SUNILKUMAR PADAVALA

Storage ,Backup & Recovery Professional(Commvault,EMC and Netapp)

E +91-7200245702 Mail: Padavala.Sunilkumar@gmail.com

SUMMARY

Highly accomplished, deeply driven, Storage, Backup & Recovery Professional with successful 11+years of experience in IT
Industry, including exposure into Commvault Simpana. An aspiring team worker, hard working and dedicated professional who
wants to meet the challenges and to contribute towards the growth of the organization.

EXPERIENCE
Storage, Backup & Recovery Professional
Atos Pvt Ltd

01/2019 - Present
Total 11+ years of experience with majority of experience in the field of CommVault Simpana, and 5 years of experience in EMC and
Netapp storage
Currently working on Storage(EMC, Netapp) and Backup(Commvault) Technology handling multiple clients.

Managing Commvault Backup and Storage Infrastructure (EMC and NETAPP). Working on storage and backup related issues on
daily basis.

Addressing Hardware related failure on storage and following up with storage vendor to address the Hardware failure.

Performing Allocation and reclaim on different storages(VNX,VMax,Pmax,Netapp).Responsible for handling Incident

Management team, Tasks. Change requests and Projects request

Engaging vendors when critical issues occur.

Performing Zoning on Cisco switches.

performing upgrades on Netapp

Performing storage reclaims.

performing DR drills.

Backup & Recovery Professional

HCL Technologies Pvt Ltd

02/2016 - 01/2019

Responsible for Taking over the new implementation and stabilizing the operation under Commvault environment.

To manage all changes in accordance to the Change Management Process so preventing the implementation of unauthorized
changes.

Responsible for upgrading Commvault Backup Application.

Troubleshooting the performance issues by detailed log analysis and coordination with vendor services.
Improvise on the design for storage policy, schedule policy and backup cycles as per business requirements. Creating SOP
(standard Operating Procedure) & Design documents for system administrators and continuously improve the standard procedure
to support and maintain the IT infrastructure.

Documenting the new solution and publishing it on share point. Performing File/Folder level restores, Full System restores.

Monitoring and Manage Commvault Backup Infrastructure. Installation & configuring of different types of agents like, File System,
NDMP, MS SQL, MYSQL, MS Exchange, Oracle on different platforms, SAP HANA.

Configuring & scheduling backups and Creating Backup Policies as per Business requirement.

Troubleshoot all backup problems to ensure minimum down time and maximum availability of data and also performs Root cause
analysis.

Performing tape management activities on weekly basis. Preparing Daily, Monthly backup reports and also providin g the enhanced
reports to the customer as requested.

Oriented approach and a proactive understanding and ability to manage end user or customer expectations.

Resolved technical issues associated with hardware and software components.

Audit Commvault backup policies and environments to ensure integrity of backup and recovery activit ies. Performing DR drills are
each site.

Storage, Backup & Recovery Professional

4SL IT Consulting Pvt Ltd
05/2015 - 02/2016
Managing multiple geographical locations Data center which consist of 1000+ servers.

Installing the Media Agents, File system Clients on Commvault. Installation and configuration of SQL and Oracle iDataAgents.

Troubleshooting issues related to database backups. Configuring the storage policies, storage units, Auxiliary copies, schedule policies,
copy replications. Configuring Virtual server agents on Commvault and backing up virtual machines.

Checking Status of Backups, Media Agents & Mount paths. Performing file level restores, Full Virtual machine restores.

Working on ticketing tools such as Cherwell and Service now.

Creation of new Client groups, Policies, schedules, Reports. Perform proactive tasks to improve backup operations efficiency.

Ability to manage priorities and handle multiple tasks working independently.

Setting up the process & documents as and when required & updating them accordingly.

Interaction with vendors to identify technical issues and provide timely solutions.
Backup & Recovery Professional
HP Global E-business operation pvt Ltd
12/2012 - 05/2015

 Installation, Implementing, Configuring and Administration of CommVault/Simpana (Version 9.0/10).

 Adding new clients to backup \ Decommission of requested clients. Having Good Experience on Installing & Configuring all the
IData Agents (File System, MS SQL, MS Exchange, Oracle, NDMP and Virtualization). Perform DR test activity as per
business requirement.
 Configuring storage policies andGlobal Deduplication Policies, Deduplication and Index Cache and creating different types of
the policies for the backup jobs on Commvault server.

 Providing Backup Technical support on Microsoft Windows Servers, Unix & Linux clients. Troubleshooting of Windows server,
Unix & Linux clients and backup/restore related issues.

 Creating Storage policies and Initiating backup/restoration Jobs as per Adhoc request. Working on snap related issues.
Handling Library Management.(VTL's and Tape libraries.) and working with Commvault tech support.
 Installation & configuring of different types of agents like, File System, SQL, Oracle, SAP for Oracle on different platforms and
Service Pack updates in production environment. Configuring & scheduling backups and Creating Backup Policies as per
requirement.
 Configuring & Managing VMware agent and Snap Backups. Configuring & Managing Auxiliary copy backups from Magnetic
Libraries to Tape. Configuration of CommVault backups in cluster servers setup.

EDUCATION
Bachelor of Technology(B-Tech)
Narayana Engineering college, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNTU), Anantapur
01/2006 - 01/2010 e Anantapur

SKILLS
Commvault Backup VNX Cisco MDS VMAX VPLEX XTREMIO

Storage Technology (EMC and NetApp) , PMAX, RPA