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While working with vmware support on the phone they required me to run a job from Virtual center to gather diagnostic log data from our VI3 cluster.  You can try this by opening your, “Virtual Infrastructure Client” and selecting the “Administration” menu and then “Export Diagnostic Data”.  When I run this command for as little or much information required I ALWAYS get the following error, “Failed to create diagnostic bundle.”

If you ssh to your host directly you can run the following command from each host and sftp the logs from the host afterwards.

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From a windows command prompt you can get a shutdown gui.  This is cool because you can use it to execute remote shutdowns with ease and not have to remember all the flags.

start->run->  cmd

c:\shutdown.exe -i

The gui should be launched.  I find it handy when a server is supposed to reboot and gets “stuck”.  Some windows servers just don’t shutdown cleanly and hang on the process.  If you execute another remote shutdown command you can force the server out of the endless shutdown, and save yourself from a drive into the server room.