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UPDATE (May 9): All maintenance completed successfully. All services are available.

VMware will be performing a system upgrade to several VMware Web applications on May 8 – 9, 2009. Maintenance will begin on Friday, May 8th at 6:30 P.M. PDT. All maintenance will be completed by Saturday, May 9th at 12 P.M. PDT.

While this upgrade is in progress, you will be unable to:

• Log into VMware Communities (Note: If you are already logged in, you will still have full access to the site)
• Access or manage your VMware account
• Submit support requests online
• Download, purchase or register VMware products
• Manage VMware product licenses

Login to VMware Communities will be unavailable on Friday April 24 from 7pm to midnight (5 hours) for planned maintenance of VMware Web site infrastructure. VMware Communities is expected to remain available for people who are already logged in. The maintenance does not involve any changes to core VMware Communities functionality.

We are pleased to announce the arrival of the VMware vSphere Community, as we rapidly approach GA of vSphere 4.0. The community landing page and its sub-communities have useful content and links for your perusal. The Upgrade and Install community in particular would be of interest to customers planning to upgrade to vSphere 4.0, as well as prospective customers interested in evaluating (and buying, of course!) our new cloud operating system. Have fun!

Also, we have done some minor rearranging and/or renaming of existing communities:

• "Datacenter Virtualization Products" has been changed to "VMware Infrastructure™."
• "Enterprise Strategy and Planning" has been moved up from under VMware Infrastructure to reside directly under VMTN.
• "VMware VMmark" has been moved from VMware Infrastructure to General > Performance.
• "VI: Virtual Machine and Guest OS" has dropped the "VI" from its name and moved under General (and the URL now ends with /vm-guest instead of /guest).
• Finally, the "Security and Compliance" community under General has been modified to reflect the addition of "vShield Zone;" it is now called "Security and vShield Zones"

We are pleased to announce the arrival of vCenter Mobile Access, currently available for FREE to all VMware customers as a technology preview. The community may be accessed under the Beta Community category at http://communities.vmware.com/community/beta/vcmobileaccess. The product team will actively participate in the community discussions and listen to your feedback, so please check it out. Begin by reading Srinivas' welcome message: VMware vCenter Mobile Access Technology Preview is now available.

Thank you,
The VMware Team

We recently updated the Communities homepage, also known as the "Communities" tab in the header of all VMware Web sites. Here's how it looks:



What's new, you ask?

All Communities and My Communities navigation lists are now integrated into this page. See them in two places: as dropdowns at the top (shown above) and in the main body of the page. This page has always shown the top new community content and your own personal statistics -- now it also lets you easily navigate to any community. As a side benefit, we optimized the page for faster load times.

Feedback for the new homepage has been positive. And now that the page has navigation features, I want to make it more visible. This is the ideal homepage because you can go anywhere, see recent community contributions, and see how the community receives your contributions, all from one place. This makes it easier to interact with other community members.

In the next week or so, I plan to replace the old homepage (which has only the navigation features) with this one. Meanwhile, if you haven't seen the new homepage, take a look and let me know if your feedback.