Resume of Gabriel Jalal

Edison, NJ
Contact:7328823262

SUMMARY OF EXPERIENCE

EMC San architect with more than 8+ years of IT experience, including

storage sub system, provisioning, monitoring, consolidation and
reporting of Enterprise Storage.
Extensive Experience on Design and architect of Open system
disaster recovery processes and set up.
Experience working on Large data centre with corporate data
centres
Experience
in
EMC
Symmetrix
VMAX/VMAX2/VAMX3/VMAX(FLASH)/
VNX
series
Storage
Products.
Experience in EMC XTREME IO/ISILON series Storage Products.
Experience in HP EVA,HPXP 24K,12K,Business copy, data migration,
remote replication products
Experience in IBM SVC, XIV, DS8XXX series
Experience in EMC VIPR SRM, workload analyzer, Performance View,
access logix, snapview.
Experience in EMC VPLEX, recover point
Experience in migration technologies such as LVM, VERITAS
MIRRORING,Open replicator, powerpath migration enabler, Hitachi
external storage, VPLEX, IBM SVC
Architected Isilon cluster deployments , X410 nodes , NL nodes, S nodes
Architecting isilon internal network and external network with
smartconnect, link aggregation
Experience on Netapp FAS 8080 ,FAS 8060, FAS 6290,6280, FAS
32XX,30XX,60XX
Experience in Netapp 7 mode and Cmode deployments
Experience in creating and managing flex volumes, flex clones,
snapmirror, snaplock,snap vault, qtree, luns
Experience in troubleshooting CIFS and NFS
Experience in migration from 7 mode to c mode
Experience in migration from VNX/Isilon to Netapp and vice versa
Experience in SAN, NAS, and storage based on customer performance
requirement.
Knowledge and experience in AIX/VIO,Solaris, HP Unix and San
management using EMC products.

Experience in Installation and Configuration of storage management,

Storage area Network products from EMC.
Expert in Recover point installation and configuration
Experience and knowledge of high-end storage disk sub systems with
NAS & SAN based Backup solutions.
Experienced in Storage Capacity planning, Ad hoc changes, etc.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
Taro Pharmaceuticals, NY
Senior Storage Admin

Feb2013 June2016

Responsibilities:

Architected, implemented and administered server and SAN /storage

environment
Designed and implemented server and storage consolidation
Designed, implemented server/storage consolidation
Designed the process of data and server migration
Worked with various operations team during the design phase to
deploy new storage hardware and software and provide knowledge
transfer

Architected VMAX/VNX ,VSP,USPV,HP3par, EVA,XIV

,v7000 , DS8000 and VPLEX,netapp and isilon

Architecting deployment of virtual systems, integration of

network switches, blades , storage

Implemented VMAX3/VMAX2, VNX,VNX2

Architected VMAX Fast deployments

Implemented SRDF/timefinder, recoverpoint

Integrated with VMWARE/ORACLE etc.

Architected and implemented EMC xtreme IO

Architected and implemented VNX file and Isilon

Architecting converged system like vblock and hellion cloud

system , or flexpod
Installed and configured Netapp C dot filers , CIFS/NFS, snapshots,
snapmirror or checkpoint. Replication

SVC

Creating and managing flex volumes, flex clones, snapmirror,

snaplock,snap vault, qtree, luns
Troubleshooting CIFS and NFS
Migration from 7 mode to c mode
Migrating from 7 mode and VNX AND ISILON to Netapp .
Configured snapmirror/snapvault/snap protect in Nseries filers
Configured cluster mode filers, migrated from 7mode to cluster mode .
Designed San fabrics and deployed core-edge technologies
Installed and configured Cisco MDS san switches and configuring IVR

Implemented Server Consolidation and disaster recovery for the same.

Implemented Disaster recovery for various storage arrays using

synchronous and asynchronous replication

Architected and rolled out Oracle RAC stretched cluster using VPLEX
METRO with witness

Architecting Vmware stretch cluster using VPLEX METRO and witness

Deploying vplex campus solution with replication using recover point

Architecting and Implementing Recoverpoint /VM,Recoverpoint SE, with

replication manager

Architecting and integrating recover point with VPLEX metro

SAN design for the VPLEX , Recoverpoint deployments

Architecting and deploying isilon environment, data migration from

Netapp and CX to isilon

Implemented Avamar, DATADOMAIN and Veritas Netabackup , HP data

protector for very complex technologies like Oracle RAC, Exchange
,Sharpoint,SAP.

Implemented and upgraded AVAMAR AND DATA DOMAIN

AMRO Bank, NJ

April 2010 Dec 2012

Responsibilities:

Implement and Administer SAN /storage environment on VNX/VMAX

Implement and administer NAS device deployments and virtualization

Consolidating SAN, Servers, Databases.
Implementing disaster recovery solutions.
Responsible for capacity planning and administration of SAN environment
for boeing which contain data on EMC Symmetrix VMAX2/VMAX3,
VNX/VNX2/ISILON, NETAPP,HPXP etc storage array connected to Windows
and vmware servers.
Storage provisioning on VNX,NETAPP,isilon, VMAX,HPXP,Hitachi
o Creating storage groups, initiator registration ,bind luns
o Creating hypers, meta device, bcv, bcv meta, snap vdev, thin
vdev, rdf device ,allocation ,masking on DMX
o Creating ldevs,luse,host groups ,lun security on tagmastore
Configure zoning, masking, Mapping host to the storage array and
troubleshooting any connectivity issues.
Installation and configuration of HiCommand device Manger,TSM
Plan, Implmente server/Storage/NAS Consolidation /Migration.
Thin provisioning , FAST,FAST CACHE AND FasT VP implementation on
VNX/VMAX
Data migration from DMX to VMAX using open replicator ,open migrator
Mirrorview/snapview configuration on VNX
SRDF,SNAPSHOT,FAST VP configuration on
Installation and configuration of NS 960, VNX,Netapp filers
Data migration from older NAS to newer NAS
Architected, implemented and administered server and SAN /storage
environment
Designed and implemented server and storage consolidation
Designed, implemented server/storage consolidation
Designed the process of data and server migration
Installed and configured Cisco MDS san switches and configuring IVR
Installed and configured Netapp C dot filers , CIFS/NFS, snapshots,
snapmirror or checkpoint. replication
Designed SVC , XIV and Netapp ,DCX deployments
Designed in implemented IBM v7000 environment
Migrating data from IBM DS 8700 ,DS4XXX to XIV
Designed FCIP connectivity
Configured snapmirror/snapvault/snap protect in Nseries filers
Configured cluster mode filers, migrated from 7mode
Installed and configured IBM XIV,EMC VMAX,IBM SVC,Clariion CX for
SAP,Oracle RAC,VMWARE and Exchange environment.
Virtualization and data migration of block storage using XIV and IBM SVC.
Designed San fabrics and deployed core-edge technologies
Upgraded cisco MDS san environment with new code, NX OS upgrades
Configuring VSAN, configuring NPV/NPIV.

Implementing FCIP , implementing FCOE on the MDs/Nexus switches

Implementing Port Channels in SAN fabric , implementing ISLs
Migrating SAN fabric , consolidating SAN fabric
Design of the san, failover, dual path, disaster recovery, as well as
Business Continuance
Documentation and knowledge transfer for disk allocation, zoning, file
system creation on Solaris, HPUX, AIX,VMWARE to the customer.
Installation and configuration of snap, snapview, mirror view
Installation and configuration of EMC celerra /Netapp FS servers
Migrating celerra using replicator
Installation and configuration of centera and centera replication
Migrating centera to newer generation centera
Configuration of CIFS/NFS aggregates, volumes and NDMP backups
Performance analysis of VMAX/VNX storage array.
Storage device management, with ECC.
Installation of, Timefinder, Srdf, for Disaster recovery.
Writing scripts for Timefinder, srdf operations using Symcli.
Installation of Brocade director level Switches. Installing SAS based
splitters.
Architected recover point appliance CRR and CLR.
Installation and configuration of recover point for Data replication and
data migration.
Monitoring performance of switches.
Created disaster recovery schemes, and tapes.
Data migration using different methods such as open replicator,san
copy, Tiered storage.
Installation of Fiber adapters, installation of Brocade Fiber switches,
Zoning.
Migrating from Mcdata to Brocade switches.
Monitoring and Troubleshooting TCP/IP LAN/WAN Problems.
Have two domains, production and development domain.

Tools & Technologies: Agile Scrum, Basel Accords, MS Suite (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Project,
Access, Publisher, Outlook), MS Visio, UML, SQL, Rally, Factiva, Actimize.

Teva Pharmaceuticals, South Plainfield, NJ

San admin

Jan 2007 Dec 2008

Responsibilities:

Implement and Administer SAN /storage environment.

Consolidating SAN, Servers, Databases.
Implementing disaster recovery solutions.
Plan, Implement server/storage Consolidation /Migration.
Design of the san, failover, dual path, disaster recovery, as well as
Business Continuance

Documentation and knowledge transfer for disk allocation, zoning, file

system creation on Solaris, HPUX, AIX, to the customer.
Installation of ECC, PowerPath, navi sphere suite.
Design, install, configure VMware ESX (3.5), ESXi, and vSphere 4
environments with VirtualCenter management, LabManager, Consolidated
Backup, DRS, HA.
Build, configure and deploy VMs and templates. Completed Physical-toVirtual (P2V), Virtual-toInstallation and configuration of snap, snapview, mirror view,
Performance tuning of symm, dmx, cx storage array.
Installation
and
configuration
of
Sun
StorageTEK
9990v,6540,6920/Hitachi/HPXP storage array
Configuration of sun disaster recovery replication software ( universal
replicator).
Storage device management, with ECC.
Installation of EMC CX960,cifs,nfs
Installation and configuration of File system virtualization using Acopia
switches
Installation and configuration of Policy based file system archiving.
Installation of, Timefinder, Srdf, for Disaster recovery.
Writing scripts for Timefinder, srdf operations using Symcli.
Installation of Mcdata, Brocade director level Switches.
Monitoring performance of switches.
Created disaster recovery schemes, and tapes.
Data migration using different methods such as cpio, srdf, Veritas
Volume manger.
Installation of Fiber adapters, installation of Fiber switches, Zoning.
Monitoring and Troubleshooting TCP/IP LAN/WAN Problems.
Have two domains, production and development domain.
Installation and configuration of Automatic backup using Veritas
Netbackup.