Here is our Top 20 ESXi articles list for June 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.
- VMware ESXi 5.x host experiences a purple diagnostic screen mentioning E1000PollRxRing and E1000DevRx
- Determining Network/Storage firmware and driver version in ESXi/ESX 4.x, ESXi 5.x, and ESXi 6.x
- Commands to monitor snapshot deletion in VMware ESXi/ESX
- ESXi 5.5 Update 3b and later hosts are no longer manageable after upgrade
- Restarting the Management agents on an ESXi or ESX host
- Recreating a missing virtual machine disk descriptor file
- Identifying and addressing Non-Maskable Interrupt events on an ESX/ESXi host
- Permanent Device Loss (PDL) and All-Paths-Down (APD) in vSphere 5.x and 6.x
- Snapshot consolidation in VMware ESXi 5.5.x and ESXi 6.0.x fails with the error: maximum consolidate retries was exceeded for scsix:x
- Powering off a virtual machine on an ESXi host
- Correlating build numbers and versions of VMware products
- Updating an ESXi/ESX host using VMware vCenter Update Manager 4.x and 5.x
- Update sequence for vSphere 6.0 and its compatible VMware products
- ESXi 5.5 or 6.0 host disconnects from vCenter Server with the syslog.log error: Unable to allocate memory
- Enabling or disabling VAAI ATS heartbeat
- ESXi 6.0 hosts become unresponsive when joined to an Active Directory domain
- Enabling EVC on a cluster when vCenter Server is running in a virtual machine
- Unable to delete the virtual machine snapshot due to locked files
- Using esxtop to identify storage performance issues for ESX / ESXi (multiple versions)
- Reverting to a previous version of ESXi
