VMware stops working after update - now thanks to virtualisation this single patch can take out dozens of servers instead of one
Before virtualisation a bad patch would affect a single server, but now thanks to virtualisation and bad coding, you can easily take down a large part of your infrastructure.
Sloppy programmers managed to leave beta code in VMware ESX 2.5 Update 2 and ESXi Server 3.5 Update 2 release on 12 August , resulting in the VMware licence manager thinking the software was beta and had expired. This then resulted in VMware refusing to start any of the virtual machines on the patched server.
Wait, aren’t VMware a part of EMC, the World’s premier storage vendor? Doesn’t EMC also own RSA, a leading security vendor - triple ouch. Sloppy coding practices after the EMC acquisition on such a mission critical product is inexcusable.
Over the past year VMware have been using EMC’s marketing dollars to make a massive push to convince organisations to move their critical applications to virtualised servers, this has got to hurt.
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Jimmy,
Your comments are spot on. Hurts indeed; I’ve seen it. I’d be interested to talk with you further (sidebar) sometime.
Keep up the good work, promoting our profession. Thanks.
Regards,
Cheri