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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 second Community News article of 2009!

February has been a month of firsts!

• First ever VIOPS moderator appointed - please welcome Rodos

• First ever VIOPS project launched - VI3.Blueprint, VMworld Harvesting and Content Pipeline.

• First ever sharing of official VMware graphics - our fantastically talented graphic artists have shared their icons and diagrams for everyone to use in their presentations (and maishsk has transferred them into Visio too!)

• New look & feel has successfully been pushed

• Updated infrastructure to support growing site traffic

• Traffic to the site has increased by ~62% and we are getting more regular visitors coming back again and again. More direct deep linking from various sites means that VIOPS is becoming a recognized source of good information.

What's in store for March 09?

• VI3.Blueprint project should be complete

• VMworld Harvesting project will be underway

• Content Pipeline tasks will be flushed into creating proven practice documents

• First VIOPS webinar delivered, on Capacity Management, with Rob Ford @ Metron.

For February 09 we have six top contributors to recognize:

• Rodos

• Rob Ford

• Maish

• Rob Waite

• Greg Petras

• Ken Thacker

Thanks to them from the whole VIOPS team for their valuable contributions.

We would like to welcome our first VIOPS moderator Rodney Haywood AKA Rodos. Rodos will be assisting the VIOPS community in various ways by editing and approving various documents and answering various questions throughout the site.

• Please give a warm welcome to Rodos - to find out more about him, check out his blog site here.

Rob Ford and the guys at Metron, recognized ITIL and Capacity Management experts with decades of experience, have agreed to deliver the first VIOPS expert seminar on everyone's hot topic - VMware Capacity Management. The date is yet to be decided, but early interest has been strong.

• Register your interest on this thread: VIOPS Capacity Management Webinar with Metron

Not content with working on the webinar, Rob has also written up a proven practice on handling a hot topic - how to identify virtual machines for "recycling" - reclaiming allocated-but-unused resources from idle/rogue VMs.

• Proven Practice: Using Athene to recycle VM’s

Maish has transferred these icons and diagrams into Visio stencil format, so that you can now use them in your Visio architecture diagrams! Thanks, Maish!

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• Library VMware Icons and Diagrams

Our new moderator, Rodos, has also written his first comprehensive proven practice on the popular them of migrating from physical servers to virtual machines. Recognizing that this challenge is more about a well planned and executed process rather than which tools you use, especially when working to scale, this document is a true fountain of knowledge.

• Proven Practice : Migration Methodology

Rob Waite from NetApp has kindly syndicated the fantastic best practices document into VIOPS.

• NetApp and VMware VI3 Storage Best Practices

Greg has posted a link to a document he's found useful, to save others struggling with searching the internet...

• Linux on ESX

In the VMworld Harvesting project, Ken Thacker as kicked things of with the session catalogue:

• VMworld Harvesting List

Who will be the stars next month - could it be you? Learn how to add your knowledge to VIOPS in How to create a proven practice document

20 new documents highlighted for February 09

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2. NetApp and VMware VI3 Storage Best Practices

3. P2V Decision Tree

4. Proven Practice : Migration Methodology

5. Library VMware Icons and Diagrams

6. Integrating EMC Clarriion ISCSI with ESX 3.5

7. How to shutdown ESX/ESXi from APCUPDS using VI Perl Toolkit

8. How to configure ESXi to shutdown using an APC SmartUPS

9. Proven Practice: Integrating CommVault Galaxy 6.1 SP4 with VCB 1.1

10. Steps to setup EMC Clariions for VMware Site Recovery Manager

11. VI3.Blueprint Project

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16. Proven Practice: Using Athene to recycle VM’s

17. Proposal: VIOPS Specialist Interest Groups (vSIGs)

18. VI3 Event Management Workshop

19. Virtual First Policy

20. Linux on ESX

The top ten documents of February 09, were:

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

• Citrix On VMware (Updated)

• Are you interested in ITIL topics...? (Updated)

• Red Hat Linux on ESX - current & best practices (Updated)

• Ideas or feedback?

• VM Test plan Req (Updated)

• VIOPS Special Interest Groups (vSIG)?

• VIMA

• New Graphics and Icons from VMware - anything missing?

• Signature blocks in profile

• Cluster in DMZ?