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SentiBlue
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How do Meltdown/Spectra affect VMware

Hello everyone,

I manage a dozen VMware ESXi 6.0 servers i a clustered environment consisting of 4 clusters.

My question is: Will they affect ESXi only, or will they affect the guest operating systems as well?

My service provider (SoftLayer) will most likely do an upgrade this week to address the issue at ESXi level.

Do I need to update the guest OS as well? Most of them are CentOS7 and our repositories are already updated.

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SentiBlue
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Thanks for your reply!

I in fact have read those articles but they don't really answer the specific in my question though. Whether the guest OS is affected or is patching ESXi good enough.

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daphnissov
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Guest OSs must be patched as well. All the various vendors are (or have released) releasing patches.