Virtual Machine & Server Management (VMware ESXi & Windows Hyper-V)
Mission-critical hypervisor cluster engineering, all-flash storage networking, zero-downtime workload migrations, and hardened server virtualization built for continuous uptime.
Dual-node failover redundancy
125,000 IOPS @ 0.4ms latency
Active/Active LACP trunking
Live migration with zero drop
Architectural Capabilities & Deliverables
Specific technical interventions, deployment baselines, and governance deliverables included in this practice.
VMware vSphere ESXi 7.0/8.0 and Windows Server 2022/2025 Hyper-V Failover Clusters, automated VM restart upon physical host failure, and proactive DRS load distribution.
High-performance iSCSI, NFS, and NVMe-oF multipath IO (MPIO) architectures, dual-controller storage fabrics, thin provisioning, and real-time disk health telemetry.
Live physical-to-virtual (P2V) server conversions, cross-hypervisor migrations (Broadcom/VMware to Windows Hyper-V or Proxmox VE), and zero-downtime data migrations.
Veeam Backup & Replication and Nakivo appliances paired with Linux hardened repositories utilizing immutable write-once-read-many (WORM) retention flags.
Precise virtual CPU to physical core ratio allocation, NUMA node boundary alignment, memory ballooning prevention, and high-performance SQL/ERP tuning.
Hardened Dell iDRAC9, HPE iLO 5/6, and Cisco IMC configuration isolated on air-gapped management VLANs with cryptographic certificate authentication.
Supported Technology Stacks & Protocols
Vendor-neutral integration across enterprise hardware, hypervisors, and cloud environments.
- • VMware vSphere ESXi 7.0/8.0
- • VMware vCenter Server
- • Windows Server 2022/2025 Hyper-V
- • Proxmox VE Cluster
- • Dell PowerVault ME5
- • Synology Enterprise RackStation
- • TrueNAS Enterprise
- • iSCSI / NFS v4.1 / NVMe-oF
- • Veeam Backup & Replication
- • Linux Hardened Repository
- • Nakivo Backup & Replication
- • Storage Replica
- • Dell PowerEdge R660/R760
- • HPE ProLiant Gen10/Gen11
- • Intel Xeon Scalable
- • AMD EPYC Genoa/Bergamo
Manufacturing Plant: Aging Physical Servers to High-Availability Cluster
A Central Florida manufacturing facility relied on five aging, standalone physical servers with single power supplies and outdated mechanical disk arrays that threatened production halts.
Steve Cormier engineered a dual-node Dell PowerEdge R660 high-availability cluster with 512GB ECC RAM per host, redundant 10GbE SFP+ uplinks, and a 48TB all-flash NVMe SAN, converting all physical servers to virtual machines after hours.
100% elimination of single points of failure, backup execution window reduced from 7 hours to 22 minutes, and zero minutes of production downtime during transition.
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