HPE Alletra Consultant

We are a $13+ billion global technology company, home to more than 224,000 people across 60 countries, delivering industry-leading capabilities centered around digital, engineering, cloud, and AI, powered by a broad portfolio of technology services and products.

HCLTech is a globally recognized leader in the Tech and IT industry, but we've never forgotten the startup mindset that got us here. We've always approached our work with an idea-first attitude because every one of our accomplishments —no matter how big or small —can be traced back to an idea's single spark.

It's that spark —that inner drive —that sets our people apart from our competitors. It enables us not just to pull off game-changing feat after game-changing feat but to better our world in the process. We want you to find your spark. Because that's what drives you to be better, be more and ultimately, be more fulfilled.

Required Skills:

• In depth understanding of the HPE Alletra, HP 3PAR, Nimble.
• Hands on experience with storage array migrations.
• Experience in SAN storage backup and recovery and exposure to SAN Data replication tools.
• Experience on Cisco and Brocade fabric switch/Directors. Configuring new switch, upgrades, zoning, VSAN and troubleshooting.
• Experience of SAN allocation, deallocation.
• Good Knowledge on components and architectures.
• Good Knowledge on RAID concepts, inline data deduplication, inline data compression.
• Dynamic LUN Provisioning, Zoning, storage firmware upgrades
• Allocating Boot luns in VMware environment
• Troubleshooting storage related and compatibility related issues.
• Allocating LUNs to different operating systems like MS Windows, VMWare ESX/ESXi, Linux and Solaris/AIX/HPUX.
• Exposure to performance tuning techniques for SAN and NAS
• Experience in handling major incident bridges, critical issues.
• Good in scripting and automating the standard storage procedures.
• Should be familiar with ITIL processes.

Roles & Responsibilities

1. Design, architect, and deploy HPE 3PAR and Alletra storage solutions based on customer business, performance, and availability requirements.

2. Lead technical discussions with customers and internal stakeholders to understand workload needs and propose optimal storage designs.

3. Manage 3PAR/Alletra arrays including CPGs, virtual volumes, VLUNs, host sets, and port configurations.

4. Perform advanced troubleshooting and root cause analysis (RCA) for complex storage, SAN, and performance issues.

5. Plan and execute storage migrations using Peer Motion, Online Import, and host-based migration tools with minimal downtime.

6. Administer and troubleshoot SAN fabrics (Brocade/Cisco) including zoning, ISLs, firmware upgrades, and fabric resiliency.

7. Optimize storage performance and efficiency through RAID selection, tiering, chunklet layout, and adaptive optimization.

8. Implement and manage replication and DR solutions such as Remote Copy, Peer Persistence, and metro cluster configurations.