FYI I opened a case for the plug-in issues. It loses connectivity to vcenter on each reboot and I have to re-enter creds, plus it's lost the ability to auth to the DR system completely. Having numerous issues after upgrading this plug-in is unfortunately pretty standard in my experience - it very rarely 'just works'.
Regardless of all that, after we get the issues resolved I'll upgrade the main SC product to resolve the log issues. Thanks again for the help!.