diff --git a/plugins/hypervisors/vmware/src/main/java/com/cloud/hypervisor/vmware/resource/VmwareResource.java b/plugins/hypervisors/vmware/src/main/java/com/cloud/hypervisor/vmware/resource/VmwareResource.java
index b65a7847675..0612ed70510 100644
--- a/plugins/hypervisors/vmware/src/main/java/com/cloud/hypervisor/vmware/resource/VmwareResource.java
+++ b/plugins/hypervisors/vmware/src/main/java/com/cloud/hypervisor/vmware/resource/VmwareResource.java
@@ -3066,7 +3066,10 @@ public class VmwareResource extends ServerResourceBase implements StoragePoolRes
     }
 
     private String appendFileType(String path, String fileType) {
-        if (path.toLowerCase().endsWith(fileType.toLowerCase())) {
+        if (StringUtils.isBlank(path)) {
+            throw new CloudRuntimeException("No path given, cannot append filetype " + fileType);
+        }
+        if (fileType == null || path.toLowerCase().endsWith(fileType.toLowerCase())) {
             return path;
         }
 
diff --git a/systemvm/debian/etc/logrotate.d/haproxy b/systemvm/debian/etc/logrotate.d/haproxy
index 464209791a3..a6b72b6f77a 100644
--- a/systemvm/debian/etc/logrotate.d/haproxy
+++ b/systemvm/debian/etc/logrotate.d/haproxy
@@ -4,6 +4,6 @@
     notifempty
     maxsize 10M
     postrotate
-      /bin/kill -HUP `cat /var/run/rsyslog.pid 2> /dev/null` 2> /dev/null || true
+      /usr/lib/rsyslog/rsyslog-rotate
     endscript
 }