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Top 10 blog list has been updated!
Bloggers come and go and new bloggers are popping up all the time so I thought I would re-visit my top 10 list that I did in July. Here's a summary of the changes to the list, you can read the full list here and also quickly access any of the blogs from my Launchpad.

New position - Blog Name - Blogger Name - Previous position
(1) Yellow Bricks (Duncan Epping) - 9
(2) Blog.scottlowe.org (Scott Lowe) - 2
(3) Mike D's Virtualization Blog (Mike DePetrillo) - New
(4) NTPro.nl (Eric Sloof) - 6
(5) SearchServerVirtualization Blog (Various) - 3
(6) Virtualization Pro (Various) - 4
(7) VM /ETC (Rich Brambley) - 5
(8) RTFM Education (Mike Laverick) - 1
(9) Rational Survivability (Christofer Hoff) - 8
(10) Virtual Geek (Chad Sakac) - New

Honorable mention to Jason Boche who has been doing some great work on his new blog, if he keeps it up he's sure to make the list soon (I normally don't add new blogs to the list until they have been at it for at least 3 months.)
Posted: 11/6/2008

Collection of ESXi links
Check out my growing collection of links on ESXi for everything you need to know about it.
Posted: 8/5/2008

Vmtn Community Experts Panel at VMworld

If you are going to be at VMworld 2008 in Las Vegas be sure and check out session PO1861 - Vmtn Community Experts Panel. A group of experts from the Vmtn community will be answering any and all questions from the audience. Here's your chance to meet some of the people that donate their time to assist others and help moderate the forums. The panel consists of some well-known senior forum members:

Thomas Bryant (Kix1979)
Ken Cline (Ken.Cline)
Steve Beaver (Sbeaver)
Edward Haletky (Texiwill)
Tom Howarth (Tom Howarth)
Eric Siebert (Esiebert7625)
Posted: 8/5/2008

VMware has updated there VI3 Security Hardening guide

From the VMware Security blog:

We have recently released an update to the VI3 Security Hardening guide.  The main changes are:

    • new content for ESX 3.5 and VirtualCenter 2.5, including VirtualCenter plug-ins
    • a section specific to hardening for ESXi
    • new sections for VM configuration as well as client software
    • a greater level of depth for the existing recommendations

To keep things simple, the new version uses the same URL as the previous version:
http://www.vmware.com/resources/techresources/726
Posted: 7/15/2008

More new Top 10 lists!
I've added 2 new Top 10 lists: Top 10 blogs that VMware administrators must read and Top 10 news and information websites that VMware administrators must visit. I've also revised several of the existing lists so be sure and check them all out.
Posted: 7/14/2008

Some interesting recent kb articles
Check out these recent kb articles that may apply to your environment:
mgmt-vmware restart script might not finish restarting the hostd
Slow performance of virtual machines that use vSMP when running on an ESX Server using certain hardware
After cold migration on ESX Server, virtual disk with snapshot has the wrong CID
Posted: 6/16/2008

New Top 10 list released
I've put together a new Top 10 list featuring the Top 10 free tools that should be in every VMware administrator's toolkit. Check it out!
Posted: 6/16/2008

VMware Launchpad Updated
The Launchpad has been re-organized and many new websites have been added to it, check it out. The Launchpad is your one stop shop for all the good VMware-related websites including news, blogs, reference and much more.
Posted: 5/1/2008

What I've been up to
I've signed up to be a regular blogger on Tech Target's SearchServerVirtualization.com website. Be sure and check out my blog posts over there. I've also been writing feature articles for SearchVmware.com, check out my latest articles on Snapshots: Part 1 and Part 2
Posted: 5/1/2008

Top 10 Lists have been updated
I've been updating most of the Top 10 lists so they reflect some of the newer content that is now available. Be sure and check them out, I'm also in the process of adding a bunch of new ones.
Posted: 5/1/2008

So Many Links, So Little Time
Scouring the internet to collect links is hard, time-consuming work and it's difficult sometimes to always find the time. I've just added a batch of about 100 new links to the VMware Links page. I've started noting new links on the page and the date they were added. Enjoy!
Posted: 5/1/2008