vCenter Upgrade Pre-Check Failed with Error: "Verifies the vm <vcenter-hostname> running in vcenter <vcenter-fqdn> has at least 30GB free space on path /"

Products

• VMware SDDC Manager
• VMware vCenter Server

Issue/Introduction

SDDC Manager precheck fails on vCenter with:

"Verifies the vm <vcsa shortname> running in vcenter <fqdn> has at least 30GB free space on path /
High: Do not perform upgrade without addressing this issue."

Environment

The vCenter root partition is below the required 30GB:

Cause

The journal entry is filling up more than the allowable space.

To confirm that the journal logs are taking up the space:

• cd /var/log/journal
• du -sh *

The journal log subdirectory is a long numeric string. The directories may be GBs in size.

 

Resolution

Change the max size of journal logs to 1000M and reboot the vCenter.

Edit this file:

/etc/systemd/journald.conf

Find this line:

SystemMaxUse=1000M

(Note: If this line is commented out with #, please remove the # and then add the value)

Reboot the vCenter:
reboot -f