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Please join me in congratulating Desmond Chan as the new expert highlighted on the VIOPS front page.

Desmond was one of the original moderators of VIOPS and has been a strong supporter within the VMware technical community. He has been a leading contributor to VIOPS by authoring five top quality proven practices. Here are two examples of his latest work.

• VMware Data Recovery Dedupe Store Setup Guideline

• Proven Practice: Splitting a VirtualCenter Server Installation

Great work, Desmond, keep it coming!

Evoking images of the September harvest, but this time in March and without the heat and dust... everyone wants to benefit as much as possible from the great content on show at VMworld Europe, so this time we thought we'd formalize it a bit and create some VIOPS content from the VMworld Europe sessions.

This is not copying the sessions into VIOPS; they have a great home over on vmworld.com where you'll be able to see and hear the session recordings. The plan instead is to keep developing the VIOPS tradition of adding value to existing content by syndicating the practical content from a session into a proven practice document, adding more guidance and references to it, and then connecting that document to the knowledge zones on VIOPS like "Security".

To track this work, we have created a new project in the Community Zone called VMworld Harvesting.

Ken Thacker has kicked things off by creating the VMworld Harvesting List

- the goal now is for the community to work through that list and identify which ones are in-scope and out-of-scope for harvesting.

The rules are simple: if the session has practical advice on how to do something, like a "best practice" session, then it is a candidate for harvesting.

Check out the list, make your recommendations, offer to own a task and write up the proven practice for a VMworld Europe session!

Update on some changes...

The Automation community has been subsumed into the Management community - so check Management out for DRS, VUM and more.

A new addition, driven by the sheer demand and amount of availability / DR questions, is an Availability community. The main themes in here are:

1. Zero-downtime maintenance with vMotion / Maintenance Mode
2. High Availability clusters
3. Backup and Restore with VCB
4. Disaster Recovery - with and without SRM

The other tweak is to change the homepages so that the list of content only shows proven practices, so we are dropping the listing of discussions and blogs - you can still access them via the tabs... the reason for this is to focus and prioritize the proven practices....

Cheers

Steve