Information
In the event of a system failure, the system must preserve any information necessary to determine cause of failure and any information necessary to return to operations with least disruption to mission processes.
NOTE: Nessus has not performed this check. Please review the benchmark to ensure target compliance.
Solution
From the vSphere Web Client select the ESXi Host and right click. Select the 'Add Diagnostic Partition' option configure a core dump diagnostic partition.
or
From a PowerCLI command prompt while connected to the ESXi host run at least one of the following sets of commands:
To configure a core dump partition:
$esxcli = Get-EsxCli
#View available partitions to configure
$esxcli.system.coredump.partition.list()
$esxcli.system.coredump.partition.set($null,'PartitionName',$null,$null)
To configure a core dump collector:
$esxcli = Get-EsxCli
$esxcli.system.coredump.network.set($null,'vmkernel port to use',$null,'CollectorIP','CollectorPort')
$esxcli.system.coredump.network.set($true)