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Check out the new Customer Education community under VMTN -> Technical Training & Certification. Per the introduction - Welcome to the Customer Education forum - by community host, Brian Rice:

"Greetings, all. I am VMware's Education Services Product Manager; I've been working in VMware's customer education program, as an instructor, course developer, and now product manager, since 2002.

"Through this forum, I hope to get feedback and suggestions from VMware customers and partners about how our program could serve them better. Example topics: What courses should we offer that we presently don't? How could we improve our current courses? Are we offering training in the right formats: instructor-led, live online, self-paced online ("eLearning"), or blends? Why don't we have training in your hometown?"

Thanks.

Badsah

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We are deploying two stability and performance patches to the VMware Communities platform today:

1. A performance patch from Jive

Certain objects were calling a reflection API dynamically that should have been cached internally. According to Jive, caching this will reduce CPU demands on the application.
2. An update to the JRE
Minor update that will remove some errors we have seen in the log files.

The update is scheduled at 4pm Pacific time today, March 21, and will not affect VMware Communities availability because we will deploy it on each cluster node and then restart each cluster node individually. Only communities participants currently connected to a node that is restarted will temporarily lose their connection when they are reconnected to another cluster node.

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New VMware Communities

Posted by Badsah VMware Moderator Mar 19, 2008

Hello, Community Members,

I am pleased to announce several new communities that you have been anticipating for a while:

  • VMware Certified Professional (VCP): now the official, central location for all VCP-related FAQs, questions, discussions, moderated by the VMware VCP program leaders. This is located under the new Technical Training & Certification category. Look out for the upcoming Customer Education community!
  • VI: VMware ESXi: no more digging through the catch-all ESX Server 3.x community for 3i answers!
  • VMware ThinApp: Discussion Forum: technically a "Public Beta" community, this is a community for providing your feedback directly to the product team! Product Manager, Ed Albanese, is all ears.
  • VMware View Manager: a community focused on VDM, the connection manager software component of VDI.

You'll be hearing about more new communities in the future, right here on the VMware Communities Blog. Let us know what you think!

Badsah Mukherji, Sr. Community Manager

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Performance Update

Posted by RDellimmagine VMware Moderator Mar 14, 2008

This blog has been quiet for the last two weeks, so I wanted to give an update: We are testing a performance patch next week that we received from Jive (it increases caching of certain objects) that they say will improve system performance. We are also investigating caching of pages for guests (non-logged in site visitor), which should provide further improvements. And we are investigating our Akamai configuration, although we believe any changes here will likely yield a smaller improvement. I'll update again next week when I have a schedule for the performance patch.

We also intend to re-enable points calculation, but this is lower priority than the performance fixes, so we'll schedule it after at least the initial performance patch is deployed.

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