Knowledge Base

Summaries and Symptoms

This patch fixes the following issues, which are described in the associated KB articles:

• Path Failover Might Not Complete Successfully with LSI3444E Under High Stress (KB 1004313)
  
  
• VMKlinux Runs Out of Memory when Using an mptsas System with More Than 128 LUNs (KB 1004403)
  
  

Deployment Considerations

None beyond the required patch bundles and reboot information listed in the table, above.

Patch Download and Installation

See the VMware Update Manager Administration Guide for instructions on using Update Manager to download and install patches to automatically update ESX Server 3.5 hosts.

To update ESX Server 3.5 hosts when not using Update Manager, download the most recent patch bundle from http://www.vmware.com/download/vi/vi3_patches_35.html and install the bundle using esxupdate from the command line of the host. For more information, see the ESX Server 3 Patch Management Guide.