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I just ran across this rapidly growing thread in the VMware Community forums. Apparently, the date August 12, 2008 is literally a bug in ESX 3.5 Update 2. If you have already upgraded be prepared to experience the following issues as described at VMware Communities: BIG bug in ESX 3.5 Update 2 – If you’re … (check this thread for the latest as it is updating frequently as of this posting):

The bug:

Starting this morning, we could not power on or VMotion any of our Virtual Machines. The VI Client threw the error “A general system error occurred: Internal Error”.

Further digging lead us to messages like this one in /var/log/vmware/hostd.log, and the log file for any virtual machine we tried to power on or VMotion:

Aug 12 10:40:10.792: vmx| http://msg.License.product.expired This product has expired.
Aug 12 10:40:10.792: vmx| Be sure that your host machine’s date and time are set correctly.
Aug 12 10:40:10.792: vmx| There is a more recent version available at the VMware Web site: “http://www.vmware.com/info?id=4″.

A call to tech support confirmed this as a known problem with a temporary workaround.

The work-around: Read the rest of this entry »