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Simply one of EE's finest. Thanks.
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Hi,<br />
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I purposely pulled the power plug on the ESXi 5.5 host, then went to the /var/log/vmkernel.log.<br />
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I need help in interpreting the error log. Which line might suggest that the host was powered off abruptly?<br />
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Hi,

I purposely pulled the power plug on the ESXi 5.5 host, then went to the /var/log/vmkernel.log.

I need help in interpreting the error log. Which line might suggest that the host was powered off abruptly?

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what time did you pull the plug, 14:18 - 14:20 ? and thats not the entire log, and you may have to look at other logs in /var/logs<br />
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it's not as obvious, and you have to ensure that your logs have not disappeared with the reset.
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what time did you pull the plug, 14:18 - 14:20 ? and thats not the entire log, and you may have to look at other logs in /var/logs

it's not as obvious, and you have to ensure that your logs have not disappeared with the reset.

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Let me document everything before the pulling of the plug, and I'll repost. Thanks.
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Let me document everything before the pulling of the plug, and I'll repost. Thanks.

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You do have your logs, being sent to a Syslog server ?<br />
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because logs, can disappear after a restart
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You do have your logs, being sent to a Syslog server ?

because logs, can disappear after a restart

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No, I do not. Can you point me in the right direction please?
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No, I do not. Can you point me in the right direction please?

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Hi,<br />
<br />
Running VMWare ESXi 5.5.<br />
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If there is a loss of power or other similar event, is there a log or something that will show an event like that?<br />
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Thanks.
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Hi,

Running VMWare ESXi 5.5.

If there is a loss of power or other similar event, is there a log or something that will show an event like that?

Thanks.

VMWare ESXi error event log?

VMware, a software company founded in 1998,  was one of the first commercially successful companies to offer x86 virtualization. The storage company EMC purchased VMware in 1994. Dell Technologies acquired EMC in 2016. VMware’s parent company is now Dell Technologies.

VMware has many software products that run on desktops, Microsoft Windows, Linux, and macOS, which allows the virtualizing of the x86 architecture.  Its enterprise software hypervisor for servers, VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi), is a bare-metal hypervisor that runs directly on the server hardware and does not require an additional underlying operating system.