Mike, You need to first enable ESXi shell(SSH) option on the host. After that, you will be able to SSH into the host.
In a ESXi shell session, you can go to /var/log directory, look for hostd.log (host daemon log), vmkernel.log (kernel log), vpxa.log (agent log) Kelven On 8/27/13 2:23 PM, "Mike Tutkowski" <mike.tutkow...@solidfire.com> wrote: >Hi Kelven, > >I would be happy to check on that. > >I don't have much experience looking at ESXi logs, however. Are you >thinking I should be looking at logs on the ESXi box or CS logs (or >probably both)? If ESXi logs, would you be able to tell me where I go for >those? > >Also, this works fine on one of my ESXi boxes, but not on the other. They >both were created from the same ISO. > >Thanks!! > > >On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 3:15 PM, Kelven Yang <kelven.y...@citrix.com> >wrote: > >> Mike, >> >> If you constantly encounter this error in a fresh VMware API session, >>you >> need to check the parameter you passed into the API call. You may need >>to >> look at ESX host log file to get more specific info about the failure. >> >> If VMware session has been idle for some time, you may encounter some >> random exception like this as well. In 4.2 branch, to support parallel >> deployment, we've switched to a pool based VMware API management, there >>is >> a session keep-alive mechanism built in, please help check if the error >>is >> related to session timeout >> >> Kelven >> >> On 8/26/13 10:54 AM, "Mike Tutkowski" <mike.tutkow...@solidfire.com> >> wrote: >> >> >Hi, >> > >> >I was wondering if one of our VMware experts out there might be able to >> >comment on why I'm getting the following exception when trying to add a >> >static iSCSI target to an ESXi host of mine: >> > >> >Operation failed, diagnostics report: iScsiLibException: >>status(c0000000): >> >Invalid parameter; Message= IMA_AddStaticDiscoveryTarget >> > >> >I've seen some comments on the web, but nothing definitive. >> > >> >Thanks! >> >-- >> >*Mike Tutkowski* >> >*Senior CloudStack Developer, SolidFire Inc.* >> >e: mike.tutkow...@solidfire.com >> >o: 303.746.7302 >> >Advancing the way the world uses the >> >cloud<http://solidfire.com/solution/overview/?video=play> >> >* * >> >> > > >-- >*Mike Tutkowski* >*Senior CloudStack Developer, SolidFire Inc.* >e: mike.tutkow...@solidfire.com >o: 303.746.7302 >Advancing the way the world uses the >cloud<http://solidfire.com/solution/overview/?video=play> >**
