Google Cloud's VMware service loses resilience due to a dud update

Google Cloud's VMware service loses resilience due to a dud update

Google Cloud has admitted it made a configuration change that means some customers of its VMware Engine (GCVE) can’t use stretched cluster. A G-Cloud incident report time-stamped 13:24 PDT on July 14 (21:24 UTC) reports some customers “are experiencing zonal outages impacting network connectivity across multiple regions” and that the trouble started at 10:00 PDT. Google first attributed the problem to “an underlying network connectivity issue af…

Google Cloud configuration update disrupts VMware Engine stretched clusters

A faulty configuration update on Google Cloud VMware Engine (GCVE) caused a multi-region disruption on Tuesday, disrupting inter-zone connectivity across three regions. The incident, which lasted for over ten hours, began at 5:00 PM UTC on July 14 and was resolved by 04:46 AM UTC on July 15. It affected VMware Engine stretched clusters in Sydney (australia-southeast1), Melbourne (australia-southeast2), and Frankfurt (europe-west3). Google later …