Here's a funny one

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I get a ticket regarding a virtual machine not being accessible... all of the vm's are just running on the esx host also no vcenter or anything like that.

I log in and start looking a the VM trying to figure out what the problem might be. Then all of a sudden I start seeing VMs shutting down, unfortunately the user ID was not logged. Once the VM's shut down, the ESX host lost all communication so I could not connect to it. I called the client right away incquiring why this has happened. The end result? one of the programmers ended up loging on to the ESX console and running a reboot command, which in turn forced all the VM's to shut down before powering off the host. What a morning!

 

My favourite one from one of our coders was during a memory upgrade rollout for all our dev pcs from 1-2GB to 4Gb. A couple of Devs are tech savy and one said he'd do his just to leave it on the side while he finished up.

Yeah you know what happened next, 5 mins later a phone call saying memory don't work.

I pop round and take a look, he's managed to get the memory the wrong way round and only half in the slot and obviously a power up is failing. Somehow he managed not to fry the memory stick or the mobo, a re-seat, alot of laughing and all ok.