Modify Scratch / Coredump ON ESX Host with USB boot

by Brian Vogel
March 28, 2022

Modifying scratch location and coredumps has become increasing finicky via PowerCLI and Vcetners WebGUI. I find that making these modifications on the host directly provides the least headache inducing response currently.

First Off Scratch Location:

vim-cmd hostsvc/advopt/update ScratchConfig.ConfiguredScratchLocation string /vmfs/volumes/<DATASTORE>/.locker

And CoreDump Location

esxcli system coredump file set --unconfigure
esxcli system coredump file add -d <DATASTORE> -f ESX.dump --enable=true
esxcli system coredump file list

Tags:Because I forget VMware

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