At TSX VMware were pretty tight lipped about what new features they were planning for esx. But in one of the sessions Mike Laverick managed to tie down the product manager and then squeeze him really hard. The results were. 1) Live Data Migration (vmotion with storage) 2) Third Prty Virtual Switches 3) Better management of virtual switches across servers 4) H.A. Non Stop 5) New Service Console 6) Expanded HCL List 7) Storage Mirroring inside ESX 8) 8 VCpu's coming...

find -iname "*-flat.vmdk" -mtime +7 -ls you could identify vmdk files older then 7 days that have not been modified and are either off or orphaned. or find -iname "*-delta.vmdk" -mtime +7 -ls to find old snapshots

The following tool should make life a lot easier if you have to patch multiple ESX servers. (Though I havn't tried it myself yet) http://www.mightycare.de/in... Also there is ViDocIT if you want to produce a basic report on your VI3 server install - you will need Virtual Center though and the demo only supports a one server report. Website: http://www.vidocit.com/ viDocIT is a simple to use Windows application that in a matter of minutes...