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Advisory: VMWare vSphere and Data Integrity

Advisory: VMWare vSphere and Data Integrity

Oct 12, 2018

October 12, 2018 – Advisory: VMWare vSphere and Data Integrity

Clients running vSphere 5.5 or later should review a very important article that VMware published on October 9, 2018. The article describes the possibility of file system and database corruption, which can lead to outages and possible data loss. We have confirmed that this has caused data integrity problems for InterSystems clients. Therefore, we encourage you to act on this as soon as possible.

The VMWare knowledge base article is titled:

Virtual Machines running on an SEsparse snaposhot may report guest data inconsistencies (59216)

If you have any questions regarding this advisory, as it relates to InterSystems products, please contact the Worldwide Response Center.

Latest Alerts & Advisories

There are four alerts in the HS2024-03 Alert Communication. A summary of each alert is shown below. Details for each alert are contained in the linked document.

Product Alerts & Advisories

Broadcom recently announced a problem that can cause data consistency errors in database applications. The Broadcom article is available here:

Product Alerts & Advisories

Beginning with the release of InterSystems IRIS® data platform 2022.3, InterSystems corrected the license enforcement mechanism to include REST and SOAP requests. Due to this change, environments with non-core-based licenses that use REST or SOAP may experience greater license utilization after upgrading. To determine if this advisory applies to your InterSystems license, follow the instructions in the FAQ linked below.

Product Alerts & Advisories

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Product Alerts & Advisories

InterSystems has encountered a defect that causes some upgrades of HealthShare® Health Connect to fail. This only affects instances that are not licensed for the use of FHIR® and that have interoperability-enabled namespaces. Under these conditions, the upgrade fails with an error.

Product Alerts & Advisories

In evaluating an IBM Support notification, InterSystems has determined a potential impact for our customers. The notification in question is:

Product Alerts & Advisories

There is 1 alert in the HealthShare HS2024-limited Alert communication. An alert summary for the issue is shown is in the table below. Details for the alert are contained in the attached document: HS2024 Limited Communication.

Product Alerts & Advisories

There are 2 alerts in the HealthShare HS2024-02 Alert communication. An alert summary for each issue is shown is in the table below. Details for each alert are contained in the attached document: HS2024-02-Communication.

Product Alerts & Advisories

This problem affects the following products:

Product Alerts & Advisories

This problem affects the following products:

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