Troubleshooting disk space related issues: VMware NSX Nodes

Products

• VMware NSX

Issue/Introduction

Symptoms:

This article provides information about addressing VMware NSX Nodes with high disk space utilization levels, using troubleshooting articles.

Environment

VMware NSX

Resolution

Solve causes for partitions with abnormally large files on NSX Managers

 

/var/log partition full: 

 

• Log rotate fails for /var/log/vmware on NSX-T Manager and Edge Nodes

 

/config partition full:

• CORFU /config disk space may grow beyond 20% usage upon upgrading to NSX-T 3.0.0

 

/image partition full:

• NSX-T UI inaccessible and corfu cluster is down

 

Solve causes for partitions with abnormally large files on NSX Edge Transport Nodes

/var/log partition full: 

 

• The /var/log partition grows exponentially without rotating on a VMware NSX-T Edge Node
• Log rotate fails for /var/log/vmware on NSX-T Manager and Edge Nodes