Saravana Kumar Sarkunam

Professional 12+ years of experience in design, implementation and management of Data Center infrastructure, utilizing best practices and documented processes to maintain a highly available and high performance storage environment. Extensive experience in the areas of HP Storage/Hitachi Storage/EMC Storage, Unix, Linux and Windows system, Design and Implementation of Storage and San Fabric, Remote and On-site IT Operations Management, Infrastructure Management

I also possess a strong technical expertise in implementing and maintaining multiple vendor products like Hitachi VSP G1000 and G1500, Linux, Unix, VMAX 40K, CISCO MDS 9513, Brocade DCX, 7840 FCIP switches, HP3PAR 7400 and 8200, IBM SVC, IBM Flash storage arrays.

• Sound skills in Replication, Migration Technologies and SAN Network Management.
• Good understanding of Storage Design, Architecting and planning.

• Technologies – SAN DWDM, FCIP, HUR, True copy, SRDF replication, Shell scripting and various Storage management techniques
• Linux – RHEL Redhat certified engineer
• Storage management tools:
  • Hitachi command suite, HiCommand CLI, Tuning manager, Replication manager, HORCM, SRDF, symcli, 3PAR Management console, SSMC (Storeserv). 
  • Host level Migration using LVM Mirroring and LSAN Zoning
  • SAN Management tools:
  • Brocade CLI, Brocade network advisor
  • Expertise in solution providing for DC migration using HUR, Three way and two way replication setup