non persistent storage error message

[tom11011]

Hello,

Have a fresh new install of vsphere 6.0 Update 3a dated 7-11-2017.

The vsphere client is giving me an error message on the splash screen.

"Configuration Issues

System logs on localhost.localdomain are stored on non-persistent storage"

I have other servers in the cluster that were upgraded from earlier 6.0 that are not getting this message at all and are in fact logging to the local datastore, just not /scratch though.

No configuration other than assigning an ip and password to the esx server has been done to the new servers.

We have no desire to log host information to shared storage.

Thanks

[dekoshal]

Check this out.

System logs are stored on non-persistent storage (2032823) | VMware KB

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Best Regards,

Deepak Koshal

CNE|CLA|CWMA|VCP4|VCP5|CCAH

[tom11011]

Is this by design or is this a bug?

IE- is it assumed now that after a fresh new setup you have to manually deal with system logs as part of the server configuration?

[dekoshal]

Its as per design if log files are stored on non-persistent storage.

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Deepak Koshal

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[bmidd31]

Likely the issue is the location you loaded ESXi was too small to allow the 4GB scratch partition to be created and load the necessay ESXi files.  Either specify a new scratch location with enough space in the advance settings or load ESXi onto a disk with more space avaliable, >16GB ideally.

[tom11011]

Is a 300gig hard drive not enough space?  These are all new servers out of the box with two 300gig hard drives in a raid 1.  All default install options are chosen during setup.  Does this sound right??

[tom11011]

Is local hard drive of 300gigs considered non-persistent?

[tom11011]

So the issue has been identified by vmware, its a bug.

ScratchConfig.CurrentScratchLocation is set to /scratch after upgrading to ESXi 6.x (2151209) | VMwa...