Contact me, if you need more information or access to an affected system. If you got some time on hand, please have a look into it. What is annoying is, that you can’t workaround this problem without rebooting the esxi host. I suspect somehow, that this may be related to putty and strange hang ups I got, when using putty with a management tool ( ) which I just recently solved by specifying Though (you don’t get a prompt, but can issue commands and receive the results)

OSError: Errno 28 No space left on device. Problem is, I almost find no reference to it in vmware’s forum (strangly some references in centOS forums and at HP, not related to esx at all). esxcli software profile update -p ESXi-6.7.0-20190402001-standard -d https. So make sure to look at those two directories when an ESXi host is disconnected from vCenter.Īs you are on rare problems with esxi, I have a problem on several servers, not being able to connect via ssh to the esxi console. In this KB Article “ /var/run/sfcb/” is explicitly called out and also explains what you can delete and how. In some cases it is reported (by vdsyn in this case) that “ /var/spool/snmp/” is full and needs to be cleaned out. The outcome of this command will look as follows:īlocks: Total: 449852 Free: 324368 Available: 324368Īs you can see the amount of “free” inodes is low and this is causing the experienced issues. You can simply check that on the command line by using the following command: This could be caused by the fact that ESXi is running out of inodes. Failed with reason: No space left on device VmkCtl Locking (/etc/vmware/esx.conf) : Unable to create or open a LOCK file. X_p for process hostd-worker because the inode table of its ramdisk (root) is full. WARNING: VisorFSObj: xxxx: Cannot create file /var/spool/snmp/xxxxxxxx_x_ If your ESXi host is disconnected from vCenter (even 5.0 and 5.1 appear to be impacted by this) and you see error messages in your log files about free space like these: This thread on VMTN triggered this article. I noticed a couple of people reported this problem in the last two months so I figured a blog post would be useful. To fix the issue, you have to increase the vmdk size of hard drive for /strorage/log of vCSA appliance.

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