Hyper V Consultant - London

London  ‐ Onsite
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Description

Currently require a Hyper V Consultant to assist my client with a contracting opportunity, based on site at their offices in London, due to commence beginning of March 2020 and continue until the end of May, with view for possible further extension.

Please note, this role will fall inside of IR35.

Please see key information as per the below, provided by my client for your consideration:

Required Skills:

Standard TC skill set preferable with experience of the following:

  • Microsoft Server upgrades
  • SCVMM
  • Windows server
  • SQL Standard
  • Hyper-V on Windows Server
  • Public sector Customers
  • Working Managing off-shore delivery team (APEX India)
  • Working with HPE AMS (they currently run the infrastructure for the Customer)
  • Ability to handle difficult customers

Overview:

Standard TC role including:

  • Assist PM in planning meetings
  • Assist PM in producing the initial Project Management Plan including
  • Understand the current guest loading for each Hyper-V Node in each cluster
  • Define and propose the sequence the clusters will be upgraded
  • Define and propose the sequence that nodes will be evicted for upgrading

Hardware and Guest OS only Compatibility check to enable upgrade:

  • HPE hardware
  • SCVMM 2016 requirements
  • Windows server 2016 OS requirements
  • SQL 2016 Standard requirements
  • System requirements for Hyper-V on Windows Server 2016 and 2019
  • General on-site support to assist the off-shore migration team Note: this will include some weekend and out-of-hours work

Project Description:

Microsoft Windows Hyper-V Upgrade Project
KCL currently operates a Windows Hyper-V Server 2012 R2 farm consisting of up to a maximum of 60 x physical Hyper-V hosts configured as up to 16 x clusters, each consisting of between 2 and 9 nodes.

These clusters currently run a total of 750 Hyper-V virtual machines. KCL has requested that HPE provides services to upgrade the existing Hyper-V farm to Windows Hyper-V Server 2016, resulting in:

  • Upgraded Windows Hyper-V Server hosts running on SCVMM 2016;
  • A virtual configuration upgrade for a maximum of 750 virtual machines.
  • Project delivery will be provided by offshore resources in the main together with local onsite support (PM and TC)

Synergize Consulting is an equal opportunities organisation.

Start date
ASAP
Duration
May 2020
From
Synergize Consulting Ltd
Published at
28.02.2020
Project ID:
1901259
Contract type
Freelance
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