Aria Operations For Logs Upgrade Fails With Small Deployment

Products

• VMware Aria Suite

Issue/Introduction

When running Aria Operations For Logs with small sizing and attempting to apply the pak file, it uploads to /tmp and extracts, which leaves < 1GB free and it fails with the following error:

Upgrade Failed
Failed to upgrade: Not enough disk space! Available disk space at /tmp: 1017217024 is less than required disk space: 1073741824.

Environment

Aria Operations For Logs 8.x (Small Deployment)

Cause

Use the Small version of the appliance in a proof-of-concept or test environment, but not in a production environment.

Refer: https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Aria-Operations-for-Logs/8.16/Getting-Started-Operations-for-Logs/GUID-284FC5F4-B832-47A7-912E-D407A760CAE4.html

Resolution

Please resize all of your Aria Operations for Logs nodes to match that of the medium configuration at a minimum.

The /tmp mount is a memory mapped partition. Increasing the system RAM increases the amount of space that will be available in /tmp.

Normally we give 4GB of space to /tmp. Since the small appliance only has 4GB RAM total, this obviously will not work so well and the /tmp partition is only 1GB in a small appliance.