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Top 20 vCenter articles for March 2016

Top 20Here is our Top 20 vCenter 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. Purging old data from the database used by VMware vCenter Server
  3. Upgrading to vCenter Server 6.0 best practices
  4. Permanent Device Loss (PDL) and All-Paths-Down (APD) in vSphere 5.x and 6.x
  5. Unlocking and resetting the VMware vCenter Single Sign-On administrator password
  6. Consolidating snapshots in vSphere 5.x/6.0
  7. Deprecated VMFS volume warning reported by ESXi hosts
  8. Stopping, starting, or restarting VMware vCenter Server services
  9. Resetting the VMware vCenter Server and vCenter Server Appliance 6.0 Inventory Service database
  10. List of recommended topologies for VMware vSphere 6.0.x
  11. Migrating the vCenter Server database from SQL Express to full SQL Server
  12. VMware vSphere Web Client displays the error: Failed to verify the SSL certificate for one or more vCenter Server Systems
  13. Update sequence for VMware vSphere 5.5 and its compatible VMware products
  14. Update sequence for vSphere 6.0 and its compatible VMware products
  15. Linked Clone pool creation and recomposition fails with VMware Horizon View 6.1.x and older releases
  16. Unmanaged I/O workload detected on shared datastore running Storage I/O Control (SIOC) for congestion management
  17. The vpxd process becomes unresponsive after upgrading to VMware vCenter Server 5.5
  18. Installing vCenter Server 6.0 best practices
  19. Updating vCenter Server 5.5 to Update 3 fails with the error: Warning 32014. A utility for phone home data collector couldn”t be executed successfully
  20. Registering or adding a virtual machine to the inventory on vCenter Server or on an ESX/ESXi host