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Cleaning up old vSAN File Services OVF files on vCenter Server

Duncan Epping · Oct 3, 2022 · 1 Comment

There was a question last week about the vSAN File Services OVF Files, the question was about the location where they were stored. I did some digging in the past, but I don’t think I ever shared this. The vSAN File Services OVF is stored on vCenter Server (VCSA) in a folder, for each version. The folder structure looks as show below, basically each version of an OVF has a directory with required OVF files.

[email protected] [ ~ ]# ls -lha /storage/updatemgr/vsan/fileService/

total 24K

vsan-health users 4.0K Sep 16 16:09 .

vsan-health root  4.0K Nov 11  2020 ..

vsan-health users 4.0K Nov 11  2020 ovf-7.0.1.1000

vsan-health users 4.0K Mar 12  2021 ovf-7.0.2.1000-17692909

vsan-health users 4.0K Nov 24  2021 ovf-7.0.3.1000-18502520

vsan-health users 4.0K Sep 16 16:09 ovf-7.0.3.1000-20036589

[email protected] [ ~ ]# ls -lha /storage/updatemgr/vsan/fileService/ovf-7.0.1.1000/

total 1.2G

vsan-health users 4.0K Nov 11  2020 .

vsan-health users 4.0K Sep 16 16:09 ..

vsan-health users 179M Nov 11  2020 VMware-vSAN-File-Services-Appliance-7.0.1.1000-16695758-cloud-components.vmdk

vsan-health users 5.9M Nov 11  2020 VMware-vSAN-File-Services-Appliance-7.0.1.1000-16695758-log.vmdk

vsan-health users  573 Nov 11  2020 VMware-vSAN-File-Services-Appliance-7.0.1.1000-16695758_OVF10.mf

vsan-health users  60K Nov 11  2020 VMware-vSAN-File-Services-Appliance-7.0.1.1000-16695758_OVF10.ovf

vsan-health users 998M Nov 11  2020 VMware-vSAN-File-Services-Appliance-7.0.1.1000-16695758-system.vmdk

I’ve asked the engineering team, and yes, you can simply delete obsolete versions if you need the disk capacity.

Related

Server 7.0, 7.0 u1, 7.0 u2, 7.0 u3, VMware, vsan, vsan file service, vsan file services

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  1. Danilo says

    3 October, 2022 at 14:03

    Hi Duncan, great! Thank you for sharing!

    Reply

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Duncan Epping is a Chief Technologist in the Office of CTO of the Cloud Platform BU at VMware. He is a VCDX (# 007), the author of the "vSAN Deep Dive", the “vSphere Clustering Technical Deep Dive” series, and the host of the "Unexplored Territory" podcast.

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