You will find these instructions in other How To posts and links here, but I thought I would post a simple KB from VMware for quick reference.  service mgmt-vmware restart, will NOT cause a Guest to reboot or go down. Click here for the article.

NetworkWorld’s Denise Dubie has a great overview and links to a big VMworld 2009 release by Vizioncore of several freeware applications, a personal favorite of mine is vOptimizer WasteFinder. Check them all out here.

Congratulations to all those that won, and those that placed.  Many great vendors with fantastic software in this list!  Take a look at each of them for your own VMware infrastructure, they can add a great deal of value. Old hats to VMware like Vizioncore with their vRanger are still top of their game, and [...]

VMware document defining Scheduler process improvements, and changes for ESX 4.  There are some very significant changes, and there are always many customer, client, and user questions about how ESX handles the Scheduler functions. Get the document here.

8 new patches have been released for ESX 3.5 only.  These do not apply to ESX/i 4 or older versions of ESX/i 3.x. ESX350-200908401-BG – General ESX350-200908402-BG – Critical ESX350-200908403-BG – General ESX350-200908404-BG – General ESX350-200908405-BG – Critical ESX350-200908406-BG – Critical ESX350-200908407-BG – General ESX350-200908408-BG – Critical

VMware has posted a new KB with some useful quick troubleshooting for slow storage issues.  I personally use DAVG/cmd frequently with our Fiber DMX infrastructure. Check out here.

VMware has released ESX 3.5 patches.  6 Patches, 4 are Critical.  KB1012543 is most interesting overall.  Hit the jump for links and more information.

Within ESX 4 the /ui/ website has been disabled by default.