ESXi Log File

The ESXi log (hostd.log) captures information of varying specificity and detail, depending on the log level. Each request to the server is logged.

You can view the file using the vSphere Client. The raw text form of an ESXi (hostd) log file is shown in Sample ESXi Log (hostd.log) Data.

Sample ESXi Log (hostd.log) Data

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[2008-05-07 09:50:04.857 'SOAP' 2260 trivia] Received soap response from [TCP:myservername.vmware.com:443]: GetInterfaceVersion
[2008-05-07 09:50:04.857 'ClientConnection' 2260 info] UFAD interface version is vmware-converter-4.0.0
[2008-05-07 09:50:04.857 'SOAP' 2260 trivia] Sending soap request to [TCP:myservername.eng.vmware.com:443]: logout
[2008-05-07 09:50:04.857 'ProxySvc Req00588' 3136 trivia] Client HTTP stream read error
[2008-05-07 09:50:04.872 'ProxySvc Req00612' 3136 trivia] Request header:
POST /vmc/sdk HTTP/1.1
User-Agent: VMware-client
Content-Length: 435
Content-Type: text/xml; charset=utf-8
Cookie: vmware_soap_session="F127B435-56C7-4580-BAC4-3034DA1E67B6"; $Path=/
Host: myservername.vmware.com


[2008-05-07 09:50:04.872 'ProxySvc Req00588' 3816 trivia] Closed
[2008-05-07 09:50:08.450 'App' 3560 verbose] [VpxdHeartbeat] Invalid heartbeat from 10.17.218.46
[2008-05-07 09:50:10.013 'App' 3560 verbose] [VpxdHeartbeat] Queuing 10.17.218.45:829 (host-55)
[2008-05-07 09:50:10.013 'App' 1928 verbose] [HeartbeatHandler] 50208862-2752-d94c-2a73-fa2ec9e38ecc:829 (host-55)