Here are the details about what went wrong on Friday.

  • @gravitas_deficiency
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    52 months ago

    As far as I know, none of the OSes used for virtualization hosts at scale by any of the major cloud infra players are Windows.

    Not to mention: any company that uses any AWS or azure or GCP service is “using VMs” in one form or another (yes, I know I am hand waving away the difference between VMs and containers). It’s basically what they build all of their other services on.

    • @[email protected]
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      32 months ago

      No, but HyperV is used extensively in the SMB space.

      VMWare is popular for a reason, but its also insanely expensive if you only need an AD server and a file share.

    • @[email protected]
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      22 months ago

      Banks use VMs and banks were down without access to their systems to login into the VM, so they could work. They were bricked by extension.

      • @gravitas_deficiency
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        12 months ago

        No, the clients were bricked. The VMs themselves were probably fine - and in fact, probably auto-rollbacked the update to a working savepoint after the update failed (assuming the VM infrastructure was properly set up).

        • @[email protected]
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          2 months ago

          He couldn’t login to the VM to access his work portals or emails, call it what you will, but one bricked computer/server affected thousands.

          It’s weird that you’re arguing, but asked how it was possible in the first place. VMs are the answer dude, argue all you want, but it’s making you look foolish for A not understanding, and B arguing against the answer. Also, why this one thread? Multiple other people told you the exact same thing. You just looking for an argument here or something?