Some Critical and Important Updates release

There are some Critical and Important updates released for ESX/ESXi versions 3.5, 4.x and 5.x and Workstation and Player as well.

Have a look at all of them here.

http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/microsite.do?cmd=displayKCPopup&docType=kc&externalId=2019941

Make sure to update your hosts up to this level as there are bugs fixed by these.

Proceed to secure your environment. :-)

Why my versions are not matching? eg. ESX/VC/VMware Tools

Lot of people are curious about the versions numbers they see on ESX/ESXi/vCenter/Virtual Center server, VMware Tools etc. etc.

Have a look at the following article

http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1014508

This article has all the information about the version matrix


Additional Information section has 3 more links

• Determining detailed build number information for VMware ESX 4.0.x hosts (1012514)
   
• Determining detailed build number information for VMware ESX 3.0.x and 3.5.x hosts (1001179)
  
• Determining VMware Software Version and Build Number (392)

Try matching all the build numbers in your environment and verify if you are not missing any critical and Important Patches.

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Running VMware Workstation 8 as a server with shared virtual machines

This is a cool video which will make you think what else can you do with Workstation 8 from VMware.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yQax--xLjs

There are other possibilities which you can uncover and let us know about it by leaving the comments here.

Thanks