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VMware says its NSX network virtualisation product is growing fast … perhaps too fast, because it's again been found to have a nasty bug. Virtzilla struck trouble with NSX 6.2.3, which was first declared unsuitable for implementation and then pulled from distribution entirely. VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger described that incident …

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  1. RIBrsiq
    FAIL

    Paying customer? Unpaid beta tester...?

    What's the difference?

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  2. Anonymous Coward
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    VMware: "See, we TOLD you someone had it in production!"

    The workaround is to (re)install real network kit, which will reduce your costs and improve your availability.

    Heck, if your VMs are going to go down anyway you might as well even try public cloud :)

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      Yep, because we all know physical network kit never has bugs in it's software.

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  3. Anonymous Coward
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    There is a damn fix...

    Yes, this is a bug, but if you log a GSS call there is a fix.

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  4. srobroek

    You are stating that 'just about everyone running NSX 6.2.4 will fall foul of this problem', while in the first paragraph of the article you're linking (and in the KB nonetheless) that this issue *only* occurs when upgrading from 6.1 to 6.2.3 or 6.2.4.

    Not that it isn't a serious bug, but could you tone down the sensationalism a little bit?

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  5. RollTide14

    Welcome to the new world of

    Software Defined! This is just going to be par for the course moving forward.

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