Tomas Bodzar wrote: > Which VMware August bug you mean? This one or different? > http://communities.vmware.com/thread/162377?tstart=0&start=0
yep, that's the one. Short version: VMware accidentally shipped a production release of ESX and ESXi (yes, both the expensive and no-charge version) which turned off management of the VMs on August 12, 2008 -- a turned on VM could stay running, but an off VM could not be started, and their wonderful vmotion feature stops working...which would be critical for less painful recovery from this problem. VMware regularly "time bombed" their beta versions of the software, and in this case, the time bomb slipped out the door. Time bombs like this are a little like smoking in a firework factory. The cigarette and the fireworks are never supposed to get together, but if they are close enough, shit can happen, and acceptable practice is to make sure they are no where close. And yes, this is just the tip of the iceberg with vmware quality issues, but that one was really, really easy to understand. Nick.
