his article provides steps to increase the size and number of the hostd, vpxa, and vpxd logs so that additional data is saved. This data may be useful for troubleshooting purposes.
The Management agent (hostd), VirtualCenter Agent Service (vpxa), and VirtualCenter (vpxd) logs are automatically rotated and maintained to manage their growth. Information in the logs can be lost if the logs are rotated too quickly.
Note: Rotation means the turn over of files. For example, if you set the maximum number of log files to 10, after every 10 log files, the numbering restarts at 0.
Each set of logs are found at these locations:
- hostd
- In ESXi/ESX 4.x hosts, hostd logs are located at /var/log/vmware/
- In ESXi 5.x hosts, hostd logs are located at /var/log/
- vpxa
- In ESXi/ESX 4.x hosts, vpxa logs are located at /var/log/vmware/vpx/
- In ESXi 5.x hosts, vpxa logs are located at /var/log/
- vpxd logs are located in %ALLUSERSPROFILE%\Application Data\VMware\VMware VirtualCenter\Logs, which translates to:
- Windows 2003: C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\VMware\VirtualCenter\logs
- Windows 2008: C:\ProgramData\VMware\VMware VirtualCenter\Logs