Dec 12
Here’s one I always ask my customers. I bring it up today because I just had one send me a screen shot of their vCenter host screen:
For those doing the math, 1225 days, that’s over 3 years and 4 months! How many non-ESX x86 hosts do you have running that long?
December 12th, 2008 at 4:13 pm
I’ve never understood uptime wars, mainly because the #1 way to keep things secure is to keep them patched, and uptime wars encourage the wrong things in that regard.
December 12th, 2008 at 4:14 pm
Agreed. Clearly these ESX hosts are not current in their security patching.
December 12th, 2008 at 4:28 pm
True, much to my dismay they are not (and running 2.5 btw). Some companies are like that. I agree, I’m the proactive type when it comes to patching to avoid what could happen.
Some people read the recall notice when they get it in the mail and get it fixed, some wait for the part to fail.
December 12th, 2008 at 5:04 pm
A more impressive statistic, and one attainable even with security patching and ESX host upgrades, would be multi-year uptime of a cluster-hosted VM.
December 15th, 2008 at 10:57 am
Good point, I’ll see if I can put that in as a feature request.
December 15th, 2008 at 5:11 pm
@Bob Plankers
You know there was a time when high uptime meant you had a rock solid system or OS. Now I think I agree with you. It means your neglecting patching and that introduces undo risk into your environment (security and vendor supportability). I would be embarrassed to have servers like that in the 21st century.