In order to collect and analyse system information from an IBM system with VMware ESXi installed to help diagnose system problems, this can be performed by running the IBM Dynamic System Analysis remotely to collect the system information with a system running VMware ESXi.

Firstly, you will need to download the portable executable for the client connecting to the remote host. The various client operating system downloads are available from http://www-947.ibm.com/support/entry/portal/docdisplay?lndocid=serv-dsa.

Once the portable executable has been downloaded, you will need to enable remote connections to the VMware ESXi shell. This can be performed from the host configuration using the vSphere client, by performing the following:

1) Browse to Home > Inventory > Hosts and Clusters.

2) Select Host and the Configuration tab.

3)  Select Software, Security Profile and Properties.

4) Start both the ESXi Shell and SSH services.

In the environment to which I was invoking the executable for a Windows client operating system to collect the system information by running the below command, where the filename of the executable was ibm_utl_dsa_310p_windows_i386.exe, where the username and password are the credentials to connect to the host and the host details of the ESXi host either by hostname or IP address.

ibm_utl_dsa_310p_windows_i386.exe -vmwesxi <username>:<password>@<host>

The executable will then collect the system information and output to a destination location, which is by default C:\IBM_Support.

PS E:\ibm\dsa> .\lnvgy_utl_dsa_dsala1o-10.0_portable_windows_x86-64.exe --vmware-esxi root:password@192.168.0.16
Lenovo Dynamic System Analysis
(C) Copyright Lenovo Corp. 2004-2014.(C) Copyright IBM Corp. 2004-2014.  All Rights Reserved.
This Program is licensed under the terms of the agreement available by invoking
this utility with the -l option.  By extracting, copying, accessing, or using
the Program, you agree to the terms of this agreement.  If you do not agree to
the terms, please remove the software and return it to Lenovo or the reseller
from whom you acquired the software for a refund, if any.

Extracting...
Executing...


Logging level set to Status
Copying Schema...
Dynamic System Analysis Version 10.0.A1O

(C) Copyright Lenovo Corp. 2004-2014. All Rights Reserved. (C) Copyright IBM Corp. 2004-2014. All Rights Reserved.


VMWare ESXi Status: Established a connection between the client and 192.168.0.16.


*****Running VMware ESXi : root/brocade namespace*****
Running DSA vmware plug-ins pass 1.
Running DSA vmware plug-ins pass 2.

*****Running VMware ESXi : root/interop namespace*****
Running DSA vmware plug-ins pass 1.
Running DSA vmware plug-ins pass 2.

*****Running VMware ESXi : root/config namespace*****
Running DSA vmware plug-ins pass 1.
Running DSA vmware plug-ins pass 2.

*****Running VMware ESXi : root/ibmsd namespace*****
Running DSA vmware plug-ins pass 1.
Running DSA vmware plug-ins pass 2.

*****Running VMware ESXi : root/brcmbnxns namespace*****
Running DSA vmware plug-ins pass 1.
Running DSA vmware plug-ins pass 2.

*****Running VMware ESXi : ibm/cimv2 namespace*****
Running DSA vmware plug-ins pass 1.
Running DSA vmware plug-ins pass 2.

*****Running VMware ESXi : ibm/imm0/cimv2 namespace*****
Running DSA vmware plug-ins pass 1.
Running DSA vmware plug-ins pass 2.

*****Running VMware ESXi : ibm/imm1/cimv2 namespace*****
Running DSA vmware plug-ins pass 1.
Running DSA vmware plug-ins pass 2.

*****Running VMware ESXi : ibm/imm2/cimv2 namespace*****
Running DSA vmware plug-ins pass 1.
Running DSA vmware plug-ins pass 2.

*****Running VMware ESXi : ibm/imm3/cimv2 namespace*****
Running DSA vmware plug-ins pass 1.
Running DSA vmware plug-ins pass 2.

*****Running VMware ESXi : ibm/imm0/interop namespace*****
Running DSA vmware plug-ins pass 1.
Running DSA vmware plug-ins pass 2.

*****Running VMware ESXi : root/emulex namespace*****
Running DSA vmware plug-ins pass 1.
Running DSA vmware plug-ins pass 2.

*****Running VMware ESXi : lsi/lsimr12 namespace*****
Running DSA vmware plug-ins pass 1.
Running DSA vmware plug-ins pass 2.

*****Running VMware ESXi : lsi/lsimr13 namespace*****
Running DSA vmware plug-ins pass 1.
Running DSA vmware plug-ins pass 2.

*****Running VMware ESXi : qlogic/cimv2 namespace*****
Running DSA vmware plug-ins pass 1.
Running DSA vmware plug-ins pass 2.

*****Running VMware ESXi : root/cimv2 namespace*****
Running DSA vmware plug-ins pass 1.
   vmwesxi: VMware ESXi
Running DSA vmware plug-ins pass 2.
   vmwesxi: VMware ESXi

*****Running VMware ESXi : vmware/esxv2 namespace*****
Running DSA vmware plug-ins pass 1.
Running DSA vmware plug-ins pass 2.

*****Running VMware ESXi : mlnx/cimv2 namespace*****
Running DSA vmware plug-ins pass 1.
Running DSA vmware plug-ins pass 2.
Adding DSA log entries to XML file.
Writing XML data to file C:\Lenovo_Support\7977I15_99E9508_20170505-180300.xml.gz
Writing HTML files to directory C:\Lenovo_Support\7977I15_99E9508_20170505-180300

DSA capture completed successfully.

Please press ANY key to continue ...
PS E:\ibm\dsa>