Got the following error from one of our Customer. They were running Linux. Googled around and it turns out – the VMware Tools didn’t install completely. It missed creating tools.conf. To get around this, create the following file: tools.conf [logging] log = true # Enable tools service logging to vmware.log vmsvc.level = debug vmsvc.handler = vmx # Enable new “vmusr” service logging to vmware.log vmusr.lev
Are you using HP Server? This is because of out-dated HP Management Agent. Resolution: Update HP Management Agent in the esxi OR Stop it completely. /etc/init.d/hp-ams.sh stop
I just rebuild my home-lab to vSphere 5.5 U2. After setting up the syslog, I noticed 30+ messages popping up coming from my ESXi hosts. It turns out, the default logging level on the hosts is configured as verbose. Normally, this should be perfectly okay especially if you have a syslog server appliance that can make good use of it (eg. LogInsight, splunk) Unfortunately for me, a homelab user, this is eating up both o