Moving SYSLOG.GLOBAL.LOGDIR failing

[insearchof]

VMware 6.7 ESXI 6.7

Trying to move my Syslog.global.logDir  to another Datastore

I have it currently located on an internal SSD drive I need the SSD drive to build my VSAN datastore

So I  have a USB Datastore and NFS datastores.

But when I select the new datastore I get this error.     A general system error occurred: Internal error

I tried using esxcli coomands

esxcli system syslog config set --logdir=/TGCSESXI-17-USB-Datastore/Logfiles

Logdir must exist and be a directory.

Both NFS and USB datastore give the same error

Currently in the GUI advanced settings syslog

[] /scratch/log

[scott28tt]

Moderator: Moved to ESXi

[Alex_Romeo · Accepted solution]

Hi,

Check if this procedure can be useful:

Manually Configure ESXi Syslog Location - VirtuBytes

ARomeo

[insearchof]

AlessandroRomeo68

Thank you for the link

I got it to work via command line

esxcli system syslog config set --logdir=/vmfs/volumes/TGCSESXI-17-USB-Datastore

esxcli system syslog reload

esxcli system syslog config get

   Check Certificate Revocation: false

   Default Network Retry Timeout: 180

   Dropped Log File Rotation Size: 100

   Dropped Log File Rotations: 10

   Enforce SSLCertificates: true

   Local Log Output: /vmfs/volumes/TGCSESXI-17-USB-Datastore

   Local Log Output Is Configured: true

   Local Log Output Is Persistent: true

   Local Logging Default Rotation Size: 1024

   Local Logging Default Rotations: 8

   Log To Unique Subdirectory: false

   Message Queue Drop Mark: 90

   Remote Host: <none>

   Strict X509Compliance: false

I had to copy and paste the name from my ls /vmfs/volumes command typing it in did not work.

Thanks

Now I need to restart the host so the SSD will free up.

[Alex_Romeo]

Hi,

Great! I'm glad you solved it.

ARomeo

[insearchof]

AlessandroRomeo68

My next host getting something different

[root@TGCSESXI-18:~] esxcli system syslog config set –logdir=/vmfs/volumes/[TGCSESXI-18-USB-Datastore]
Error: Unknown command or namespace system syslog config set –logdir=/vmfs/volumes/[TGCSESXI-18-USB-Datastore]

[root@TGCSESXI-18:~] esxcli system syslog config set –logdir=/vmfs/volumes/USB-Datastore
Error: Unknown command or namespace system syslog config set –logdir=/vmfs/volumes/USB-Datastore

[root@TGCSESXI-18:~] esxcli system syslog config set –logdir=/vmfs/volumes/[USB-Datastore]
Error: Unknown command or namespace system syslog config set –logdir=/vmfs/volumes/[USB-Datastore]

[root@TGCSESXI-18:~] ls /vmfs/volumes

00f6aae3-16bdb241-4af7-f741b3be14db  518b2637-cee13546                    5e716118-3fba0a6e-767d-001018f511a0  93398fe1-1471c9aa-45c2-199fd975426f  NFS02                                NFS05                                USB-Datastore

0668a372-cdaec12f                    5d3e68a3-2a4fbc4c-77a0-001018f511a0  764ff06c-085795c5                    9922a901-2086921c                    NFS03                                NFS06

1dbbd8ff-2e72b64c                    5d5df28c-5d3e0d52-52b4-001018f511a0  83be3709-4b2fe0e8                    NFS01                                NFS04                                TGCSESXI-18-Datastore-SSD

Any ideas

[Alex_Romeo]

Hi,

I tried in PowerCLI, it looks like you haven't put a double dash on the command "–logdir = ....."

it should be so:

esxcli system syslog config set --logdir=......

ARomeo

[insearchof]

Yes I saw that late last night got it working thanks