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  • 1.  Patch stage fails lack of space

    Posted Dec 04, 2009 08:13 PM

    I'm trying to stage patches on an ESX that has been upgraded from 3.0 on. Now when I try to stage paches and upgrade it tells me I do not have enough space.

    My /Boot is at 76 percent, and the rest are all low percents.

    what files can I remove out of the /boot that will help.

    I have no need to go back to 3.x so I know that I should be able to delete some .

    any help would be appreciated.



  • 2.  RE: Patch stage fails lack of space

    Posted Dec 06, 2009 04:20 AM

    What about vSphere/vCenter server ? Does it have enough free space ?

    Once I came accross similar kind of issue, It was caused due to low free space at vSphere/vCenter server

    Cheers,

    ~ Jain

    ~ Do not forget about points,if you found answer useful



  • 3.  RE: Patch stage fails lack of space

    Posted Dec 06, 2009 04:56 AM

    ESX requires a minimum of 10GB to install. ESX 4 is different than earlier releases in that the COS is now a regular VM on a datestore.



  • 4.  RE: Patch stage fails lack of space

    Posted Dec 06, 2009 08:41 AM

    As written before you need space on the / filesystem and then on a local VMFS datastore.

    What's the output of vdf -h command?

    See also the upgrade guide for more info:

    http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vsphere4/r40_u1/vsp_40_u1_upgrade_guide.pdf

    Andre



  • 5.  RE: Patch stage fails lack of space

    Posted Dec 07, 2009 12:23 PM

    There is plenty of space on the VCenter server, as both the C: and D: have over 50G of free space

    here is the vdf -h on the esx

    Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on

    /dev/sdg5 4.9G 1.7G 2.9G 37% /

    /dev/sdg2 2.0G 63M 1.8G 4% /var/log

    /dev/sdd1 99M 72M 23M 76% /boot

    /dev/sdd3 7.7G 1.5G 5.9G 21% /esx3-installation

    /dev/sdd1 99M 72M 23M 76% /esx3-installation/boot

    /dev/sdd6 5.8G 102M 5.4G 2% /esx3-installation/var/log

    /vmfs/devices 740G 0 740G 0% /vmfs/devices

    /vmfs/volumes/2e9982c5-879f6307 1.1T 511G 571G 47% /vmfs/volumes/System Admin

    /vmfs/volumes/4806ed25-f42372c4-0395-001aa00d1b7c 2.0T 1.5T 509G 74% /vmfs/volumes/Isan1

    /vmfs/volumes/487dd6aa-04d4caf8-3cb9-00151724537a 2.0T 1.5T 413G 79% /vmfs/volumes/SAN1

    /vmfs/volumes/48e1e41f-9d5b5560-6129-00221908552a 635G 8.5G 626G 1% /vmfs/volumes/vert4:storage1

    /vmfs/volumes/4970a4fc-0c39e420-1f32-00151724537a 1.3T 815G 521G 61% /vmfs/volumes/SAN2

    /vmfs/volumes/498cec8e-72b5ad2a 1.1T 511G 571G 47% /vmfs/volumes/Software

    /vmfs/volumes/4a32a4aa-d46057ba-1ae2-00151724532a 2.0T 1.3T 713G 64% /vmfs/volumes/FCSan3-1

    /vmfs/volumes/4a32a805-6eee8883-7959-00151724532a 1.3T 652G 722G 47% /vmfs/volumes/FDSan3-2



  • 6.  RE: Patch stage fails lack of space

    Posted Dec 14, 2009 06:47 AM

    You partitions seems fine.

    Sorry no other idea.

    Try to do not stage the patches and simple remediate the hosts.

    Andre