when does virtual machine log files useful

[baber]

Dear all

Hi

i want to know what is the benefit of .log file in vm directory ?

actually when can i use that and what information can i get that ?

is that useful ?

BR

Babak

[dbalcaraz · Accepted solution]

Hi,

I suppose do you mean the vmware.log (current) and all vmware-xxx.log (rotated, old ones) files located in each VM directory.

Well, the information in the files are related to the VM obviously, like VMotions performed, some information about VMtools, Reservations, etc.

So, it can be helpful if you want to know what happened with this VM, if there were any actions performed, I mean, is basically related to troubleshooting purposes.

[baber]

So thanks

but would you please give an example for that totally is that useful for troubleshoot or not ? what troubleshooting can i do with that ?

BR

Babak

[SupreetK]

As already mentioned by dbalcaraz, vmware.log records events related to machine activity, system failures, hardware changes, migrations, status and so on. It helps us in various scenarios such as VM going unresponsive, migrations failing, issues related to snapshot, BSOD, etc. In short, anything and everything that is related to the specific VM.

Cheers,

Supreet

[baber]

for example if my virtual machine going to restart , will it register in vmware.log file and will register the reason of that ?

BR

Babak