VMware vSAN Experts in Germany
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Meet FRATCH Experts in Germany, who have recently used VMware vSAN
Vicenco Kenk
Last position:
ITSM Project Manager (self-employed)
Unified ITSM framework
- Definition of a company-wide ITSM target picture
- Introduction of a uniform service structure across all business units
SLA and OLA management
- Building a standardized SLA framework
- Definition of service classes (Business Critical, Standard, Low Priority)
- Introduction of OLAs between internal teams
- Building meaningful SLA reporting
- Definition of KPI and service dashboards for business units
Service portfolio management
- Definition of service descriptions
- If needed, preparing possible cost and service billing
Ticketing & processes
- Incident management
- Uniform ticket categories
- Standardized prioritization
- Escalation matrix
- Automations
- Self-service optimization
Request fulfillment
- Service catalog across all business units
- Approval workflows
Problem management
- Introduction of root cause analysis
- Known error database
- Problem review process
Complete asset management concept
- Hardware lifecycle management
- Software lifecycle management
- Leasing lifecycle
- Mobile device lifecycle
- Monitor lifecycle
- Phone lifecycle
Processes
- Procurement
- Goods receipt
- Inventory
- Assignment
- Return
- Disposal
- Leasing return Goal: single source of truth for all assets
CMDB design
- Definition of all configuration items:
- Workplace
- Notebooks
- Monitors
- Mobile phones
- Printers
Infrastructure
- Servers
- Firewalls
- Switches
- WLAN
- Storage
- Backup systems
Cloud
- Azure resources
- Microsoft 365
- SaaS services
Relationships
- User ↔ Asset
- Asset ↔ Service
- Service ↔ Infrastructure
- Location ↔ Asset
- Goal: make all service dependencies visible
Software asset & license management
- License management concept
- License balancing
- Compliance reporting
- Microsoft license management
- Adobe license management
- SaaS management
- Contract management
- Renewal management
Interfaces & automation Existing systems
- Workday
- Joiner
- Mover
- Leaver
TESMA
- Leasing data
- Contract data
Matrix42
- Asset synchronization
- User synchronization
Active Directory / Entra ID
- User management
Microsoft 365
- License assignment
- Group management
Dormakaba
Access processes
Lifecycle services
Monitoring platforms
- PRTG
- Palo Alto
- Cisco
Reporting & KPI framework
- Definition of a management dashboard
- KPIs
- Ticket volume
- SLA fulfillment
- MTTR
- First resolution rate
- Asset accuracy
- License compliance
- Change success rate
- Service availability
- Degree of automation
Network redesign support
- Governance
- Support of the network redesign from an ITSM point of view
- Definition of affected services
- Change management structure
- Communication concept
CMDB integration
- Recording of all network components
- Service mapping
- Dependency analysis
Validation of documentation and knowledge base articles
- Network documentation
- Operations documentation
- Standard changes
Monitoring & event management
- Target picture
- Central monitoring concept
- Event management process
- Alerting strategy
- Escalation model
Systems
Cisco
Palo Alto
Fortinet
Rubrik
Veeam
Matrix42
Azure
Microsoft 365 Automation
Ticket creation from monitoring
Escalations
Standard actions
Audit, compliance & information security
- ISO 27001 consulting
- TISAX consulting
- NIS2 preparation - consulting
- Audit-ready processes
- Documentation structure
- Evidence tracking in Matrix42
Roadmap
- 12-month roadmap
- Prioritization of all measures
- Quick wins
- Medium-term projects
- Long-term target picture
- Documentation
Tan Pham
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.
André Görst
Last position:
IT Consulting Project Management / Engineering Subproject Management at T-Systems (on assignment for government agencies)
- Projects for federal networks (NdB).
- CR management, EoL change requests, design and documentation according to ITSCM.
- Data center planning.
- Project management and engineering subproject management.
- Software development for virtual server environments according to BSI.
Roman Blazecka
Last position:
Lead SAN/Storage & Backup Consultant / Architect at Daimler/Mercedes-Benz
- Led a small team of Storage/Backup consultants responsible for EMEA region data center transformation across 200 DCs
- Developed and defended HLD and LLD designs for SAN (Brocade), block storage (HPE Primera/Alletra), NAS (EMC Unity), object storage (Iternity with iCAS FS), and backup (Commvault)
- Performed build and configuration of ~25 data centers, coordinating with network, compute, and security teams
- Developed new processes and standards for infrastructure builds and finalized hardware purchases and BOM preparation
- Created and executed testing approach including DR tests, and handed over builds to operation and migration teams
- Trained other storage consultants to ensure SLA compliance
- Technologies: Brocades, HPE/IBM/EMC/NetApp/CEPH, vSAN, NSX, TSM, Veeam, Commvault, tape libraries, drives & VTLs
Volker Reisberger
Last position:
Architect and Senior System Administrator at International Trading Company
- Analysis and optimization of the VMware environment for operation in a critical infrastructure environment
- Planning and execution of updates for the VMware and hardware environment in a critical infrastructure environment
- Deployment of Skyline Health Diagnostics
- Review of existing documentation
- Training and onboarding of new internal staff
- Support for migration and upgrade projects
- Preparation for moving scripts in the virtualization environment to GitLab
- Ticket handling with ServiceNow
Pierre Gronau
Last position:
Ansible Automation, Windows Third Level Support at DB InfraGO AG
- PRISMA project
- Ansible automation
- Windows third level support for Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows 2013, Windows 2016, Windows 2019
Marco Fischer
Last position:
System Engineer–Vmware, Veeam at DCSO
- About 800 different server VMs, operation and lifecycle/asset management of about 40 ESXi hosts (Lenovo)
- Upgrade of all clusters to ESXi/VCSA 7.0U3 and 8. Planning patch management for all hosts
- Cleaning up the AD – many different domains that all needed to be migrated into the main environment. Planning/execution
- Veeam – check the configuration and migrate to a newer, partly virtual infrastructure to make the setup leaner and faster
- VMware – upgrades/updates, general maintenance
- Proxmox POC – evaluate if an alternative to VMware
- Documentation for Veeam/VMware/storage
- Implementation of the uniflow cloud solution
- NetApp migration to new storage, CIFS maintenance and administration of SVMs
Marco Köhl
Last position:
Freelancer at IBM Deutschland GmbH NGNCC
- Design and setup of infrastructure concepts for virtualized servers with VMware vSphere and VMware vCenter
- Migration from vCenter 7 environments to vCenter 8
- Automated deployment of virtual machines using Microsoft PowerShell and VMware PowerCLI as well as Ansible Tower
- Prototype setup and test migration of applications in various container environments
- Administration of firewalls and network components (routing and switching)
- Migration of VPN connection for all employees from Sophos UTM to Fortigate IPSec VPN with FortiToken
- Automation of OS installations on Linux with Ansible and GitLab
- VMware vSphere 8 with VMware vCenter 8
- VMware API
- VMware NSX-T
- VMware vSAN
- VMware Tanzu
- Red Hat OpenShift
- Docker
- SLES 15, Red Hat 9 and Microsoft Windows Server
- Microsoft Windows PowerShell
- GitLab
- Ansible Tower (AWX)
- SUSE Manager 4 and 5
- Fortigate Firewalls
- Fortinet Analyzer and Manager
- Juniper and Cisco switches and routers
Thomas Schoppe
Last position:
IT Consultant at Public Sector / SÜ2
- Operating VMware, Veeam and further developing the system
- Implementing BSI guidelines during design/build
- Controlling and analyzing the VMware environment with PowerShell scripts
- Working according to ITIL processes
- Versioning scripts with TortoiseSVN
Michael Wolf
Last position:
Storage Architect at BSI GmbH
- Processing changes to build new storage in a new data center environment
- Draft design of the storage solution with its backup area
- Discussions on the future storage architecture and cloud backup solution
- Timeline creation for each project with duration and maturity level
- Documenting each project in Confluence
- Updating all storage product items in Certlich
- Updating and fixing errors in Alfabet
- Adding new products and their details in Alfabet for the storage area
Axel Ringhofer
Last position:
Thuringian Courts and Public Prosecutor's Offices - ITeGS
- As-is assessment of data center rooms and data center infrastructure at the Jena data center, including analysis and documentation based on BSI IT-Grundschutz, EN 50600, EN 50001/EMAS, ISO 27001, ASHRAE
- As-is assessment of the IT infrastructure at the Jena site, including analysis and documentation based on ISO 27001
- Development of a concept for the data center infrastructure and IT infrastructure of the Jena data center
- Development of a concept for the IT infrastructure at other sites
- Creation of the technical specification of the bill of quantities for the tender
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Statistics of experts using VMware vSAN
Aggregated from the professional profiles of matched freelancers.
Experience
29 years
Position duration
1.8 years
Positions per freelancer
29
Top business areas
Information Technology, Operations, Project Management
Top industries
Information Technology, Banking and Finance, Manufacturing
Certification focus areas
Information Technology, Project Management, Business Intelligence
Bachelor's degree or higher
43%
Master's degree or higher
29%
Certifications per freelancer
7
Most common languages
German, English, French
Speak two or more languages
100%
Based on our profile pool as of 30 Aug 2026.
Daily rate distribution
The chart shows how the daily rates of freelancers in this technology in Germany 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 Germany using VMware vSAN
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 30 Aug 2026. Actual rates may vary depending on seniority level, experience, skill specialization, project complexity, and engagement length.
About the technology
vSAN basics
VMware vSAN is the storage layer for VMware SDDC environments. It pools local disks from ESXi hosts into a shared datastore that the cluster can use for virtual machines, templates, and operational data. Many teams still know it as vSAN or VMware Virtual SAN.
What it delivers
vSAN is used to build resilient virtual infrastructure without a separate storage array. It supports policy-based storage, fault domains, stretched clusters, and lifecycle operations inside the VMware stack.
- vSAN cluster design and datastore setup
- storage policy design for workloads and tiers
- capacity, cache, and disk group planning
- resilience and failure-domain layout
Ecosystem and skills
Strong professionals around VMware vSAN work across vSphere, ESXi, vCenter, NSX, and often VMware Cloud Foundation. They also know storage networking, hardware compatibility, firmware alignment, and monitoring tools that reveal latency or resync pressure.
When to bring in help
Companies usually bring in freelance expertise when a cluster needs a new design, a migration from SAN or NAS, or a cleanup after growth has made the environment hard to manage. In Germany, this often matters for regulated industries, manufacturing sites, and distributed offices where local support and remote coordination both matter.
- new cluster rollout or expansion
- migration from traditional shared storage
- performance, rebuild, or resync issues
- patching, upgrades, or health checks
What good experts do
A strong vSAN specialist reads the whole stack, not only the storage view. They check hardware compatibility, disk claims, network paths, policy behavior, and how the workload actually uses the datastore. Good work leaves the environment easier to operate, not just repaired.
Deliverables
Typical deliverables include architecture reviews, remediation plans, operational documentation, and hands-on support during change windows. For larger programs, experts may also help with cluster validation, stretched cluster planning, or handover to internal teams that will run VMware vSAN day to day.
Frequently asked questions
Key details about VMware vSAN, drawn from the questions we get asked most.
VMware vSAN is used to turn host-local disks into shared storage for virtual machines in a VMware cluster. Teams choose it when they want storage tightly integrated with vSphere, policy control, and simpler operations than a separate storage array. It is common in private cloud and edge setups.
vSAN removes the need for a separate external storage system by building the datastore from the cluster itself. Compared with SAN or NAS, it often simplifies scaling and day-to-day administration, but it depends more on correct hardware, network design, and policy planning. The right choice depends on workload patterns and the existing VMware estate.
VMware vSAN is the current name, and VMware Virtual SAN is the older name many searchers still use. In conversations, people also shorten it to vSAN. A freelancer should understand all three terms and know how the product evolved inside the VMware stack.
A strong VMware vSAN specialist usually also knows vSphere, ESXi, vCenter, and storage networking. Knowledge of HCI operations, firmware compatibility, and monitoring is important too. In larger environments, experience with NSX or VMware Cloud Foundation is often useful.
A VMware vSAN project needs more than basic virtualization knowledge when it touches design, migration, or resilience. Small health checks can be handled by a broad VMware expert, but cluster planning, troubleshooting, and upgrades benefit from someone who has worked on vSAN before. The more critical the workload, the more specialized the expert should be.
VMware vSAN work can often be done remotely if the expert has access to vCenter, logs, and a clear change process. On-site help is useful for hardware replacement, cabling checks, or first-time cluster rollout, especially in Germany when local data-center access is involved. Many projects use a mix of remote analysis and on-site execution.
Look for evidence of real cluster work with vSAN, not just general VMware familiarity. Good signs are clear troubleshooting methods, hardware compatibility awareness, and the ability to explain tradeoffs in policy, resilience, and capacity. Ask how they would validate a design and what they check before any change window.
The most common VMware vSAN issues are performance complaints, resync storms, capacity pressure, upgrade problems, and design choices that do not fit the workload. Experts are also brought in after failed migrations from SAN or NAS when the new cluster behaves differently than expected. A good specialist can separate an infrastructure issue from an application issue quickly.
The average hourly rate of freelancers in Germany who have used VMware vSAN in their recent projects is 107 €, which corresponds to a daily rate of about 860 € based on an 8-hour working day.
Of the freelancers in Germany who have used VMware vSAN in their recent projects, 43% hold at least a Bachelor's degree and 29% hold at least a Master's degree.
On average, freelancers in Germany who have used VMware vSAN in their recent projects have 29 years of professional experience, with a single engagement typically lasting around 1.8 years.
The most common languages among freelancers in Germany who have used VMware vSAN in their recent projects are German (100%), English (100%), and French (27%).
The most common industries among freelancers in Germany who have used VMware vSAN in their recent projects are Information Technology (100%), Banking and Finance (91%), and Manufacturing (82%).
The most common business areas among freelancers in Germany who have used VMware vSAN in their recent projects are Information Technology (100%), Operations (100%), and Project Management (100%).
Main locations of FRATCH Experts, who have recently used VMware vSAN
Our freelancers and interim experts are at home across the DACH region — available on-site in the major business hubs or fully remote. Choose a location to discover matched specialists, local market insights and up-to-date availability.
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