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Site Performance Tuning

Posted by RDellimmagine VMware Moderator Jun 16, 2008

Today we are increasing the expiration interval for cached content from 1 hour to 2 hours, so that guest visitors to VMware Communities will see content that is up to 2 hours old. This change is expected to increase overall site performance because more visitors will see cached content, which is served faster than non-cached content and offloads traffic from the application. After the last Akamai change we made (caching site pages for guests), site visitors including both guests and logged-in visitors reported faster page load times on the site. Today's change is part of our on-going strategy to improve site performance on VMware Communities.

Please see Performance Upgrade Planned May 28 for a full explanation.

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We've identified an issue where some testing for a critical update to VMware Store is "leaking" into VMware Communities and causing occasional system errors and thread not found errors. We are working to resolve this, but have not yet identified the leak. Because of this, you will need to expect some intermittent problems continuing possibly through June 19.

While I don't want to minimize the disruption this is causing, I am seeing that overall traffic on VMware Communities is still at normal levels, and users continue to post new content. Thank you for your patience, and please know that we continue to work to resolve this as quickly as possible.

Regards, Robert

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We re-organized some of the product areas on VMware Communities based on feedback from the community.

The new organization is as follows:

VMware Infrastructure
- Enterprise Strategy and Planning
- VI: ESXi
- VI: ESX 3.5
- VI: ESX 3.5 New Features
- VI: ESX 3.0
- VI: VirtualCenter 2.x
- VI: Virtual Machine and Guest OS
- ESX 2.x and VirtualCenter 1.x
- VMmark

Management and Automation Products
- VMware Lab Manager
- VMware Converter
- VMware Stage Manager

VMware Server

Desktop Products
- VMware Workstation
- VMware Fusion
- VMware Player
- VMware ThinApp

Enterprise Desktop Products
- VMware ACE
- Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI)
- Virtual Desktop Manager (VDM)

These changes do the following:
* Separates desktop products from enterprise desktop products
* Separates VMware Server into its own category
* Makes the management and automation tools easier to find
* Makes the naming of VMware Infrastructure communities clearer

One other change coming this week:
* We will combine the VI: ESX 3.5 New Features community into the VI: ESX 3.5 community

Please comment below if you have feedback.

Regards, Robert

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We added additional CPU and memory to the VM for the database.

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VMware Communities will be unavailable on June 5 from 6pm to 7pm Pacific for planned maintenance while we upgrade some infrastructure components.

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