Top 20 Articles for March 2015

Here is our Top 20 KB list for March 2015. 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.

1. VMware ESXi 5.x host experiences a purple diagnostic screen mentioning E1000PollRxRing and E1000DevRx (2059053)

2. ESXi host cannot initiate vMotion or enable services and reports the error: Heap globalCartel-1 already at its maximum size.Cannot expand (2085618)

3. Installing async drivers on VMware ESXi 5.x and ESXi 6.0.x (2005205)

4. Correlating VMware products build numbers to update levels (1014508)

5. Manually deleting linked clones or stale virtual desktop entries from the View Composer database in VMware View Manager and Horizon View (2015112)

6. Uninstalling and manually installing VMware Tools in VMware Fusion (1014522)

7. Installing VMware Tools in a Fusion virtual machine running Windows (1003417)

8. Troubleshooting Fusion virtual machine performance issues (1015676)

9. Purging old data from the database used by VMware vCenter Server (1025914)

10. Determining Network/Storage firmware and driver version in ESXi/ESX 4.x, ESXi 5.x and ESXi 6.x (1027206)

11. Installing Windows in a virtual machine using VMware Fusion Easy Install (1011677)

12. Re-pointing and re-registering VMware vCenter Server 5.1 / 5.5 and components (2033620)

13. Installing vCenter Server 5.5 best practices (2052334)

14. Commands to monitor snapshot deletion in VMware ESXi/ESX (1007566)

15. Upgrading to vCenter Server 5.5 best practices (2053132)

16. Resetting the VMware vCenter Server 5.x Inventory Service database (2042200)

17. Installing or upgrading to ESXi 5.5 best practices (2052329)

18. Investigating virtual machine file locks on ESXi/ESX (10051)

19. Troubleshooting networking and internet connection issues in VMware Fusion (1016466)

20. Unmounting a LUN or detaching a datastore/storage device from multiple VMware ESXi 5.x/6.0 hosts (2004605)