Explain about roles and responsibilities in your current profile

Example:
Providing L2 support for the EMC DMX and Clariion storage
Performing upgrades/downgrades of Firmware
Storage Provisioning for new hosts
Storage Provisioning/ reclamation for existing hosts
Performing Zoning
Troubleshooting Switch issues
Troubleshooting storage issues
Troubleshooting Performance issues
Vendor /customer management during the hardware failure issues
Performing Changes and preparing job plans for changes
Performing TimeFinder/Mirror Operations
Performing SRDF Operations
Troubleshooting failed SRDF/TimeFinder jobs
Monitoring Storage environment using Monitoring Tools (ECC)
Preparing Storage Capacity planning reports
Performing Disaster Recovery Activities.etc.,

What are the major components of Symmetrix VMAX?

System Bay:
VMAX Engines
Matrix Interface Board Enclosure (MIBE)
Power subsystem components
Standby power supplies (SPS)
Service Processor (server, keyboard/video/mouse, UPS).
VMAX Engine:
Symmetrix VMAX systems provide up to eight VMAX Engines within a system bay on s
tandard configurations and up to four VMAX Engines on extended drive loop config
urations. Each VMAX Engine includes:
- Two directors that support front-end, back-end and SRDF connections. Each dire
ctor has:
- 16, 32,or 64 GB of physical memory
- One System Interface board (SIB) that connects the director and the Matrix Int
erface Board Enclosure (MIBE)
- Two Back End I/O Modules (2 ports, 4 Gb/s) that connect to storage bay drives.
- Two I/ O Module carriers that provide connectivity between each director and t
he front-end I/O ports. Front End
I/O Modules support:
- Fibre Channel host connectivity (4 ports, 2, 4, or 8 Gb/s)
- Fibre Channel SRDF connectivity (2 ports, 2, 4, 8 Gb/s)
- FICON host connectivity (2 ports, 2, 4, or 8 Gb/s)
- iSCSI host connectivity (2 ports, 1 Gb/s)
- GigE SRDF connectivity.
- Two Management Modules that provide environmental monitoring
- Two VMAX engine power supplies
- Four cooling fans.
Storage Bay:
Disk array enclosures (DAEs)
Power subsystem: PDPs, PDUs, AC connectors
Standby power supply unit (SPS)
Disk array enclosures (DAEs)

Each disk array enclosure contains:

- Two redundant disk array enclosure power /cooling fans
- Two link control card (LCC) modules
- From 5 to 15 drives per direct-attach enclosure
- From 4 to 15 drives per daisy-chain enclosure.
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The main architectural difference between DMX and Vmax model is that vmax has en
gine concept.In DMX model,we have different hardware for front end(FA director),
back end(DA director) and memory modules.But in Vmax all these hardwares are int
egrated together and is knows as Vmax Engine.
A EMC Vmax storage array support from 1 to maximum of 8 Vmax engines.
Each of these engines contains two symmetrix vmax directors.Each director includ
es
- 8 multi-core CPUs (total 16 per engine)
Cache memory(global memory)
Front end I/O modules
Back end I/O modules
System Interface Module(SIB)
Apart from this,each engine has redundant power supplies,cooling fans,standby po
wer supplies(SPS) and environmental modules.
All these engines are interconnected usingVmax Matrix Interface Board Enclosure(
MIBE).Each director has two connection to MIBE via system interface module(SIB)
ports as shown below.
Multi-core CPUs:
Multi-Core CPUs deliver new levels of performance and functionality in a smaller
footprint with reduced power and cooling requirements.Each director has 8 multi
core CPUs and a total of 16 CPUs per engine.
Cache memory(global memory):
Each director can be configured with 16, 32 or 64 GB of physical memory. Of this
, a small portion (4 GB) is reserved for local processing, and the rest constitu
tes Global Memory. Global Memory on any given director is always mirrored to ano
ther director in the system.So the minimum usable memory will be 16 GB(total 32G
B, on a single engine configuration) and maximum will be 512GB (total 1024GB,ful
ly loaded eight VMAX Engines system)
Memory is accessible by any director within the system:
? If a system has a single VMAX Engine, physical memory mirrors are internal to
the enclosure.
? If a system has multiple VMAX Engines, physical memory mirrors are provided be
tween enclosures.
Front End I/O Module :
Front end modules are used for host connectivity.Host connectivity via Fibre Cha
nnel, iSCSI and FICON are supported.
Back End I/O Module :

Back end module provide access to the disk drives.Disks drives are configured un
der these I/O modules.
System Interface Module(SIB):
SIBs are responsible for interconnecting the Vmax engine s directors through Matr
ix Interface Board Enclosure(MIBE).Each Vmax engine has two SIBs and each has tw
o ports.
Similar to DMX3 and DMX4 arrays,Vmax has two types of bays
1. System bay :
System bay contains all Vmax engines.Apart from Vmax engines,it contains system
bay standby power supplies(SPS), Uninterrupted Power Supply(UPS),Matrix Interfac
e Board Enclosure (MIBE), and a Server (Service Processor) with Keyboard- VideoMouse (KVM) assembly.
2. Storage bay :
The Symmetrix V-Max array Storage Bay is similar to the Storage Bay of the DMX-3
and DMX-4 systems. It consists of eight to sixteen Drive Enclosures, 48 to 240
drives, eight (8) SPS modules, and unique cabling when compared with the DMX Ser
ies. The Symmetrix V-Max array Storage Bay is configured with capacities of up t
o 120 disk drives for a half populated bay or 240 disk drives for a fully popula
ted bay. Drives, LCCs, power supplies, and blower modules are fully redundant an
d hot swappable and are enclosed inside Disk Array Enclosure(DAE).One DAE holds
15 physical disk drives and one storage bay has total 16 DAEs(hence a storage ba
y has maximum of 240 disk, 16*15)
Vmax Engine Front View :
Below is a Vmax engine front view.As described above,Vmax engines are located in
Vmax system bay.We can see the power supplies located at two sides and cooling
fan module located in middle.