Top 20 ESXi articles for July 2016

Here is our Top 20 ESXi articles list for July 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.

1.     Uploading diagnostic information for VMware through the Secure FTP portal

2.     Support Contracts FAQs

3.     Commands to monitor snapshot deletion in ESXi/ESX

4.     How to purchase and file Pay Per Incident support for VMware products

5.     Uploading diagnostic information for VMware using FTP

6.     Downloading, licensing, and using VMware products

7.     Licensing VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager

8.     Determining Network/Storage firmware and driver version in ESXi/ESX 4.x, ESXi 5.x, and ESXi 6.x

9.     ESXi 5.x with E1000e adapter fails with purple diagnostic screen

10.   Recreating a missing virtual machine disk descriptor file

11.   Using the VMware Knowledge Base

12.   Product offerings for vSphere 5.x

13.   ESXi hosts are no longer manageable after an upgrade

14.   Installing patches on an ESXi 5.x/6.x host from the command line

15.   Enabling or disabling VAAI ATS heartbeat

16.   Restarting the Management agents in ESXi

17.   Permanent Device Loss (PDL) and All-Paths-Down (APD) in vSphere 5.x and 6.x

18.   Consolidating snapshots in vSphere 5.x/6.0

19.   “maximum consolidate retries was exceeded for scsix:x” error in ESXi

20.   Build numbers and versions of VMware ESXi/ESX

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