Harmeet S Virdi Email & Phone Number

Ontario, Canada

Toronto

Team managementWorking as a Storage and Backup lead for a leading pension plan client in Canada, manage team with onshore/offshore resourcesAnswer teams questions, helps with team member problems and work for quality and guideline complianceManage inventories/stock, including keeping detailed records of inventory use and sales, and advising management on ordering where necessaryAssist management with hiring processes and new team member trainingConduct regular team meetings… Show more Team managementWorking as a Storage and Backup lead for a leading pension plan client in Canada, manage team with onshore/offshore resourcesAnswer teams questions, helps with team member problems and work for quality and guideline complianceManage inventories/stock, including keeping detailed records of inventory use and sales, and advising management on ordering where necessaryAssist management with hiring processes and new team member trainingConduct regular team meetings to update members on best practicesStorage/Backup and VMwareMaintain existing and design roadmap for future for storage and backup productsWrite and execute SIP's and SOP's for Storage & BackupCreate capacity planning based on trends and forecast business needs to maintain adequate servicesManage Storage products as Hitachi G1000, VMAX40K, NetApp, Pure, IsilonCreate/manage pools, storage groups, aggregates, volumes, LUNS on EMC, HDS, NetApp, PureStorage provisioning/reclamation from SANCIFS/NFS management of new/existing shares from NetAppDR solutions like True copy, SRDF/S, snapmirrorPerformed regular Disaster recovery testing to validate RTO for SAN/NASConfigured new ISL connections between DC-DRCurrency upgrade for Storage and backup products. Recently upgrade Cisco FC SAN Switches 9513 and 9710 to the firmware compatible and tested with Hitachi Storage systemsCreated/implemented backup policies/procedures to adhere the standards defined with mutual agreement by businessManage multiple Backup solutions like Commvault/Netbackup/BackupexecConfiguration of new IsilonG6 systems as backup targetDecommissioning of Storage arrays like NetApp, Pure, Isilon and VMAX Commvault version/SP upgrades for Commvault servers and over 1000 clients involvedPerformed migration of production apps/DBs from EMC VMAX to Hitachi G1000, via VMware vmotion and virtualizing EMC behind G1000Good knowledge on vmware and performed regular activities like migration of VMs across datastores/hosts Show less

Professional with experience in EMC mid-range and enterprise level storage working on client sites in data center environment. Good knowledge on EMC legato regarding troubleshooting and support.Implemented EMC VNX5100, VNX5300, NS480 and Netapp product FAS2040Configured mirrorview, SRDF, snapmirror and VNX Snapshots as remote and local replication solutions.Implemented SRDF for disaster recovery using FCIP routers for DMX4 for more than 100 TB of dataGood knowledge on Cisco and… Show more Professional with experience in EMC mid-range and enterprise level storage working on client sites in data center environment. Good knowledge on EMC legato regarding troubleshooting and support.Implemented EMC VNX5100, VNX5300, NS480 and Netapp product FAS2040Configured mirrorview, SRDF, snapmirror and VNX Snapshots as remote and local replication solutions.Implemented SRDF for disaster recovery using FCIP routers for DMX4 for more than 100 TB of dataGood knowledge on Cisco and Brocade SAN SwitchesStrong understanding on disaster recovery solutions like SRDF, mirrorview, snapmirrorStrong understanding of SAN and NAS conceptsGood knowledge on EMC Networker w.r.t. backup and recovery processesGood understanding on NETAPP StorageBasic working knowledge on Unix, Linux, Windows 2003/2008, Windows 7Acknowledged and resolved incidents related to storage.Worked on Issues which can hamper Business Continuity of severity 1 and 2.Worked as a change planner and represented standard/normal/emergency changes in CAB and TAB meetings for getting it approved.Ensured that the spare parts of storage products reach in timely manner and replaced on time. Also, facilitated return of faulty parts to EMC warehouse.Conducted knowledge management sessions and helped understand team members about the storage technology and its working. Show less

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Administered and managed EMC storage solutions like EMC VMAX, DMX and CLARiiON, Celerra.Managed SAN switches – CISCO MDS and Brocade.Configured disaster recovery solution using RPA, SRDF.Performed activities like allocation and reclamation of luns from EMC SAN Product range -VMAX, DMX-4, CLARiiON, VNX along with NAS Products i.e. Celerra.Used EMC tools such as symcli for allocating storage from symmetrix VMAX, DMX to servers.Zoned various servers using Brocade and Cisco SAN… Show more Administered and managed EMC storage solutions like EMC VMAX, DMX and CLARiiON, Celerra.Managed SAN switches – CISCO MDS and Brocade.Configured disaster recovery solution using RPA, SRDF.Performed activities like allocation and reclamation of luns from EMC SAN Product range -VMAX, DMX-4, CLARiiON, VNX along with NAS Products i.e. Celerra.Used EMC tools such as symcli for allocating storage from symmetrix VMAX, DMX to servers.Zoned various servers using Brocade and Cisco SAN switches with the respective Storages using GUI as well as command line. Followed the customer guidelines for allocation and reclamation of storage and kept storage documents updated.Upgraded brocade SAN switch firmware and storage firmware as per plan.Involved in routine drills for disaster recovery and business continuity.Being a change planner and DC activity co-ordinator worked on change management, incident management frameworks using BMC remedy.Monitored the storage during office hours for any unwanted events.Resolved issues which involved host team and coordinated with them to reduce business impact.Maintained/created reports for existing/upgraded infrastructure of DC’sProvided KT and training to team members and client as per requirement. Show less

Master’S Degree, Electronics Product Design And Technology

Activities and Societies: Magpie, Oorja, etc

Bachelor’S Degree, Electronics And Communication Engineering

Matric, Class Tenth

Matric