From the course: vSphere 6.7 Professional Part 08: Troubleshooting

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Working with ESXi 6.7 logs

Working with ESXi 6.7 logs

- [Instructor] In this video, I'll show you how to work with the log files for an individual ESXi host. So here you can see I am in my vSphere Client. And in my cluster, I have a few different ESXi hosts. And I can export my logs through this vSphere Client. vSphere client's only going to be available if vCenter is up. So let's assume that vCenter is down, and I need to export log files for this particular host. What I'll do is I will launch the host client, instead of using the vSphere client. Because the vCenter's down, that means the vSphere client is down. So here in the host client I've clicked on host at the left and I can just simply click on actions and under actions generate support bundle so the only time you'd probably ever really do this is if VMware support asks you to do so. Here you can see down in the recent tasks screen that my log bundles are being generated. I would expect this to take approximately five…

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