Upgrading Aria Operations stuck at step 10 of 14 "Applied product update".

Products

• VCF Operations/Automation (formerly VMware Aria Suite)

Issue/Introduction

Upgrading Aria Operations through admin portal hangs at step 10 of 14 "Applied product update" indefinitely.

Upgrading through Lifecycle Manager fails with Retry button and leaves the cluster in offline state with update status 10 of 14.

In the /storage/log/vcops/log/pakManager/vcopsPakManager.root.stage.log:
ERROR [184258] - vcopsPakManager.HandleError:630 - Exiting with exit code: 1, message: The approximate pak file extracted size: 5226101933 is too big to fit on the repo disk: 5178400768--exiting

In the /storage/log/vcops/log/analytics-####-####.log:
ERROR [itask-thread-fsdb-data-retention-manager] com.integrien.alive.FSDB.FSDBAccessor.onFsdbException - FSDB throws an exception: LowDiskSpaceException: Failed to increase file size. File /usr/lib/vmware-vcops/data/564/564035/2025_05_564035.dat. Reason: FSDB is running low on disk space

Environment

Aria Operations 8.18.x

Aria Suite Lifecycle Manager 8.18

Resolution

Increase disk space on /storage/db, see Adding additional storage to a node in Aria Operations.