VARADHA DIVAKAR

Email:varadha.divakar@live.com
Mobile no: +91- 9743774667
PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

Over 2.2 Years of IT industry experience in Storage Administration which includes maintain and
administrating EMC Clariion CX series,EMC Symmetrix DMX ,Vmax,Brocade Switches,

Backup, and Disaster Recovery

Expert in implementing, administering and maintaining of EMC CX, Vmax series arrays.
Have good exposure in Maintaining and Monitoring of enterprise Storage Area Networks(SAN)

in critical environments
Knowledge in planning, designing and implementing SAN with open systems, High availability
& Disaster Recovery of SAN/NAS Storage and new hardware and software for future SAN

expansion.
Hands on Experience in implementing Layered Applications such as Mirror view, Snapview

Clone/Snapshot and SAN Copy at Clariion level (BCVs/Snap) .

Efficiently worked with team members to maintain the team spirit and believe in knowledge

transfer and documentation.

Efficiently used EMC Control Center, Navisphere Manager, Performance Manager, Storage

Scope, Recover Point, Solutions Enabler CLI

Good Understanding in installation and configuration of ISL between Cisco, Brocade and

McData switches and maintaining the vendor fabrics.

Proven ability in implementing and managing Emulex/Qlogic Fiber Channel HBAs and iSCSI

fabric network environment.

Knowledge on EMC Power Path solution for path failover, load balancing, path management and

automatic I/O failure detections.

Very keen and enthusiastic, constant desire to learn, Self-starter with drive, initiative and a
positive attitude. Able to meet very stringent deadlines and always deliver results, even under
pressure.

Education:

B.Tech, Information Technology,

KAKINADA JNTU, India APRIL 2010
Technical Skills:
Storage Enterprise Arrays: EMC Clariion CX, Symmetrix DMX series and Vmax series.
Switches: Cisco MDS 9509, 9200, Brocade 24000, 3900, 48000, 2800, 3850, 5000,
McData 4400, 4500.
HBAs : Qlogic and Emulex.
SAN Management tools: Cisco Fabric Manager, Brocade Fabric Manager, Connetrix Manager,
SAN Health, Fabric Watch.
SAN & NAS Softwares: EMC Control Centre, EMC Navisphere Manager,
Replication manager, Mirror View, Snap View/Clone, SANCopy, Time Finder, SRDF,
Power Path, RecoverPoint, NaviCLI, SnapMirror, FlexClone.
Design Tools: Microsoft Visio 2003, PowerPoint.
Operating System: Windows 2003 Servers, Win XP.
Professional Experence :
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May 2010

Present
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Role
Storage Administrator
Responsibilities

Provide storage administration for EMC Symmetrix-DMX, Vmax and for Clariion

Storage frames.
Proficient in everyday jobs like troubleshooting the SAN environment, allocating

storage, monitoring and reporting.

Worked on clarion CX3/CX4 series and allocated storage to SP ports for mapping the

LUNs
Create, expand, destroy raid groups using Navisphere Manager and monitored the

status.
Create of Storage groups and assigning the luns and the host to the storage groups
using Navisphere manager.

Involved in configuring Symmetrix and allocating Symmetrix Devices (Mapping and

Masking) using Solutions Enabler CLI commands.

Create the Initiator group, Port group and Storage group and masking the groups using

SMC in Vmax.
Configuring Zoning on Brocade and CISCO switches /directors.
HBA drivers and firmware installation and upgrade Windows Servers.
Creating and resizing the volumes on Windows hosts using Disk Management
Perform capacity planning and reporting to ensure efficient use of storage
Diagnosing hardware/software problems and provide solutions.
Closely monitor server storage performance and utilization, identify problems and

recommend/implement solutions.
Resolve cabling and connectivity issues.
Troubleshooting day to day performance issues and resolved them using Navisphere
Analyzer and Event monitor

Environment
EMC Clariion CX Series , Symmetrix DMX and Vmax,Cisco MDS 9200 Series, MDS 9100
Series, Fabric Manager, Device Manager, Windows Exchange servers, Database servers,
Windows 2003/W2K/NT, Solaris 10, VMware.