My colleague Eric Gray blogged about “VCritical’s” top 10 this morning and I figured why not do the same… here we go:

While many posts from previous years have proven to be evergreen, and among the most heavily trafficked, these are the top posts on Yellow-Bricks published in 2010:

1. ESXTOP
2. VMotion, the story and confessions
3. What’s the point of setting “-iops=1″
4. VMware vCloud Director
5. Storage I/O Fairness
6. vCD Networking – Intro – Part 1
7. The Resource Pool Priority-Pie Paradox
8. Limiting your vCPU
9. Aligning your VMs virtual harddisks
10. SIOC, tying up some lose ends

My personal favorites:

1. VMotion, the story and confessions
   I guess I love this one as it isn’t really a tech deepdive but more about how VMware, and in specific Mike Nelson, changed my world and those of many others… Especially the comments make this article a great read!
2. Re: Maximum Hosts Per Cluster
   This is what I love about blogging, responding to others, voicing your opinion, sharing thoughts / knowledge / expertise… that is what it is all about in my opinion.
3. ESXTOP
   I love esxtop, there is so much info to be found in esxtop that I never knew where to start. I started documenting some thresholds and by the looks of the stats on this page I wasn’t the only one who needed some guidelines. This page is getting more hits daily than my HA deepdive…

I want to thank everyone for reading yellow-bricks.com and I want to wish all of you a great 2011. See you next year,