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Mastering VMware vSphere 6.5

You're reading from   Mastering VMware vSphere 6.5 Leverage the power of vSphere for effective virtualization, administration, management and monitoring of data centers

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787286016
Length 598 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Paolo Valsecchi Paolo Valsecchi
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Preface 1. Evolution of VMware vSphere Suite FREE CHAPTER 2. Design and Plan a Virtualization Infrastructure 3. Analysis and Assessment of an Existing Environment 4. Deployment Workflow and Component Installation 5. Configuring and Managing vSphere 6.5 6. Advanced Network Management 7. Advanced Storage Management 8. Advanced VM and Resource Management 9. Monitoring, Optimizing, and Troubleshooting 10. Securing and Protecting Your Environment 11. Lifecycle Management, Patching, and Upgrading 12. Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery 13. Advanced Availability in vSphere 6.5 14. Data and Workloads Protection

Logs

For TRBL it is very important to know where the logs are located. In vCSA log files are stored in /var/log/.

The way to access the bash using the shell command is as follows:

Command> shell
Shell access is granted to root
root@vc [ ~ ]# cd /var/log/vmware
root@vc [ /var/log/vmware ]# ls
applmgmt content-library perfcharts procstate-20171026.gz rbd sca vcha vmcam vmware-imagebuilder vpxd-svcs
applmgmt-audit eam procstate procstate-20171027.gz rhttpproxy sso vctop vmdir vmware-sps vsan-health
cis-license journal procstate-20171023.gz procstate-20171028.gz rsyslogd syslog vmafd vmdird vmware-updatemgr vsm
cloudvm mbcs procstate-20171024.gz procstate-20171029.gz rsyslogd-2068 upgrade vmafdd vmdnsd vpostgres vsphere-client
cm netdumper procstate-20171025.gz psc-client rsyslogd-2078 vapi vmcad vmon vpxd vsphere-ui
root@vc [ /var/log/vmware ]#

A way to easily check logs online is through...

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