VMware Consultant 04/2023 Steph Simpson Consulting, North Bay, Ontario - Provide technical leadership and guidance in the installation, configuration and implementation of VMware products and technologies, such as VMware Horizon, vCenter and vSphere products.
- Architecting and designing enterprise level IT architectural solutions utilizing VMware's core virtualization offerings (vSphere/vCenter, Horizon Suite)
- Plan, design, build & deliver core infrastructure solutions.
- Solving client problems for the betterment of the client and the advancements of VMware
- Contributing to the progression of the Professional Services team by advising best practices and delivering the best possible solutions
- Assisting with VMware Assessment, Analysis and Recommendations for all components within client VM environments
- VMware Migration planning and implementations
- Provide VMware Horizon sustainment opportunities:
- Services to migrate end users from old to new environment.
- Configure and Support VDI Pools, Published Applications, RDSH Farms
- Troubleshoot issues.
- Problem investigations.
- Root Cause Analysis.
- Optimizing the VDI environments.
- Document issues and solution articles.
- Maintain inventory and current knowledge of relevant software applications.
- Participate and contribute to monthly platform maintenance.
- Look for opportunities and identify improvement areas.
- Patch Management (Gold Image, AppStack).
- Support customers with additional VDI Components (DEM, App Volumes) where necessary.
- Performance Management and Monitoring.
- Log Management.
- Knowledge Transfer to designated personnel.
- Documentation currency (quarterly).
Attendance of technical sessions and project meetings as required (remote). VMware Consultant 08/2021 - Provide technical leadership and guidance in the installation, configuration and implementation of VMware products and technologies, such as VMware Horizon, vCenter and vSphere products.
- Architecting and designing enterprise level IT architectural solutions utilizing VMware's core virtualization offerings (vSphere/vCenter, Horizon Suite)
- Plan, design, build & deliver core infrastructure solutions.
- Solving client problems for the betterment of the client and the advancements of VMware
- Contributing to the progression of the Professional Services team by advising best practices and delivering the best possible solutions
- Assisting with VMware Assessment, Analysis and Recommendations for all components within client VM environments
- VMware Migration planning and implementations
Systems Administrator 06/2009 to 08/2021 - Responsible for virtualization products including Virtual Infrastructure and vSphere products such as VMware ESX, VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi) from 4.1 to 7.x
- Support vCenter and plugins; Converter and Update Manager products
- Deployment and installation of vCenter and ESXi and focus on virtualizing a wide variety of operating systems including Windows platforms.
- Resolve technical issues relating to vSphere and ESXi, networking, storage, system operations through log diagnosis, lab reproduction, troubleshooting, and root cause analysis.
- Assess and troubleshoot the integration of vSphere products such as vCenter server with associated database and the connectivity between management agents across the various virtual machines/hosts.
- Provided leveraging virtualization features such as High Availability, DRS, EVC and cluster-based features that provide for enhanced resource utilization and minimize resource contention
- Performed P2V, V2V P2P migration activities in VMWare.
- Installed, Configured and administration of VMWare Horizon environment.
- Microsoft Windows & Active Directory Services
- Participated in complete system builds, upgrades, migrations, and patch management.
- Maintain and manage the OU, user accounts and groups.
- Created and configured sites and subnets using AD Sites & Services
- Configured replication topology with connection objects and site links.
- Participated in complete system builds, upgrades, migrations, and patch management.
- Installed and managed AD Domain Services, Domain Controllers (DCs), DNS and DHCP
- Created and managed domain, sites, OUs, users, groups and assigned permissions.
- Installed, configured, and managed Terminal Services
- Installed, Manage and support Windows 2003/2008/2008R2/2012/2016 Servers and Active Directory
- Monitored Server health with monitoring tools.
- Implemented DFS (Distributed File System) and Group Policies for applications.
- Configured and monitored ADDS Replication
- Deployed Windows 7 & 10 for multiple desktops, Laptops and configured remote devices.
- Implemented and Monitor the Exchange Server 2016 Environment (DAG,CAS,Hub Transport)
- Performed troubleshooting with ICMP and SNMP, telnet and TS tools
- Managed backup Record and Recovery tasks using Dell Rapid Recovery
- Deploy, Configuring ADS, Server Roles, IIS, RDP, Terminal Services
- Installed, configured, and approved updates for various client machines by using WSUS in a network environment.
- Worked with Dell desktops and servers and storage.
- Configure and monitor usage on the Storage Area Network (EMC Unity and Dell Compellent 8200)
- Create New Volumes and RAID groups.
- Day to day File server storage and archive monitoring.
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