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Managed and continuously monitored NetApp, Unity, and Isilon storage systems using Grafana and Stor2RRD, optimizing resource allocation and ensuring peak capacity and performance for critical operations.

Executed precise zoning, LUN provisioning/masking, and NFS provisioning/reclamation, maximizing storage utilization and enhancing data access control across the infrastructure.

Successfully migrated diverse workloads and NFS shares from legacy infrastructure to NetApp, achieving seamless transitions and significantly improving overall system performance and scalability.

Coordinated and managed vendor engagements for critical hardware replacements and system upgrades, ensuring 24/7 availability and minimizing operational disruption.

Optimized Data Domain appliances through regular cleanup and retention hygiene, resulting in improved storage efficiency and compliance with data management policies.

Administered Veeam and PowerProtect Data Manager (PPDM) backups, ensuring timely, compliant data protection and validating periodic restores to guarantee data integrity and rapid recovery capabilities.

Migrated physical Disaster Recovery (DR) servers to virtual machines, enhancing system maintainability and significantly improving Recovery Time Objective (RTO) and Recovery Point Objective (RPO).

Conducted rigorous disaster recovery drills and meticulously maintained runbooks, validating recovery procedures and strengthening organizational resilience for business continuity.

Implemented agent-based backups for OpenStack environments with cloud replication, enhancing data protection and ensuring robust offsite recovery capabilities.

Managed daily VMware operations, including VM provisioning, patching, and migrations, maintaining optimal virtual infrastructure performance and security.

Migrated critical workloads from Unity to NetApp datastores with zero downtime, ensuring seamless data transfer and continuous service availability.

Contributed significantly to VCF deployment and platform readiness initiatives, accelerating infrastructure modernization and enhancing operational efficiency.

Enabled and administered Workload Management to deploy Supervisor Clusters, configuring namespaces, storage policies, and VM Classes for standardized Tanzu Kubernetes Cluster (TKC) provisioning, streamlining Kubernetes cluster deployment and resource governance.

Provisioned and lifecycle-managed TKGS clusters via YAML/kubectl, executing rolling upgrades and post-upgrade validation of CNI/CSI, API availability, and workload health, ensuring high availability and stable operation of critical containerized applications.

Integrated persistent storage using vSphere CNS/Paravirtual CSI with dynamic PVCs and enforced per-namespace quotas and governance, enabling stateful application support and resource optimization within the Kubernetes environment.

Administered and governed capacity and performance for complex Ceph, EMC PowerFlex, Hitachi, and SolidFire environments, optimizing resource utilization and ensuring system stability for critical client operations.

Monitored Ceph systems with Datadog, proactively performing hardware replacements, PG repair, patching, and firmware upgrades to maintain peak system health and minimize downtime.

Managed comprehensive NetApp migrations and ONTAP upgrades, executed Brocade FOS upgrades, and maintained TruFOS certifications, ensuring seamless transitions and upholding stringent security and compliance standards.

Configured precise zoning, masking, and LUN creation/mapping, enhancing SAN security and compliance while optimizing data access control.

Operated Veritas NetBackup, performing critical restore validations and generating detailed capacity/performance reports, guaranteeing data recoverability and providing actionable insights for infrastructure planning.