Aria Suite Lifecycle upgrade fails or UI is inaccessible due to the root partition being full

Products

• VCF Operations/Automation (formerly VMware Aria Suite)

Issue/Introduction

Symptoms:

• Aria Suite Lifecycle Manager upgrade fails.
  • OR
• UI is inaccessible.

Environment

VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle Manager 8.x

Cause

This issue occurs when the root partition on the Aria Suite Lifecycle appliance is full and does not have enough space to load the RPM packages.

• df -h command displays similar result on /dev/sda4 partition:

Filesystem           Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
devtmpfs             2.9G   0 2.9G  0% /dev
tmpfs               3.0G  20K 3.0G  1% /dev/shm
tmpfs               3.0G 1.1M 3.0G  1% /run
tmpfs               3.0G   0 3.0G  0% /sys/fs/cgroup
/dev/sda4             8.7G 7.0G 2.0G 85% /
tmpfs               3.0G  68K 3.0G  1% /tmp
/dev/sda2             119M  28M  85M 25% /boot
/dev/mapper/stroage_vg-storage 9.8G 156M 9.2G  2% /storage
/dev/mapper/data_vg-data     49G  21G 5.6G 39% /data
tmpfs               595M   0 595M  0% /run/user/0

Resolution

Please raise a Broadcom Support Support Request noting this Article ID (318504) in the problem description. For more information, see Creating and managing Broadcom support cases

Additional Information

Extend root and alt_root volumes on VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle appliance for versions 8.12.x and later