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: 3.5.0 | 02/20/08 | 64607 | 565 MB There are no new patches [...]

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 of processors [...]

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.”