VIOPS: Proven Practices for Deploying and Managing VMware : Blog List - Community

Our Latest VIOPS Expert

stephens — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 14:42:25 GMT

Please join me in congratulating Desmond Chan as the new expert highlighted on the VIOPS front page.

Desmond was one of the original moderators of VIOPS and has been a strong supporter within the VMware technical community. He has been a leading contributor to VIOPS by authoring five top quality proven practices. Here are two examples of his latest work.

Great work, Desmond, keep it coming!

Expert Highlight - Dave Convery, vExpert

schambers — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 12:05:18 GMT

Please join me in congratulating Dave Convery, VCDX, VMware vExpert as the new expert highlighted on the VIOPS front page.

Dave has been a leading contributor to VIOPS by answering community questions, providing peer reviews for documents, and also authoring two top quality proven practices:

He's now working on the VI3.Blueprint Project to create the VI3.Blueprint BCDR Workshop.

Dave is a recognized vExpert and is a fantastic example of a talented professional who has benefited from the community and is now giving back some of his expertise in return.

Great work, Dave, keep it coming!

Steve

VMworld Europe Harvesting

schambers — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 17:37:54 GMT

Evoking images of the September harvest, but this time in March and without the heat and dust... everyone wants to benefit as much as possible from the great content on show at VMworld Europe, so this time we thought we'd formalize it a bit and create some VIOPS content from the VMworld Europe sessions.

This is not copying the sessions into VIOPS; they have a great home over on vmworld.com where you'll be able to see and hear the session recordings. The plan instead is to keep developing the VIOPS tradition of adding value to existing content by syndicating the practical content from a session into a proven practice document, adding more guidance and references to it, and then connecting that document to the knowledge zones on VIOPS like "Security".

To track this work, we have created a new project in the Community Zone called VMworld Harvesting.

Ken Thacker has kicked things off by creating the VMworld Harvesting List

- the goal now is for the community to work through that list and identify which ones are in-scope and out-of-scope for harvesting.

The rules are simple: if the session has practical advice on how to do something, like a "best practice" session, then it is a candidate for harvesting.

Check out the list, make your recommendations, offer to own a task and write up the proven practice for a VMworld Europe session!

VI3 Deployment Blueprint grows the community

schambers — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 21:55:21 GMT

This week's start on the VI3 Deployment Blueprint has increased traffic to VIOPS by over 30% and it's still growing, we've also seen a jump in registered users.

If you haven't seen the initiative yet, check out the discussion thread Roll up, roll up! 60-point deployment blueprint

There are 60 points (documents) that need to be completed - have a look and see if any are interesting to you, then register your interest on the thread above or contact Steve Chambers.

New Availability community - and more focus on proven practices

schambers — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 23:02:57 GMT

Update on some changes...

The Automation community has been subsumed into the Management community - so check Management out for DRS, VUM and more.

A new addition, driven by the sheer demand and amount of availability / DR questions, is an Availability community. The main themes in here are:

Zero-downtime maintenance with vMotion / Maintenance Mode
High Availability clusters
Backup and Restore with VCB
Disaster Recovery - with and without SRM

The other tweak is to change the homepages so that the list of content only shows proven practices, so we are dropping the listing of discussions and blogs - you can still access them via the tabs... the reason for this is to focus and prioritize the proven practices....

Cheers

Steve