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<div style="text-align: left;"><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <o:OfficeDocumentSettings> <o:AllowPNG/> </o:OfficeDocumentSettings></xml><![endif]--></div>
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<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>ESXi Log Files</b></span></span></div>
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<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">·<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-language-override: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-synthesis: weight style; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> ; </span>/var/log/auth.log: ESXi Shell authentication success and failure attempts.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">·<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-language-override: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-synthesis: weight style; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> ; </span>/var/log/dhclient.log: DHCP client log.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">·<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-language-override: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-synthesis: weight style; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span>/var/log/esxupdate.log: ESXi patch and update installation logs.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">·<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-language-override: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-synthesis: weight style; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span>/var/log/hostd.log: Host management service logs, including virtual machine and host Task and Events, communication with the vSphere Client and vCenter Server vpxa agent, and SDK connections.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">·<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-language-override: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-synthesis: weight style; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"></span>/var/log/shell.log: ESXi Shell usage logs, including enable/disable and every command entered.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">·<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-language-override: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-synthesis: weight style; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span>/var/log/boot.gz: A compressed file that contains boot log information and can be read using zcat /var/log/boot.gz|more.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">·<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-language-override: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-synthesis: weight style; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"></span>/var/log/syslog.log: Management service initialization, watchdogs, scheduled tasks and DCUI use.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">·<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-language-override: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-synthesis: weight style; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span>/var/log/usb.log: USB device arbitration events, such as discovery and pass-through to virtual machines.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">·<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-language-override: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-synthesis: weight style; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span>/var/log/vob.log: VMkernel Observation events, similar to vob.component.event.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">·<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-language-override: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-synthesis: weight style; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span>/var/log/vmkernel.log: Core VMkernel logs, including device discovery, storage and networking device and driver events, and virtual machine startup.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">·<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-language-override: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-synthesis: weight style; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span>/var/log/vmkwarning.log: A summary of Warning and Alert log messages excerpted from the VMkernel logs.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">·<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-language-override: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-synthesis: weight style; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span>/var/log/vmksummary.log: A summary of ESXi host startup and shutdown, and an hourly heartbeat with uptime, number of virtual machines running, and service resource consumption</span></span></li>
</ul>
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<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Viewing log file</b></span></span></div>
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<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #111111; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-language-override: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-synthesis: weight style; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"></span></span><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white; color: #111111; line-height: 115%;">There are a number of ways in which you can view log files,</span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #111111; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-language-override: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-synthesis: weight style; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"></span></span><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white; color: #111111; line-height: 115%;">The first place is simply from the DCUI on the host. You can move down to ‘View System Logs’, then choose the log file that you would like to view:</span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #111111; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-language-override: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-synthesis: weight style; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"></span></span><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white; color: #111111; line-height: 115%;">The second way is to use the vSphere client. By making a connection directly to a host, rather than vSphere, you can view the hosts log files:</span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span style="color: #111111; font-weight: normal; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-language-override: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-synthesis: weight style; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"></span></span></b><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white; color: #111111; line-height: 115%;">The third way is to view a host’s log files is to use a web browser.  ;Using a url like this one:<span> ;</span></span><b style="text-align: start; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">https://192.168.0.122/host</span></b></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #111111; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-language-override: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-synthesis: weight style; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"></span></span><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white; color: #111111; line-height: 115%;">Forth way is to connect to SSH to the host and view the log files from the SSH console</span></span></span></li>
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<div style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white; line-height: 15pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 108pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #111111;">cat hostd.log | more</span></span></span></div>
<div style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white; line-height: 15pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 108pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #111111;">less hostd.log</span></span></span></div>
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<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white; color: #111111; line-height: 115%;">Last and fifth way is to use Power CLI</span></span></span></li>
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<div><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white; color: #111111; line-height: 115%;"> ;<b>Generating logs in bundle for investigation</b></span></span></span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white; color: #111111; line-height: 115%;">By exporting logs using vsphere client: File->;Export system logs</span></span></div>
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<div>Using Power CLI: <em><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white; color: maroon; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%;">Get-Log -Bundle -DestinationPath <path></path></span></em></div>
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<div><em><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white; color: maroon; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%;"> ;</span></em>Connecting to the host through SSH and using vm -support command</div>
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