ESX Server 3.5 hosts can be updated using VMware Update Manager, or the command line utility esxupdate. VMware Update Manager provides an automated way to install patches on your host. The esxupdate utility is used at the command line of the service console on the ESX Server host. Starting with ESX Server 3.5, the esxupdate utility can be configured to use depots which esxupdate can scan to provide information on which bundles can be applied to the current host. A current version of the contents.zip file below is needed when using esxupdate with a depot.

NOTE: VMware has discovered an issue that, under very specific conditions, might inhibit certain patches from being applied to ESX Server 3.5 hosts. The issue is fixed in the patch release for March 10, 2008. All the bundles released January 17 have been superseded by the bundles released for March 10, 2008 and the bundles for January 17, 2008 are no longer available.

ESX350-200802301-BG Update to the bnx2 Driver

ESX350-200802303-SG Security Update to the util-linux Package

ESX350-200802304-SG Security Update to the Perl Package

ESX350-200802305-SG Security Update to the openssl Package

ESX350-200802306-BG VMware ESX Server 3.5, Patch ESX350-200802306-BG: Daylight Saving Time Update

ESX350-200802401-BG Updates to vmware-hostd

ESX350-200802403-BG Improved Statistics Collection for Support Scripts, Fix for Patch Issue Seen After Upgrading from ESX Server 2.5.x to 3.5.0

ESX350-200802404-BG Resolves DMA Issues on LSI 1078 and 106XE HBAs

ESX350-200802405-BG Update to MegaRAID SCSI Driver to Fix Dell PowerEdge 6650 Boot Issue

ESX350-200802406-BG Updated aacraid Driver

ESX350-200802408-SG Security Updates to the Python Package

ESX350-200802409-BG Fix for Reset Issue with CD-ROM Controller

ESX350-200802410-BG Unexpected Reboot of Virtual Machines Configured to Automatically Start or Stop

ESX350-200802411-BG Enhanced Validation Checks, and Fixes for Storage VMotion and Lab Manager

ESX350-200802412-BG Updates to the VMkernel to Fix Networking and Hardware Issues

ESX350-200802413-BG Sunfire X4200 Host Hangs Because of HBA Timeouts Due to DMA Problems

ESX350-200802414-BG Discrete Sensors Report Wrong Information to Monitors

ESX350-200802415-BG Security Update to Samba Packages