VMware ESXi Experts in Frankfurt
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Robert F.
Last position:
Interim Project Manager at IT services company of a regional energy supplier
- Delivery of various end-customer projects in server and network infrastructure on time, in quality, and within budget.
- Project 1: Firewall renewal, replacement of an ASA firewall with a Fortinet firewall at an automotive supplier.
- Project 2: Migration of file services from dedicated servers at 5 branch locations into a central managed file service, including DHCP, directory, and print services, as well as decommissioning of the old domain controllers.
- Project 3: Renewal of the network infrastructure at the headquarters and branch locations of a logistics company and transition of the LAN, WLAN, and firewall environments into a managed network service.
- Project 4: Network renewal, replacement of the core and access switches at the headquarters of a medical technology company and transition into a managed network service.
- Project 5: Firewall renewal, replacement of an ASA firewall with a Fortinet firewall for a city.
- Environment: ASA and Fortinet firewalls, Cisco network components, ITSM Heat/Ivanti, Confluence.
Kevin F.
Last position:
DevOps and Platform Engineer at DB Systel GmbH
- Error analysis and fixes including performance optimization of the in-house developed platform API
- Change and incident management in day-to-day operations
- Responsible for compliance with security and compliance requirements
- Vendor management for software development and maintenance
- Planning and execution of migration of legacy services to a cloud native platform
Role in the project: project staff, implementation team
Used skills: requirements analysis, IT service and application management, IT operations, error analysis and performance optimization, software maintenance and lifecycle management
Project environment: Cloud Native Platform (Kubernetes, Crossplane, AWS, ArgoCD, Grafana)
Thomas H.
Last position:
Project Manager & Tender Manager at GEA Group AG
- Implemented an access control solution and prepared tender documents for a visitor management system.
- As project manager, I was responsible for the successful rollout of a cloud-based access control system for two sites with around 4,000 employees.
- Accountable for the successful execution of the project.
- Created and aligned project plans and status reports with all stakeholders.
- Prepared/coordinated an initial effort or cost estimate and related planning for operational services implementation.
- Identified interfaces.
- Ensured budget and schedule compliance.
- As tender manager / demand manager, the following specific tasks were my responsibility:
- Analyzing potential suppliers.
- Gathering requirements.
- Creating and aligning the requirements catalog.
- Developing an evaluation matrix.
- Preparing the tender documents.
Andreas I.
Last position:
Cybersecurity Specialist Assessor at Bundesnetzagentur
- Recognition of national notified bodies
- Preparation of cybersecurity competency reports
- EU Radio Equipment Directive
Khalid S.
Last position:
IT Infrastructure Coordinator at SAFEE Technology
- GfK Data center IT Infrastructure project onsite coordinator (Equinix DC FR2/FR7) training FEs in Equinix DC Carla, FNT, Jira Confluence, ServiceNow (Change/Problem/Incident MGMT), DCIM, ITSM, ITIL
- Reporting significant incidents as the on-site technical coordinator and initial point of contact for vendor escort and smart hands
- Utilizing CMDB-GUI, NIQ-Browser, CMDB-Filtering-GUI, OSS-Radar, BigBrother, CheckMK, and TTWOS for 2nd and 3rd level troubleshooting support
- Maintaining MDF, IDF, computer rooms, and closets; coordinating with service desk, reception, and security for visitor access
- Managing asset lifecycle including operation, retirement, stocking, and destruction with proper SanDisk procedures
- Leading footprint data centre optimization and reduction in FR2/FR7; handling network, server, storage, desktop, hosting, IT security, video conferencing, and telephone operations
- Coordinating server relocations, fibre optics/copper cable preparations, CMDB updates, and stakeholder cooperation
- Implementing IT infrastructure design, maintenance, configuration, and construction following Dell/HP/Apple ESD safety precautions
- Single POC for change management network, Star Track, backup & storage, cloud, Linux, Windows, EUS teams & Software Centre installs
- Successfully completed DC Footprint Reduction Project 2021/2022 and GfK New Hardware DC Refresh Initiative
- Planning, configuring, and installing Dematic server rooms and switch configurations in Heusenstamm, Wurzburg, Kahl am Main, and Graz Austria
- Providing on-site media equipment setup for HP, hospitals, manufacturers, and laboratories
- Ensuring professional rack and cable management following best practices
- Maintaining up-to-date plant maps accessible to all teams showing technology space and spare locations
- Offering technical assistance for live events, town halls, forums, streaming, and hybrid events on and off campus
- Providing second level support for Poly video conferencing systems across multiple time zones
- Conducting frequent computer room walkthroughs, recording power, cooling, alarm, security threats, and mapping wireless environment and access points
Jin-Ho Y.
Last position:
Server Migration Consultant at Unknown Client
- Linux server migrations: planning and execution of the migration with SLES Linux deployment of VMs in VMware 8.0
- Guiding colleagues on configuring Linux VMs with vSphere Auto Deploy
- Application operations: ensuring smooth operation of applications on migrated servers
- Operations manuals: revising existing manuals, updating and creating new ones as needed
- Reviewing service offers: adjusting and optimizing service offerings of external providers
- Logistics software, Red Hat Linux, Ansible, Confluence / Jira
Tan P.
Last position:
DevOps Engineer in the DevOps Team at Rise-World
- Implementation of specified DevOps solutions to automate infrastructure (Terraform, Bicep, CloudFormation, Ansible) on-premises datacenter (Ovirt, Proxmox, Ceph Cluster, MinIO) and private cloud.
- Administration, configuration and implementation of CI/CD DevOps pipelines (GitLab, GitFlow) to support development process (Artifactory, Prometheus, Istio, service mesh, Helm Chart, OpenShift (Red Hat Enterprise) / Kubernetes cluster), Red Hat Satellite.
- Administration, setup, monitoring and patching of Linux infrastructure based on Red Hat Enterprise for Dev, Test and QA.
- Use of Scrum and Kanban methods.
- Administration, configuration and implementation of security standards for deploying on Dev, Test, QA and Prod stages of the new ePA applications.
- Development of new plugins and add-ons needed on current infrastructure.
- Database support.
- Data analytics support (Python, Spark, Pandas, Power BI, Splunk Enterprise).
- Implementation of best practices for DevSecOps and BizDevOps using GitOps (ArgoCD), Streamlit framework, Semaphore Ansible UI.
- Configuration and testing of iperf, uperf, sysbench using benchmark-operator for external source data and IoT/MDM devices, creating reports via ELK / OpenSearch.
- Building a new Databricks platform to collect and analyze big data from different sources and IoT devices into Hadoop framework (Python, Pandas, PySpark, Power BI, Apache Airflow).
- Building backend data aggregation and processing to automate configuration deployment between different OpenShift clusters and big data framework (Python, Pandas, PySpark, Apache Spark, PostgreSQL, Django 2, Ansible Automation, Jira JSM).
- Building a new ML pipeline platform using Kubeflow, TensorFlow, KServe.
- Data extraction, transformation and loading from different data sources including structured and unstructured data to analytic DWH / big data cluster using Python, Pandas, Polars, Power BI, Django backend and PostgreSQL.
- Setup of new DevOps Test and QA HashiCorp Vault cluster for PKI and IAM.
- Configuration and testing of automated patching based on CVSS score, SIEM-integrated CVEs.
- Use of Nexpose and InsightVM to scan vulnerability events in network, host, container and application.
- Design and implementation of secure and scalable AWS architectures including VPC, EC2, S3, RDS and Route53 and similar setups on Azure and GCP.
- Automated system provisioning and deployment using CloudFormation templates.
- Configuration of IAM roles, policies and permissions to ensure secure access control.
- Patch management, backup automation and disaster recovery setup on AWS infrastructure.
- Monitoring and optimization of system performance using AWS CloudWatch and AWS Trusted Advisor.
- Support of VMware services (vSphere, Aria, Horizon) and the virtual desktop environment.
- Development and maintenance of CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD and AWS CodePipeline with interface to Nutanix.
- Configuration of AWS CloudWatch to monitor application performance and system events.
- Planning and execution of migration of on-premises applications to AWS cloud platforms.
- Deployment of containerized applications using Docker and Kubernetes in AWS environments.
- Deployment of internal software packages between availability zones using AWS CodeDeploy.
- Building and deploying ML models using Scikit-learn, XGBoost and Spark MLlib including hyperparameter tuning, model evaluation and production deployment.
Peter V.
Last position:
IT Consultant at Evotec KG
- Operation and administration of Windows 2016 / 2019 servers and domains
- Infrastructure services (Active Directory, ADFS, AD Azure Connect, DHCP, DNS, Group Policies)
- Consulting, support and troubleshooting of customer systems
- Documentation and concept design in the area of MS Active Directory
- Updating operation, process and system documentation
- Ticket handling (remote analysis and resolution via incident, change and problem management)
- Technologies: Windows 2022, Active Directory, ADFS, AD Azure Connect, DHCP, DNS, GPO, VMware vSphere, CheckMK, Exchange 2019, PowerShell, Jira, Confluence, Office 365, Matrix42, NetApp, Ansible
Stefan F.
Last position:
Project Management – Telecommunications at 1&1 Versatel
- Set of concurrent projects (BSS/OSS related)
Hakan K.
Last position:
IT-Management & Administration at Freiberufliche IT-Dienstleistung
- Hybrid Cloud Administration (Cloud Transformation)
- Azure Cloud Administration
- Azure Entra ID user administration
- Reporting
- License reviews
- User and group management
- RBAC integration
- Policy management
- VM administration: setup of VMs, configuration of scale sets, configuration of replications, creation of backups, manual installation
- Azure Bastion
- Privileged access identity management
- Documentation
- Azure Security Center: monitoring security posture and recommendations to improve security
- Microsoft 365 administration: MS Intune administration (Bitlocker policies, distribution, device management, group management)
- MS365 Defender (Defender for Endpoint, threat management, EDR solution implementation, threat detection through investigations)
- Defender for Office 365 (protection of Office 365 tools against phishing, malware, and other attacks)
- Defender for Identity (identification, activity monitoring)
- Defender for Cloud Apps (application monitoring and protection)
- Windows Active Directory, DHCP, DNS, policies, Baramundi, SCCM/MECM, VMware, WSUS, Sophos
- Exchange administration: rule creation, setup and deployment of mailboxes, mailbox migration, mail tracking, mailbox conversion, report generation
- Windows AD administration: user management across the structure, device management, attribute management, group management, organizational management, troubleshooting
- Group Policy management: modifying, deleting or creating policies, assigning and organizing policies, documentation and reporting
- Manual installation & imaging: new imaging, image creation, manual maintenance and updates, documentation of various enterprise applications
- Bitlocker configuration, BIOS and firmware configuration, troubleshooting and collaboration with level 3 support, MBSA reporting, WSUS monitoring, system and event management, troubleshooting across the IT infrastructure
- Network management (including SWIFT network): MAC address filtering, network switch configuration, port management, switch patching
- VMware ESXi/vSphere/vCenter administration: VM management, troubleshooting, virtualization solutions, updates and maintenance
- Virtualization & cloud: Azure, Citrix, VMware, VirtualBox, ESXi, Hyper-V, VMware AHV, vulnerability management, migrations
- Identifying, assessing and remediating security vulnerabilities on hybrid endpoints through regular vulnerability assessments and patch management
- Backup & recovery: Teams administration, data migration, SAN, SharePoint administration, NAS, Exchange administration, cloud backup: policy creation, mailbox migration
- IT security: firewall, antivirus, Azure, MS365 Security Defender: monitoring, mailbox setup and implementation, mail tracking, mailbox conversion, report generation
- IT service management: team meetings, report analysis, documentation, analysis
- Other: monitoring progress against goals, ServiceNow, HPSM, prioritizing activities, JIRA, MS365, integration of requested projects, MDM, TeamViewer, AnyDesk, Adobe, PowerShell, CLI, CMD
- IT service desk: Exchange, JIRA org administration, SCCM shell: user management, device management, project management, ticket reviews, user training, ticket handling, change management, permission management, VIP support
- Facility management: coordination with building management/technical teams, organizing technology for conferences, guest access, employee access
- Nutanix/VMware administration: provisioning and setup of Nutanix clusters, installation and configuration of Nutanix AHV, VMware ESXi & Hyper-V, infrastructure maintenance and operations, upgrades and patches for Nutanix clusters, planning and implementing backup solutions, installation and configuration of VMware ESXi hosts and vCenter servers, hybrid environments
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Statistics of experts using VMware ESXi
Aggregated from the professional profiles of matched freelancers.
Experience
26 years (Germany: 25 years)
Position duration
1.6 years (Germany: 2.3 years)
Positions per freelancer
21 (Germany: 19)
Top business areas
Information Technology, Operations, Project Management
Top industries
Information Technology, Banking and Finance, Transportation
Certification focus areas
Information Technology, Project Management, Audit
Bachelor's degree or higher
70% (Germany: 65%)
Master's degree or higher
40% (Germany: 33%)
Certifications per freelancer
7 (Germany: 5)
Most common languages
German, English, Spanish
Speak two or more languages
90% (Germany: 94%)
Based on our profile pool as of 19 Sep 2026.
Daily rate distribution
The chart shows how the daily rates of freelancers in this technology in Frankfurt are distributed, based on recent contracts on our platform. Each bar covers a rate range — its height shows how many freelancers charge within that range.
Average rates of experts in Frankfurt using VMware ESXi
Rates are based on recent contracts and do not include FRATCH margin.
The average daily rate is the mean of all daily rates from recent contracts of comparable freelancers on our platform.
The median daily rate is the middle value of all daily rates — half of comparable freelancers charge less, half charge more. Unlike the average, it is barely affected by outliers.
Calculated based on our freelancers’ daily rates as of 19 Sep 2026. Actual rates may vary depending on seniority level, experience, skill specialization, project complexity, and engagement length.
VMware ESXi experts industry focus
See which industries our matched freelancers work in most often — every figure is calculated live from the freelancers on FRATCH.
- Information Technology (90%)
- Banking and Finance (80%)
- Transportation (70%)
- Professional Services (70%)
- Government and Administration (70%)
- Telecommunication (70%)
- Automotive (60%)
- Insurance (50%)
Please note that freelancers can work across multiple industries, so percentages overlap.
About the technology
Virtualization foundation
VMware ESXi is a bare-metal hypervisor that runs virtual machines directly on physical servers. It provides the foundation for vSphere environments, allowing companies to consolidate workloads, isolate systems and manage compute resources from a central infrastructure layer. Typical workloads include application servers, databases, development environments and enterprise services.
vSphere ecosystem
ESXi is commonly managed through VMware vCenter Server, which adds centralized inventory, templates, permissions, monitoring and lifecycle operations. Strong specialists also work with vMotion, High Availability, Distributed Resource Scheduler, vSAN and VMware Tools. They understand how virtual networking, datastores, host profiles and cluster policies interact across the environment.
Typical projects
- Install and configure ESXi hosts for new virtual infrastructure
- Build vSphere clusters with shared storage and failover policies
- Migrate physical or virtual workloads with limited disruption
- Upgrade hosts, vCenter components and virtual machine hardware
- Review capacity, performance, security and operational readiness
These projects appear in data centers, private clouds, managed infrastructure teams and hybrid environments. Frankfurt companies may need specialists who can coordinate remotely while supporting planned on-site work for hardware, connectivity or change windows.
When expertise matters
Freelance expertise is useful when an internal team is moving from physical servers, consolidating data centers or modernizing an existing vSphere estate. It also helps during host replacements, storage changes, disaster recovery work and urgent performance investigations. A specialist can document the current state, define a safe execution plan and leave clear operating procedures behind.
Adjacent skills
Effective ESXi work reaches beyond host installation. Professionals often bring knowledge of Windows Server and Linux guests, Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, backup and replication tools, SAN or NAS storage, VLANs, firewalls and automation with PowerCLI. They should also understand patching, access control, monitoring, recovery testing and the operational effect of cluster changes.
Signs of quality
- Maps dependencies before changing hosts, networks or datastores
- Separates configuration decisions from vendor defaults
- Tests failover, restore procedures and maintenance workflows
- Explains capacity risks in terms the business can act on
- Produces accurate diagrams, runbooks and handover documentation
The strongest professionals communicate clearly with infrastructure, security and application teams. They protect workload availability, validate assumptions in the environment and make changes that remain understandable after the engagement ends.
Frequently asked questions
Not sure where to start with VMware ESXi? These answers cover the essentials.
VMware ESXi is a bare-metal hypervisor used to run multiple virtual machines on one physical server. Companies use it to consolidate workloads, improve resource utilization, isolate operating systems and support resilient data center operations.
ESXi is usually evaluated alongside Hyper-V and Proxmox VE when a company is selecting a virtualization layer. The right choice depends on the existing management tools, storage, licensing model, support requirements, staff skills and migration constraints.
A strong VMware ESXi specialist often understands vCenter Server, vSphere clusters, virtual networking, shared storage and backup systems. Experience with PowerCLI, Windows Server, Linux, Active Directory, firewalls and disaster recovery is also valuable.
A small host configuration may suit a professional familiar with standard ESXi operations. Cluster design, migrations, storage changes and recovery planning call for deeper vSphere experience, especially when business-critical workloads or narrow maintenance windows are involved.
VMware ESXi administration can often be performed remotely through secure management access, with clear approvals and an agreed rollback plan. On-site support in Frankfurt may still be useful for physical host installation, cabling, hardware faults or access restrictions.
Ask for examples of comparable host, cluster or migration work and discuss the exact versions, storage design and recovery goals involved. A capable VMware specialist should explain risks clearly, verify assumptions and define documentation and handover deliverables.
VMware ESXi is commonly operated with vCenter Server, VMware Tools, vMotion, High Availability and Distributed Resource Scheduler. Depending on the environment, specialists may also work with vSAN, lifecycle management, PowerCLI and third-party backup or monitoring tools.
Quality is visible in stable workloads, tested failover, predictable maintenance and accurate documentation. A strong ESXi professional measures the starting condition, records changes, validates performance and recovery, and leaves the team able to operate the environment confidently.
The average hourly rate of freelancers in Frankfurt, Germany who have used VMware ESXi in their recent projects is 114 €, which corresponds to a daily rate of about 913 € based on an 8-hour working day.
Of the freelancers in Frankfurt, Germany who have used VMware ESXi in their recent projects, 70% hold at least a Bachelor's degree and 40% hold at least a Master's degree.
On average, freelancers in Frankfurt, Germany who have used VMware ESXi in their recent projects have 26 years of professional experience, with a single engagement typically lasting around 1.6 years.
The most common languages among freelancers in Frankfurt, Germany who have used VMware ESXi in their recent projects are German (100%), English (90%), and Spanish (10%).
The most common industries among freelancers in Frankfurt, Germany who have used VMware ESXi in their recent projects are Information Technology (90%), Banking and Finance (80%), and Transportation (70%).
The most common business areas among freelancers in Frankfurt, Germany who have used VMware ESXi in their recent projects are Information Technology (100%), Operations (100%), and Project Management (100%).
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