{"id":1753,"date":"2021-11-08T13:45:27","date_gmt":"2021-11-08T18:45:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/increasec.com\/?p=1753"},"modified":"2021-11-08T13:45:27","modified_gmt":"2021-11-08T18:45:27","slug":"vmware-housekeeping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/increasec.com\/?p=1753","title":{"rendered":"VmWare housekeeping"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>VmWare should have some yearly maintenance where old .log files are cleaned up.  I&#8217;m told these are just performance data and records of past operations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Use the datastore browser and find vmware-##.log files that are over 6 months old and delete them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>don&#8217;t delete vmware.log   this likely isn&#8217;t possible while the VM is running.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>as you can see from the picture, old log files can be quite large.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.redd.it\/pg816cx1zqpy.jpg\" alt=\"r\/vmware - VMware log deletion?\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>take this opportunity to look for directories from deleted or moved VMs that only have a few .png files left in them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VmWare should have some yearly maintenance where old .log files are cleaned up. I&#8217;m told these are just performance data and records of past operations. Use the datastore browser and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[124],"class_list":["post-1753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised","tag-vmware"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/increasec.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/increasec.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/increasec.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/increasec.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/increasec.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1753"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/increasec.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1754,"href":"https:\/\/increasec.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1753\/revisions\/1754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/increasec.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/increasec.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/increasec.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}