A technology leader with 25+ years of hands-on experience in Storage Technologies (NetApp/EMC/HPE/IBM/Nimble), Cloud Technologies (VMware/openstack/AWS/Azure), Backup & Restore Technologies (NetBackup/Commvault/Networker/Veeam), Fabric Management , UNIX, Microsoft technologies and network infrastructure. I bring an innovative and pragmatic approach to analyzing complex business needs, enabling me to conceptualize, design and implement cutting edge solutions based on the latest virtualization, storage, Backup and cloud technologies. Always looking for the next leading and bleeding edge technologies to enhance and bring improvements in efficiency. Expertise and experience in planning, designing and implementing SAN on open systems for High Availability and Disaster Recovery. Implementing, configuring and managing Brocade and Cisco MDS switches and directors. Design, install, configure and manage NetApp 7-mode, Clustered Data ONTAP (8.x and 9) Filers, EMC (VNX/VMAX/Isilon/Unity), HPE 3par and IBM (DS4K/5K/6K/8K/SVC/Storwize 7000) Design, Configure and Manage NetApp data protection like Snapshot, NDMP, Snapmirror and Snapvault. Transitioning NetApp 7-Mode to Clustered Data Ontap 8 and Ontap 9. Managing ONTAP S3 and Metrocluster. Design, Install, Configure and Manage VMware Vsphere SDDC with ESXi (4/5/5.5/6/7.x/8.x), vcenter server, HA, DRS, vCloud Director, VMware SRM, VSAN and vRA & vRO. Proficient in IBM and NetApp EF Series Systems and Software like Santricity Manager, Flash Copy, Remote Mirror and Global Mirror. Design, install, configure and manage Netbackup (7.5/7.7/8.x/9.x) Master and Media Servers. Configuring Storage Units, Policy Management, Catalog and SLP. Configuring and Managing VTL’s and LAN Free Backup. Configuring VM LiveSync and Replication and Failover and Failback test.Clients:
Listed skills include San, Disaster Recovery, Itil, Netbackup, and 42 others.
