The days are counting down to Halloween and I figured I would share what's going on. First, a new meme started popping up. ZombieVM.org is a new site that popped up out of this Halloween spirit. The motto is "we will take over your resource capacity and destroy your performance". Second, I have to share what's going on with my street for Halloween Decorations.
What ZombieVM.org describes a Zombie VM as: Powered-on virtual machines that hapless systems administrators have forgotten about and no one uses anymore. While we hide in the shadows of your virtualized infrastructure, we suck away your CPU, memory, storage, and throughput. The resources we feed on destroy your data center ROI and wreak havoc on VM performance.
What's a Zombie VM to admins that causes more headaches and support requests than performance issues?
- A Zombie VM can be a failed virtual machine, but vCenter shows it as running and using the Power Off or Reboot options freezes the process, sometimes getting stuck at 95%
- A Zombie VM can be a running virtual machine on an ESX host, but isn't being shown in vCenter or the vSphere client.
- A Zombie VM can be a running virtual machine that is shown as running in vCenter but you can't open a console to it, yet it's functioning properly.
- A Zombie VM can be a virtual machine that is sitting in your datastore, but not registered with vCenter, just eating up space.
You can watch the ZombieVM.org videos below.
Second, if you follow me on twitter, then you would know that I have a serious Halloween addiction. Ok, well I only have this addiction because of the street I live on. You know how some neighborhoods go over the top crazy with Christmas decorations? Well, that's how our street is for Halloween. Everyone in the neighborhood spends a great amount of time building new props to display in their yard. We have thousands of visitors from Louisville, KY and neighboring cities come. We get on average about 1000-2000 people every night walking up and down our street. Last year we had 3000 trick-or-treaters Halloween night. You read that right, 3000. Add the parents and it's closer to 5000 people in the street just for that one night. I have a photo album of over 200 pictures I took of everything on the street and the pictures below are showcasing yours truly. Enjoy and Happy Halloween! Kenny Coleman's Photos - Halloween on Hillcrest
