I dont believe this has been resolved either as we are seeing the same issue occur in the VMware environment - especially when building large VMs with 16GB of memory\4 vCPU.
ESX 4.1 433742 - HP 685C G6
My VMware administrators are refusing to believe its ESX related as the VMWare patch level should have fixed this but im certain its vmware related. Is there any specific error codes I can ask them to check in the Vmware log files to verify its ESX related?