HyperV Administrator
Pleasanton, Texas, United States of America
Contract
1 day ago
Key skills
PowerShellAzure
About this role
Role: HyperV Administrator
Location: Pleasanton, CA
Microsoft Hyper?V Core Administration (Must?Have)
- Install & configure Hyper?V Role
- Create and manage Virtual Machines
- Generation 1 vs Generation 2 VMs
- VHD / VHDX creation and management
- Dynamic vs Static Memory
- Virtual CPU allocation & NUMA awareness
- Integration Services
Secondary skills VMWARE:
- VMWARE Administration
- Windows Patching process
- Vcenter Administration
- ESX Upgrade skills
- Firmware Upgrade
- Migration skills
Storage Management
- VHD/VHDX types:
- Fixed
- Dynamic
- Differencing
- Cluster Shared Volumes (CSV)
- NTFS vs ReFS
- Storage performance monitoring (IOPS, latency)
- iSCSI concepts (targets, initiators)
- SMB 3.0 storage knowledge
Create & manage Failover Clusters
Hyper?V High Availability
Hyper?V High Availability
- Live Migration & Storage Live Migration
- Cluster quorum types:
- Node Majority
- Node + File Share Witness
- Cluster validation
- Cluster?Aware Updating (CAU)
Backup & Recovery
Hyper?V aware backups (VSS based)
Hyper?V aware backups (VSS based)
- Production checkpoints vs Standard checkpoints
- VM restore (full / file?level)
- Understanding of popular tools:
- Veeam
- DPM
- Virtual Machine Configuration
Hyper-V Manager Proficiency
PowerShell Scripting
Networking in Hyper-V
Storage Management
Cluster & High Availability Setup
Performance Monitoring & Tuning
HyperV Expertise Detail
PowerShell Scripting
Networking in Hyper-V
Storage Management
Cluster & High Availability Setup
Performance Monitoring & Tuning
HyperV Expertise Detail
- Evaluate current Hyper-V environment, storage, network, and compute resources.
- - Set up live migration parameters, storage paths, and network configurations.
- - Perform complex migrations: Handle critical workloads, clustered environments, and cross-domain migrations.
- - Optimize performance: Tune VM settings and host configurations for minimal downtime and maximum efficiency.
- - Resolve high-level issues: Address failures in replication, compatibility problems, and performance bottlenecks.
- - Log analysis: Review event logs, migration reports, and system diagnostics to identify root causes.
- - Escalation point: Act as the final escalation tier for unresolved issues from Level 1 and Level 2 teams.
- - Maintain migration runbooks: Document procedures, fallback plans, and post-migration validation steps.
- - Ensure compliance: Validate that migration adheres to security, data protection, and regulatory standards.
- - Coordinate with stakeholders: Work with Client stake holders, project managers, application owners, and infrastructure teams.
- - Mentor junior staff: Guide Level 1 and Level 2 & Level 3 engineers on best practices and troubleshooting techniques. Strong ESXi VMware skilled resource handled critical migrations:
- - VMware vSphere/ESXi: Experience with VMware helps understand VM lifecycle, resource allocation, and migration concepts.
- - KVM or Xen: Familiarity with other hypervisors builds transferable skills in virtual machine management.
- - Migrate tools knowledge : Especially useful for Hyper-V to Azure or relevant OS transitions. Knowing how to assess, replicate, and migrate workloads is critical
VMWARE Expertise Detail
- Installing and configuring new ESXi in blade serves
- Upgrade vCenter Server Appliance from 6.5 to 6.7, 6.7 to 7 and 7 to 8
- Windows servers patching
- Upgrade ESXi from 6.5 to 6.7 and 6.7 to 7 and 7 to 8
- Configure and Manage HA, DRS, Resource Pools clusters
- Perform patching of vCenter and ESXi using Lifecycle manager
- Perform Physical server firmware update
- Daily Health checks and Performance of the VMware infrastructures
- Configuring Alarms for the Hosts and VMs
- Migrate Physical Server to Virtual Server using VMware Convertor (P2V Convention)
- Creation of new LUN from storage as per requirement
- Expand Datastore and increase VM hard disks
- Monitor and manage datastore health check
- Migrating VMs using vMotion and cold migration to ensure high availability of applications
- Installing and upgrading VMWare tools
- Creating and deleting snapshot based on requirement
- Weekly review of VM snapshot and vmware tools
- Perform Operational activities in VM like increasing VM's memory and vCPU as per requirement
- Restore VMs from snapshot/Veeam Backup based on requirement
- Deploy windows server (VM and Physical) as per standard Template and ISO image
- Migration of Windows Server 2016 to 2019 to 2022
- Monitor Physical servers alert for ESXi and Windows hosted blade servers
- Coordinate with vendor for hardware related issues
- Review VMWare vulnerability reports and take appropriate actions
- Basic troubleshooting in RHEL servers
- Follow end-to-end decommission process for unused Windows Server (Physical and VM
- Creating, managing, and optimizing VMs for performance and resource allocation in Hyper -V
- Navigating and utilizing Hyper-V Manager for VM lifecycle operations
- Automating tasks, managing VMs, and troubleshooting using scripts
- Configuring virtual switches, VLANs, and ensuring secure connectivity
- Configuring failover clustering and live migration for uptime and resilience
- Applying security baselines, patching, and role-based access controls