My personal VMworld 2008 schedule highlights
The VMworld 2008 schedule builder is live, and I have build my personal schedule. I will post my full schedule before the start of VMWorld, so you can see which sessions I will attend and what I will be blogging about. In the mean time, take a look at some highlights in my schedule. There are some great new features that will be announced/released during VMworld 2008. If you are attending VMworld, which session are you looking forward to the most? … Continue Reading
VMWare releases new Builds
VMWare has released a new build of their flagship products ESX3.5Update2 (build #110268) and ESX3i 3.5Update2 (build #110271), due to the problems mentioned earlier on this blog. VMWare kept their promise to fix the problems with the expiration bug very quick. The updated binaries can be downloaded here.
Sure, VMWare made a (critical) mistake, but what’s all the fuzz about ?
Sure, you’ve read about the Update 2 troubles. VMWare made a huge mistake by releasing something with trial-code in it, and the impact can be huge when put into production but there’s what’s bugging me : the whole world is acting like the impact it has is catastrophic.
Virtualization.info started with the topic title ”VMWare mistake shuts down thousands of Virtual Infrastructures”, later on nuanced by “may shut down”. They also state that 95% of the Fortune 500 customers use VMWare and over 50% uses VMotion. Yeah, sure they do, but do you really think that administrators working at a Fortune 500 company think : “hey wow a new patch; it’s from VMWare so it’ll be good; let’s put it into production right now!” ?
Really, lots of people are acting like there are hundreds of thousands of virtual servers around the world that have been down and we should all stop using VMWare and switch to the “beautiful” Hyper-V or XenServer solution but: … Continue Reading
VMware released express update
Very important to all the customers who installed ESX(i) 3.5 update 2. I just received this e-mail:
Dear VMware Customers,
We have released the express patches for the product expiration issue. Please go to http://www.vmware.com/go/esxexpresspatches for more information.
Problem:
An issue has been discovered by many VMware customers and partners with ESX/ESXi 3.5 Update 2 where Virtual Machines fail to power on or VMotion successfully. This problem began to occur on August 12, 2008 for customers that had upgraded to ESX 3.5 Update 2. … Continue Reading
EXTREMELY URGENT PROBLEM WITH ESX/ESXi 3.5 Update 2
I received an e-mail from VMWare mentioning the problem with their latest build concerning the inability to start and VMotion. Here is the e-mail:
Dear VMware Customers,
Please find the latest update about the product expiration issue. From this point on, we’ll provide an update every two hours. Thanks.
Problem:
An issue has been discovered by many VMware customers and partners with ESX/ESXi 3.5 Update 2 where Virtual Machines fail to power on or VMotion successfully. … Continue Reading
