Get-Help Get-Log How to view VMware logs for an ESXi Host So if you’d like to explore additional information about the Get-Log cmdlet, run the following syntax in the PowerShell console: I’m a huge proponent of using the integrated PowerShell help system (before using Google-Fu) to really understand the different features of a cmdlet. This will install the PowerCli module and we will be good to go. To install the PowerCLI PowerShell Modules, open up an administrative PowerShell console and type in the following: If you already have it installed, you can skip this step. Get-Log is a PowerShell cmdlet that is a part of the PowerCLI module. So where do I start, and how do I use it? First, we need to install PowerCLI on our endpoint device that we are going to be using PowerCLI on.

Note that we are not talking about uploading logs to VMware as those require a support bundle generated with the VMware vCenter logs export feature. Fortunately, for the VMware community, the PowerCLI cmdlet Get-Log allows us to have this power for FREE. Of course, there are tools available on the market today that provide this kind of performance monitoring to VMware administrators. Having the ability to know how to read VMware logs quickly by searching through them is very handy when troubleshooting VMware issues and you don’t need to know the VMware logs location by heart.

Vmware log viewer