2018 is done and dusted and looking back on the blog over the last twelve months I’ve not been happy with my output compared to previous years…i’ve found it a little harder to churn out content. Compared to 2017 where I managed 90 posts (including this one) this year I was down to 83. My goal has always been to put out at least two quality posts a week, however again travel comes into play and this impacts my productivity and tinkering time, which is where a lot of the content comes from…that said, I am drawing closer to the 500th blog post on Virtualization is Life! since going live in 2012.

Looking back through the statistics generated via JetPack, I’ve listed the Top 10 Blog Posts from the last 12 months. This year the VCSA, NSX, vCenter Upgrades/Migrations and Homelab posts dominating the top ten. As I posted about last year the common 503 error for the VCSA is still a trending search topic.

  1. Quick Fix: VCSA 503 Service Unavailable Error
  2. Quick Look – vSphere 6.5 Storage Space Reclamation
  3. Upgrading Windows vCenter 5.5 to 6.0 In-Place: Issues and Fixes
  4. ESXi 6.5 Storage Performance Issues and Fix
  5. Quick Fix: OVF package with compressed disks is currently not supported
  6. NSX Bytes: Updated – NSX Edge Feature and Performance Matrix
  7. HomeLab – SuperMicro 5028D-TNT4 Storage Driver Performance Issues and Fix
  8. NSX Bytes: NSX-v 6.3 Host Preparation Fails with Agent VIB module not installed
  9. Public Cloud and Infrastructure as Code…The Good and the Bad all in One Day!
  10. Released: vCloud Director 9.1 – New HTML5 Features, vCD-CLI and more!

In terms of the Top 10 new posts created in 2018, the list looks representative of my Veeam content with vCloud Director posts featuring as well as

  1. NSX Bytes: Updated – NSX Edge Feature and Performance Matrix
  2. Public Cloud and Infrastructure as Code…The Good and the Bad all in One Day!
  3. Released: vCloud Director 9.1 – New HTML5 Features, vCD-CLI and more!
  4. vSphere 6.7 Update 1 – Top New Features and Platform Supportability
  5. Configuring Service Provider Self Service Recovery with Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365
  6. Released: vCloud Director 9.5 – Full HTML5 Tenant UI, NSX-T Thoughts and More!
  7. Setting up vSAN iSCSI and using it as a Veeam Repository
  8. NSX-v 6.4.0 Released! What’s in it for Service Providers
  9. VMworld 2018 Recap Part 1 – Major Announcement Breakdown!
  10. Creating a Single Host SDDC for VMware Cloud on AWS

Again while I found it difficult to keep up the pace with previous years I fully intend to keep on pushing this blog by keeping it strong to it’s roots of vCloud Director and core VMware technologies like NSX and vSAN however I have started to branch out and talk more about automation and orchestration topics. There will be a lot of Veeam posts around product deep dives, release info and I’ll continue to generate content around what I am passionate about…and that includes all things hosting, cloud and availability!

I hope you can join me in 2019!

#LongLivevCD