VMware ESX 3.5 Update 2 - patch installation by Ian Lockhart - 8/14/2008 a couple of false starts, I came up with the following short process for applying the update (I can't promise this is the best/most efficient way of doing this, but it worked for me;-)
VMware ESX 3.5 update 2 - patch released by Ian Lockhart - 8/13/2008 We have received further details regarding this major issue and it sounds like a patch has been released. An update from VMware was finally received.
VMware ESX 3.5 update 2 -Serious bug by Ian Lockhart - 8/12/2008 We have just received notification from our technical account manager at VMware informing us that there is a serious bug in the latest build of ESX server.