/storage/var partition is full OR Error "Failed to upgrade:" "Available disk space at /storage/var: # is less than required disk space" due to heapdump

Products

• VMware Aria Suite

Issue/Introduction

• When attempting to upgrade Aria Operations for Logs via the UI the following error is received.

  • "Upgrade Failed
    Failed to upgrade: Not enough disk space! Available disk space at /storage/var: ######### is less than required disk space: 1073741824

• Command df -h shows the /storage/var partition is highly utilized or full
• In the '/storage/var' directory, the following command shows the 'heapdump' directory is very large.

  • du -h | sort -rh | head -n 20

Environment

VMware Aria Operations for Logs 8.14.x and later.

Resolution

Heapdump files can be removed by navigating to the heapdump directory and deleting any files ending in '.hprof'

• cd /storage/var/heapdump

• rm *.hprof