No offense taken. I am a VMware user and advocate and do feel this pain too. I am also open to and constantly evaluating Hyper-V, Citrix Xenserver, Sun xVM, KVM, etc. In some ways I’m counting on guys like you to keep me in the “know” about the alternatives.

Thanks for reading VM /ETC!

True this has been an embarrassing and humbling experience for VMware, but to suggest that Hyper-V is a superior alternative because of a gap in VMware\’s regression testing is a stretch in my opinion.

There will no doubt be irate customers that switch because of emotion. That\’s different than recognizing a technical or business advantage. It will be interesting to see where these customers are at in 6 months.

Maybe VMware has spoiled everyone by having such a good track record with patches and upgrades to date, but now I think that these same irate customers need to look in the mirror and realize they also examine their own change control process for production systems as well.

As i said, it just shows that VMware is not perfect and just cooking with water. It’s all about the “high and mighty” attitude of VMware users

This was a mistake on the part of the ESX product team in the distribution of ESX 3.5 U2. A developmental time bomb was not removed in the hurry to get it to market. Of course, MS is always able to smoothly distribute products that are completely ready for release, right? Do you really want to start that discussion?

It clearly shows that even VMware is still cooking with water.