I've noticed that Linda removed the thread people were having this discussion, an interesting discussion actually.

I find it quiet bad and not necessary as the discussion wasn't going outside the scope of the subject and everybody were putting their points whether Nexenta like or not. I beleive that thread started to show up more often causing someone from Nexenta Management to see it and determined Linda to remove the discussion as they are very Marketing driven people.

For me there is no argument to say that the discussion had very bad content(unless Linda can point which one that made her take this decision), and if it did have you could remove just the message and notify the person, not the entire thread. Seems that one or two messages were used as an excuse to remove the whole thread in convenience.

This discussion will appear again for sure and people will put their points again. Either Nexenta likes or not it is not supported by VMware(unless if running inside a VM) and won't be until the way VMware certifies for their HCL. Nexenta should not hide from that and be very clear to people about it.

Lastly I see with concern that fact the Nexenta solely controls the content of this forum. It it is supposed to be a "Community" forum and website and therefore it should be controlled by a board of Community people (with Nexenta participation of course) but not power to them to stop things by their own judgment, otherwise it will only be Nexenta using the 'Community' word conveniently.

edit by Derek on 3/20/2013: VMware Compatibility Guide