"No persistent storage available for system logs and data" displays during ESXi boots up
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"No persistent storage available for system logs and data" displays during ESXi boots up

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Article ID: 393349

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Products

VMware vSphere ESXi

Issue/Introduction

  • Message below displays during ESXi booting up:

    "No persistent storage available for system logs and data. ESXi is operating with limited system storage space, logs and system data will be lost on reboot" 

  • ESXi system can boot up properly regardless of the message.

Environment

ESXi 7.x

ESXi 8.x

Cause

The message will be print during ESXi booting up when no scratch partition is configured

Resolution

Following the article below to configure ESXi scratch partition:

Creating a persistent scratch location for ESXi 8.x/7.x/6.x