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Mastering VMware vSphere 6.5

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Mastering VMware vSphere 6.5

Overview of this book

VMware vSphere 6.5 provides a powerful, flexible and secure foundation for next-generation applications which helps you create an effective digital transformation. This book will be based on VMware vSphere 6.5 which empowers you to virtualize any complex application with ease. You’ll begin by getting an overview of all the products, solutions and features of the vSphere 6.5 suite, comparing the evolutions with the previous releases. Next ,you’ll design and plan a virtualization infrastructure to drive planning and performance analysis. Following this , you will be proceeding with workflow and installation of components. New network trends are also covered which will help you in optimally designing the vSphere environment. You will also learn the practices and procedures involved in configuring and managing virtual machines in a vSphere infrastructure. With vSphere 6.5, you’ll make use of significantly more powerful capabilities for patching, upgrading, and managing the configuration of the virtual environment. Next we’ll focus on specific availability and resiliency solutions in vSphere. Towards the end of the book you will get information on how to save your configuration, data and workload from your virtual infrastructure. By the end of the book you’ll learn about VMware vSphere 6.5 right from design to deployment and management.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)

Logs

For TRBL it is very important to know where the logs are located. In vCSA log files are stored in /var/log/.

The way to access the bash using the shell command is as follows:

Command> shell
Shell access is granted to root
root@vc [ ~ ]# cd /var/log/vmware
root@vc [ /var/log/vmware ]# ls
applmgmt content-library perfcharts procstate-20171026.gz rbd sca vcha vmcam vmware-imagebuilder vpxd-svcs
applmgmt-audit eam procstate procstate-20171027.gz rhttpproxy sso vctop vmdir vmware-sps vsan-health
cis-license journal procstate-20171023.gz procstate-20171028.gz rsyslogd syslog vmafd vmdird vmware-updatemgr vsm
cloudvm mbcs procstate-20171024.gz procstate-20171029.gz rsyslogd-2068 upgrade vmafdd vmdnsd vpostgres vsphere-client
cm netdumper procstate-20171025.gz psc-client rsyslogd-2078 vapi vmcad vmon vpxd vsphere-ui
root@vc [ /var/log/vmware ]#

A way to easily check logs online is through...