NSX alert node disk partition /repository has reached threshold above value of 80%.

Products

• VMware NSX

Issue/Introduction

• The following alarms are generated: NSX Manager - alarms
  Event Type: Manager Disk Usage High
• Error: The disk usage for the NSX-T node disk partition /repository has reached 86% which is at or above the high threshold value of 80%.
• If you log into the Manager appliance as the root and check the disk usage using df -h we see the /repository partition usage is at 80% or over.

# df -h
Filesystem                   Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
udev                          24G     0   24G   0% /dev
tmpfs                        4.8G  7.4M  4.8G   1% /run
/dev/sda2                     11G  8.6G  1.2G  50% /
tmpfs                         24G   54M   24G   1% /dev/shm
tmpfs                        5.0M     0  5.0M   0% /run/lock
tmpfs                         24G     0   24G   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
/dev/sda1                    944M  9.4M  870M   2% /boot
/dev/mapper/nsx-config__bak   29G   72M   28G   1% /config
/dev/mapper/nsx-var+log       27G   11G   16G  41% /var/log
/dev/mapper/nsx-var+dump     9.4G   37M  8.8G   1% /var/dump
/dev/mapper/nsx-repository    31G   15G   15G  86% /repository
/dev/mapper/nsx-tmp          3.7G   17M  3.5G   1% /tmp
/dev/mapper/nsx-image         42G   11G   29G  28% /image
tmpfs                        4.8G     0  4.8G   0% /run/user/1007
tmpfs                        4.8G     0  4.8G   0% /run/user/0

• The repository directory consists of 3 folders the current NSX version, previous NSX version and the ALB for example:
  du -sh /repository/*
  4.1G /repository/22.1.2-9086
  10G /repository/4.1.0.0.0.21332672
  10G /repository/4.1.0.2.0.21761691

Cause

Due to the increase in the size of the ALB OVA and the amount of deliverables, thus resulting threshold alarms.

Resolution

This is a cosmetic issue as the / repository partition gets cleaned up automatically as part of the next version NSX bundle upload and it does not require manual intervention to reduce the size. Files should never be manually deleted from the repository directory.