Mike Laverick has posted an excellent document about all the difference between 3.5 and 3. Read it here:
http://www.rtfm-ed.co.uk/?p=469

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by Gabrie van Zanten
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Better logging
In ESX 3.5 there is now better logging for HA failures then for ESX 3.0.x. I’ve been playing around with my DNS settings and hosts files and can confirm that the errors reported by HA are more helpfull then before.
For example:
“Configuration of host IP address is inconsistent on host esx01.vanzanten.local: address resolved to 192.168.0.1 [...]

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On the download page, you can also find the “Drivers & Tools” section at which the VMware Infrastructure Remote CLI can be downloaded. http://www.vmware.com/download/vi/drivers_tools.html
“The VMware Infrastructure Remote CLI provides a command-line interface for datacenter management from a remote server. This interface is fully supported on VMware ESX Server 3i and experimental for VMware ESX Server [...]

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by Gabrie van Zanten
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Today it became official, the release of ESX 3.5 & VC 2.5 & Converter 4.0.
When looking at the UN-official release of last friday, it seems that only the ESX buildnumber has changed.
ESX Server Version 3.5 | 12/10/2007 | Build 64607
VirtualCenter Version 2.5 | 12/10/2007 | Build 64201
Homepage at: http://www.vmware.com/products/vi/
Download at: http://www.vmware.com/download/vi/
Release notes at: http://www.vmware.com/support/vi3/doc/vi3_esx35_vc25_rel_notes.html
Have fun [...]

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by Gabrie van Zanten
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In this part, I’m going to look at the new Virtual Machine options.
Virtual Machines
On the summay tab, I see two small GUI changes. First is that now the DNS name of a VM is mentioned, second it shows a “Memory Overhead” value. Not sure how this value is determined and what it would tell me [...]

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