Earlier this week I did a CloudIQ customer demonstration using one of our cloud infrastructure services partners, and I exposed one of the Windows workers directly on the internet. This partner expressly warns you not to do this, but I was trying to save some time and leverage some IP addresses that I had bookmarked. So for about two hours prior to the demonstration everything seemed to be working fine, then right before my demonstration one of the worker nodes CPU’s went berserk. I could see the machines CPU oscillating between 100% and 0%, back and forth, over and over.
Since the first rule of presentations is to never let them see you sweat, I decided to just ignore the rouge worker and pressed on with the demonstration. So I provisioned additional machines from the pool available hardware I have access to, those machines assimilated into my cloud flawlessly, came online and doubled the transactions/second of the demonstration, even while the rouge worker flailed. I then just dispatched the rouge node into the virtual bit-bucket and the presentation went off without a hitch! No harm, no foul.. very cool.. (Yes I know, never expose a Windows machine directly to the internet, lesson learned…)
Until next time!
Mark
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