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SANDEEP PARVATANENI

IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Admin( IBM TSM Backup Admin)
Hyderabad

Summary

To be part of a team that dynamically works towards growth of the organization and would give me an opportunity to enhance my knowledge.

11+ years of experience in IT industry. More than 10 + years working as a Backup Admin {Tivoli Storage Manager Admin}. Currently working as Senior Professional Storage Admin (IBM Spectrum Protect -TSM Backup) & Associate Manager Storage Admin at DXC.Technology, Bangalore from January 2018 to Till Date. Worked as a Tivoli Storage Manager Administrator in IBM India Pvt Ltd (Deputed by Collabera Technologies Pvt Ltd.); Bangalore from August'17 to November 2017. Worked as a IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Administrator in IBM India Pvt Ltd (Deputed by Alchemy Techsol India Pvt.Ltd), Gurgaon from SEP 2013 to June 2017. (Shine program for initial two months through Alchemy Solutions for IBM India Pvt.Ltd; Noida from July'13 to Aug'13. ).

Overview

12
12
years of professional experience
5
5
Certifications

Work History

Assistant Consultant

Tata consultancy services limited
02.2022 - Current
  • Working as an Assistant consultant in TCS
  • Leading the Backup & Restore operations Team for more than three years
  • Being engaged in the Major calls as and when required to discuss the issues or any other capabilities escalations
  • Critical restores successfully done on Data Movers, B/A Client & Cohesity Restores
  • The Cohesity Backup configuration done successfully
  • Had experience and executed many Full VM’s restores
  • Commvault Decomissioned end to end taken care and executed successfully without any issues, appreciated by client on same
  • Had experience on installing Agents and Configurations done on Windows BA-Client/Linux BA-client
  • Review with clients and management on monthly Backup SLA reports
  • Capacity checks daily on spectrum protect servers and it’s VM’s
  • Taking care of capacity issues on Backups server containers
  • Cleanup activity thrice in a month on all deployed backups
  • Review with teams when required on policy configurations for new clients
  • Restoring single or multiple files from a VMware snapshot Backups
  • Backup failures fix on basis of reports
  • Assisting to the peers based upon Adhoc issues
  • Audit on every quarter to provide the evidence of the Backups & Restores to the client
  • Proactively planning the Capacity in order to mitigate the space issues across the regions
  • Had intermediate knowledge on Commvault Backup Technology
  • Pursuing VEEAM Backup, learning is in progress

Associate Manager Storage Admin

DXC.Technology
01.2018 - 02.2022
  • On TSM instances V7.x /8.x basic sanity checks across regions performing during start of the shift and end of the shift to ensure the stability of the environment
  • As a Senior lead used to focus on the SLA's & to make ensure none of the Incidents/Changes/RITM's shouldn't breach SLA
  • Configuration of Data domain VTL & DD Replication
  • Taking care of DD VTL cleanup activity based upon the cleanable space & identifying/fixing the capacity issues on the data domain VTL's
  • Monitoring the DD VTL available space on respective shifts & maintaining good space for the backups & raise the H/w cases as per the issue
  • Had basic knowledge on DD Boost
  • Involving daily in the manager's forum call to discuss on the quality of tickets closure, SLA breach tickets if any
  • Being engaged in the Major calls as and when required to discuss on the client escalations or any other capabilities escalations
  • Had good experience on troubleshooting on all types of DHSO, TDPORA, Flat File & SQL backup failures
  • Had troubleshooting expertise on fixing Restore Issues
  • Once in a week fetching the TDPORA backups which exceeds its retention & accordingly deleting the ORA backups
  • Backup risk analysis & create remediation procedures
  • Developing the team to work on the KB (knowledge based) articles which had troubleshooted successfully on the backup failures
  • Alternative days clean-up activity performing on the Data domain VTL's (Data Domain OS 6.2.1.0-654614) across all regions to make sure space available on DD's
  • TSM DB utilized> 85% when reaches fetching LUN details for storage team to get space from HP3PAR array
  • Any disk's corrupted on Store Once (HPE Store Once 6500 Backup) device used to engage support team to troubleshoot remotely through VR sessions
  • Implementation of LAN free tape backups using TSM in SAN environment
  • Worked on improving the performance of data holding DD VTL libraries
  • TSM client tuning whenever if there are any throughput issues
  • As per customer requirement preparing 3 Strike report twice in a week to elevate the incident to Major if any, hence incident management team along with Customer will open a bridge call & initiates group chat among respective teams to find out the root causes & fix the issues at earliest
  • Provided RCA on Major Incidents to end users
  • Among capabilities there will be a backup check point call to discuss & work on the long pending issues
  • Performing the deep dive analysis on the reasons for capacity issues, accordingly retention data which is already crossed & expired will be deleted for all kind of backups
  • The data which is spread across libraries, ensuring to balance the load across all libraries (PTL's & VTL's) to overcome from outage
  • Retention data is maintained in the PTL library only as per customer requirement
  • If capacity is consumed on PTL's & no ways to generate scratches, then based upon the analysis of incoming data/Size used to procure new PTL tapes through change process
  • Any TSM instance is scheduled to down for an activity, communicating to all capabilities about the CHANGE window, once the instance is back, confirming to all teams to resume their backup/restore jobs
  • Handling vulnerabilities or risks arise from backup environment

TSM Administrator

Collabera Technologies Pvt Ltd
08.2017 - 11.2017
  • Worked as an IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Administrator for client IBM India Pvt.Ltd
  • Fixing backup miss & failed issues which comes through ticketing tool
  • Handling long pending issues on server/client end
  • Involved in client meetings during TSM server build & for TSM capacity issues
  • Performed Media management operations during weekdays
  • Performing Restoration activities based on tickets
  • Involved in P1 severity activities recent times
  • Fixed backup failures on TDP SQL
  • Installing BA client on Windows platforms
  • Managing IBM TS3100, TS3200, IBM TS3310 & TS3500 Tape Libraries
  • Daily need to discuss the repeated issues in huddle meetings & need to fix the backup failed issues on priority bases
  • Daily Monitoring of TSM Sites, for Major Break downs and reporting Backup success rates

TSM Administrator

Alchemy Techsol India Pvt Ltd
09.2013 - 06.2017
  • Near about 4 years of experience IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Administrator for client IBM India Pvt.Ltd
  • Handle Escalated and High Priority Issues related to Backups and Restore
  • Supervise the TSM Housekeeping Task and ensure they are working as per design
  • Provided Business case on Backup Issues
  • Performing Restoration activities based on tickets
  • Performed Volume-IN & Volume-OUT Operations
  • Fixed backup failures on TDP SQL
  • Defining TSM Admin Schedules for TSM DB Backup, Expiration & Reclamation etc
  • Commission and decommission of Nodes
  • Managing and fixing Bad Tapes with Read/Write Errors
  • Basic Exposure on LANFREE Configuration
  • Configuring Oracle with Tivoli Storage Manager
  • Configuring SQL backups with Tivoli Storage Manager
  • Troubleshooting the Missed and Failed Backups
  • Installing BA client on Windows platforms
  • Managing IBM TS3100, TS3200, IBM TS3310 & TS3500 Tape Libraries
  • Day to day management which include Online backup, Offline backup and Sending Report to Senior Management
  • Migrated servers on to the new machines
  • Perform restores of customer data as well as assist in complete server recovery due to failures or as part of disaster recovery scenarios using TSM
  • Daily Monitoring of TSM Sites, for Major Break downs and reporting Backup success rates
  • Evaluate and worked on new TSM releases and submitted to the client
  • Perform restores of customer data as well as assist in complete server recovery due to failures or as part of disaster recovery scenarios using TSM
  • Annual review of TSM Architecture, feature and functions
  • Manage capacity and performance of the backup infrastructure ensuring the integrity of infrastructure on a day-to-day basis

Education

BTech - Information Science & Technology

K.L.C.E
Guntur

Skills

  • Windows 2003

  • Windows 2008

  • Windows 2012

  • AIX

  • Linux

  • IBM TSM Server 8x

  • IBM TSM Server 7x

  • IBM TSM Server 6x

  • B/A Client

  • TDP SQL

  • Cohesity

  • TDP Oracle

  • IBM TS3100

  • IBM TS3200

  • IBM TS3310

  • IBM TS3500

  • IBM TS4500

  • HP ESL Library

  • Data Domain OS 6210-65

  • HPE StoreOnce 6500 Backup

Data Movers

Certification

IBM Certified Administrator - Tivoli Storage Manager V7.1

Work Rewards Recognition

  • Service & Commitment Award, 02/14/25
  • Star Team Award, 05/06/24
  • Applause for Team Award, 02/26/24
  • Received appreciations in DXC & IBM from end users for successfully building TSM Servers (in IBM) & for involving in critical restores.
  • Management & Leadership team appreciated for my work delivery (in DXC).
  • FY'22 Q1 DXC Champ Award

Timeline

Assistant Consultant

Tata consultancy services limited
02.2022 - Current

Associate Manager Storage Admin

DXC.Technology
01.2018 - 02.2022

TSM Administrator

Collabera Technologies Pvt Ltd
08.2017 - 11.2017

TSM Administrator

Alchemy Techsol India Pvt Ltd
09.2013 - 06.2017

BTech - Information Science & Technology

K.L.C.E

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SANDEEP PARVATANENIIBM Tivoli Storage Manager Admin( IBM TSM Backup Admin)