Lakshmi Prasanna Nadimpalli Email & Phone Number

Plano, Tx, Us

Pennsylvania, United States

• Storage Provisioning to UNIX, Windows and ESX servers from EMC VNX, EMC Unity series, VMAX, VMAX3, PMAX arrays using Unisphere and SYMCLI/SMc • Created thin pools, Tdevs, Meta volumes using SMC and Symcli. • Create RAID Groups, Bind LUNs, and Create Storage Groups using Unisphere manager. • Allocation and De-allocation (Reclaim) of storage to Linux and Windows hosts from EMC VMAX, PMAX, UNITY, ISILON and VNX arrays. • Depending upon the host’s request created Meta LUNs or allocated additional LUNs for additional storage and decommissioned the unused storage to improve resources availability, based on Thin Provisioning. • Performing the upgrade activities on VNX,VMAX,Unity Storage Arrays. • Implementation of EMC VMAX to PMAX Migrations for storage refresh• Planning and Implementation of NetApp cluster expansion (Disk, Shelf and Node addition) and refresh (Disk Shelf, Node and Cluster decommissioning and commissioning)• Configuration and management of NetApp DR (MetroCluster, svm replication, snap mirror, snap vault, flex cone, and snapshots) based on the business needs, RPO and RTO.• Flex group volume design, creation and management for large size workload and high performance.• Planning, configuration, and implementation of NetApp migration and transitioning to newer hardware and OS.• NetApp cluster switch upgrade and replacement irrespective of cluster switch OS (Cisco / Brocade)• Planning, deployment, configuration and management of Cisco and Brocade FC switches• New SAN Fabric deployment, configuration, and Management• Code certification and upgrades of Cisco Nexus and Brocade fabric OS releases.• Planning, certification, deployment, configuration, and management of VMAX and Powermax in Vxblocks and standaloneclusters.• Planning, certification, installation, configuration, maintenance and administration of Unity and Power storage.• NetApp storage operations using WFA.

United States

• Engineering and documentation of storage standards and procedures for operational and engineering tasks across the environment• Worked with EMC software tools like SYMCLI, Control Centre, Time Finder, SRDF SYNC and ASYNC. • Performing the DR Drill and Staging refresh activities on VMAX, UNITY, VNX for pre-prod servers. • Experience in backup management and disaster recovery administration using EMC Time Finder family (Snaps, Clones and BCVs). • Experience in SAN data migration solutions that include SANCOPY. • Performing the Migration Activities in VMAX series using SRDF. • Presenting the Clones LUNS as per request from Systems team. • Configuring ISILON SMB, NFS shares and providing the permissions for the image achieve data.• Performing Vulnerability issue fixing activities on VNX, UNITY&VPLEX. • Perform Root Cause Analysis of Major Issues in the Storage and Fabric environment.• Proactively participate in storage support issues by identifying, researching, and applying solutions to a wide variety of technical issues• Serve as a technical contact on projects requiring the provisioning of storage.• Maintain accurate and up to date inventory & documentation.• Monitoring and troubleshooting issues in the fabric, on the arrays and/or with other teams.• Flex group volume design, creation and management for large size workload and high performance.• Netapp cluster switch upgrade and replacement irrespective of cluster switch OS (Cisco / Brocade)• Overall environment monitoring, maintenance and troubleshooting using Netapp onCommand Insight and OPM• Snapcreator and snapcenter deployment, configuration, administration, and management for the DR of databases and application consistent protection.• Planning, certification, deployment, configuration and management of EMC XIO, VMAX and Powermax in Vxblocks and standalone clusters.• Planning, certification, installation, configuration, maintenance, and administration of pure storage M series storages

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Creating SOPs for storage engineering and operational tasks & troubleshooting• Working knowledge on zone configuration in CLI, Fabric manager 8.4(2), web tools (9.1) • Monitoring and Management of Ports, blades, interfaces and modules in brocade and Cisco Switches using Putty and Cisco Device Manager. • Collecting the switch logs from brocade and Cisco Switches. • Performing Upgrade activities on Cisco switches. • Having Experience in Zoning and Troubleshooting BROCADE and Cisco switches using CLI and Cisco Fabric Manager. • Decommission the Servers and Storage, which needs to be removed Zones from the SAN Switches. • Day to day storage administration of NetApp storage systems (SAN and NAS) SVMS, LUNS, Shares and Exports, LIFS, VLANS, Broadcast Domains, Ifgrps, ports, snapshots, clones• Hitachi NAS administration, management, and troubleshooting• Hitachi NAS, Multiprotocol management for CIFS and NFS file access.• Configuration, administration, and management of NetApp metro cluster solution for 0 RTO/RPO DR.• NetApp storage operations using WFA• OCUM management from web/VMRC Console• Cluster wide SVM administration for multi and single protocol data management. Establishing storage level network, data, and security segmentation• Overall environment monitoring, maintenance and troubleshooting using NetApp on Command Insight.• Snap creator implementation, administration, and management for the DR of large databases.• Proactive monitoring of the entire SAN environment to reduce incidents and problems.• Troubleshooting all SAN and NAS related issues in the environment working with the Vendor, when necessary, to solve all issue and keep the environment at optimal state.• Infini box SAN LUN and NAS share provisioning.• Infini box multitenant storage management, FC, NFS and SMB• Brocade FC switch installation, Migration, Configuration, and administration.

India

• Virtualization technologies of host (VMware) and Storage (IBM SVC and EMC Vplex)• Hands-on experience with the administration and support of Hitachi Storage Viewer,• Using VPLEX Claiming the storage from backend storage (UNITY, VNX, IBM-A9K and VMAX) and creating storage volumes. • Presenting the virtual volumes to storage views from storage volumes. • Expanding the virtual volumes masked to the hosts from Unisphere for VPLEX. • Creating distribution devices in VPLEX and map to the storage views. • Allocation and De-allocation of storage volumes in VPLEX and RP. • Management of Recovery point Storage using GUI and CLI. • Claiming the storage from backend storage and creating RP sets in RP Storage. • Creating consistency groups in RP and adding RP sets in CG. • Performing DR Drill activities using RP storage. • Monitoring the system metrics, alerts, and performance data. • Day to day storage monitoring and reporting using OCUM.• OCUM maintenance from web/VMRC Console• Creation of Snap mirror, snap vault and load sharing mirrors to meet application and overall business RPO and RTO• Volume management for both SAN and NAS Protocols, setting the proper thresholds and reserves for each application and data protocol across the environment.• Upgrading of all NetApp software and firmware, including on tap OS, disk and shelf firmware packages as required. Using both the command line and system Manager• Snapshot and clone creation and management for quick restores, data copy and testing.• NetApp SAN protocol Lun and Ingroup management• NetApp CIFS and NFS implementation and management, including all related policies and network requirements.• Overall environment monitoring, maintenance and troubleshooting using NetApp on Command Insight and Unified Manager.• Pure storage configuration implementation and administration

India

• Installation, configuration, and migration of brocade switches for Initial implementation and SAN Refresh• Firmware upgrades of Brocade and Cisco switches to meet vendor best practice and recommendations.• IBM SVC/V7000 Allocation, De- Allocation and reclaim of Luns.• Implementing Symmetrix NDM pass-through for Migration from EMC VMAX2 series to EMC VMAX All Flash storage systems for decommissioning of the VMAX2 system• Day to Day administration and Maintenance of EMC XIO, VMAX2, VMAX3 and VNX• Establishing SRDF relationships and maintenance of replications relationships between devices.• Creation of Snap mirror, snap vault, and load sharing mirrors to meet application and overall business RPO and RTO• Upgrading of all NetApp software and firmware, including ontap OS, disk and shelf firmware packages as required.• NetApp CIFS and NFS implementation and management, including all related policies and network requirements.• Storage Provisioning, allocation, deallocation of HP 3PAR and Power store storage.• Storage Provisioning, allocation, deallocation of Hitachi VSP G1000 & G1500.• Storage Provisioning, allocation, deallocation of IBM V840, V900 Flash Storage, SVC and XIV. • NetApp Snap Mirror replication with Data ONTAP Administration, using Snap Manager for DR, and backup up of SQL database.• Storage Provisioning, allocation, deallocation of Hitachi VSP and HUS• Storage Provisioning on Isilon• Hands on experience in configuration and maintenance of Dynamic Provision volumes.• Experience in Hitachi Tuning manager for identifying the underlying the issues in SAN.• Fabric migration, merging of various fabrics, Zoning, Modifying configuration, firmware upgrades.• Hands on experience in identifying fabric issues, SAN connectivity and provides resolution.• Storage Provisioning, allocation, deallocation of HP 3PAR using Store SERV Management Tools