Posted by This morning I worked with the customer where syslog traffic was choking an already crippled network.
As a quick fix we wanted to spare the network from syslog data being generated by ESXi hosts. The only problem was that we had a few hundred host at hand. SSH and UI was not an option.
#Change the FQDN of vCenter server per your enviroment Connect-VIServer -Server vc.nukescloud.com #Change the $Cluster as per your enviroment $cluster = "sgp" #Change the $datacenter as per your enviroment $datacenter = "nukescloud" #Applying the setting $hosts = Get-Datacenter $datacenter | Get-Cluster -Name $cluster | Get-VMHost Get-AdvancedSetting -Name "Syslog.Global.Loghost" -Entity $hosts | Set-AdvancedSetting -Value "" #Change the -Server per your enviroment Disconnect-VIServer -Server vc.nukescloud.com