Vcenter Appliance Storage Core Full

After installing or upgrading an external psc of vcenter server 6 5 the storage core directory is continuously filled to 100.

Vcenter appliance storage core full.

Vcenter may act sluggish. This repeats every 4 5 hours. Logging into the vcsa via ssh and running df h showed that the storage core area was indeed 100 utilized. As you can see below the coredumps is full.

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. November 15 2019 recently we have upgraded the vcsa after that noticed some performance issue while loading vcenter inventory. I had the above situation on 2 of the 3 vcenter appliances in the lab. I use bitvise a great utility in the example below.

I found a useful article here which then link to this great article. 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 ran into this issue recently when one of the vcenter appliances in my test environment triggered this alarm in the vsphere web client. To empty it simply login to the appliance via ssh.

Storage core partition basically contains the core dumps generated on a event whenever a service crashes within the appliance. Vmware vcenter server appliance storage log full by gareth lewis in vcenter vcsa vsphere tutorials.