http://www.gcn.com/online/vol1_no1/46870-1.html By Kurt Mackie Special to GCN GCN.com 08/12/08 Originally posted Aug. 12 at 4:24 p.m. and updated Aug. 13 at 2:25 p.m. Aug. 12 was a blow-out day for some users of VMware's ESX 3.5 and ESXi 3.5 virtualization products, especially if they had applied the latest product updates called "Update 2." The company issued an initial knowledge base article (KB 1006716) yesterday about the problem, which causes licenses to expire on the patched machines, along with other associated difficulties. VMware plans to provide additional information on the matter by revising its KB 1006716 bulletin in the future, according to the company's VMTN blog. VMware's CEO, Paul Maritz, released a letter yesterday, apologizing to customers and explaining the problem. "When the time clock in a server running ESX 3.5 or ESXi 3.5 Update 2 hits 12:00AM on August 12th, 2008, the released code causes the product license to expire," Maritz wrote. "The problem has also occurred with a recent patch to ESX 3.5 or ESXi 3.5 Update 2." Users of those products that applied Update 2 will see a number of problems with their virtual machines, including power off/on problems, machines stuck in suspend mode and an inability to migrate using VMotion. [...] __________________________________________________ Visit Defcon Pics - Defcon Memory Repository http://www.defconpics.orgReceived on Wed Aug 13 2008 - 23:38:10 PDT
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