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Quick Tip - How to monitor when ESXi filesystem and partitions are filling up?

05.30.2023 by William Lam // 3 Comments

Here is another tidbit on how you can leverage the power of vSphere Events, which now includes over 2K+ as of vSphere 8.0 Update 1 to help monitor when an ESXi filesystem and/or partition is low on disk space.

With vSphere 6.7 or later, we have two events that you can use to help alert when either an ESXi ramdisk (e.g. /var) or VFAT partition (e.g. bootbanks) has filled up.

  • Ramdisk: esx.problem.visorfs.ramdisk.full
  • VFAT: esx.problem.vfat.filesystem.full.other

When either of these occur, you can easily find them under the Monitor->Events section for an ESXi host as shown in the screenshot below.

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Categories // ESXi, vSphere, vSphere 7.0, vSphere 8.0 Tags // alarm, ESX-OSData, ESXi, inode, partition, ramdisk, scratch, vfat

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