Virtualization is the fundamental technology that is the bedrock of cloud computing. It enables organizations to separate actual physical computing resources- servers, storage and more from applications and help them allocate i.e provision appropriate resources as and when required.
Virtualization refers to agile provisioning of pooled storage, computing and networking resources. It requires knowledge of how to take cluster of physical servers and convert them into virtual machines. Virtualization is now extended to other areas – such as storage virtualization, network virtualization.
The role of Virtualization engineer or Architecture includes the following functions.
Skills Set Required
• CITRIX, VMware, Microsoft Infrastructure Technologies namely DHCP, DNS, and WINS
Salary Prospectus: Rs. 3-5 lakhs at entry level and Rs 5-10 lakhs at mid level
Future Outlook:
With cloud computing becoming a preferred way for computing resources access and consumption and every business going online and more companies looking to enable work from home options with controlled access, there is lot of research and development happening in this emerging domain. Hence Virtualization is a promising career domain for engineers- both at undergraduate and postgraduate levels
- Manage deployment of new applications, servers and services in the environment
- Install patches and updates
- Interface with other system administrators – Application Admin, DBA admin, Storage Admin, OS Admin
- Monitor application performance across all sites
- Perform technical trouble shooting and issues resolution and documentation of processes and procedures
Skills Set Required
• CITRIX, VMware, Microsoft Infrastructure Technologies namely DHCP, DNS, and WINS
Salary Prospectus: Rs. 3-5 lakhs at entry level and Rs 5-10 lakhs at mid level
Future Outlook:
With cloud computing becoming a preferred way for computing resources access and consumption and every business going online and more companies looking to enable work from home options with controlled access, there is lot of research and development happening in this emerging domain. Hence Virtualization is a promising career domain for engineers- both at undergraduate and postgraduate levels
