VMware Support Insider: Top 20 Articles for February 2014

Here is our Top 20 KB list for February 2014. 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. ESXi 5.x host experiences a purple diagnostic screen mentioning E1000PollRxRing and E1000DevRx (2059053)


2. Installing async drivers on ESXi 5.0, 5.1, and 5.5 (2005205)


3. Downloading and installing VMware Fusion (2014097)


4. Determining Network/Storage firmware and driver version in ESXi/ESX 4.x and ESXi 5.x (1027206)


5. Installing Windows in a virtual machine using VMware Fusion Easy Install (1011677)


6. Purging old data from the database used by VMware vCenter Server 4.x and 5.x (1025914)


7. Re-pointing and re-registering VMware vCenter Server 5.1 / 5.5 and components (2033620)


8. Unmounting a LUN or detaching a datastore/storage device from multiple ESXi 5.x hosts (2004605)


9. Upgrading to vCenter Server 5.5 best practices (2053132)


10. Installing or upgrading to ESXi 5.5 best practices (2052329)


11. VMware store purchasing and order details (2006980)


12. Creating a persistent scratch location for ESXi 4.x and 5.x (1033696)


13. Investigating virtual machine file locks on ESXi/ESX (10051)


14. Manually deleting linked clones or stale virtual desktop entries from VMware View Manager 3.x and 4.0.x (1008658)


15. Troubleshooting Fusion virtual machine performance issues (1015676)


16. Installing VMware Tools in a Fusion virtual machine running Windows (1003417)


17. Uninstalling and manually installing VMware Tools in VMware Fusion (1014522)


18. Manually deleting linked clones or stale virtual desktop entries from the View Composer database in VMware View Manager and Horizon View (2015112)


19. Broadcom 5719/5720 NICs using tg3 driver become unresponsive and stop traffic in vSphere (2035701)


20. Methods for upgrading to ESXi 5.5 (2058352)

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