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Azure VM host machines are running CrowdStrike...??
by switch007 2y ago
Azure VM host machines are running CrowdStrike...??
- bugbuddy 2y agoMaybe because Windows Defender Advanced Threat Protection is an enormous resource hog that scans every byte of memory and storage accessed by the Hypervisor and performs a quadratic time computation on the data? I am just guessing because my “fastest” Windows laptop CPU money could buy feels like a hot smelting furnace and a sloth at the same time when I use VMWare Workstation. What the &$@* is it scanning the VMWare guests for?
- pjc50 2y agoOh, Crowdstrike is also a massive resource hog.
- tanelpoder 2y agoProbably not, but maybe they rely on some Active Directory server that is running it?
- jaggederest 2y agoVM storage is probably on Windows Server, plus AD. I'd bet out of band management is all in the impact zone too. Might be back to someone pushing physical switches and hooking up a KVM.
- mnw21cam 2y agoAnd this explains why the (Linux) HPC that I'm using is having so many troubles today, and keeps complaining that I don't exist.
- pjc50 2y agoIF they're running windows, they'll be running it.
- mgrund 2y agoMore likely crash looping of so many VMs overloading some system with insufficient back pressure, possibly combined with unfortunate cluster management scheduler behavior at this scale of crash looping (e.g. too eager to retry scheduling instances, maybe even on new hosts which causes more infrastructure load).