VCSA Root paritition "/dev/mapper/vg_root_0-lv_root_0" is full.

Products

• VMware vCenter Server 8.0

Issue/Introduction

VC services were failing to start, while using auto-deploy for the Esxi host remediation. Large file during auto-deploy process were saved in the /var/tmp folder due to which the /dev/mapper/vg_root_0-lv_root_0 was 100%. 

Environment

VMware vCenter Server 8.x

 

Cause

Auto-deploy saved large temporary .cer file in /var/tmp

Resolution

Verified the partition by using df -h command. 

Found the root partition was 100%

Used the below command to identify the large files:

# find / -type f -size +200000k -exec ls -lh {} \; | awk '{ print $9 ": " $5 }'

Delete the files .cer files from /var/tmp and the partition came down to 23% and we were able to restart the VC services.