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Storage Area Network Experience Summary

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Script examples written by Travis Hutchings

thutch901@gmail.com

971.226.6732

Past Storage assignment in the following environments:

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Summary

  • Netapp, EMC Symetrix, EMC VNX, EMC Centera, Dell Compellent and Dell Equallogic.
  • Configure storage equipment providers to ensure that we are aligned with their best practices and recommended firmware versions.
  • Identify and resolve problems affecting the customer delivery and to escalate in a timely manner.
  • Worked with storage vendors to configure phone capabilities and work closely with vendor management teams to identify upgrade paths and work issues with the storage supported systems. Memec, Vesta, IBM, Qualcomm and Intuit
  • In-depth understanding of network segmentation; virtualization technologies preferred.
  • Reviewed current network environments to address and segment iSCSI concerns. Completed support Equallogic switch environment to address common concerns. Work at Vesta.
  • Expert-level competence in storage technologies and protocols including TCP/IP (v4 & v6), iSCSI and their best-practices, and fault-tolerant use at a global scale.
  • Follows Equal-logic and Compellent standards on iSCSI configuration with VMware. Current environment is supporting 9000 jumbo frames on 10gb. Vesta configuration.
  • Storage skills; NetApp, Nimble, SolidFire, Dell EqualLogic, and Ceph
  • Definition, collection and optimization of KPI’ and metrics
  • Use Cacti chart performance where available.
  • Chart performance using Solarwinds SAN Storage Modules
  • Used previous monitoring tools: CA Unicenter, HP Openview, and IBM Tivoli Live Monitoring in conjunction with storage and system support.


Work History Storage:


Intuit 

2001-2002

Senior System Engineer

  • 500 SAN attached servers
  • HP Storageworks to EMC Symetrix migrations.


Memec

2003-2006

SAN Administrator

  • 200 SAN attached servers.
  • NetApp GFiler 960 with Hitachi
  • HDS 9570 and HDS 9970


Qualcomm:

2006-2007

Virtualization/Citrix Engineer

  • 1100 SAN attached servers.
  • SAN Administration with Netapp 960


US Bank

2007-2011

Virtual System Engineer, Storage System Engineer

  • 15,000 SAN attached physical servers. Around 3000 RDM assignments for VMware
  • EMC Symetrix, Netapp
  • VMware architecture and some SAN architecture. Handled host SAN allocation troubleshooting common storage issues.


IBM

2011-2014

UNIX/Linux Senior Systems Engineer

  • 300 SAN attached
  • IBM Branded Net-app N series 7.x DS8870
  • EMC Centera, EMC Powerpath
  • Large ZFS replication cluster project for Solaris 11.
  • VMware environment, Windows, Oracle SPARC M5000, M4000, and T4-4
  •  Identified VMware misalignment issues with block size and worked on process to correct problem.
  •  Solaris rsysnc data migrations.
  • Configured UFS and ZFS storage management on Solaris 10/11
  • Created Solaris ZFS storage pools, mirror snapshots, zfs migrations and backups.
  • Used ZFS for Solaris Zone Cluster Solaris 11.
  • Used ZFS for disk encryption and disk encrypted volumes.
  • Created ZFS pool to backup all ZFS volumes to single server for retention and backup purposes.
  • Configured monitoring jobs for Netapp and Clarion storage environment monitoring tool was Solarwinds for SAN.
  • Attached servers mostly Unix and VMware, some Windows Servers. Solaris Zones 10/11 used LOFS to mount LUNS within zones. OpenSUSE 12.x in CIFS based configuration through Netapp.


Knowledge Universe

UNIX Administrator/Storage Administrator

2012-2013

  • Netapp FAS3240, 8.0.2P5
  • EMC VNX5500, 7.1.72-1
  • Commvault latency backup job issue against Microsoft Exchange.
  • EMC VNX administration assigned storage to UNIX servers. Unix Rsync file migrations.
  • Fixed VMware misalignment and corrected storage performance latency issues.

Vesta

2014-2015

Lead Systems Engineer

  • 350 SAN attached and storage attached hosts.
  • 300 iSCSI targets to Equallogic.
  • Compellent: 6.4.2 and Compellent 6.4.2 and 6.4.4 with sc200 and sc220 storage shelves SC8000 controllers
  • Equallogic PS6500, PS-M 4110
  • Netapp: Ontap 7.3.2P3 FAS3160 iSCSI only (decommission)
  • 50 Compellent Hosts along with 300 SAN allocations SQL environment and VMware environment.
  • Compellent Training
  • Brocade 6520 and 6510
  • Charted brocade performance using Cacti and Nagios for alerts.
  • Corrected ISCSI issue in main corporate datacenter improving VMware performance.
  • PCC NetApp monitoring project and Office 365 SharePoint and user OneDrive migrations from Netapp to Windows Cloud. Monitored through SolarWinds to review Cloud storage space into comparison to NetApp migrated storage space.


Low Latency Recruiting (Warn Auto)

2018-2019 

Lead System Engineer

  • NetApp Environment. ISCSI into Vmware.
  • Nested SNAP shot issues effected performance cleaned up multiple snapshots hurting performance.




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