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Thursday, August 31, 2006

Regular day in a Storage Professionals Office Life

What are the daily tasks of a SAN professional - What are the routine jobs he is responsible for - What happens in a SAN industry engineers' day in office.

Answer :
As with any software professional's life the day starts with a brief review of going through the Mails - Since we are dependent on many other teams who are located in different time zones & geos we usually find nearly 50 to 150 new emails in our inbox when we start our day.

We go through all these mails - some of them are very much relevant to our day's tasks like "Storage Product enhancement or development efforts " , " New fixes which will impact our earlier planning" , Lots of organisation wide mails saying who will be our new director or finance manager , Lots of Network or system or UPS outage mails , Lots of mails about the CR's (Change request or Bugs) which we or one our teammate has logged and what are the latest updates regarding these bugs. The list of mails is endless so we better can have a separate posting for that.

Then based on our mails and our seniors(manager or lead) inputs and also based on our earlier days work we make our small "To Do " list for the day which is some how planned with keeping in mind the "Dreaded Project Deadlines" ( End dates for us to finish the assigned tasks).

An example of our To Do list can be something like :
1. Go through the docs about the new features coming in the next release or version of the storage area network product.
2. Setup a test environment to reproduce the CR's or bugs logged by customers. ( the end users of our storage products)
3. Verify the CR's fixed by dev team ( we logged 10 bugs last week they fixed it 2 days back & delivered the new fix in our latest build of the product yesterday so we need to verify it today ) - We need to verify the fix & say that the fix has resolved the issue also called the product defect or NOT. If the bug is fixed (resolved) we close the CR saying the FIX is FINE(works) else we say the FIX has failed ( the bug still exists & the development team has not fixed it properly)
4. Write new test scripts to check the regressions filed by customers - We also do test development ( We develop and script or code the test cases or test scenarios - this involves lot of learning , implementation & improving )
5. Setup new 2 Terrabyte disk array & test how well is it working with latest Vista or latest Suse or RHEL linux.

the list grows along the day & some of them move for next day's ToDo list.

Then we start the actuall work to accomplish what we have put in our ToDO list.
We may be working with new release of our SAN product and need to carry out sanity checks on the builds ,creating setups with different hardware and configurations and Operating Systems. We try to replicate customer network setups as far as possible but a customer like Citibank can have a huge SAN network costing billions of dollars what we can afford to replicate is no where comparable to that. We can say we setup a scaled down SAN network to work in our lab for all our work.

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We will explain in detail each of the above mentioned tasks in our next week's blogpost. Please post comments or feedback . Ask as many questions about SAN or storage jobs.Find more information on Storage Area Network tutorials or SAN tutorials coming in this blog.

If You Like to See more such articles Plz add comments in this blog - also send a mail to roger.smithson@gmail.com - You will get a personalised training and A FREE - Jobs within a week - Secret blog access.

Can I get a job in SAN - I am new to Storage technology

SANs are primarily used in large scale, high performance enterprise storage operations. It would be unusual to find a Fibre Channel disk drive connected directly to a SAN. Instead, SANs are normally networks of large disk arrays. SAN equipment is relatively expensive, therefore, Fibre Channel host bus adapters are rare in desktop computers. The iSCSI SAN technology is expected to eventually produce cheap SANs, but it is unlikely that this technology will be used outside the enterprise data center environment. Desktop clients are expected to continue using NAS protocols such as CIFS and NFS. The exception to this may be remote replication sites. Remote replication enables the data center environment to exist in multiple locations for disaster recovery and business continuity purposes. The performance issues inherent in iSCSI are likely to limit its deployment to lower-tier applications, with Fibre Channel remaining incumbent for high performance systems.

VIDEO SECTION :
See Jonathan Schwartz,CEO - Sun Microsystems
You Can Win a SunFire X4500 Storage Server see this video

The 5 TOP questions any body wants to ask a SAN pro.

Storage jobs or SAN jobs have lot of tasks around setting and configuring SAN network and making them work smoothly with the latest OS or customer requirements.

Storage Resume or System Administration Resume

1.What is SAN ?

2.What are the JOB opportunities in SAN ?
3.Which are the companies in SAN and How much they pay ?
4.How Can I Enter SAN industry ?
5.What are the tasks of a SAN professional- How will be a day in his office life?
6.How will be a SAN job interview ?
7.SAN or Storage engineer position - Interview questions : Series1
8.Real SAN Interview questions with answers: Series2
9.Answers for SAN interview questions Series1.
10.Tell me about some Job Openings in SAN or Storage industry?
11.Do You Want to see an Enterprise SAN infrastructure - Thanks to Dell - Watch this informative Video - See a High End Lab

How can I get entry into a Storage Area Networking Job ?

SAN Expert answers for this top storage jobs question :

See below the kind of opportunities available for you in SAN industry

SAN Design and Deployment Engineer.
SAN Administrator.
SAN Applications developer.
SAN device driver and Firmware development engineer for different components such host controllers,Arrays,Switches.
SAN Support Engineer.
Backup and Recovery Administrators.
SAN testing engineers.

Find more information on Storage Area Network tutorials or SAN tutorials coming in this blog.

SAN Design & Deployment Engr : If you aspire to be a software architect & if you have the right skill for the same - this is a role you can fit into. Well this is something which needs atleast 1-2 years of SAN experience interms of actual hands on exposure in deployment of SAN infrastructure. ( We will include some Real Life implementation details & lots of graphics to help you understand this better )

SAN Administrator : Are you good in networking and system administration then there are loads of SAN administrator openings ( We will post the job requirements for each of these requirements in our future postings)

SAN Applications developer : If u r good in development of C/Unix or say any programming then you can very well fit into this role - U just need to have a good understanding of SAN fundamentals & very good programming skillset.

SAN device driver and Firmware development engineer for different components such host controllers,Arrays,Switches : All those embedded systems experts here is a golden opportunity for you - If you have good experience in device driver and Firmware development and though you are new to SAN you still are very much in demand . Yes you can get very good salary for your high skills.

SAN Support Engineer : Freshers here is a silver line for you - This is the most easiest way for a job hunter to get into SAN jobs. Yes it is not a high demanding job initially and it is not too tough and it is actually going to help you build your career. A support engineer in SAN is expected to have a fair SAN exposure ( YOu will get training once you join so dont worry :) . He is responsible to handle customer service requests & will be on call to resolve those technical issues and will build his expertise along the way - You get promotions and big pay as well .
No - This is not a call center kind of job. But this is far better interms of helping you learn as well as Earn in a technical environment.

Backup and Recovery Administrators : take any software industry they need a "Backup and Recovery Administrator" actually they need many. So this is also very much suited for freshers & new comers. We will go into details about this job requirement & how can a newcomer start his preparation to get a job in some similar roles. SAN Jobs are great for anyone to build their tech as well as domain knowledge.

SAN testing engineers: Testing Engineers in SAN this job is sooo much in demand that We are planning to have a detailed blogpost entirely on this subject. For time being - yes this is also very much suited for freshers/newcomers and compared to all other jobs this is an easy to get , easy to win the interviews kind of jobs. So u can get started in this segment if you are too lazy to work hard for other roles described above.

We will have more postings coming twice daily so keep reading & refer more people to read this SAN jobs blog.

If You Like to See more such articles Plz add comments in this blog - also send a mail to roger.smithson@gmail.com - You will get a personalised training and A FREE - Jobs within a week - Secret blog access.

VIDEO SECTION :
Thanks to Apex Networks here is a video on RAID5 -vs- RAID 6

Storage jobs Questions a newcomer asks a SAN industry expert

Storage Resume or System Administration Resume

1.What is SAN ?

2.What are the JOB opportunities in SAN ?
3.Which are the companies in SAN and How much they pay ?
4.How Can I Enter SAN industry ?
5.What are the tasks of a SAN professional- How will be a day in his office life?
6.How will be a SAN job interview ?
7.SAN or Storage engineer position - Interview questions : Series1
8.Real SAN Interview questions with answers: Series2
9.Answers for SAN interview questions Series1.
10.Tell me about some Job Openings in SAN or Storage industry?
11.Do You Want to see an Enterprise SAN infrastructure - Thanks to Dell - Watch this informative Video - See a High End Lab

Wednesday, August 30, 2006

Storage jobs Salary structure - How much they pay

How much Salary can I get in a SAN industry job - this is the most frequently asked question - So here is the answer from our SAN industry professional .

Definitley the salary for storage professionals is very good across the domain. The salary for a fresher in SAN can start from 15K per month to 45K or 60,000 per month.
Here are some of the companies in SAN domain and their salary range may be posted here in future.

1) IBM
2) Brocade
3) HP
4) EMC2
5) DELL
6) CISCO
7) SUN Microsystems
8) Computer Associates
9) LSI
10) Adaptec
11) NetApp
12) SAN disc
13) Emulex
14) Symphony
15) TataElxsi.
16) Wipro.

Read here Salary of Software Companies

there are many many more which we will post more about.

If You Like to See more such articles Plz add comments in this blog - also send a mail to roger.smithson@gmail.com - You will get a personalised training and A FREE - Jobs within a week - Secret blog access.

Find more information on Storage Area Network tutorials or SAN tutorials coming in this blog.

VIDEO SECTION:
Thanks to Sun Microsystems - Funny Video on Storage Needs -More is Never Enough


SunMicrosystems - Store Edge 3320

The 5 TOP questions any body wants to ask a SAN pro.

Storage Resume or System Administration Resume

1.What is SAN ?

2.What are the JOB opportunities in SAN ?
3.Which are the companies in SAN and How much they pay ?
4.How Can I Enter SAN industry ?
5.What are the tasks of a SAN professional- How will be a day in his office life?
6.How will be a SAN job interview ?
7.SAN or Storage engineer position - Interview questions : Series1
8.Real SAN Interview questions with answers: Series2
9.Answers for SAN interview questions Series1.
10.Tell me about some Job Openings in SAN or Storage industry?
11.Do You Want to see an Enterprise SAN infrastructure - Thanks to Dell - Watch this informative Video - See a High End Lab


Google TechTalk VIDEO : Becoming a Software Testing Expert



Open Source event VIDEO

Storage job interview questions - for a starter

Each of the below given links contains VIDEO SECTION with very COOL & useful videos.

1.What is SAN ?

2.What are the JOB opportunities in SAN ?
3.Which are the companies in SAN and How much they pay ?
4.How Can I Enter SAN industry ?
5.What are the tasks of a SAN professional- How will be a day in his office life?
6.How will be a SAN job interview ?
7.SAN or Storage engineer position - Interview questions : Series1
8.Real SAN Interview questions with answers: Series2
9.Answers for SAN interview questions Series1.
10.Tell me about some Job Openings in SAN or Storage industry?
11.Do You Want to see an Enterprise SAN infrastructure - Thanks to Dell - Watch this informative Video - See a High End Lab



Our Storage Professional is back with answers for some of the questions posted yesterday. Do send more questions so we can get the inside industry answers.

1. From the point of view of a Job seeker what are the opportunities in SAN industry ?

SAN or Storage Area Networking industry is vast & has huge demand for professionals - the industry is exploding due to the high demand of Storage needs for growing data centers, growing news & broadcasting domains you name it every business needs a huge data storage. So imagine Google its gmail gives 2 GB for each mail subscriber so if it gives gmail access to say 1000 new comers every month their data storage need increases at 2 Terra byte or 2000 GB per month - thats a very very minute example of what gmail is actually growing into. Take any news channel they digitise all their content and every day they need more than 100 Terrabyte to store all their video content. So now you can very well understand how the storage needs are exponentially growing.
When storage needs are growing then some of the core storage jobs are growing since all these industries need human resources or technical expertise to handle the operations. I will say there are atleast a 1000 SAN professionals are required every month across all companies and thats increasing in a big way. Its the right time for people on job lookout to get themselves into this high paying & challening industry.

Answer for next question is in the next post.Find more information on Storage Area Network tutorials or SAN tutorials coming in this blog.

If You Like to See more such articles Plz add comments in this blog - also send a mail to roger.smithson@gmail.com - You will get a personalised training and A FREE - Jobs within a week - Secret blog access.

VIDEO SECTION: Enterprise Storage Detailed Presentation.


Another Video from CEO Zmanda Inc who explains an open source storage management software .


2. How are the salary structure or Package range in Storage Jobs?


I am recieving quite few resumes from people interested in Storage Area Networking or SAN jobs. One of my blog visitor asked me to help him improve his resume & you can see my reply below. I took his old resume which was not in great shape & improved it.

If u read this long blog u can find below attached snaps of his previous resume & my improved resume . Since I had very little info I have not done a great job of improving but I just wanted you guys to know that I AM WILLING TO HELP YOU IN YOUR CAREER - Send me your email NOW :).

If you want me to help you just send me a mail if posible with ur resume & write me in detail how can I help you .
Regarding the attached Resume Private/Confidential info from the resume are obscured or changed in respect to the privacy of my blog visitor's identity - All personal Info are completely changed .

Below is my email as Reply to my Blog visitor :

Hi Dear Blog Visitor,

Dont get amazed at many mails from me You have a Big Surprise at the end this long mail - Your PowerPacked New Resume is ready.
I was just going thru your CV which u emailed me and it needs a complete Revamp :) I am willing to do it but I want a small favour.

Plz write anything about your work any troubleshooting procedure or as you said how was your experience of managing & maintaining Sun,Storagetek,IBM SAN products . If you are worrying about Company confidentiality we can change name of the company
to something & change all personal details. But it will be really nice if you can write something even on general Storage topics from your experience which you allow me to publish on this blog .

As you have been into many roles of not just Administering, Planning and Implementing various Enterprise Storage Technology Products & Business Solutions but also developing new teams & mentoring many new guys I am damn sure you will have lot to share .

We can overcome any issues if you can discuss them with me .
I truly encourage you to share your knowledge with others - You will be building a fan following :) for your self .

WHAT I EXPECT : Just send me plain emails of your own articles (no copy-paste from web plz) & let me know what I can publish on my blog I will do the rest of the work for you.

AS A REWARD - PLZ SEE I HAVE DONE QUITE SOME IMPROVEMENT TO YOUR RESUME - Let me know your feedback & I am willing to improve it more :)

I am attaching only Printscreen snapshots of your Latest Improved Resume which are reduced in photo quality - But when you see the complete Resume with full quality content you will Really go crazy at How Best this Resume can get you High Paying Job and you will have atleast 3 to 5 offer letters to choose from within next 30 days if you keep in touch with me.

I will send you the doc format of your resume as soon as you write atleast 1 technical article for me from your real experience (Please no copy-paste from web plz). I have put 4 Hours to improve your resume if you want to pay back plz write more to me & I will do much more for you. Hope you understand that I'm not trying to make any sort of profit but asking you to share your knowldge openly on this blog so I can help thousands of jobless people out there.

I could do very little with available info from your previous resume but if u can send me more detailed tech info on what exactly u do/know & which tasks u handled I can add more FIRE & PUNCH to your resume. DEFINITELY ALL YOUR PERSONAL INFO WILL BE COMPLETELY PROTECTED .

See attached Images & Be ready to be surprised.

ORIGINAL RESUME



NEW IMPROVED RESUME




Rgds
-Roger

just send an email to roger.smithson@gmail.com -recieve sample SAN resume, Videos, Tutorial PDFs, Downloadable MP3, REAL SAN JOB INTERVIEW QUESTIONS & their Answers.

Looking for a Software Job - Find high paying Storage Job

Hi Job Hunter ,

A Fast & Easy Solution to help you get a high salary job in storage area network field. Yes this is a Software job & you can make more than 20 K or sometimes more than 40 K per month . So how to get that software job - We are going to have a daily dose of very effective information - A Real Software professional working in SAN industry is going to reveal all secrets to help you get into SAN job.

So starting with this week - You will find an Audio interview ( downloadble mp3) of a real interview with SAN pro who will answer some of the questions you wanted to ask . His answers will have loads of content with tips . Some of the questions that are asked are given below :

1. From the point of view of a Job seeker - what are the opportunities in SAN industry ?
2. How are the salary structure or Package range in Storage Jobs ?
3. How can some one get entry into a Storage area networking Job ?
4. What are the each job segments which u answered in above questions look like ?
( U might answer SAN Network admin , SAN device drivers programmer , SAN support engineer , Storage testing engineer for 3rd question - can u define each of these roles so any new person to SAN segment can understand what is expected in storage job requirements )
5. How is a regular day go with u as a SAN engineer - Can u describe how will be your routine at job - so the visitors can understand - What happens in a SAN industry engineers' daily tasks.

Guys if u want to ask any more questions do post in the comment & we will definitely get them all answered.Find more information on Storage Area Network tutorials or SAN tutorials coming in this blog.

Good news is the audio interview will also be posted here in text so the visitors can read the whole conversation as well as download the mp3 audio file for later listening.

Keep visiting this blog daily - Because we will have lots of updates daily.

If You Like to See more such articles Plz add comments in this blog - also send a mail to roger.smithson@gmail.com - You will get a personalised training and A FREE - Jobs within a week - Secret blog access.

Storage or SAN Jobs blog - Helps you get a Good Software Job

This blog with more than 50 pages written by a Real working Software Professional can boost your Career.
let me know whats your present career plan and let me know how can i help you.

I will send u more details on SAN to help you build your Career but if u can go thru all the pages of my blog u can find almost all the info u need, for some of them are like

Storage Resume or System Administration Resume

Storage Resume or System Administration Resume

1.What is SAN ?

2.What are the JOB opportunities in SAN ?
3.Which are the companies in SAN and How much they pay ?
4.How Can I Enter SAN industry ?
5.What are the tasks of a SAN professional- How will be a day in his office life?
6.How will be a SAN job interview ?
7.SAN or Storage engineer position - Interview questions : Series1
8.Real SAN Interview questions with answers: Series2
9.Answers for SAN interview questions Series1.
10.Tell me about some Job Openings in SAN or Storage industry?
11.Do You Want to see an Enterprise SAN infrastructure - Thanks to Dell - Watch this informative Video - See a High End Lab


Google TechTalk VIDEO : Becoming a Software Testing Expert



Open Source event VIDEO



You have not less than 20-30 SAN interview questions on my blog in below link
http://storage-jobs.blogspot.com/2006/09/storage-interview-questions-answers-for.html
http://storage-jobs.blogspot.com/2006/09/storage-jobs-blog-what-we-aim-for-how_12.html
http://storage-jobs.blogspot.com/2006/08/how-can-i-get-entry-into-storage-area.html

Please let me know your feedback about that blog

Thanks for your interest, please spread the word about our blog & I will surely help you in all the ways I can.

Keep writing & tell me more about yourself
Regards
-Roger

Friday, August 25, 2006

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