"/storage" partition on Aria Suite LifeCycle is 100%

Products

• VMware Aria Suite

Issue/Introduction

• "/storage" partition on Aria Suite LifeCycle is 100% full. 
• The services on the appliance will not start and the UI will be down. 

Environment

• VMware Aria Suite LifeCycle 8.x

Cause

• The "/storage" partition on LCM is 100% hence postgres services will not load. 

Resolution

• Increase the "/storage" partiton on LCM appliance. 
• Steps:
  • Ensure the appliance has valid backups before proceeding with the steps. 
  • ssh to the LCM as root. 
  • Run the below commands to identify the disk on which "/storage" is configured:

  • root@lcm [ ~ ]# pvdisplay
      --- Physical volume ---
      PV Name               /dev/sdb
      VG Name               data_vg
      PV Size               <150.00 GiB / not usable 0
      Allocatable           yes (but full)
      PE Size               4.00 MiB
      Total PE              38399
      Free PE               0
      Allocated PE          38399
      PV UUID               zyOl4J-z4kj-sG5N-9ZRM-2zgR-Nk0L-bAj0HG
    
      --- Physical volume ---
      PV Name               /dev/sdc
      VG Name               stroage_vg
      PV Size               <10.00 GiB / not usable 0
      Allocatable           yes (but full)
      PE Size               4.00 MiB
      Total PE              2559
      Free PE               0
      Allocated PE          2559
      PV UUID               nfAT0l-8gek-gJBm-hEop-DWd1-kGxp-tBm6Kl
    
      --- Physical volume ---
      PV Name               /dev/sdd
      VG Name               swap_vg
      PV Size               <8.00 GiB / not usable 0
      Allocatable           yes (but full)
      PE Size               4.00 MiB
      Total PE              2047
      Free PE               0
      Allocated PE          2047
      PV UUID               DN2RgK-3Fn5-jEf0-BvkK-3utn-enX2-z40mZK

  • root@lcm [ ~ ]# lvdisplay
      --- Logical volume ---
      LV Path                /dev/data_vg/data
      LV Name                data
      VG Name                data_vg
      LV UUID                GfSxfD-juGP-HAtH-liAq-0h37-6zcR-HN4n3E
      LV Write Access        read/write
      LV Creation host, time photon-machine, 2021-10-08 18:55:37 +0000
      LV Status              available
      # open                 1
      LV Size                <150.00 GiB
      Current LE             38399
      Segments               1
      Allocation             inherit
      Read ahead sectors     auto
      - currently set to     256
      Block device           254:1
    
      --- Logical volume ---
      LV Path                /dev/stroage_vg/storage
      LV Name                storage
      VG Name                stroage_vg
      LV UUID                X5D8wB-ua1P-A8qe-ge3O-2Vu8-STpm-zQydUx
      LV Write Access        read/write
      LV Creation host, time photon-machine, 2021-10-08 18:56:27 +0000
      LV Status              available
      # open                 1
      LV Size                <10.00 GiB
      Current LE             2559
      Segments               1
      Allocation             inherit
      Read ahead sectors     auto
      - currently set to     256
      Block device           254:2
    
      --- Logical volume ---
      LV Path                /dev/swap_vg/swap1
      LV Name                swap1
      VG Name                swap_vg
      LV UUID                U3Syes-Ud5j-N47U-yLCf-OaC4-qkb0-QfPL0p
      LV Write Access        read/write
      LV Creation host, time photon-machine, 2021-10-08 18:56:46 +0000
      LV Status              available
      # open                 2
      LV Size                <8.00 GiB
      Current LE             2047
      Segments               1
      Allocation             inherit
      Read ahead sectors     auto
      - currently set to     256
      Block device           254:0
    

  • Go to the vCenter UI and edit settings on the LCM appliance: 
  • From the above examples, it can be identified that the /storage is /dev/sdc - Hence, to increase the /storage partition space, we need to extend the /dev/sdc, in this case, Hard disk 3. 
  • Extend the size on Hard disk 3. 
  • Reboot the LCM appliance. 
  • Run the command on the LCM appliance to verify the Hard disk 3 partition space has increased. 

df -h