7563 days. The last time our SAN switches were rebooted Obama was president, Donald Trump was still that B-list celebrity that bankrupted every business he’s ever run and went to all of Jeffrey Epstein’s “parties”, and Jared was still making Subway ads. Oh the times have changed…
This is what happens when you don’t have infrastructure maintenance windows because “the customers don’t want to give the downtime.” It doesn’t matter that every ESXi host is dropping datastores every second or so and that write latency has crazy spikes. This is what happens when you let technical debt build up over the years and don’t do anything about it. Patch your systems kids!
7563 days. Prince was still partying like it was 1999, Bill Cosby was still America’s dad, and Harvey Weinstein was still getting thanked on TV by the women he groped.