Pod status of Pending or Evicted in vRealize Automation 8.X

Products

• VMware Aria Suite

Issue/Introduction

Symptoms:
Running  "kubectl get pods -n prelude" command shows Pods are in either a pending or evicted state like the following:

NAME       READY   STATUS    RESTARTS   AGE
vco-app    0/2           Pending     0                   10s

NAME       READY   STATUS    RESTARTS   AGE
vco-app    0/2           Evicted      0                    10s

Environment

VMware vRealize Automation 8.x

Cause

The Kubernetes Evicted state indicates that there is a lack of resources available.

Resolution

• Before proceeding with the below steps best practise dictates you first follow the documented clean shutdown and backup procedure in the vRA 8 documentation

 

• SSH to the vRA appliance.
• Check the Storage available on the appliance using the vracli disk-mgr command.
• If the /data partition is above 80% utilization then you will need to increase the storage on the data partition.
• Check the Memory usage using either the top command or the free command with the -m flag.
• Based on the output of the above checks either increase the Storage or Memory of the appliance.

To increase the storage:
 

• To increase the vRealize Automation root partition disk to meet the above requirements, increase the vRealize Automation VM "Hard Disk 1" (/dev/sda4) size to the desired GB amount WITHOUT POWERING OFF THE VA in the vCenter server. Then, run the command “vracli disk-mgr resize” on the vRealize Automation VA from the command shell. Disk resize should be reflected within a few minutes.
   
• To increase the vRealize Automation data partition disk to satisfy above requirements, increase the vRealize Automation VM "Hard Disk 2" (/dev/mapper/data_vg-data) size то the desired GB amount WITHOUT POWERING OFF THE VA in the vCenter Server. Then, run the command “vracli disk-mgr resize” on the vRealize Automation VA from the command shell. Disk resize should be reflected within few minutes.