VMware released 4 patches yesterday: ESX350-200806401-BG – Critical – Updates to VMkernel and hostd ESX350-200806402-BG – General – Update to the Service Console Kernel ESX350-200806404-SG – Security – Security Updates to WebAccess Components Tomcat and JRE ESX350-200806405-BG – General – Update to VMware-esx-vmx Good luck with patching!

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 [...]

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 default location. This is 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. The firewall was opened up [...]

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 these blogs: 1 , 2. [...]

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, [...]

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): Virtual Machines [...]