Job Title: VMware SME
Location: Raritan NJ 08869
Mode : Contract (6+ Months) – Onsite
Rate - $50/hr C2C
Primary Responsibilities:
Good Understanding on 5.0 \ 5.5 \ 6.0 \ 6.5 \ 6.7 Virtual Centers, technical understanding on the troubleshooting of different flavors of Virtual Centers, VMware Appliances (vCSA\PSC, NSX Appliances etc.)
• VMware Infrastructure- ESXi host and Virtual Center performance related issues, Performance Monitoring, Datastore related issues (Latency or IOPs), ESXTOP
• How to extract support logs from ESXi Host and vCenter for the vendor analysis.
• Good hands-on experience with commands used on ESXi Host and vCenter Appliances
• Patch Management of ESX/i Hosts using VMware Update Manager (VUM).
• Good Understanding working with vMotion and Storage vMotion concepts (Online and Offline) (Within Clusters \ within Virtual Centers)
• Issue Management and troubleshooting on VMware ESX/i server, Virtual machines through Virtual Center Server or VI client.
• Experience in configuring and maintaining VMware HA, DRS clusters and vMotion.
• Strong understanding of VMware Networking concepts like configuration of DB Switches, port groups, NIC Teaming and VLANs.
• Installation and configuration of VMWare ESX/i Host Server.
• Conceptual understanding of Virtual Center Installation \ Upgrade
• ESXi Hosts Upgrade from 5.X to 6.X or Patch Update for ESXi Hosts
• P2V\V2V Migrations (IP Change)
• Managing Hardware related issue – Vendor coordination
• Handling various Hardware like HP ProLiant DL580\380 G7\G8\G9\G10, BL 685c G7\G8\G9 & IBM XSeries.
• Technical understanding on Enclosures (c7000 for HPE and Dell enclosures), Physical Networking Understanding.
• Proficiency in preparing Reports to track various data trends related to the process; specially to monitor productivity goals. (vROPs)
• Excellent understanding of VMWare concepts, resource management framework like creation of resource pools, adding VMs into resource pools and prioritizing resource allocations.