{"id":3179,"date":"2014-06-16T23:43:08","date_gmt":"2014-06-16T15:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rmohan.com\/?p=3179"},"modified":"2014-06-16T23:43:08","modified_gmt":"2014-06-16T15:43:08","slug":"psod-vsphere-esxi-5-x-collect-logs-from-esxi-server","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mohan.sg\/?p=3179","title":{"rendered":"PSOD vSphere ESXi 5.x Collect Logs from ESXi Server"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"post-title entry-title\" style=\"font: bold 22px\/1.4em Arial, serif; margin: 0.25em 0px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 4px; text-align: left; color: #000000; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: #ffffff; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;\">PSOD vSphere ESXi 5.x Collect Logs from ESXi Server<\/h3>\n<div class=\"post-header\" style=\"font: 13px\/normal Arial, serif; text-align: left; color: #333333; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: #ffffff; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"post-body-5471663085154740403\" class=\"post-body entry-content\" style=\"font: 13px\/1.6em Arial, serif; margin: 0px; text-align: left; color: #333333; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: #ffffff; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><b>PSOD vSphere ESXi 5.x Collect Logs from ESXi Server<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"chat out\">\n<h4 style=\"text-align: left;\">If you hit a PSOD, collect the logs (step by step method).<\/h4>\n<div class=\"msg 1st\">1. Reboot the PSODed ESX\/ESXi server.<\/div>\n<div class=\"msg 1st\">2. Run command<\/div>\n<div class=\"msg 1st\">\u00a0 \u00a0 esxcfg-dumppart &#8211;copy &#8211;devname \/vmfs\/devices\/disks\/&lt;naa.xxxxxxxxxxx:y &#8211;zdumpname \u00a0 \u00a0&lt;esxpsodname&gt;<\/div>\n<div class=\"msg 1st\">3. extrat the zdump by running the command<\/div>\n<div class=\"msg 1st\">\u00a0 \u00a0esxcfg-dumppart &#8211;log &lt;esxpsodname&gt;<\/div>\n<div class=\"msg 1st\">4. Run vm-support (to collect all the logs)<\/div>\n<div class=\"msg 1st\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"msg 1st\">Send the files to vmware to get support.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PSOD vSphere ESXi 5.x Collect Logs from ESXi Server PSOD vSphere ESXi 5.x Collect Logs from ESXi Server<\/p>\n<p> If you hit a PSOD, collect the logs (step by step method). 1. Reboot the PSODed ESX\/ESXi server. 2. Run command esxcfg-dumppart &#8211;copy &#8211;devname \/vmfs\/devices\/disks\/&lt;naa.xxxxxxxxxxx:y &#8211;zdumpname &lt;esxpsodname&gt; 3. extrat the zdump by running the command esxcfg-dumppart &#8211;log [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mohan.sg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3179"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mohan.sg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mohan.sg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mohan.sg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mohan.sg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3179"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mohan.sg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3180,"href":"https:\/\/mohan.sg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3179\/revisions\/3180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mohan.sg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mohan.sg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mohan.sg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}