Datastore has high utilization due to orphaned Cloud Native Storage (CNS) volumes.

Products

• VMware vSphere Kubernetes Service

Issue/Introduction

When a datastore reports being full, it is critical to identify and safely remove unused or orphaned volumes. 

• vSAN datastore is being utilized with many non-existent volumes.
• Datastore utilization is increasing significantly, exceeding 85%.
• Mismatch between vCenter database objects and K8s PVs.

Environment

Cloud Native Storage (CNS)

VMware vCenter Server

Resolution

Please reach out to Broadcom support to identify and remove the orphaned volumes.