{"id":22,"date":"2014-09-02T10:48:30","date_gmt":"2014-09-02T17:48:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/45.77.187.106\/?p=22"},"modified":"2014-12-11T21:41:27","modified_gmt":"2014-12-12T05:41:27","slug":"vmware-esxi-5-log-files","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mindthevirt.com\/vmware-esxi-5-log-files\/","title":{"rendered":"Crucial Data In Your VMware ESXi 5 Log Files"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As an Escalation Engineer, part of my daily work is reviewing log files of various systems and vendors.\u00a0In my first blog post, I would like to show which VMware ESXi 5 log files are most relevant for troubleshooting storage and networking related problems.<\/p>\n<p>All current ESXi 5 logs are located under \/var\/log and as they rotate, they&#8217;ll be available under <strong>\/scratch\/logs<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/45.77.187.106\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Screen-Shot-2014-07-25-at-3.45.26-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-43\" src=\"https:\/\/45.77.187.106\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Screen-Shot-2014-07-25-at-3.45.26-PM-300x148.png\" alt=\"vmware_esxi_logs\" width=\"557\" height=\"275\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mindthevirt.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Screen-Shot-2014-07-25-at-3.45.26-PM-300x148.png 300w, https:\/\/mindthevirt.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Screen-Shot-2014-07-25-at-3.45.26-PM.png 915w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 557px) 100vw, 557px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>\/var\/log\/vmkernel.log<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>VMkernel related activities, such as:\n<ul>\n<li>Rescan and unmount of storage devices and datastores<\/li>\n<li>Discovery of new storage like iSCSI and FCP LUNs<\/li>\n<li>Networking (vmnic and vmks connectivity)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>\/var\/log\/vmkwarning.log<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Extracted warning and alert messages from the vmkernel.log<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>\/var\/log\/hostd.log::<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Logs related to the host management service<\/li>\n<li>SDK connections<\/li>\n<li>vCenter tasks and events<\/li>\n<li>Connectivity to vpxa service, which is the vCenter agent on the ESXi server<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>\/var\/log\/vobd.log:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>VMkernel observations<\/li>\n<li>Useful for network and performance issues<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Also, if you have a VM which is affected in particular, it might be worth looking into the vmware.log which is stored with the Virtual Machine. You can find the log under\u00a0<strong>\/vmfs\/volumes\/datastore_name\/VM_name\/vmware.log.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For the location of\u00a0ESXi 3.5 and 4.x log files, can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/kb.vmware.com\/selfservice\/microsites\/search.do?language=en_US&amp;cmd=displayKC&amp;externalId=1021801\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As an Escalation Engineer, part of my daily work is reviewing log files of various systems and vendors.\u00a0In my first blog post, I would like to show which VMware 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