Jaivinder Malhan

Storage and Backup Technical Lead

Phone: +61 481035338 | Email:- jaivinder@gmail.com
18/24, Campbell Street, Parramatta NSW
Visa: Skilled Nominated (Permanent) --- PR
Career Objective
Seeking a robust career in the field of Infrastructure Solutions, Datacenter virtualization, Cloud and Data Analysis
where I can implement and leverage my knowledge and skills. It is my utmost desire to join an organization of repute that
can provide me with challenging career opportunities. I want to be known as one of the best talents available for the
changing scenario.
Summary
I have more than 10 years of rich experience in IT industry. I am working as a Storage and backup technology lead in
my current role. My goal is to make a substantial contribution to society by helping organizations integrate their enterprise
systems.
I
intend
to
contribute
towards
academia
in
the
field
of
SAN/NAS/Server/Cloud
Support/Designer/Analyst/Architect position. I have very good hands on experience in both datacenter end-to-end
support and remote support for the infrastructure. I have worked as Storage and System Administrator/ Implementer/
Designer for some of the giants in Telecom, Banking and Finance industries. I am looking forward to enhance my
technical and interpersonal skills.
Certifications

E20-816 Technology Architect, Symmetrix Solutions Expert

E20-818 Implementation Expert, Symmetrix Solutions Expert
VMware certified professional VCP 5.10
E20-326 Symmetrix Solutions Design Exam for Technology Architects
E20-515 Symmetrix Infrastructure solutions for technology Architects
E20-335 Symmetrix Solutions Specialist Exam for Implementation Engineers
E22-275 RecoverPoint Data Replication and Recovery Exam
E20-001 Information Storage and Management
SPEED Performance guru on Symmetrix
VSPEED Performance guru on Vplex
RSPEED Performance guru on RecoverPoint
HP Certified System Administrator and System Engineer
ITIL v3

Relevant Skills
Storage Area Networking
Storage/Backup Solutions :

EMC-DMX-2, DMX3, DMX4, VMAX10K, VMAX20K, VMAX40K, EMC-Clariion

VNX, IBM-DS4800, XP1024, XP12K, Netapp FAS3170, Hitachi and 3PAR.
Veritas netbackup, Avamar, Tape backup, Filesystem backup Tape libraries,
master and client servers.
EMC Networker, Data Domain, Avamar, Netbackup

Backup Technologies

Fabric/IP Networking

Fabric building, FCIP configuration, FCOE, Zone Administration, VSAN

administration and ISL administration using Cisco switches MDS 9500/9100,
Brocade switches 3800/3850/4100, McData switches ED64M/ED140M/ED1032.
CCNA, LAN, TCP/IP layer, Routing, EIGRP/OSPF, VLANs, Trunks.

Storage Management

Navisphere6.0 (Clarion), Symcli (DMX and VMAX), ECC, SMC, Storage Scope,
Storage Manager (IBM), Command View (HP)

High Availability

Time Finder (DMX), Snap view (Clarion), Clone view (Clarion), SRDF (DMX),

SRDF STAR for multisite protection, Flash Copy (IBM), Flash Snap (Veritas)
Virtualization/Cloud

Vplex, VMware vCloud Director, VMAX cloud edition, virtual RPA

NAS

VG2, VG8, NS80, NS42, NetApp 940c with ON TAP 7.0.3 and NEXSAN
Protocols : FCP, iSCSI, CIFS and NFS on ONTAP 7.3.

Migration

Open Replicator, SRDF, Host based LVM migration, vMotion, Storage vMotions,
Veritas Plex Mirroring, Open Migrator, PPME and AIX LVM mirroring.

Failover Software

Veritas DMP (3.5, 4.0), Power Path.

Database knowledge

Oracle, SQL

Scripting

shell

Replication/DR

RecoverPoint, TimeFinder, SRDF, Site Recovery Manager

Solaris 8/9/10, IBM AIX 5.2 / 5.3, Red Hat Linux ES , HP Unix, Mainframe and
VMware ESXi 5.0.

System Administration
Operating Systems
Education

Bachelor of Science from Guru Ghasi Das University 2008

Diploma in Engineering Computers from State Technical Education Board Haryana - 2004

Employment History
Wipro Technologies - Storage and Backup Technical Lead - (December 2013 Till Date )
Client : Woolworths Ltd.
Location Sydney
Responsibilities

Presales and post sales discussions with customers and partners.

Provide technical and/or Business consultative services during pre-sales and post-sales cycles.
Provide technical/business analytical leadership for Symmetrix/VMAX/VNX, EMC Networker,DataDomain and
Avamar.
Design the RPO and RTO for the customer
Design backup strategies based on RPO and RTO asked by customer.
Designing solutions based on customers environment for VMware/Oracle/exchange/SQL.
Implementation of VMware/Unix environment in datacenter
Configuration of intersite communication using FCIP/FCoE protocols.
Design and implementation of cloud services
Implementation of Storage/backup cloud solutions
Creation of business units in a cloud infrastructure for users.
Responsible for Design/implementation of Data Migration process using host based or Array based method using
Open Replicator, SRDF, LVM, Vplex, PPME etc.
Support the design and development of the technical content defined in the Statement of Work. Designs the EMC
solution and supports the installation, customisation and integration of the solution.
Resource/Efforts planning based on discussion in presales call
Prepare technical architectural and implementation design documents and works with the Project Manager to
develop the implementation plan.
Managing team of 15 people in onsite/offshore model.

EMC2 Software and Services - Sr. Field Support Specialist - (May 2010 November 2013 )
Responsibilities

Presales and post sales discussions with customers and partners.

Provide technical and/or Business consultative services during pre-sales and post-sales cycles.
Provide technical/business analytical leadership for Symmetrix/VMAX.
Design the RPO and RTO for the customer
Design backup strategies based on RPO and RTO asked by customer.
Designing solutions based on customers environment for VMware/Oracle/exchange/SQL.
Implementation of VMware/Unix environment in datacenter
Configuration of intersite communication using FCIP/FCoE protocols.
Design and implementation of cloud services
Implementation of VMAX cloud solutions
Creation of business units in a cloud infrastructure for users.
Responsible for Design/implementation of Data Migration process using host based or Array based method using
Open Replicator, SRDF, LVM, Vplex, PPME etc.
Support the design and development of the technical content defined in the Statement of Work. Designs the EMC
solution and supports the installation, customisation and integration of the solution.
Resource/Efforts planning based on discussion in presales call
Prepare technical architectural and implementation design documents and works with the Project Manager to
develop the implementation plan.
Work closely with the Project Manager to define project deliverables and schedules. Helps to identify and
leverage EMC and Partner Resources in order to satisfy the technical needs and objectives of the
implementation.
Integration with database (Oracle/SQL) as per performance requirements and best practices
Participate, as needed, as a technical expert in the pre-sales qualification and is responsible for the delivery of the
technical architectural design, strategise and plan that will be delivered in the engagement.
Responsible for the creation of proposals that address current and evolving client requirements.
Help to automate the things wherever possible using scripting languages like perl.
Implement and support Disaster recovery solution.
Install, implement and support new EMC hardware.
Deployment of VMware/Unix servers in virtualized environment using vplex.
Design the solutions based on different tools as BCSD, Symmerge, Tier Advisor etc.
Bin file design for Open system and Mainframe.
VMAX integration with RP or Vplex.
Bulid the configuration guide for new customer setup.
Prepare test and Acceptance plans for the design and implementation for new configuration.
Prepare the Proof Of Concept for new technologies to offer as a service offering.
Ensure the customer satisfaction to take the implementation till end and provide the Knowledge transfer.
Design and implement replication solutions for both Local and remote sites with timefinder, SRDF, Recover Point
etc.
Performance analysis of the storage environment.

Major Projects:

Designed and implemented the customer environment for EPIC application in VMware ESXi environment based
on unique I/O profile for read/write behavior.
Designed and migrated 100+ TB of data from HP EVA to VMAX for Beckert using Open Replicator as a part of
datacenter migration including SAN Fabrics.
Migrated 4000 odd hosts for BNPP using PPME and LVM as a part of tech refresh and consolidation of 80+
legacy arrays to 18 VMAX arrays.
VMAX configuration and integration in the environment
FAST VP Design and configuration on new VMAX arrays
Designed SRDF /S and /A replication solutions for OPPD

Design fabric merge and data migration for Data center migrations.
Design and implement complex Recover Point project with VMAX and Vplex
Designed and implemented Vplex for data migration from CX to VMAX

Significant Achievement/ contribution:

Got 1 Bronze and 1 Cause for applause award for the contribution towards EMC India.
Leading member of Symmetrix core team.
Driving the mentorship and xBU collaboration initiatives for the Symmetrix Product.

Wipro Infotech Ltd - Senior Engineer Storage Management.- (Aug 2009 May 2010)
Client: Aircel Telecom
I was working for the Aircel-DATACENTRE located at Gurgaon. Almost 150 Sun servers of all range, 5 HP SuperDom and
Windows servers connected to different SAN boxes over the optic fiber channel network. We, a team of 4 members, were
primarily responsible for Storage Management (SAN) & volume management with Veritas and SVM.
Responsibilities

Responsible for managing and administrating all kind of middle and higher end storages at Aircel-Data Center.
Troubleshooting the issues escalated by user.
Administration of the data center components
Configuration and installation of newly added h/w components to the data center.
Monitoring snap view through Clariion and BCVs through DMX on backup servers for the successful execution of
BCV scripts.
Creation of backup or mis copy whenever space is added to Production systems. Perform the first full re-sync and
presenting same copy to the backup or mis server. Also make the provision for incremental re-sync.
Responsible for constructing reliable and scalable SAN fabric environment using Brocade switches like
3800/3850/4100. Zone management, setting port speed, firmware upgrades, port performance monitoring.
Logging calls with EMC for any h/w failure in case dial home is not created and following up with them in case of
any issue.
Daily re-sync of all the BCVs through Time Finder after successful testing.
Configure RAID Group on CLARiiON CX3-80/20, CX400, CX700 Storage System.
Bind/Create LUNs/Metas to RAID/Disk Group on CLARiiON CX3-80/20, CX400, CX700, Symmetrix(DMX and
VMAX) and Storage System.
Configure Storage/Clone Groups on CLARiiON CX3-80/20, CX400, CX700, and Storage System.
Taking care of snap/clone view in Clariion boxes.
Configuring ASM nodes on sun clusters and HP unix clusters.

Major Projects:

Migrated Aircels 8 billing Servers from DMX4 3500 to DMX4 4500 through Open Migrator and SRDF. Also
configured new BCVs for the same.
Migrated ODS servers at Aircel site from DMX4 3500 to DMX4 4500 through SRDF.
Migrated BCVs of 10 servers from one backup server to another server.
Migrated Windows clusters from DMX 4500 to DMX 3500 with co-ordination from System Integration team.
Refreshed the migration database with CRM database.

Xavient Information Systems Infrastructur Operation Specialist - (June 2008 August 2009)
Client: T-Mobile USA.
I was a member of a team of 25 people which was working for the T-Mobile-DATACENTRE located at Seattle . Almost 800
Sun servers of all range and 200 Aix servers connected to different SAN boxes over the optic fiber channel network. We are
primarily responsible for System/Server administration, Storage Management (SAN & NAS) & volume management with
Veritas, SVM and AIX LVM.

Responsibilities
Systems Administration
Installation and Up gradation of Sun OS with Veritas foundation suite and IBM AIX 5.2/5.3.
Administration of Users and Groups.
Manipulation and Alteration of File Systems, Disk Space Management using LVM and Veritas Volume manager in
HPUX and SUN Solaris 5.9/5.10 respectively.
Schedule the daily backups
System reboot for daily power cycles
Performance monitoring and tuning using traditional tools and customized scripts.
OS Hardening of the servers for Security Purpose.
Zones creation and administration on Solaris 10 servers.
Containers creation and administration on Solaris 10.
Root disk mirroring and encapsulation in Veritas.
Create and administer the zones on solaris servers.
Storage Administration

Managing and administrating all kind of middle and higher end storages at T-Mobile-Data Center, Lun
allocation/un-allocation and adding/removing servers to/from SAN environment.
Troubleshooting the issues escalated by user.
Create the backup or mis copy whenever space is added to Production systems. Perform the first full re-sync and
present same copy to the backup or mis server. Also make the provision for incremental re-sync.
Do the zoning management.
Replacement of different kind of HBAs (Jnic,Qlogic) on Aix and Sun servers.
Administer NS80, NS42, NetApp NAS 940C Filer. Provide space via iSCSI and FCP apart from traditional NAS
protocol.
Configure RAID Group on CLARiiON CX3-80/20, CX400, CX700 Storage System.
Bind/Create LUNs/Metas to RAID/Disk Group on CLARiiON CX3-80/20, CX400, CX700, Symmetrix(DMX and
VMAX) and Storage System.
Configure Storage/Clone Groups on CLARiiON CX3-80/20, CX400, CX700, and Storage System.
Add Hosts to Storage Groups on CLARiiON CX3-80/20, CX400, CX700, and Storage System.
Taking care of snap/clone view in Clariion and NetApp boxes.

Major Projects:

Migration of servers from XP12K to DMX on the fly (without any downtime)
Migration of servers from lower/middle range to higher end.
Creation of mis/back up copy using the Flash Snap utility of Veritas and migrated flash copy from XP12K to DMX.
Migrated servers from one Switch to another.
Performed clariion to DMX data migration.
Migrated the setup from structured cabling to compact structured LIUs.
Migrated the credit card server, along with fall back and DR, from single port HBA to dual port HBAs.
Migrated free disks from SAN to NAS and vice Versa.

Equant Solutions India Pvt Ltd System Administrator (November 2007 June 2008
System Administration on HPUX and Solaris operating systems.
File system management on various volume managers
SAN Infrastructure management
Management of EMC CLARiiON CX700 and CX600.
Configuration of Zoning on SAN Switches.
Support interface development team with efficient database processing.
Developing stored procedures and triggers.
Experience working with hardware and software vendors
Manage all project activities and coordinate between our customer and OEMs.
Define the scope of work and professional services from specific solution perspective .

Pacific Solution - System Engineer (June 2004- October 2007)

SAN Infrastructure management and HP-UX and Open VMS infrastructure management.
Installation of HPUX operating system.
Configuration and MC SG cluster on the HP Superdome and HP XP 12K storage.
Monitoring system performance
Analyzing and implementing five core processes like root cause analysis, escalation and notification,
change management, service restoration procedures and daily review.