What happens when their cloud provider is out of capacity and needs some more servers, and those absolutely, positively have to be there overnight? /s
Posts by Greybeard3
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FedEx signals 'zero mainframe, zero datacenter' operations by 2024
Sysadmin sank IBM mainframe by going one VM too deep
Monday 23rd July 2018 21:58 GMT
Back to the VM part of the story
Jeez. This happened in like 1975. And is the result of someone being an idiot – you don’t do testing in a VM with privileges, for reasons exactly like this.
Plus modern z/VM systems let you (optionally but trivially) specify in the configuration that you have to tell it “shutdown systemname” for exactly this reason. The only reason you would NOT have that option set is if (a) you’re an idiot or (b) because you have some automation that doesn’t specify the system name and you’re too lazy to fix it (which is sort of (a) redux).
Typical Reg article: a germ of truth, wildly distorted. I am disappoint. But not surprised.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
