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Justin
VI Admin

Justin is a virtual infrastructure administrator with over 20 years experience deploying vCenter Server Appliances and managing SDDCs. His responsibilities primarily include virtual environment set ups and lifecycle management of ESXi hosts. He also supports the provisioning of virtual machines to run application workloads, configures and maintains vSAN clusters, and manages licenses in vSphere so that all licensable assets have valid license keys and are EUEA compliant.

Goals

Virtual Infrastructure​ and Resource Management

  • Deploy and configure vCenter Server Appliances

  • Avoid vCenter Server downtime, data loss, and security exploits

  • Meet company security standards and governmental regulatory compliance requirements

  • Provide a private cloud through on-prem resources to support application development teams while controlling costs

 

Application Workloads

  • Support development teams by providing them with compute and storage resources through basic virtual networking capabilities 

  • Automate the provisioning of virtual machine workloads  to support developer demands while ensuring government compliance

 

Operations

  • Resolve internal customer incidents and requests

  • Prevent issues by having consistent configuration and proactively responding to health alarms

  • Remediate issues before performance, availability, and/or capacity issues have an impact on product development

  • Automate operations to manage at scale

Tasks

 Virtual Infrastructure

  • Install, configure, upgrade, and patch ESXi servers

  • Automate ESXi lifecycle management using Auto Deploy to assign host profiles

  • Define compute, storage, security policies

  • Purchases and assigns licenses to vCenter Servers, ESXi hosts, and vSAN Clusters

 

Resource Management

  • Monitor and offer capacity and budget for on-prem compute and storage resources

  • Configure and monitor High Availability and vMotion capabilities per cluster resources

 

Application Workloads

  • Provision virtual machines to run workloads

  • Create infrastructure through clusters, vSAN datastores, and standard switch networking

  • Create VM templates and images

  • Migrate application workloads to datacenters that can handle the load


Operations

  • Create custom dashboards and metrics

  • Monitor and report on compliance from security and licensing requirements

  • Manage infrastructure configurations

  • Manage user permissions and group policies

  • Manage VM backups and recovery points

  • Monitor workload quality of service

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