I am having some issues with the new VCenter Virtual Appliance,
Its currently running in my lab, 4 hosts managed with HA and DRS and so on.
I am getting a problem where my coredumps storage (/storage/core/) is filling up very quickly with 500MB-ish files called core.postgres.# (where # is an incrementally increasing number. I can removed the files in this location and everything continues working fine until this fills up again.
I increased the size of the /storage/core partition using GParted to see what would happen and unsurprisingly it just keeps growing. I don't seem to be able to find any material on the subject using the KB so hopefully someone here can assist.
Thanks in advance
Upgrading to VCVA 5.5.0.1000 (5.5 Update 1) seems to have fixed the issue.
Thanks for all the help Pablo
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Seem to be the same problem, but no mention on how to either read/troubleshoot the dumps or stop them
Hello,
IMHO you have two options:
service vmware-netdumper stop
chkconfig vmware-netdumper off
Limit the amount of space used by the cores. In the VCVA, set the maximun size in the NETDUMPER_DIR_MAX variable in the /etc/sysconfig/netdumper file, and restart the service: service vmware-netdumper restart
Best regards,
Pablo
Fantastic, what does this core.postgres do?
I know PostgreSQL is a database so i assume this is a large amount of data dropped on a regular basis by said database but why?
Hello,
about the "NETDUMPER_DIR_MAX", take in consideration that the cron process in the VCVA would free space every hour
It seems the vcva's database (postgresql, named by vmware as vPostgre) have some issue.
Perhaps are you over the inventory limit?
Maybe it will be a good idea to open a case with vmware ...
Best regards,
Pablo
No where near those limits.
I will take a look in the morning and see what the level is.
I made a note when i changed those settings you advised, 15:44 - 22% (/storage/core/ = 22GB [100GB volume])
Thanks again
Hello,
you welcome.
Perhaps you are be able to debug the vpostgresql core dumped:
Best regards,
Pablo
Pablo, this didn't work, I logged in this morning and low and behold hundreds of core.postgres dumps again taking the disk to 100%
Any more ideas?
Hello,
IMHO you have some options:
Best regards,
Pablo
It's an unlicensed lab environment VMWare are likely to tell me to sod off
ill give the other two a go
Upgrading to VCVA 5.5.0.1000 (5.5 Update 1) seems to have fixed the issue.
Thanks for all the help Pablo
Nice to know you have fixed you issue upgrading the VCVA
Best regards,
Pablo