Akeila Goolsby ⭐️ Email & Phone Number

Mcdonough, Ga, Us

Greater Atlanta Area

Contracting for a large VAR that focuses on configuring, implementing, backing up, migrating & stabilizing the environment with EMC, Cisco and IBM products. EMC Family Products: VNX/VNXe, VPLEX, XtremIO, Avamar, XIO2. Data DomainFC Switches: CiscoLegacy Storage: IBM v7000, FalconstorBackup & Replication: Veeam, Zerto QNAPOther: Vcenter

Arizona Area - Remote From Atlanta Area

Provided operational support to American Express to support Managed Services and the use of distributed storage solutions. Performed a wide variety of daily storage management tasks to ensure data is available 27/7/365. Delivered storage to the customer on a ticket by ticket basis. Provided implementation support while rotating in an on-call schedule. Migrated customer sensitive data from arrays and from data centers.Symmetrix DMX/VMAX:• Mapped/Masked DMX/VMAX devices to FAs using SMC and Solutions Enabler • Created Storage, Port, and Initiator Groups for VMAX. Created masking views• Created THIN luns and assigned them to THIN pools• Created SRDF R1/R2 relationships using CMD and set dynamic settings using SMC• Set HBA flags setting using solution enable or SMC for AIX, ESX, Linux, Solaris and Windows.EMC Celerra:• Created CIFS shares.• Created NFS shares.• Created Multi-protocol shares (CIFS/NFS).• Created filesystems and exports.EMC Clariion/VNX:• Registered hosts using Navisphere Manager/Unisphere.• Created/Assigned volumes by binding luns in Raid groups.• Created/Assigned EMC CLARIION raid groups/disks via EMC NAVISPHERE Manager/ Unisphere/NaviCLI• Created storage groups and assigned hosts and luns.Cisco:• Created zones using Fabric Manager.• Utilized Cisco Device Manager or CLI for troubleshooting switch or port related issues.• Configured switch port attributes using Device Manager • Assigned SAN ports to new servers entering into the environment via Device ManagerBrocade:• Created zones, zone sets using Brocade GUI• Utilized Brocade Zone Admin or CLI for troubleshooting switch or port related issues.

Provided IT Delivery Services, IT Operations, and IT Delivery Support, which supplements skilled experience in storage operations offering implementation management, incident support, data migration, and data availability. Worked on multiple high priority projects with strict timelines and disciplines to reach successful completion. Possesses more than six years of experience in solution support business continuity, and storage managed services.

Alpharetta/Home Based

Daily storage provisioning of over 1+ Petabytes for GE (General Electric) Storage Network, which included the following EMC products (DMX, Clariion, and Celerra).ECC:• Installed ECC master agents on (Windows, Solaris, IBM and HP) servers• Mapped/Masked symmetrix devices to FAs using ECC and Solutions Enabler • Created Zones on Brocade and Cisco Fabrics • Created/Establish/Split Timefinder groups using both ECC and Solutions Enabler• Created SRDF R1/R2 and BCV relationships using ECC• Changing Symmetrix flags using solution enabler and/or ECC for Vmware and HP-UX.EMC Celerra:• Created CIFS shares.• Created NFS shares.• Created Multi-protocol shares (CIFS/NFS).• Created filesystems and exports.NetApp:• Created CIFS and NFS shares.• Created Multi-protocol shares (CIFS/NFS).• Increased volumes sizes for CIFS and NFS shares.• Created/managed snapshots volumes.EMC Clariion:• Register hosts using ECC and/or Navisphere Manager.• Created/Assigned volumes by binding luns in Raid groups.• Created/Assigned EMC CLARIION raid groups/disks via EMC NAVISPHERE Manager to IBM, HP, Linux, Solaris and Windows.• Created storage groups and assigned hosts and luns.Cisco:• Created zones using ECC.• Utilized Cisco Device Manager or CLI for troubleshooting switch or port related issues.• Rediscovered switches that were not reporting correctly in ECC • Configured switch port attributes using Device Manager • Assigned SAN ports to new servers entering into the environmentBrocade:• Created zones, zone sets using Brocade Zone Admin and/or ECC.• Utilized Brocade Zone Admin or CLI for troubleshooting switch or port related issues.• Created new zones and updates utilizing Brocade 3800, 12000 and 24000 director class switches.

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Computer Information Systems (Cis)

Bs Computer Information Systems, Information Technology

Activities and Societies: ~1st Attendant to Miss Fort Valley State University ~Fort Valley Wildcats Basketball Team ~Fort Valley Wildcats.