On VMTN someone hit a situation where the sps-runtime.log.stderr log file grew extremely large on their vCenter Server Appliance (7.0 in this case). I have seen this before, and sizes over 10GB are not uncommon. The sps-runtime.log.stderr file belongs to the service that provides the Policy-Based Storage capabilities. You can of course stop the service and then delete the files, and restart the service again. However, you could also empty the file by simply doing the following on the command-line:
cat /dev/null > /storage/log/vmware/vmware-sps/sps-runtime.log.stderr
This results in a 0kb file immediately.
I ran into this issue recently. Logs were full of complaints about cert issues from hosts that didn’t exist anymore. Storage providers for hosts all showed offline. Had to go through storage MOB and unregister all the providers. Restarting vmware-sps then re-registered the attached hosts and everything was online and working as expected.
Thanks for that pointer, I hadn’t seen the log entries of this customer, but it could indeed be the same issue!
Hi Chris, could you write it down a bit and describe exactly what needs to be done? I have the same problem after upgrading from vCentrum 6.5 to 7.0u2