MANAGE/EDIT THE CORE DUMP CONFIGURATION OF AN ESXI HOST

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What is Core Dump?

Core dump is diagnostic information being captured during purple screen error or a host failure. The core Dump resides in a Diagnostic partition and in-order to create a partition we require atleast 100 MB of free space either locally or remotely available disks.

Coredump partition limitations

• It cannot be created on an iSCSI LUN (Both hardware and software) and No FCoE LUN.
• Diagnostic partiions cannot be create using vCLI however the existing partitions can be activated.
  To view the core dump partition from your ESXi host execute below command from the ESXi CLI.
  esxcli system coredump partition get