VMware Communities Blog

Join the VMware Studio 2.0 Beta Program

Badsah — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 02:26:06 GMT

We are pleased to announce that the beta version of VMware Studio 2.0 has been released and is available for download. We look forward to receiving your feedback - issues, feature requests, suggestions for improvement - through the Discussions forum in the VMware Studio 2.0 Beta Program Community.

If you already have a Store account on VMware.com, register for the beta directly.
If you do not have a Store account, please create an account AND join the beta.

The VMware Team

New Community, New Product: VMware vCenter Mobile Access Technology Preview

Badsah — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 23:52:11 GMT

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

Recently-added Public Betas

Badsah — Tue, 27 May 2008 20:30:00 GMT

It's been a while since I updated all of you on the creation of new VMware Communities. Since we created the first two beta portals, Workstation 6.5 Beta and ACE 2.5 Beta, two more public beta program communities have emerged: VMware ThinApp™ and VMware Fusion 2.0 Beta . Obviously, the VMware desktop product teams have been quite active! But don't worry, the server product teams are quietly working behind the scenes, and you'll see the fruit of their labor in due time.

Meanwhile, the Workstation 6.5 Beta and ACE 2.5 Beta portals have been refreshed, but will now require you to register, in order to view the beta portal as well as to download the binaries. The initial step is annoying: having to go in and complete that dreaded registration form all over again, and accepting the End User License Agreement. However, the upside is that, in the future, you will never have to register again for beta programs for these two products. (Some users have been complaining about going through registration process and receiving an error message: "Unauthorized." I am writing a separate post just on that subject.)

Thanks.

Badsah

Another New VMware Community: Customer Education

Badsah — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 23:35:00 GMT

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

New VMware Communities

Badsah — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 03:38:00 GMT

Hello, Community Members,

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

VCP: VMware Certified Professional: 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 Training & Certification category. Look out for the upcoming Customer Education community!
VI: VMware ESXi™ 3.5: 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.
~~c-2553~~: a community focused on VDM, the connection manager software component of VDI.