How To Download Esxi Logs From Putty

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Shanae Maerz

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Jul 22, 2024, 5:36:11 AM7/22/24

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There are many ways to check ESXi logs. You can SSH to your host (if SSH enabled) and check the logs through Putty for example, or you can generate log bundle via your vSphere Windows C# client (Administration > Export system logs) to check them out after extracting those out from the zipped bundle.

Logs can be also checked when you are directly in front of the host via DCUI (direct console user interface). Today I'll show you How to quickly check ESXi logs from a web browser. In total there must be about 5 different ways you can check ESXi logs.

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How To Download Esxi Logs From Putty ✪ https://cinurl.com/2zC6lT

It's just a quick tip, not sure that everyone knows. You can use this way to check for logs, If you don't have vSphere client (or vSphere web client) or putty installed and you don't have physical access to your ESXi host.

As an VMware Admin we already knows how to export the logs of ESXi host but i thought to make a post in which you can find multiple ways to export the logs or support bundle from ESXi host. In this post we will see 3 different ways in which you can export the ESXi logs or the support bundles.

One of the nice things about VMware is how they identify each of the attached devices via the "NAA" (Network Addressing Authority) identifier. This makes it easy to look at the ESXi host and quickly know which LUNs are from the Pure Array and which ones are not. This is helpful when reviewing the logs as well to be able to exclude / include what may or may not be applicable to us. Additionally, you can decipher from the last 24 numbers/letters the serial number of the LUN as it would be recorded on the FlashArray.