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Patchtravaganaza!

VMware has been busy dropping patches in the last week. On March 6th new patches were seeded for ESX 3.0.1/ESX 3.0.2 and today ( March 10th ) VMware dropped a whopping 18 patches for ESX 3.5.0, superseding every single patch that was released in January. There are a number of security patches in the bunch, but more notably, VMware released a patch to the thin provisioning bug with Storage VMotion and a fix to the bug that could cycle your VMs when the management agent was restarted. See below for all fixes released this month:

VMware ESX 3.5.0 (18 Patches)
Update to the bnx2 Driver
Security Update to the util-linux Package
Security Update to the Perl Package
Security Update to the openssl Package
Daylight Saving Time Update
Updates to vmware-hostd
Improved Statistics Collection for Support Scripts, Fix for Patch Issue Seen After Upgrading from ESX Server 2.5.x to 3.5.0
Resolves DMA Issues on LSI 1078 and 106XE HBAs
Update to MegaRAID SCSI Driver to Fix Dell PowerEdge 6650 Boot Issue
Updated aacraid Driver
Security Updates to the Python Package
Fix for Reset Issue with CD-ROM Controller
Unexpected Reboot of Virtual Machines Configured to Automatically Start or Stop
Enhanced Validation Checks, and Fixes for Storage VMotion and Lab Manager
Updates to the VMkernel to Fix Networking and Hardware Issues
Sunfire X4200 Host Hangs Because of HBA Timeouts Due to DMA Problems
Discrete Sensors Report Wrong Information to Monitors
Security Update to Samba Packages

VMware ESX 3.0.2 (4 Patches)
Fixes for Vmotion and Clone Operations Failure, VirtualCenter Server Agent Crash, Hot Addition and Deletion of LUNs Failure, Virtual Machine Level Permissions; VirtualCenter 2.0.x Failure to Read VI 3.5 License Files
I/O Transactions on SUN X4200 Servers Cause SCSI Timeouts
Fixes Packet Latency and tg3 Driver Issues
Support for VMotion Incompatibility, Network Connectivity Issues; Fixes for Hot Addition and Deletion of LUNs Failure, Virtual Machines Boot Failure Through Network for PXE Clients, RARP Broadcast With NICs Failover


VMware ESX 3.0.1 (7 Patches)
Fix for mptscsi_2xx Driver
Fixes Network Connectivity Issues with Intel e1000 Driver
Virtual Machines Boot Failure Through Network for PXE Clients
Fixes Packet Latency and tg3 Driver Issues
I/O Transactions on SUN X4200 Servers Cause SCSI Timeouts
Fixes for VirtualCenter Server Agent Crash, Hot Addition and Deletion of LUNs Failure, Deletion of Virtual Machine Level Permissions; Support for VirtualCenter 2.0.x to Read Virtual Infrastructure 3.5 License Files
Fixes for RARP Broadcast With NICs Failover and Hot Addition / Deletion of LUNs Failure



I've updated all the patchlist.txt files for the esx-autopatch script

Posted by Dominic Rivera at Monday, March 10, 2008.