VMware - Configure SysLog when running from SD Flash Storage

VMware - Configure SysLog when running from SD Flash Storage

Verifying the Location of System Logs in vSphere Client

To verify the location:

1. In vSphere Client, select the host in the inventory panel.
2. Click the Configuration tab, then click Advanced Settings under Software.
3. Ensure that Syslog.global.logDir points to a persistent location. The directory should be specified as [datastorename] path_to_file where the path is relative to the datastore. For example, [datastore1] /systemlogs.
   
4. If the Syslog.global.logDir field is empty or explicitly points to a scratch partition, make sure that the field ScratchConfig.CurrentScratchLocation shows a location on persistent storage. 

In my setup, I pointed the SysLog to an NFS share sitting on a Netapp. Special note keep the square brackets in front of the location path for the server to work. I also enabled SSH to the server before I was able to get this work.

[] /vmfs/volumes/nfs_datastore/esxi_logs