To locate Export Telemetry Log in Storage Management for NVMe PCIe SSDs

About this task

To locate this task in storage management:
NOTE:  This operation is supported only on NVMe PCIe SSDs.

Steps

  1. Expand the Storage tree object to view the controller objects.
  2. Expand PCIe SSD Subsystems.
  3. Select Physical Disks.
  4. Select Export Telemetry Log from the Available Tasks drop-down menu.
  5. Click Execute.
    The Export Telemetry Log page is displayed.
  6. In the Export Telemetry Log page, the following attributes are displayed:
    • Host Name
    • Path
    • File Name—In this text box, you can provide a custom file name for the log file. The export telemetry log file is saved with a .bin file extension, and the file extension cannot be overwritten by any other file extension that is entered by the user. The default file name is NVME_TELEMETRY_<serial_no>_<monthdayhourminutesecond>.bin.
      NOTE:  You cannot use MS-DOS reserved words and special characters in the custom file name.
  7. Click Export Telemetry Log to export the file.
    On the VMware ESXi operating system, Storage Management stores the exporting telemetry logs for NVMe devices on persistent scratch location. The persistent scratch location /scratch/log stores the telemetry log files, and the /var/log contains a link to that log file. If a persistent scratch location on the ESXi host is not properly configured, and then it might be a problem in low-memory situations. VMware ESXi may experience intermittent issues due to lack of space. For more information, see VMware.