Remove VC logs of more than 60 days to release /storage/log space.

Products

• VMware vCenter Server

Issue/Introduction

There could be a error message at VAMI:

"File system /storage/log has run out of storage space. Increase the size of disk /storage/log."

After checking no log bundle is left under /storage/log/, the space is still almost full.

To check and remove log bundles for space, see /storage/log becomes 100% full when exporting the vCenter Appliance log bundles.

Resolution

1. Verify the space status of /storage/log directory.

   df -h

2. Change directory to /storage/log.

   cd /storage/log

3. Find all log files longer than 60 days. Verify that there's no useful one.

   find  ./ -type f  -mtime +60 -exec ls -l {} \; | cut -d " " -f 6-15

4. Remove all log files longer than 60 days.

   find  ./ -type f  -mtime +60 -exec rm {} \;

5. Verify they are removed by repeating step 3.
6. Verify space is released by repeating step 1.