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Here is our monthly update of the Top 20 KB articles for the month of October, based on use by customers.

1. Upgrading to ESX 4.0 and vCenter 4.0 best practices (1009039)
2. Restarting the Management agents on an ESX or ESXi Server (1003490)
3. Downloading and Installing VMware Fusion (1005466)
4. Uninstalling, reinstalling, and upgrading VMware Fusion (1014529)
5. Best practices for using and troubleshooting VMware Converter (1004588)
6. Enhanced VMotion Compatibility (EVC) processor support (1003212)
7. Powering off a virtual machine on an ESX host (1004340)
8. Upgrading an ESX 3.x virtual machine to ESX 4.0 (1010675)
9. Increasing the amount of RAM assigned to the ESX Server service console (1003501)
10. Virtual machine does not power on because of missing or locked files (10051)
11. Recreating a missing virtual disk (VMDK) header/descriptor file (1002511)
12. Troubleshooting VMware High Availability (HA) (1001596)
13. Installing ESX 4.0 and vCenter 4.0 best practices (1009080)
14. Decoding Machine Check Exception (MCE) output after a purple screen error (1005184)
15. A CPU of the host is incompatible error appears and VMotion stops working after upgrading to vSphere 4.0 (1011294)
16. Virtual machine memory usage alarms triggered for virtual machines when guest operating system memory usage is low (1013206)
17. Resignaturing VMFS3 volumes from VMware Infrastructure Client (9453805)
18. FAQ: Supported/Unsupported Devices and Configurations (1184)
19. Pegasus (cimserver) memory leaks reported in ESX 3.5 Update 2 and later (1009607)
20. Committing snapshots when there are no snapshot entries in the snapshot manager (1002310)

Here is our monthly update of the Top 20 KB articles for the month of September. These articles are getting a lot of use by customers.

1. Upgrading to ESX 4.0 and vCenter 4.0 best practices (1009039)

2. Enhanced VMotion Compatibility (EVC) processor support (1003212)

3. Best practices for using and troubleshooting VMware Converter (1004588)

4. Increasing the amount of RAM assigned to the ESX Server service console (1003501)

5. Downloading, verifying, and installing Fusion (1005466)

6. Restarting the Management agents on an ESX Server (1003490)

7. Consolidating snapshots (1007849)

8. Decoding Machine Check Exception (MCE) output after a purple screen error (1005184)

9. Installing ESX 4.0 and vCenter 4.0 best practices (1009080)

10. Troubleshooting startup issues or manually reinstalling Fusion (1003484)

11. Pegasus (cimserver) memory leaks reported in ESX 3.5 Update 2 and later (1009607)

12. Upgrading an ESX 3.x virtual machine to ESX 4.0 (1010675)

13. Virtual machine does not power on because of missing or locked files (10051)

14. Recreating a missing virtual disk (VMDK) header/descriptor file (1002511)

15. Virtual machine memory usage alarms triggered for virtual machines when guest operating system memory usage is low (1013206)

16. Upgrading to ESX 3.5 and VirtualCenter 2.5 Best Practices (1003889)

17. Troubleshooting Adding an ESX Server Host and Configuring a VMware High Availability Cluster (1001596)

18. Troubleshooting a VMware High Availability cluster configuration failure (1003691)

19. Configuring networking from the ESX service console command line (1000258)

20. EVC and CPU Compatibility FAQ (1005764)

Here is our monthly update of the Top 20 KB articles for the month of August.

1. Upgrading to ESX 4.0 and vCenter 4.0 best practices (1009039)
2. Installing ESX 4.0 and vCenter 4.0 best practices (1009080)
3. Best practices for using and troubleshooting VMware Converter (1004588)
4. Downloading, verifying, and installing Fusion (1005466)
5. Enhanced VMotion Compatibility (EVC) processor support (1003212)
6. Consolidating snapshots (1007849)
7. Decoding Machine Check Exception (MCE) output after a purple screen error (1005184)
8. Restarting the Management agents on an ESX Server (1003490)
9. Verifying ESX virtual machine file integrity (1003743)
10. Troubleshooting Adding an ESX Server Host to a VMware High Availability Cluster (1001596)
11. Increasing the amount of RAM assigned to the ESX Server service console (1003501)
12. Troubleshooting startup issues or manually reinstalling Fusion (1003484)
13. Powering off a virtual machine hosted on ESX host from the command line (1004340)
14. VMware ESX and ESXi Comparison (1006543)
15. Troubleshooting SCSI Reservation failures on Virtual Infrastructure 3.x and vSphere 4.x (1005009)
16. VMotion CPU Compatibility - Migrations Prevented Due to CPU Mismatch - How to Override Masks (1993)
17. Virtual machine does not power on because of missing or locked files (10051)
18. Pegasus (cimserver) memory leaks reported in ESX 3.5 Update 2 and later (1009607)
19. Upgrading an ESX 3.x virtual machine to ESX 4.0 (1010675)
20. Service mgmt-vmware restart may not restart hostd (1005566)

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