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Top 20 Articles for November 2011

Here is our Top 20 KB list for November 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. Recreating a missing virtual machine disk (VMDK) descriptor file (1002511)
  3. Best practices for using and troubleshooting VMware Converter (1004588)
  4. Enhanced VMotion Compatibility (EVC) processor support (1003212)
  5. Restarting the Management agents on an ESX or ESXi Server (1003490)
  6. Upgrading to vCenter Server 5.0 best practices (2003866)
  7. Consolidating snapshots (1007849)
  8. Virtual machine does not power on because of locked files (10051)
  9. Using esxtop to identify storage performance issues (1008205)
  10. Collecting diagnostic information for VMware Fusion (1003894)
  11. Purging old data from the database used by vCenter Server (1025914)
  12. Enabling syslog on ESXi 3.5 and 4.x (1016621)
  13. Diagnosing an ESX or ESXi host that is Disconnected or Not Responding in vCenter Server (1003409)
  14. Manually deleting linked clones or stale virtual desktop entries from VMware View Manager (1008658)
  15. Cloning and converting virtual machine disks with vmkfstools (1028042)
  16. Collecting diagnostic information for VMware ESX/ESXi using the vm-support command (1010705)
  17. Upgrading to ESX 4.1 and vCenter Server 4.1 best practices (1022104)
  18. Collecting diagnostic information for VMware ESX/ESXi using the vSphere Client (653)
  19. Understanding virtual machine snapshots in VMware ESX (1015180)
  20. Virtual machines stop responding when any LUN on the host is in an all-paths-down (APD) condition (1016626)