41. VMware Administration v6.7 - Collecting ESXi Host, vCenter Logs and RvTools Reporting
Channel: Srinivas Maganti
Date: 2020-05-11

ESXi Log File Locations
ESXi records host activity in log files, using a Syslog facility.

/var/log/auth.log: ESXi Shell authentication success and failure.

/var/log/dhclient.log: DHCP client service, including discovery, address lease requests and renewals.

/var/log/esxupdate.log: ESXi patch and update installation logs.

/var/log/hostd.log: Host management service logs, including virtual machine and host Task and Events, communication with the vSphere Client and vCenter Server vpxa agent, and SDK connections.

RVTools
RVTools is a Windows .NET 4.6.1 application which uses VMware vSphere Management SDK 7.0 and CIS REST API to display information about your virtual environments.

Interacting with VirtualCenter 4.x, ESX Server 4.x, VirtualCenter 5.x, ESX Server 5.x, VirtualCenter 6.x, ESX Server 6.x, VirtualCenter 7.0 and ESX server 7.0 RVTools is able to list information about VMs, CPU, Memory, Disks, Partitions, Network, Floppy drives, CD drives, Snapshots, VMware tools, Resource pools, Clusters, ESX hosts, HBAs, Nics, Switches, Ports, Distributed Switches, Distributed Ports, Service consoles, VM Kernels, Datastores, multipath info, license info and health checks.

The information can be exported to csv and xlsx file(s). With a xlsx merge utility it’s possible to merge muliple vCenter xlsx reports to a single xlsx report.

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https://www.robware.net/rvtools/
http://www.rahulbaweja.com/2012/10/03/esxi-5-0-log-files-explained/
https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/6.7/com.vmware.vsphere.monitoring.doc/GUID-832A2618-6B11-4A28-9672-93296DA931D0.html
https://www.mavrickcloud.com/blogs/
https://github.com/maverick-cloud/
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