The vCenter Inventory service fails to start after installing custom certificates (2015186)

http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=2015186

Hide Administrator from Windows 7 Login Screen

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\SpecialAccounts\UserList]
"Administrator"=dword:00000000

EMC VMAX and DMX Symmetrix Storage Array recommendations for optimal performance on VMware ESXi/ESX (2072070)

http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=2072070

Cisco UCS - Seagate 146/300/500GB and 1TB/2TB Hard Drives Might Not Respond Under Certain Conditions

http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/docs/field-notices/638/fn63812.html

Cancel a vMotion Task

Normally, VMware do not allow you to cancel an on-going vMotion task (I am not talking about Storage vMotion). On the web, there are some recommendations like restarting vmware-mgmt or restarting the vCenter service. I can say restarting vmware-mgmt (vpxa) never helps. Restarting vCenter service (vpxd) is too costly. A possible idea is creating an environment that force the vMotion task timeout by itself which is max. 15 minutes. The easiest way is to uncheck vMotion function checkbox on the destination hosts' network and such that vMotion traffic would be stucked on the network and failed by timeout. I think this cost is much lower then restarting the whole vCenter while your vCenter is managing thousands of hosts or a lot of backup software is depending on it. Backup software do not affected by vMotion network is down (yes, you should separate management network and vMotion network as a best practice.)

Completely disable Java update on all users

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\JavaSoft\Java Update\Policy]
"EnableJavaUpdate"=dword:00000000

VMware Compatibility Guide

http://partnerweb.vmware.com/comp_guide2/detail.php?deviceCategory=io&productid=10474&deviceCategory=io&details=1&VID=1137&DID=0045&SVID=1137&SSID=0048&vioSolutions=Standard%20-%20IO%20Devices&page=1&display_interval=10&sortColumn=Partner&sortOrder=Asc