When a vCenter Server Appliance partition is full, the symptom often looks unrelated at first. Login may fail, services may not start, backup jobs may fail, or VAMI may show health warnings.
/storage/log is one of the first places I check because log growth is common after repeated service failures, upgrade retries, certificate problems, or noisy integrations.
Check partition usage first
df -h
du -h --max-depth=1 /storage/log | sort -hDo not start deleting random files before you know which directory is actually large. A full root partition and a full log partition are different problems.
Look for the fast-growing directory
du -h --max-depth=1 /storage/log/vmware | sort -hIf one service directory is much larger than the rest, check the newest logs in that directory. Cleanup alone may only buy time if the same service keeps writing errors.
Common things I check
- Old support bundles.
- Repeated failed backup or update logs.
- Very large service logs after certificate or SSO failures.
- Core dumps or crash-related files.
- Monitoring tools polling vCenter too aggressively.
After cleanup
service-control --status --allIf services are stopped, start them only after enough free space is available. Then watch the partition again for a while. If it fills up quickly, cleanup did not fix the real cause.
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