Senior Storage Systems Engineer
Dallas, Tx, Us
Served on the Design Systems IT Storage Team at TI. Daily tasks included the usual battery of NFS export modifications, qtree and filesystem creation/modification/deletion on EMC and NetApp NAS frames, snapshot/ckpt recoveries for customer use, etc.... and some more project-based work, including* orphan data reclamation (maintaining ownership of data by active employees/groups to facilitate chargeback optimization)* ILM process flow development to maintain a ready supply of storage capacity in each of several tiers while moving less often-accessed data to more economical storage* intranet content update for Design IT Storage Systems -- tiered storage definition, data protection options, storage utilization monitoring options, etc.Responsible for creation and maintenance of protection (backup/recovery) and replication technologies between multiple data centers for several petabytes of data residing within EMC VMax (front-ended by VG8 gateways) and VNX for File storage systems, and, to a lessening degree, NetApp replication using snapmirror. Tape backup infrastructure included numerous Solaris x86 hosts sharing an IBM TS3584 library (17,000 slots! It's 85' long) running NetBackup 7.1, all located at a warm-site (DR) data center.