NSX - File System usage of manager node is more than 75 percent

Products

• VMware NSX

Issue/Introduction

NSX manager /dev/sda2 partition is running above 75%

Environment

VMware NSX

Cause

The issue was due to the upgrade-coordinator-tomcat/temp folder growth. 

# du -h --max-depth=1 /opt/vmware/upgrade-coordinator-tomcat/  | sort -hr |head

_{1.7G    /opt/vmware/upgrade-coordinator-tomcat/
912M    /opt/vmware/upgrade-coordinator-tomcat/temp    
747M    /opt/vmware/upgrade-coordinator-tomcat/webapps
608K    /opt/vmware/upgrade-coordinator-tomcat/bin
212K    /opt/vmware/upgrade-coordinator-tomcat/conf
4.0K    /opt/vmware/upgrade-coordinator-tomcat/work
4.0K    /opt/vmware/upgrade-coordinator-tomcat/logs}

 

There are 2 files and a subfolder in the above temp folder that should not be there. 

The issue arise after applying a workaround for the following issue:

https://knowledge.broadcom.com/external/article?articleNumber=324194

 

Resolution

Clean up the files in  /opt/vmware/upgrade-coordinator-tomcat/temp folder and the disk usage alarm will be gone automatically.