Re: Lost large string of disks.

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Cisco should have delivered this notice on fire engines.  There will be
lawyers involved...

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On Fri, Jan 8, 2021 at 6:56 AM Rob Berendt <rob@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Ok this is not specifically a midrange-l kind of thing except as a darn
> good lesson as to why you really should "fix things that aren't broken".
> Cisco generated a technote on their vmware servers.  Basically the SSD's
> on them will die after 40,000 hours (~ 4.5 years) unless you get this
> firmware update.  Putting the firmware update on after they fail is too
> late - the SSD's will still need to be replaced.  We had to restore
> numerous vm's (still working on a vHMC - does that qualify as a midrange-l
> issue?).
> Oh, and since vHMC wasn't windows it didn't show up in the "give a crap"
> list by the Windows team to schedule backups and I get the privilege of
> rebuilding it.
> We planned on upgrading them last year.  Got one done then got hit by a
> capital expenditure freeze.  Meeting today on detail vmware server
> specs...  Moving to HP.
>
> We failed to notice this technote (um, not my job):
>
> https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/docs/field-notices/705/fn70545.html
>
>
>
>
> Rob Berendt
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