Here is our Top 20 ESXi articles list for October 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.
- Using the VMware Knowledge Base
- Uploading diagnostic information for VMware using FTP
- How to purchase and file Pay Per Incident support for VMware products
- Collecting diagnostic information for VMware products
- ESXi host fails with PSOD when using Intel Xeon Processor E5 v4, E7 v4, and D-1500 families
- Support Contracts FAQs
- Uploading diagnostic information for VMware through the Secure FTP portal
- Snapshot removal task stops at 99% in ESXi/ESX
- Correlating build numbers and versions of VMware products
- Permanent Device Loss (PDL) and All-Paths-Down (APD) in vSphere 5.x and 6.x
- End of General Support for vSphere 5.0 and vSphere 5.1
- “vm-support” command in ESX/ESXi to collect diagnostic information
- Build numbers and versions of VMware ESXi/ESX
- Recreating a missing virtual machine disk descriptor file
- Investigating virtual machine file locks on ESXi
- “esxcli software vib” commands to patch an ESXi 5.x/6.x host
- Downloading, licensing, and using VMware products
- Determining Network/Storage firmware and driver version in ESXi/ESX 4.x, ESXi 5.x, and ESXi 6.x
- Creating a persistent scratch location for ESXi 4.x/5.x/6.0
- How to unmount a LUN or detach a datastore device from ESXi hosts
