Anbalagan Tharumara is a storage administrator with over 8 years of experience administering EMC storage arrays including VMAX, XIO, VPLEX, DMX, and Clariion arrays. He has experience with Cisco SAN switches, SAN performance troubleshooting, data migration, and SRDF configuration. Currently he is implementing ViPR SRM for VPLEX allocation and assisting with RecoverPoint implementation for VPLEX at his job in Mexico.

1. ANBALAGAN THARUMARAJ
Email: anbalagu@gmail.com
Contact No: +52 1 33 20956977 (Current working location - Mexico)
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Storage Administrator
(Certified Professional 8+ years SAN Admin and 20 years of IT experience)
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
• 8+ years of SAN admin experience on EMC VMAX, XIO, VPLEX (Assisted for
implementation/Migration), DMX, Clariion, SRDF and Netapp storage
• CISCO 9100/9500 SAN switch & DCNM-SAN administration
• Having experience to find Root cause for all SAN performance issues
• Well experienced in IT industry with prime focus on Systems and Storage
Administration, Proficiency in System Integration & Infrastructure managed services.
PREVIOUS SAN EXPERIENCE
At SPS
• Storage and Backup support with Clariion/Symantec Backup Exec.
• Managed 70 Dell Blade servers with Linux and Windows installed and integrated them
with 1000 nodes.
• Administrating all workstations hardware and installing applications for all users
At HCL (US onsite from March 2013 - April 2015 for the client USAA)
• SAN allocation/Retirement/SRDF/Hardware troubleshooting/Performance analyze/Data
migration/Netapp management
• LCM and server team co ordination for all clustering issues
• Cisco SAN switch configuration/troubleshooting and DCNM-SAN administration
• EMC tool experience in W4N/Unisphere/SP analyzer/OR/SRDF
• Currently implementing ViPR SRM for VPLEX allocation
• Assisting to implement Recover Point for VPLEX
• Co ordination with EMC for all code upgrade/hardware upgrade
• Implemented Thin provisioning on VMAX and XIO for VDI environment
• Managing NAS file systems, Upgraded OS ONTAP/all hardware troubleshooting issues

2. RELEVANT EXPERIENCE
• Administration of EMC VMAX/VPLEX/DMX/VNX(block) and Netapp storage, business
continuity Symmetrix, SRDF
• Intervene on case escalations for which the storage boxes have called home with errors
that require immediate technical support
• Data Migration by OR and VPLEX extent migration
• Supported for Vplex/XIO implementation
• Storage provisioning/retirement and configuring SRDF devices & troubleshooting all
related errors/issues
• SAN performance analyzing ECC Performance Manager/SP analyzer/Unisphere
• Creating NFS/CIFS volume using System Manager, ONTAP upgrade for 7mode/Cmode
• Upgrading Firmware for all Netapp storage hardware
• Administered storage capacity, replication,
• Managing and troubleshooting Cisco MDS 9500/9100 series switches
• Zoning activities using Cisco fabric manager DCNM-SAN/Connectrix manager
• 1 year working experience in Symantec Backup Exec and Netbackup 4.0
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
Since August 2007 - HCL Technologies Ltd., Chennai. India
Designation: Associate Consultant (Storage)
Job Description:
 Level 2 tasks - SAN and NAS based provisioning and decommissioning tasks across all
defined tiers as part of the global provisioning process.
 Adding/removing SRDF devices and monitoring replication process.
 Assisting for DR test
 Assisting for VPLEX implementation/Migration
 Storage Administration and Production Support - Day-to-day administration of Storage.
This includes the Storage ticket queue, trouble-shooting storage related problems
including connectivity issues, storage hardware and software investigation and

3. maintenance, storage device performance tuning, capacity management, storage
integration with systems, firmware upgrade implementation, and hardware diagnostics.
 Document the critical processes and procedures to ensure consistency and quality.
 Logging Critical Situation meeting to deliver the process and change control proposals to
the availability managers
 Providing Oncall support during off hours
 Maintaining SLA Timelines set by the customer
 Keep updating to the Management about the Track events and process
 Handling internal escalation tickets
 Defining and executing ongoing administration and maintenance plans
Feb 2004 – August 2007 - Scientific Publishing Services Pvt. Ltd., Chennai, Indi
Designation: Jr. System Administrator
Job Description:
 Managing 70 Dell Blade servers with Linux/Windows installed
 Storage and SAN Administration on enterprise systems
 Standard activities of Installation – Supporting & Troubleshooting SERVERS/DESKTOPS
that are loaded with Windows 2000/ XP / SERVER 2000 & 2003 and Red Hat EL 4.0
 Installed and Configured VERITAS EXEC backup and Providing 4 TB data backup daily
with Dell Power Vault 132 T LTO3 Tape library
 3 months of working knowledge in VERITAS Net backup 5.0
 Maintained EMC clarion CX-300 SAN storage (4 boxes) which had been configured with
McData 4500 Fabric switch and Qlogic HBA adapters
 Worked with customer and field engineers resolving hardware and software issues
July 1990–May 1994/June 1994–Feb 2004 - Dinakaran Tamil Daily, Chennai,
Designation: Computer Hardware Engineer
Job Description:,
 Assembling PCs and attending hardware Problem
 Mac computer maintenance and service (MAC SE model)
 Laser printer installation and hardware service
 Installed and Maintained Windows 98 / NT / 2000 for client systems.

4.  Installed and maintained Adobe and Microsoft products for production
 Provided and managed Leased line activities with Modem installed
 Provided networking infrastructure(LAN/Power/Data) for all 7 offices
 File transferring between branch offices through 4 wire leased line
 Implemented Novell 4.11 server in 7 Offices for 50 nodes in each office.
 Implemented Linux remote booting (Red hat desktop version 9) by burning boot files in
EPROM of NIC
EDUCATION
• 1987-1990 Diploma in Electronics & Communication Engineering (DECE)
CERTIFICATIONS & TECHNICAL TRAINING
• SNIA Certified Storage Expert 2008 (SCSN-E 2008)
• MCSE Windows 2003 servers administration
• LINUX -3 months training attended
• EMC INVISTA(VPLEX) - 5 days EMC training attended
• IBM storage - High-End Disk for Open Systems V2
PERSONAL
• Date of Birth : 03/19/1970
• Indian
• Married