I just received the following:
New patches are available for ESX Server 3.0.1 and ESX Server 3.0.2.
ESX Server patches can be accessed through the on-line ESX Server Patch Download tool:
[http://app.connect.vmware.com/e/er.aspx?s=524&lid=2272&elq=4D5713F997F04342981A231DF09609D0“>]
Please follow the instructions on the appropriate patch download page.
VMware ESX Server 3.0.1 Patches
ESX-1003516 (Critical): fixes an issue where snapshot of a Suspended Virtual Machine fails;includes a […]

It took me a while before I got used to the new layout of the VMware website, especially the forums and blogs… But the new download section is definitely an improvement. Just tick the patches you need and click download. A “download manager java applet” will be launched which will download the patches into the […]

Today I received the following error at a customer site when applying patch via the Update Manager:”Metadata for patch missing.” After a close inspection I noticed VirtualCenter wasn’t running on port 80 but on 81 for some reason. Opening up the ESX Firewall and restarting the VMware Update Manager service seems to fix this problem. […]

For those who encountered the same weird networking problems as I did, I was just browsing through the Knowledge Base articles for the patches released yesterday and found out that they fixed the driver for the Intel quad-port nic. When using VST half of the packets were dropped, for more info on the problem check […]

VMware just uploaded a whole bunch of patches for ESX 3.5:
ESX350-200802301-BG : Update to the bnx2 Driver
ESX350-200802303-SG : Security Update to the util-linux Package
ESX350-200802304-SG : Security Update to the Perl Package
ESX350-200802305-SG : Security Update to the openssl Package
ESX350-200802306-BG : VMware ESX Server 3.5, Patch ESX350-200802306-BG: Daylight Saving Time Update
ESX350-200802401-BG : Updates to vmware-hostd
ESX350-200802403-BG : Improved Statistics Collection for Support Scripts, Fix for […]

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): […]

VMware just released a new version of the ESX 3.5 ISO according to their download site. The release notes haven’t been update yet so unfortunately I can’t tell you what’s included, but my guess would be the patches released on the 17th of January.
Latest Released Version: […]

VMware just released 9 patches for ESX 3.5 and 1 for ESX 3i! You can download them here for 3.5 and here for 3i.
The patch for ESX 3i fixes the following:

ESX Server 3i hosts using more than two processor sockets cannot be licensed when using host-based licensing.
VMware Virtual Center does not properly record the number […]

On the VMTN forum I read a cool solution for clearing your update cache when you use a web repository for patching your ESX hosts: “yum clean all”. Never thought of that cause I hardly use a web repository, always use a VMFS volume and the vmprofessional script.

When patching ESX Hosts with iSCSI attached SAN’s it’s possible you encounter the following event when starting a VM:
“A general system error occured: The system returned an error. Communication with the virtual machine may have been interrupted.”