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[โ€“] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Similar to your #2, but less serious, I once wrote a script to power down virtual machines for a data center move. It was a nice piece of work too, grouping them in batches, sending shutdown commands to the guest OS, falling back to forcing a power off through the hypervisor after a configurable timeout...

I don't recall the specifics of the problem or the virtual infrastructure I was working with, but in short I didn't have sanity checks on what was being shut down. Ended up force shutting off the hypervisor/virtual infrastructure management system.

Added an extra few hours the move with that.

[โ€“] GreatAlbatross@feddit.uk 2 points 5 months ago

I can absolutely see that happening in vsphere.