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Top 20 ESXi articles for April 2017

  1. ESXi host fails with PSOD when using Intel Xeon Processor E5 v4, E7 v4, and D-1500 families
  2. ESXi host fails with intermittent NMI PSOD on HP ProLiant Gen8 servers
  3. Unable to power off the virtual machine in an ESXi host
  4. Recreating a missing virtual machine disk descriptor file
  5. Permanent Device Loss (PDL) and All-Paths-Down (APD) in vSphere 5.x and 6.x
  6. Snapshot removal task stops at 99% in ESXi/ESX
  7. ESXi host loses connectivity to a VMFS3 and VMFS5 datastore
  8. ESXi host that uses Intel Corporation Ethernet Controller X710 for 10GbE SFP+ NIC fails with PSOD
  9. “state in doubt; requested fast path state update” error in ESXi
  10. ESXi 6.5 host fails with a Purple Diagnostic Screen with error: World nnnn tried to re-acquire lock
  11. ESXi 6.5 host fails with PSOD: GP Exception 13 in multiple VMM world at VmAnon_AllocVmmPages
  12. “The parent virtual disk has been modified since the child was created” error
  13. NFS connectivity issues on NetApp NFS filers on ESXi 5.x/6.x
  14. ESXi 5.x with E1000e adapter fails with purple diagnostic screen
  15. ESXi 5.5 and 6.0 hosts fail with a PSOD: VMCIEventDelayedDispatchCB@com
  16. PSOD error: “VMKAPI-char-metadata heap at maximum” in the ESXi 6.0 host
  17. Cannot remount a datastore after an unplanned permanent device loss (PDL)
  18. “The host returns esxupdate error code:15” error when remediating an ESXi 5.x and 6.x host
  19. VMware ESXi 5.x host stops sending syslogs to remote server
  20. Lost or degraded connectivity to storage device