I'm admittedly a new user to the Linux world, I only have a few years of experience. My current job I find hosts with panics and core dumps, but want to go further and find what caused the issue. Now, ...

If you get No coredump target has been configured, Host core dumps cannot be saved message in VMWare when running the Esxcli command or making some changes to the disk, follow the solutions mentioned ...

Is there an equivalent to gcore on OS X? I often use gcore on Solaris and FreeBSD to grab a snapshot of a running process to examine it in gdb when things go flakey (in my own software, of course).