Vcenter Appliance 6 0 Storage Core Full

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.

Vcenter appliance 6 0 storage core full.

So open the vsphere client web or thick and expand the vmdk see below table for which vmdk to expand. Here is vmware kb. Vmware vcenter server appliance 5 0 vpxd crashes few seconds after starting to resolve this issue due to core dumps filling the partition. Vmware vcenter server appliance storage log full by gareth lewis in vcenter vcsa vsphere tutorials.

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. 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. Connect to vcenter server appliance console as the root user.

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. Storage core partition basically contains the core dumps generated on a event whenever a service crashes within the appliance. This repeats every 4 5 hours. Over the period of time this can fill up the partition which inturn causes vcenter services to stop responding.

Logging into the vcsa via ssh and running df h showed that the storage core area was indeed 100 utilized.