VMWare causes outage while recovering from another outage
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First Outage: [url]http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/050211-vmware-foundry-outage.html[/url]
Second Outage: [url]http://support.cloudfoundry.com/entries/20067876-analysis-of-april-25-and-26-2011-downtime[/url]
Summary from Slashdot:
[quote]"VMware's new Cloud Foundry service was online for just two weeks when it suffered its first outage, caused by a power failure. Things got really interesting the next day, when a VMware employee accidentally caused a second, more serious outage while a VMware team was writing up a plan of action to recover from future power loss incidents. An inadvertent press of a key on a keyboard led to 'a full outage of the network infrastructure [that] took out all load balancers, routers, and firewalls... and resulted in a complete external loss of connectivity to Cloud Foundry.' Clearly, human error is still a major factor in cloud networks."[/quote]
We gotta go deeper
Yeah, clouds are the solution to everything please take note upper management
[quote]An inadvertent [b]press of a key on a keyboard led[/b] to 'a full outage of the network infrastructure [that] took out all load balancers, routers, and firewalls... and resulted in a complete external loss of connectivity to Cloud Foundry.'[/quote]
Holy shit. What key was it? The "LETS FUCK EVERYTHING UP HORRIBLY BAD" key?
[QUOTE=Jewish Paladin;29583646]Holy shit. What key was it? The "LETS FUCK EVERYTHING UP HORRIBLY BAD" key?[/QUOTE]
I was wondering the same thing... who the fuck shortcuts ONE key to kill the entire system.
[QUOTE=areolop;29584051]I was wondering the same thing... who the fuck shortcuts ONE key to kill the entire system.[/QUOTE]
Madagascar.
Wow kinda sad, really the cloud system is kinda stupid really, after all you have everything on the cloud rather than the computer in front of you. What do you think is going to happen.
[QUOTE=Jewish Paladin;29583646]Holy shit. What key was it? The "LETS FUCK EVERYTHING UP HORRIBLY BAD" key?[/QUOTE]
It's symbolic. The entire thing wasn't literally fucked up by just one keypress.
What happened was they were supposed to stay [b]off[/b] the keyboards, but one guy didn't get that memo and punched in a couple commands.
[QUOTE=Intoxicated Spy;29584564]Madagascar.[/QUOTE]
They don't count, they've got every key shortcut to kill.
[editline]3rd May 2011[/editline]
Except Mouse 1, that opens Pong.
