With the recent release of VirtualCenter 2.5 many customers are anxious to upgrade. The 2.5 release was not out one day before I had received a call from someone who installed VirtualCenter (and ESX 3.5) live into a production environment without even reading the release notes. No surprise they are now on the [...]

VMware Announces Support from SAP of VMware ESX Server for Production Environments
Responding to Customer Demand, VMware and SAP Establish Global Technology Partnership; VMware Infrastructure Supports SAP(R) Solutions with Both Windows and Linux on Industry-standard Hardware
PALO ALTO, Calif., Dec. 12 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — VMware, Inc., the virtualization software leader, today announced that SAP AG will provide immediate [...]

Had an interesting case today where the customer reported the following error message in /var/log/messages every ten seconds on an ESX server:
Dec 5 09:42:36 esx3 kernel: hda: lost interrupt
Dec 5 09:42:36 esx3 kernel: hda: cdrom_pc_intr: The drive appears confused (ireason = 0x 1)
Dec 5 09:42:46 esx3 kernel: hda: lost interrupt
Dec [...]