I hit an interesting issue the other day when attempting to reconfigure remote syslog on some ESXi hosts. What followed was an exercise on troubleshooting…
Adding Virtual Disks and “Operating System not found”
I ran into a frustrating issue the other day when attempting to add multiple new virtual disks to an existing VM. Upon doing so, I…
Changing VMware ESXi host logging level and why not to do it
A while back, I came across an entry from Michael White’s newsletter about changing VMware ESXi host logging levels: Changing VMware ESXi host logging level…
Log Insight: vSphere Integration
One of the great features of Log Insight is its tight integration with other VMware products. One of these integrations is with vSphere. I have…
ESXi syslog events have localhost for hostname – Part 2
In part 1 of the article, I talked about a bug in ESXi when using AutoDeploy that log messages would have the hostname set to…
ESXi syslog events have localhost for hostname – Part 1
Have you ever seen ESXi syslog events that have a the hostname field set to localhost no matter how the ESXi host or the syslog…
UPDATED! ESXi Stops Sending Syslog Messages to Remote Syslog Destinations
Back in May of last year I wrote about how ESXi would stop sending syslog messages to remote syslog destinations if a remote syslog destination…
Configuring Remote Syslog on vSphere Using vCenter Log Insight
Now that you have vCenter Log Insight deployed and configured, you need to configure sources to send their log messages to Log Insight. If you…
ESXi Stops Sending Syslog Messages to Remote Syslog Destinations
VMware has had the following KB article for some time now, but I think it is important to highlight it: http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2003127. So what do you…
Rescan All Hangs ESXi
I ran into a interesting problem the other day. I was brought into an environment that had a pair of ESXi 5.1 hosts connected to…