Something that a lot of people haven’t looked in to or just don’t think about is relocating the log files of vCenter, I wrote a short article 2 years ago and thought it was time to reiterate it. By default (Windows 2003) log files are stored in “C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\VMware\VMware VirtualCenter\Logs”, and for [...]
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VM’s vmware.log rotation options
December 30th, 2008
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Yesterday I posted about the article on the hostd, vpxa and vpxd log file options. Today another KB article has been released to setup a rotation scheme for the VM’s log file: vmware.log. Might be worth checking it out and setting it up. You need to change the VM’s vmx file for this to work [...]
Rotating Hostd, VPXD and VPXA log files
December 29th, 2008
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If your hostd, vpxd and or vpxa log files are rotating to quickly or not quick enough check out this great KB article on how to set this up. The most important thing to set is the maximum amount of logfiles and the size. Be sure to do a basic calculation so your logging partition [...]
VirtualCenter log files in your temp directory
September 8th, 2008
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By default your VirtualCenter logfiles are stored in a temp folder(as of 2.5 they are stored in: C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\VMware\VMware VirtualCenter\Logs). VMware Wolf wrote a nice article about all the locations these log files are stuffed. For some reason I don’t get a pleasant feeling when I store my VirtualCenter (VPXD) log files [...]
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