Troubleshooting disk space related issues: NSX for vSphere Nodes

Products

• VMware NSX

Issue/Introduction

NSX for vSphere Nodes high disk space usage 

Environment

NSX for vSphere 

Resolution

1. Solve causes for partitions with abnormally large files on NSX-v Managers

   /common partition full:

   • NSX for vSphere 6.4.x postgres database queuing too many events and alarms causing high NSX Manager CPU utilization and filing of /common partition (67082)
   • NSX Manager disk becomes full with IDFW data (2148341)

    

2. Solve causes for partitions with abnormally large files on NSX-v Edges 

   /var/log partition full: 

   • NSX Edge /var/log is getting full on active Edge (50108355)
   • NSX Edge stops responding with /var/log partition at 100% disk usage (2150467)
     
     
3. Solve causes for partitions with abnormally large files on NSX-v Controllers

   /var/log partition full: 

   • NSX Controller syslog file does not rotate and consumes all space in /var/log (59509)