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Top 20 Articles for April 2013

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Here is our Top 20 KB list for April 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.

  1. Downloading and installing VMware Fusion (2014097)
  2. Uploading diagnostic information to VMware (1008525)
  3. Installing Windows in a virtual machine using VMware Fusion Easy Install (1011677)
  4. Installing async drivers on ESXi 5.x (2005205)
  5. Installing or upgrading to ESXi 5.1 best practices (2032756)
  6. Repointing and reregistering VMware vCenter Server 5.1.x and components (2033620)
  7. Unmounting a LUN or Detaching a Datastore/Storage Device from multiple ESXi 5.x hosts (2004605)
  8. Troubleshooting Fusion virtual machine performance issues (1015676)
  9. Accessing VMware downloads (2006993)
  10. Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) Partner Activation Code (PAC) portal (2011587)
  11. Broadcom 5719/5720 NICs using tg3 driver become unresponsive and stop traffic in vSphere (2035701)
  12. Purging old data from the database used by vCenter Server (1025914)
  13. Upgrading to vCenter Server 5.1 best practices (2021193)
  14. Creating a persistent scratch location for ESXi 4.x and 5.x (1033696)
  15. Investigating virtual machine file locks on ESXi/ESX (10051)
  16. Collecting diagnostic information for VMware ESX/ESXi using the vSphere Client (653)
  17. VMware store purchasing and order details (2006980)
  18. VMware View Best Practices (1020305)
  19. After making a change or restarting Single Sign On server system, vCenter Server 5.1.x fails to start (2036170)
  20. ESXi/ESX hosts in APD may appear Not Responding in vCenter Server (1030980)

Top 20 Articles for March 2013

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Here is our Top 20 KB list for March 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.

  1. Downloading and installing VMware Fusion (2014097)
  2. Virtual machines fail while using 3D applications after applying Apple MacBook Air and MacBook Pro Update 2.0 (2040249)
  3. Installing async drivers on ESXi 5.x (2005205)
  4. Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) Partner Activation Code (PAC) portal (2011587)
  5. Installing Windows in a virtual machine using VMware Fusion Easy Install (1011677)
  6. Upgrading to vCenter Server 5.1 best practices (2021193)
  7. Unmounting a LUN or Detaching a Datastore/Storage Device from multiple ESXi 5.x hosts (2004605)
  8. Uploading diagnostic information to VMware (1008525)
  9. Investigating virtual machine file locks on ESXi/ESX (10051)
  10. Broadcom 5719/5720 NICs using tg3 driver become unresponsive and stop traffic in vSphere (2035701)
  11. Installing or upgrading to ESXi 5.1 best practices (2032756)
  12. Uninstalling, reinstalling, and upgrading VMware Fusion (1014529)
  13. Collecting diagnostic information for VMware ESX/ESXi using the vSphere Client (653)
  14. Creating a persistent scratch location for ESXi 4.x and 5.x (1033696)
  15. Methods for upgrading to ESXi 5.1 (2032757)
  16. Troubleshooting Fusion virtual machine performance issues (1015676)
  17. Purging old data from the database used by vCenter Server (1025914)
  18. Accessing VMware downloads (2006993)
  19. Configuring syslog on ESXi 5.x (2003322)
  20. Removing a LUN containing a datastore from VMware ESXi/ESX 4.x (1029786)

Top 20 Articles for February 2013

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Here is our Top 20 KB list for February 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.

  1. Downloading and installing VMware Fusion (2014097)
  2. Virtual machines fail while using 3D applications after applying Apple MacBook Air and MacBook Pro Update 2.0 (2040249)
  3. VMware store purchasing and order details (2006980)
  4. Installing Windows in a virtual machine using VMware Fusion Easy Install (1011677)
  5. Broadcom 5719/5720 NICs using tg3 driver become unresponsive and stop traffic in vSphere (2035701)
  6. Installing VMware Tools in a Fusion virtual machine running Windows (1003417)
  7. Investigating virtual machine file locks on ESXi/ESX (10051)
  8. Installing or upgrading to ESXi 5.1 best practices (2032756)
  9. Restarting the Management agents on an ESXi or ESX host (1003490)
  10. Unmounting a LUN or Detaching a Datastore/Storage Device from multiple ESXi 5.x hosts (2004605)
  11. Purging old data from the database used by vCenter Server (1025914)
  12. Upgrading to vCenter Server 5.1 best practices (2021193)
  13. Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) Partner Activation Code (PAC) portal (2011587)
  14. Collecting diagnostic information for VMware ESX/ESXi using the vSphere Client (653)
  15. Manually deleting linked clones or stale virtual desktop entries from the View Composer database in VMware View Manager 4.5 and later (2015112)
  16. Creating a persistent scratch location for ESXi 4.x and 5.x (1033696)
  17. ESXi/ESX hosts in APD may appear Not Responding in vCenter Server (1030980)
  18. Committing snapshots when there are no snapshot entries in the Snapshot Manager (1002310)
  19. Configuring syslog on ESXi 5.x (2003322)
  20. Manually deleting linked clones or stale virtual desktop entries from VMware View Manager 3.x and 4.0.x (1008658)

Top 20 Articles for January 2013

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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.

  1. Installing or upgrading to ESXi 5.1 best practices (2032756)
  2. Creating a persistent scratch location for ESXi 4.x and 5.x (1033696)
  3. Purging old data from the database used by vCenter Server (1025914)
  4. Upgrading to vCenter Server 5.1 best practices (2021193)
  5. Broadcom 5719/5720 NICs using tg3 driver become unresponsive and stop traffic in vSphere (2035701)
  6. Investigating virtual machine file locks on ESXi/ESX (10051)
  7. Installing async drivers on ESXi 5.x (2005205)
  8. Restarting the Management agents on an ESXi or ESX host (1003490)
  9. Unmounting a LUN or Detaching a Datastore/Storage Device from multiple ESXi 5.x hosts (2004605)
  10. Methods of upgrading to ESXi 5.1 (2032757)
  11. Installing VMware Tools in a Fusion virtual machine running Windows (1003417)
  12. Collecting diagnostic information for VMware ESX/ESXi using the vSphere Client (653)
  13. Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) Partner Activation Code (PAC) portal (2011587)
  14. Using esxtop to identify storage performance issues (1008205)
  15. Accessing VMware downloads (2006993)
  16. Repointing and reregistering VMware vCenter Server 5.1.x and components (2033620)
  17. Manually deleting linked clones or stale virtual desktop entries from VMware View Manager 3.x and 4.0.x (1008658)
  18. Recreating a missing virtual machine disk (VMDK) descriptor file (1002511)
  19. Uninstalling and manually installing VMware Tools in VMware Fusion (1014522)
  20. Commands to monitor snapshot deletion in ESX 2.5/3.x/4.x and ESXi 3.x.x/4.x.x/5.x (1007566)

Top 20 Articles for December 2012

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Here is our Top 20 KB list for December 2012. 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.

  1. Downloading and installing VMware Fusion (2014097)
  2. Uploading diagnostic information to VMware (1008525)
  3. Virtual machines fail while using 3D applications after applying Apple MacBook Air and MacBook Pro Update 2.0 (2040249)
  4. Restarting the Management agents on an ESXi or ESX host (1003490)
  5. Collecting diagnostic information for VMware ESX/ESXi using the vSphere Client (653)
  6. Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) Partner Activation Code (PAC) portal (2011587)
  7. Creating a persistent scratch location for ESXi 4.x and 5.x (1033696)
  8. Unmounting a LUN or Detaching a Datastore/Storage Device from multiple ESXi 5.x hosts (2004605)
  9. Installing Windows in a virtual machine using VMware Fusion Easy Install (1011677)
  10. Broadcom 5719/5720 NICs using tg3 driver become unresponsive and stop traffic in vSphere (2035701)
  11. Purging old data from the database used by vCenter Server (1025914)
  12. Installing or upgrading to ESXi 5.1 best practices (2032756)
  13. Installing VMware Tools in a Fusion virtual machine running Windows (1003417)
  14. Installing async drivers on ESXi 5.x (2005205)
  15. Uninstalling and manually installing VMware Tools in VMware Fusion (1014522)
  16. Upgrading to vCenter Server 5.1 best practices (2021193)
  17. Investigating virtual machine file locks on ESXi/ESX (10051)
  18. Methods of upgrading to ESXi 5.1 (2032757)
  19. Configuring syslog on ESXi 5.0 (2003322)
  20. Permanent Device Loss (PDL) and All-Paths-Down (APD) in vSphere 5.0 (2004684)

 

Top 20 Articles for November 2012

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Here is our Top 20 KB list for November 2012. 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.

 

Top 20 Articles for October 2012

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Here is our Top 20 KB list for October 2012. 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.

  1. Downloading and installing VMware Fusion (2014097)
  2. Uninstalling, reinstalling, and upgrading VMware Fusion (1014529)
  3. Converter Standalone 5.0 might close unexpectedly when accessing vSphere 5.1 targets (2033315)
  4. Manually uninstalling VMware Fusion (1017838)
  5. Installing or upgrading to ESXi 5.1 best practices (2032756)
  6. Purging old data from the database used by vCenter Server (1025914)
  7. Uninstalling and manually installing VMware Tools in VMware Fusion (1014522)
  8. Methods of upgrading to ESXi 5.1 (2032757)
  9. Unpresenting a LUN in ESXi 5.x (2004605)
  10. Broadcom 5719/5720 NICs using tg3 driver becomes unresponsive and stops traffic in vSphere (2035701)
  11. Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) Partner Activation Code (PAC) portal  (2011587)
  12. vCenter Server Services hang on startup after upgrading to vCenter Server 5.1 (2035623)
  13. Investigating virtual machine file locks on ESX/ESXi (10051)
  14. Installing Windows in a virtual machine using VMware Fusion Easy Install (1011677)
  15. Restarting the Management agents on an ESXi or ESX host (1003490)
  16. Configuring syslog on ESXi 5.0 (2003322)
  17. Upgrading to vCenter Server 5.1 best practices (2021193)
  18. Creating a persistent scratch location for ESXi 4.x and 5.x (1033696)
  19. Permanent Device Loss (PDL) and All-Paths-Down (APD) in vSphere 5.0 (2004684)
  20. Committing snapshots when there are no snapshot entries in the Snapshot Manager (1002310)

Top 10 Support Insider Articles for October

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Happy Hallowe’en, readers! As it’s the last day of the month, I thought I’d look back on my personal Gangnam-style parody what posts were popular in October. Not surprisingly, our number one post revolves around the release of Windows 8. Have a look… See anything you missed?

  1. Installing Windows 8 as a guest operating system in VMware Workstation 9.x
  2. Installing the VMware vSphere 5.1 Web Client
  3. Installing Mac OS X 10.7 (Lion) as a virtual machine in VMware Fusion 4
  4. Configuring and Using WSX in VMware Workstation 9
  5. ALERT: vSphere 5.1 is not compatible with any versions of VMware View
  6. vSphere SSO Resources
  7. Installing VMware vCenter Server 5.1 using the Simple Install method
  8. Getting Started Right with vSphere 5.1
  9. Installing or upgrading to ESXi 5.1 best practices
  10. vSphere Client on Windows 7 now supported

Top 20 Articles for September 2012

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Here is our Top 20 KB list for September 2012. 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.

  1. Adding and removing users in My VMware (2016235)
  2. Super Users and Procurement Contacts in My VMware (2011011)
  3. Upgrading license keys in My VMware (2006974)
  4. My VMware FAQ (2014350)
  5. Viewing, editing, and copying user permissions in My VMware (2006978)
  6. Users and permissions in My VMware (2006977)
  7. Registering a license key in My VMware (2011177)
  8. Viewing and updating your My VMware profile (2007008)
  9. Downloading and installing VMware Fusion (2014097)
  10. Resetting your My VMware password (2013961)
  11. Combining license keys in My VMware (2006973)
  12. Filing a Support Request in My VMware (2006985)
  13. Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) Partner Activation Code (PAC) portal (2011587)
  14. Uninstalling, reinstalling, and upgrading VMware Fusion (1014529)
  15. Requesting a support contract renewal quote in My VMware (2006982)
  16. Unpresenting a LUN in ESXi 5.x (2004605)
  17. My Evaluations in My VMware (2007046)
  18. Installing async drivers on ESXi 5.x (2005205)
  19. Investigating virtual machine file locks on ESX/ESXi (10051)
  20. Restarting the Management agents on an ESXi or ESX host (1003490)

Top 20 Articles for August 2012

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Here is our Top 20 KB list for August 2012. 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.

  1. Super Users and Procurement Contacts in My VMware (2011011)
  2. Adding and removing users in My VMware (2016235)
  3. Upgrading license keys in My VMware (2006974)
  4. My VMware FAQ (2014350)
  5. Viewing, editing, and copying user permissions in My VMware (2006978)
  6. Users and permissions in My VMware (2006977)
  7. VMware Fusion compatibility with OS X Mountain Lion (Mac OS X 10.8) (2032208)
  8. Registering a license key in My VMware (2011177)
  9. Viewing and updating your My VMware profile (2007008)
  10. Downloading and installing VMware Fusion (2014097)
  11. Resetting your My VMware password (2013961)
  12. Enhanced vMotion Compatibility (EVC) processor support (1003212)
  13. Restarting the Management agents on an ESX or ESXi host (1003490)
  14. Combining license keys in My VMware (2006973)
  15. Filing a Support Request using a Partner Support Code (2011781)
  16. Investigating virtual machine file locks on ESX/ESXi (10051)
  17. Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) Partner Activation Code (PAC) portal (2011587)
  18. Filing a Support Request in My VMware (2006985)
  19. Unpresenting a LUN in ESXi 5.x (2004605)
  20. Manually uninstalling VMware Fusion (1017838)