/storage/core partition full due to core.netlogond.xxxxx files in vCenter Server Appliance
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/storage/core partition full due to core.netlogond.xxxxx files in vCenter Server Appliance

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Article ID: 318750

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Products

VMware vCenter Server

Issue/Introduction

Symptoms:
  • vCenter serve appliance  may experience this problem, the appliance may get many core dump files due to which space on the appliance will get filled, 
  • # df -h
FilesystemSizeUsedAvailUse%Mounted on
devtmpfs4.9G04.9G0%/dev
tmpfs4.9G956K4.9G1%/dev/shm
tmpfs4.9G692K4.9G1%/run
tmpfs4.9G04.9G0%/sys/fs/cgroup
/dev/sda311G5.9G4.2G59%/
tmpfs4.9G1.5M4.9G1%/tmp
/dev/mapper/db_vg-db9.8G221M9.0G3%/storage/db
/dev/mapper/imagebuilder_vg-imagebuilder9.8G23M9.2G1%/storage/imagebuilder
/dev/mapper/dblog_vg-dblog15G102M14G1%/storage/dblog
/dev/mapper/netdump_vg-netdump985M1.3G916M1%/storage/netdump
/dev/mapper/log_vg-log9.8G3.0G6.3G33%/storage/log
/dev/mapper/seat_vg-seat9.8G222M9.0G3%/storage/seat
/dev/mapper/autodeploy_vg-autodeploy9.8G37M9.2G1%/storage/autodeploy
/dev/mapper/updatemgr_vg-updatemgr99G119M94G1%/storage/updatemgr
/dev/mapper/archive_vg-archive50G4.3G43G10%/storage/archive
/dev/mapper/core_vg-core10G10G0100%/storage/core
/dev/sda1120M31M81M28%/boot
 
  • The size of core file and other partition will vary, depending upon what size option you have selected while deploying the VCSA. Even if you have installed the VCSA  with different size, core partition will get filled.
  • /storage/core is getting filled up with core.netlogond.xxxxx files


Environment

VMware vCenter Server Appliance 6.7.x
VMware vCenter Server Appliance 6.5.x

Resolution

This issue is resolved in:
VMware vCenter Server 6.7 Update 3, available at VMware Downloads.
VMware vCenter Server 6.5 Update 3f, available at VMware Downloads.

Workaround:
To workaround this issue if you do not want to upgrade, manually remove (rm -f file) some core files in /storage/core to free up some space.

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