Hire a Virtualization professional worth $50000 easily Get Virtualization domain expert on your team

Yes a skilled Virtualization domain expert is invaluable to any company she/he joins. I was fortunate to come across a Virtualization technology professional who showed interest for being hired by any Big/Best companies. I'll call this person as "MSX" since she/he wants to remain anonymous for all others. "MSX" shared with me some nice tips about Storage & Virtualization trends then I thought I should do something in return for her/him."MSX" asked me few questions like :

Can this blog help someone like her/him to get into a new job?
Does this Storage Jobs blog have visitors/blog readers who are hiring consultants?
Do you get some headhunters coming & reading your blog?

These were very interesting questions & I said I'd love to experiment it. I'm not sure how many hiring consultants/recruiters/headhunters/career consultants read this blog but I'm sure that if I can write about her/his "Software Professional Summary" definitely she/he will get some real positive replies.How many replies do we get I would love to see.

So find below the job profile of this Storage & Virtualization professional who is interested in job openings. You can email me roger.smithson@gmail.com & I'll pass on the info to her/him as to who are interested to hire her/him. She/He prefers jobs in US,UK,Singapore. Read below her/his experience summary in her/his own words.(Definitely this is not me , if it were me I would have written 10+ pages about my job experience,skillset :) Just to impress the recruiter, she/he has written very less in my view :)

OK this is a serious professional with years of experience interested for a new challenging job opportunity.She/He loves US,UK,and also prefers Singapore job openings.

Profile Summary and Domain Interest

A VMware Certified Professional (VCP on VI3) and presently involved with design and development of new features and technologies associated with VMware VI3,ESX Server product line.I have serveral years of experience in Systems,Virtualization,Storage.

I'm looking for prospective opportunities in the "real world" implementation of virtualization technologies like VMware (and likes of Microsoft Hyper-V, Xen etc). I am open to being considered for different/varied technical roles and positions in this space – interoperability and testing, performance evaluation,development, design, implementation and consulting, technology comparison.

Core Skill Set

VMWare ESX Server 3.X– internals, configuration
VMWare Virtual Infrastructure (3.X) Suite
- I have sound knowledge of various components that form VMware's Virtual Infrastructure suite like ESX Server, Virtual Center/ VC server,VI client, vMotion, DRS, HA, Storage Vmotion, Service Console, Virtual Networking, Storage and SAN configuration with ESX, Security Features, Performance, Licensing etc.
- I have attended comprehensive and detailed training programs on various VMware VI3 topics listed above.
- I have also donned the trainer's role and have given training to various teams (especially Quality Engineering teams) on varied topics like
VMware ESX storage stack, SAN configuration, Troubleshooting ESX Server issues and Log diagnosis
Miscellaneous topics like iSCSI configuration with ESX, Building vSANS with ESX etc
Administration with Server Console command line options.

VMWare ESX Server 3i (embedded) – internals, configuration
- I have a good knowledge of VMware ESX Server 3i architecture, the embedded new generation ESX Server (bundled in firmware with recent Dell/HP servers)
- I'm trained on ESX Server 3i administration

Core work experience with VMware ESX server storage stack.
-I have hands-on experience with ESX Server storage stack - inclusive of the
overall architecture, various layers of the I/O path, VMFS concepts, snapshots etc, Latest storage array support, device driver layers etc.
Linux Internals and Device Drivers
- Prior to working with companies related to Virtualization technologies, I have worked earlier on block based device drivers on Linux 2.6 kernels and have relevant knowledge in the 2.6 Linux kernel internals.

Storage Basics – Fibre-Channel basics, iSCSI basics, SAN, NAS,
Being in the SAN/storage space, I have basic to deep level range of knowledge in the various storage technologies depending on the projects I have worked.

I would appreciate if you email roger ( roger.smithson@gmail.com) incase if you are interested to hire me.

This post is worth $1000 if you are looking to get hired by Vmware

Yes I could have easily charged readers $100 each & made $1000 just for this post.
But I'm giving it for free - reason this article is contributed by one of my blog reader. I really thank him & appreciate his support. He wants to remain anonymous contributor but I'll call him Mr.XV .Thanks XV I appreciate you taking time & writing this article for the blog. I'd request you to write more & share them with 1000s of visitors reading this blog daily.

Seems like these days Vmware company is on a roll & its hiring like anything. Reason I'm saying this 'cause lots of my site visitors either search for "Vmware interview questions" or email me asking for that. Also I'm getting quite a few emails with blogreaders asking how to prepare for a Developer job profile in Vmware Inc. Storage knowledge + VMware expertise has been a killer combination that helped lotsa my readers get good jobs in recent months.

One of my Storage Jobs Blog reader who attended a similar interview wrote & shared his experience & permitted me to publish the same in this post. This post is worth $1000 'cause it can get you a job worth $5000++ per month. But this is like an index article. It just gives an outline of what you need to cover if you're interested in Vmware's developer job openings.I know the expectations for this kind of a job profile is huge. I know not everyone can give this a try. But for those who want to reach out to the Virtualization market leader & love to be part of their development team here's a checklist of what you should cover before attempting their job interview.

Mr.XV one of my blogreader has been nice to write summarising from his experience of attempting some of these Vmware developer job interviews. Thanks XV for writing & sharing this info with the blog readers.I would love to see you write more about your adventures of job hunting in California.

Topics to read up:
Be thorough with OS fundamental topics like

System Calls - what they are, how they work (especially in Intel x86 architecture)- 'cause its x86 architecture on which Vmware's ESX,Vmware Infrastructure & most of Vmware's products are built on.

Processes and threads - basic concepts, differences between them, fork/exec working, Copy on write.Copy-on-write (sometimes referred to as "COW") is an optimization strategy used in computer programming. The fundamental idea is that if multiple callers ask for resources which are initially indistinguishable, you can give them pointers to the same resource. This function can be maintained until a caller tries to modify its "copy" of the resource, at which point a true private copy is created to prevent the changes becoming visible to everyone else. All of this happens transparently to the callers. The primary advantage is that if a caller never makes any modifications, no private copy need ever be created.

Process scheduling - basics of cpu scheduling, Multi-processing, scheduling
algorithms like RR(Round-Robin), FIFO(First In First Out), dynamic priority, Linux O(1) scheduler etc

File systems - VFS, basics of how VFS handling file open and file read/write,
Page Cache concepts. virtual file system (VFS) or virtual filesystem switch is an abstraction layer on top of a more concrete file system. The purpose of a VFS is to allow client applications to access different types of concrete file systems in a uniform way. A VFS can, for example, be used to access local and network storage devices transparently without the client application noticing the difference. It can be used to bridge the differences in Windows, Mac OS and Unix filesystems, so that applications can access files on local file systems of those types without having to know what type of file system they're accessing.

Get to know about VMFS if you have time.(Virtual Machine File System) is VMware, Inc.'s cluster file system

Device drivers concepts - character drivers vs block drivers and differences, How a typical device driver gets dynamically loaded into kernel and gets it work processed
OS synchronization concepts - semaphores, spinlocks etc
Interrupt handling

Memory Manager - basic concepts, Page table handling, Demand Paging, Swapping, malloc/free handling, Process Address space handling

Other concepts you can read up on based on your expected job profile and background - DMA, x86 architecure, x86 programming, Caching and cache coherency concepts, Specific file systems internals like ext3, reiserfs, ufs etc, distributed computing and clustering concepts

DMA: is a feature of modern computers that allows certain hardware subsystems within the computer to access system memory for reading and/or writing independently of the central processing unit. Many hardware systems use DMA including disk drive controllers, graphics cards, network cards, and sound cards. Computers that have DMA channels can transfer data to and from devices with much less CPU overhead than computers without a DMA channel.

Without DMA, using programmed input/output (PIO) mode, the CPU is typically fully occupied for the entire duration of the read or write operation and is thus unavailable to perform other work. With DMA, the CPU would initiate the transfer, do other operations while the transfer is in progress, and receive an interrupt from the DMA controller once the operation has been done. This is especially useful in real-time computing applications where not stalling behind concurrent operations is critical.

One book that is good for the above basics is
Operating System concepts by Silberschatz, Galvin

Other indepth book is
Solaris Internals &/or Understanding the Linux kernel v3 by Bovett,Cessati