Anshu Kitchloo
King of Prussia,Pennsylvania
Summary
Respected Storage Architect with history of creating system architectures driving datacenter transformations that reduce costs and streamline operations. Ready to create design plans from whole cloth or tackle revamps of disparate networks full of outdated systems.
Data management, data storage and protection, business continuity, disaster recovery and cyber protection are the work areas.
14+ years of experience in planning storage implementations, migrations, assessing, designing, implementing storage infrastructure, capacity planning, performance optimization across heterogeneous storage arrays. Proficient in SAN, NAS, RAID, cloud storage. Adept at managing large-scale storage infrastructures, ensuring high availability, scalability, reliability and optimizing performance. Proven track record in leading cross-functional teams, delivering complex projects on time, and driving technological advancements.
Overview
15
15
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Storage Architect
Infosys
04.2021 - Current
- Designed and implemented scalable storage solutions for one of the leading most successful automotive companies
- Created High & Low-Level design documentation for the client providing a clear, concise overview of the proposed solution, project scope, and architecture
- SAN INFRA built with 20PB+ storage and 100+ SAN devices (HPE Primera’s & Brocade SAN switches) which involves Rack & Stack, Power, Layout, Cabling, Storage Networking, RAID Configuration, with Metro Cluster setup for DR requirements
- AD Integration done for all HPE arrays along with integration with HPE Infosight & SolarWinds for predictive insights & monitoring and ServiceNow for ticketing
- Initial configuration of HPE Primera storage arrays and storage capacity planning including creation of RAID groups, CPGs, zoning, volumes, host and host sets
- Established Sync with Peer Persistence Storage level replication between the Primera arrays to meet RTO/RPO requirements.
- Reduced operational costs by identifying opportunities for consolidation and optimization within the existing storage architecture.
- Contributed towards reducing energy consumption rate through effective use of virtualization techniques.
- Championed process improvement initiatives, driving continuous enhancements across all aspects of storage architecture design and implementation processes.
Storage Architect
Infosys
10.2019 - 03.2021
- Architected the datacenter solution from Rack, Power, Layout, Cabling, Server and Storage hardware implementation.
- Fiber Channel connectivity between Storage Devices and the compute Systems.
- Initial configuration of HPE 3par storage arrays and storage capacity planning including creation of RAID groups, CPGs, volumes, host and host sets.
- Integration with HPE Infosight, VMware, ServiceNow and Ansible for automated lifecycle capabilities, management and monitoring.
- Automated zoning configuration & provisioning using OneView on SAN switches & 3PAR arrays.
- Established A-Sync Storage level replication between the 3par arrays to meet RTO/RPO requirements for disaster recovery and SRM integration
- Configured Monitoring and integrating with the ServiceNow Ticketing tool using SNMP traps on SAN switches & 3PAR arrays.
Storage Lead
Infosys
08.2018 - 09.2019
- Analyzed customer’s present Storage/Server setup, Delivery model, support type and the pain areas
- Prepared estimations, Migration plan and road map for IT infrastructure transformation
- Proposed the new HP Nimble Array giving huge cost and space benefits post analysis of current Infrastructure
- Preparing all SAN, NAS architectural, Migration documents
- Integrated existing Isilon NAS array with AWS S3 standard storage for Isilon Cloud pool and performed Migration for NAS shares to AWS Cloud, tiering old unused data (~200 TB ) to AWS
- Planning/Implementation of Isilon new Gen6 Configuration Tech Refresh hardware and EMC Isilon OneFS upgrade, migrate all data from old to new nodes
- Performed Migration (Virtual and Physical) and all end to end level planning for migration from VMAX to Nimble arrays and migrated physical servers (Windows & Linux) from Hybrid Storage to New SSD storage using Cirrus Data with very minimal downtime
- Come up with complete infrastructure analysis from given data and determine the key observations, solution drivers, Opportunity for Improvements, Transformation levers, etc.
Storage Build and Migration Lead
Infosys
05.2016 - 07.2018
- Architected the datacenter solution from Rack, Power, Layout, Cabling, Server and Storage implementation
- New hardware Setup for NetApp controllers FAS8080ex, AFF8080a, disk shelves DS4246, DS2246 including the FC/Network cabling and configuration
- Setting up of Brocade 6510 Fibre channel Switches and configuring zoning
- NetApp Storage aggregate, volume sizing based on the load analysis from source data centers
- Use of vendor supplied 7MTT tool for Base copying of data in excess of 3PB to remote datacenter over WAN
- Planning phases of migration and design schedules for storage delta changes at source storage and methodical planning and preparation for final cutover during application migration with least impact on business
- Implement Disaster recovery using NetApp Snap mirror, VMware Site recovery manager
- Actively performing data migration from 7 mode (Ontap 8.0, 7.3 and 7.2) EOL(End of Life) filers FAS20XX FAS30XX to latest cluster mode 8 node and 16 node clusters running on FAS8080
- Troubleshoot issues with C-mode Data ONTAP with different services
- Physical Storage Management: Assigning disk ownership, aggregate, Flexible Volume, qtree, RAID-DP, Disk Scrubbing, Active/Active configuration.
Storage Migration SME
Infosys
04.2015 - 04.2016
- Architected the datacenter solution from Rack, Power, Layout, Cabling, Server and Storage implementation
- Setting up of Brocade 5300 Fiber channel Switches and zoning configuration
- DC Migration of Infrastructure & applications from Old to new DC was done (P2P, P2V,V2V,Lift & Shift,new ESXi rebuild and migrated to target DC as per move group plans)
- Initial Storage Setup/Configuration of new EMC VNX hardware
- SAN & NAS migration from one EMC VNX to other VNX thereby executing all storage pre-migration planning, migration, implementation, post migration activities, data migration by EMC SAN COPY, Recoverpoint replications.
Storage Administrator & Migration SME
Accenture
07.2012 - 04.2015
- -Maintained, troubleshooted & administered 5 EMC DMX-4 boxes, 6 EMC VMAX boxes, 2 IBM SVC boxes, 6 EMC Networker Backup Servers which includes allocating/de-allocating storage, replication tasks through symcli/SMC, configuring/deleting new clients in EMC Networker and troubleshooting on the storage alerts received in ECC and backup alerts in NMC
- Managed the SAN environment of the Customer with 3500+ clients configured in the Backup Environment and 2.3 Petabyte of Storage
- Migrated Linux, Windows Bare Metal Servers from DMX to VMAX via SRDF and IBM SVC (Flash Copy)
- Creating Migration Runbooks for migrations, Preparing SOPS, KT calendars, MOMs, arranging KT calls giving KTs to new joiners and streamlining the process and environment
- Documented all storage related issues and other events, created WIs for all storage & backup related tasks
- Worked on Hitachi Storage Boxes which includes Allocation, De-allocation & Zoning, preparing SOPS, run books, giving KTs and streamlining the process and new environment
- Worked on IBM SVC which involves Allocation, De-allocation & zoning
- Performed SAN WWPN zoning on SAN switches (Using Converged Connectrix Manager Converged Network Edition i.e
- CMCNE client) pertaining to EMC DMX, EMC VMAX & IBM SVC boxes to various Linux, Windows & VMware Hosts
- Performed Maintenance Activities like SAN Health checks, FOS Upgrade activities etc.
Storage Administrator
Wipro
10.2009 - 06.2012
- Troubleshooted the issues related to box hardware components: Directors, Memory, Drives, Power, and Data Structures, handled customer chats for technical issues in SAN
- Created documents, runbooks for the issues with the fixes
- Provided Technical Consultancy to EMC clients for SAN and CAS storage Boxes manufactured by EMC
- Assisted customers in restoring their Replication Services or any network related services
- Physically Maintained EMC storage Boxes in Wipro Data Center.
Skills
- SAN, NAS, DAS, RAID, iSCSI, Fiber Channel, S3, Azure, HPE 3PAR/Primera/Alletra/Nimble, EMC VMAX/Unity/Isilon/PowerMax, IBM SVC, Hitachi, Netapp, Brocade/Cisco SAN switches
- Windows Server, Linux, Unix
- VMware vSphere, NetApp ONTAP, EMC Unisphere
- Storage Optimization
- Data protection
- Backup and recovery
- Data Migration
- Capacity Planning
- Disaster Recovery
Certification
- EMC Symmetrix Solution Specialist (EMCSA)
- EMC Symmetrix Solution Implementation Engineers (EMCIE)
- EMC Information Storage and Management [ISM]
- ITIL
- Microsoft Azure Fundamentals (AZ-900)
Roledesignation
Storage Architect
Usworkvisa
L2
Linkedinprofile
https://www.linkedin.com/in/anshu-kitchloo-6a55b243/
Academicqualification
Master’s degree in Mathematics’ from Jammu University, India.
Currentlocation
King of Prussia, Pennsylvania
Timeline
Storage Architect
Infosys
04.2021 - Current
Storage Architect
Infosys
10.2019 - 03.2021
Storage Lead
Infosys
08.2018 - 09.2019
Storage Build and Migration Lead
Infosys
05.2016 - 07.2018
Storage Migration SME
Infosys
04.2015 - 04.2016
Storage Administrator & Migration SME
Accenture
07.2012 - 04.2015
Storage Administrator
Wipro
10.2009 - 06.2012