{SAP JOBS USA:116234} Senior VMware Admins with Windows and Networking ::Boston, MA

Hi

 

 

Direct Client

 

In person interviews will be conducted after phone screen.

 

Location: Boston, MA

Duration: 12+ months

Rate: Open

 

Responsibilities

 

The Contractor will be responsible for all Infrastructure Management:

• SAN Storage System
• Volume Provisioning
• Group/Pools/Members/Volumes Management through Dell Group Manager
• Group/Pool/Members/Volumes/IO/connections/throughput/utilization monitoring through SAN Headquarters                                               
• Hosts and Clusters
• The hosts and clusters will be managed using vSphere client against the VC Server
• Hosts are routinely examined and monitored to ensure availability and performance
• Guests
• Windows Guest Provisioning
• Linux Guest Provisioning
• Window Updates, Patch Updates
  Perform gap analysis on existing windows update and patch update setups
• Ensure Window Updates, Patch Updates to be performed regularly and/or according to schedule

 

The Contractor will be responsible for Backup and Disaster Recovery management:

• Perform gap analysis on existing backup systems and job setups
• Optimize job scheduling based on the analysis
• Optimize space consumption based on the analysis
• Perform scheduled restores to ensure backup’s usability

Should there be any software/data corruption and loss due to any unforeseeable natural disaster, hardware failures/software failure, data center environment failures and any other failures.

 

The Contractor will be responsible for VDC Infrastructure Resource Utilization Optimization and Performance Service. The Contractor will prioritize work in this category as soon as possible.

• Storage System Optimization and Performance Tuning
• Volume provisioning status analysis
• Volume re-provisioning and migration
• Volume defragmentation

 

The Contractor will be responsible for ESXi Hosts Optimization and Performance Tuning

• Use existing or new Performance Monitoring Application for VMware ESX Server
• Apply Performance Tuning Best Practices for ESX Server 4
• Disable unnecessary services and excessive logging
• Linux Kernel Level tuning

 

The Contractor will be responsible for managing the SAN Private Network

• Review current IP assignment and network nodes
• Review switch running configuration and VLANs
• Obtain performance counters

 

The Contractor will also work with any security assessment groups including those done for PCI compliance.

 

The Contractor will be responsible for VDC Windows 2000/2003/2008 Enterprise Servers and SQL Server 2000/2005/2008 R2/2012 Optimization and Performance Service

 

• Windows Server Guest vCPU/Memory/Disk space provisioning
• SQLServer Guest vCPU/Memory/Disk space provisioning
• Windows Server 2000/2003/2008 Enterprise Servers performance tuning
• With Microsoft “Performance Tuning Guidelines for Windows Servers”
• SQLServer performance tuning with Microsoft “Troubleshooting Performance Problems in SQL Server 2005, 2008R2 and 2012.
• Windows Server and SQLServer performance measuring with Contractor’s VDCPerf with different VM configurations.
• Apply Windows Server and SQL Server VDC specific performance tuning experiences

 

 

Thanks,

 

Dinesh Kumar
Software People Inc.
www.softwarepeople.us

dinesh.kumar@softwarepeople.us,

Ph:  631- 739-8499

Fax: 631-574-3122

Certifications: SBA 8a/SDB, NJ MWBE, NY MWBE, VA SWaM, DE OMWBE, MA MWBE