Narendra JG

About EMC® NetWorker (formerly Legato NetWorker) is an enterprise-level data protection software product that unifies and automates backup to tape, disk-based, and flash-based storage media across physical and virtual environments for granular and disaster recovery.

Features Worked
EMC® NetWorker 19.x feature - Cloning, Staging and Archiving. - Worked as Lead. Cloning process duplicate copy of backup data securely offsite, Transfer data from one location to another. Staging process uses clone process to transfer backup data from AFTD or file type device to another medium, then remove data from original location. Archiving process captures files or directories as exist at specific time and writes data to archive storage volumes.
EMC® CloudBoost Appliance with Networker - Individual Contributor
EMC CloudBoost is cloud-enabling technology that facilitates secure, automatic, efficient long-term retention of backups
in private or public cloud. CloudBoost eliminates the risks of tape, reduces cost, and increases IT and business agility by
extending the reach of EMC Data Protection Suite to resilient, hyper-scalable cloud storage.
EMC® NetWorker 8.0- AAA security feature – Worked as a Lead
The Product Security Policy written by the EMC Product Security Office defines the security baseline for EMC products that enables EMC customers to build a secure information infrastructure. These policies include Accountability, Authorization and Authentication. All these features are introduced in EMC backup and recovery product i.e. NetWorker 8.0 version
EMC® Networker Dashboard – Individual Contributor
The Dashboard is an intelligent backup correlation and impact analysis tool for companies that need to know the status of their backups and reduce the time to troubleshoot backup and recovery problems. NWD will be marketed as an add-on module to NetWorker and will install as a “plug-in” to NetWorker Management Console (NMC).NWD is being developed as a joint effort between EMC and WysDM (UK)
EMC® Networker Module for Microsoft SQL Server – Individual Contributor
NetWorker Module software provides services that enable the NetWorker software to back up and restore Microsoft SQL Server data for distributed, heterogeneous enterprise networks. NetWorker software provides Backup and Restore capabilities for filesystem data only. A filesystem backup, however, does not save SQL Server data in a recoverable form. The NetWorker Module enables the NetWorker software to back up and restore Microsoft SQL Server data. This Module basically interfaces between Notes API's and NetWorker.
EMC® NetWorker® Virtual Edition (NVE) – Individual Contributor
NetWorker Server that runs as a virtual machine in VMware and cloud environment. NVE integrates the latest version of the NetWorker software with SuSE Linux as a VMware virtual machine. The product is qualified in three different area such as VMware vSphere, Amazon EC2 and with Microsoft Azure Resource Manager
Another Major feature qualification with NetWorker – Individual Contributor
Qualification of NetWorker service releases with AutoStart (Cluster Support).
Qualification of Prime Cluster with NetWorker.
Qualification of all features with Server Virtualization environment such as:
AIX on IBM POWER (PowerVM hypervisor)
Solaris in any LDOM, HP-UX virtualization
Microsoft Hyper-V,KVM,VMware vSphere (ESXi and vCenter)
Qualification of NetWorker Service releases with IPv6, Localization(L10N), Internationalization(I18N), Security and Restricted Data Zone(RDZ) environment.
Expert on Storage Devices such as:
LTO(Linear tape Open) or Ultrium Tape Media(IBM,HP,and Dell Power Vault etc)
Virtual Tape libraries(VTL).
Physical Data Domain(6.x and 7.x) with DDBoost lib.
Virtual Data Domain -DDVE (6.x to 7.x) with DDBoost lib.
Roles and Responsibilities:
• Checked software beyond testing scripts for interconnected problems not covered by established specifications.
• Wrote and optimized test cases to maximize success of manual software testing with consistent, thorough approaches.
• Collaborated with QA team to test software quality through manual and automated testing.
• Gathered data on integration issues and vulnerabilities and reported all findings, including improvement recommendations.
• Debugged code and located root causes of problems by reviewing configuration files and logs.
• Created accurate and efficient test scripts to manage automated testing of certain products and features.

About EMC® Avamar® - Data de-duplication, key feature of Avamar system ensures that each unique object is stored only once on Avamar server. Each object is assigned unique content address. Client software then determines whether this unique object has already been stored on Avamar server. If this object resides on Avamar server, and link to stored object is referenced in this backup. Once object has been stored on server, it never has to be resent over network. This feature greatly reduces network traffic and provides for greatly enhanced storage efficiency on server.
Features Worked
EMC® Avamar® Linux Fast Incrementals - Worked as Lead for EMC Linux Fast Incremental solution provides forever incremental backup facility for high density filesystems. In general backup applications traditionally support file-based backup approach by scanning/reading entire filesystem. However, Performance of file-scanning backup solutions could be one of major constraints to protect high-density filesystems, due to amount of time required for filesystem walk and amount of data to be read. In order to address these challenges, backup solutions have to provide faster full backup for cost of incremental backup by eliminating need to read entire filesystem, and read only modified data using Linux Fast Incremental architecture.
EMC® Avamar® -Direct Tape-out (DTO) -Worked as Lead for Direct Tape-Out will be capable of carrying out are Tape-Out (Copying backup from Avamar Server to Networker Server) and Tape-Restore (Reading previously stored backup from Networker Server and streaming data to Avamar Client).Tape-Out and Tape-Restore operations will actually be controlled by DTO Application which will provide user interface and management functions that will be needed.
EMC® Avamar® System State Backup and Recovery – Individual Contributor EMC has enhanced Avamar solution to provide organizations with ability to efficiently protect critical data, no matter its location, and to completely recover server, storage, and application configurations, even to dissimilar hardware or to virtual environment. Using unique profiling feature to enable frequent capture of server state to provide faster recoveries of entire server .This means in event of server failure, as result of failed hardware server image can be quickly restored.
EMC® Avamar® Lotus Domino module testing – Individual Contributor
EMC Avamar Lotus Domino Client provides complete Backup and Recovery solution for IBM Lotus Domino servers. Avamar Lotus Domino Client backs up or restores data to or from Domino servers. Each Domino server in Lotus environment requires installation of Avamar Client software and Avamar Lotus Domino Client plug-in. Avamar Lotus Domino Client backs up two types of files: database files and various non-database files such as ID files and notes.ini file. Avamar Lotus Domino Client enables both hot and cold backups.
EMC® Avamar® DB2 module testing – Individual Contributor
Have qualified various flavors of DB2 on different platforms. Have tested all versions of DB2 starting various platforms like AIX 5.3 and 6.1, Windows 2003 and 2008, RHEL5.
EMC® Avamar® Virtual Edition - AVE – Individual Contributor
Avamar Virtual Edition (AVE) is a single-node non-RAIN (Redundant Array of Independent Nodes). Avamar server that runs as a virtual machine in a variety of environments. AVE integrates the latest version of Avamar software with the SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) as a pre-packaged virtual machine, instance, or machine image, depending on the environment. The product is qualified in three different area such as VMware ESXi, Amazon EC2 and with Microsoft Azure Resource Manager
EMC® DataDomain® Virtual Edition - DDVE– Individual Contributor
Data Domain Virtual Edition (DD VE) is a software-only protection storage appliance: a virtual deduplication appliance that provides data protection for entry, enterprise and service provider environments. The product is qualified in three different area such as VMware ESXi, Amazon S3 and with Microsoft Azure Hot Blob.
Major accomplishments:
Design and Development of automation framework for Avamar Feature – LB3 (Logical Block Based Backup)
Developed Continues Integration using Jenkins for Avamar Feature – LB3 (Logical Block Based Backup)
Resolving many setup related challenges including - Multinode Setup for Avamar, Direct Tape Out for Avamar,
Lift and Shift use cases for DellEMC Networker and Avamar cloud support etc.
Best Practices on “Recovery of Exchange 2003 Servers using Avamar system state Backup on windows 2003”
Roles and Responsibilities:
• Documentation of Test Design spec for various features, Test Creation and Execution.
• Lead efforts from Bangalore, allocate tasks locally and provide progress status periodically.
• Performing various testing (System Testing, Functional testing, Unit testing, Performance testing, stress testing, Reliability, Availability, Compatibility & Interoperability) Contribution: Test case expansion, test bed setup, bug reporting and tracking.
• Automation Framework, Setup Jenkins for Continuous Integration, Review Board Setup (RBT) for automation code review.
• Core dump analysis on UNIX flavors.
• Defined, created and controlled testing environments for successful software deliverables.
• Checked software beyond testing scripts for interconnected problems not covered by established specifications.
• Wrote and optimized test cases to maximize success of manual software testing with consistent, thorough approaches.
• Determined server operating limits by conducting weekly load tests.

HP-UX Commands Testing -Qualification of commands and patch
Defect fixing, Patch testing, Testing and automation.
Involved in complete Code coverage testing of the HP-UX Commands.
Responsible for overseeing deliverables and the defects are captured in commands.
Role: Responsible for core, shell and system administrations commands. Test Development, Validation Testing, Configuration controller, Regression testing
Contribution: Preparing Acceptance Test Plan, Acceptance Test Cases. Preparation of Test Reports. Test Bed setup.
Recognition Award for contribution towards HPUX 11.23 Release.