Here is our Top 20 KB list for January 2013. This list is ranked by the number of times a VMware Support Request was resolved by following the steps in a published Knowledge Base article.
- Installing or upgrading to ESXi 5.1 best practices (2032756)
- Creating a persistent scratch location for ESXi 4.x and 5.x (1033696)
- Purging old data from the database used by vCenter Server (1025914)
- Upgrading to vCenter Server 5.1 best practices (2021193)
- Broadcom 5719/5720 NICs using tg3 driver become unresponsive and stop traffic in vSphere (2035701)
- Investigating virtual machine file locks on ESXi/ESX (10051)
- Installing async drivers on ESXi 5.x (2005205)
- Restarting the Management agents on an ESXi or ESX host (1003490)
- Unmounting a LUN or Detaching a Datastore/Storage Device from multiple ESXi 5.x hosts (2004605)
- Methods of upgrading to ESXi 5.1 (2032757)
- Installing VMware Tools in a Fusion virtual machine running Windows (1003417)
- Collecting diagnostic information for VMware ESX/ESXi using the vSphere Client (653)
- Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) Partner Activation Code (PAC) portal (2011587)
- Using esxtop to identify storage performance issues (1008205)
- Accessing VMware downloads (2006993)
- Repointing and reregistering VMware vCenter Server 5.1.x and components (2033620)
- Manually deleting linked clones or stale virtual desktop entries from VMware View Manager 3.x and 4.0.x (1008658)
- Recreating a missing virtual machine disk (VMDK) descriptor file (1002511)
- Uninstalling and manually installing VMware Tools in VMware Fusion (1014522)
- Commands to monitor snapshot deletion in ESX 2.5/3.x/4.x and ESXi 3.x.x/4.x.x/5.x (1007566)
