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- Leverage nearly 20 years of experience - including leadership - spanning IT infrastructure, communication, service management, and disaster recovery ”A result-oriented professional with excellence in implementing quality mechanisms to deliver desired output” Senior Storage Administrator Kumarappan V Career Summary
- Combine technical expertise with strong business acumen & operational understanding; ensure all technical strategies align with corporate goals
- Skilled in evaluating IT downtime hours collated from all departments and taking necessary steps to minimize it
- Managed projects through all lifecycle phases with focus on establishing direction and standards
- Proven leader skillful in building and motivating diverse technical teams to achieve outstanding results and complete projects on time & within budget
Overview
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Work history
Senior Storage Administrator
Emirates NBD Bank
Dubai
2006.12 - 2010.05
Senior Storage Administrator
NBAD Bank
Abu Dhabi
2010.06 - 2010.01
Senior UNIX Administrator
Esquire System, Emirates NBD Bank
Dubai
2004.12 - 2006.11
- Emirates NBD Bank
- Significant Accomplishments:
- At FAB Bank, Abu Dhabi (Previously NBAD)
- Steered storage administration of the storage environment consisting of Symmetrix VMAX10, VMAX20K, DMX-3, VMAX450, PMAX, VNX 5700, VNX5300, VNX 5500, CX3-40, Recover Point, Vplex, Centera, Celerra, Netapps, Unity, IBM Flash, Pure Storage, Brocade and Cisco MDS Directors
- Worked with:
- Internal Auditors to audit storage and backup environment and completed it without any issues
- International Team to design their backup environment as we have many branches internationally
- Implemented:
- Disaster Recovery solution SRDF/A on Symmetrix VMAX
- FCIP on Cisco SAN Directors 9506
- Thin Provisioning & Auto Tiering on VMAX
- FAST-VP on VMAX to improve the performance of most critical applications
- Data Domain boost backups within the NetBackup environment
- SLP in NetBackup 7.0.1
- Oracle and SQL agent backups in NetBackup 7.0.1
- Netapp Cluster ( 8020 & 8060 ) with mirroring for replication
- Pure storage in the development environment
- IBM Flash storage for treasury environment
- SRM for monitoring, alerting, and reporting
- Veritas Data insight to audit CIFS shares and report the usage
- Access control on Cisco SAN directors
- Migrated:
- SAN hosts from VMAX20K to VMAX 200K using SRDF migration tool
- SAN hosts from VMAX20K to VMAX 200K using SRDF migration tool
- Data from DMX4 to VMAX20K using Open migrator
- Thick devices to Thin devices within VMAX20K
- DPA from 5.2 to 6.1
- Provisioned and Migrated SAN and NAS Storages ( VNX and XtremIO) to Unity in the Development environment
- Replicated VNX arrays across sites using RP CDP & CIFS and NFS shares between VNXs across sites using IP replicator
- Configured zoning on Cisco SAN Directors and Brocade Switches
- Managed configuration of VMAX10K and VNX 5700 arrays behind VPLEX
- Migrated from Cisco to Brocade directors ( DCX 8510)across Production and DR environment
- Involved in relocation of data center from Alain to Dubai
- Migrated VMWARE and VDI hosts from VNX to XTremIO and set-up Recoverpoint for the replication
- Administered NetBackup environment with Data Domain Boost and Physical tape storage environments across multiple data centers; NDMP backup in Avamar
- Upgraded NetBackup media , master and clients from 7.6.0.4 to 7.7.3
- Storage integration for new servers (Which includes Physical Connectivity of Servers to SAN Fabric, Zoning, Presenting devices, Configuring replication etc…)
- Managing storage requirement for existing environment (Which includes Configuring devices, Configuring replication etc.)
- Assisting UNIX/ Windows /VMWARE Engineers to resolve Storage related issues on Hosts
- Involved in Yearly DR activity of entire Data Center which happens in Nov every year and in quarterly for component level DR
- Upgraded Netbackup environment from 8.2 to 9.1.0.1
- Experience in Configuring Recover Point replication which includes Configuring CGs, Adding devices, and Maintenance activities on CGs, etc
- Implementation of Snapmirror on Netapp
- Upgraded Netbackup environment from 9.1.0.1 to 10.1.1
- Migrated Netbackup master server version 10.1.1 from Solaris to Liinux platform
- Migrated more than 2000 LTO6 tapes to LTO9 tapes using Netbackup tool
- Involved in restore recovery process to check the integrity of the tape backup
- Implemented NFS and CIFS shares in Isilon and powerscale storages and replicated them to DR storages
- Replicated disks from PMAX to Power store/XIO storages and vice versa via Recover point
- Closure of Jira points on time and shared the backup evidence to internal and external auditors based on the requirement
- Configured and scheduled backup for oracle DB , SQL DB,Filesystem level and image level backup in Networker
- At, :
- EMC Control Center 6.1 in Windows 2003 and deployment of master, Host, FCC, Storage, SDM & Clarion agents
- CISCO MDS9513 & 9222i SAN Switches
- SAN media backup for Oracle databases using CLONE Copy
- VERITAS NETBACKUP 6.5 in Solaris 10
- Concurrent SRDF for the data center migration
- Time finder clones at Production and DR sites
- Worked with EMC Engineer in setting up DMX 1000, DMX 4 & and Clarion storages at Production & DR sites
- Designed and set up FCIP links in Cisco MDS switches (MDS 9513 & MDS9222I) for storage replication
- Configured:
- SRDF/S and SRDF/A between the primary and the DR site
- Zoning on CISCO MDS Switches using ECC and native
- Used Symconfigure to perform configuration changes on the DMX arrays, create Meta volumes, and map / unmap devices to FA ports as and when required
- Perform failover and failback using SRDF/SYNC, SRDF/ASYC, MIRRORVIEW/S & MIRROR VIEW/A based on the request from the business
- Administration of Solaris, RedHat, and AIX OS
- Installation of AIX OS
- Installation of Latest MLs & required File sets
- Modifying or adding new disk volumes ( LUN) to partitions
- User administration
- Taking image backup using mksysb
- Troubleshooting network-related issues
- Configuring and Administrating NFS
- Technical Skills
- Hardware: EMC DMX 1000, DMX 4, VMAX 10K, VMAX 20K, VPLEX, VNX 5700, VNX 5500, VNX5300, Clarion CX3-10C, CX3-40F, CX3-240C, CX4-120C, Centera Gen4, Netapps FAS 900 Series
- Software: PowerPath, Solution Enabler, SRDF, Time Finder (Clone & BCV), EMC Control Center, Performance Manager, Navisphere Manager, Secure Gateway, Centera Viewer, Navi Cli, Recover Point, IP Replicator, Mirror View, Recover Point & Netapp SNAP Mirror
- Fabric Switches: CISCO MDS9140 & 9222I, CISCO Enterprise Directors MDS9509 & 9513 and Brocade Enterprise Directors DCX-8510
- Operating Systems: SUN Solaris 6,7,8,9 & 10, IBM AIX 5.2&5.3
- Red Hat Linux 2.6 & Windows 2000, Red Hat Linux 2.6, Windows 2000 and HP-UX 10
Senior Storage Administrator
Emirates NBD Bank
Dubai
2004.01 - 2006.01
- Cisco SAN directors to Brocade SAN directors in the production and DR environment without any business impact
- Hosts from VMAX20K to VAMX 200K using SRDF
- Played a key role in implementing:
- EMC DMX4, Clarion Storages, EMC Control Center & MDS 9513 SAN Switches as new SAN infrastructure
- Veritas Net backup 6.5 as new backup infrastructure
- Migrated Netbackup master server version 10.1.1 from Solaris to Red Hat Linux Platform
- Migrated more than 2000 LTO 6 tapes to LTO9 using Netbackup tool
- Migrated storage for applications from Legacy DC to new DC in a short span of time
- Contributed towards business continuity exercise
- Involved in integration of FGB and NBAD Banks
Education
B.Sc - Electronics
Bharathidasan University
1995
<ul><li>Sun Certified System Administrator for Solaris 7 Part 1 & 2</li><li>Sun Certified System Administrator for Solaris 8, Upgrade</li><li>Sun Certified Network Administrator for Solaris</li><li>Introduction to Oracle 9i SQL</li><li>Oracle DBA Fundamentals 1 & 2</li><li>EMC Storage Technology Foundations</li><li>EMC Symmetrix Business Continuity Specialist Exam for Storage Administrators</li><li>ITIL V3 Foundation</li><li>AWS Certificate Solutions Architect -Associate</li></ul> - undefined
Skills
- Backup Solution: Storagetek L180, Quantum i80, SL 500, L1400,Quantum i500 , I3,i6000,I6; VERITAS NetBackup 45, 50, 51, 61, 701, 7507 , 7604, 773 & Avamar 61
- Databases: Oracle 816, 817 & 9i
- Volume Management: VERITAS Volume Manager 35, 45 & 51, Solaris Volume Manager, Logical Volume Manager and ZFS
- Applications: Web Logic 81 and Sun One Web Server 61
- Extracurricular Activities
Affiliations
Member of Toastmaster Club; given motivational speech and Certified Competent communicator (CC)
Accomplishments
- I am going through Leadership Pathway track and conducted the meeting 4 times in 3 years
- Reading the books for personal development
- Listener of the Dubai Eye FM for motivation and inspiration
- Attended "Bring Your Heart" Seminar
- Basketball is my favorite sport and play regularly then do yoga on daily basis in order to make me fit physically and mentally
Timeline
Senior Storage Administrator
NBAD Bank
2010.06 - 2010.01
Senior Storage Administrator
Emirates NBD Bank
2006.12 - 2010.05
Senior UNIX Administrator
Esquire System, Emirates NBD Bank
2004.12 - 2006.11
Senior Storage Administrator
Emirates NBD Bank
2004.01 - 2006.01
B.Sc - Electronics
Bharathidasan University