Unsolved Considering My experience - Where to start

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Hey All,

I'm curious where the most appropriate place to start with certifications considering my experience level. I have been working support in a Datacenter for about 9 months. I have experience in the following areas:

-basic vsphere 6 administration: migrating VM's, increasing datastore, creating disks, rebooting vm's, checking performance graphs (caught a CPU ready event for a customer), spin up new VM (there is a process to follow for this at my work btw), increase Ram and CPU.
-Palo Alto, Juniper, Fortinet: create vpn, add/edit routes, and policies, troubleshoot vpn down scenario. Check session count for suspected DDOS attacks(very rare).

• Server Hardening/ and patching
• Manage customer documentation for IP space, procedures, inventory.
• pull logs for just about everything! Open tickets with Microsoft and vmware for crashes
• setup backups for customers in commvualt, monitor backups, troubleshoot jobs that are not running
• respond to monitoring tickets and investigate: CPU/RAM/ disk space and many more.
• exchange 2010 - create email addresses, change permissions to DL, and users.
• some GPO, very limited
• password resets
• DNS record updates
• IIS 6/7: create and completed CSR.
  -troubleshoot customer network issue to datacenter and possibly open tickets with Level3, XO, Cogent etc.
  and many more odd tasks that we see very infrequently.

I am currently studying for ICND-1 and plan to take it in a about 6 weeks. Just not sure what next to focus on. Or what is appropriate.

Thanks for the advice.

@Alex-Marler,

Stay the course for your CCNA Routing and Switching if you're already focusing in on your CCENT. Especially, if you have solid networking skills.

The next step depend on your career goals. If you're trying to become a good generalist, you may consider taking sometime in the Microsoft shows. This will give you some systems admin knowledge as well.

Hopefully, others will jump in to offer some guidance as well!

Would it be worthwhile to spend time on the A+ cert?

@Alex-Marler,

With your experience, unless you plan to do desktop support. I'm not sure if I would consider it. Now...having said that...CompTIA A+ is a basic certification required by most companies hiring so is it worth spending time learning it and getting it as s certification...yes.

Does it follow your career plan? If it does...go for it.

But if it doesn't. I would consider the cisco track you're currently on and then experience and knowledge in general security and Network Administration with Some Microsoft Server knowledge. This will give you a solid background across a wide variety of technologies you find in corporate and enterprise environment.