Vcenter Appliance 6 5 Storage Core Full

This repeats every 4 5 hours.

Vcenter appliance 6 5 storage core full.

These can be removed without any issue. Vmware vcenter server appliance storage log full by gareth lewis in vcenter vcsa vsphere tutorials. Stop your services delete the core dumps etc. 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.

Storage core partition basically contains the core dumps generated on a event whenever a service crashes within the appliance. Connect to vcenter server appliance console as the root user. After installing or upgrading an external psc of vcenter server 6 5 the storage core directory is continuously filled to 100. How to fix vcsa storage log filesystem out of disk space.

So open the vsphere client web or thick and expand the vmdk see below table for which vmdk to expand. Over the period of time this can fill up the partition which inturn causes vcenter services to stop responding. Vmware vcenter server appliance 5 0 vpxd crashes few seconds after starting to resolve this issue due to core dumps filling the partition. Stop the vmware services on the vcsa appliance.

Logging into the vcsa via ssh and running df h showed that the storage core area was indeed 100 utilized. Vmware vcenter 6 7 storage core full. Here is vmware kb. 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.

I saw 2 core dumps in particular that were taking up all the drive space. 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. Vcenter may act sluggish.