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HA and ESX 3.0.x log file flooding

Duncan Epping · Mar 6, 2009 ·

VMware just released a new KB article. The article is on VMware HA and the log files it can possibly generate when restarting of a VM occurs.

The article contains an extensive description of the sympoms but the most important one is this one:

For any virtual machine that VMware HA is wrongly trying to start, it also generates thousands or tens of thousands of vmware-x.log files (one created every few minutes). Contents of each log file shows the virtual machine starting up then failing to start. Despite these logs, the virtual machines are actually pingable and running, and vm-support -x shows them as available running virtual machines on the host.

The resolution for the problem is the following:

  1. Stop and start HA on the cluster. (This stops the flooding)
  2. # find . -name ‘-*.log’ | xargs rm
    This commands removes all log files. Make sure you run this from /vmfs/volumes!

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Server 3.0.x, ESX, ha

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  1. Chris says

    6 March, 2009 at 13:10

    Note that this is only for ESX 3.0.x and VC 2.0.x …..

  2. Duncan Epping says

    6 March, 2009 at 13:23

    that’s what the title of the topic clearly states 🙂

  3. Amazing Alex says

    30 July, 2012 at 03:12

    Sanderson you suck!!!! Wengers top target was Martinez. Do your homework before posting shit like this. No wonder you are a Metro reporter!!!!

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Duncan Epping is a Chief Technologist and Distinguished Engineering Architect at Broadcom. Besides writing on Yellow-Bricks, Duncan is the co-author of the vSAN Deep Dive and the vSphere Clustering Deep Dive book series. Duncan is also the host of the Unexplored Territory Podcast.

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