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The following patches have been released by VMware on 27 May 2010 for VMware ESX 4 and ESXi 4. Out of the 14 patches released, 1 is rated critical:

ID: ESX400-201005401-SG  Impact: HostSecurity  Release date: 2010-05-27  Products: esx 4.0.0 Updates vmkernel64, scripts, tools etc

ID: ESX400-201005402-SG  Impact: HostSecurity  Release date: 2010-05-27  Products: esx 4.0.0 Updates VMware-webCenter-esx

ID: ESX400-201005403-SG  Impact: HostSecurity  Release date: 2010-05-27  Products: esx 4.0.0 Updates Expat

ID: ESX400-201005404-SG  Impact: HostSecurity  Release date: 2010-05-27  Products: esx 4.0.0 Updates NTP

ID: ESX400-201005405-SG  Impact: HostSecurity  Release date: 2010-05-27  Products: esx 4.0.0 Updates gzip

ID: ESX400-201005406-SG  Impact: HostSecurity  Release date: 2010-05-27  Products: esx 4.0.0 Updates krb5 and pam_krb5

ID: ESX400-201005407-SG  Impact: HostSecurity  Release date: 2010-05-27  Products: esx 4.0.0 Updates gcc packages

ID: ESX400-201005408-SG  Impact: HostSecurity  Release date: 2010-05-27  Products: esx 4.0.0 Updates bind-libs and bind-utils

ID: ESX400-201005409-SG  Impact: HostSecurity  Release date: 2010-05-27  Products: esx 4.0.0 Updates sudo

ID: ESXi400-201005401-SG  Impact: HostSecurity  Release date: 2010-05-27  Products: embeddedEsx 4.0.0 Updates Firmware

ID: ESXi400-201005402-BG  Impact: Critical  Release date: 2010-05-27  Products: embeddedEsx 4.0.0 Updates VMware Tools

ID: VEM400-201005001-BG  Impact: HostGeneral  Release date: 2010-05-27  Products: embeddedEsx 4.0.0, esx 4.0.0 Cisco Nexus 1000V VEM

ID: VEM400-201005011-BG  Impact: HostGeneral  Release date: 2010-05-27  Products: embeddedEsx 4.0.0, esx 4.0.0 Cisco Nexus 1000V VEM

ID: VEM400-201005021-BG  Impact: HostGeneral  Release date: 2010-05-27  Products: embeddedEsx 4.0.0, esx 4.0.0 Cisco Nexus 1000V VEM

PHD Virtual continues to extend our product family to meet the expanding needs of the virtualization community. On May 6th, we announced PHD Virtual Backup for Citrix XenServer.  We are also happy to tell you that as of September, 2010 we will also offer support for VMware ESXI.

Learn more about how we  can support your current VMware backup and recovery as well as your future requirements by contacting a PHD Representative today at 1.866.710.1882!

As we continue to build on robust legacy of the award-winning esXpress 4.0, PHD Virtual’s products meet enterprise requirements for flexibility and scalability by using the virtual appliance itself to perform backups, in less time, more reliably, and at a lower cost. We are the only enterprise data protection solutions that operate independent of the hypervisor offering greater stability and more security.

PHD Virtual also provides a collaborative path to integrate with all major physical backup solutions (including products from Data Domain, Quantum, Symantec, EMC, HP, IBM, etc.) for end-to-end data protection throughout the enterprise.  Today, thousands of customers worldwide trust their mission critical data to PHD Virtual’s solutions.

Learn more about our currents products, as well as our new offering for Citrix by attending a webinar on May 19 at 2 pm EST

Last week, a colleague of mine was informed by VMware of an issue with VMware ESX 4.0 Update 1 hosting 32-bit Windows 2003 Virtual Machines with more than 3GB of RAM. the issue causes VMs with the configuration specified below to crash upon reboot.

This bug does not affect the stability of virtual machines during normal business operations and it only affects ESX/i 4.0 Update 1 environments. Update 2 will include a fix for this issue.

In the meantime, use one of the following workarounds:

VMware yesterday released a KB article about this issue. The KB article can be found at: http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1020158 (Opens in new Window).

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