This report is intended for VIOPS community members to update them on the last month's progress.

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Outline

1. Community News

2. Top Participants

3. New Documents

4. Documents Top Ten Hit Parade

5. Hot Topics

Welcome to the first Community News article of 2009!

Looking back on January, the highlights were:

• Development site finished and ready for the production push in February

• Ten new proven practices added

• Traffic to the site has increased by ~50%, and we are getting more regular visitors coming back again and again

New users, new content - and more from our established authors

Rob Ford at Metron add to his company's existing quality contributions on VIOPS with the publication of PROVEN PRACTICE: IMPLEMENTING ITIL V3 CAPACITY MANAGEMENT IN A VMWARE ENVIRONMENT.

We also had a new member write their first document, with VMware Technical Account Manager, Horst Mundt, contributing How to use trusted certificates with How to use trusted certificates with VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager.

Another new member, David Antkowiak, created his first document Operational Test Requirements. Thanks, David!

The virtualization guys at EMC, Chad Sadak and Bernie Baker, have finally joined our growing community and contributed their excellent document Updated: EMC Celerra VSA and VMware SRM Installation and Configuration.

Cormac Hogan, VMware Technical Support-extraordinaire, has continued his purple patch by adding three SRM docs:

• Steps to setup FalconStor NSS Virtual Appliances for VMware Site Recovery Manager

• Steps to setup LeftHand Networks VSA for VMware Site Recovery Manager

• Steps to setup EMC Celerra (iSCSI) for VMware Site Recovery Manager

Perhaps the biggest hit of the month has been the Steps To Create a 2-Site SRM Demo Environment on a Laptop, from Desmond Chan of VMware Technical Marketing. Great work (as always), Desmond!

Fantastic quality from all of our contributors, which has attracted some great feedback - check out the docs, and read the comments

The ten new documents of January 09, in order of publication, were:

1. Deploying Red Hat Cluster Suite on VMware

2. Steps to setup EMC Celerra (iSCSI) for VMware Site Recovery Manager

3. Steps to setup LeftHand Networks VSA for VMware Site Recovery Manager

4. Steps To Create a 2-Site SRM Demo Environment on a Laptop

5. Updated: EMC Celerra VSA and VMware SRM Installation and Configuration

6. Steps to setup FalconStor NSS Virtual Appliances for VMware Site Recovery Manager

7. Reference: The Roadmap to Virtual Infrastructure: Practical Implementation Strategies

8. How to use trusted certificates with VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager

9. Operational Test Requirements

10. PROVEN PRACTICE: IMPLEMENTING ITIL V3 CAPACITY MANAGEMENT IN A VMWARE ENVIRONMENT

The top ten documents of January 09, were:

The top ten most popular topics in January 09, were:

• Re: SAP Sizing on VMware

• Re: Introduction to Virtualization Security: A Primer for 3 year olds

• Re: Removing Storage (LUN's) in ESX 3.5

• Re: IE 7 Issue

• Re: Virtualisation and the Myth of "Standardization

• Re: What other applications do we need proven practices for?

• Re: What other applications do we need proven practices for?

• Re: What other applications do we need proven practices for?

• what licensing options people buy for each piece of the puzzle when virtualizing

• Re: Virtualisation and the Myth of "Standardization