Vcenter Appliance 6 0 Storage Core Full

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Vcenter appliance 6 0 storage core full.

Logging into the vcsa via ssh and running df h showed that the storage core area was indeed 100 utilized. After installing or upgrading an external psc of vcenter server 6 5 the storage core directory is continuously filled to 100. Connect to vcenter server appliance console as the root user. So open the vsphere client web or thick and expand the vmdk see below table for which vmdk to expand.

Vcsa 6 0 storage core 100 usage i ran into this issue recently when one of the vcenter appliances in my test environment triggered this alarm in the vsphere web client. Vmware vcenter server appliance storage log full by gareth lewis in vcenter vcsa vsphere tutorials. Storage core partition basically contains the core dumps generated on a event whenever a service crashes within the appliance. Over the period of time this can fill up the partition which inturn causes vcenter services to stop responding.

This repeats every 4 5 hours. Here is vmware kb. How to fix vcsa storage log filesystem out of disk space. 4 comments on vmware vcenter server appliance storage log full a while back i was welcomed to the office by a vcenter server appliance critical health alert specifically the storage log filesystem is out of disk space or inodes.

Luckily the fix is rather easy thanks to a blog post by lamw that i found while looking for a solution he mentions in vcsa 6 x you can now expand vmdk s on the fly since the vcsa takes advantage of lvm.