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Top 20 ESXi articles for March 2016

Top 20Here is our Top 20 ESXi articles list for March 2016. 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. After upgrading an ESXi host to 5.5 Update 3b and later, the host is no longer manageable by vCenter Server
  2. VMware ESXi 5.x host experiences a purple diagnostic screen mentioning E1000PollRxRing and E1000DevRx
  3. Commands to monitor snapshot deletion in VMware ESXi/ESX
  4. Permanent Device Loss (PDL) and All-Paths-Down (APD) in vSphere 5.x and 6.x
  5. Determining Network/Storage firmware and driver version in ESXi/ESX 4.x, ESXi 5.x, and ESXi 6.x
  6. Methods for upgrading to ESXi 5.5
  7. Methods for upgrading to VMware ESXi 6.0
  8. Recreating a missing virtual machine disk descriptor file
  9. Installing patches on an ESXi 5.x/6.x host from the command line
  10. Reverting to a previous version of ESXi
  11. Licensing VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager
  12. Creating quiesced snapshot fails with the error: An error occurred while saving the snapshot: msg.snapshot.error-QUIESCING-ERROR
  13. Consolidating snapshots in vSphere 5.x/6.0
  14. Restarting the Management agents on an ESXi or ESX host
  15. Using esxcli in vSphere 5.5 and 6.0 to reclaim VMFS deleted blocks on thin-provisioned LUNs
  16. Identifying and addressing Non-Maskable Interrupt events on an ESX/ESXi host
  17. Downloading and installing async drivers in VMware ESXi 5.x and ESXi 6.0.x
  18. Deprecated VMFS volume warning reported by ESXi hosts
  19. Estimating the time required to consolidate snapshots during the snapshot removal for VMware ESX and VMware ESXi
  20. VMware ESXi 5.x host experiences a purple diagnostic screen mentioning E1000PollRxRing, E1000DevRx and Net_AcceptRxList