Taiwo Omodara

• Managing currently 25 sets of Netapp FAS and AFF 300 Netapp arrays in multiple Datacenter and 21 CVO’s on daily support and maintenance, Snapshots replication and clones for local replication within the array
• Storage resource with experience working in Enterprise to High level storage environment.
• Troubleshooting and Monitoring Performance Issues for Netapp Clusters across different Datacenter via ActiveIQ Unified Manager and Cloud Insight.
• Monitoring performance for close to 300 NetApp Filers via OCUM and troubleshooting based on IOPS, Capacity, Bandwidth metrics accordingly.
• Experience working on design, implementations, management, performance, monitoring, migrations, replications in environments consisting of Netapp FAS and AFF, EMC VMAX3, VNX, XtemeIO, IBM SVC, Isilon, 3PAR, HPE XP8, HP P2000, Hitachi VSP, Cisco MDS, Brocade switches
• Designed and implemented an accredited support environment hosting worldwide DOD Defence information System Agency.
• Design, Install and configure new netapp hardware into production.
• Maintain storage hardware and software, including storage subsystems, administer fabric zoning.
• Hands-on experience with Brocade/Cisco SAN switches, also work with the following platform EMC,HP KP7 and XP8,Hitachi Data System, Dell, NetApp FAS and AFF Models, Pure Storage (Working knowledge) Develop reports to indicate storage performance, capacity/forecast planning, daily weekly and monthly health report
• Supported NetApp, including hardware, installations, configuration, migration, deployment and troubleshooting.
• Setup of several cvo on GCP and migrated on premises netapp arrays to CVO. Also moved some service accounts and vpc network from AWS to GCP.
• Snapmirror and Snapvault: Created and monitored Snapmirror and Snapvault relationships. Ensured transfer was successful, complete and updated.
• Performed Snapmanager administration.
• Performed Vmware administration, including installing virtual machines and on-going maintenance.
• Performed troubleshooting and diagnosis to resolve hardware, software, or other network and system problems for faculty and staff in multi-platform environment
• Builds and utilizes programs/scripts for enterprise appliances in Python, REST API, Ansible
• Actively automates routine tasks, both Ansible playbook, python, REST API for netapp
• Dozens of NetApp storage arrays of various sizes, running CIFS, ISCI, FC and NFS protocols (Multiprotocol – Name mapping)
• Day to day storage administration of Netapp storage systems (SAN and NAS) SVMS, LUNS, Shares and Exports, LIFS, VLANS, Broadcast Domains, Ifgrps, ports, snapshots, clones.
• Worked on several assignments with different clients in designing, implementation, management of Storage Infrastructure on EMC, Dell, Hitachi, Netapp, IBM, Cisco, VMware, Brocade technologies.
• Standardized storage maintenance, provisioning, and decommissioning processes in collaboration with storage engineering team
• Administered and maintained day-to-day operational support, implementations, and periodic hardware and software maintenance.
• Project lead and subject matter expert for HP enterprise virtual arrays, Hitachi enterprise storage arrays, NetApp Ontap and Brocade and Cisco enterprise class SAN infrastructure implementation
• Managed storage area networks in two locations with over 3 petabytes of storage for 900+ servers
• Experience in managing a Netapp NAS and SAN array, in creating, file systems, CIFS Shares, NFS exports, and related activities using System manager, CLI and AIQUM.
• Experience managing a SAN Fabric with Brocade Connectrix 48K,8510 Director class SAN switches to include zoning, troubleshooting, and upgrading.
• Strong knowledge in managing SAN zoning, storage provisioning and LUN masking in Sun, Linux, Windows and Virtual environments in a multiple storage platform such as Hitachi, EMC, 3PAR and Pure Storage.
• NetApp Cluster, Storage GRID, Snap, Snap Center, VMware , Cohesty, Brocade/Cisco switch, working Services Now create any action INC, CR or REQ tickets based on best practices recommendations.
• Installs, configures, setup, and maintains FS and ISCSI storage arrays and storage related hardware and software in a managed services environment.
• Experience in hands-on implementation of storage and replication solutions in complex enterprise accounts in-depth knowledge of data migration, consolidation and disaster recovery methodologies and their application.
• Expertise includes SAN & Storage Administration & Implementation with products like Powerstore,VxRail,VMAX HP 3PAR ,Nimble,PURE AFA, NetApp, Cisco MDS, Brocade FC Switches, EMC Isilon, VNX, Backup, Disaster Recovery and Clustering Environment.
• Expertise in EMC/HP 3PAR/NetApp Hardware setup, Initial configuration, Secure admin configurations and setup.
• Wrote/supported Unix shell scripts and Python scripts customized for storage operations.
• Hands on experience with HP 3PAR storage technologies: General Raid, Common Provisioning Groups, Virtual Volumes, RC Groups, HP Chunklet concepts, Virtual and Physical Copy.
• Experience in Implementing Adaptive Optimization (AO) between different CPG’s and tuning VV using Dynamic Optimization (DO).

• Experience in installation and upgradation of storage management tools. Administration and management of NetApp FAS filers (7-mode and CDOT clusters) for NAS solutions - NFS exports, CIFS shares including configuration of SnapMirror replication, SnapVault, snapshots.
• LUN publishing, expansion and shredding across Datacenters. Fabric Migration, merging of various fabrics, Zoning, Modifying configuration, upgrades.
• Perform data backup and ensure that backed-up data can be restored as required; analyzes and resolves problems associated with server storage arrays.

· Planning and Implementation of netapp cluster expansion (Disk, Shelf and Node addition) and refresh (Disk Shelf, Node and Cluster decommissioning and commissioning)

· Troubleshooting all SAN and NAS related issues in the environment working with the Vendor when necessary, to solve all issue and keep the environment at optimal state

· Brocade Fabric OS firmware upgrade and Brocade Network Advisor installation, Migration, Configuration, and administration

· Capacity and performance report collection for proper monitoring of the environment (Generate SAM report for vulnerability check)

· Experience in installation and upgradation of storage management tools. Administration and management of NetApp FAS & AFF, CDOT clusters for NAS and SAN solutions - NFS exports, CIFS shares including configuration of SnapMirror replication, SnapVault, snapshots.

· Builds and utilizes programs/scripts for enterprise appliances in Python, REST API, Ansible

· Actively automates routine tasks, both Ansible playbook, python, REST API for netapp

· Dozens of NetApp storage arrays of various sizes, running CIFS, ISCI, FC and NFS protocols (Multiprotocol – Name mapping)

· Day to day storage administration of Netapp storage systems (SAN and NAS) SVMS, LUNS, Shares and Exports, LIFS, VLANS, Broadcast Domains, Ifgrps, ports, snapshots, clones.

· Daily monitoring and diagnostics with AIQUM.

· Interface group, broadcast domain and vlan creation and management to ensure data accessibility.

· Upgrading of all netapp software and firmware, including ontap OS, disk and shelf firmware packages as required. Using both the command line and system Manager

· Administration of CVO to manage on prem and cloud ontap using cloud manager.

· Setup replication BTW on prem ontap to cloud CVO in conjuction with Amazon S3 Bucket

· Provision and manage CVO within cloud manager

· Perform single file restore using cloud backup service in CVO

· Storage Grid administration to manage nodes, user and alerts

· Storage grid to create ILM policy move data BTW the pools

· Setup fabric pool to work with SG, for tiering of data between your S3 bucket and Ontap in a hybrid environment.

· Create and manage multi tenants in Storage Grid, configuration of high availability groups and load balancing endpoint.

· Configure fabric pool to migrate data to cloud storage (Azure, AWS) using Netapp StorageGrid

· Deployment of Storage Grid appliance for Admin, Gateway and Storage Nodes

· Indepth knowledge of Storage Grid for data management, protection and preserve fixed content data over a long period of time.

• Expertise includes SAN & Storage Administration & Implementation with products like Powerstore,VxRail,VMAX HP 3PAR ,Nimble,PURE AFA, NetApp, Cisco MDS, Brocade FC Switches, EMC Isilon, VNX, Backup, Disaster Recovery and Clustering Environment.
• Expertise in EMC/HP 3PAR/NetApp Hardware setup, Initial configuration, Secure admin configurations and setup.
• Wrote/supported Unix shell scripts and Python scripts customized for storage operations.
• Hands on experience with HP 3PAR storage technologies: General Raid, Common Provisioning Groups, Virtual Volumes, RC Groups, HP Chunklet concepts, Virtual and Physical Copy.
• Experience in Implementing Adaptive Optimization (AO) between different CPG’s and tuning VV using Dynamic Optimization (DO).

• Designed and implemented an accredited support environment hosting worldwide Department of Defense medical logistics applications.
• Supported NetApp, including hardware, installations, configuration, migration, deployment and troubleshooting.
• Snapmirror and Snapvault: Created and monitored Snapmirror and Snapvault relationships. Ensured transfer was successful, complete and updated.
• Performed Snapmanager administration.
• Performed Vmware administration, including installing virtual machines and on-going maintenance.
• Monitoring the IBM environment with spectrum control and Insight to pull out performance, capacity management and for troubleshooting.
• Experience in troubleshooting problems with CIFS, NFS and hardware.
• Deployed and managed enterprise core services with focus on vSphere 7, Horizon View 7, vRealize, Veeam, Windows Server 2012/2016, RHEL 7, Dell M1000e hardware and Brocade Fabric.
• Perform data backup and ensure that backed-up data can be restored as required; analyzes and resolves problems associated with server storage arrays.
• Planning and Implementation of netapp cluster expansion (Disk, Shelf and Node addition) and refresh (Disk Shelf, Node and Cluster decommissioning and commissioning)
• Troubleshooting all SAN and NAS related issues in the environment working with the Vendor when necessary, to solve all issue and keep the environment at optimal state
• Brocade Fabric OS firmware upgrade and Brocade Network Advisor installation, Migration, configuration, and administration
• Capacity and performance report collection for proper monitoring of the environment (Generate SAM report for vulnerability check)
• Experience in installation and upgradation of storage management tools. Administration and management of NetApp FAS & AFF, CDOT clusters for NAS and SAN solutions - NFS exports, CIFS shares including configuration of SnapMirror replication, SnapVault, snapshots.
• Builds and utilizes programs/scripts for enterprise appliances in Python, REST API, Ansible
• Actively automates routine tasks, both Ansible playbook, python, REST API for netapp
• Dozens of NetApp storage arrays of various sizes, running CIFS, ISCI, FC and NFS protocols (Multiprotocol – Name mapping)
• Day to day storage administration of Netapp storage systems (SAN and NAS) SVMS, LUNS, Shares and Exports, LIFS, VLANS, Broadcast Domains, Ifgrps, ports, snapshots, clones.
• Daily monitoring and diagnostics with AIQUM.
• Interface group, broadcast domain and vlan creation and management to ensure data accessibility.
• Upgrading of all netapp software and firmware, including ontap OS, disk and shelf firmware packages as required. Using both the command line and system Manager
• Administration of CVO to manage on prem and cloud ontap using cloud manager.
• Setup replication BTW on prem ontap to cloud CVO in conjunction with Amazon S3 Bucket
• Provision and manage CVO within cloud manager
• Perform single file restore using cloud backup service in CVO
• Storage Grid administration to manage nodes, user and alerts
• Storage grid to create ILM policy move data BTW the pools
• Setup fabric pool to work with SG, for tiering of data between your S3 bucket and Ontap in a hybrid environment.
• Create and manage multi tenants in Storage Grid, configuration of high availability groups and load balancing endpoint.
• Configure fabric pool to migrate data to cloud storage (Azure, AWS) using Netapp StorageGrid
• Deployment of Storage Grid appliance for Admin, Gateway and Storage Nodes
• Indepth knowledge of Storage Grid for data management, protection and preserve fixed content data over a long period of time.
• Storage Grid to move data between Onprem and public cloud storage
• Extensive hands on experience with Storage Grid Manager to monitor the daily activities of my StorageGrid system including the health, performance and reliability.
• Extensive hands-on experience with Service-Now IT service Management tool, for all service management including, Task, Incident, Change and Problem management. As well as reporting and documentation
• Routine equipment checks and preventive maintenance.
• On-call Storage resource, responsible for troubleshooting storage related issues and performing corrective actions.
• Created SOPs and troubleshooting documentation for use by Storage Administrator team.
• Implemented, installed, configured, and supported 15 Petabytes of HP 3PAR storage, such as P1000/V800/V400, HP Storeserv 7000 series

• Dozens of NetApp storage arrays of various sizes, running CIFS, ISCI, FC and NFS protocols
• NetApp Cluster Mode and 7 mode operating environments.
• Strengths in data and root-cause analysis, providing creative solutions, procedural documentation, and resource planning support.
• Strong ONTAP skills with extensive in-depth experience with ONTAP administration.
• ONTAP administration, troubleshooting events before they become incidents, provisioning, upgrades, changes.
• CIFS / NFS multiprotocol access to vols – Win/UNIX authentication, Active Directory, LDAP, security styles, ACL Permissions.
• Flexgroup configuration with high scalability for NAS.
• In-depth Knowledge with Windows Admin, AD, DFS, DHCP, DNS, TCP/IP.
• Daily monitoring and diagnostics with OCUM.
• Performing day to day administration like SnapView, snapshot maintenance, qtree creation, snap drive, snap lock, sync mirror, duplication ,NDMP.
• Setup and indepth knowledge on Storage grid Objects for data management and backup solution.
• In-depth knowledge in Creating an Information Life-cycle (ILM) Rule and policy to specify data placement and duration and to set up Erasure Coding.
• Performs day-to-day operational support of the SAN environment. This include storage provisioning (LUN creation, Masking, Mapping) problem diagnostics resolution.
• Deployment of storage Grid to manage dockers, VMware, and other appliances.
• Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity with EMC storage arrays using SRDF solution.
• Code upgrades in NetApp FAS and AFF filers and upgrading associated software tools.
• Solid understanding of essential TCP/IP protocols: TCP, UDP, ICMP, SMTP, SNMP, LDAP, DNS, NTP, and understanding of wider set protocols.
• Administration of AFF and FAS filers, FAS 8060, 8040, 8200 and AFF A300 & A700. Presently working in a SAN and NAS environment and handles a lot of clients
• Expert hands on administration experience with VMware (ESX, ESXi/vSphere, vCenter, vMotion, DRS) and other virtualization technologies and concepts
• Responsible for Careful review of the environment for non-critical or repetitive warning symptoms possibly indicative of future issues.
• Comprehensive review and validation of daily clones, mirrors, snaps, and vaults including re-activation and configuration.
• Interface group, broadcast domain and VLAN creation and management to ensure data accessibility.
• Using NetApp Oncommand Insight for monitoring, troubleshooting and reporting
• In-depth review of all replication relationships across the NetApp storage arrays.
• Successfully Create documentation for new processes and procedures.
• LIF Creation and failover management to ensure business continuity in case of a controller or port fault.
• Creation of SnapMirror, SnapVault and load sharing mirrors to meet application and overall business RPO and RTO.
• Volume management for both SAN and NAS Protocols, setting the proper thresholds and reserves for each application and data protocol across the environment.
• Zoning of hosts to be migrated to target storage arrays using brocade network advisor (SANNAV)
• Creating and documenting architecture solutions for the integration of technology to enable streamlined application interfaces, improved application redundancy.

• ONTAP administration, troubleshooting events before they become incidents, provisioning, upgrades, changes.
• CIFS / NFS multiprotocol access to vols – Win/UNIX authentication, Active Directory, LDAP, security styles, ACL Permissions.
• In-depth Knowledge with Windows Admin, AD, DFS, DHCP, DNS, TCP/IP.
• Daily monitoring and diagnostics with OCUM.
• NetApp aggregate and storage pool creation.
• SVM creation for multi and single protocols. Establishment of cluster and SVM peer relationships for DR.
• Creation of SnapMirror, SnapVault and load sharing mirrors to meet application and overall business RPO and RTO. Develops diagnostics commands to analyzed and resolve issues within the SANs.
• Troubleshoot performance across Hitachi Enterprise Storage Environment (VSP, HUS VM, G-Series, F-Series) and easily identify the root cause of performance issues.
• Proactively monitor and manage performance in Hitachi storage environment
• Hitachi management with high-level key performance metrics, down to the Configuration, Service Statistics, Balance, Host Groups, Logical Devices, Front-end, and Back-end, see the value of a new level of visibility and navigation for your data
• Pure storage flash array monitoring and configuration
• Performed problem determination, resolution and root-cause analysis of performance-related problems on all storage platforms. Monitoring and reporting on VNX Environment using Unisphere for VNX.
• Pure storage configuration, implementation and administration. Pure storage management, using Pure 1 Manage.
• Performing Health Check for XIV/SVC/V7K and Cisco
• Upgrading SVC/V7K/XIV code
• Performed problem determination, resolution, and root-cause analysis of performance-related problems on all storage platforms.
• Monitors capacity, performance and reporting using IBM spectrum control.
• Interface group, broadcast domain and VLAN creation and management to ensure data accessibility LUN and iGROUP Management. Troubleshooting all SAN and NAS issues in the environment.
• Working with the Vendor when necessary to solve all issue and keep the environment at optimal state.
• Configuration and Replication and Migration (Synchronous and Asynchronous) for Vmax, NetApp.
• Virtualization technologies of host (VMware) and Storage (IBM SVC and EMC). Managed SAN Enhanced zoning in the environment with multiple VSANs using Brocade and Cisco Fabric Managers.
• Maintains storage aspects of new server integrations, storage allocation and change management. Provided Support and assistance within the SAN environments which included NAS Operations involving Common Internet Files System (CIFS) and Network File System (NFS).
• Hands on experience in identifying fabric and SAN connectivity issues; and providing resolution. Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity with EMC storage arrays using SRDF solution.
• On-call Storage resource, responsible for troubleshooting storage related issues and performing corrective actions.
• Virtualization technologies of host (Vmware) and Storage (IBM SVC and EMC Vplex)
• Performing day to day operational tasks like storage provisioning and maintaining high Availability as per EMC best practices.
• EMC RecoverPoint set up, Including the consistency groups, Repository and Journal Volumes
• VNX Mirror view configuration, Administration of Unisphere to manage VNX.
• Understanding and knowledge in performing FAST Cache and FAST VP.
• Participated in the development, implementation and testing of a SAN based multi-site Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity with EMC storage arrays using SRDF solution.
• On-call Storage resource, responsible for troubleshooting storage related issues and performing corrective actions.
• Installation, configuration and administration of Windows Servers, RHEL/CentOS physical and virtual machines on VMWare ESXi, VMWare Fusion, VMWare vSphere 5 with VMware vCenter Server 5

• Performed day-to-day operational support of the SAN environment. This will include storage provisioning (LUN creation, Masking, Mapping) problem diagnostics/resolution on EMC VNX.
• Management and administration of EMC VNX storage arrays using Unisphere for storage Provisioning, reclamation, replication, cloning, troubleshoot and resolve performance issues and other SAN related issues.
• Good Experience in Technical Documentation and design process and standards
• Expert knowledge on Critical incident management and SLA management
• Experience in administrating, maintaining and troubleshooting EMC Symmetrix V-Max 3 and All Flash, DMX4, DMX3 and VNX
• Administration of EMC storage array with EMC Navisphere manager and NAVICLI. Storage replication from production sites to RPA devices at DR sites.
• Managing and administration of IBM XIV storage systems including storage provisioning, global mirror replication and snapshots and restores.
• Code upgrades in EMC VMAX, NetApp FAS and AFF filers, IBM XIVs and in upgrading associated software tools like Solution Enabler.
• Monitoring capacity utilization and troubleshooting IBM Environment using IBM Spectrum control. Administration and management of HP 3PAR store server storage array.
• Administration and management of NetApp filers (7-mode and CDOT clusters) for NAS solutions - NFS exports, CIFS shares including configuration of SnapMirror replication, SnapVault, snapshots.
• Monitoring and troubleshooting using On Command insight OCI. Supporting Disaster Recovery tests.
• Works with vendors and platform teams, application/DBAs to resolve SAN/NAS related issues and hardware break-fix related issues. Creation of CPGs, Virtual volumes, file stores.
• Storage Provisioning, allocation, deallocation of NetApps FAS 8040
• Zoning Cisco 9510 using Cisco DCNM
• EMC RecoverPoint set up, Including the consistency groups, Repository and Journal Volumes
• VNX Mirror view configuration, Administration of Unisphere to manage VNX.
• Understanding and knowledge in performing FAST Cache and FAST VP.
• Troubleshooting Port issue on MDS 9510
• Performing Health Check for XIV/SVC/FlashStorage V840, V900/HP/VNX/Hitachi/IBM NAS/NETAPPS

• Hands on experience in configuration and maintenance of Dynamic Provision volumes. Storage Provisioning, cloning, troubleshooting and resolve performance issues and other storage related issues.
• Experience in installation and upgradation of storage management tools. Administration and management of NetApp FAS filers (7-mode and CDOT clusters) for NAS solutions - NFS exports, CIFS shares including configuration of SnapMirror replication, SnapVault, snapshots.
• LUN publishing, expansion and shredding across Datacenters. Fabric Migration, merging of various fabrics, Zoning, Modifying configuration, upgrades.
• Hands on experience in identifying fabric issues, SAN connectivity and provides resolution. Proposed DR plan which is currently under review for implementation.
• Performed day-to-day operational support of the SAN environment. This will include storage provisioning (LUN creation, Masking, Mapping) problem diagnostics/resolution on IBM SVC.
• Perform data backup and ensure that backed-up data can be restored as required; analyzes and resolves problems associated with server storage arrays.
• Monitoring IBM V7000 using Spectrum control IBM V7000 Performance Monitoring and Upgrade.
• Configuring and troubleshooting Snap Mirror, Snap Vault Environment. CIFS and NFS share creation on VNX and assigning permissions. Replications: Creating, RPA, SnapMirror, SnapVault.
• Hands on experience in configuration and maintenance of Dynamic Provision volumes.
• Experience in installation and upgradation of storage management tools and patching
• Experience in Hitachi Tuning manager for identifying the underlying the issues in SAN.
• Fabric Migration, Merging of various fabrics, Zoning, Modifying configuration, FW upgrades
• Hands on experience in identifying fabric issues, SAN connectivity and provides resolution
• Implementing and Administering VMWare ESXi
• Managing VMware ESX, Virtual machine installation through virtual infrastructure client
• Virtual machine cloning and Snapshot.