Vcenter Appliance 6 0 Storage Core Full

Vmware vcenter server appliance 5 0 vpxd crashes few seconds after starting to resolve this issue due to core dumps filling the partition.

Vcenter appliance 6 0 storage core full. 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. Logging into the vcsa via ssh and running df h showed that the storage core area was indeed 100 utilized. So open the vsphere client web or thick and expand the vmdk see below table for which vmdk to expand. This repeats every 4 5 hours.

Here is vmware kb. Over the period of time this can fill up the partition which inturn causes vcenter services to stop responding. Vmware vcenter server appliance storage log full by gareth lewis in vcenter vcsa vsphere tutorials. Storage log partition full due to sso log files are not compressed in vcenter server appliance 2143565 symptoms you see that the storage log directory is highly utilized in an embedded vcenter server appliance or platform controller server appliance 6 0.

Vcenter may act sluggish. 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. Storage core partition basically contains the core dumps generated on a event whenever a service crashes within the appliance. 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.

If the security toke service vmware stsd crashes causing the storage core directory to fill up see secure token service vmware stsd in vcenter server 6 7 u1 crashes with core jsvc xxx files causing storage core to fill up.