While I was prepping my upcoming “vSphere Advanced Troubleshooting” presentation for the Dutch VMUG event 2010, I stumbled upon a great presentation by Mark Monce. It’s called “Transitioning to ESXi with vSphere 4.1” and contains a lot of information like:
Overview of ESXi
- Hardware Monitoring and Systems Management
- Infrastructure Services
- Command Line Interfaces
- Diagnostics and Troubleshooting
One thing I didn’t know was, that you can use your web browser to retrieve some essential ESXi diagnostic information.
Browser-based Access of Config Files
https://<hostname>/host
Browser-based Access of Log Files
https://<hostname>/host/messages
Browser-based Access of DatastoreFiles
https://<hostname>/folder
