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Mastering VMware vSphere 6.7, - Second Edition

By : Martin Gavanda, Andrea Mauro, Paolo Valsecchi, Karel Novak
Book Image

Mastering VMware vSphere 6.7, - Second Edition

By: Martin Gavanda, Andrea Mauro, Paolo Valsecchi, Karel Novak

Overview of this book

vSphere 6.7 is the latest release of VMware’s industry-leading, virtual cloud platform. It allows organisations to move to hybrid cloud computing by enabling them to run, manage, connect and secure applications in a common operating environment. This up-to-date, 2nd edition provides complete coverage of vSphere 6.7. Complete with step-by-step explanations of essential concepts, practical examples and self-assessment questions, you will begin with an overview of the products, solutions and features of the vSphere 6.7 suite. You’ll learn how to design and plan a virtual infrastructure and look at the workflow and installation of components. You'll gain insight into best practice configuration, management and security. By the end the book you'll be able to build your own VMware vSphere lab that can run even the most demanding of workloads.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
Free Chapter
1
Section 1: Getting Started
8
Section 2: Managing Resources
13
Section 3: Advanced Topics
18
Section 4: Building Your Lab Environment

Logs

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

If you login to the vCSA, bash shell is not accessible directly after the login. To access the bash shell, you need to issue the shell command first:

Command> shell
Shell access is granted to root
root@VCSA-lab [ ~ ]#
root@VCSA-lab [ ~ ]# cd /var/log/vmware
root@VCSA-lab [ /var/log/vmware ]# ls

Detailed log locations and descriptions can be found in the VMware KB at https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/2110014?language=en_US&r=2&Quarterback.validateRoute=1&KM_Utility.getArticleData=1&KM_Utility.getArticleLanguage=2&KM_Utility.getArticle=1.

ESXi host logs

The ESXi host log files are very similar to vCSA...