Letter from Paul Maritz & Patches Posted
A letter from VMware CEO Paul Maritz has been posted over on the Console blog.http://blogs.vmware.com/console/2008/08/letter-from-vmw.html Please go read the whole thing, but here are his closing...
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It's good to see VMware publicly addressing the issue, I guess only time will tell if their QA process improves as promised. Eric SiebertVMware Communities User...
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It's a good update from the CEO. The first thing I noticed was the stern-looking photo of Paul. It's a good response to the current atmosphere. Very serious looking. Not the smiley CEO photo. Well...
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Just a personal thought here... I wonder whose head will role here ????? And Don't you love it when Vmware prviodes you with Job security? Been a busy last 24 hours...But time to calm things...
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Can someone please explain to me why a "FREE" product has a friggin expiration date? It just does NOT MAKE SENSE! Even worse, is a Licensed version one has paid for has this expiration "BUG". YES IT IS...
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Personally I consider job security a functionally working envoronment because I set it up correctly using the thousands of dollrs spent from tax payers money with software that works flwlessly....
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The BETA version had the expiration as is common with Betas because they do not want you using it past a certain date after it becomes a final build. The final build shouldn't of had the expiration in...
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All beta's have expiration code in them, that is standard practice. it is too stop nefarious people running Beta code past the sell by date (ie GA) and to make sure that GA code is used, GA code is...
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"And you do own binaries with no expiration, it's called ESX 3.5 Update 1"... So what your saying is that pre Update 2 VMware trusted us then for for some crazy a(insert letters here) reason in Update...
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Right and the next time you make a mistake at work your boss gets fired, ah-emm. to err is human to forgive is divine. Mistakes happen. The thing to look for is how the lessons have been learnt....
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Tom, your sooo totally wrong. If I do something wrong NOBODY gets fired and the blame is on the "Process" or lack of training not the person. Government worker, remember, one basically has to sexually...
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COS wrote:"And you do own binaries with no expiration, it's called ESX 3.5 Update 1"... So what your saying is that pre Update 2 VMware trusted us then for for some crazy a(insert letters here) reason...
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I just patched my EXSi host and all is good now.
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It seems like there are a few things to learn from this. License problems are very serious - in all cases the code should warn for 1-2 weeks before expiration without taking any action. This happens...
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the following was in the email i got this morning, does this mean there will be a solution that does not require the host being put in maint mode or a reboot? you would just apply patch, problem...
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I have to give some kudos to Paul Maritz and VMware for this. Yes, they screwed up and they owned up to it. I was impressed where he pointed out the two areas VMware failed in the process. It is...
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Two Things: VMWare has to improve their communications. Too many of us learned of the issue WAY after it was known at VMWare, and we learned of the issue because when we came in yesterday morning...
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I think it is vital that VMWare learn that it is RELIABILITY that puts them head and shoulders above other providers of virtualisation. I have had production services running for several years without...
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VMware is clearly the virtualization market leader. I don't know that anyone would argue that. Other vendors in the territory are in "catch-up" mode with the vision that some day they will be able to...
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> VMware publicly addressing the issue Not just publicly, but quickly and efficiently as well. This shouldn't have happened in the first place, but at least they put fourth the effort and...
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I wonder whose head will role here ?????First of all it's spelled: R-O-L-L haha.. too much coffee this morning, not enough sleep??!? OK, secondly someone made a mistake, not like that woman...
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So what your saying is that pre Update 2 VMware trusted us then for for some crazy a(insert letters here) reason in Update 2 the trust wasbroken? And how much about progamming do you know?...
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If anything, this proves we need to get some of the community involved BEFORE the product goes to press. There needs to be an OPEN beta BEFORE release so many of us bleeding edge, testers can try it...
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....other sites and blogs generally eluding to "Goodbye VMware, I'm switching to Brand X!"If there was a primary example of "hot air" Microsoft has been the subject of ridicule for 2 decades now.. and...
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3 posts? I remember only 2. Musta been too many beers last night.... Programming yeah did a little bit of that, also did QA code checks. Thats where documentation came in handy with check marks to...
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This is just going to make it more difficult to sell the virtualization strategy on folks who do not want to put all their eggs (VM Guests) in one basket (ESX Host). We have many folks in this mindset....
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tom howarth wrote: All beta's have expiration code in them, that is standard practice. it is too stop nefarious people running Beta code past the sell by date (ie GA) and to make sure that GA code is...
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Personally I am impressed with the letter. Being fairly new to the whole VMware world, I am glad to hear someone admit mistakes, and take action to fix it. I worked half a dozen years in the support...
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Personally I wasn't affected by all of the madness yesterday due to we don't go along the cutting edge for this very reason. I was extremely surprised to see the amount of comments that people should...
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Personally I wouldn't rush to move away from VMWare as we have had largely good experience until now - but this one has certainly shaken my confidence a little. It also makes it far harder to push for...
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I fully agree with you, we need an extra time period before delivering golden code to ensure product stability and quality, but honestly time bombs can only be found ifa professional team of software...
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Yo, Paul. You talk about improving Q.A., but when I go here: http://www.vmware.com/landing_pages/esxexpresspatches.html and click on the links to the KB articles (which point to kb.vmware.com), I...
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Hi Thomas -- I'm not Paul, but I'll try to help. I can't reproduce the problem now (via Comcast in CA) -- the redirect to kb2 works fine -- but I will report it to the appropriate teams. In addition,...
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Hi Thomas -- The team suspects you may have stale data in your DNS cache. (The page is being served worldwide through Akamai, which gives you a geographically-specific IP address to pull from.) Can you...
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Thanks for the quick response, John You're probably correct. I will do this when I'm on site at that particular client again tomorrow in the morning. I was most likely incorrect in assuming that kb2...
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Dear VMware Customers, In addition to the express patch and the re-issued ESX/ESXi 3.5 Update 2 release, we now have an alternative installation process for customers who haven't applied either to...
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