Here is our Top 20 KB list for October 2012. This list is ranked by the number of times a VMware Support Request was resolved by following the steps in a published Knowledge Base article.
- Downloading and installing VMware Fusion (2014097)
- Uninstalling, reinstalling, and upgrading VMware Fusion (1014529)
- Converter Standalone 5.0 might close unexpectedly when accessing vSphere 5.1 targets (2033315)
- Manually uninstalling VMware Fusion (1017838)
- Installing or upgrading to ESXi 5.1 best practices (2032756)
- Purging old data from the database used by vCenter Server (1025914)
- Uninstalling and manually installing VMware Tools in VMware Fusion (1014522)
- Methods of upgrading to ESXi 5.1 (2032757)
- Unpresenting a LUN in ESXi 5.x (2004605)
- Broadcom 5719/5720 NICs using tg3 driver becomes unresponsive and stops traffic in vSphere (2035701)
- Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) Partner Activation Code (PAC) portal (2011587)
- vCenter Server Services hang on startup after upgrading to vCenter Server 5.1 (2035623)
- Investigating virtual machine file locks on ESX/ESXi (10051)
- Installing Windows in a virtual machine using VMware Fusion Easy Install (1011677)
- Restarting the Management agents on an ESXi or ESX host (1003490)
- Configuring syslog on ESXi 5.0 (2003322)
- Upgrading to vCenter Server 5.1 best practices (2021193)
- Creating a persistent scratch location for ESXi 4.x and 5.x (1033696)
- Permanent Device Loss (PDL) and All-Paths-Down (APD) in vSphere 5.0 (2004684)
- Committing snapshots when there are no snapshot entries in the Snapshot Manager (1002310)