Quarter in Review: Top 5's of Q3/2009

SOLORI's top blog posts of Q3/2009

1. In-the-Lab: Full ESX Test Lab in a Box - 18%
   
   
   
   1. Part 1, Setup and Getting Started with ESXi
   
   
   2. Part 2, Selecting a Virtual Storage Appliance (VSA)
   
   
   3. Part 3, Building and Provisioning the VSA
   
   
   4. Part 4, Creating the Cluster-in-a-Box
   
   
   5. Part 5, Deploying vCenter, Update Manager, et al
   
   
   
   


2. Installing FreeNAS to USB Flash: Easy as 1, 2, 3 - 17%


3. Preview: Installing vSphere ESXi to Flash - 11%


4. Installing ESXi on the Tyan Transport GT28 - 4%


5. In-the-Lab: vSphere DPM, Quirky but Functional - 3%

SOLORI's top search engine keywords for Q3/2009

1. USB flash install - 5.6%


2. FreeNAS - 4.7%


3. ESXi - 1.7%


4. Virtual SAN - 0.6%


5. AMD - 0.4%

Summary and Comments

With about 17K visits this quarter, FreeNAS and ESXi related posts are clearly the most popular. We've seen a great deal of traffic generated by the ESX-on-ESX series, but the popular FreeNAS project comes a close second. Judging by the search engine results, nearly 6% of our traffic find the SolutionOriented Blog trying to locate tips on installing FreeNAS or ESXi to USB flash. We'll take that as a hint for next quarter to deliver more information on alternative and open storage solutions that fit virtualization use cases: stayed tuned.