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CardJoe · 14th Aug 2008, 13:55

http://www.bit-tech.net/news/2008/08...servers-down/1

A bug in the licensing system for virtualisation software VMware prevented systems worldwide from restarting properly on dates after the 12th of August.

Redbeaver · 14th Aug 2008, 14:22

heh, i never upgrade our version of VMware in the office. still running an older version and it works just fine.

yakyb · 14th Aug 2008, 15:39

hahaha clearly

12/august = 12/08 ie misread to mean end of year funny

i love software bugs someof them are so silly

TreeDude · 14th Aug 2008, 15:54

We use VMware pretty heavily where I work. We virtualize anything that can be. We did not have this update applied though. We only do updates a few times a year to save on server down time.

LordPyrinc · 14th Aug 2008, 23:11

Lesson learned... never stand up new patches as soon as they are available. Wait a week or two to see if others experience problems. Especially if you have critical systems that could cost $$$ or worse if they go down unexpectedly.

SlickGnome · 15th Aug 2008, 13:58

Have VMware on in my test lab here, but Didn't have the update installed yet. Glad I didn't, but at least it would have only bee the test lab server (though that would have kicked my butt for some other migration testing I'm doing right now)

seanblee · 15th Aug 2008, 21:35

Affected 2 of our servers, though fortunately they were only running test machines, not production systems. Rumour has it they left in a time-bomb from the beta by mistake. Pretty careless tbh - they can't expect to be taken seriously against the likes of Microsoft when they do stupid things like this.

ebola_one · 17th Aug 2008, 03:47

We run a smallish farm, still running 3.0.2, we're looking at upgrading to 3.5 but had only started looking at 3.5 U1 (thankfully).
Quite funny, the dev guy working on the upgrade was peeved that he'd just downloaded 3.5u1 and a few days later 3.5u2 was released.

seanblee · 17th Aug 2008, 12:06

3.5u2 has some nice added server hardware monitoring features - it can read things like temperatures and voltages from BMC sensors, and also get health status from a bunch of different RAID controllers. Our servers are all Dell PowerEdge 2950s with PERC 6i controllers, so it's even able to read little things like RAID controller battery voltage and charge status - very cool. Now they've patched the time bomb thing, I'd strongly recommend looking at u2.

14th Aug 2008, 13:55	#1
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14th Aug 2008, 23:11	#5
LordPyrinc Legomaniac Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: USA Posts: 256	Lesson learned... never stand up new patches as soon as they are available. Wait a week or two to see if others experience problems. Especially if you have critical systems that could cost $$$ or worse if they go down unexpectedly. __________________ HP Pavilion Elite m9040n PC - Vista Home Premium Intel Core 2 Quad Processor Q6600 @ 2.40ghz - 3G of RAM - Dual 320G HDs Upgrades/Add-ons: 22" Widescreen LCD, 700W RocketFish PSU, BFG GeForce 9800 GT 160G Ext USB HD, Logitech X-540 5.1 Surround Sound Speakers Last edited by LordPyrinc; 14th Aug 2008 at 23:12. Reason: typo

14th Aug 2008, 15:54	#4
TreeDude Multimodder Join Date: May 2007 Posts: 239	We use VMware pretty heavily where I work. We virtualize anything that can be. We did not have this update applied though. We only do updates a few times a year to save on server down time.

15th Aug 2008, 13:58	#6
SlickGnome Minimodder Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: BKAC Posts: 46	Have VMware on in my test lab here, but Didn't have the update installed yet. Glad I didn't, but at least it would have only bee the test lab server (though that would have kicked my butt for some other migration testing I'm doing right now)

15th Aug 2008, 21:35	#7
seanblee Multimodder Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: London, UK Posts: 229	Affected 2 of our servers, though fortunately they were only running test machines, not production systems. Rumour has it they left in a time-bomb from the beta by mistake. Pretty careless tbh - they can't expect to be taken seriously against the likes of Microsoft when they do stupid things like this.

17th Aug 2008, 03:47	#8
ebola_one Minimodder Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Wellington, New Zealand Posts: 40	We run a smallish farm, still running 3.0.2, we're looking at upgrading to 3.5 but had only started looking at 3.5 U1 (thankfully). Quite funny, the dev guy working on the upgrade was peeved that he'd just downloaded 3.5u1 and a few days later 3.5u2 was released.

17th Aug 2008, 12:06	#9
seanblee Multimodder Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: London, UK Posts: 229	3.5u2 has some nice added server hardware monitoring features - it can read things like temperatures and voltages from BMC sensors, and also get health status from a bunch of different RAID controllers. Our servers are all Dell PowerEdge 2950s with PERC 6i controllers, so it's even able to read little things like RAID controller battery voltage and charge status - very cool. Now they've patched the time bomb thing, I'd strongly recommend looking at u2.