Role: Virtualization SME
Role Description: The Virtualization SMEwould need to have at least 8+ years of experience.
Requirements/Must Haves:
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8+ years of experience as a VirtualizationSME for a large, geographically dispersed enterprise customers (minimum 500servers).
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Experience in the installation andconfiguration of components in a large virtualization environment centered onbest practices, to include VMware and Microsoft components preferably.
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Secondary virtualization technologyimplementation knowledge of RedHat KVM will be also be preferred.
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Experience in VM template design andleveraging respective virtualization Manager Component to right size, virtualservers.
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Experience with serverconsolidation/virtualization for HW reduction and site migrations via V2V andP2V within same or across virtualization OEM clusters
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Experience in upgrading virtualizationhosts and VM guests using respective update manager or SCCM etc.
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Knowledge and experience in installing andconfiguring Migration tools like Platespin, double take, Vconverter and usingit for migrations
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Knowledge of Active Directory and DNS ismust
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Knowledge of license policies of eachcomponent of respective OEM is must
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Good understanding of Storage and backuptechnologies and their integration with Virtualization components
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Should have sound understanding ofEast-west network traffic routing and North-south traffic routing
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Knowledge of monitoring, patch management,and backup tools
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Experience in carrying out functional andfailover tests from Virtualization point
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Experience of validating the hardware andsoftware bill of material
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Preferred to have experienceinstalling/provisioning all OEM hardware supported for VMware, Hyper-V andRedHat KVM.
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Good Communication Skills
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Certification on Either Virtualizationtechnology is preferred