Veeam warns appliances may fail to boot on some AMD EPYC servers

[JediEagle]

Businesses running Veeam backups on certain AMD servers should be careful with reboots. BleepingComputer reports that Veeam has warned its Software Appliance, version 13.1 and later, can fail to boot on hosts using AMD EPYC 7262, 7302 and 7F72 processors

The problem appears intermittently after reboots, including those after kernel updates. Affected machines show a kernel panic linked to a jitterentropy initialisation failure

The cause is a security health test in FIPS mode that runs during early boot. Restarting the guest operating system does not recover an affected virtual machine

Veeam's advice is to redeploy the appliance on a host with a different processor, or to turn off automatic updates and apply patches manually while watching the reboot. Neither option is ideal for busy IT teams

Backup systems need to be the most reliable part of any setup, so a boot problem like this is worrying. Knowing about it in advance means administrators can plan updates carefully. It also shows how obscure hardware details can trip up security features

Have you run into boot problems after updates on servers? And how do you test updates before rolling them out?

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