sujith619
Member since: September 2017
Timeline
sujith nair
About
Education
Calicut University, 2011
Bachelor of Commerce
experience
Storage and VMware admin | Fidelity National Finance.
June 2013 – January 13th 2017
Responsibilities :
- EMC Clarrion, VNX Arrays - Storage Allocation requests need to be analyzed from the perspective of nature of requirement, availability and feasibility and follow the ITIL process for the allocation.
- Clariion and VNX - Creating RAID Groups, Creating Storage Pools, Create LUNs, Meta LUNs, Snapview Clone, Snapview Snapshot.
- Clariion and VNX allocations include creating RAID Groups, LUNS, Storage Groups, Extending or creating Meta LUNS.
- Registering new servers on the clariion and setting the appropriate failover mode settings. Troubleshooting the connectivity issues and fixing them.
- Creating RLP for Snapshots on Clariion and VNX arrays and creating Snapview Snapshots.
- Creating Clone Groups and establishing clone sessions for various requirements.
- Creating reports for storage configurations from Arrays.
- Brocade Switches- creating aliases and zones adding zones to effective zone configuration. Taking backups of zone configurations.
- SPA and ECC - Reporting on Storage Arrays using ECC Performance Manager. Capacity Planning and Analysis.
- Monitor health of storage arrays and SAN switches on a daily basis.
- Creating Service Requests with EMC for hardware faults and coordinating with Customer Engineers to resolve the issues.
- Escalating issues to the L2/L3 teams accordingly depending on the severity of the incidents.
- Remote replication using Mirrorview Synchronous and Asynchronous.
- Knowledge on Recoverpoint operations.
- Powerpath management.
- Management and administration of Brocade SAN switches.
- Storage Provisioning from EMC Clariion and VNX storage arrays.
- Local replication using Snapview Snapshot and Clone.
Windows and VMware
- Good knowledge on Windows Active Directory installation and user and group management.
- Knowledge on configuring Roaming Profile and Mandatory Profile for users.
- Good knowledge on DNS services installation and configuration.
- Knowledge on Group Policy Objects.
- Knowledge on installation WDS.
- Planning and designing the patching and procedure in covering the servers and implementing.
- Installing, Configuring & Trouble shooting of VMware ESXi / ESX Server, VMware VSphere and Virtual Center.
- Creating and configuration of clusters in VCenter server.
- Expertise on Creating virtual machines, installing operating systems inside VM’s and installing tools and configure these VM’s based on customer requirements.
- Creating and Managing Virtual Machines and Templates and deploying Templates.
- Creating Clusters for High Availability (HA) and Distributed Resource Scheduling (DRS).
- Migrating of Virtual Machines using VMotion.
- Knowledge on vMotion and sVmotion.
- Convert physical machines to virtual machines (P2V) and virtual machines to virtual machines (V2V) with VMware converter.
- Creating and Managing Resource pools and adding the VM’s into resource pools.
- Configuring Alerts and Alarms
- Performing Snapshots, Cloning and Migrations.
- Updating and Upgrading the ESX and ESXi servers using VMware update manager.
- Creating Virtual Switches & port groups in virtual environment.
- Configuring vSphere Standard Switches (VSS) and virtual distributed switches (VDS).
- Knowledge on VM Patch Management.
