STILL getting 'transaction log for database 'VIM_VCDB' is full,' why??

[THOMAS LYCZKO]

Found and followed various Internet instructions:

1) verified recovery model is set to simple

2) set logs to upper limit 1 GB, 10 MB growth

3) shrank the log files

4) restarted vCenter Server service

I *still* get error 9002 -- "The transaction log for database 'VIM_VCDB' is full. To find out why space in the log cannot be reused, see the log_reuse_wait_desc column in sys.databases"

This is vCenter Server 5.0 U1 with the embedded SQL Server 2008 R2 database.

What can/should I do??

Really can't have vCenter stopping all the time. :smileyhappy:

Thank you, Tom

[Troy_Clavell]

maybe you have simply outgrown SQL Express?  There is a 4GB limit.

[THOMAS LYCZKO]

The database is SQL Server 2008 R2 Express which has a 10 GB database limit.

That’s for the database, not the logs.

VMware set the database maxsize to 5 GB something.

This is a LOG file issue – more a SQL server issue than anything else but it sucks that VMware did not configure/write the logging aspect well enough that this issue does not happen. Log files in simple recovery model are not usually supposed to do this issue. ☺

For now I changed it to unrestricted growth and 100 MB increment and we’ll see what happens.

Plus check every 5 minutes if the vCenter service is running or not.

Thank you, Tom

[Troy_Clavell]

you are correct on the 10GB size, my apologies