Job Title: HyperV Administrator
Location: Pleasanton, CA
Duration: 6-12 Months
Job Description:
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
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)
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
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
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