Hi All,
Our vCops instances stopped working the other day and we are unable to purge the /data on the vCops analytics VM.. Does anyone have a process on clearing this /data folder? We do not want to add more disk to the VM's.. We logged a support call with VMware and here are his intructions.. We tried the following with no luck.. Any input would be great thanks.
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admin@s11vcop02:~> df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda3 7.8G 1.9G 5.6G 25% /
udev 4.5G 100K 4.5G 1% /dev
tmpfs 4.5G 0 4.5G 0% /dev/shm
/dev/sda1 130M 18M 105M 15% /boot
/dev/mapper/data_vg-data
197G 187G 0 100% /data
The best way to accomplish this is to change your retention period to a lower number. Please see the guide here: http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2008223
Once this is done, it may take a couple cycles or the services to get this to run properly. I am not sure how long you have been collecting, or how much back-data you have. I would suggest putting this to 90 days if you do not need data older than 3 months.
Also it is best to delete items that are not collecting:
Adjust your controller.properties to auto-delete non-collecting resources after 48 hours. The procedure to do this:
- SSH into the Analytics virtual machine as root.
- Run the following command:
- vim /usr/lib/vmware-vcops/user/conf/controller/controller.properties
- Modify the following line to state true instead of false:
- deleteNotExisting = true
- You can also modify the delete schedule. It is measured in hours with the following line:
- deletionSchedulePeriod = 24
- Modify the following line to the how many days a deleted object will be cleaned up (default is 15):
- deletionPeriodInHours = 48
- Save and quit from the editor.
- Login to the user interface virtual machine as the Admin user and run the following command:
- vcops-admin restart
-After this command has completed, you will need to wait the appropriate number of days for non-existent objects to get cleaned up.
