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 # [...]

After upgrading to Virtual Center 2.5 Update 2 you may notice that guest VMs no longer automatically VMotion off the host when you attempt to put it in Maintenance Mode. This is a new behavior introduced in Update 2. Virtual Machine Migrations Are Not Recommended When the ESX Server Host Is Entering the Maintenance or [...]