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Generate VxRail 4.7 log bundle in vCenter 6.7

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Have you ever been working with DellEMC VxRail support and they ask you to generate a VxRail log bundle or you get that generic reply from creating an R that requests logs?  I thought I would take a quick moment and show everyone the quick and painless way to generate a quick log bundle in 6.7 vCenter leveraging 4.7 VxRail.

Machine generated alternative text: Summary Monitor Host Options Host Profile I/O Filters More Alarm Definitions Scheduled Tasks vSAN Services Disk Management Fault Domains VxRail System Updates Certificate Market Add VxRail Hosts Hosts Support Networking Health Monitoring Troubleshooting Configure Log Create O O

Go to cluster level > Configure > VxRail Troubleshooting

Machine generated alternative text: Summary Monitor Host Options Host Profile I/O Filters More Alarm Definitions Scheduled Tasks Configure permissions Log Collection Hosts VMS Datastores Networks updates O CREATE. Create and download a diagnostics log bundle for your VxRaiI cluster. DOWNLOAD

Create

Machine generated alternative text: Create Log Bundle Select the data to include in log bundle file. Data to Collect VxRail Manager vCenter Cl ESXi * 'DRAC PTAgent * @ Requires host selection CANCEL GENERATE

Select the required logs.  I find majority of the time VxRail Manager and iDRAC will be sufficient.

Once you select iDRAC it will bring up all the hosts in your cluster and you will want to select them all.

Machine generated alternative text: Requires host selection CANCEL GENERATE

Generate

Now you just wait until the logs are gathered and zipped up into a file called:

VxRail_Support_Bundle_529bb0a5-49b5-b7c6-d0d0-5617b96dbfcf_2020-04-21_20_00_25.zip

Machine generated alternative text: Log Collection Create and download a diagnostics log bundle for your VxRaiI cluster. DOWNLOAD O CREATE. Filename VxRail_Support_Bun die 529bbOa5-49b5 -b7c6-dOdO-5617b9 6dbfcf 2020-04-21 Data to Collect iDRAC, VxRail Manager Status V Completed Description Log bundle generated successfully

Select the file and click download

Summary:
As you can see it is a quick and painless process but I will admit if you don’t know where to look you can waste a lot of time searching around.  Once again, I hope y’all found this to be helpful.

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