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vmk2014
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‎12-16-2019 11:47 PM

How to configure centralized location for collecting ESXi host core dumps

Hi All,

I'm looking to collect the ESXi host code dumps  in centralized location. Any help will be much appreciated.

thanks

vmk

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T180985
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‎12-16-2019 11:49 PM

Are you talking about configuring Syslog on the hosts? If so you can follow the guide below:

Configure Syslog on ESXi Hosts

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vmk2014
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‎12-17-2019 04:37 AM

So i need to configure Syslog server first. and then configure syslog on ESXi host ?

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KabirAli82
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‎12-17-2019 04:41 AM

If you want to set up core dumps;

Set Up a File as Core Dump Location


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ryanrpatel
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‎12-17-2019 04:44 AM

Are you trying to retain post-PSOD reboot support dumps (vm-support)? If so, that's the persistent scratch location which I typically set to a shared Datastore. If that's what you mean, let me know and I can show you the script I use for that.

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