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The Developer Community has a fresh new look.

What's new:

  • - A cleaner taxonomy of VMware's developer products
  • - A clearer, cleaner list of VMware's developer resources
  • - A tabbed interface to make it easier to find discussions, shared documents, and blog posts
  • - A new VI API video

The Performance & VMmark community also got a facelift. While the changes here are more subtle, you should find the content easier to navigate.

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Communities Patch Deployed

Posted by RDellimmagine VMware Moderator Dec 12, 2008

Today we deployed a patch that made the following changes:

  • - The previous / next links on threads are now disabled. This feature is cpu-intensive and was credited with causing a number of recent node crashes, so it has been disabled to increase system stability.
  • - The "Who's Online" feature is now disabled for the same reason. The address book function in private messaging relies on this feature and was also disabled.
  • - User authentication calls were optimized for performance.
  • - Email notifications were fixed. There had been an issue where some email notifications were not sent.

There was no downtime associated with this patch.

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We determined that one of the three nodes in the cluster was not connected to the cluster for about 15 hours today. While all data was correctly written to the database, the two nodes in the cluster were showing different content than the third node which wasn't connected. We resolved this issue around 6pm Pacific time on December 3, and we are taking steps to ensure it doesn't happen again.

There may be some additional delay before the caches are 100% in sync again, and I will report status tomorrow. Meanwhile, we continue to watch the application closely so we can respond quickly if any other problems arise.

Thank you for your patience. Regards, Robert

Update December 4, 11:21am Pacific: It appears that node synchronization problem is resolved, but we are still seeing high load on the servers and some errors reported by VMware Communities participants. We are actively working with Jive, and we have some active areas of investigation that we expect will lead to improvements. Thanks again for your patience.

Update December 5, 3:55pm Pacific: We made a configuration change early this morning that has decreased server load significantly.

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The VMware Communities site is experiencing some issues where new posts are not displaying. We are aware of the issue and are working to resolve it. I will post here when I have more information on the fix. We are giving it high priority. Regards, Robert

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Product Name Changes

Posted by RDellimmagine VMware Moderator Dec 1, 2008

You'll notice we made some name changes on VMware Communities (and you'll see the on the main www.vmware.com site as well).

  • - VMware VirtualCenter is now VMware vCenter Server
  • - VMware vCenter is the family name for all management products.
  • - VMware Lab Manager is now VMware vCenter Lab Manager (since it is in the management products family).
  • - The VMware vCenter prefix applies to the other products in the management products family as well.
  • - VMware View is the family name for all VDI / VDM products.
  • - VMware VDI is now VMware View
  • - VMware VDM is now VMware View Manager

So, while all change takes a bit of time to get used to, I think this one is pretty straightforward, and I wish you all well adjusting to the new names.

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