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