Bennet Bal

• Spearheaded the daily backup and recovery processes of critical business data, ensuring that over 900+ servers were backed up successfully with zero downtime.
• Monitored the performance, integrity and security of backup systems regularly; identified any potential issues quickly and implemented corrective actions to resolve them within an hour on average.
• Consistently achieved 98%+ success rate in recovering lost information from backups during system failures or user errors.
• Facilitated regular KT sessions for the team on the best practices related to backup systems, resulting in improved accuracy & efficiency across the team.
• End to End configuration of Rubrik backup solution for the estate involving primary and secondary copy and replication between Rubrik CDMs
• Installation and Implementation of Rubrik backup software involving design of network layouts, configuration, and Maintenance of Rubrik of major application server and databases.
• Administration of Rubrik Backup Software on LINUX, UNIX, AIX, Solaris & Windows O/S.
• Creating new policies, Modification and scheduling the backup in Rubrik.
• Designing the Backup environment and ensuring scheduled/unscheduled Backups as per backup plan and restoration.
• Upgrades and patch updates for the backup software on backup server.
• Generating system reports indicating backup and hardware environment.
• Troubleshooting, Maintenance and Administration of DELL EqualLogic, NetApp, Rubrik, Veeam and AZURE MARS.
• Working on Daily Incident / Service Requests for Allocation / Deallocation on Storage Arrays.
• Creation of host groups, LUN mapping and addition of volumes to storage pools.
• Monitoring Storage array hardware failure and Server to Storage connectivity issues.
• LUN creation and deployment on Windows and Linux server using ISCSI protocols for Dell EqualLogic Storage.
• Volume, Q tree creation, LUN creation, NFS and CIFS share Administration and Management in NetApp.
• Creation of alias for HBA wwpns, Zoning and de-zoning besides troubleshooting for all issues w.r.t SAN switches – Brocade and Cisco both via GUI and CLI.
• Represented and provided RCA (Root Cause Analysis) from Storage and Backup end.
• Address all P1’s & P2’s in the environment within SLA hours and to bring environment to the stable state immediately.
• Capacity Planning, Management and Risk management report accumulation.
• Preparation of various management reports on daily, weekly and monthly basis.

• Creation of Disk groups, Vdisks, Host Groups in HP EVA.

• Ungrouping the faulty disk from Disk group and vice versa in HP EVA.

• Installation of HP Command view Software in connected server to manage the arrays.

• Monitoring the storage arrays and collection of system logs and events for OEM to diagnose the same.

• Creation of Disk Enclosure, Vdisks and Host groups in HP P2000.

• Addition of new disks to Mdisk group in IBM V7000.

• Collection of system logs and coordinating with OEM for any issues.

• Coordinating with onsite resource in FC cabling from respective SAN switch to storage array / servers.

• Coordinating with OEM for procuring license for FC ports and SAN switch.

• Creation of alias, zone, zone set and effective configuration in both Brocade and Cisco (GUI and CLI).

• Troubleshooting and suggesting immediate remediation on hardware component failures and port failures.

• Configuring soft zoning and hard zoning based on requirement and infrastructure scope.

• Collection of support show / support save logs for in depth issue analysis as and when required.