vSphere Data Protection Boot Disk Full

[inshsr]

Hey

I get the error that boot disk is 95% full. I use Version 6.1.4.30

But if I check it, I got:

admin@vdpprod:~/>: df -h

Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on

/dev/sda2        32G  6.0G   24G  20% /

udev            3.9G  148K  3.9G   1% /dev

tmpfs           3.9G     0  3.9G   0% /dev/shm

/dev/sda1       128M   37M   85M  31% /boot

/dev/sda7       1.5G  188M  1.2G  14% /var

/dev/sda9       236G  9.2G  215G   5% /space

/dev/sdd1       1.0T  617G  408G  61% /data01

/dev/sdb1       1.0T  612G  412G  60% /data02

/dev/sdc1       1.0T  611G  414G  60% /data03

mccli server show-prop

0,23000,CLI command completed successfully.

Attribute                        Value

-------------------------------- ----------------------------

State                            Full Access

Active sessions                  0

Total capacity                   2.3 TB

Capacity used                    1.6 TB

Server utilization               69.8%

Bytes protected                  3.4 TB

Bytes protected quota            Not configured

License expiration               Never

Time since Server initialization 1651 days 17h:04m

Last checkpoint                  2019-04-07 20:05:43 CEST

Last validated checkpoint        2019-04-07 14:58:21 CEST

System Name                      vdp.local

System ID                        1412000331@00:50:56:8B:29:53

HFSAddr                          vdp.local

HFSPort                          27000

IP address                       192.168.120.244

Number of nodes                  1

Nodes Online                     1

Nodes Offline                    0

Nodes Read-only                  0

Nodes Timed-out                  0

Why is the utilization report 95% high, but my disk sda9 reported 5% used?

Thanks for support

Grettings

Christian

[SavkoorSuhas]

From the looks of it the datastore where your VDP VM is running is going out of space.the OS disk is 300GB? I thought VDP Os drives were 200GB and expansion was unsupported.

# Suhas

[inshsr]

Hey Suhas

Thank you for answer.

Yes, you are rigth, I have expand the disk from 200GB to 300GB, because the report gives me a warning that the capacity is 95%.

What can I do to prevent an disk overflow?

Greetings

Christian

[SavkoorSuhas]

What exact alert was triggered? Could you share that?

[inshsr]

I got this Mail:

The datastore where the vSphere Data Protection appliance provisioned its disks is approaching maximum capacity. When the maximum capacity is reached, the appliance is suspended, and cannot be resumed till additional space is made available.

When I check the Vdp with df -h

admin@vdpprod:~/>: df -h

Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on

/dev/sda2        32G  6.0G   24G  20% /

udev            3.9G  148K  3.9G   1% /dev

tmpfs           3.9G     0  3.9G   0% /dev/shm

/dev/sda1       128M   37M   85M  31% /boot

/dev/sda7       1.5G  187M  1.2G  14% /var

/dev/sda9       236G  9.7G  215G   5% /space

/dev/sdd1       1.0T  618G  407G  61% /data01

/dev/sdb1       1.0T  612G  413G  60% /data02

/dev/sdc1       1.0T  613G  412G  60% /data03

Status from the Web GUI:

[SavkoorSuhas]

Well that explains it. Its not the VDP itself running out of space. Its the VMFS datastore where your VDP appliance is hosted is running out of space. If the VDP is thick provisioned then we are good, since the space is already allocated on the machine. If it's thin / if the datastore is overprovisioned with other VMs being thin provisioned, then if the growth rate is > than the available space on datastore, then all the VMs on that datastore will be suspended

# Suhas

[inshsr]

Hey Suhas

Thank you for your support.

So I will expand the Backup Data Storage.

Greetings

Christian