Recently one of my vcenter server appliance vcsa 5 5 installations was unable to proceed logins anymore.
Vcenter appliance storage db full.
File system storage seat is low database storage space.
Older versions did show a storage warning.
Extend the disk size for the vpostgres database.
It s a vcsa 6 7 update 2a 6 7 0 31000.
Your vcenter appliance embedded database failing to start.
File system storage archive is low on storage space.
But this appliance seems to be happy.
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.
Everything seems to be in a green state.
After upgrading to vcenter server appliance 5 5 update 2 pg log file reports this error.
There is already a transaction in progress 2092127.
When you navigate to monitor disks you can find the proof that the disk is actually full.
To resolve this issue increase the disk size and extend the partition that s full on the df h output.
Increase the size of disk storage seat or decrease the data retention.
Issues with your vcsa appliance locking up or crashing due to a full database volume.
Before you go too crazy looking at the database itself or adding more space to the volume see this bug.
To prevent full database partition monitor the vcenter server appliance database disk usage and change the vcenter server data retention settings.
Vmware vcenter server appliance storage log full by gareth lewis in vcenter vcsa vsphere tutorials.
To extend the partition that s full on the df h output and double the size allocated.
Df h storage core db filesystem size used avail use mounted on dev sdb1 20g 20g 0 100 storage core dev sdb3 60g 56g 90m 100 storage db.
After the first outage the customer increased the size of the partition which is mounted to storage db.
The nice thing is that the health status already provides the solution for my issue.
After having a look at the storage consumption i saw that two partitions were filled up.
To increase the disk size see vcenter server appliance with embedded vpostgres database crashes due to full database partition 2058273.
A customer of mine had within 6 months twice a full database partition on a vmware vcenter server appliance.
For more information see increasing the disk space in vcenter server appliance 5 x 2056764.
Some months later some days ago the vcsa became unresponsive again.
