new earth online

I'm not sure how many times I've mentioned VMWare now in previous articles and news posts, but I've always been pretty fond of it. I think system admins are pretty fond of it too since it sure does make managing multiple servers that little bit easier. Unfortunately those that are eager to install every new patch as it comes out may have experienced issues yesterday due to a bug introduced into the ESX and ESXi Server versions licensing model that stopped their corporate users from starting their virtual servers. Although this only started happening yesterday, the update was released a few weeks back but contained a bug that caused the user's license to expire on August 12th 2008. This update has since been removed from their site and they say they'll have a patch available shortly.