Quick script on how to configure persistent storage on local datastore on each of the ESXi hosts.
Enjoy!
function ReturnLocalDatastore ($vmhost) { $data = $VMHost | Get-Datastore | Get-View | Select-Object @{n="Name";e={$_.Name}}, @{n="Multi-Access";e={$_.Summary.MultipleHostAccess}} | where {$_."Multi-Access" -eq $false} return $data.Name } foreach ($VMHost in Get-VMHost) { $currentSetting = Get-AdvancedSetting -Entity $VMHost -Name "Syslog.global.logDir" if ($currentSetting.value -eq "[] /scratch/log") { $VMHostName = $VMHost.Name.Split('.') $localDS = ReturnLocalDatastore -VMHost $vmhost $VMHostDatastore = "[$localDS] /systemlogs" Write-Host " $vmhost - $VMHostDatastore" Get-AdvancedSetting -Entity $VMHost -Name "Syslog.global.logDir" | Set-AdvancedSetting -Value $VMHostDatastore -Confirm:$false } }