Updated with new information regarding a resolution on August 12th, 9:00 PM CST.This was first reported yesterday evening on both the VMWare Community forums and on DeployLinux.com. From what anyone can tell, there is a bug in the VMWare License Management code and it is causing any system that is running ESX 3.5U2 to not be able to boot this morning. VMware is attempting to figure out what happened and put out a patch, but the more important question is, "Why wasn't this caught before it shipped?" As Matt Marlowe posted:
OK, while we're all remaining calm....just imagine the implications that bugs like this can occur and get past QA testing....5 years down the road, nearly all server apps worldwide pretty much running in VM's (pretty easy prediction)......some country decides to initiate cyberwarfare and manages to get a backdoor into whatever is the prevaling hypervisor of the day.....boom. All your VM's belong to us. [...]
I'd love to find out what happened here. Don't they do any regression testing on new releases to check for date based bugs? I thought that would be pretty obvious. Read full story...
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