/opt/vmware/heapdump 100% full on vSphere Replication

Products

• VMware Live Recovery

Issue/Introduction

Java hprof files in /opt/vmware/heapdump/hms filling up the space for the /opt/vmware/heapdump partition.

Environment

vSphere Replication 8.x

vSphere Replication 9.x

Cause

These are java memory dump files

Resolution

Clear out the files

cd /opt/vmware/heapdump/hms

# rm *.hprof

Once the files are removed, monitor the environment to see if this continues. 

If issue persists,  you can increase the virtual machine memory size after checking the current memory consumption. To check the current memory consumption of the appliance see article 

Large deployments require increasing vSphere Replication Server memory