{"id":11486,"date":"2011-08-12T08:31:34","date_gmt":"2011-08-12T08:31:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=11486"},"modified":"2011-08-12T08:31:34","modified_gmt":"2011-08-12T08:31:34","slug":"the-great-big-hyper-v-survey-of-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=11486","title":{"rendered":"The Great Big Hyper-V Survey of 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The survey is now closed and the results can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?download=Great Big Hyper-V Survey 2011\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As a blogger\/author\/speaker, it\u2019s very easy to fall into the trap of assuming that everyone works in a similar way and environment as I do.\u00a0 My experiences are based on:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>When I was managing Hyper-V\/System Center directly in a hosting environment<\/li>\n<li>Talking to people online<\/li>\n<li>Helping people as a consultant, or in my current role as a partner technical advisor<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Most of my experiences are in Ireland, and it\u2019s rare to see a virtualisation cluster of more than a few nodes in these parts.<\/p>\n<p>And this is why me, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.damianflynn.com\" target=\"_blank\">Damian Flynn<\/a> (another Hyper-V MVP), and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hyper-v.nu\/\" target=\"_blank\">Hans Vredevoort<\/a> (Failover Clustering MVP), have joined forces to bring you the \u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kwiksurveys.com?u=BigHyperVSurvey2011\" target=\"_blank\">GREAT BIG HYPER-V SURVEY of 2011<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The goals are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>We learn a bit more about what everyone is up to<\/li>\n<li>We can share the findings with everyone so you can learn what everyone else is up to<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This <a href=\"http:\/\/kwiksurveys.com?u=BigHyperVSurvey2011\" target=\"_blank\">survey<\/a> will run from this morning until 5th of September.\u00a0 We want to publish the results later that week, which just so happens to be the week before the Build Windows conference.\u00a0 We\u2019ll be publishing the percentages breakdowns, and also trying to figure out trends.<\/p>\n<p>In the <a href=\"http:\/\/kwiksurveys.com?u=BigHyperVSurvey2011\" target=\"_blank\">survey<\/a>, we ask about:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Your Hyper-V project\/environment<\/li>\n<li>Your Hyper-V installation<\/li>\n<li>Systems management<\/li>\n<li>What you considering to do in 2012<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>There is no personal information, no company specific information.\u00a0 Microsoft has zero involvement.\u00a0 They\u2019ll see\/read the results the same way you do, on the blogs of myself, Damian, and Hans (Hyper-V.nu).<\/p>\n<p>The whole thing will take just 5 minutes; the more people that contribute, the more we will all learn about what people are up to, and the more we\u2019ll be able to tweak blog posts, speaking, training, writing, etc, to what is really being done.\u00a0 If this goes well, we\u2019ll do another one in 2012, 2013, and so on.<\/p>\n<p>So come on \u2026. <a href=\"http:\/\/kwiksurveys.com?u=BigHyperVSurvey2011\" target=\"_blank\">give the greater community 5 minutes of your time<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>EDIT:<\/p>\n<p>Please spread the word of this <a href=\"http:\/\/kwiksurveys.com\/?u=BigHyperVSurvey2011\" target=\"_blank\">survey<\/a>: blog, (re)tweet, Facebook, Google+, LinkedIn, even MySpace\/Bebo it!<\/p>\n<div id=\"scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:3a79d67b-b229-474d-b720-a83d4ae34228\" class=\"wlWriterEditableSmartContent\" style=\"margin: 0px; display: inline; float: none; padding: 0px;\">Technorati Tags: <a rel=\"tag\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Hyper-V\">Hyper-V<\/a>,<a rel=\"tag\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Private+Cloud\">Private Cloud<\/a>,<a rel=\"tag\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/System+Center\">System Center<\/a>,<a rel=\"tag\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Failover+Clustering\">Failover Clustering<\/a>,<a rel=\"tag\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Virtualisation\">Virtualisation<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The survey is now closed and the results can be found here. As a blogger\/author\/speaker, it\u2019s very easy to fall into the trap of assuming that everyone works in a similar way and environment as I do.\u00a0 My experiences are based on: When I was managing Hyper-V\/System Center directly in a hosting environment Talking to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=11486\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Great Big Hyper-V Survey of 2011&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[63,181,88,193,195],"class_list":["post-11486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hyper-v","tag-failover-clustering","tag-hyper-v","tag-private-cloud","tag-system-center","tag-virtualisation"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11486\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}