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novice_engineer
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logs are stored on non-persistent storage. consult product documentation to configure a syslog serve

This is displayed when installing ESXI on VMware WorkstationPro16.

ESXI versions 6.0, 6.5 and 7.0 could not be implemented as well.
Steps to create: 
1) Create a new virtual machine
2) Custom (C) Advanced
3) Installer disk image file (iso): ESXI:6.5ISO file from the reference
Enter the name of the virtual machine,
4) Enter the name of the virtual machine. 5) Location: C:¥User¥Username¥Documents¥Virtual Machines
5) Number of processors: 2
Number of cores per processor: 1
6) Virtual machine memory: 4096 MB
7) Network Connection: Use NAT
8)I/O controller type: Paravirtualized SCSI
9)Virtual disk type: SCSI
10) Create a new virtual disk
11) Maximum disk size: 40GB, virtual disk is stored as a single disk
12)Completion
13)Click the Enter button.
14)Drop F11 on the EULA screen.
15)logs are stored on non-persistent storage. consult product documentation to configure a syslog serve message is displayed, and installation cannot be done.

I'm not good at English, so please understand that this may be difficult to read.

I would appreciate it if you could let me know.
Thank you very much for your cooperation.

 

 

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nikomaster
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Contributor

same issue , how you resolve this issue?

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aakalan
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Enthusiast

check this out and save the logs to a persistent storage. do you have localdisks attached?

https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/2032823

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Quickdraw
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Enthusiast

In addition make sure you create a folder for each esxi host and don't dump all the logs in the same place. 

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