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Senior Solution Architect

Yannick Gerber

Yannick ist unser Master-of-all-Things-Container.

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Experience
11 Jahre IT-Erfahrung
Languages
DE · EN

This person's own profile is only available in German: focus, technologies, education and projects.

  • 4 Jahre Ausbildung Systemtechniker EFZ
  • 7 Jahre Informatik Erfahrung
  • 7 Jahre IT Dienstleister

Awards

  • Broadcom Knight award:broadcom-knight
  • VMware vExpert award:vexpert

Focus areas

  • Konzeption und Realisierung Datacenter und Service Provider Infrastruktur auf Basis von VMware
  • Veeam und Red Hat
  • Containerlösungen auf Basis von VMware
  • OpenShift und Microsoft Azure

Technologies

Hardware HPE Server & Storage, Lenovo Server, NetApp Storage, Brocade SAN Fabric (FC, FCoE), Infinidat Storage
Netzwerke FortiGate und Sophos Firewalls, Juniper, Cisco, Huawei Switching & Routing, VMware NSX
Virtualisierung VMware Cloud Foundation
Container & Cloud Native VMware Tanzu, VMware vSphere Kubernetes Service
Betriebssysteme Microsoft Windows Server 2012-2022, RHEL 6-9
Backup Veeam B&R, VBM, VBAZ, Service Provider Suite

Further education

  • Informatiker EFZ Systemtechnik 2014-2018
  • Höhere Fachschule Informatik 2020-2023

Certifications 37 · verified via Credly

Broadcom Partner Certification - Proven Professional - VCF Automation - Architecture 2026
Broadcom Partner Certification - Proven Professional - VCF Automation - Implementation 2026
Broadcom Partner Certification - Broadcom Knight - VCF Storage 2026
Broadcom Partner Certification - Certified Expert - VCF Storage - Implementation 2025
Professional Cloud Architect Certification 2024
Discovery: SecOps Engineer 2024

A selection. 31 further active certifications are not shown. · expired ones are filtered at ingest

Project history 3 periods

  1. 2025

    Gesundheitswesen

    System Engineer & Solution Architect

    Realisierung grosses Lifecycle Projekt auf Basis von HPE Synergy, ProLiant, VMware vSAN, vROPS.

    Verteidigung

    System Engineer & Solution Architect

    Realisierung Air-Gapped VCF 9 Infrastruktur nach NIST(800-171, -53) und DISA STIG Vorgaben.

  2. 2024

    Gesundheitswesen

    System Engineer

    Realisierung und Betriebsunterstützung von Container Delivery Services auf Basis von vSphere Kubernetes Service, ArgoCD, Harbor, GitLab.

    Verteidigung

    System Engineer

    Realisierung von Automatisierungslösungen mit Ansible für HPE und VMware vSphere Infrastrukturen in einer hoch regulierten Umgebung.

  3. 2023

    Finanzen

    Lead System Engineer

    Realisierung einer Datacenter Infrastruktur auf Basis von vSAN Stretched Cluster, Realisierung Datacenter Interconnect, Hochverfügbare Core Services (AD DS, MSSQL).

2018 - 2022

Service Operations und Engineering in einem Service Provider Umfeld, IaaS und PaaS VMware vCloud Infrastruktur, Konzeption und Realisierung Veeam Backup Services.

Posts

Microsoft Secure Boot certificates expire in June 2026

Microsoft is refreshing the Secure Boot certificates originally issued in 2011, so Windows systems keep verifying trusted boot software. The old ones expire in June 2026.

2026-05-07 · posts/ms-secure-boot-cert-expiry-2026.md · 525 words · 3 min · yannick-gerber

Cloud cloud 2.20 Virtualization virtualization 1.59

DSM 9.0 – MS SQL as a Service

VMware Cloud Foundation 9.0 brought VMware Data Services Manager (DSM) 9.0 with it. Alongside many improvements, the largest new feature is support for Microsoft SQL Server (tech preview).

2025-06-26 · posts/dsm-9-0-mssql-support.md · 442 words · 2 min · yannick-gerber

Cloud cloud 2.20 Virtualization virtualization 1.59

ESX 9.0 NVMe Memory Tiering

The NVMe memory tiering feature in ESX lets local NVMe SSDs be used as RAM, so cheap NVMe devices carry workload memory instead of expensive DRAM.

2025-06-23 · posts/esx-90-nvme-memory-tiering.md · 567 words · 3 min · yannick-gerber

Cloud cloud 2.20 Virtualization virtualization 1.59

VCF and VVF 9.0 Installer – first look

The VMware Cloud Foundation Installer installs a VCF (VMware Cloud Foundation) or VVF (vSphere Foundation) infrastructure. It is the Cloud Builder's successor, and a considerably better one.

2025-06-23 · posts/vmware-cloud-foundation-90-installer.md · 361 words · 2 min · yannick-gerber

Cloud cloud 2.20 Virtualization virtualization 1.59

VMware by Broadcom – License Changes

There is a fair amount of misinformation going round about the VMware by Broadcom licence changes, particularly the 72-core minimum. Here is what is actually true.

2025-04-01 · posts/vmware-license-changes-2025.md · 332 words · 2 min · yannick-gerber

Strategy strategy 3.30

Monitor vSphere Supervisor and Guest Clusters with VCF Operations

Monitoring vSphere Supervisor Cluster and Kubernetes Guest Cluster with the Kubernetes Management Pack in VCF (Aria) Operations. The Monitoring is a great alternative to prometheus and grafana.

2025-03-26 · posts/how-to-monitor-vsphere-supervisor-and-guest-clusters-with-aria-operations.md · 298 words · 1 min · yannick-gerber

Monitoring monitoring 3.08 Containers containers 2.58

VMware Data Services Manager – DBaaS

VMware Data Services Manager (DSM) provisions databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL) and MinIO S3 buckets simply, and takes care of their lifecycle, backup, monitoring and alerting.

2025-02-03 · posts/vmware-data-services-manager.md · 508 words · 3 min · yannick-gerber

Cloud cloud 2.20

vSphere Supervisor Services

Supervisor Services run Kubernetes deployments directly on a vSphere namespace, so no Kubernetes guest cluster is needed and the pods run on the ESXi host through the vSphere CRX runtime.

2024-12-22 · posts/how-to-vsphere-supervisor-services.md · 755 words · 4 min · yannick-gerber

Containers containers 2.58

VMware Private AI Foundation: we bring the AI to your data

VMware Private AI Foundation with NVIDIA (PAIF-N) lets companies run AI workloads securely and efficiently on their own infrastructure.

2024-11-26 · posts/vmware-private-ai-foundation-intro.md · 1274 words · 6 min · yannick-gerber

Cloud cloud 2.20 Virtualization virtualization 1.59

Broadcom Support Portal – Quick Links

A collection of links into the Broadcom Support Portal, so you get to the right product download or the right portal quickly.

2024-06-19 · posts/how-to-broadcom-support-portal-quick-links.md · 132 words · 1 min · yannick-gerber

Virtualization virtualization 1.59 Security security 2.23

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