Viktor Balogh

  • Occupation : VMware & Linux consultant
  • Employment status : self-employed
  • Main areas : Public & Private Cloud, Hyperconverged
  • Date of birth : 28/10/1982
  • Languages : English, German, Hungarian
  • IANA PEN : 47131

Certifications

VMware vSAN 2017 Specialist

Date : July 2019 Organization : VMware, Inc.

VMware Certified Professional 6
Cloud Management and Automation

Date : June 2019 Certification code : VCP-CMA 2019 Organization : VMware, Inc.

VMware Certified Professional 6
Network Virtualization

Date : May 2019 Certification code : VCP-NV 2019 Organization : VMware, Inc.

VMware Certified Professional 6.5
Data Center Virtualization

Date : April 2019 Certification code : VCP-DCV 2019 Organization : VMware, Inc.

Red Hat Certified Engineer
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Date : December 2016 Certification code : RHCE - RHEL7 Certification ID : 120-174-305 Organization : Red Hat, Inc.

Red Hat Certified System Administrator
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Date : October 2016 Certification code : RHCSA - RHEL7 Certification ID : 120-174-305 Organization : Red Hat, Inc.

VMware Certified Professional 5
Data Center Virtualization VCP5-DCV

Date : September 2013 Certification code : VCP5-DCV Organization : VMware, Inc.

Red Hat Certified Engineer
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Date : October 2012 Certification code : RHCE - RHEL6 Certification ID : 120-174-305 Organization : Red Hat, Inc.

Red Hat Certified System Administrator
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Date : October 2012 Certification code : RHCSA - RHEL6 Certification ID : 120-174-305 Organization : Red Hat, Inc.

Implementing HP StorageWorks EVA Solutions

Date : April 2012 Organization : Hewlett-Packard Hungary Ltd

Oracle Database 11g Data Warehouse
Certified Implementation Specialist

Date : January 2012 Organization : Oracle Corporation

Oracle Database 11g SQL Fundamentals

Date : August 2011 Organization : Oracle Corporation

Oracle Linux Certified Implementation Specialist

Date : July 2011 Organization : Oracle Corporation

HP Accredited Platform Specialist
HP BladeSystem Solutions

Date : February 2011 Organization : Hewlett-Packard Hungary Ltd

Oracle Certified Professional
Oracle Solaris 10 System Administrator

Date : October 2010 Organization : Oracle Corporation

HP-UX 11i v3 Certified Systems Engineer
Speciality in Networking and Security

Date : October 2009 Certification code : HP-UX CSE 11iv3 Organization : Hewlett-Packard Hungary Ltd

HP-UX 11i v3
Certified Advanced Systems Administrator

Date : June 2009 Organization : Hewlett-Packard Hungary Ltd

Certification in ITIL v3 Foundation

Date : March 2009 Certification code : ITILv3 Organization : Office of Government Commerce

HP-UX 11i v3
Certified Systems Administrator

Date : October 2008 Certification code : HP-UX CSA 11iv3 Organization : Hewlett-Packard Hungary Ltd

Projects

IBM Deutschland GmbH

Date : Sep 2019 - Nov 2019 Products covered: vSphere 6.5 & 6.7, NSX Type of business or sector : Telco & Cloud computing

Questax Experts GmbH / public sector

Date : March 2020 - October 2022 Products covered: vSphere 6.5 & 6.7, SLES 15 Type of business or sector : public sector

Work experience

Vodafone Group Services GmbH

Date : May 2016 - Aug 2019 Occupation or position held : Cloud Platform Engineer Type of business or sector : Telco & Cloud computing

Main activities : Delivery and support of the Vodafone Private Cloud stack based on VMware vSphere VMware NSX + vRealize Automation + vRealize Orchestrator

Vodafone Group Services GmbH

Date : April 2015 - April 2016 Occupation or position held : UNIX Engineer Type of business or sector : Telco & Cloud computing

Main activities : Delivery and Support of Red Hat Enterprise Linux systems running on VMware vSphere

VMware International Ltd, Ireland

Date : November 2012 - March 2015 Occupation or position held : Technical Support Engineer (German speaking) Type of business or sector : Leading virtualization vendor

Main activities : German speaking technical support

Invigor Ltd, Hungary

Date : February 2011 - November 2012 Occupation or position held : IT Systems Engineer Type of business or sector : IT service provider

Main activities : HW and SW (server, storage) support for medium and enterprise level companies

IT Services Hungary Ltd
Member of T-Systems

Date : January 2010 - January 2011 Occupation or position held : Senior UNIX System Administrator Type of business or sector : ICT

Main activities : maintaining UNIX servers, (HP-UX, Solaris, AIX and Linux) technical expert for HP-UX systems

IT Services Hungary Ltd
Member of T-Systems

Date : October 2007 - December 2009 Occupation or position held : Junior HP-UX System Administrator Type of business or sector : ICT

Main activities : maintaining HP-UX servers for a large automotive company

Studies

Cork Institute of Technology, Ireland

Department : Department of Computing 2013-2015 Master of Science in Cloud Computing with First Class Honours
Main subjects: Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Big Data, Hadoop, Network Virtualization, Storage Virtualization

Szent Istvan University, Hungary

Department : Faculty of Mechanical Engineering 2004-2007 Bachelor of Science in Communication Techniques Engineering
Main subjects: Information Technology, Programming, SQL, MS Access, Mathematics, Electronics

Eotvos Lorand University, Hungary

Department : Computer Science Faculty 2001-2004 Institution change
Main subjects: UNIX, Mathematics, Logic, Programming

Competencies

Platforms

  • vSphere
  • Red Hat Linux
  • Windows

High availability & Disaster Recovery

  • vSphere HA
  • Zerto
  • VMware SRM

Databases

  • VMware vPostgres
  • Oracle DB
  • MySQL
  • Data Warehousing concepts

Scripting & Automation

  • vRealize Orcherstrator
  • Shell (KSH, Bash)
  • PowerCLI
  • REST API
  • VMware Autodeploy
  • PXE boot concept
  • Puppet

Hardware knowledge

  • Cisco UCS rack server
  • Cisco UCS blade server
  • HP rack servers
  • HP blade servers
  • VCE vBlock components

Networking

  • OSI L2 – L4 troubleshooting
  • VMware NSX

Storage

  • HP EVA
  • EMC VNX series
  • EMC VMAX series
  • Netapp ONTAP

Impressum


 
  • Name : vBALOGH Consulting
    Viktor Balogh
  • Address : Karlsbader Platz 12.,
    Wiesbaden D-65197
  • E-mail : me (at) vbalogh (dot) consulting
  • Phone : +49 162 134 9072
  • Amtsgericht : Wiesbaden
  • SteuerNr : 040 803 30799
  • USt-IdNr : DE325739147
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