Freelance remote job VMware vSAN SME

Our client is seeking an experienced VMware vSAN SME with strong technical design and planning experience.
This role will require someone with end to end experience of implementation, design writing and customer facing.
The high level designs are in flight but the person will have to be able to turn them into more specific project design.

This is a 2 months contract initially with strong possibility of extension.

Please note that the role is inside IR35 and working week is 37.5 hours.

This role is remotely with very occasional visit to client site in London.

Required skills and experience:
- VMware vSAN - Technical Design and Planning
- High and low level design experience.
- Customer facing experience.
- VCP certified - ideally version 8 but 7 will be fine too.
- Any knowledge of Dell PowerEdge and Dell networking would be a plus.

Job description:

- VSAN design

- Clean Room vSAN server build

- Clean Room vSAN server test execution

- Clean Room Virtual Machine Migration from VxRail to VSAN

- Clean Room vSAN Ready Node configuration: Dell will create a VVF design for the vault o Deploy VMware vSAN in alignment to the agreed VMware Foundation Design

- Clean Room vSAN Ready Node Testing:

Conduct the testing of the test plan to validate the build of the VMware Foundation for the RTL Clean Room o Document the implementation in theConfiguration Workbooks.

- Virtual Machine Migration:
- Perform the migration of the VxRail hosted Virtual Machines to the vSAN VMware Foundation platform Confirm connectivity of the VMs and their provided services
Note: The VMs will not be altered during the migration. The VVF design should match existing network connections for the VMs.


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