Today I was working with one of my colleagues to upgrade an application we are running on some physical servers. We\u2019re both working from home with a VPN connection into the data centre. Reboots were required. This is the bit I hate \u2026 a continuous ping times out for what feels like an eternity. Eventually that first response appears and the tightening of the chest relaxes \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n
VM reboots are so quick because there is no hardware to POST. I could also take a copy of the VM to test the upgrade process before hitting production.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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