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.

Vcenter appliance 6 0 storage core full.

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. 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. This repeats every 4 5 hours.

Vmware vcenter server appliance 5 0 vpxd crashes few seconds after starting to resolve this issue due to core dumps filling the partition. Over the period of time this can fill up the partition which inturn causes vcenter services to stop responding. 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.

After installing or upgrading an external psc of vcenter server 6 5 the storage core directory is continuously filled to 100. Here is vmware kb. Vmware vcenter server appliance storage log full by gareth lewis in vcenter vcsa vsphere tutorials. Connect to vcenter server appliance console as the root user.

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.