Vmware Audit
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Yay, Many many audits for us.. Not sure why.
Anyone ever done one of these? Vmware is a first for me.
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I've never had to deal with a VMWare Audit, did they give you any indication of what they're looking for?
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Not sure yet, but they want a lot of stuff and we have thousands of Vmware servers. It's due within 7 days.
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Oh wow..
in addition to the active stuff,
We have to give them a report of any changes, upgrades, decommissions, migrations, etc over the past three years in our enviroment. It goes on to say their EULA requires you to mataining an on-going record of any and all changes in your environments, for all products not just vmware.
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@Jason said in Vmware Audit:
Oh wow..
in addition to the active stuff,
We have to give them a report of any changes, upgrades, decommissions, migrations, etc over the past three years in our enviroment. It goes on to say their EULA requires you to mataining an on-going record of any and all changes in your environments, for all products not just vmware.
Thanks for that bit of information. I'll be glad to tell anyone that wants to use VMWare about this little bit.
Just one of those, yes, we're doing it anyway, but you're company has no right to see that... unless someone agreed to that EULA.
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How can VMWare demand you keep information for your Windows Licensing. As if it has some bearing on the use of VMWare.
This is another reason to avoid VMWare. Bullshit auditing practices.
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This reminds me of the Southpark episode where Apple is attempting to force people to read the EULA.
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Out of curiosity do you have a digital copy of the EULA your company signed with VMWare. I now want to read the damn thing!
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@DustinB3403 said in Vmware Audit:
Out of curiosity do you have a digital copy of the EULA your company signed with VMWare. I now want to read the damn thing!
It has "Vmware confidential" on the top and bottom so I can assume we are suppose to share it. I don't think ours is special it's the normal EULA..
Something of it is on here: https://www.vmware.com/download/eula/esxi50_eula.html
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@Jason said in Vmware Audit:
Yay, Many many audits for us.. Not sure why.
Anyone ever done one of these? Vmware is a first for me.
I've never even heard of someone getting audited by VMware. Add that to the list of "why we don't want to run that if we don't have to."
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@DustinB3403 said in Vmware Audit:
How can VMWare demand you keep information for your Windows Licensing. As if it has some bearing on the use of VMWare.
This is another reason to avoid VMWare. Bullshit auditing practices.
How can they not. It's a contract, they can require whatever they want. You are free to decline and use another product if you aren't okay with the requirements.
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@scottalanmiller said in Vmware Audit:
How can they not. It's a contract, they can require whatever they want. You are free to decline and use another product if you aren't okay with the requirements.
I suppose, but should they also demand to know your bowel movement schedule?
"Reporting of any changes" that means if you lost power and the system rebooted, you have to have record of that.
Well this sounds like a great time to move away from VMWare...
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I have a feeling we will be paying the fee for the audits. We are in compliance with our active stuff but, we don't keep documentation that specific on changes and stuff over the years like they want.
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@DustinB3403 said in Vmware Audit:
I suppose, but should they also demand to know your bowel movement schedule?
Absolutely. Whoever decided on VMware in this case decided that the requirements of the audit were worth it. That whatever value VMware brought to the table was greater than the up front cost, licensing overhead and the stipulations of the EULA. If VMware wants to be paid in girly giggles (who gets THAT reference?) or BM tracking or licensing audits is up to them. If that cost is worth the advantages of the software is up to the people buying it.
It's all freedom of choice. No one held a gun to anyone's head. The company decided it was worth it, now they have to pay the price that they agreed to pay.
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@DustinB3403 said in Vmware Audit:
@scottalanmiller said in Vmware Audit:
How can they not. It's a contract, they can require whatever they want. You are free to decline and use another product if you aren't okay with the requirements.
I suppose, but should they also demand to know your bowel movement schedule?
"Reporting of any changes" that means if you lost power and the system rebooted, you have to have record of that.
Well this sounds like a great time to move away from VMWare...
Sadly Hyper-V isn't really "enterpise ready"
We could use Ctrix XenServer but Ctrix has some crazy EULAs too.
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@Jason Citrix no longer licenses the product, they offer support only. The terms of that EULA should pertain only to the support offered.
Anything else and I'd just use the "non-supported" version (which is identical to the supported version)
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@DustinB3403 said in Vmware Audit:
@Jason Citrix no longer licenses the product, they offer support only. The terms of that EULA should pertain only to the support offered.
Not sure where you get that. This is the EULA you have to sign..
https://www.citrix.com/content/dam/citrix/en_us/documents/buy/enterprise-software-eula.pdf
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@DustinB3403 said in Vmware Audit:
@Jason Citrix no longer licenses the product, they offer support only. The terms of that EULA should pertain only to the support offered.
That's not how a EULA or Contract works. It can pertain to literally anything that is not barred by law.
For example, a EULA can require you to dance a jig on the first day of spring naked. But it can't require you to pirate software.
If you agree to the EULA, anything legal in it is required.
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This is the terms of service I agree to.
http://xenserver.org/overview-xenserver-open-source-virtualization/gplv2-license/13-about-xenserver-open-source/152-eula.html (without support)
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@DustinB3403 said in Vmware Audit:
This is the terms of service I agree to.
http://xenserver.org/overview-xenserver-open-source-virtualization/gplv2-license/13-about-xenserver-open-source/152-eula.html (without support)
It's not realistic to not have support on thousands of servers. When the Sh*t breaks out it can become a whirlwind fast..
Thats why we have RHEL and not CentOS for many things as well (some is CentOS).
