Narendra Reddy Eemani

Storage Administrator with 7+ years of experience in enterprise storage and SAN administration across Dell EMC, Hitachi, NetApp, Pure Storage, and HPE platforms. Expertise in storage provisioning, performance tuning, capacity management, replication, backup integration, and disaster recovery. Proficient in Brocade and Cisco SAN fabric administration, including zoning, switch configuration, monitoring, and troubleshooting.

Adept at managing mission-critical storage infrastructure, ensuring high availability, and delivering efficient storage solutions in complex production environments.

Storage Admin - KFIN Technologies - Hyderabad

(2018-03)

SAN Administration of a complex multi Petabyte Storage Environment with excellent real time experience on troubleshooting of high severity issues in Storage and SAN Fabrics.

• Experience in Disaster Recovery test activities
• Experience in configuration and administration of VPLEX
• Experience in configuration and administration of PMAX
• Experience in configuration and administration of Netapp Storage and Pure Storage devices
• Handling end to end administration tasks in Netapp and Pure Storage devices
• Handling Major Incidents related to Storage and SAN Switches
• Handling Local and Remote replications in Storage devices
• Handling SRDF, RCFC, Global Mirror and Universal Replicator
• Handling tools deployment and tools integration to the Storage devices
• Handling Storage related Service requests, changes, incidents and Problem tickets
• Handling Brocade and Cisco fabric operations
• Experience in end-to-end administration of VPLEX cluster
• Handling Storage Troubleshooting of VPLEX
• Performing the Allocations and reclaims on the VPLEX
• Worked in SAN environments with a mix of VMware, Solaris, and Windows servers for provisioning, zoning, and storage integration
• Performed remote and local replication configurations on VPLEX to safeguard data integrity
• Provide day to day operational activities for Storage which includes planning, monitoring and administering EMC and HP Storage Arrays
• Deployments of the servers physical, ESX and clustered from the storage end
• Provided timely performance reports to facilitate informed decision-making
• Storage provisioning operations in EMC, HP and IBM Storage devices
• Storage reclaims operations in EMC, HP and IBM Storage devices
• Storage allocations and reclaims on Hitachi and Pure Storage frames
• Storage Installation and configuration of Hitachi and Pure
• Storage troubleshooting on EMC, HP, IBM, Hitachi and Pure
• Storage LUN expansions in all type of storage devices
• Local Replication configuration like snapshot and clone
• Remote replication configuration like SRDF, RCFC and Global Mirror
• HBA replacements on Fabric and Storage
• Managed various incidents related to storage systems and SAN switches, ensuring timely resolution
• Handling Storage requests coming from Customer, Application team and Server teams
• Conducted new installations of storage devices, contributing to infrastructure expansion and capability
• Assisted in storage migration activities by providing necessary information to subject matter experts
• Working with Vendor on the Code upgrades
• Working with Vendor and DC team on the HW expansion for storage devices
• Performing Server migrations using SRDF and Open Replicator (hot / cold – pull / push)
• Working on Brocade Switch installation and Configurations
• Handling ISL configuration along with the pre-requisites
• Handling ISL trunking on the Brocade switches
• Working on the FOS code upgrades on the Brocade switches
• Performing daily health checks of all the storage devices and fabrics
• Performing daily monitoring of all the storage devices and fabrics
• Working with vendor and replacing the faulty hardware
• Experience with Cisco enterprise directors like Cisco MDS 9513/9509/9506
• Creating Zones, Aliases, checking configurations of the switches
• Analyze and troubleshoot the issues (path issues, disk issues, performance issues) which are coming in the course of execution of tasks/tickets
• Engaging with Storage Vendors (EMC) for issues and follow up the same
• Worked in an SAN environment of mixed host comprising UNIX host, Windows host and Clustered ESX VM host
• Raise Incident and Change records for the issues and problem in the existing infrastructure and troubleshoot accordingly
• Exposure to Administrative tools like SYMCLI, Unisphere, SRM, 3par CLI, HSM, OneFS, CMCNE, SanNAV, IMC and Netapp OCI
• Manageable knowledge in EMC VNX File Storage and EMC Isilon Arrays
• Managed storage systems to ensure optimal performance and data integrity for users
• Configured and maintained backup solutions, enhancing data recovery capabilities across departments
• Monitored system performance and executed maintenance tasks, reducing downtime and improving reliability
• Collaborated with IT teams to troubleshoot storage issues, facilitating timely resolutions and user support

MBA - Computer Engineering - JNTU Hyderabad University (2013-06)