Log into SQL Management Studio and find the Security folder. You can find more SQL help on the Petri SQL Server resource page. In this example I’m using MS SQL 2008, and it should be very similar in other versions also. With our database already created we need to create a local SQL account to use for accessing the database. This part can be a bit fuzzy for server admins who do not regularly work with databases. I won’t step you through database creation since it is very well documented elsewhere, such as on the VMware support site. The only other real requirement here is the it must use SQL server authentication and not Windows authentication. The two options are a Microsoft SQL or Oracle database. To accomplish this task we do indeed need a database for View to record its events into. Today I will walk you through the process of setting up the VMware View events database feature. Event information is not stored by default, and an event log database must be set up for View to record these events. In VMware View it will be likely that these types of details will also be very important to customers. Why is this important? Log information can help admins in the pursuit of troubleshooting issues or in tracking down who accessed a system during a given period. A necessary part of any good application, service, or hardware is the ability to record and view log information.

Vmware log viewer