Retrospect of 2011 Content Due to Bloggers Survey

vSphere-land.com is running it’s annual Top 25 virtualization blog survey again and I’m really interested to see who are picked this year. Like previous year, some great bloggers disappear while other new great ones emerge. One guy I want to mention by name is Chris Colotti, his blog is a great source of information about vCloud Director. If you haven’t visited his blog yet, go do that right away!. Last year I’ve been pretty busy writing, shaping, designing, wrestling with publishers in order to get our (@DuncanYB) book “vSphere 5 Clustering technical deepdive out to the public. This meant it cut down on research time, which resulted in a smaller number of blogs being released than previous years. So after seeing other people’s blog about their top 10, I was curious to see what I’ve done last year. The articles that are listed are the ones I’m proud of, spending a lot of time on researching them, but most of all, enjoyed the most writing them. Storage DRS initial placement and datastore cluster defragmentation Impact of Load Balancing on datastore cluster configuration Partially Connected datastore clusters Mem minfreepct sliding scale function Upgrading vmfs datastores and Storage DRS Multi NIC vMotion support in vSphere 5.0 Contention on lightly Utilized Hosts Restart vCenter results in DRS load balancing IP-HASH versus Load Based Teaming Setting correct percentage of cluster resources reserved AMD Magny Cours and ESX Please take 5 minutes of your time and vote for your favorite blogger. I hope they will announce the winner like they did last year. 90 minutes of nerve wrecking but oh-so-enjoyable videoshow! Cast your vote now!