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Running VMware’s ESXi and diligently backing up your data in the belief it’s safe as houses? Think again. VMware has quietly ‘fessed up to the existence of a bug affecting all versions of its bare-metal hypervisor. It copped the problem in its knowledge base as users began cottoning on to the fact something was amiss in their …

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  1. Spender

    QuaryChangedDisckAreas? Really? Not QueryChangedDiskAreas?

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    1. chivo243 Silver badge
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      Headmaster

      Isn't a quary where rocks come from? Just spelled quarry?

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    VMware has been dropping the ball a lot lately. This is not the first or worse problem they have had with no resolution in sight.

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    1. Anonymous Coward
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      Agreed - to focused chasing clouds.. unfortunate they are rain clouds that will p*ss on their domination of the VM market.

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  3. reddiesel

    We were told about this already:

    http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/10/27/esxi_is_telling_fibs_to_backup_software/

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    How exactly do you disable and then re-enable CBT? Yes we're too lazy to google it, so some clearer info would have been nice please el-reg :)

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      "Yes we're too lazy"

      http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1031873

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  5. Adam Inistrator

    restores

    people want restores not backups .. is your restore working? and how to really really tell?

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    1. pi3
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      Re: restores

      That's the scary thing about this bug. There is no way to detect if a backup image is bad or not. There is no way to tell if a restored VM actually has all its data. There might be a few blocks of empty data in one file or many but VM will boot and filesystem is fine.

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  6. Wensleydale Cheese
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    128GB is nowt really

    "128GB won't affect everybody running ESXi, but it will hit those running very large clouds and virtual instances."

    As I discovered recently, installing Docker allocates 100GB in one fell swoop for its container file.

    This "buggette" could be affecting quite modest installations.

    In fact once I realised I needed to expand my VM by so much I installed Docker on a real machine instead of a virtual one, so it's a case of "I could have been bitten by this".

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  7. PowerMan@thinksis

    Called "Good Enough" technology

    More examples of "Good Enough" technology customers choose to run their businesses on. Deal with it!

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  8. anthonypoh

    disable then re-enable CBT

    ..... but will disabling and re-enabling CBT fix the erroneous info on disk sectors? Would it not just re-corrupt whenever a block is changed and CBT logs it?

    I guess the only way to be sure is to do a Full backup everyday..... I'd hate to be the admin running fulls on 128GB VMs......

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