How to reduce the size of the vmware.log file on my vcenter server?
In VMware vSphere client, in the datastore I see a file called vmware.log under my vcenter server. It's over 100GB and there's a vmware-4.log file that is over 40GB. We are using the vcenter virtual appliance. I'd like to know how to reduce the size of these files. I tried using this document https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/6.7/com.vmware.vsphere.monitoring.doc/GUID-84DE30DD-E1C4-4E6D-899D-4756FE77CB15.html, but under settings, I do not see "General". How can I reduce the size of this file?
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Duh! It is a decimal point, not a comma. I should have noticed because it has 2 places instead of 3. I think I missed it because all the other files did not have decimal points. Thanks Andrew!
no problems, easily done, fresh pairs of eyes, notices these things, I spent days looking at network configurations that I was working on.
and gave the network configuration to my fellow network engineer, and he spotted ON instead of NO in seconds!
and gave the network configuration to my fellow network engineer, and he spotted ON instead of NO in seconds!
140GB is nothing, that you should have free on your datastore for VMs.
Just look at a handful of many thousand VMs, and I'm not finding any log files that large!
Have you checked the logs, is there an issue ?
Can you upload a screenshot of the folder and file sizes as sizes often are displayed in KB.