Top 20 Articles for June 2014

Here is our Top 20 KB list for June 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. VMware ESXi 5.x host experiences a purple diagnostic screen mentioning E1000PollRxRing and E1000DevRx (2059053) 2. An ESXi 5.5 host […]]> Here is our Top 20 KB list for June 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. VMware ESXi 5.x host experiences a purple diagnostic screen mentioning E1000PollRxRing and E1000DevRx (2059053)



2. An ESXi 5.5 host fails with a purple diagnostic screen and the error: hpsa_update_scsi_devices (2075978)



3. Purging old data from the database used by VMware vCenter Server 4.x and 5.0.x (1025914)



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



5. Guest customization runs repeatedly on virtual machines deployed to ESXi 5.1 host build 1743533 (2078352)



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



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



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



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



10. Restarting the Management agents on an ESXi or ESX host (1003490)



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



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



13. Permanent Device Loss (PDL) and All-Paths-Down (APD) in vSphere 5.x (2004684)



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



15. Troubleshooting Fusion virtual machine performance issues (1015676)



16. Resetting the VMware vCenter Server 5.x Inventory Service database (2042200)



17. Resolving OpenSSL Heartbleed for ESXi 5.5 – CVE-2014-0160 (2076665)



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



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



20. Migrating the vCenter Server database from SQL Express to full SQL Server (1028601)







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