Eric Siebert over at vsphere-land has managed to calculate all the votes and has put together the Top Blog 2012 results. VMpros.nl has ended up at place #80 (total 187) in the “Top VMware Bloggers 2012”, VMpros.nl was also chosen as number #24 (total 33) "Favorite Independent Blogger"

Congratulations go out to all the other bloggers and I want to thank everyone for casting their vote!

Top VMware Bloggers 2012:

Favorite Independent Blogger:

Complete list: here

Eric Siebert from vSphere-Land has made (again) a vote page to vote your personal top 10 VMware related blogs. Last year VMpros ended at place 34, maybe this year a higher rank >> VOTE NOW

Pick your favorite blog, and cast your vote. The survey will be open for two weeks.

My VMpros top articles over the last 12 months are:

VMware: Migrate multiple vSphere hosts to new subnet + rejoin vCenter with PowerCLI

VMware: My favorite Windows 2008R2 template configuration

VMware: Creating iSCSI network in vSphere ESXi 5.0

VMware: Configure new vSphere 4 host with PowerCLI

VMware: Change Alarm-Actions with PowerCLI

VMware: List VMFS version and blocksize of all datastores with PowerCLI

VMware: The MAC Address entered is not in the valid range

VMware: Configure Multipath Policy via PowerCLI

VMware: Add PortGroup to all hosts in cluster with PowerCLI

VMware: Configure AnywhereUSB/5 G2 in a Virtual Machines

VMware: vSphere Host Update Utility still the fastest way to apply 4.1 Update 1

VMware: Easy upgrade ESXi 4.1 to ESXi 5.0

VMware: Deploy multiple VM’s from template with PowerCLI

You can help us to select VMpros.nl at the first page: “top 10 bloggers” and select at page 2 of 3 VMpros.nl as “Non vendor / Independent blogger”

Daniel Buonocore Sander Daems

Today I was looking for the Top 10 blog posts of year 2010 at the VMpros.nl blog. The ten posts with the most hits, retweets and pingbacks I posted down here:

VMware: SCSI reservation conflicts

VMware: How to downgrade VM hardware level 7 to 4

VMware: How to create a bootable ESXi USB Stick with UNetbootin

VMware: Migrate vCenter 4.0 database to new vCenter 4.1 server

VMware: How to revert root user role from “Read-only” to “Administrator”

VMware: “Failed to read the upgrade package metadata.xml” upgrading to ESXi 4.1

VMware: Patching your ESXi host without vCenter

VMware: Active snapshots but can’t see them in Snapshot Manager

VMware: Installing VMware Tools through Active Directory

VMware: ESX 4.0 down after update: fsck.ext3: unable to resolve ‘uuid

Some other facts of 2010:

- VMpros ranked 34th place, in 2009 place 54

- Posted 83 VMware related articles

- Google Analytics counted 180.602 visitors

- Got a great blog sponsor Veeam

- Received a vExpert 2010 nomination

- Was part of the Dutch VMug with the Dutch VMug Bloggers Crew

- Designed a cool VMpros logo

- Switched to a new company with a lot of VMware consultancy

- Got my VSP, VTSP and VMware Capacity Planning papers together

We want to thank everyone for reading VMpros.nl , there will be more quality in 2011!!

Eric Siebert from vSphere-Land has made (again) a vote page to vote your personal top 10 VMware related blogs. Last year VMpros ended at place 54, maybe this year a higher rank >> VOTE NOW

Pick your favorite blog, and cast your vote. The survey will be open for two weeks. My VMpros top 10 articles over the last 7 months are:

VMware: Migrate vCenter 4.0 database to new vCenter 4.1 server

VMware: How to downgrade VM hardware level 7 to 4

VMware: Create performance logging with ‘esxtop’ and view with ‘perfmon’ – Part 1

VMware: Installing VMware Tools through Active Directory

VMware: How to revert root user role from “Read-only” to “Administrator”

VMware: “Failed to read the upgrade package metadata.xml” upgrading to ESXi 4.1

VMware: Patching your ESXi host without vCenter

VMware: Configure OpenFiler iSCSI targets for VMware ESX

Hardware: Performance tweak Windows 7 64-bit with OCZ Agility 60 GB SSD

VMware: Tweaking my ESXi whitebox memory – Asus P6T SE + OCZ Gold PC3

VOTE NOW

Jaja, eindelijk is het dan zover, vanmiddag kwam UPS mijn nieuwe (tweedehandse) server afleveren. Dit pakket kost me denk ik 3 weken ziektewet (40 kilo) maar het resultaat mag er zijn:

HP ProLiant DL585 G1

CPU TYPE : Quad (4) AMD Opteron 64-880 Dual Core

CPU Speed: 8 x 2,4 Ghz

Geheugen : 8 GB DDR PC2100 (8 x 1GB)

Schijven: 2 x 72 GB 2 x 36 GB (15K)

2 x HP NC7170 Dual Port PCI-X Gigabit Adapter

Kon natuurlijk niet wachten met installeren..

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Helaas is het een tijdje stil geweest op VMpros.nl, heb mijn testomgeving (HP ML350 G3) verkocht in de hoop 1:1 een nieuwe testomgeving te kunnen kopen is helaas wat moeilijker geworden als dat ik dacht.

Gelukkig heb ik sinds vandaag een nieuwe server gekocht (HP Proliant DL585-G1 Quad AMD Opteron 64 (Dual Core) – 2,4Ghz/8192MB/210GB/DVD/Rails/4U Server) en hoop deze vanaf dinsdag volledig klaar te hebben.

* Update volgt!

p.s Enneh.. collega bloggers?? Blogconccurentie ga ik dus weer met alle liefde aan!