Comment on CrowdStrike’s faulty update crashed 8.5 million Windows devices, says Microsoft

• gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  As far as I know, none of the OSes used for virtualization hosts at scale by any of the major cloud infra players are Windows.

  Not to mention: any company that uses any AWS or azure or GCP service is “using VMs” in one form or another (yes, I know I am hand waving away the difference between VMs and containers). It’s basically what they build all of their other services on.

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  • SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Banks use VMs and banks were down without access to their systems to login into the VM, so they could work. They were bricked by extension.

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    • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      No, the clients were bricked. The VMs themselves were probably fine - and in fact, probably auto-rollbacked the update to a working savepoint after the update failed (assuming the VM infrastructure was properly set up).

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      • SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        He couldn’t login to the VM to access his work portals or emails, call it what you will, but one bricked computer affected thousands.

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  • Godort@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    No, but HyperV is used extensively in the SMB space.

    VMWare is popular for a reason, but its also insanely expensive if you only need an AD server and a file share.

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