BalkarSingh Poorni

Edison, NJ
Contact:rmehta@aksinfotech.net

Contact:7325701393

SUMMARY OF EXPERIENCE

SAN Architect with over Ten+ years of experience in the design, implementation and
maintenance of multi-platform Storage Area Networks as well as Storage environments
that meet the demands of the ever-changing client datacenter needs. I have worked as a
SAN Admin for the last six years and am moving to a SAN Architect role over the last
two years. My experience ecompasses all aspects of Open Systems SAN management
including SAN Zoning and LUN masking, and all aspects of Mainframe storage
management including direct access storage devices (DASD) and file allocation, system
managed storage, backup and restore, and disaster recovery. I have experience allocating
additional SAN storage as requested, tracking storage usage across the SAN
environment, and reclaim storage attached to obsolete systems, refreshing older
generations hardware. I’ve worked on complex projects requiring hardware refreshes
from older generation hardware.Complex data migration , disaster recovery and active
active designes and implementations.

Strong technical background in storage (HDS, EMC, NetApp, IBM), SAN switches
(Brocade and CISCO MDS), Unix (Solaris and Linux) , Data Protection (Netbackup), High
availability (VCS), Storage Foundation Suit (VXVM/VCS), Storage and Network
(TCP/IP/ administration. Various configation, management, and performance
monitoring tools. (Bandwith utilization, IO Response time, EMC SRM or Prosphere).
Storage: HDS 99XX, USP, USPV, VSP, EMC VMAX, IBM DS8KX, NetApp 30XX, 31XX,
60XX, Sun 60XX, 61XX, 70XX. Data protection and management suite administering
Netbackup with VTL, Dedup, SL8500. OS: Sun Solaris, Linux, Windows. San Switches:
Brocade 8510, DCX, 7500/7800, 5300/5100, BES 8000, 6510, Cisco MDS 95XX. Sun / HP
Enterprise system architecture, installation, configuration, administration, monitoring
and support.

 San/Nas admin with more than 10+ years of IT experience, including storage sub
system, provisioning, monitoring, consolidation and reporting of Enterprise Storage.
 Extensive Experience on Design and architect of Open system disaster recovery
processes and set up.
 Experience working on Large data centre with corporate data centres
 Experience in EMC Symmetrix VMAX2/VMAX3/VNX/Unity series Storage
Products.
 EMC SRDF Metro, Srdf,sancopy , openreplicator etc.
 Experience in EMC XTREME IO/ISILON series Storage Products.
 Experience in EMC VPLEX, recoverpoint
 Expertise in EMC VxRail , Scale IO implementations and designs.
 Extensive Experience in VMware Horizon View 6.0, architecture, implementer and administrator of
the environment
 Extensive experience in VMware ESX/ESXi hosts 3.5, 4.1 & 5.x hypervisor and Microsoft virtual
server Hyper V
 Expertise in Data migration using robocopy, EMCOPY, isi_vol_copy,DataDobi
 Experience in migration technologies such as LVM, VERITAS MIRRORING, Open
replicator, powerpath migration enabler, Hitachi external storage, VPLEX, IBM
SVC
 Experience in Netapp 7 mode and Cmode deployments
 Experience in migration from 7 mode to c mode
 Experience in migration from VNX/Isilon to Netapp
 Experience in SAN, NAS, and storage based on customer performance requirement.
 Knowledge and experience in AIX/VIO,Solaris, HP Unix and San management using
EMC products.
 Experience in Installation and Configuration of storage management, Storage area
Network products from EMC.
 Expert in Recover point installation and configuration
 Experience and knowledge of high-end storage disk sub systems with NAS & SAN
based Backup solutions.
 Experienced in Storage Capacity planning, Ad hoc changes, etc.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Impax Pharma Feb2013 – Till date

Storage Admin

Responsibilities:

 Designed and implemented server and storage consolidation

 Designed, implemented server/storage consolidation
 Designed the process of data and server migration
 Worked with various operations team during the design phase to deploy new
storage hardware and software and provide knowledge transfer
 Implemented VMAX3/VMAX2 , DS8800,XIV,SVC and VPLEX,netapp and
isilon
 Architecting deployment of virtual systems, integration of network switches,
blades , storage implemented EMC xtreme IO
 Implemented VMAX3, Unity,architected VMAX fast deployments
 Implemented SRDF mETRO, recoverpoint
 Integrated with VMWARE/ORACLE etc.
 Configured recverpoint with VPLEX, VMAX3 and XtremeIO
 Design and architected Storage environment for VMAX, VNX,UNITY,VPLEX,
SCALEIO and VxRAIL systems.
 Designed and deployed hyper converged systems. 40+ four node VxRail systems,
and 20+ 6 node Scaleio system
 Implemented SSD and other storage pools, protection domain, fault and fault sets
on scalio , configured various different network topology on scaleIO
 Designed and deployed VxRail environment, configuring VSAN
 Designed and deployed multiple ESX clusters on VxRAIL and scale Io
HYPERCONVERGED platform.
 Installation and support of VMWARE ESX/ESXi 3.5/4.x/5.x server which hosts
the virtual servers for the test/dev/staging environment.
 Build, architect and administer vCenter 4.1/5.0, VMware cluster, HA, DRS,
VMWare View 5.0, VMware SRM 5.0, Snapshot, Clone
 Taking care of P2V, V2V, P2P using vConverter & double take
 Performance tuning for VMware ESXi hosts and Virtual Machine, setting up their
CPU affinity rules, allocating resources and fine tuning storage

 Provisioned and configure 2+ PB of Storage including mix of variety of EMC
products, VMAX,VNX, VNXe, Unity, VPLEX, SCALIO platforms. etc.
 Configured Oracle and Sybase to be replicated using recoverpoint
 Implemented distributed consistency groups
 Implemented failback and failover
 Designed Brocade DCX deployments and MDS
 Configured snapmirror/snapvault/snap protect in Nseries filers
 Configured cluster mode filers, migrated from 7mode to cluster mode .
 Designed San fabrics and deployed core-edge technologies
 Upgraded cisco MDS san environment with new code, NX OS upgrades
 Configuring VSAN, configuring NPV/NPIV.
 Implementing FCIP , implementing FCOE on the MDs/Nexus switches
 Implemented Disaster recovery for various storage arrays using synchronous and
asynchronous replication
 Implementing Vmware stretch cluster using VPLEX METRO and witness
 Deploying vplex campus solution with replication using recover point
 Architecting and Implementing Recoverpoint /VM,Recoverpoint SE, with
replication manager
 Architecting and integrating recover point with VPLEX metro
 SAN design for the VPLEX , Recoverpoint deployments
 FCIP,IVR Virtual fabric , SAN consolidation,SAN Management using brocade
network advisor, SAN migration
 Integrating Storage based replication with VMWARE SRM
  Implemented Data migrations using Veritas volume manager, LVM,Storage
Vmotion, Powerpath Migration enabler.
 Architecting and deploying isilon environment, data migration from Netapp and
CX to isilon
 Implemented Avamar, DATADOMAIN and Veritas Netabackup , HP data
protector for very complex technologies like Oracle RAC, Exchange
,Sharpoint,SAP.
 Implemented and upgraded AVAMAR AND DATA DOMAIN
 Architected and implemented VNX file and Isilon
 Installed and configured Netapp C dot filers , CIFS/NFS, snapshots, snapmirror
or checkpoint. Replication
 Integrated Netapp and Isilon with Active directories , Ldap
 Managing CIFS and SMB file permissions
 Managing NFS shares and file permissions
 Architected and implemented VNX file and Isilon
 Implemented a large Isilon cluster for various workloads
 Implemented smart pools, De-Dup, SmartQuota
 Implemented snapshot IQ and insight IQ
 Implemented smart flash in the Isilon cluster
 Implemented S, X, NL and HD nodes
 Implemented Centrify version 5.1.1 and up, CAC card AD authentication
 Migrating from 7 mode to Cmode on some fo the Netapp filers
 Migrated Netapp and VNX to ISILON .

Express Scripts NJ April 2010– Dec 2012

Responsibilities:

 Implement and Administer SAN /storage environment on VNX/VMAX

 Implement and administer NAS device deployments and virtualization
 Consolidating SAN, Servers, Databases.
 Implementing disaster recovery solutions.
 Responsible for capacity planning and administration of SAN environment for boeing
which contain data on EMC Symmetrix VMAX, VNX/ISILON, NETAPP,HPXP etc
storage array connected to Windows and vmware servers.
 Storage provisioning on VNX,NETAPP,isilon, VMAX,HPXP,Hitachi USPV
o Creating storage groups, initiator registration ,bind luns
o Creating hypers, meta device, bcv, bcv meta, snap vdev, thin vdev, rdf
device ,allocation ,masking on DMX
o Creating ldevs,luse,host groups ,lun security on tagmastore
 Configure zoning, masking, Mapping host to the storage array and troubleshooting
any connectivity issues.
 Installation and configuration of HiCommand device Manger,TSM
 Plan, Implémente server/Storage/NAS Consolidation /Migration.
 Thin provisioning , FAST,FAST CACHE AND FasT VP implementation on
VNX/VMAX
 Data migration from DMX to VMAX using open replicator ,open migrator
 Mirrorview/snapview configuration on VNX
 SRDF,SNAPSHOT,FAST VP configuration on
 Installation and configuration of NS 960, VNX,Netapp filers
 Data migration from older NAS to newer NAS
 Architected, implemented and administered server and SAN /storage environment
 Designed and implemented server and storage consolidation
 Designed, implemented server/storage consolidation
 Designed the process of data and server migration
 Installed and configured Cisco MDS san switches and configuring IVR
 Installed and configured Netapp C dot filers , CIFS/NFS, snapshots, snapmirror or
checkpoint. replication
 Configured snapmirror/snapvault/snap protect in Nseries filers
 Configured cluster mode filers, migrated from 7mode
 Installed and configured IBM XIV,EMC VMAX,IBM SVC,Clariion CX for SAP,Oracle
RAC,VMWARE and Exchange environment.
 Virtualization and data migration of block storage using XIV and IBM SVC.
 Designed San fabrics and deployed core-edge technologies
 Upgraded cisco MDS san environment with new code, NX OS upgrades
 Configuring VSAN, configuring NPV/NPIV.
 Implementing FCIP , implementing FCOE on the MDs/Nexus switches
 Implementing Port Channels in SAN fabric , implementing ISLs
 Migrating SAN fabric , consolidating SAN fabric
 Design of the san, failover, dual path, disaster recovery, as well as Business
Continuance
 Documentation and knowledge transfer for disk allocation, zoning, file system
creation on Solaris, HPUX, AIX,VMWARE to the customer.
 Installation and configuration of snap, snapview, mirror view
 Installation and configuration of EMC celerra /Netapp FS servers
 Migrating celerra using replicator
 Installation and configuration of centera and centera replication
 Migrating centera to newer generation centera
 Configuration of CIFS/NFS aggregates, volumes and NDMP backups
 Performance analysis of VMAX/VNX storage array.
 Storage device management, with ECC.
 Installation of, Timefinder, Srdf, for Disaster recovery.
 Writing scripts for Timefinder, srdf operations using Symcli.
 Installation of Brocade director level Switches. Installing SAS based splitters.
 Architected recover point appliance CRR and CLR.
 Installation and configuration of recover point for Data replication and data
migration.
 Monitoring performance of switches.
 Created disaster recovery schemes, and tapes.
 Data migration using different methods such as open replicator,san copy, Tiered
storage.
 Installation of Fiber adapters, installation of Brocade Fiber switches, Zoning.
 Migrating from Mcdata to Brocade switches.
 Monitoring and Troubleshooting TCP/IP LAN/WAN Problems.
 Have two domains, production and development domain.

State of Pa, Harrisburg, PA April 2006– Dec 2010

Responsibilities:

 Implement and Administer SAN /storage environment on VNX/VMAX

 Implement and administer NAS device deployments and virtualization
 Consolidating SAN, Servers, Databases.
 Implementing disaster recovery solutions.
 Responsible for capacity planning and administration of SAN environment for boeing
which contain data on EMC Symmetrix VMAX/VNX/ ISILON, NETAPP,HPXP etc
storage array connected to Windows and vmware servers.
 Storage provisioning on VNX,NETAPP,isilon, VMAX,HPXP,Hitachi USPV
o Creating storage groups, initiator registration ,bind luns
o Creating hypers, meta device, bcv, bcv meta, snap vdev, thin vdev, rdf
device ,allocation ,masking on DMX
o Creating ldevs,luse,host groups ,lun security on tagmastore
 Configure zoning, masking, Mapping host to the storage array and troubleshooting
any connectivity issues.
 Installation and configuration of HiCommand device Manger,TSM
 Plan, Implémente server/Storage/NAS Consolidation /Migration.
 Data migration from DMX to VMAX using open replicator ,open migrator
 Mirrorview/snapview configuration on VNX
 SRDF,SNAPSHOT,FAST VP configuration on
 Installation and configuration of NS 960, VNX,Netapp filers
 Data migration from older NAS to newer NAS
 Architected, implemented and administered server and SAN /storage environment
 Designed and implemented server and storage consolidation
 Designed, implemented server/storage consolidation
 Designed the process of data and server migration
 Installed and configured Cisco MDS san switches and configuring IVR
 Installed and configured Netapp C dot filers , CIFS/NFS, snapshots, snapmirror or
checkpoint. replication
 Configured snapmirror/snapvault/snap protect in Nseries filers
 Configured cluster mode filers, migrated from 7mode
 Installed and configured IBM DS8XXX,EMC VMAX, Clariion CX for SAP,Oracle
RAC,VMWARE and Exchange environment.
 Virtualization and data migration of block storage using XIV and IBM SVC.
 Designed San fabrics and deployed core-edge technologies
 Implementing Port Channels in SAN fabric , implementing ISLs
 Migrating SAN fabric , consolidating SAN fabric
 Design of the san, failover, dual path, disaster recovery, as well as Business
Continuance
 Documentation and knowledge transfer for disk allocation, zoning, file system
creation on Solaris, HPUX, AIX,VMWARE to the customer.
 Installation and configuration of snap, snapview, mirror view
 Installation and configuration of EMC celerra /Netapp FS servers
 Migrating celerra using replicator
 Installation and configuration of centera and centera replication
 Migrating centera to newer generation centera
 Configuration of CIFS/NFS aggregates, volumes and NDMP backups