Most Popular Posts of 2011

I’ve just run some reports to figure out what the most popular pages are on my blog.  It’s amazing how many of them are old.

10) Whitepaper: A Guide to Hyper-V Dynamic Memory

This is the post where I published my guide to Windows Server 2008 R2 with Service Pack 1 Hyper-V Dynamic Memory, talking about how it works, how to configure it, and some recommendations.

9) Hyper-V Visio Stencils

Jonathan Cusson’s work appears to be a popular choice.  I guess a lot of you are designing Hyper-V clusters in Visio.  I posted this one on 16/9/2010.

8) What to Expect From SCVMM 2012

This post dates back to November 2010 and is based on the initial announcements for VMM 2012 at Teched Europe 2010.

7) Got a Vodafone Ireland Home Broadband Router? Make These Changes

Vodafone Ireland made a mistake when they pissed me off back in 2009/2010.  My entries on the matter still get lots of hits.  The worst kind of marketing you can do is piss off a customer, especially one that knows how to get ranked on Google Smile

6) Hyper-V and VLAN’s

I did a lot of posts in the latter half of 2009 on Hyper-V and VMM, and this one has proven to be popular.  The Great Big Hyper-V Survey of 2011 shows that networking was a big challenge for most.

5) How Bad Is Vodafone Ireland Home Broadband?

I told you that I could score well on Google.  My problems may have gone away, but the mark of Vodafone Ireland Home Broadband continues to this day.  From January 2010.

4) Can You Install Hyper-V in a VM?

Wow!  But yeah, it comes up a lot apparently!  It’s not that people really want to do this, but they want to be able to set up labs to learn the product, and try out clusters, with the minimum of equipment.  Not everyone has free access to racks of servers and SAN storage.  From 2009.

3) Create a Shutdown Tile in Windows 8 Metro UI Start Screen

I posted this one the morning after we got the Windows 8 Slate PCs at the Build conference last year.  I wanted a quick way to shutdown my machine, without juggling through Settings.  Change is not always good, and study groups are the worst way to design (1 loud person can sway an entire group).

2) Whitepaper: How to Build a Hyper-V Cluster Using the Microsoft iSCSI Software Target v3.3

I released this whitepaper in April 2011.  I did it for two reasons.  1) I wanted to try out the iSCSI Software Target in the lab that I had at the time.  2) I wanted something more structured than my most popular blog post …

1) Rough Guide To Setting Up A Hyper-V Cluster

This one is from January 2009.  This post was a summation of various things that I could think of at the time, and a very rough guide for building a Hyper-V cluster, unlike the more structured guide which came in at #2.

Comments

Together, the two clustering posts (#1 and #2) have over four times the hits of the #3 post.  I think that says a lot.  The topic that I blog about is pretty niche.  Blogging anything about Windows 8 is an easy way to get hits.  But even with this, people are still flocking to learn how to build a Hyper-V cluster.

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