Today VMware announced a new service aimed at the SMB market making it easier for these companies to adopt and move to a virtualized server environment.  This new offering is called "VMware Go™" and although currently in beta is predicted to go live in Q4 2009.
“VMware Go™ is the latest innovation we’ve brought to market [...]

A new bunch of patches for ESX 3.5 and 3.0.x were posted this week from VMware. If you’re still in the old Virtual Infrastructure 3 world, you might want to look in to the latest patches as they contain security and critical updates.
Patch Download and Installation
See the VMware Update Manager Administration Guide for instructions on [...]

The new Knowledgebase blog has just posted a table of brand new (or recently updated) timekeeping articles for VMware products.  A nice one-stop shop for all the time related KB articles. Worth a visit.

Just a quick post-
Multiple symptoms, one solution>>
Symptoms:
1. Unable to ssh into your ESX host
2. Unable to login to the ESX console
3. ESX shows not responding in VirtualCenter
4. HA error (but esx host responding)
5. Unable to VMotion (but esx host responding)
Check ps output and if you see
# ps -ef
root 6232 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z [...]

There’s a new problem a few customers have reported whereby-

ESX disconnects randomly from VirtualCenter
ESX disconnects when performing VI Client tasks from VirtualCenter.
Tasks randomly timeout after a long idle time
“An error occurred communicating to the remote host” pops up.

This only refers to Update 3. This issue seem to be affecting customers with firewalls using state-ful inspection, [...]