication Group. Creating Namespace, Local object users, buckets. Creating access for S3, Open stack Swift, CAS. Create bucket policy, applying quotas, applying retention policies Experience in Creating SVM s for CIFS, NFS, ISCSI, & FCP protocols. Administration tasks in NetApp 7mode & Cluster mode, EMC Power Scale, EMC ECS, HP 3PAR, HNAS, UNITY, IBM V7000, Lenovo and Brocades switches. Capacity management using Aggregates, Volumes, Qtrees, Snapshots, Backups. Experience in creating CIFS shares and assigning to windows hosts. Experience in creating NFS exports for UNIX hosts. Applying Quotas for different conditions. Experience in creating Luns and provisioning through ISCSI&FCP protocols. Experience in configuring Snapshots, Flex Clones. Snap Mirror implementation for replicating data b/w Data centers. Snap Vault & OSSV administration for backups. Data ONTAP Up gradation from 8.0.3 to 8.1.2 on FAS-3040. Trouble shooting of NAS and SAN related issues on NetApp Filers. Trouble shooting of SAN related issues on IBMV7000, HP3PAR, Lenovo S3200.Trouble shooting of NAS related issues on UNITY, HNAS. Configure and management of Thin Provisioning and De-duplicating the volumes for effective space utilization & thorough in DR Activity. Managing RAID groups, Host groups and LUN allocation. Good knowledge on decommissioning filers. Expertise in multi-vendor operating systems which includes VMware and Hyper-V. Worked on HP3PAR, created Host sets, adding host, creating virtual volumes, creating Snaps individually on luns and mapping to the host. Worked on Migration from NetApp to IBMV7000, NetApp to VNX and HP3PAR to IBMV7000 storage device (both NAS and SAN). Worked on HNAS creating EVS, creating file systems, creating qtrees, creating shares and exports and creating replications on HNAS devices. Worked on EMC UNITY & VNX devices, creating VDM s, file systems, qtrees, SMB shares and exports. System administration skills in Unix, Windows systems. Successful in troubleshooting the complex technical issues related to storage while analyzing the RCA of storage issues and resolve to the management contentment and provide anytime call support for troubleshooting. Knowledge on AWS & AZURE. CERTIFICATIONS Dell Proven Professional Certified Associate(ISM:7MC5G75Z3244QCWL) Dell Proven Professional Certified Specialist(Power scale/Isilon: 041RD73T3JQE1Y99, ECS: 8DYNVS8ZPEQEQRSV) NetApp Certified Administrator(NS0-162 : 961edaa9984245b98c805eed7b179375, NS0-155 :GST4T412JEEQC357) AWS Certified(CertifiedSolutionsArchitect Associate:QFH4YLXCGM4EQPKX) ITIL-V3(9980020368045006) TECHNICAL SKILLS Storage Arrays :DELL EMC ISILON/Powerscale, ECS, UNITY,NetApp 7mode & Cluster mode: FAS 2000, 3000, 6000, 8000 Hitachi : VSP, HDS9585, AMS-1000, AMS-500, HNAS: 4080, 4100 IBM : N7950, N6270, N6240, IBM SVC, V7000, HP3PAR, Lenovo, SAN/NAS Management S/W :NetAppFilerview, System Manager, SnapDrive, NetApp Data Fabric Manager, Storage Navigator Modular 2, Hitachi Command Suite, OnCommand System Manager, NetApp Management Console, 3PAR StoreServ, Data IQ, Insight IQ Backup :Commvault CLI Tools : NetApp CLI, VNX, UNITY, HNAS, ISILON CLI Host Integration on : Windows, Redhat Linux. Protocols : FCP, ISCSI, NFS, CIFS and OBJECT FC Switches : Brocade silkworm. EXPERIENCE Dell EMC Sep 2021 to Jul 2023 Solution Architect and Implementation Specialist Worked for various clients while working for Dell EMC, like Goldman Sachs, JPMC, Credit Suisse, PAYCHEX, DELL IT, DUKE ENERGY, DENVER INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT,FUJIFILM MEDICAL CENTER, BROADRIDGE, VANDERBILT UNIV, MARYLAND STATE ARCHIVES and ARLINGTON COUNTY DTS. As a Solution Architect & Implementation specialist have Designed, configured, Installed and done Administration of POWERSCALE & ECS devices on multiple environments. Done multiple administrating activities which includes tech refresh, upgrading devices adding additional nodes to respective storage devices & explaining features of the products to the customers. Migrated data from NetApp / Dell EqualLogic arrays to Power scale/Isilon using Robocopy/DataDobi. Experienced to monitoring and maintain storage, performance and new requirements in Oracle and PostgreSQL databases servers. CITI Bank Jan 2020 to Aug 2021 Senior Technical Consultant Works on Service Request, Work Orders, Incidents, Changes and was responsible in maintaining the SLA s. Administration of NetApp FAS 2000, 3000, 6000 & 8000 series filers, HNAS(4080, 4100), EMC UNITY, EMC VNX. Creating and Managing Aggregate/EVS/VDM s, Volume, Qtree & Quota on respective storage devices. Supporting NetApp/HNAS/UNITY storage infrastructure for global customer requirement. Creating and Managing volumes, qtrees as per customer requirement. Experience in creating CIFS shares to access the qtree on Windows machines. Experience in NFS exports and mapping to linux/unix hosts. Troubleshoot CIFS & NFS issues with respective users. Storage performance monitoring and health checkup using NetApp system manager monitoring tool, Hitachi Command Suite. Creating LIF s and failover groups and broadcast domain. Setup an intercluster peer relationship, configure vserver peer relationship for snapmirror replication. Involved in DR activities at SVM level, make the prod SVM down and clients access the DR SVM during test, and which involves reverse resync. Participated in upgrade activities in Cdot versions from 8.3,9.1,9.3,9.5 and 9.7 versions. Involved in NAS dashboard report, sending to clients on daily basis about the capacity utilization. Managing and Creating Snapshot, Snap mirror, Snap restore, NDMP copy, De-duplication. Creating and provide ISCSI, FCP LUN for Windows and Unix Servers. Troubleshoot LUN access issues in servers. Provisioning and de provisioning LUNs (FC, ISCSI) as per customer requirement. Utilizing OCSM to monitor and report on volume and qtree capacity trending. Co-ordinate with vendor and replace the HBA and failed disk. Worked with CE to replace NVRAM, IOM module and Mother Board. Following the change management process for smoother resolutions of issues with other teams. HITACHI HNAS: Creating EVS for the storage wise provisioning. Performed allocation and de-allocation of Filesystems, Shares and exports. Creating snaps on Filesystems. Worked on Replication and enabling NDMP. Troubleshoot CIFS & NFS issues with respective users. UNITY:Creating NAS servers for storage provisioning. Allocation & Deallocation of shares and exports. Worked on Replication and enabling NDMP. Troubleshoot CIFS & NFS issues with respective users. SYNEOS HEALTH May 2016 to Jan 2020 Storage & Backup Engineer Administration of NetApp FAS 2000, 3000, 6000 & 8000 series filers. Creating and Managing Aggregate, Volume, Qtree& Quota. Supporting NetApp storage infrastructure for global customer requirement. Creating and Managing volumes, qtrees as per customer requirement. Performing SM rotation, migrations to resolve Aggregate space issue. NetApp data ONTAP upgradation. Experience in creating CIFS shares to access the qtree on Windows machines. Experience in NFS exports and mapping to linux/unix hosts. Troubleshoot CIFS & NFS issues with respective users. Storage performance monitoring and health checkup using NetApp system manager monitoring tool. Volume creation management, Qtree Management and Quota management in user, group and Qtree level. Managing Snap mirror for Data migration source to destination, mainly for Disaster recovery and Backup. Good experience in Snap mirror configuration and QSM, VSM level migrations. Good experience in Snap vault & OSSV configuration. Configuring SV Backups, Troubleshoot Snap vault & OSSV relevant issues. Good experience in storage protocols like ISCSI, FCP, FCOE for SAN and CIFS, NFS, FTP, HTTPfor NAS and NDMP protocols. Managing and Creating Snapshot, Snap mirror, Snap restore, NDMP copy, De-duplication. Scheduling and Rescheduling activities like Snapshot, Snap mirror, Snap vault, Disk-Scrubbing and De-duplication. Creating and provide ISCSI, FCP LUN for Windows and Unix Servers. Troubleshoot LUN access issues in servers. Having knowledge of configuring Hard Zoning in Brocade series FC switches. Provisioning and de provisioning LUNs (FC, ISCSI) as per customer requirement. Utilized Data Fabric Manager (DFM) to monitor and report on volume and qtree capacity trending. Resizing the Volumes, Qtrees and Luns and checking the performance of Luns. Configuration, monitoring & analyzing events, alert logs and appropriate actions taking, basic trouble shooting skills in storage environment. Experience in creating zones and zone sets and fabric configuration. Co-ordinate with vendor and replace the HBA and failed disk. Worked with CE to replace NVRAM, IOM module and Mother Board. Worked on Cluster mode for allocating the volumes and luns. Following the change management process for smoother resolutions of issues with other teams. Worked on migration from NetApp to IBMV7000. Knowledge on Hyper-V, Commvault. IBMV7000: Performed upgradation on IBMV7000, Flash 900 devices. Performed allocation and de-allocation of luns. Creating pools for the storage wise provision. Creating snaps on luns using consistency group. HP3PAR:Allocation& Deallocations of luns from HP3PAR. Worked with SQL team for mapping the snapshots to the respective servers. Worked on migration from HP3PAR to IBMV7000. FRIENDS LIFE INSURANCE Jun 2014 to May 2016 Storage Administrator Administration of NetApp FAS 2000, 3000 & 6000 series filers. Physical Storage Management: Managing aggregate, Volume, Qtree, Luns. Create CIFS shares and NFS exports to access the qtree on Windows and UNIX machines respectively. Troubleshooting problems of CIFS, NFS for Windows & UNIX users. Storage performance monitoring and health checkup using NetApp system manager monitoring tool. Managing Snap mirror for Data migration source to destination, mainly for Disaster recovery and Backup. Good experience in Snap mirror configuration and QSM, VSM level migrations. Good experience in Snap vault & OSSV configuration. Managing and Creating Snapshot, Snap mirror, Snap restore, NDMP copy, De-duplication. Scheduling and Rescheduling activities like Snapshot, Snap mirror, Snap vault, Disk-Scrubbing and De-duplication. Creation, provision and mapping LUN s from NetApp filer to different Server platform. LUN creation and expansion by CLI Mode, Filer view and NetApp system manager. Troubleshoot LUN & NFS file systems access issues in servers. Having knowledge of configuring Hard Zoning in Brocade series FC switches. Performed Data ONTAP Up gradation from 8.0.3 to 8.1.2 on FAS-3040. Utilized Data Fabric Manager (DFM) to monitor and report on volume and qtree capacity trending. Resizing the Volumes, Qtrees and Luns and checking the performance of Luns. Used Snap drive to create luns on the windows server. Experience in Binding LUN S, Naming, resizing and Unbinding LUN S. Experience in creating zones and zone sets and fabric configuration. Net Apps NAS Administration, Filer Administration, CIFS, NFS configuration. NAS NetApp Filers quota Management, NFS exports, Data migration Administration. Initialized OSSV backups for windows system and added to On-Command setup. Following the change management process for smoother resolutions of issues with other teams. EDUCATION Master Degree from University of Portsmouth 2011. Keywords: sthree information technology container edition hewlett packard fibre channel Colorado Delaware