Contractor
• Responsible for over 5000 ESX hosts and 40,000 virtual machines• Installation and configuration of ESX 5• Upgrade hosts from ESX 3 to ESX5 u3 while also applying additional upgrade patches• Troubleshoot and correct issues via iLO with hosts during upgrades• Provide resource adjustments to virtual machines to include RAM, CPU, and disk adds• Troubleshoot virtual machine issues pertaining to the host• Update Platespin servers• Review and monitor virtual machines during bank-wide multicast events• Working knowledge of DRs, HA, vMotion• Responsible for enterprise change management controls and ticketing solutions (Maximo/Nexus)• Working knowledge of Linux and Familiar with management class, Linux based, cloud enterprise management utilities (XCAT)