Troubleshooting vCenter

19th June 2020

vCenter 6.7u3 requires a patch to be stable. A flood of messages gradually fills the local disk.

Logon to the vCenter using the root password.
you may need to type shell to get a bash prompt

To logon with SSH you need to turn that on. Choose SSH as shown below and hit start. If you want SSH to start on every boot you can Edit Startup Policy

is disk space exhausted

root@Joker [ ~ ]# df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
devtmpfs 4.9G 0 4.9G 0% /dev
tmpfs 4.9G 876K 4.9G 1% /dev/shm
tmpfs 4.9G 684K 4.9G 1% /run
tmpfs 4.9G 0 4.9G 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
/dev/sda3 11G 5.8G 4.3G 58% /
tmpfs 4.9G 1.5M 4.9G 1% /tmp
/dev/mapper/dblog_vg-dblog 15G 1.1G 13G 8% /storage/dblog
/dev/mapper/imagebuilder_vg-imagebuilder 9.8G 23M 9.2G 1% /storage/imagebuilder
/dev/mapper/netdump_vg-netdump 985M 1.3M 916M 1% /storage/netdump
/dev/mapper/seat_vg-seat 9.8G 7.2G 2.1G 78% /storage/seat
/dev/mapper/autodeploy_vg-autodeploy 9.8G 43M 9.2G 1% /storage/autodeploy
/dev/mapper/archive_vg-archive 50G 35G 13G 74% /storage/archive
/dev/mapper/core_vg-core 25G 44M 24G 1% /storage/core
/dev/sda1 120M 34M 78M 31% /boot
/dev/mapper/log_vg-log 9.8G 1.9G 7.4G 21% /storage/log
/dev/mapper/db_vg-db 9.8G 1.4G 7.9G 15% /storage/db
/dev/mapper/updatemgr_vg-updatemgr 99G 65M 94G 1% /storage/updatemgr

it is NORMAL for /storage/archive to run at 100% the system will delete archives to make room for new ones. if you expand the drive it will quickly fill to 100%

show what services are stopped and started

root@Joker [ ~ ]# service-control –status –all
Running:
applmgmt lwsmd pschealth vmafdd vmcad vmdird vmdnsd vmonapi vmware-analytics vmware-certificatemanagement vmware-cis-license vmware-cm vmware-eam vmware-mbcs vmware-netdumper vmware-perfcharts vmware-pod vmware-postgres-archiver vmware-rbd-watchdog vmware-rhttpproxy vmware-sca vmware-sps vmware-statsmonitor vmware-sts-idmd vmware-stsd vmware-topologysvc vmware-vapi-endpoint vmware-vmon vmware-vpostgres vmware-vpxd-svcs vmware-vsan-health vmware-vsm vsphere-client vsphere-ui
Stopped:
vmcam vmware-content-library vmware-imagebuilder vmware-updatemgr vmware-vcha vmware-vpxd vsan-dps

start a required service

root@Joker [ ~ ]# service-control –start vmware-vpxd
Operation not cancellable. Please wait for it to finish…
Performing start operation on service vpxd…
Successfully started service vpxd