Hyper-V Admin || Pleasanton, CA

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 v

Sphere/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