Back in the days of ESX 2.5 I managed a bunch of IBM Servers. It regularly happened that when a raid mirror set broke the IBM ESX host(the only servers I witnessed this with…) froze completely. I thought this problem was fixed with 3.0.x and I thought it was a VMware problem.

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There are a bunch of new patches released for 3.0.x:
New patches are available for ESX Server 3.0.1 and ESX Server 3.0.2. Please follow the instructions on the appropriate patch download page.
VMware ESX Server 3.0.1 Patch Download Page
[http://www.vmware.com/download/vi/vi3_patches_301.html]
ESX-1003504 (General): Fix for mptscsi_2xx Driver
ESX-1003505 (General): Fixes Network Connectivity Issues with Intel e1000 Driver
ESX-1003506 (General): [...]

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For anyone using the good old Winscp client, it was just updated to 4.0.7. Same goes for mRemote, it has just been updated to version 1.35. Pick it up, and while your at it visit VM4All. Eric keeps track of all VMware related tools!

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There’s a nice article about “round-robin” load balancing on SystemsArchitech which got me a bit dazzled about this new functionality:
esxcfg-mpath – lun <*.lun> —policy custom –H minq –T any –C 0 –B 2048
The policy states that the LUN should utilize a custom policy that determines which (of two) HBA to utilize based on the minimum [...]

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During the installation of VirtualCenter the following error code was presented “25036″. With no further message the installation is cut-off. After a close inspection it seemed that there already were a couple of SQL Express 2005 services installed, the software was removed and the services were still there but disabled. I guess for some reason [...]

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Yeah, this is the one I’ve been waiting for a 9″ Asus Eee PC. The 7″ is a cool device, but lacks a decent screen resolution. This is probably fixed with the 9″. Asus has also added a 12GB flash disk instead of a 8GB flash disk. I really need to pick one up as [...]

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There’s a new PDF about performance enhancements in ESX 3.5:
The new features in VMware® Infrastructure 3 makes it even easier for organizations to virtualize their most demanding and intense workloads. The new version of VMware Infrastructure 3 provides significant performance enhancements, including the release of VMware ESX Server 3.5 and a new ultra-thin hypervisor called [...]

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