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Top 20 Articles for October 2011

Here is our Top 20 KB list for October 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. Enhanced VMotion Compatibility (EVC) processor support (1003212)
  2. Troubleshooting VMware High Availability (HA) (1001596)
  3. Virtual machine does not power on because of locked files (10051)
  4. Collecting diagnostic information for VMware Fusion (1003894)
  5. Best practices for using and troubleshooting VMware Converter (1004588)
  6. Collecting diagnostic information for VMware ESX/ESXi using the vm-support command (1010705)
  7. Purging old data from the database used by vCenter Server (1025914)
  8. Recreating a missing virtual machine disk (VMDK) descriptor file (1002511)
  9. Consolidating snapshots (1007849)
  10. Upgrading to vCenter Server 5.0 best practices (2003866)
  11. Diagnosing an ESX or ESXi host that is Disconnected or Not Responding in vCenter Server (1003409)
  12. Upgrading to ESX 4.1 and vCenter Server 4.1 best practices (1022104)
  13. How to install async drivers on ESX/ESXi 4.x (1032936)
  14. Uninstalling, reinstalling, and upgrading VMware Fusion (1014529)
  15. Best practices for virtual machine snapshots in the VMware environment (1025279)
  16. Committing snapshots when there are no snapshot entries in the snapshot manager (1002310)
  17. Extending partitions in Windows using DiskPart (1007266)
  18. Using esxtop to identify storage performance issues (1008205)
  19. Cloning and converting virtual machine disks with vmkfstools (1028042)
  20. Creating a persistent scratch location for ESXi (1033696)