VCAP6: 1.1 – Perform Advanced ESXi Host Configuration – Part 3

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Objective 1.1 Topics:

Configure Advanced System Settings according to a deployment plan:

  • Edit System Swap / Scratch Configuration
  • Configure ESXi host to use a Central Syslog Server

Manage/Edit the Core Dump configuration of an ESXi host

 

Edit System Swap / Scratch Configuration

System Scratch Configuration

Go to an ESXi host under advanced settings:

scratch1

And we’re looking for the ScratchConfig.ConfiguredScratchLocation setting.

scratch2

This happens to be the iSCSI Datastore I have configured on this host. We can change this to any preferred location. If we change this, a reboot will be required for the changes to take effect.

scratch3

System Swap Configuration

swap1

Manage/Edit the Core Dump Configuration of an ESXi host

First we need to start the core dump service.

core_dump1

Now we need to configure our ESXi hosts to dump to our specified location

core_dump2

core_dump3

We can also set these settings using host profiles so we don’t have to do this on each host individually.

 

Configure ESXi host to use a Central Syslog Server

We can centrally manage all of our system logs from a syslog server that is external from our vSphere environment.

syslog_1

syslog_2

Resource: vSphere 6 Installation Guide (Page 176)

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