#vmware
grep -l "vmware" /portfolio/* · 3 entriesA lab that stopped because snapshots ate the datastore
Every VM on one datastore froze at once. The cause was months of forgotten snapshots growing quietly until the disk was full.
Backups we had never restored
After a very public database loss that year, I tried restoring our own lab backups. Several of them had been empty for months.
1 min readReproduce it in the lab before you touch production
A corporate customer's issue only happened on their system. Rebuilding their setup in the lab found it, without anyone experimenting on production.
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