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Does vSphere maintain log files or integrate with syslog when using the ESXi architecture?

April 26, 2017Architecture esxi files integrate log maintain syslog vsphere

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Does vSphere maintain log files or integrate with syslog when using the ESXi architecture?

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Yes, using the ESXi architecture you can generate many of the same log files as the ESX one. In ESXi 4.1, persistent logging is the default configuration. You can configure ESXi to send logs to a file on a datastore as well as to a syslog server. For more information see the ESXi Management page.