VMware NSX 6.x – Part 10 – Backup & Restore NSX Configuration
April 1, 2018
Mastering vSphere 6.5 – vCenter Logs
April 8, 2018Mastering vSphere 6.5 – ESXi Logs
Here is the post which I thought of writing for my friends who are new to VMware and wanted to understand the ESXi logs. In this post, I have shared all the ESXi logs and their respective services. The below list is the log structure of ESXi 6.5.
The logs are located at /var/log/ .To know more about ESXi Log location, click HERE.
| Logs | Service |
|---|---|
| Xorg.log | Logs produced by the Xorg service. The Xorg service handles the VMware virtual graphics |
| auth.log | ESXi Shell authentication logs. Logs the user, IP and the authentication status. |
| boot.gz | Contains boot log information |
| dhclient.log | DHCP client service logs. Holds DHCP discovery, address lease requests and renewals. |
| esxupdate.log | ESXi update, upgrade and installation logs. |
| fdm.log | vCenter Server 5.x and 6.0 uses Fault Domain Manager (FDM) agents for High Availability (HA). It holds logs of Host failures and Election process |
| hbrca.log | UDM Cascading Agent for ESXi |
| hostd-probe.log | Checks the Host management service responsiveness |
| hostd.log | Host management service logs which includes the virtual machine and the host events and also the events regarding the host and vCenter communication. |
| hostdCgiServer.log | A standalone CGI service that handles all HTTP requests for URL /cgi-bin. it was moved out of hostd process and into its own daemon so that we have a way to collect vm-support bundle if hostd is dead-locked. |
| hostprofiletrace.log | Host profile logs |
| lacp.log | Link Aggregation Control Protocol logs |
| nfcd.log | TCP/IP stack logs |
| rabbitmqproxy.log | rabbitmqproxy, A proxy running on the ESXi host that allows applications running inside virtual machines to communicate to the AMQP brokers running in the vCenter network domain. |
| rhttpproxy.log | HTTP connections proxied on behalf of other ESXi host webservices |
| sdrsinjector.log | vSphere Storage DRS device injector log |
| shell.log | ESXi Shell usage logs, including enable/disable and every command entered. |
| storagerm.log | SIOC Logs |
| swapobjd.log | Swap VVol Object Daemon |
| sysboot.log | System Boot logs. Holds ESXi Power-ON, Power-OFF and restart events |
| syslog.log | Management service initialization, watchdogs, scheduled tasks and DCUI use. |
| usb.log | USB device arbitration events, such as discovery and pass-through to virtual machines. |
| vitd.log | vSAN iSCSI target Daemon. Holds the events of vSAN iSCSI target service. |
| vmauthd.log | VMware Authorization service Logs |
| vmkdevmgr.log | VMware Device Manager Logs. Holds information about the devices attached to the ESXi host like NIC, HBA |
| vmkernel.log | Core VMkernel logs, including device discovery, storage and networking device and driver events, and virtual machine startup. |
| vmkeventd.log | It is a utility for capturing VMkernel events |
| vmkwarning.log | A summary of Warning and Alert log messages excerpted from the VMkernel logs. |
| vmksummary.log | A summary of ESXi host startup and shutdown, and an hourly heartbeat with uptime, number of virtual machines running, and service resource consumption. |
| vobd.log | VMkernel Observation events |
| vprobe.log | A flexible dynamic instrumentation system aimed at providing deep observability into the ESXi and VMs running on it. |
| vpxa.log | vCenter Server vpxa agent logs, including communication with vCenter Server and the Host Management hostd agent. |
| vvold.log | Virtual Volumes Log |
| VSAN Services | |
| vsanmgmt.log | vSAN Management Service. |
| vsansystem.log | vSAN System Managed Service. |
| vsanvpd.log | vSAN Storage Provider Daemon |
| osfsd.log | Object Storage File System Daemon is responsible for storing objects on a local file system and providing access to them over the network for vSAN |
| clomd.log | Cluster Level Object Manager Daemon is responsible for new object creation, Repairing existing objects, Data moves and evacuations from vSAN |
| ddecomd.log | |
| epd.log | |
| upitd.log | |
| iofiltervpd.log | |
Let me know if I had missed out any logs by dropping an comment in the comment session.
Also see: Mastering vSphere 6.5 – vCenter Logs
