Dion van de Coevering

Storage consultant with strong knowledge of HP Dataprotector and HP storage products.

Certified:
Certified System Administrator HPUX
Accredited Integration Specialist - HP StorageWorks
Accredited Presales Consultant - HP StorageWorks
EMCPA Information Storage and Management
EMCSA Symmetrix Business Continuity Specialist v5
ITIL Foundations

Dion van de Coevering’s Specialties:

Brocade switches (mainly 4Gig models, v5X and v6X firmware)
Emulex & Qlogic HBA knowledge
VMware ESX and VCB
LVM and Multipath solutions
Following HP products:
EML, VLS en MSL line
Dataprotector 5.5, 6.0 and Express
Storage Mirroring Software and Continuous Access EVA
EVA and MSA family
Cluster Extension EVA for Windows (NAS) and Linux
HPUX MC/Serviceguard
Proliant (DL & BL family) & PA-RISC(rp series) and Itanium (rx series) hardware

Dion van de Coevering’s Experience

San beheerder

vts Politie Nederland

(Government Agency; Information Technology and Services industry)

February 2009 — Present (1 year )

Responsible of day to day operation of the Storage (400+ Tb) environment, ranging from eva3000 to 8100 storage array's, Brocade switches and HP Virtual Connect.
-Implemented san switch performance monitoring using Cacti
-Created a script around simply-save-your-san to save switch and zoning configuration
-Collecting performance metrics of the EVA's.
-Writing procedures and instruction(s) manuals
-SAN troubleshooting
-Created Cacti templates for the DataDomain systems and different Brocade switch types.
-Co-authored the NetApp & DataDomain Businesscase
-Reviewer of several design and implementation plan's

Gear used:
EVA8100,5000,3000, Brocade switch 4900/4012/3850/200e, ESL712, MSL5026, MSL6052, VLS12000, DD690

Technique used:
Trunking, Extended Core-Edge Fabrics, VTL, Data replication, Snapshots, NPIV, DeDup
Technology Consultant Storage/SAN/UNIX

Cohesion

(Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)

May 2007 — Present (2 years 9 months)

Besides the different assignments at customers, assisting with new job applications and educations for colleague's.
Storage Engineer

ANWB

(Public Company; Leisure, Travel & Tourism industry)

May 2007 — January 2009 (1 year 9 months)

The focus has changed from outsourcing to "do it yourself". This is a challenging task for the IT department due to lack of investment since we where about to outsource servers and storage.
Equipment and processes hadn't been improved or replaced for a period of two years.

-I've expanded an c2d8 EVA 8000 to an c2d12 and an c2d3 EVA4000 to an c2d4 to cope with growth.
-Upgraded the brocade switches from a mixture of firmware levels to v5.3.1a and v6.1.0a (but uniform within a fabric) depending on the models used.
-Replaced old 2800 switches with new brocade 5000 models and later expanded the SAN with four 4900 models.
-In a later stage transformed the, still, cascaded fabric to a custom configuration which can be described as a ring fabric with a core.
-In sync with the expanding SAN an DMX4-950 was purchased and connected for the purpose of consolidating two DMX800 (on there own SAN islands) to the new DMX4, this was still an WIP when I left.
-Centralized zone management by means of ECC.
-Single Server installation of EMC Control Center 6 with SE 6.5 MRLK on new hardware to replace the ECC 5.2 environment on outdated hardware
-Transfered archived data to new media
-Writing reports on how to increase availability and reduce risks
-Retired the MA8000 storage array (used by Novell servers)
-Installed and configured an MSL8096 LTO4 library
-Installed and configured an VLS6636 virtual tape library
-Advised on dm-multipath and LVM using RHEL
-Created detailed SAN drawings (Visio)
-Tested and documented an procedure to do an online switch of HPUX systems the the consolidated SAN while retaining there data on the older DMX-es

Gear used:
MSA1500cs, EVA4000, EVA8000, Brocade switch 5000/4900/3850/200E/2800, McData Sphereon 4500, DMX800, DMX4-950, RX4640/RX2620/RP2400, MSL6060/5056/8096, VLS6510/6600, EMC Control Center 6.

Technique used:
VTL, "Meshed Fabric", LVM, LVM2, MC/Serviceguard Clustering, Multipath Device-Mapper for RHEL, LACP for HPUX
Backup consultant

Nederlandsch Octrooibureau

(Privately Held; Legal Services industry)

November 2008 — November 2008 (1 month)

One day assignment troubleshooting the backup environment and giving pointers and advice. Main goal get the jobs running again. To accomplish that the technical design was partly scraped. In the end minor modification where needed to get the jobs running.
Although there wasn't enough time to run the biggest job ther's enough confidence restored to go live this weekend.
Software used Dataprotector 6.0 using object copy to de-stage the VLS to MSL

Gear used:
C-class Blades, Brocade 4012 switches, VLS6636 and MSL4048.

Technique used:
VTL
Technology Consultant Storage

SSC-I Ministerie van Justitie

(Government Agency; Government Administration industry)

August 2006 — April 2007 (9 months)

Responsible (with 3 other colleague's) for the Storage environments (50 + Tb).All environments where standardized around the HP EVA (8 in total ranging from 3000 to 8000 and including data replication) with the odd MSA array. Multiple HP EML109e and MSL line libraries and several VLS6105 systems together with HP Dataprotector as backup solution.
For connectivity the HP (B line/Brocade) Storageworks switches with powerpack licenses (trunking, fabric watch etc) where used.

-Made preparations in the new SAN to accept the current Exchange environment scheduled to be physically moved
-Migrated (SAN related) the Exchange storage array and systems to the new SAN
-Started on Licence, Patch and Document management

Gear used:
EVA3000/4000/6000/8000, Brocade 4100 SAN switches, EML109e, VLS6105

Technique used:
Trunking, Data replication inc automated failover/back with Cluster Extension EVA, Cascaded Fabric, MS MNS Clustering
Storage/ HPUX engineer

Bloemenveiling Aalsmeer (pre-merger, now FloraHolland)

(Non-Profit; Logistics and Supply Chain industry)

January 1999 — July 2006 (7 years 7 months)

Responsible for two EVA5000 and an MSA1000.
Backup solution was based around 2 MSL6060 with HP Dataprotector 5.1.

-Moved Omniback 4 from a single D series machine to a Serviceguard cluster.
-Upgraded Omniback 4 to DataProtector 5.1
-Added functionality to DataProtector with ksh scripts
-Added extra drives in LTO2 tapelibraries
-Created a NSR1200 backup script to quickly restore host mapping
-Created X11 config script in conjuction with MS/SG Cluster commands during startup, failover and shutdown.

Gear Used:
Brocade 3800, EVA5000, MSA1000, MSL6060 LTO2 Libraries, SureStore E DLT4 libraries, NSR1200 FC-SCSI Routers
HP Series D,K,L,N,RP74xx PA-RISC Servers, DL3(68)0, ML370

Technique used:
Data replication, Cascaded Fabric, MS Clustering, MC/Serviceguard Clustering, LVM, Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Helpdesk medewerker

TTP

(Information Technology and Services industry)

January 1998 — January 1999 (1 year 1 month)

Assigned to the flowerauction Aalsmeer

Dion van de Coevering’s Education

Brocade Education

Course , CFP270 , 2009 — 2009
HP Education

Exam , HP0-841 Design & Implem. HP SAN Solutions , 2009 — 2009
HP Education

Exam , HP0-J18 Implementing HP StorageWorks EVA Solutions , 2009 — 2009
EMC Education

Exam , EMC Storage Foundations E20-001 , 2008 — 2008
EMC Education

Exam , Symmetrix Business Continuity Specialist E20-512 , 2008 — 2008
HP Education

Exam , HPUX CSA HP0-095 , 2008 — 2008
HP Education

Exam , HP0-823 Impl. MSA Storage Solutions , 2008 — 2008
EMC Nieuwegein

Course , EMC Storage Foundations , 2007 — 2007
Knowledge4You

Course , EMC Control Center , 2007 — 2007
Knowledge4You

Course , EMC SRDF/Timefinder , 2007 — 2007
Exin

Exam , ITIL Foundation , 2006 — 2006
Hanzehogeschool Groningen

na , Electronics , 2000 — 2001