DRS logs / DRS Action History

[astrolab]

I am trying to dig out DRS events from one of my Virtual Centers. I know of 2 locations: 1 is the DRS action history, which is apparently cleared frequently, the other is c:\docs and settings\all users\app data\ vmware\vmware virtualcenter\logs\drmdump\clusterxxxx, but this contains a lot of xxxxxxxx-proposeactions.dump file that do not contain records of actual migrations. Any idea, where should I look? And how do I get events in DRS Action History to "stick" ??

[astrolab]

I increased the DRS log size through the advanced settings for DRS, by entering DumpSpace and the new size in MB. I hope that works out.

[Texiwill]

Hello,

Another location is /var/log/vmware/hostd.log.* on the actual ESX host.

Best regards,

Edward L. Haletky

VMware Communities User Moderator

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Author of the book 'VMWare ESX Server in the Enterprise: Planning and Securing Virtualization Servers', Copyright 2008 Pearson Education.

CIO Virtualization Blog: http://www.cio.com/blog/index/topic/168354

As well as the Virtualization Wiki at http://www.astroarch.com/wiki/index.php/Virtualization

[astrolab]

Thanks, though I would love to have a centralized view of DRS events. Strangely, the logs on the VC server don't really tell you what VMs were affected by DRS events.

BTW, I love your book, good stuff.

[Texiwill]

Hello,

Thank you.

I think everyone would like a centralized view of DRS events. I would open a Feature Request with your VMware Support Representative. Alternative, I would use a syslog server and a parser to find all the events within the logfiles.

Best regards,

Edward L. Haletky

VMware Communities User Moderator

====

Author of the book 'VMWare ESX Server in the Enterprise: Planning and Securing Virtualization Servers', Copyright 2008 Pearson Education.

CIO Virtualization Blog: http://www.cio.com/blog/index/topic/168354

As well as the Virtualization Wiki at http://www.astroarch.com/wiki/index.php/Virtualization