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Syslog in ESXi sever is critical feature that need to be configured properly in order to monitor and troubleshoot vSphere environment efficiently. By default, ESXi server keeps all logging related information on its scratch partition and that will be removed on every restart of ESXi Server. Thus if your ESXi server crashed for whatever the reason, you have no way to find out what have been happening on the ESXi server. ESXi server supports syslog for a remote log collection, but you will need to configure this manually, or using Host Profile to push this configuration.

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