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Top 20 Articles for August 2011

Here is our Top 20 KB list for August 2011. This list is ranked by the number of times a VMware Support Service Request was resolved by following the steps in a published Knowledge Base article.

  1. Troubleshooting VMware High Availability (HA) (1001596)
  2. VMware Fusion 3 support for Mac OS X Lion (10.7) (2003715)
  3. Enhanced VMotion Compatibility (EVC) processor support (1003212)
  4. Restarting the Management agents on an ESX or ESXi Server (1003490)
  5. Virtual machine does not power on because of locked files (10051)
  6. Best practices for using and troubleshooting VMware Converter (1004588)
  7. How to install async drivers on ESX/ESXi 4.x (1032936)
  8. Upgrading to ESX 4.1 and vCenter Server 4.1 best practices (1022104)
  9. Enabling syslog on ESXi 3.5 and 4.x (1016621)
  10. Recreating a missing virtual machine disk (VMDK) descriptor file (1002511)
  11. Virtual machines stop responding when any LUN on the host is in an all-paths-down condition (APD) (1016626)
  12. Powering off an unresponsive virtual machine on an ESX host (1004340)
  13. Best practices for virtual machine snapshots in the VMware environment (1025279)
  14. Upgrading ESX 4.0 to ESX 4.1 (1022140)
  15. Committing snapshots when there are no snapshot entries in the snapshot manager (1002310)
  16. Collecting diagnostic information for VMware Fusion (1003894)
  17. Manually deleting linked clones or stale virtual desktop entries from VMware View Manager (1008658)
  18. Unpresenting a LUN containing a datastore from ESX 4.x and ESXi 4.x (1015084)
  19. Using esxtop to identify storage performance issues (1008205)
  20. Consolidating snapshots (1007849)