vCenter Server Appliance Crash due to Full /Storage/SEAT Partition
One of my customers recently had one of their vCenter 6 Server Appliances go offline. The VM was still running and responding to pings, but the service wasn't working. I established an SSH session to the server and went through the basics, and what do you know, "df -h" revealed that the /storage/seat partition was 100% full. Well, VMware has a fine KB Article about a full seat partition and how to solve it. At least, mostly how to solve it. The problem that I ran into is that the truncate commands (that free up space) were failing to run because there wasn't enough space on the partition. When I tried to execute them, I got the following message: "ERROR: could not extend file ... No space left on device" "Hint: Check free disk space." I'll admit to chuckling when I saw the "hint" line. So, I had to free up some disk space so that I could free up some disk space. I did a bit of research into how to free up some space on ...